Sentences with phrase «on societal ills»

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These things are problematic to focus on, since they are deeply personal, yet on a societal level they make very little difference — meaning that they can alienate someone very quick, yet, even their perfect application (lifelong marriages between men and women only) would not cure our social ills — what about wars, starvation, national debt, environmental decay, cheating banks, resource depletion, peak oil etc. etc?

In this graveyard of societal pressures and ill intentions, Thornton's film finds stores of emotional power, moving with subtle grace, a la the light - footed Sam as he slinks away from the lawmen hot on his heels.

Taken from William Butler Yeats» famous poem «Easter, 1916», the exhibition's title borrows from the Irish writer's seminal response to turn - of - the - century political events to site art's underused potential for commenting symbolically on the world's societal, cultural and economic triumphs and ills.