Sentences with phrase «individuals struggling against»

Turow's most reverberant, most moving novel - a powerful drama of individuals struggling against all odds to escape their characters.

Personal Injuries is Turow's most reverberant, most moving novel — a powerful drama of individuals struggling against all odds to escape their characters.

Surrogate or unconventional families recur through many of Anderson's films as individuals struggle against the profound loneliness of contemporary American life.

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«Our struggle is not against actual corrupt individuals, but against those in power in general, against their authority, against the global order and the ideological mystification which sustains it.»

Human affliction, especially the monstrous inhumanity of man to man, was to them a practical, rather than a theoretical, problem; it represented not only a conflict of ideas but a conflict of individual and class interests, a struggle for justice in personal character or social organization against selfishness, ill will, and inequity.

Yet, against this larger narrative, Short portrays in poignant detail the human cost of these Victorian religious struggles to individuals.

This harm consists in the irreversible scrambling of three things: genealogies, by substituting «parenting» for fatherhood and motherhood; the status of the child, who would go from being a subject to being an object to which others have a right; and sexual identity, which rather than being a natural given would have to give way to orientation as an individual expression, in the name of the struggle against inequality, perverted into the elimination of differences.

This harm consists in the irreversible scrambling of three things: genealogies, by substituting «parenting» for fatherhood and motherhood; the status of the child, who would go from being a subject to being an object to which others have a right; and sexual identity as a natural given, which would have to give way to orientation as an individual expression, in the name of the struggle against inequality, perverted into the elimination of differences.

Such behaviors had flummoxed no less an authority than Charles Darwin: How could cooperation and other selfless behavior arise if natural selection was all about individuals competing against each other in the struggle to survive?

Several recurring thematic elements are common to a number of Hauff's movies, such as the struggle of an individual against authoritarianism, whether perpetrated by a parent (as in Paule Pauländer (1976)-RRB-, a community (Mathias Kneissl (1970)-RRB-, an institution (Die Verrohung des Franz Blum (The Brutalization of Franz Blum, 1974), or the police and security apparatus of the state or society at large (Stammheim and Knife in the Head).

Unfortunately, the minimap is so crammed with enemy and ally units it's hard to pick out an individual target, which makes juggling multiple objectives at once a constant struggle against the interface.

I honestly relish going up against the «big, bad school districts» on behalf of individual struggling students.

Although that movement often deploys the rhetoric of equity and diversity to rationalize itself and enlists compelling, community - based representatives to promote its agenda, that agenda has typically worked against community interests and exacerbated inequities — draining resources from struggling districts, deepening segregation, diverting attention from systemic change to individual choice, and so on.

Most of us envision the typical indie game development process as one of a struggling individual set up against the odds of major publishers, and tyring to eek out that -LSB-...]

The ideological struggle that is being fought now over the issue of «Climate Change» (and related, quasi-Marxist weasel concepts such as Sustainability) may not yet involve the bloodshed caused in the wars against Nazism and Stalinism, but the threat it poses to individual freedom and economic security is every bit as great.

In reviewing the history, I conclude that the result distills from a purely political struggle, with Flemings «weak» individuals pitted against the «strong».

«I am committed to working with individuals and couples who are struggling in their lives either because of a crisis, transition, relationship or long standing issue that one keeps bumping up against.

When an individual therapist can't rise above the natural tendency to align with their client, she may struggle internally to overcome judgements against a client's family member.