Sentences with phrase «national psyche»

It is to venture onto sacred ground bearing a daunting burden of responsibility — to the facts, to the sentiments of the immediate families, to the American mood, to the sensitivities of a still fraught and roiling national psyche.

It is a curious truth that, although driving fast cars has a place in the Italian national psyche alongside fashion, food, and amorous adventure, the country has spawned fairly meager bragging rights when it comes to producing world - beating drivers.

Well, if the collective national psyche could will it, Ireland's certainly right about bloody due now... Oh boy, that's a huge subject to tackle — for the moment, why don't we take a closer look at:

His sprawling, hyper - detailed works are cartoonish phantasmagorias of various types of personal and civil aggression, representing a personal and national psyche affected by violence.

It comes down to national psyche.

This year's top 10 trending searches is both predictable, and fascinating, offering up a snapshot of our national psyche; it's a shorthand for the people, places and things that captivated our attention and left us wanting to learn more.

Driving (often recklessly) is embedded in our national psyche, and it will take more than a fancy ad campaign to reprogram us for an autonomous future.

The total destruction of a structure associated with a minority religious group and the communal carnage and bloodshed that followed it have inflicted a deep wound in our national psyche.

The story is related by Richard Nixon himself — a figure who, in Coover's portrayal, has totally accepted the American Myth and sought unflinchingly to become its personification as president, representative of the American Way of Life and symbol of the national psyche.

«I'm fascinated by the national psyche, by what drives people, it's much more interesting to write a script that has something to say, not just character stories.

The war had a huge impact on the national psyche of all participants, including the US, Britain and France.

The report centred on the fact that a report produced by the think tank «Centre for policy studies» has shown it says how litigation against public bodies such as the NHS is «ingrained in the national psyche as a warped form of normal behaviour».

The contractual understanding of the pension system as a «social insurance» is deeply embedded in the national psyche.

Britain has always had a peculiar willingness to believe in some in - built gene of decency and rationality in our national psyche that inclines us towards tolerance and moderation.

This is an issue of national significance that strikes at the heart of our national psyche and has a direct and immediate impact on thousands of our residents.

If programmes alone could solve our problems, SADA would have brought prosperity to the three northern regions of our country by now; instead of which SADA has become an embarrassment and a gaping sore on our national psyche.

Sabi - Abdullahi said his colleagues also «acknowledge that a lot has been done in the last two years to eliminate the vice of corruption from the national psyche.»

We might hope the reigning powers will, as they did in another era, come to recognize the need people have for productive enterprise and the vital part work has in our individual and national psyches.

It signals that something fundamental has been lost forever, bled from our national psyche.

The inversion is natural enough: 14 years after his death, 34 years after he was driven from office, Nixon and his unpunished crimes are still firmly lodged in the national psyche.

This is however not for their gratuitousness, but for what they represent — a film unafraid to dissect a national psyche in such a way that the villain of the film becomes the setting itself.

We Americans still have many events putrefying in our past, which poison our national psyche and keep us from creating a truly healthy future.

But his many uncomfortable hours bouncing along in his wagon do engender some affecting insights into what the Oregon Trail represents: «The trail experience had clarified our destiny and national character... The ruts crossing the plains had not only physically connected a finished continental space, but spiritually cohered a young country's first principles into a national psyche.»

It varies country by country and, you could argue, by the national psyches of the countries, as well.»

It comes down to national psyche.

Nothing's wreaked quite the havoc on the U.S. economy, and indeed the national psyche, as the six - year slide in home prices.

It's his and Lizzie's plan to make the tiger quoll a part of our national psyche.

For Sawyers, these visual ruptures act as analogues to the precarious fluctuations of the housing market and their impact on our national psyche as it occupies its own liminal space — that between possibility and instability during the recession.

The exhibition does a good job of encapsulating the national psyche in -LSB-...]