Sentences with phrase «hypocrisy of adults»

But when it comes to the satirical portrait of American suburban life and the hypocrisy of adults more concerned with the appearance of morality than the real thing, Ball resorts to shrill caricatures of human behavior so exaggerated that you can't miss the rampant hypocrisy on parade.

The child sees in the failure and hypocrisy of adults the misfires and abuses of performative language.

Not exact matches

And unlike adults who have become numb to political hypocrisy and gun - control stalemates, the students can approach the issue with a fresh eye and a jolt of righteous fury that will be hard to ignore.

We have memories of Sunday school and Bible camp; an early suspicion of adult Christianity as hypocrisy; a sense of complicity between church and dancing school — both drawing on a common list of acceptable folk and equally mad about white cotton gloves.

They feel a deep revulsion at the world of adults which they see as a world of war, economic exploitation, depersonalization, racism, and sexual hypocrisy.

From where I'm standing it is an utmost hypocrisy to suggest that we need to just talk about it and employ and use less objective standards such as «in my opinion this adult bed mattress of mine is a safe sleep surface for infants» instead of regulated industry product specifications

And the SNP - which forms the administration at Holyrood - said it was «utter hypocrisy» for unelected peers to «put roadblocks in the way of Scotland's young adults being given the vote».

While in the Shadow Cabinet Maude was accused of hypocrisy by promoting a «family - friendly» image while being the non-executive chairman of Jubilee Investment Trust plc, which held 21 % of American pornographic actress Jill Kelly's adult DVD business, [25] and chairman of the Mission Marketing Group, which has advertised for WKD drinks and Playboy.

A Call to End Adult Hypocrisy, Neglect and Abandonment of Children and America's Cradle to Prison Pipeline