Sentences with phrase «life context behind»
Featuring expert interviews that examine the themes and real - life context behind one of the most influential novels of all time.
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In the present cultural context, they may be the age group most likely to appreciate the relief of leaving the pressures and values of the old life behind.
Usually used in the context of a positive turn of events or the receiving of some material blessing, the «God thing» phrase gets under my skin because it implies that God is behind every stroke of good luck in our lives.
Some time ago, we discussed the matter of beauty in the context of life extension; in particular, we tried to dispel the belief that the motivation behind life extension might be simply vanity.
Mistress America's generic context as screwball comedy frames Brooke's quarter - life crisis, and Tracy's coming of age, in a manner of unexpected honesty: behind the frenzied dialogue, so keenly written by Gerwig and Noah Baumbach, is the destruction of ambition and the construction of a self.
Without giving much consideration to the context that breed such an environment, bar a couple of fleeting scenes where one of the Day's gang attempts to find work as a farm hand, it begs the question as to what the film is trying to accomplish by focusing on the gang; especially when the film's ephemeral style distances the action from reality, laying blame on the gangs for Day's downward spiral into a life of crime and not the faulty idealism behind the myth of American opportunity.
Scarice says that it is the stories, the context behind moments that ultimately matter in a child's life, not that which is easily quantifiable.
Alright, so we're talking mellow in the context of a road - racer with no air - conditioning and physical control weights, but still you can stroke it along at a decent pace without that uneasy sense you're two steps behind it and clinging on for dear life.
As long as we envision «the book» as that thing with pages — or its digital descendant on an e-reader or tablet — we're not giving the original artistry and impulse behind a new body of work a chance to live as the unique content it is in the context of its creation.
Thus, for Parker's defining installation of the suspended fragments of a blown - up shed, Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (1991), we're given both a personal and a political context behind the piece: the effect on the artist of living in London during a period of IRA bomb threats; her initially ambivalent attitude towards the army — whom she subsequently worked with to blow up the shed — and how she felt about the event itself.