Sentences with phrase «modern middle class life»

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The resulting procedural aspect of the film gives it gripping narrative drive, but it's the pitiless portrait of middle - class life in modern Russia that lingers longest.

The domestic epic is built around three milestones in a modern middle - class family's life: a wedding, a birth and a funeral.

The popular TV series «Black - ish» shows the everyday lives of the Johnsons, a modern middle class black family as they navigate their unique position in a majority white suburb.

Set in modern - day India, it is the story of two compelling and achingly real women: Sera Dubash, an upper - middle - class Parsi housewife whose opulent surroundings hide the shame and disappointment of her abusive marriage, and Bhima, a stoic illiterate hardened by a life of despair and loss, who has worked in the Dubash household for more than twenty years.

Joanna Trollope is the British doyenne of middle - class domestic drama, having explored marital breakdowns, adoption, step - parenting, and any number of other social dilemmas that make up modern - day family life, and Second Honeymoon is considered by critics to be one of her best books in years.