Sentences with phrase «middle class life by»

Cotillard's portrayal of a depressed factory worker forced to fight for her job and middle class life by prostrating herself in front of her coworkers and convince them to give up their bonuses to let her stay.

Not exact matches

Most of us were brought up poor or in the middle class — and then continue the rest of our lives plagued by the thoughts, ideas and actions of the poor and the middle class.

On the other hand, members of the middle class take jobs they don't enjoy «because they need the money, and they've been trained in school and conditioned by society to live in a linear thinking world that equates earning money with physical or mental effort.»

The ensuing boom endowed the middle class in the United States and other countries, but was debt financed, first for home ownership and commercial real estate, then by consumer credit to purchase of automobiles and appliances, and finally by credit - card debt just to meet living expenses.

«All families in my upper middle - class neighborhood regularly enjoy a living standard better than that achieved by John D. Rockefeller Sr. at the time of my birth.

Many money books (like From Middle Class to Millionaire written by David) actually help you plan your life, decide what you want, put a cost towards it and budget.

Having lived with a servant of the Word for more than fifty years in three Lutheran churches, I have this question: Why is it that the «white, middle - class, traditional, orthodox theologians» being told that their understanding of the church is no longer relevant, are told this by «white, middle - class theologians?»

«The idea (promoted by politicians of both the left and the right) that Baby Boomers and Generation Xers are falling from the middle class in great bunches, even trailing behind the living standard of their parents, is, in aggregate, complete rubbish.

On Downton Abbey, we see that the way of life of the relational place is being improved by middle - class, American, Irish, socialist, and even proto - feminist contributions, but usually not at the expense of «class» in the sense of knowing who you are and what you're supposed to do.

How do we live comfortably — by which I mean no more than enjoying a lifestyle typical of the American middle class, which compared to most of the world is very comfortable indeed — and also take seriously the needs of our neighbors?

Welfare indirectly allows many in this country to buy I - phones, flat screen TVs and cars that are nicer than those owned by the middle class with their marginal income, by paying for all of life's necessities (food, clothing, shelter and medical services) that those in the middle class pay for out of pocket.

By this I mean that they have less control over their lives, less latitude in decision - making, and less influence over political, educational, and economic institutions which impinge upon their lives, than is the case with people in the middle classes.

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.

Unless, that is, our essentially middle - class life style is challenged by the poverty and oppression which is the lot of most of humankind, and we confront the hard truth that the issue is not reform of the welfare system, no matter how much that is needed, but the end of a capitalist economic order which increasingly divides the world into those who have and those who have not.

When the requirements of participation and the definitions of life situations that are promulgated by these groups are not seriously challenged, middle - class religious institutions are no match for them.

the equally mindless endorsement of all types of domestic radical isms from the Black Panthers to Greenpeace, the insouciant acceptance of millions of abortions as simply an expression of the right to choose, not to mention the other (less tangible) damage done to many lives by the brashs social engineering of new middle - class professionals (for instance.

Perhaps a much simpler, material life, simpler, that is, compared to present middle - class American standards, would result, but it would not be accompanied by an abandonment of free inquiry or free speech.

Middle - class people are enforcing values they themselves now live by, as if they were not in fact a great cause of the social pathologies of the middle Middle - class people are enforcing values they themselves now live by, as if they were not in fact a great cause of the social pathologies of the middle middle class.

These religious issues — personal formation and making sense of life — are often disguised by our relative affluence and the apparent assumption that getting everyone to middle - class economic status will solve all problems.

Lasch supports his periodization by reminding us that the period from 1890 to 1920 was a time of intense participation by middle - class women in civic life.

Even faithful missionaries, like the rest of us, live at times by double standards, giving voice to the oppressed and poor, but requiring middle - class standards of shelter in order to maintain a sense of security.

I associated Ice Cube with a horrifyingly ridiculous speech I heard in a classroom by some handsome full - of - himself black 12th - grader, about how Ice Cube was his hero because he had inspired him to avoid crack and gangs, as if it were some heroic thing for this guy who apparently had pretty middle - class parents to avoid falling into those, and as if Ice Cube had not in fact glamorized the gang life, overt misogyny, etc..

Those who are on the upswing, who have cut their racial moorings and learned to live by mind rather than emotion, can find a resting place neither in lower - class religion, which offers only emotion, nor in middle - class religion, which offers neither mind nor emotion.

By rejecting the middle class lifestyle of his father, by rejecting the monastic life, and living like the poorest of the poor he started a movement, and though the movement went back to money very quickly, he did not, and they kicked him out of the order he founded because of iBy rejecting the middle class lifestyle of his father, by rejecting the monastic life, and living like the poorest of the poor he started a movement, and though the movement went back to money very quickly, he did not, and they kicked him out of the order he founded because of iby rejecting the monastic life, and living like the poorest of the poor he started a movement, and though the movement went back to money very quickly, he did not, and they kicked him out of the order he founded because of it.

And yes, it's also true that many of us (at least those of us who are white and middle - class) are a bit self - absorbed or extremely focused on our careers (we're the «third waver» feminists, and many of us from Day One saw our lives as defined by our work.

