Sentences with phrase «being apolitical takes»

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And yet I was nonetheless somewhat taken aback at how blithely apolitical most of 2017's dramatic movies were (as opposed to such documentaries as the climate change treatises «Chasing Coral» and «An Inconvenient Sequel,» or John Ridley's voluminous and evenhanded «Let it Fall: Los Angeles 1982 - 1992,» which chronicled civil unrest in Los Angeles leading up to the Rodney King verdict).

Cortes is the writer and director of the stunning film, BURIED, which took place entirely in a box containing an apolitical man placed under the earth by political extremists and said man «s desperate attempts to escape by accommodating his captor «s demands and overcoming his own government «s impotence.

One of the most common lines (usually used in praise) on our newly - crowned Best Picture winner is that it's deliberately apolitical, taking no sides in the Iraq conflict as it aims simply to present the soldier's experience on the ground.

What he called for was work taking into account this context rather than masquerading as self - sufficient and self - referential, arguing that «art for art's sake» serves only to perpetuate an idealistic illusion of art as eternal and apolitical.

Scientists themselves are trained to be so cautious and apolitical that they have hesitated to take any hard positions in the face of 10, 5 or even 1 percent uncertainty about where the climate was going.