Sentences with phrase «culture felt forced»

Not exact matches

Right from its opening sentence («One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit,») the book's message resonated with a public outraged by a rash of corporate scandals and feeling deceived by the failure of American forces to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Given the delicacy of the topic, it is likely that interviewees felt pressured to answer one way or another, not because they actually believed it, but because of trends in the culture they inhabit (trends sometimes backed by law or force).

He's not exactly in the Christian culture, but he is of it, and he wants to broaden its scope — to force it to face the sort of issues he never felt like he got permission to grapple with when he was younger.

To conclude, both Heidegger and McLuhan share the feeling that technology is at least the primary if not the shaping force in culture.

Perhaps in this circumstance, you should consider sharing your own story first, thus making your date feel comfortable and at ease about revealing their own vulnerabilities and get you moving away from the forced small talk, common to dating culture.

There are some obvious notes and pop culture references that feel forced (Lost, anyone?)

This is more of an actual Impossible Missions Force team mission, in so doing making this the first of the movies to truly feel like the real Mission: Impossible of television that became such an enduring pop culture phenom in the first place, with an extended opening credits sequence to the full - length version of Lalo Schifrin's indelible M: I theme music plays as a back - to - basics mission statement (pun intended) of sorts.

Loaded with great performances and a smart script, Men, Women & Children is able to tap into the zeitgeist of our tech - obsessed culture yet it doesn't feel pedantic or forced.

DRIVING FORCE OF POP CULTURE «Like a shining star in the games sky we want GAMEHOTEL to continue to point the direction to an opening up, to a continuing renewal of the games medium that we feel so strongly about», says Bruno Beusch, director of organizing TNC Network, and host of the GAMEHOTEL extravaganza.

A few jokes and pop culture references are tossed around, but the writing ends up feeling unfunny and forced.

Reading about the latest controversy at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles — the apparently forced resignation of the longtime head curator Paul Schimmel over the pop - culture exhibitions that the new director Jeffrey Deitch is bringing to the museum — I experienced my usual feelings of disbelief.

Feel the force: Houseago's first taste of modern art was filtered through pop culture.

If we were forced to cease all «feeling stuffing activities»; addictions, shoveling our faces, i.e., gluttony; buying, buying, buying and sit with ourselves for an extended period of time, maybe we'd realize how empty our souls are as a culture.