Sentences with phrase «of adulthood in»

Ward, who was born in Jamaica in 1963 and spent most of his adulthood in Harlem, roams the streets looking for things he can use in his complex, bound - together constructions of material and meaning.

Using these influences, his paintings often depict androgynous boys on the edge of adulthood in narratives drawn from Oscar Wilde, Joris - Karl Huysmans, and other writers of the Aesthetic and Decadent period.

WHAT: The further adventures of Hannah Horvath (Lena Dunham) and her group of twenty - something friends — Marnie (Allison Williams), Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet) and Jessa (Jemima Kirke)-- as they traverse the ups and downs of adulthood in New York City.

GHOST WORLD (Grade: B +): Thora Birch won the best actress honors at the 2001 Seattle International Film Festival for her performance as a passively rebellious 17 - year - old facing the first challenges of adulthood in this funny, sad and ultimately tragic teen angst drama / comedy directed by Terry Zwigoff («Crumb») and based on a serialized comic book by Daniel Clowes.

Joining forces again for Tully, the trio have another aspect of adulthood in their sights, this time exploring the ups and downs of motherhood.

Time is the unifying theme of Linklater's work, and his sequels and remakes feature some of his most perceptive takes on the topic, from ageing in the face of love's ever - fixed mark in the Before films to the precarious boundary of adulthood in Everybody Wants Some!!.

Director Todd Phillips, who tackled the theme of men seeking to shrug off the burden of adulthood in Old School, explores similar territory here with solid comic results.

And as a vision of adulthood in both personal and elemental disaster, it's simplistic, safe, and dominated by work.

I've trained with some of the leading dating experts in the U.S., and I've spent the greater part of my adulthood in loving relationships, along with some healthy alone time for self - growth and reflection.

Ah, the joys of adulthood in your 30's + 40's!

You see... I grew up in Buffalo, NY, and I've lived the majority of my adulthood in Michigan.

I think programmes like this could provide a positive alternative... It could become a recognised «stamp» of adulthood in Britain.»

Now, new findings from psychologist and author Jean Twenge are adding to the gloom about the state of adulthood in this country.

Not exact matches

This is partly because socioeconomic class in childhood is a strong indicator of socioeconomic class in adulthood.

One of Buffett's investments in himself came in early adulthood, when he signed up for a $ 100 Dale Carnegie public speaking course that he says changed his life.

While classmates at her all - white elite high school breezed into adulthood and homeownership with help from their parents, she «bought my first home as a co-signer to my grandmother who was next on the list of longtime renters in our gentrifying neighborhood... to be displaced.»

Two years ago, when most American Gen Zers (defined as survey respondents who are 22 years old now) were still in school, they were distinctly cool to the idea of spending adulthood in an office, but that's changed quite a bit.

Children who develop a high level of EQ carry these skills into adulthood, and this gives them a leg up in leadership and in life.

Former Harvard president Larry Summers called the program «the single most misdirected philanthropy in this decade,» according to TechCrunch, while Slate Group chairman Jacob Weisberg wrote in Newsweek, «Thiel fellows will have the opportunity to emulate their sponsor by halting their intellectual development around the onset of adulthood, maintaining a narrow - minded focus on getting rich as young as possible and thereby avoid the siren lure of helping others or pursuing knowledge for its own sake.»

Millions of children born between 1980 and 2000, commonly known as Generation Y, have matured into adulthood with a unique worldview that is firmly entrenched in the beliefs that anything is possible and anyone can make a difference.

As Richard Settersten, author of Not Quite Adults: Why 20 - Somethings Are Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood, and Why It's Good for Everyone, has said: «the media focuses so much on coddled kids, but there's a huge, invisible class of young people that's just not part of our public discussion and who are really in dire straits.»

Robert Kegan, a Harvard developmental psychologist, refers to «orders of consciousness,» and has proposed that one of the most important developments in adulthood is the transition from what he calls the socialized mind to the self - authoring mind.

Increasingly, too, they're facing delays in some key landmarks of adulthood, from marriage and children to a stable career, according to industry and government reports.

