Sentences with phrase «high society life»

Why should we continue to suffer so that insiders enjoy the trappings of high society life on our dime?
Phyllis Nagy's adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel (also known as The Price of Salt) breathes life beyond the confines of the romance, as Carol's high society life and Therese's department store day - job are as believable as the romance itself.
My earliest impression of British Royals and aristocracy has been literally wrapped in long coats, of those classy men and women taking off their long, trench / wrap coats as they enter the ballroom and get on with their high society life.

Not exact matches

You can have economic malaise that others call mythical sec stag to describe a stagnant economy that mimics feudal society only with much higher standard of living.
Throughout history, no society has sustained a higher quality of life without access to cheap commodities or materials.
Yet shortly after the council, the high culture of the West took a sharp turn toward an aggressive and hegemonic secularism that now manifests itself as Christophobia: a deep hostility to gospel truth (especially moral truth) and a determination to drive Christians who affirm those truths out of public life and into a privatized existence on the margins of society.
On the contrary, given the presumption of a collective agency for the cell as a unified field of activity, it makes excellent sense to account for the stability of the field in terms of societies of inanimate actual occasions with their ongoing transmission of fixed patterns and for the vitality of the field in terms of the nexus of living occasions with their higher degree of novelty and originality.
When you live in a society where there is a high value placed on calling yourself Christian and going to church, and there are even promising career paths available, there's always going to be people who become Christians for the wrong reasons.
Those of us who are privileged (e.g, are white, male, middle - class or higher, educated, able - bodied, heterosexual, and / or physically attractive, etc.) benefit from living in a society that accommodates rather than alienates us.
Now here's my theory — Islam is one of the newest religions — it is going thru its teenage years when religion is most important aspect of life Mullahs / priests have very high degree of influence in society.
Despite adulation and a life in high society, however, Runciman remained personally frugal, a Calvinist rectitude balancing, at times awkwardly, the indulgence of the aesthete.
The unity movement, a vocally accepted way of life in the 1950s, reached its high point in the early 1960s, at a time when society had a sense of working together.
The survival of recognizably Protestant colleges therefore seems to depend on the survival within the larger society of Protestant enclaves whose members believe passionately in a way of life radically different from that of the majority, and who are both willing and able to pay for a brand of higher education that embodies their vision.
Evidence of the fact that union differentiates is to be seen all round us — in the bodies of all higher forms of life, in which the cells become almost infinitely complicated according to the variety of tasks they have to perform; in animal associations, where the individual «polymerises» itself, one might say, according to the function it is called upon to fulfil; in human societies, where the growth of specialization becomes ever more intense; and in the field of personal relationships, where friends and lovers can only discover all that is in their minds and hearts by communicating them to one another.
When a society regards itself as being charged by a higher authority to care for each and every human life in its charge, is it not the prime responsibility of a society so charged to intervene, to break into our privacy, when there is a strong chance that death might otherwise occur?
There remains a strong tension between the university as a place to form students» lives who then contribute to society and the university as a place of the highest research that contributes to society by discovery and advancement of knowledge.
The question is being asked whether the price for the present pattern is not too high, whether we could not, without losing me many good things in our society, have a freer impulse life, a richer imaginative consciousness, be less alienated from our bodies, be capable of more profound intimacy with a few and more community with many others.
If the point of religion is to bring peace and guide a culture toward certain specific behaviors, primarily for order and the preservation of the good qualities of society, then how can one say that one religion is better than another or that a «religion-less» person who STILL acts the SAME way (i.e. does right unto their neighbors, lives according to the thing the bible suggests) but is more tolerant is not as high quality a citizen as another who is associated with a Major League Religious Team?
The highest task for health education in a society devoted to excellence is to discover and introduce into the cultural stream modes of living that will fully employ bodily energies in ways that are at the same time consonant with the ideals of reason, qualitative judgment, and ethical concern.
It was a life that could make proper distinctions and discriminations — that knew the high and the low, the noble and the base — that admired an education in the best that had been thought and written — that held an urbane sense of humor in the highest regard — but that maintained a seriousness about the question of what was considered to be a good society and the good life.
It is clear that our Personage could not have known the vulgar class of immigrants for he lived either alone, in complete solitude, or as a shepherd, or as a big merchant in a caravan, or in the high society with the leaders of the community.
This is what happens when you live in a society where se.xuality is so heavily frowned upon by the religious folks in high positions of power who attempted to suppress it for centuries.
«Humans serve their highest and best interest by serving God, which is characterized by building their own lives,» says Abdul Mallek Mohammad, a spokesman for the leader of the Muslim American Society, W. Deen Muhammad.
