Sentences with phrase «about a generation defined»

It is about a generation defined, the millennial generation, as it takes place right at the turn of the millennium.

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With a fortune of about $ 34 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Li has been a fixture as the city's richest man for an entire generation of Hong Kongers and spearheaded an era defined by a handful of swashbuckling Chinese immigrants who built large empires across Asia.

As well as notes helping them summarise what it's all about, it will detail the meat - free steps kids can take to address one of the defining issues of their generation.

My sister and I ended up as well adjusted adults that are largely ahead of the curve compared to the rest of our generation by those loosely defined success factors that get paraded about and shoved in our faces.

About Blog Youth Mappers vision is to cultivate a generation of young people to become leaders in creating resilient communities and empowering them to define their world by mapping it.

It at once defines Dean's appeal to a generation of young folks, who saw reflected in him something of their own fear and trembling, and crystallizes the revolution in screen acting brought about by Dean and The Actors Studio brats Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Julie Harris, and Montgomery Clift.

Finding none, I concluded that he had no idea what the movie was about, and considered the possibility that his generation, raised on stories of a chap who plays quidditch, knows less about Chappaquiddick, a defining event in the evolution of the most important political dynasty of the postwar era.

Always at his best as a character involved in the process of defining his place in a broken family dynamic (a plight closest to his own peculiar family experience), Nicholson's turn as Schmidt is as affecting an everyman for the aging new millennium as his disaffected Robert Dupea was for roughly the same generation about thirty - two years ago.

But the theme, in fact, is unmissable: it's Europe, in its haughty and deluded state between the wars, and the ravaging transitions that have defined it for about three generations afterwards.

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Shape-wise, the front represents quite a bit of change from the previous generation R171 — the upright radiator grille, with its contoured fin, is certainly eye - catching, and together with the clearly defined headlamps (now equipped with LED technology) bring about a look that not only follows on the link with the SLS AMG and new CLS but is also a homage to the hallowed 190 SL of the past.

Although several generations of Porsche 911 Targa made use of a lift - out hardtop section to provide open - air motoring, from the late 90s until very recently Targa cars were defined by a glass roof panel that retracted to the rear to offer about four feet of unimpeded sky.

Now Mengestu enriches the themes that defined his debut with a heartbreaking literary masterwork about love, family, and the power of imagination, which confirms his reputation as one of the brightest talents of his generation.

The verdict: A bittersweet story that raises provocative questions about the strengths, weaknesses and contradictions that defined a controversial generation.

LaRose is the fifteenth novel in Erdrich's magnificent North Dakota cycle about the painful and proud legacy and intricately entangled relationships among Native Americans, whites, and people of mixed heritage, a brilliantly imagined and constructed saga of empathy, elegy, spirituality, resilience, wit, wonder, and hope that will stand as a defining master work of American literature for generations to come.

So we have that effort somewhat on hold while we work on a few other initiatives, «said Sweeney, adding, «The really interesting thing about Unreal Tournament is that once we've defined the game in this generation the community takes it and runs with it.

That was the hot - button question surrounding 2005's Shadow of the Colossus, a beautiful, generation - defining game about a young boy on a quest to defeat gigantic monsters in an effort to bring a dead girl back to life.

GAMES should define how we feel about any given generation.

Danny Boyle's movie about taking heroin and «choosing life» defined a generation like no other.

On this episode of Power Button we're joined by the author of the recently released Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation and one of the masterminds behind the upcoming Wikimusical, Blake J. Harris, to talk about the process of writing a book that chronicles the rise of Sega in the early 1990s as Sega of America CEO Tom Kalinske worked to turn the Sega Genesis and Sonic the Hedgehog into legitimate competition for Nintendo and its Super NES.

Earlier this year, Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation author Blake J. Harris offered us a peek inside the official Nintendo Character Manual from 1993 where we learned such fascinating facts about classic Nintendo heroes and villains such as Yoshi's real name (T. Yoshisaur Munchakoopas) and mushroom retainer Toad's original hometown (he has family in the Fungus Federation).

He came into his own as an artist in the age of Watergate, after painting had been declared dead, the object superfluous and originality a privilege of the past — at a time when just about everything that used to define what great art could be now provoked distrust for the artist and many of his generation.

There is a Generation E, but I would be careful about trying to define it.

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It's especially inspiring because so many people in my generation understand that this is the issue that will define us, and will set the standard for how much time, resources, thought and funding we can allocate to the other issues we care about.

Sam Glover: I guess what I think it is not the fact that, you know, some range of years tend to define a generation it's more like I think everybody whining about millennials is bullshit because I think it is a fact that society and culture changes all the time and our job is not be grumpy and object to that but to just roll with it.

About Blog Youth Mappers vision is to cultivate a generation of young people to become leaders in creating resilient communities and empowering them to define their world by mapping it.

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About Blog Youth Mappers vision is to cultivate a generation of young people to become leaders in creating resilient communities and empowering them to define their world by mapping it.

For instance, Susan Gregory Thomas, the author of In Spite Of Everything: A Memoir writes «I think the generation X has been defined as the divorce generation, and about half of us grew up as latchkey kids, so we're well trained in making our own meals from age six and letting ourselves into our houses after school and basically being little adults.»