Sentences with phrase «malaise about»

All of this makes sense to Herz, except that he still can't figure out whether lawyers have given up paying attention to clients because of malaise about their work — or whether client dissatisfaction with lawyers has driven lawyers into a state of despair.

Go into cubeland in a tightly controlled corporate environment and you immediately sense that there is a malaise about being tied behind a computer screen seated all day.

«Go into cubeland in a tightly controlled corporate environment and you immediately sense that there is a malaise about being tied behind a computer screen seated all day,» he said.

That's what Democrats who control the Legislature promised they would focus on this year as Wisconsin deals with high unemployment and a general malaise about the...

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Andrew Hill at the Financial Times wrote about the malaise last week: «Executive recklessness: still untamed.

Flipboard's woes are indicative of a larger malaise gripping startups across the technology landscape as questions emerge about the sustainability of the tech - investment boom.

Now retired, he says the sense of economic malaise was far more palpable 30 years ago when Calgary was about half the size, and far more dependent on a single industry.

We talked a bit about my malaise, and she said: «You need to go to a monastery.»

As I said earlier, Christianity, as a movement, was born from the ashes of late antiquity's social malaise, gobbling up the philosophical attitudes and cultic practices that were lying about, offering ultimate meaning to the Greeks, ultimate justice to the Jews, a City of God to the Romans.

There is a general malaise, and a general anxiety about the future.

Maybe my focus should be less about swinging the pendulum in the absolute opposite direction — and expecting a collection of perfectly concocted, cold - pressed juices to be my cure for malaise — and more about simply finding a better balance.

I've been a Gooner for 32 years and am not about to throw the towel in because you suggest I do so and I'm not happy in watching this creeping malaise that has changed my club.

That's where most of you miss the point, it's not about absolve our Great Leader AW of responsibility, it's about realizing that the whole malaise at Arsenal goes beyond Wenger.

(3) this team is rotting from the inside out and it's going to take some unprecedented moves on the part of this board and the fans to facilitate the necessary changes... this club must rid itself of it's absentee billionaire landlord before we become just another sporting wasteland in this man's collection of flailing clubs... when this is done it will expose just what exactly has been going on behind the scenes and I'm afraid of what will be uncovered because if Wenger's business model is as antiquated as his football philosophy it could look an awful lot like and old Monty Python sketch in the backroom... we need to replace the owner with someone who actually cares about this club and isn't afraid to wear their emotions on his or her sleeves or spend their own money to achieve greatness... this new owner needs to find someone who represents the same sort of cutting edge that Wenger represented in his early years then pair that individual with someone who knows how to conduct transfers in the modern era... then and only then will we find a way to escape the malaise that has permeated our once storied club for way too many years

It is more than a little telling, in my opinion at least, the general malaise and resignation with which the Barcelona players went about the final match of that previous season.

That Arnautovic arrived at the London Stadium as West Ham's record signing (with a certain level of enthusiasm and something to prove I imagine) and so quickly fell into the malaise surrounding the club says much about the previous regime.

A contemplative and soulful tune about the malaise at the beginning of the seventies, it protested against crime and the Vietnam War.

In an attempt to arrive at general conclusions about the malaise affecting the economies of the EU we have failed to understand the particularities of each case.

But while Rio +20 marked the marquee environmental summit of 2012, another much quieter — and perhaps more significant — anniversary takes place in a few days» time, one that does much to tell us about the environmental malaise that we find ourselves in.

Repeating his claim that «the three established parties resemble more and more three cheeks of the same backside», Mr Galloway suggested the economic malaise of the «great recession» would bring about a fundamental reassessment of the way politics works in the UK.

The start of this joint campaign will be marked by the release of a DVD, which will feature football stars like Frank Lampard, Kolo Toure and Sone Aluko, who will preach to their fellow colleagues about the malaise that is match manipulation.

The closest he ever came to seeking the position was undoubtedly in 2001, when DeFrancisco spoke of a «malaise» in Syracuse, when incumbent Republican Mayor Roy Bernardi was about to leave for a job in the administration of newly elected President George W. Bush, when Gov. George Pataki urged DeFrancisco to make the race for mayor.

not a vague malaise otherwise known as being a daytime TV couch potato with nothing to live for besides keeping up with the Kardashians and complaining about the woman next door who is clearly an unfit mother, just look at what her kids are wearing to school these days.