As such, mobility is an important factor for upward social mobility for middle class Americans, where they can increase their earnings and their life standards by moving to higher - earning jobs in dynamic regions.

Interesting question, but I think that if you're not satisfied by the answers given, it is because you already know the right answer: indeed in the US, «middle class» means «hard working» while «lower class» has a clear pejorative connotation of «people who don't want to work, who live off state's aid, food stamps, or petty criminality».

I agree University is far more than a luxury, but I intended to say that the reality of living away from home has always been much more widely taken up by the middle classes for economic reasons.

«This is not some middle class columnista parlour game, it is people's lives who are being wrecked by the Tories.

All we are trying to do is ensure that taxpayer investment is going to subsidize jobs that pay a reasonable wage... New York City will only remain the greatest city in the world by providing a high quality of life, attracting the best talent, and protecting our middle class.

«It punishes the poor for being poor, it punishes the middle class for living in a society that does not protect them and it rewards those who already have it made by either growing up white, growing rich, or growing up in a state that protects only those who are in the top quintile or in some cases the top one percent of income earners.»

David Miliband has been applauded by sections of the liberal press — most notably Martin Kettle in The Guardian — essentially for acknowledging the bleeding obvious; that the parties of the European Left are losing three main groups of voters; working class voters in insecure jobs who are fearful of migrant labour; middle income voters, who are scared of losing their standard of living, and younger middle class graduates who are alienated by the compromises of power.

# 2 million by saying it is an attack on ordinary middle class owners, you wonder what part of the solar system they live in.

Certainly everybody that I saw in my short time was extremely interested in purchasing a car and if they happen to be from the more upwardly mobile kind of middle class, they were very interested in buying not a fuel - efficient car but a hummer even, you know, pretty much following the exact same model as the American aspiration or, you know, the «American dream» model and certainly the suburbs seem to be a growing trend and if you noticed that, Philip, you know, I visited a suburb called Orange County outside of Beijing and it really looked like Orange County and they even had like the palm trees and everything and I saw these in all the cities I visited Chongqing, Chengdu, various other cities that I visited, they were ringed by suburbs and the folks who live there, you know, the privileged few were using cars to commute into the cities for work.

In this fast - moving, densely plotted black dramedy, a faux scandal raised by an ambitious web TV editor comes close to destroying a number of lives, offering a masterful panorama on urban, middle class China.

In his twenties, he aimlessly performed low - level tasks around the properties owned by his disapproving Manhattan real - estate mogul father, Sanford (Frank Langhella), until in 1971, he meets - cute with Katie (Kirsten Dunst), a middle - class beauty living in one of Sanford's many properties whose leaky sink David comes to repair.

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.

Directed with an understated, observational eye by Jason Reitman, «Tully» is a perceptive, acerbically funny, empathetically observed slice - of - life of a middle - class New York suburban mother's postpartum exhaustion.

Almost 100 years later we still live in a world increasingly affected by war, unemployment and poverty, a reality that nonetheless remains discreetly hidden under the carpet by the illusion of a global democratic society, where most people have access to the internet, and where an overestimated middle class is entertained by lavish sports competitions.

Telling the tale of a real - life botched heist by a band of upper - middle class white college guys, director Bart Layton (in his feature debut) injects his film with interviews of the film's real - life protagonists, to an overwhelming degree.

«Elles,» the provocative film by Malgoska Szumowska, borders on the pornographic as it explores the life of Anne (Juliette Binoche), an upper middle class journalist for «Elle» magazine, and the two student prostitutes who are the focus of her article.

Even more important is the dazzling role of the title figure, Val (Regina Casé), a live - in domestic blessed with terrific dialogue by writer - director Anna Muylaert, whose previous contributions include «Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,» about a cigarette - addicted lower - middle - class guitar teacher is on the outs with her two sisters.

Margherita Buy and Antonio Albanese play an affluent middle class couple whose lives are upended by unemployment and uncertainty in Silvio Soldini's drama of middle class confidence short circuited by the wild pitches of life.

Lurching into a Christian charity shop managed by a devout middle - class woman, Hannah (Olivia Colman), he initially curses her for slumming in his impoverished neighborhood in the Northern city where they live.

Synopsis: A middle - aged woman in Tokyo escapes droll office life when she chances upon an English class taught by a charming American (Hartnett).

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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.

Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode) is a middle - class student at Oxford who is drawn into the aristocratic high life by fellow classmate Sebastian Flyte (Ben Whishaw).

By contrast, the middle - class family in The Maid likes to pretend there is no gulf — that Raquel, their live - in maid of more than 20 years, is one of them.

Bigger Than Life (Criterion) Ostensibly a drama about prescription drug misuse and abuse and drawn from an article in The New Yorker, this portrait of a grade - school teacher and middle class father (played by James Mason, who also produced and helped develop the project) is as much about adult male masculinity and responsibility as a husband and father, and the pressure on him to live up to the ideal, as Rebel Without a Cause is about the emotional realities of being an American teenager.