Sentences with phrase «modern social realist»

Ken Loach will insist on behaving as if there really is something urgently wrong, and that we shouldn't or needn't get used to food banks as a fact of life; he portrays it all as something which we might actually do something about in the real world, as opposed to invoking injustice as an aesthetic gesture, or a flavour - ingredient of modern social realist fiction.

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These do not depend upon the highest ethical commitments of which men are capable, but upon that mixture of human sympathy, rationality and self - interest which constitutes the basic pattern of human motivation While Niebuhr is a realist about the possibilities of human justice he has a strong concern for the social reformism in politics which characterizes modern democracy and the Christian social Gospel.
A terrific room of American moderns unites alumni of the 1913 Armory show with social realists, regionalists, and the marvelously uncategorizable Yasuo Kuniyoshi.
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