Sentences with phrase «like high society»

I felt like high society sitting in those.

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Then the question comes if you've managed to do that, you as a society, then the next question is about things like purpose and those kind of higher level questions, which I think are very interesting things to think about.

This may come as a shock, but organizational constructs like tribes, societies, and companies are not the result of high - level intelligence but of primitive survival impulses reinforced by neurotransmitters in the brain's ancient limbic system.

The CRTC says that Canada's a world leader in access to the Internet, but Harvard's Berkman Centre for Internet and Society just updated its study on next generation connectivity — very high - speed Internet, 3G networks and the like.

Tony Dgee I think that the finding here is that non-believers have a higher motivation because they realize that they have to make it in the world by themselves, whereas believers are like the dependant adult children we unfortunately have in society.

Like leaven in dough, it lifts society to a higher level (Matt.

Groups like the Hindu American Foundation and the Hare Krishna Society have lists of priorities they plan to present to Gabbard, making clear that expectations are high for the groundbreaking congresswoman.

Just like for racists, statistics that show a higher incident of violent crime amongst black people justifies their racism instead of causing them to look at what has been done by society to black people that has led to the circumstances they are currently in.

Like this: «Truly honoring God and the highest and best of all that is, is found in simple acts of kindness and human decency, such as taking care of orphans, widows, and those on the fringes of your society.»

A number of witnesses in the fifteenth century mention that they were a strong and well organized community, commanding respect among the Hindus and enjoying certain privileges in the society like that of higher castes among the Hindus.

Perhaps the Occupy Movement will bring us to the point where we once again as a society decide we want to uphold the rule of law, not just for the petty crimes of the poor, but also the high crimes of the rich and their politician puppets like Blair.

The High - level group on the information society - chaired by European Commissioner Martin Bangemann - reported in June 1994 to the European Summit at Corfu that the information society is coming, whether we like or not.

That, as he rises higher in the consolations of society, he gets visibly more grotesque is proof definitive he is like me.»

Observer, I choose not to support society's so - called morality when it deems moral things like the murder of babies in the womb, sodomy, drunkenness, getting high, public nudity, po.rnogr.aphy... Yeah, society sure has come a long way.

As Schreiter has pointed out in his reflections on the sociology of theology, [13] such a picture of what it is to understand God tends to predominate in cultural situations marked by high specialization and differentiation, like urban societies and their economies, and marked by a plurality of competing worldviews.

Through high - pressure advertising and the prominent display of people like 9.6 million - to - one winner Handel, state lottery managers are altering our society's values.

I feel like our society superimposes really high standards of productivity.

It also places longevity higher than marital quality; you can treat your spouse like crap for years and he or she may put up with it for whatever reason (fear, dysfunction, lethargy, etc.), and society will toast you for having a successful marriage because you made it until one of you dies.

The blond with piercing blue eyes came back strong with the remake of The Great Gatsby, returning to the screen as we like to see him: an adventurer who climbs into high society for a beautiful woman and then loses everything

«We seek to align with other civil society organisations for a much more loud advocacy that ensures that people who are seeking to occupy the high office of our land do not have such questionable track record like Mr Mahama,» Ernesto Yeboah said.

What must be recognized in this conversation is that while society's commitment to the pursuit of higher education has always been a funding priority, our Rabbinical colleges were not given equal recognition when it came to scholarship opportunities like TAP.

Our contention remains that to have a single high leverage ratio that applies to all institutions, systemic banks and new and existing challengers like building societies alike, misses the point.

Its proposed high - pay successor would consider options like maximum wage ratios and bonus taxation as the best ways of providing a «just society and sustainable economy».

In October 2014, the Fawcett Society in association with Elle UK and the high street chain Whistles produced a new version of the society's «This Is What a Feminist Looks Like» T -Society in association with Elle UK and the high street chain Whistles produced a new version of the society's «This Is What a Feminist Looks Like» T -society's «This Is What a Feminist Looks Like» T - shirt.

In a culture that promotes interdependence, like China, access to high - status people should improve mental health, while in a society that prefers independence, like the United States, access to high - status people would be less so.

Even though many of the planets orbit their stars very closely and have high temperatures, which in turn causes their hydrogen - rich atmospheres to expand and a fraction of the gases to escape the planet over time, it's unlikely that the planets will lose enough of their atmosphere to become rocky bodies like Earth, the researchers report online today in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Diets high in phytic acid can cause mineral deficiencies like osteoporosis (many of which are found more prevalently in societies where grains are a staple part of the diet).

Our modern society has forced us to exist in a constant state of stress due to things like: chronic illness, depression, surgery, high sugar intake and overconsumption of nutrient void foods, sleep deprivation, chronic or acute infections like H. Pylori or Candida and these stressors are a direct cause of the HPA axis dysregulation that is so prevalent today.

