Sentences with phrase «miasma of»

By Samantha Bartlett South Africa's extended sojourn in the economic doldrums has created a miasma of despondency across the nation over the past year, and...

Like when parents descended upon Facebook to keep tabs on... I mean, stay connected to their kids, and Gen Y and Z fled to Instagram and Snapchat, leaving Facebook adults trapped in a miasma of political opinions and cat memes.

The battle of wills in even a moderately difficult divorce, in which two adults struggle with the urges and needs of a younger psyche — as if the other person is more a parent than another vulnerable adult, when coupled with the fear attending almost every severing of this intimate bond, will often lock people into a miasma of pain and resentment, which simply can not be hidden from the children.

Conceptualized and brought to life by Australians Ben Landau and Brittany Veitch, the pieces are designed to — supposedly — buffer your delicate senses from the urban miasma of city life.

His answer: Probably not, because the dilemmas and dramas of climate change are simply incompatible with the kinds of stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, especially in novels, which tend to emphasize the journey of an individual conscience rather than the poisonous miasma of social fate.

I'd rather some pottiness and dodgy science mixed in with some interesting findings — which I guess the CRU has always been about since Lamb's day — than this shifting, unbreathable miasma of «science communication».

«Douglas Coupland: Everywhere Is Anywhere Is Anything Is Everything» Artforum International; May 1, 2014; Busta, Caroline; 367 words VANCOUVER ART GALLERY * May 31September 1 * Curated by Daina Augaitis Since the 1980s, Douglas Coupland has been building novels around the alienated miasma of the just - arrived present: surplus stores, Snackwell's, dead dolphins, semidisposable Swedish furniture.

His photographs are influenced by the miasma of genre imagery that we negotiate daily while, in turn, profoundly influencing the look of contemporary popular culture.

In «Painting, Smoking, Eating» the figure is passive and inert in a miasma of squalor.

The December 17 opening brings an 8 pm performance by artist Beatrice Loft Schulz, starting off the three - week exhibition on the basis of «an investment in embracing the performative potential within these hierarchies, whilst at once making known the paradoxes in doing so» through everything from reality show dating, physically imposing oneself onto objects, or «creating contingent situations from a masculine vocabulary tied up in the miasma of power relations».

In 1999, a critic was of the opinion that Some Disordered Interior Geometries was «a distinctively bizarre book... a seemingly deranged miasma of mathematical formulae, photographs of herself and scrawled, snaking, handwritten notes.»

Despite these sanitising measures, the nauseating miasma of decaying flesh soon permeated MoMA's hallowed halls, resulting in the exhibition's premature closure.

For all the surprise it caused over the Atlantic, abstract expressionism was not the start of something, but rather a beautiful ending, the epic finale of a long tradition of Romantic nature painting, gone up in the fireworks of Newman's zips, Pollock's drips and the smoky miasma of Rothko's colour fields.

A gleeful miasma of lines and twists and knots of color, the structure mounts the stairs and balcony, loosely knitting a helter - skelter scaffolding that seems to emanate from an oversize yet unassuming yarn ball nearby.

Seventies Blaxploitation films like Cleopatra Jones, with its gun - toting heroine, capitalized on this burgeoning racial pride, problematically merging a miasma of competing interests, most obviously Black power and female lack.

New York City in the 1970s and «80s was a deliciously decadent time and place where art, gender, and sexuality came together in a miasma of creative energies.

While technically Psycho - Nics Oscar blends into the murky miasma of similar arcade titles from the era, it's still a fun little game, however, the kind that, like many, probably would've obtained more popularity had it been ported to a console.

Eventually I moved on, as over the past weeks and months a miasma of cynicism set in over the state of the MMO genre, ushering me out from my chosen genre and into story - driven single - player games like Telltale's Game of Thrones, 80 Days, Life is Strange, and even a bird dating simulator known as Hatoful Boyfriend — I swear this one is better than it sounds — and little did I know, all the while I was playing these games, a pretty enjoyable story experience was growing in my own genre.

But unfortunately with the lack of any real tutorial I got lost in a miasma of confusion -LSB-...]

Sadly, the limitations of its gameplay haven't been addressed for this port, so while there's a great story to be experienced, the game itself remains a forgettable miasma of genres.

Then it just goes back into the miasma of rubbish you're plucking out.»

