Sentences with word «anomie»

He argues vehemently that if there was any usefulness to the election, it was that it provided an insight into how democratic process could be subverted by an organized electoral pirates who worked to enthrone a regime of anomie in pursuit of a Hobbesian fiefdom that Ekiti has become.

The film says more about the violence and anomie in Mexican society than any media report, study or documentary for that matter.

But we've seen all this before, from the suburban anomie of «Over the Edge» to more recent Texan troubled - teen tales like «Mud» and «Joe.»

If increasing numbers of female undergraduates show signs of depression, it can not have anything to do with the sexual anomie into which the society has delivered them.

The authors so ably articulate the culture of anomie among kids even in Jewish day schools.

(1996), and wryly shaded her presence in Gregg Araki's Los Angeles teen anomie opus Nowhere (1997), the slickest entrant in his «teen apocalypse trilogy.

Rich is better than hungry, but injustice may create a supportive community among victims while exploiters suffer anomie.

Seligman considers whether, in a time of atomized anomie, new social movements such as feminism or gay rights might provide an incipient civil society for their adherents.

In that uprooted society it supplied a very real connection with the Ancient of Days, an extremely useful Abrahamic lineage, and a universe of story and metaphor so powerful that it continues to tie together a good portion of the human race, even in this era when alienation and anomie threaten to predominate.

Religion is humanity's shield against anomie, that experience of absolute meaninglessness that dissolves all values, purpose, and hope.

Besides, where is the correlation in all of this judicial anomie?

Damon has his low - key charisma and Van Sant captures the enraged anomie of the community, but, except for one big plot twist, everything in this film is telegraphed from the first frame.

Perhaps they just lack the existential anomie that makes protagonists in Ratanaruang's other films so alluring.

But this is a movie that cries out for more than the too - cool - for - school Coppola's trademark hipster anomie.

Change of address notwithstanding, the psychological geography of Greenberg is terrain Baumbach has been mapping in increasingly sharp relief since his 1995 debut feature, Kicking and Screaming — an awkward middle distance between here and there, whether those opposing forces are postgraduate anomie and adult responsibility, the rival affections (or lack thereof) of two divorcing parents, or the cultural bipolarities of New York and Los Angeles.

Pauline Kael affectionately wrote: «Concerned with adolescent experience seen in terms of flatlands anomie — loneliness, ignorance about sex, confusion about one's aims in life — the movie has a basic decency of feeling, with people relating to one another, sometimes on very simple levels, and becoming miserable when they can't relate.»

The Invader is a mini-masterpiece, a hypnotic exploration of identity, sex and class politics set against the backdrop of urban anomie.

GHOST WORLD By Mark Olsen Crumb director Terry Zwigoff's adaptation of a cult comic book about post-high school anomie.

- Publishers Weekly «Readers yearning for a fiendishly complex plot, penetrating characterizations, and a new warrior in the ancient struggle between anomie and truth will welcome Sophie and her brash courage.»

- Kirkus «Madness, war, persecution, and suburban anomie warp a family in this sometimes grim, sometimes luminous memoir.»

However, «Flatlands,» a tight selection of millennial painters, toys with an alternate definition of flatness as an expression of 21st century anomie, conjuring «a sense of space that is dimensionless and airless.»

For «Here Comes Everybody,» her New York gallery debut, Philipsz continued this tradition, recording two separate versions of «Trees and Flowers,» a twee 1983 song of agoraphobia and anomie by the Glaswegian punk duo Strawberry Switchblade.

A creeping affect of nervous, winking anomie haunts these images, not quite irony but not quite belief either, suggesting Wood is up to something more current, and perhaps more deflating, than modernism.

The report examines possible causes for the widespread nature of this misbehaviour, exploring particularly the concept of anomie as a result of the deregulation of markets.

Some might compare it to the cultural anomie that followed the Great War.

The «PowerPlay» series allowed Chicago to exploit and improve upon the cartoonish neo-expressionism of Schnabel, Kostabi, the German Neue Wilde, and other heroes of the moment, turning their pretense at angst and anomie into actual sociopolitical statements, rife with actual anger and confusion.

Some have understood him to be a somewhat aloof commentator on American life, exploring such phenomena as rural life in an urban age, suburban anomie, clergy dissatisfaction, aging and marital infidelity.

Set in suburban Detroit, this aimless indulgence in teen anomie and angst strikes this critic as more improvised than scripted, although David Robert Mitchell, in his directorial debut, does take credit for the film's screenplay.

A deeper understanding of the contextual emphasis of Asian and Latin American theologies might lead North American Christians to consider even more such themes as powerlessness in corporate America and anomie in a society that so emphasizes personal autonomy.

But when calling and calls are understood as one, when it comes to retirement, we descend into a state of anomie, a sense of displacement, of loss of standing, of meaning.

But perhaps an even better argument for his view is the loneliness and anomie that comes from a «lifestyle» that condemns the virtues.

In A Handful of Dust, Waugh treats adultery as something ugly and frivolous» more an expression of anomie than of lust.

Thus, one should not see the White Rose resistance as a restatement of the anomie so prevalent in the Weimar Republic.

In this situation the seven notes of the scale and its chromatic intervals provide him refuge against the threat of anomie.

Nonetheless, between some fundamentalists» dreams of cultural hegemony and the anomie of secular postmodernism, it is credible to believe that religion will play a role wherever free societies believe in themselves enough to remain free.

But again, for Durkheim the resulting «anomie» was the inevitable result of reason seeing through the meaningless claims of faith.

Observing that the rates of clinical depression in the U.S. have tripled in the past quarter century of increased choice, Schwartz echoes Durkheim's proposition that suicide rates are directly proportional to rates of egoism and anomie.

In Émile Durkheim's study of suicide over a century ago, he argued that marriage, family and religion not only guard against the loneliness or «egoism» endemic to modern life, but also provide a salutary constraint of the imagination against the lack of rules, or «anomie,» that accompanies capitalism.

His answer was to propose his theory of anomie, which is the sense of being personally unconnected to others, not being in a web of what the contemporary anthropologist Clifford Geertz has called «thick» culture.

Most people (Robinson herself included) seem to be able to live without much sustained incoherence or anomie.

There are words to describe the opposite of a fulfilling life: estrangement, alienation, disenchantment, anomie, playing it cool.

The anomie of antiquity at the turn of the first millennium put all religious faiths and intellectual positions to a test they failed.

A prime function of religion throughout history has been to help people move from centers to suburbs without alienation or anomie.

Writing her farewell column shortly before Christmas, she says, «I leave you with good tidings of great joy: Those who shun the prevailing winds of cynicism and anomie can truly fly.»