Sentences with phrase «national malaise»

When the horrendous crimes of Josef Fritzl were discovered in 2008 - he had imprisoned and sexually abused his daughter in a secret cellar in the Austrian family home for 24 years - many looked to Austria's artists for ways of understanding the horror as a possible symptom of national malaise, especially as another Austrian kidnap / imprisonment victim, Natascha Kampusch, had been in the news two years before.

In theory, it would seem to be a simple matter to alleviate the national malaise.

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Nigeria has a debilitating social malaise which has to do with the lack of a sustained sense of national outrage over ethical and criminal offences that...

Olivier Dubois, secretary - general of the National Order of Medical Doctors in Paris, argues that French people need more treatment for depression and anxiety because of the country's high unemployment, political malaise, urban noise — which makes sleeping difficult — and the fact that the French were slower than other Europeans to move to cities and are still adjusting.

There are several reasons for this: the contraction of energy - intensive heavy industries, such as iron and steel; the long - term malaise in the national economy; the modest move away from burning fossil fuels that produce carbon dioxide towards nuclear energy; and the increasingly efficient use of energy evident in most of the economies of the rich world.

With steely focus, Schrader exposes some raw national nerves as he takes on the malaise of our times: ecological nightmares, domestic terrorism, commercialization of spiritual matters.