Sentences with phrase «flouted social»

The first act conveys the rush of drug use and flouting social taboos, while the rest of Trainspotting shows its antiheroes» misdeeds catch up to them.

She lived her life according to her own rules in many ways, flouting social expectations of women's behavior and conducting...

The cross-dressing, craft - embracing British artist Grayson Perry has made a career of subverting and flouting social taboos in his work Read More

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But the legal situation has been made more complex by the anarchic nature of social media, which is so diverse and anonymous that users feel able to flout injunctions without fear of repercussion, and an increasingly confident campaign by newspaper editors, who are fighting the injunctions tooth - and - nail in the face of declining sales.

The revelation of US agencies wire - tapping German Chancellor Angela Merkel's phones has strained relations between the two countries primarily because such actions flout the conventions of a higher order social contract, in the international arena.

Can social science explain why people flout reams of scientific conclusions about global warming?