Sentences with phrase «obsessed society»

The skill of listening can be a powerful one, particularly in our tech - obsessed society where everyone is seemingly glued to a tech device.

in our retail - obsessed society, cashiers are the gatekeepers for all of that activity.

Amanda Little built a journalistic career decrying the pains and convulsions of our petrol - obsessed society, but it wasn't until she embarked on a very personal quest did the story of oil become illuminated in human terms.

Indeed, Paik's art seems especially suited to today's technology - obsessed society, even more than a decade after the artist's death.

Many of the works in As We Perform It map out experiences or narratives through performative self - representations in an attempt to answer the «where and how am I» inquiry, propagated by our sharing - obsessed society.

London - based sculptor Jonathan Trayte mines the tropes of today's food obsessed society in Polyculture, his first solo exhibition in a public gallery in the UK.

She added: «In our increasingly image - obsessed society, it is not surprising that girls feel under pressure to maintain idealised personas but what they look like is only one very small part of who they are.

In attempting to attain happiness, the decisions Anna makes pierce the veneer of an image - obsessed society, reverberating with romantic and tragic consequences that dramatically change her and the lives of all around her.

This year the Greek director moves up in the ranks of the festival by competing for the Palme d'Or with his star - studded English - language dystopian love story The Lobster that can also ironically be described as a satire of our relationship and dating - obsessed society where couplehood represents the superior way of life.

The kid soon goes missing and, in the gripping procedural that follows, Loveless depicts a corrupt, cold, and self - obsessed society, indifferent to its own future.

Screenwriter Andrew Niccol, who penned the genetic engineering gone rampant cautionary tale Gattaca, also makes some points about our media obsessed society.

In 2016's digitally - addicted world, it's nearly impossible to meet a woman who isn't either listening to music or a body pillow — clearly, a function of our internet - obsessed society.

The second Lego movie appears to be as clever as the first, sending up Batman and our superhero - obsessed society all in one fell swoop.

The two have managed to create a false, warrior - like public persona of Katniss that has been perpetuated by the media in the same way that our own celebrity obsessed society attempts to attach persona's on actresses like Jennifer Lawrence herself.

Let's face it, we're a self - obsessed society, at least when it comes to our social media feeds and posting carefully crafted photos of ourselves.

I was appalled but unsurprised as this is the throw away, celebrity obsessed society we've created.

In today's fitness obsessed society, we are bombarded with super high protein and often high fat diets that are void of lots of beneficial nutrient dense carbs.

We've become an obsessed society: with working out, with gluten - free, with the front row, with Instagram yoga.

It's no secret that we're a numbers - oriented and data - obsessed society.

The metal of the moon, silver represents feminine principles of listening, receiving, silence, and space — which had become increasingly compelling to me in our fast - paced, growth - obsessed society.

Our number obsessed society makes it difficult for some mothers to accept not seeing exactly how much milk the baby receives.

Our number obsessed society makes it difficult

But in this couple - obsessed society, it appears that being happily single and casually dating is problematic, prompting Jezebel to label Lochte as a douchebag and forcing Lochte to insist, yes, yes, yes, I do want to get married someday!

Is our celebrity - driven, narcissistic, wedding - obsessed society the reason why the divorce rate hovers around 50 percent?

In this beauty - and youth - obsessed society, however, there are many who can't resist commenting on the «plainness» of these two women, especially the wronged woman of the hour, Holly.

I have about about a half - dozen different salts at home, which in the salt - obsessed society that we live in, doesn't seem like much.

Yet churches often fail to confront the materialism of our consumption - obsessed society.

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In a society obsessed with outsourcing, parenting is something that should be kept in - house.»

They speak to how our society has changed, how it hasn't, and what we're obsessed with.

American society is obsessed with food and body image, and the two are usually in battle.

When white conservative Christians obsess over their own perceived oppression, it becomes incredibly difficult to engage in important conversations about religious, racial, and gender privilege that are necessary for creating a more just society.

Our society has become so obsessed with «things» and money that it is truly sad.

I am not religious at all, but why is society and the media so obsessed on protecting gays so much?

He went on to say that we are a society obsessed by money, muscle and machinery.

It's society in general that is obsessed with sex.

For instance, ours is a society obsessed with the adversarial model of human relations, and we have bought into it.

We are aware of the shadow; but to obsess over it rather than focus on the opening ourselves to the Good is not going to affect any transformative change in either indivdiuals or societies.

Many Muslims are 2nd and 3rd generation Americans and fully integrated into our society (we can tell because they are fat and obsessed with sports and making money).

In a society obsessed with fame, celebrity and viral sensations, Christians sometimes idolize these same distractions — often at the expense of glorifying God.

However, know that sniffing out only the stories of greed and abuse in the church while ignoring all the stories of actual progress for society that it brings pretty much negates all of your arguments to that of an obsessed critic with nothing better to do than make up facts against the church.

Adrian Read Honor Oak Park London Marriage & Gift: a Catholic Perspective by Josephine Robinson, St Pauls, 208pp, # 8.95 Modern society is often deemed to be obsessed with many things.

Our society as a whole seems to be obsessed with protein.

Our society is obsessed with losing fat that we fear eating fat.

For some reason in our Western societies we have become OBSESSED with how much our babies and toddlers eat!!

Could it be that as a society we have become so far obsessed with equal opportunities within gender towards women, that we have created somewhat of a parallel paradox against the very issues surrounding men and more specifically single fathers?

We live in a society that is obsessed with convenience, which is probably why the idea of Elimination Communication (or EC) has met with such mixed emotions.

The other issue is that society is obsessed perfection, but the ideal is based on nothing but desire.

But, I'm calling bullsh*t on the fact that we've become a society so obsessed with making sure that everyone knows how amazing and perfect breastfeeding is that we're neglecting the real truth: fed is best.

Nobody is advocating for excessive dangerous behaviour, but society is just so obsessed with what pregnant women should and shouldn't do.

In The Morbid Age: Britain Between the Wars (Allen Lane # 25.00) Overyadvances the thesis that the interwar years were a period where society was obsessed with pessimism and with visions of a catastrophic future.