Sentences with phrase «human social drama»

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Serious social scientists have no professional vocabulary to deal with the mystery of death, the human search for meaning, the moral struggle, the primacy oflove or the drama of salvation.

Of course, objective social and economic shocks and the intervention of socialist politics and political analysis play the decisive role, but an especially vivid sense of a society's ills, its psychic ills among them, and the human urgency of addressing them come from visual images and drama.

The torch - lit Rembrandt lighting of the first few episodes has, thanks to the profusion of oil lamps, given way to a more even, golden illumination, a visual analog for how social and technological progress removes some of the darkness from life, yet leaves the essential human drama — the collision of individuals stumbling from cradle to grave — untouched.

The social metaphor is as bold as the title suggests, but the drama is painted in muted, human tones and detailed strokes of pain.

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It works as a murder mystery, a comedy of manners, a human drama, and a social commentary simply by providing a rich tapestry of characters and relationships, status and class.