Sentences with phrase «modern sad state of affairs»

There's a famous quote from Sorokin's movie «The American President» which brilliantly reflects the modern sad state of affairs in American politics:

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The Mütter Museum of medical anomalies at the venerable College of Physicians of Philadelphia is well supplied with helpful staff and airy colonnades, but what it could really use is a little stack of printed leaflets explaining to the modern visitor how he or she is supposed to feel about all this, or at least what to make of it: the uprooted genitalia and beach - ball tumors, the skeleton of the man whose muscle has turned to bone, the woman so fat that after death her body transformed itself into soap, the embryos in jars whose peeling labels break the sad but unsurprising news that not having a skull, or a brain, or a stomach, or any skin, is a state of affairs «incompatible with life.»

Few filmmakers seem capable of rising above the sad state of affairs that is modern indie horror, the rest seem caught up in a boundless mode of non-creativity and excessive aping that's neither welcome nor admirable.

A friend and I were bemoaning this sad state of affairs just the other day, grousing about what seems to be an epidemic lack of character in much of modern society, when it occurred to me that I work for an organization that's chock - a-block with outstanding role models.