Sentences with phrase «malaise of»

The malaise of our generation is an increasing addiction and dependence on our phones - and to social media.

Peter Drucker, famous for many business aphorisms, wrote «What underlies the malaise of so many large and successful organizations worldwide is that their theory of the business no longer works.»

I liked that our show and others peppering the current entertainment landscape reflect the slippery and sloppy moral malaise of contemporary times.

«Investing in a green economy is a way of powering the world out of its current malaise of short - term thinking and an unsustainable «brown economy.

A video following the Workers Leaving the Googleplex starts tackling the systemic malaise of ranking workers.

Clearly Morris is not going to have to navigate the complex emotional malaise of Holden Caulfield.

«He was a precocious and delicate little boy, quivering with the malaise of being unloved.

Michael said that one of the factors contributing to the malaise of the book lending industry is getting Publishers to agree to it.

But the approaching Melancholia quickly becomes a metaphor for the emotional malaise of two sisters, played by Kirsten Dunst, in the finest performance of her career (she won Best Actress at Cannes), and Charlotte Gainsbourg.

by Walter Chaw The curious mental state of German submariners in the waning days of the second World War is reflected in the general malaise of the United States in the weeks following September Eleventh and the hours preceding our unpopular pre-emptive strike against Iraq.

Gia Coppola's Palo Alto wades through the malaise of modern teen life as well as any movie has in years, reminding...

Whether his work is seen as nihilistic and misanthropic or as a profound, existential analysis of the malaise of modern capitalist society and culture, there can be little argument that Haneke's films are powerful, disturbing and, right now with the world as it is, vital.

With steely focus, Schrader exposes some raw national nerves as he takes on the malaise of our times: ecological nightmares, domestic terrorism, commercialization of spiritual matters.

For Paul and his wife Audrey (a genuine and far more complex Kristen Wiig), Downsizing represents more than the opportunity to preserve the world, it allows them to escape the ceaseless malaise of their personal lives.

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.

Backed by the furrowed brow malaise of Luke Wilson (Home Fries, Dog Park and one of the best episodes of The X Files) and the way - cooler - than - his - brother Casey Affleck (200 Cigarettes), Graham's wide - eyed charm is disarming and convincing.

These include the varying comforts and malaise of the «urban haute bourgeoisie» in Metropolitan (1990); how certain class cultures clash with political realities abroad in Barcelona (1994); and the collapse of the utopian ideals of disco in The Last Days of Disco (1996).

These include the varying comforts and malaise of the «urban...

In The Future, writer / director / star Miranda July indulges in the same wayward malaise of her previous film, Me and You and Everyone We Know, but, somewhat ironically, the focus on the uncertainty of «what comes next» makes this one seem a lot less scattershot.

There are literally hundreds of institutions that treat the so called «malaise of this modern age» according to gubernamental officials, but we only see one, and it's maybe one of the harshest in the large country.

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.

Fifth Avenue's Eye - Popping Rents (WSJ) «The costs of retail real estate and store rents are reaching record levels along New York's swanky strip in a sign of how the high - end market is managing to float above the malaise of the broader economy.»

Admittedly, I have (as of late) not lived an active lifestyle, so these symptoms may also present as a general malaise of a being sedentary.

We can escape the general malaise of a too - busy life and non-optimal choices, no dogmatic preaching required.

Critics will argue that open - source methods may only exacerbate the malaise of poll - driven politics and turn candidates into nothing but empty vessels, ready to be filled with the latest whim — California - style politics for the entire country.

The risk of Greek exit from the euro epitomises a familiar malaise of high unemployment, political and economic instability and apparently strong leaders, like Putin, who are admired by Farage and many others from the edges of politics.

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 rowdy atmosphere of PMQs is not the main cause of voters» disengagement with politics but it became symbolic of the current malaise of British democracy.

Before becoming infected with the malaise of compliancy that plagued nearly ever Inter player last season, Miranda was a defensive standout in 2015/16.

Faculty and students continue to operate in a spiritual climate where even the best are filling merely the outward requirements of their roles and suffering the malaise of aimlessness and false consciousness.

It is sadly true that the «best» are slowly withdrawing their commitment to an increasingly philistine academic culture and its institutional forms, filling merely the outward requirements of their roles and suffering the malaise of aimlessness and false consciousness.

Then there was the malaise of threatening depression, «attacks» of despair, temptations from the devil as he experienced them.

Some of us in academia have made a decent living chronicling the malaise of our fellow clergy.

In the search for the roots of the present malaise of the churches a canvass of possible causes reveals symptoms of disease, but also highly encouraging evidences of residual health.

A symptom of that problem is the malaise of students in these schools today.

I fear that they have added to the malaise of the church: that is, they promise too much and yet not enough.

When we take over Paul's theology of the cross without exegeting our context, this theology, originally conceived as a means of harnessing power for the sake of others, becomes a rationalization of our powerlessness, our spiritlessness — the jaded, enervated religious malaise of twilight Christendom.

They show also that the root of the malaise of the Church, and of Christendom as a culture, did not lie and does not lie in structures, canon law, liturgy, or the use of the vernacular, necessary and urgent though reform in these spheres may have been.

Indeed, much of the, notorious malaise of mainstream Protestantism derives from a perception that, to the question, «Is the Bible true?»

Why do we commit ourselves to the political process when there is so much cynicism and a malaise of despair in politics today?

One regrets that in the interview Percy did not underline more firmly the relation of this fascination with the unreal as if real, this malaise of the modern mind, by turning to that other hero, who once for all rescued sign in relation to place, the Christ on the altar, in Whom the Word is a presence orienting time and place, the abiding Signpost in the desert.

The original Canadian edition of this book, published during Taylor's sixtieth year, was entitled The Malaise of Modernity.

The accompanying malaise of impoverishment, corruption and lack of accountability is similar to Egypt's predicament.

While many might continue to associate the economic malaise of Detroit, where President Obama issued an auto - industry bailout in 2009, with Holland, Hoffswell flags that the city has experienced a rapid recovery and looks nothing like the Motor City these days.

The current economic and regulatory environment feels like the malaise of the end of the Jimmy Carter presidency, turnaround expert Steve Miller said Friday.

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Retailers seem to be pulling out of their years - long malaise, helped by a strong economy and their own efforts to finally adapt to the Amazon.com (amzn) world.

But for Poloz, that would be attacking a symptom of the post-crisis malaise, rather than the cause, which in his view is weak exports and business spending.

Empty shopfronts in some of Perth's high - profile retail strips are a sign of WA's wider economic malaise.

The US entered the Great Depression — one of history's great financial calamities — in the late 1920s, and the country spent most of the 1930s mired in a debilitating economic malaise.

Your legacies of deregulation, a financialized US economy and the Greenspan put have spoken for themselves by helping to cause the world's largest and most productive economy to suffer more than a decade of malaise, 10 ′ s of millions unemployed and a near collapse of the entire system.