Sentences with phrase «of social tragedy»

The characters have enough dimension to avoid appearing to be symbols of a social tragedy, and the movie's relative gentleness makes the harsher realities of Brandon's world all the more distressing.

The impact of social tragedy upon sensitive minds from 1914 on is well represented by Paul Tillich's testimony concerning his experience as a German chaplain in World War I.

But deep as was the sense of personal tragedy in Hawthorne and Melville, it was part of a larger vision of social tragedy.

Not exact matches

At a rare press conference following Bo Xilai's dismissal, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao warned that without further reform China risked plunging into another «tragedy» like the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, when an aged Chairman Mao Zedong rallied peasants, workers and students to upend the social order as a way to vanquish his opponents.

As news spread that the recent Germanwings tragedy was the result of a single co-pilot with a history of mental illness, traditional and social media lit up with questions asking whether his employer could have — or should have — known about his mental state.

A number of commenters on social media responded to this tragedy by hurling accusations at the mother.

Data in the public domain like tweets and social media video is increasingly relied on to make sense of the immediate aftermath of tragedies like mass shootings.

Many whites, chastened by the apparent failures of 1960s - style social engineering but genuinely concerned about the tragedy unfolding in our inner cities, are reluctant to engage the issue.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people!

Users of the social network are notoriously brutal, and alongside the outpourings of grief were criticisms of Hoffman's drug use, questions of why this story got top news billing above far more worthy tragedies, and then, in increasing waves, attempts by people to place themselves in the story.

On the eve of developments that would lead to America's entry into the war, Morrison was speaking for a large segment of American Protestantism in his view that one of the greatest of this war's tragedies would be the destruction of social progress — a near - fatal blow to the social gospel.

He added that instead of making divisive comments on social media, people should focus «on what unites us at this moment in time and particularly in the events of this sort of tragedy».

But tragedy — especially a death brought about by participation in an inevitable social logic — compels the recognition of fallenness and failure.

Indeed, it is simply remarkable that those people responsible for educational and social policy during the past three decades can not make the obvious connection between the deplorable state of education, the multiple tragedies of the inner cities, and the virtual elimination of religiously informed values from American public life.

In particular, he kept seeing the baffling personal injustice involved when «the wicked doth compass about the righteous,» and, even when he thought of the nation's collective problem, his solution was not so much to blame present social tragedy on antecedent social sin as to believe that justice, now denied, would come in time — «Though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.»

Granted the idea of social solidarity so complete that all members of a clan, tribe, or nation may justly be punished for what any member does, and one black sheep can furnish iniquity enough to satisfy the requirements of explanation when tragedy befalls the group.

When, however, theism is accepted and the unity of the universe is conceived in terms not of physical cohesion only but of moral purpose also, then the appalling tragedies of man's personal and social life become not merely hardships difficult to bear but an intellectual problem difficult to solve.

I thought Evangel readers would appreciate knowing about my Christianity Today interview with James Davison Hunter, Professor of Religion, Culture, and Social Theory at the University of Virginia and author of To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World (Oxford, 2010), which promises to be the most important book written on Christian cultural engagement in the last 50 years.

If one omits the happy ending of Stage 7 (which Joan Jackson could include because her study was done in an AA wife's group), and translates the language of the social scientist into the parlance of everyday living, one has a picture of the starkest interpersonal tragedy.

The tone of «Boston» rang of tragedy and sent me to my social media.

With great frequency, our news and social media remind us of the tragedies that are all too common in this broken, fallen world.

Those who follow this blog and follow me on social media know how important I feel this issue is — it's up there with vaccines, breastfeeding, and infant sleep — but people forget in the midst of all the arguing about guns that there are real steps people can take to reduce risks of accidents and tragedies.

His election is not a tragedy, but a dramatic stage in the struggle of the oppressed for dignity, recognition and social justice.

«It is a social tragedy that a majority of children from wealthy families attend college, but only 10 percent of children of poor families attend college,» the governor said.

And it offers grist to both ideological conservatives and liberals.For conservatives and libertarians, the tragedy reveals the deleterious blowback of nanny state intervention.The social welfare and family court judge tilted to the missing wife's parents, and restricted Josh's visits from his two sons.We should expect Gingrich to run with this story, attacking the liberal nanny state; and how this liberal state's actions have negative unintended consequences.Liberals will also weigh in.The police, 911 distpatcher, and the criminal justice systemas a whole, all failed.The «hard power» of the police state actually made matters worse.As the ideological divide plays out, the tragedy does not end.The young mother / wife is still missing, and presumed dead.The sick Josh is no longer a person of interest.

Not only are there huge social costs to this experiment: — the failing businesses — the closed libraries and children's centres — the tragedy of another lost generation of young people out of work

Every child death is a tragedy, but thousands of children in the UK are made safe every day by supposedly incompetent social workers.