Emily Morse: God, I recommend that everybody adds in just one little sexual resolution, because again, we're talking about preventing what we know is going to happen, some kind of malaise in your sex life.

A taut, involving drama centered around the mysterious disappearance of a young woman, About Elly confirms director Asghar Farhadi as a major talent in Iranian cinema whose ability to chronicle the middle - class malaise of his society is practically unrivaled.

Lonesome Jim is an interesting but unsuccessful study, although viewers should be cautioned about falling victim to its malaise.

Loveless A story about a broken marriage and a missing child becomes a withering snapshot of Russian social malaise in this bleak and beautifully shot drama from the gifted Andrey Zvyagintsev («Leviathan»).

This doc about bile - spilling anarcho - rockers Sleaford Mods is also an encapsulation of working class malaise.

I wrote a few weeks back about our cultural malaise, one that is most certainly politically - driven.

Over the course of several weeks, Elizabeth and Jamie — who has no interest in education and wandered into Elizabeth's class out of sheer malaise — develop a tenuous bond, forged over diner food and Elizabeth's complaints about her four - hour commute.

As the film trundles on, it's clear that Piñeiro is not aiming to make any kind of crass statement about art or politics, but one about comfortable generational malaise.

An alternate title for the show might be «Mid-Life Malaise,» or «What's the Big Deal About This Twitter?

Essentially a film about failure, Arthur Penn's 1975 film comes closest to best capturing the haunting malaise that descended on post-Watergate America.

When two characters at a café talk about Bazin's «holy moment» on a virtual movie screen, with the eternally unnamed protagonist mirroring our reactions in a darkened theater, Linklater audaciously crumbles the space separating the audience and the film even as the picture attacks the malaise of the day - to - day.

Few shows have been able to really capture the true nature of puberty: that is, the sense of teenage malaise combined with an overwhelming grossness that for some reason, everyone is afraid to talk about.

A fearless tragicomedy about hope, dread, longing, and forgiveness, Life During Wartime (2010) is Todd Solondz's boldest and most haunting movie to date, carrying his exploration of Middle American malaise into new territory.

Though once upon a time seeing Ben Stiller star in a serious - ish film about middle - class, middle - aged malaise was a refreshing rebuke to his broader work in studio comedy, the novelty has begun to wear off in recent years following his repeated — and arguably, repetitive — collaborations with bourgeois angst maestro Noah Baumbach (Greenberg, While We're Young, The Meyerowitz Stories).

Charlie Kaufman's stop - motion puppet movie «Anomalisa» is about a man submerged in a midlife crisis and shrouded in malaise.

The Independent Film Festival enters its second weekend, bringing with it Harmony and Me, this year's closing - night comedy about a slacker caught in the throes of a post-breakup malaise and seemingly incapable of snapping his way out of it.

Wright and Pegg astutely ground their wistfulness in middle - age malaise, and smartly furnish their machinations in a statement about inevitable change and unwelcome homogenisation, in a narrative sense, at least.

Van Overbeek was never a fan of Corvettes, and we hear about the malaise - generation Corvettes of the 70's with their 7.4 L big blocks and relatively low horsepower output.

Negative economic news and stats about sagging retail sales, a hemorrhaging automobile industry, a still - dormant housing market and a general malaise in business, the likes of which this generation has never experienced, were fostering a steep decline in consumer confidence.

And Infinite Fall isn't just content to tell a story about the malaise that comes with returning to a home that is familiar yet foreign.

For graduating students wrestling with the possibility of a post-May malaise regarding their art world career prospects, Devin Kenny's free Tuesday lecture at Cooper Union on cultural personas through the ages may or may not help in navigating all this talk about artist personal branding.

Embracing wholeheartedly the dramatization of reality that the true documentarian strives but inevitably fails to avoid, Payne and Relph set about creating densely layered filmic essays that chart the ebb and flow of London's urban and suburban malaise and bring

Richter has admitted to his concerns about social malaise, psychological alienation, death, loss, and self - doubt, which he observed during his childhood in post-World War II Germany as the damage done by the war to many Germans became apparent.

When you also factor in our general malaise for talking about money, the conversation can become as crawl - out - of - your - skin uncomfortable as watching actors become recording artists.

Sometimes this stuckness has to do with certain feelings, sometimes it is about past traumas, often it shows up as repeating patterns in significant relationships, and sometimes it manifests as a malaise in which a direction in life seems impossible to find.»