Sentences with phrase «class tensions into»

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A combination of rising inflation and interest rates, global trade tensions and emerging skepticism toward the tech sector pushed most asset classes into negative territory year - to - date.

The filmmaker never pulls us into the twists and turns of her main character's mind, and she tiptoes around, rather than tackles, her ideas about class envy, the performative nature of identity and the tension between truth and happiness.

Whether it's the ingenuity of Seth's fate, the AMAZING flash - forward that details how young Joe turns into old Joe (which is a master class in visual storytelling), or the tension when one of the hired guns (Garret Dillahunt) of Joe's former employer (Jeff Daniels) catches up to him, you're never ahead of Johnson's storytelling.

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.

«McDonagh's attempts to translate the working - class Irish clichés of his previous writing into America's history of tension between white and black men is more than horribly misguided, it's distasteful,» Madison writes in his piece, later noting that «whether it be through malice or ignorance, McDonagh's attempts to script the black experience in America are often fumbling and backward and full of outdated tropes.»

Besson showcased parkour in Taxi 2 (1998) and Yamakasi (2001), but pairing the art form with a story about the urban class war, a tension that would erupt into riots in Paris the following year, makes for a uniquely French exploitation film.

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.

But these are some of the film's strongest sequences, as Martinez drops his near - feral menace to reveal what drives him, and Abvincula offers a class - clown approach to life that eases the tension of what they're doing together, and the desperation that pushed them into such dangerous work.

In a similar vein, middle - class and more - educated parents tend to shape Christian schools toward less tension with the outside world, greater emphasis on academic excellence, less rigid social control of students, greater room for individual creativity and expression, and less denominationally distinctive ways of integrating religion into school life.