Carol Dankert - Maurer, commissioner of Erie County's Department of Social Services, said she is «heartbroken» by the two tragedies.

These factors represent a «profound medical tragedy» and societal challenge that will require decades of financial, medical and social support, Drs. Fauci and Morens write.

Whereas the American Red Cross proved that new technologies can efficiently raise money for humanitarian assistance, generating more than $ 5 million via text message donations in the 48 hours following the Haiti earthquake in 2010, the FBI has warned that social media can also be a lucrative platform for scam artists that crop up in the wake of tragedy.

That's the take - home message from a global survey of Ph.D. and master's students published today, which adds to the meager but growing literature on the subject and corroborates anecdotal evidence and discussion about the topic from recent years, including a number of personal tragedies and numerous testimonials and concerns expressed on social media and elsewhere.

One of my favorite movies that I caught out of Fantasia this year was Tyler MacIntyre's social slasher Tragedy Girls (read my review here), and it now finally has a trailer just ahead of its release next month.

Below is the first trailer for Gunpowder & Sky's Tragedy Girls, a biting satire about social media stardom — think of it as a modern - day Clueless, only these girls murder people... and tweet about it.

Whit Stillman is an American filmmaker whose four films are comedic investigations of class triumphs and tragedies, explored through the lens of group social life.

Godard makes it a mix of character study, social commentary and street tragedy broken into twelve distinct tableaux (the full French title is Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux), many of them composed of carefully arranged long takes by Raoul Coutard.

by Walter Chaw Alan Parker likes to use his platform as a film director to preach about all manner of society's more obvious ails, reserving the bulk of his ham - fisted proselytizing for the problems he himself identifies as endemic to the United States: hedonism and drug abuse (The Wall, Midnight Express); the price of a culture of fame (The Wall, Fame); the price of Vietnam and our broken social services system (Birdy); the rampant Yankee tragedy of divorce (Shoot the Moon); racism (Mississippi Burning, Come See the Paradise); our love / hate / fear relationship with food (The Road to Wellville); and, most recently (and egregiously), the death penalty (The Life of David Gale).

Though plenty dated and not very compatible with today's dramatic stylings, Cornbread, Earl and Me holds up as a reasonably compelling, agreeable, and still very relevant tale of fighting for social justice in the wake of tragedy.

Tyler MacIntyre's Tragedy Girls is a satire of slasher movies and social media that opens with the stuff of urban legend: a teenage girl running away from a masked, trenchcoated murderer who just split open her date's face with a knife.

In America, noir built tragedy out of post-war paranoia, men trapped in a world that no longer made sense after the atrocities of war and the reshuffling of social roles at home: women are dangerous harbingers of change and violence is a matter of course.

While the film's plot does become loose at times late in the second half, it is one of the few shortcomings and one that's forgotten during a highly emotional finale that balances social tragedy with a glimmer of fantasy befitting of friendship's positive nature.

Less of a social satire about the perils of modern technology than an over-the-top heave of ideas about the obsessive need to be noticed and (literally) liked, Tragedy Girls isn't a deep meditation on much.

In a series of tautly constructed dramas that imbue the everyday struggles of married life with suspense and tragedy, filmmaker Asghar Farhadi has proven himself a remarkable observer of the social, moral, and personal dimensions that shape contemporary Iranian society.

In this interview, Dr. Erardi speaks about the recovery process in Newtown, CT following the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School and the importance of social - emotional learning as a part of that recovery.

Chase owes his current social cachet to an ongoing tragedy much covered in the tabloids: His teenage sweetheart and fiancée, Janice Trumbull, is trapped by a layer of low - orbit mines on the International Space Station, from which she sends him rapturous and heartbreaking love letters.

Wallace has a smooth style and a sure hand in combining near tragedy with whimsy, whether she's detailing Carolina and Pietro's social circle, the state of scientific knowledge, or the progression of Carolina's blindness.

After tragedy strikes during her freshman year of college, she compensates for the helplessness she felt by micro-managing every aspect of her life, from her business life to her social life... to her love life.

Rasana's books based on social issues that affect rural India with a hint of tragedy and comedy elements.

School bullying has become a hot topic in recent years because of high - profile tragedies and social media.

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The death of a dog or cat can be as devastating to some as the passing of a favorite aunt and many pet owners need emotional help to get them through the tragedy, a pet bereavement counselor said Monday.Jamie Quackenbush, a social worker at the Veterinary Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, said nearly 90 percent of pet owners consider their animals members of the family and grieve the same way as they would for the death of a human.However, pet owners have an added burden, wrote Quackenbush in his book, When Your Pet Dies: How to Cope with Your Feelings.