Nowadays society is developing at a high speed and this has given rise to a plethora of social sites like free BBW dating sites.

Cougars like going to high society places like expensive and exclusive clubs and bars.

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With names like «South Asian Society» (immigrants who arrived... with the downtowns of cities like Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and Calgary filling with young, urban singles who live in high - rise condos, drink microbrewed beer and take...

The San Diego Film Critics Society would like to congratulate all the students in the San Diego High School IB Film Program on their outstanding efforts with their Film Festival!

As Reynolds» sister, Cyril (Lesley Manville), watches with wry disdain, Alma becomes his lover and muse, eventually driving him to restrained, British torment as she flirts her way into high society and even starts having her own ideas about what sort of clothes she'd like to wear.

The best is a hallucinogenic striptease (by «veteran con» Rosalba Neri) before a high society crowd that plays like how a lot of Eyes Wide Shut probably should have played: erotic, charged with class schisms and the toll of exploitation on all women, even those in the audience.

Having not read the book, my interest was quelled by the high - concept premise: imagine a dystopic scenario where all of a sudden and quite inexplicably the people around you start going blind and, like a virus, this blindness spreads in every direction leaving a society crippled and in frantic want of quarantine; yet you keep your vision and bear witness to the theatre of the absurd that occurs in the absence of that so vital sense in others.

It's also revealed that dynasties like the Tarasov's are overseen by the members of the High Table, an elite assassin's polity; and in addition to gold coins, the society trade in debt markers.

Peopled by flapper - era caricatures partaking in white - collar social orgies fuelled by selfish hedonism, Luhrmann's interpretation of Fitzgerald's oft - debated novel emerges as grotesque melodrama that plays more like a Mexican telenovela than a respectful reinterpretation of 1920's New York high society.

From the other side of the ocean are Hollywood producer Morris Weissman (Bob Balaban), who handles the Charlie Chan films, actor Ivor Novello (Jeremy Northam), whose move from high society to Hollywood does not bode well with all, and Weissman's valet Henry Denton (Ryan Phillippe), whose position is suspiciously unnecessary for a man like Weissman.

Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) may sound like a one - joke contrivance — a rich, generous, arts - loving heiress in 1940s New York City gives private recitals to a select group of high society insiders who never let on to the oblivious woman that she is quite possibly the worst singer to ever trod a stage — but it is both a true story and an unexpectedly tender, touching movie.

The secretive and exclusive Society of the Crossed Keys is a clique of concierges in high - class hotels that assist each other like an international network of friendly spies.

But there's a reason why War for the Planet of the Apes both outperformed Blade Runner 2049 at the box office and at the Visual Effects Society Awards, as the photorealistic effects that dominate Matt Reeves's pop masterpiece set a bar so high that not only is it impossible to imagine it being cleared any time soon, but they make the FX work from Rise of the Planet of the Apes seem like it's from the Ray Harryhausen era.

Kalman maintains that society often has more to fear from victims than bullies — in school shootings in the U.S. such as the one at Columbine High School in 1999, the shooters were not bullies — they were students who had been harassed and felt like victims.

Inspired by the writing of self - directed learning pioneers like John Holt (How Children Learn, 1967) and Ivan Illich (Deschooling Society, 1970), Resnick and his team envision a school in which in - depth, project - based learning — propelled entirely by students themselves and using the full resources of the community — replaces the more stifling aspects of modern high schools, like subject silos and grade levels, a static curriculum, and teach - and - test tactics.

«If society expects incarcerated youth to be transformed when they return to their communities, these youth must be exposed to high - quality education in addition to other resources, like counseling and therapy, provided by the juvenile justice facilities.»

The consensus appears to be that these higher levels of performance have less to do with policy than with everything else: the «ecosystem» of reform in a given place (usually a city) and its network of «human - capital providers,» expert charter - management organizations, leadership - development programs, school - incubator efforts, local funders and civic leaders, etc. — in other words, what conservatives like to call «civil society»: the space between the government and the individual (in this case, between government and individual schools).

Some argue that economically diverse societies need «No Excuse» schools that hold high standards for the completion of tasks and adherence to behavior norms like sitting up straight and tracking teachers with good eye contact.

The narratives go somewhat like this: urban society is characterized by a high degree of mobility and thus by children needing to leave one school and enroll somewhere else.

He says he'd like to incorporate leadership development into the high school curricula because leadership training would give youth a «crucial opportunity to discover some of the most significant growth they will ever experience, and our society some if its greatest future leaders.»

As I have argued back in July, the levels of proficiency set by states, like other aspects of public policy, are clear communications in action of the expectations we have for our society, especially when it comes to ensuring that every child gets a high - quality education.