Sentences with phrase «century societal norms»

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It's all very 21st century: we are no longer in a Victorian age, where authority figures were painted as benevolent, and rogueish types were commonly the outsider, the foreigner, or anyone else who tampered with societal norms.

Also, attitude as in defying the societal norms of dressing like everyone else, in relation to the homogenous fashion in the beginning of the 20th century.

Ro, a high school teacher, works tirelessly on her biography of the 19th - century trailblazing Faroese explorer Eivør Mínervudottír, who shucked societal norms for decades, ultimately freezing to death at age 42 on a polar expedition.

The potential for efficiency remains enormous, and given the likely improvements in technology and changes in societal norms over the next century which it will take us to do the right thing, we are likely to be able to cut fossil fuel use further than most people imagine possible, even if renewables don't become commercially competitive (which wind is already, and solar is in certain situations).