In some cases these little annoyances or discrepancies blow up into one giant miasma of idiocy and mass hysteria.

What follows is a spiraling miasma of intensely personal horror.

Immediately shunned, ridiculed, and bullied by classmates who chide him for being the odiferous son of the mysterious «Garbage Man,» Joey soon realizes that the revolting miasma of his new home results from the tools and plunder of grave robbing, the family trade, which first repels, then attracts the teen as he becomes an apprentice to his father, Harnett.

One of the frustrations of supporting Common Core is seeing Hirsch's simple, elegant, and irrefutable insight disappear into a miasma of sloppiness, opportunism, and obfuscation.

Oscar Wilde ended his days lost in a miasma of bankruptcy, public infamy and viral agony, never returning to Britain after his release from Reading Gaol, but exiled to the continent.

The wintry landscape of her drowned world suits the miasma of repression which greeted yet another of this year's fine female leads, Game of Thrones» Ellie Kendrick as Clover, who returns to the family farm after her brother's probable shotgun suicide.

A haunted miasma of youthful alienation, suburban malaise, cosmic upheaval and 1980s pop - cultural infatuation, writer - director Richard Kelly's captivatingly strange 2001 debut plays more than ever like its own suspended - in - time artifact.

The second season of Joss Whedon's other cult cancelled TV show is a curious beast; a weird miasma of big ideas and crushing pessimism.

Unlike «American Gangster»'s sensationalized crap, this is a crime movie / western exercise that contemporizes the miasma of a world at war.

Good Time is a moral-less miasma of misadventure led by a never better Robert Pattinson and directed with unpredictable verve by the Safdie Brothers and I waffled it in and out of my top ten about a hundred times.

Finally, this deranged pilgrim finds an end to his journey in the trap he sets for his quarry, and Penn ratchets up the tension and the fear like a master, but deepens it with a miasma of anxiety and despair.

Writer / director / star Gregory Pakis has gone to extraordinary lengths to create an honest, unpretentious comedy that features a miasma of supporting characters, each more memorable than the last.

On the other hand, by contracting its scope to the final four months of the Civil War (and, as it turned out, Lincoln's own life), the dramatic impetus of this against - the - clock structure gets lost in a miasma of dry, detailed, school syllabus - friendly historical re-enactments of men standing around in rooms talking and arguing.

Positively dripping with a soggy, oppressive atmosphere, the film is blanketed with a miasma of madness: The city itself is the enemy here, and the mysterious quarry only a symptom of a much more insatiable disease.

It's a bit of a chicken - or - egg problem: maybe online dating has made us more cavalier, or maybe our growing casualness fed online dating, or maybe these things both exist together in a miasma of hook - ups and right - swipes and shifting social standards.

The suit charges that PositiveSingles.com is in fact part of a vast miasma of dating sites run by SuccessfulMatch.com.

The average life span for a pygmy is only about 17 years; a leading cause of death is infectious disease carried by the miasma of microbes that flourish in the hot, moist jungle.

The acrid miasma of 91,000 liters of jet fuel and the 10,000,000 tons of building materials and contents burning at temperatures above 1,000 degrees Celsius extended from lower Manhattan across the East River into Brooklyn and beyond to the sea.

What's more, when the water level changes it unleashes a miasma of disease from exposed sewage.

A miasma of corruption hangs over Hague's party.

We pick up the pieces of our crushed hopes and shattered dreams of a glorious title challenge and all we are left with is a miasma of unanswerable questions.

Or would the miasma of failure stifle and suffocate his abilities?

Thank goodness for another voice of reason in the miasma of mob reactions that the club's fandom has been turned into.

All sexual activity outside of the loving marriage bond is the falling into the miasma of this world.

The Jewish Daily Forward: «Jew Pond» Earns Unwanted Scrutiny One could say it was bacteria that caused Jew Pond to emerge from the miasma of history.

The result was the alienation of the majority population and the descent of American inner cities into a miasma of broken families, illegitimacy, crime, substance abuse, and poverty.

For instance, London was engulfed in a miasma of toxic fumes from coal - fired home heating in the 1870s, and nobody could come up with a solution.

Until we can connect our brains directly to this virtual miasma of data that Google has done such a good job organizing, we're going to be reliant on companies to make hardware that acts as the intermediary.

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Bask in the sublime beauty of «Karl,» the city's chilly miasma, with these always - updated satellite images.