Sentences with phrase «much of a cultural phenomenon»

It's hard to believe that it's been nine years since the release of Chris Columbus» Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and it's even harder to believe how much of a cultural phenomenon this big - screen adaptation of J.K. Rowling's series of novels has become.

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The naïve moralism in this area can be maintained only by ignoring the facts that inebriety is as much a symptom as a cause of the disturbed interpersonal life of the alcoholic, that alcoholism is a complex disease involving physical, cultural, and socio - psychological as well as moral factors, and that homelessness is in itself a complex phenomenon, not the simple product of excessive drinking.

Easy Rider looms, of course, as a cultural watershed, a phenomenon as much as a motion picture.

«Much of Murakami's work,» the catalogue noted, «derives from the Japanese otaku or «geek» culture, typified by males obsessed with the world of comic books, video games and animation, a Japanese pop cultural phenomenon.

«The starting point for much of Mike Kelley's works are historical facts, religious beliefs, cultural phenomena, and psychological dynamics.

He treats climate change not as a problem that we need to solve — indeed, he believes that the complexity of the issue means that it can not be solved, only lived with — and instead considers it as much of a cultural idea as a physical phenomenon.»

Dragon Quest in Japan is more of a cultural phenomenon than pretty much any game in the US, with the possible exception of Mario Brothers.