Sentences with phrase «changing cultural moment»

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To hear Medline wax digital about the cultural change is to be reminded of that moment you switched from a flip phone to a smartphone.

I try to save my most pure levels of outrage for important, world - changing, cultural moments like when Dunkaroos were discontinued in the United States... but what the actual f ***, Marlins?

2 July 2013Last updated at 07:32 ET Magazine Monitor A collection of cultural artefacts Contents of the 2013 pack Changing the nappy at Kensington Palace, when the moment comes, may be easier thanks to a gift to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge from the Finnish government, writes Mark Bosworth in Helsinki.

On the other side of the conventional spectrum we have the left wing, which often advocates environmentalism and social services but are dismissive of vetting immigration and are open to changing core cultural values according to the trend of the moment.

In the film's stronger moments, the artist in her definitely seems to be saying that the impulse to retreat into cultural fundamentalism carries dire risks, that much of what is old and traditional needs changing and there are some things about the detested process of globalization that are wonderfully liberating.

Set in Santa Barbara, the film follows Dorothea Fields (Annette Bening), a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie (newcomer Lucas Jade Zumann, in a breakout performance) at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion.

Pynchon's books happen at moments of profound cultural and sociopolitical change, only half - understood by the players.

Darth Vader's «I am your father» moment is now ingrained in the cultural lexicon, but it was one of cinema's most unexpected, game - changing twists, and Han Solo being frozen in carbonite was a chilling image (literally) that wouldn't be resolved for another three years.

Set at a moment of profound artistic, cultural, and societal change, The Painted Girls is a tale of two remarkable sisters rendered uniquely vulnerable to the darker impulses of «civilized society.»

The 1980s — an era of big hair, big phones, and big egos — heralded a moment of unprecedented cultural change in America, bringing us MTV and Madonna, the first commercial mobile phone and first Trump Tower.

examines this watershed cultural moment — brimming with change and conflict — and the figures who defined it.

At the present moment in Toronto, many people are feeling pressure from the shifting and changing social, cultural and political environment.

But maybe it also reflected a certain skepticism in face of the notion of an endless continuity: «Values, all vlaues — sociological, economic, artistic, cultural — are changing enormously at the moment.

I think Spencer is helpful by suggesting there is a much bigger story happening in the world of science, knowledge and cultural authority of which the climate change incidents of this moment are just part.