These types of accounts, where financial gifts to a minor are held in a custodial account until the child reaches adulthood, offer another option for saving for your child's education.

The survey, which polled 1,046 18 - to 34 - year - olds across the country, offers a glimpse inside the collective consumption habits of Americans who reached adulthood amid seismic shifts in the media landscape.

For many, this complicated web of emotional stakes only exists on Facebook, because Facebook is the only social platform on the web where who we are now, in adulthood, converges with the past life we had as a teen or a college student.

«The repercussions of this cruel and shortsighted approach are wasted human potential and incredible costs incurred in adulthood in the courts, the medical system and in social services.»

A recent paper by the economists Paola Giuliano and Antonio Spilimbergo shows that generations that endured a recession in early adulthood became more concerned about inequality and more cognizant of the role luck plays in life.

As earnings season ramps into full gear, the performance of some of the biggest names could determine future of the tech boomAs large tech companies report first - quarter earnings in a flood of results during the next two weeks, they face a major test: Will they continue to post huge growth, and fuel further overall gains for the market, or settle into a more mild adulthood?

If parents take their children to church and teach them to pray, the child believes all of it and it is highly unlikely the child will abandon the childish beliefs in adulthood.

Adulthood is potentially dangerous because it can create the false expectation that at some magic point we've got things pretty well figured out when, in reality, we're adrift in a sea of people who are literally making it up as they go.

Kim T, I am interested in your thoughts: During most of my life as a teen, young man, and on into adulthood (mid 30's) as a bible believer, I was plagued by lustful thoughts.

In an attempt to ward off the jaded cynicism of post-modern adulthood, she actively nurtures the bright - eyed kid and the angsty teen within her and values the wisdom of dead people.

They may have assumed that sexual activity is part of the «experimentation» that college is supposed to enact, a step on the road to adulthood, but in reality it was a distressing and squalid habitat that left them hurt and confused.

«During early adulthood, about half of Boomers (51 %) and Gen Xers (54 %) said they approved of U.S. Supreme Court rulings that banned the required reading of the Lord's Prayer or Bible verses in public schools; 56 % of Millennials took this view in 2008.»

What about the millions of Christians who were not «indoctrinated» as children, but came to faith in young adulthood, middle age, older age, etc.?

In her early adulthood, Angelou moved to New York and became a member of the Harlem Writers Guild.

In my experience, many Boomers» parents exposed them to a very unpleasant picture of adulthood.

It's easy to wrongly assign it to the category of pleasant childhood diversions that will pass in time as their children grow into young adulthood.

In young adulthood, Cain kills Abel and runs off to «the land of Nod» (Gen 4:16).

In our drug - saturated culture, learning what responsible behavior and attitudes are, relative to drugs, is a vital part of the preparation of children and youth for constructive adulthood.

fred The Bible said that at a time when the world's human population was only in the millions, and disease generally prevented about 30 % of all children from reaching adulthood, so having large families was a way of hedging your bet.

This is the beauty of adulthood found in our loving and growing relationship with ourselves.

The young man on the train clearly had experience of the Easter Triduum in some form, but all he had taken with him into adulthood was an incomprehensible memory that «they burn some wood» and that «it's got something to do with Jesus».

Stage 6: Adulthood: This is the goal of the developmental process by which one becomes, in this stage, a participant in the adult culture.

As such it requires a degree of maturity, both spiritual and psychological, in the individual undertaking it; she must have lived long enough as a virgin in adulthood to be «serene in the practice of chastity by which she is able to fulfil her resolve to remain in the virginal state over a lifetime» (Archbishop Burke op cit para 17).

Obviously this meant taking the adulthood of the world seriously; also it precludes using God in relation to our deficiencies.

It's not easy for youth to move into adulthood in this time of conflicting values and rapid social change.

It is not necessary here to stress the important role played by relationships in the family; these affect the mental health of every member of the family unit, and especially that of the children and adolescents in their development into adulthood.

Your appreciation of their small, tentative steps in that direction can encourage them to risk moving further toward responsible adulthood.