Sentences with phrase «middle class character»

Tired of seeing the typical heroes relegated to genius scientists or the athletic type, Bong Joon - ho intentionally centered his story on an average, middle class character with a not so impressive level of intelligence.

Where these movements of eco-justice stand in isolation from the struggle against «capitalist infringements of communal rights to natural resources», that is, from the struggle for social justice, they are likely to be of a purely middle class character and tend to get coopted by the ideology of market economy.

It Needs: A more rounded, less saintly heroine; less grotesque caricaturing of its middle class characters (a regular feature in Leighs films); and a little less tea - drinking (it is hard on the bladder by the second hour).

Not exact matches

The Muslim aristocracy was feudal in character, depending on levies enlisted from the middle and lower classes of Muslims, usually of the same nationality as the feudal leader.

But the essentially middle - class character of the movement suggests that the story may be more complex than that.

That doesn't mean the characters in The Chi are living the middle - class South Side experience depicted in the»90s sitcom Family Matters.

It is no accident that in Gerbner «s TV - violence profile, lower class and nonwhite characters are especially prone to victimization, are more violent than their middle class counterparts, and pay a high price for engaging in violence (jail, death).12.

George Gerbner «s research at the Annenberg School of Communication in Philadelphia tells us that in the TV world two - thirds to three - fourths of the important characters are male, American, middle class, unmarried, and in the prime of life — and they are the people who run the world.

And so we learn, for example, from THE FEDERALIST or from Hobbes that the Athenian assembly was filled with vain and contentious men, men animated by sometimes cruel and often violent aristocratic pretensions.That «democracy» did have the characters or the institutions to support a just and stable middle - class way of life.

All too often, their character is implicitly diminished in efforts to account for their situation in the first place: they represent the opposite of character traits thought to be the basis of middle - class success and security.

It is no accident that in the Gerbner TV - violence profile, lower - class and nonwhite characters are depicted as especially prone to victimization, as more violent than their middle - class counterparts, as paying a high price for engaging in violence (jail, death).

In Francis Ford Coppola's 1986 movie Peggy Sue Got Married, one character — a twice - divorced, middle - class real estate broker — sums up the notion that husbands are commodities, like houses: «You should always trade up.

People who were shut out of the upper middle class until then and became union leaders instead, were coopted into the establishment based upon their abilities and the content of their character.

If we're going to preserve the character of our neighborhoods and expand our middle class, we have to put people before profits.

I walked across town into Carlton (in the constituency) yesterday as a matter of fact, and it is certainly looking like the more tired, faded edge - of - conurbation territory which once would've been lower middle - class / aspirational working - class Tory heartland but is now very much more like an inner suburb of Nottingham in character (and psephology).

However, my research shows that despite their distinct middle - class character, ethnoburbs have lost a steady flow of white residents over the past 20 years,» said Samuel Kye, author of «Revisiting White Flight and Segregation: The Consequences of Ethnoburbs.»

Blanchett is at her best with the characters who are erudite, middle or upper class: a CEO, a TV news reader, a primary - school teacher.

Review I have seen this movie twice, probably the third romantic movie that compelled me to do that, and the reasons are quite simple: It's probably impossible that anyone can't relate to young Josh Hutcherson's character, an 11 year old with a normal middle class life and problems (parents initiating divorce); that its surprise by the rediscovery of a young classmate (Charley Ray) initially as an unexpected friend and later as something else... The well crafted work of director Mark Levin is based on the mutual discovery of all these feelings (mostly new and uncontrolled) that evolved in Josh's character and in another particular viewer: you.

And he's created a character every bit as iconic as his painterly alter - ego, one who eloquently embodies the anxieties, thwarted aspirations and stubborn tenacity of a rural middle class facing inexorable decline.

Through the lives of several different characters, the film exhibits the loneliness of these middle - class Austrian citizens, often in a deranged sexual manner.

Andie MacDowell's character was a middle - class [environmentalist] and absolutely wanted that apartment with the greenhouse, so she had to get married because the building [co-op board] said, «We want you married.»

This time Woody Allen has no problem identifying his principal characters as Jewish, including one Member of the Tribe who is an outright gangster (Corey Stoll as Ben Dorfman), and two folks who are lower - middle - class products of 1930's Jews living in a humble Brooklyn residence (Jeannie Berlin as Rose and Ken Stott as Marty).