Athiests are not less likely to have lower morales, I have high morales and I don't believe in god but what I do believe in is civil society and the law, both make me live in civalization and prevent me from doing crimes that would get me in trouble and possibly hurt other people.
Note that this is inauthentic life no matter how high the ideals which society or church may press upon us.
For those societies, on the other hand, that make up the higher forms of life, and in particular for the human being, Whitehead thinks of this «defining characteristic» or common form as a ground of unity that dominates the occasions.
By reason of this prior decision Whitehead is forced to interpret all those beings of higher order that manifest themselves as unities, such as living beings and humans, to be a multiplicity of entities, that is, to be a «society,» [253] or even more as a whole gradation of inter-compartmentalized «societies» and «subordinate societies
What Whitehead denotes as the «social order» of the higher living beings can no longer be understood on the model of a society with its emphasis on multiplicity, but only on that of an organism focusing on unity.
The National Research Council report («A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society») reminded me of Jerry because his life seemed to refute one of the book's principle claims: that the «culture of poverty» has little or nothing to do with persistently high rates of black poverty.
In their day to day life the Christians differed very little from the higher castes of the Hindu society.
He may not join your church but he will prepare the way for the movement from within Hindu society towards Christ who shall fulfill India's highest aspirations and impart that life of freedom for which she has been panting for ages... «(Kaj Baago, Pioneers of Indigenous Christianity pp. 207 - 214).
Higher animals all seem to contain at least one such society, called a «living person,» present in the body in addition to the cells and molecules of the central nervous system, even though dependent upon them.
Accordingly, the common life of a theological school that educates those who lead and nurture communities of Christians in that life must in high moral seriousness focus above all on the nature and demands of that activity and on analysis of the society in which it must be lived.
In order for the over-all values of a relationship to be served by this decision, such a couple must not only build a high level of mutuality between themselves but also use their relationship for life - serving; functions in society.
We might not be at the stage yet where we happily buy each other own label products for birthday or Christmas presents, but private label brands are now so integrated into our lives that there is little or no stigma attached to them, even at the highest levels of society.
Known publicly as the innocent - sounding «High Spirits Jazz Society,» the event began as a «secret,» by invitation only, all inclusive cocktail party with live jazz, dancing and entertainment.
As Wenger said in response to the protests: «We live in a society of total opinion but we live off not what we say but what we do — and what we do is on the pitch,» Tomorrow night, Arsenal desperately need to «do what they do» and take all three points from high - flying Southampton to take some pressure off the manager and the players....
Our top fertility center is proud to maintain consistently high pregnancy and live birth rates, ranking among the best in the United States as determined by the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART).
Zach works full - time in the Extramural Research Department at the American Cancer Society and teaches high school life sciences part - time in a hybrid education program he co-founded in 2013.
Australia is a society that has embraced the introduction of high technology across all aspects of life including childbirth, a situation reflected in the number of healthy Australian women who elect private obstetric services in the absence of clinical risk [3].
The founders of the Fabian Society lived in a palatial Hampstead residence and Labour Leader Hugh Gaitskell was buried just off Hampstead High Street under a grave that is regularly replenished with red flowers.
Careers FLIGHTPATH LIVE will bring together the Royal Aeronautical Society's industry partners with high calibre individuals — from students to professionals — seeking a career in aerospace or aviation.
Careers FLIGHTPATH LIVE brought together the Royal Aeronautical Society's industry partners with high calibre individuals — from students to professionals — seeking a career in aerospace or aviation.
He said Nigeria believed that ensuring the meaningful participation of women and girls in all areas of society was vital, adding gender equality yields greater economic growth and higher standards of living.
The plaintiffs in the suit before the Federal High Court — Ewenla Fishermen Cooperative Society Limited, Afenifere Fish Sellers Better - Life Igbokusu, Eti - Osa Fishermen Cooperative Society Limited, Kolawole Giwa Balogun, and Alhaji Folani Oladipupo Sikiru suing for themselves and on behalf of all fishermen / women and fish sellers in Eti - Osa.
First of all, Japan is not an ageing society due to their birth rate (which is actually on the rise either way, from 1.26 in 2005 to 1.5 in 2016), but due to their high life expectancy which itself is a byproduct of a culture that generally respects the elderly far more than western countries do.
The talk of tennis machines and the society high life also cement Nadine Dorries» description of a government run by «arrogant posh boys».
«The results suggest that we should expect that women demonstrate relative strength in particular cognitive functions while men in others, even in societies with higher living conditions and more gender equal educational opportunities,» explains Weber.
In a society where bigger is better and seeing is believing, 42 inches of high - definition plasma should be about all any of us needs to make sense of the world from the safety of our living rooms.
Professor Kontopantelis said: «We define relative deprivation as a standard of living or quality of life below levels enjoyed by the broader society, to a high enough extent to introduce hardship, with little or no access to resources.
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