Sentences with phrase «class tensions»

The Republican Party is facing a historic split over its fundamental principles and identity, as its once powerful establishment grapples with an eruption of class tensions, ethnic resentments and mistrust among working - class conservatives who are demanding a presidential nominee who represents their interests.

«Jumping the Broom» combines tried - and - true oil - water class tensions with the challenges of modern romance and family, then adds some African - American flavors.

He can barely hide his anger at Ira & Christine's presence, as well as Ira's apparent wealth (unfortunately this is the beginning and end of the film exploring class tensions between the two couples), making his presence add a slight amount of unease to some scenes.

Stiglitz told us that this decades - old debate about how to balance the creation of short - term and long - term value is recently gaining new life in the US because of the venomous class class tensions and ugly politics arising out of income inequality, and because people in positions of power are looking at the big picture and realizing that something has to change.

This incident does highlight a certain class tension, so do Grammar schools but as to the supposed «corridors of power», well,....

The mayors» protests are emblematic of a broader debate in Washington over geographic as well as income - class tensions as the tax debate proceeds.

The fête or outdoor function becomes something of a microcosm of the bubbling soups of ethnic and class tensions in Sayles.

Peele's genre debut comes loaded with social commentary and opens during Black History Month — and judging from the reaction to its sharply entertaining first trailer, could spark a new subgenre of close - to - home horror thrusting interracial and class tensions into the pop culture conversation.

It's hard to watch — and Nolan takes pains to confuse our allegiances in ways that suggest a very British class tension (Borden and ace engineer Cutter (Michael Caine) share a Cockney brogue while Angier, a Yank, is cut from different cloth), a certain nationalism, and, in the figure of Nikolai Tesla (David Bowie) at play mad - scientist - like in a mythical Colorado Springs, a clearly delineated duel between magic and the notion that technology before its time is a kind of witchcraft.

(It's also a good example of a film noir title that explores American class tensions, something that most Hollywood movies consistently overlooked.)

The plot tracks Maud's gradual association with and then involvement in the suffrage cause, but it fails to acknowledge well - known class tensions within the movement, for example: Maud being cautioned by Gleeson's policeman character seems to be the only acknowledgement of her position as a working - class woman within the movement, and the potential implications.

This thematic territory of cultural mistrust via miscommunication should be a generous playground for a humane writer's writer like Sayles, but his usual anthropological ear and eye for class tension and social custom have mystifyingly deserted him here — halfway through the film, my note - taking devolved into simple transcription of the multiple howlers in the dialogue.

The ongoing gentrification of many of these urban areas heat the racial and class tensions already approaching the boiling point.

The event takes places ahead of a new exhibition, Stan Douglas, featuring large - scale photographic works triggered by the racial and class tensions at play in the uprisings of the early 2010s, including the Arab Spring and the riots across London.

More than any other Whiteread sculpture since «House,» «Village» acknowledges class tension.

With dynamic images that use the visual chaos of the street to address urban class tension and are inspired by a variety of sources such as hobo art, sign painting, graffiti comics, and Beat literature, McGee now has an international exhibition record that includes shows at Deitch Projects, UCLA Hammer Museum, Foundation Cartier in Paris, and Fondazione Prada in Milan.

In Istanbul and other cities with similar development patterns, there is rising class tension over large - scale gentrification efforts supported by developers eager to raze and rebuild and banks eager to expand mortgage markets.

An early, intense two - hander between Richardson and Martin instantly crystallizes the undercurrent of class tension that runs beneath the civilized sniping; Gorman spends the opening act with the affect of a man who's actually a pile of badgers in a trench coat, effortlessly angling the comedic bent into the darkness as the bodies pile up.

Angels Wear White brings into relief the bureaucratic corruption and class tension that inform the power dynamics of such situations.

At the same time, its story, which also deals tangentially with class tensions, religious bigotry, ethnic prejudice and homophobia, has as much to say to those kids» parents and grandparents, who should find the film's message as uplifting — and its unassuming central character as charming — as young people do.

His first success, Joe, which starred Peter Boyle as a racist factory worker (and earned him critical acclaim), examined the class tensions of the»70s hippie era.

Brimming with Gilbert & George's unique visual vocabulary, it functions as a social document of life in our modern urban world, examining issues of nationality and individuality, class tensions, and the artists» preoccupations with religion, politics, sex, death, and human existence.

Heightened by linguistic and class tensions, cracks begin to appear in the community's sunny facade.