The muse for the character of Danny (played by Manchester by the Sea's Lucas Hedges), a skinny kid with a good singing voice from an upper - middle - class Irish Catholic family, was Gerwig's high school boyfriend, Connor Mickiewicz, who remembers making out with her in the McKinley Park rose garden, inspiring a key scene in the movie.

Where the writing succeeds is in the frank discussion of relationships and sex that surprises its respectable middle - class characters.

The lower - middle - class milieu sometimes recalls Erin Brockovich (2000), with Julia Roberts, but that was an issue drama about community building, whereas most of the characters in Magic Mike are out for themselves.

Here he's working in a middle - class suburb of New York, where Marlo and her husband, Drew (Ron Livingston, playing a very Ron Livingston character), are slightly overwhelmed by everything: they have two kids, one with emerging special needs, and a baby on the way, and their lives have devolved to rote routine.

Enjoyably acted by a fine ensemble cast, it crisply skewers the hypocrisies of its left - liberal, middle - class characters.

It is hard to choose a standout performer within the film as each one embodies their character to a fascinating degree, their essence felt in every line, quip and insult that gets spattered throughout this hellish middle - class gathering.

The story is comprised of four separate vignettes, following the romantic misadventures of various characters in Rome - a retired American opera director tries to make a star of his daughter's father - in - law to be, who can only sing in the shower; a pair of newlyweds are separated for a day and have their fidelity tested by a prostitute, movie star and a burglar; a middle - class office worker unexpectedly becomes a celebrity targeted by the paparazzi; and an architect runs into a young man who reminds him of a younger version of himself - and is about to make the same romantic mistakes....

Detractors and admirers alike will probably label Leigh's latest a return to normal service for the prickly Brit: a leisurely character study, sober - sided but flecked with streaks of broad humor, dwelling on the personal insecurities of London's tea - swilling middle classes.

He was wary of the idea that KIPP's aim was to instill in its students «middle - class values,» as though well - off kids had some depth of character that low - income students lacked.

Advances in brain science have not quite dislodged the mindset that black and brown students need to be punished or that white middle - class character traits need to be installed to spur academic achievement.

This has upset and alienated the teachers and parents who are critical to maintaining schools» middle - class character.

But both, in different ways, force us to confront the controversial character of their clear but implicit common assumption: that to narrow achievement gaps, schools should instill middle - class values in poor students.

A charter school near Boston has been established specifically to offer an intensive, homegrown character education curriculum to its overwhelmingly white, middle - class student body.

Middle School students speak at Lower School assemblies, hand out the certificates of character achievement to Lower School students, peer mentor fifth graders, and sign up to be once - a-week class aides for Lower School teachers.

It encouraged the middle classes to form optimistic conclusions about animal intelligence; it gave rise to innumerable anecdotes about animal sagacity; it stimulated the notion that animals could have character and individual personality; and it created the psychological foundation for the view that some animals at least were entitled to moral consideration.

Players will be able to select upper headgear, middle headgear, lower headgear, gloves, footwear, body, bodysuit, and skin colour for their «hero» character, as well as a class based on one of seven animal types.

Through this act, this invocation, this embodiment, which at Josh Lilley played out across three dystopian videos, Da Corte wants to assess another wild act of imitation: «[I want] to understand the character that he portrayed, the Slim Shady character, and try to understand and empathize with who that heteronormative, middle class white male is.»

Nineteenth - century upper - middle - class families are recurrent characters in his drawings and collages, examples of probity and restraint.

... the character of the jokes was significant — fifties - style, middle America, blue collar, Borscht Belt humor that confronted issues of sexual identity, class and race... By isolating them he exposed their hidden malevolence, perversity and anger.

Claire Kleinman, an incoming freshman who had a deadline of Thursday to pay her first tuition installment, said that if the tuition plan sticks, it will change the school's character, because many poor and middle - class student's won't apply.

William Hogarth was a great presence in the second quarter of the century, whose art was successful in achieving a particular English character, with vividly moralistic scenes of contemporary life, full of both satire and pathos, attuned to the tastes and prejudices of the Protestant middle - class, who bought the engraved versions of his paintings in huge numbers.