Sentences with phrase «oppressive society»

Dystopia and anti-utopia are not interchangeable, and as terms describe parallel conditions which emerge from diametrically opposed motives: dystopia describes a deliberately oppressive society, built from its foundations as a structure of tyranny; while anti-utopia describes a more complex circumstance where the conditions for building utopia fail, and the results amount to those of a dystopian society.

«Living in an oppressive society has taught us to work twice as hard to earn the same respect as a man.

Set in a dystopian 1960's, this action / adventure survival game will have players trying to escape their colorful, oppressive society by refusing to take mind - altering drugs.

-- The Times (UK) «This impressive debut creates, in deceptively simple prose, a portrait of a marriage in crisis in a deeply patriarchal and oppressive society.»

Much like how Lamar's «DNA» is about rising up and standing proud in an oppressive society, Black Panther will examine how a kingdom could have progressed into greatness if it hadn't been conquered.

Much of that time is spent expanding our understanding of this ruthlessly oppressive society and raising the stakes for the uprising in store.

Strindberg's play follows the titular character as she navigates her way through the oppressive society and begins a relationship with a senior servant at her father's estate.

The hospitals are not often too kind to those with lousy insurance.The impoverished are often people of color because we live in a racist and oppressive society.

Come to think of it, your anti-atheist rhetoric would fit right in with that oppressive society.

If the reaction is negative («homophobic»), marginalization is achieved, which brings with it both the desired victim status and a vindication of one's claim that this is an intrinsically hate - full and oppressive society.

Even now I will not put an atheist sticker on my car because I don't want to be killed or have my rights violated because of my risky behavior in a religiously oppressive society such as the one we have always had in this country.

I am a Christian, I did not like the fact Perry had the meeting at Reliant Stadium, or the comments made to Mitt, but as an older person, which you are probably not, you do not remember the Khmer Rouge or the Cultural Revolution or the bread lines in Russia, or the purge of Eritrea and Tigre (just a few) atheistic oppressive societies with little hope or caring.

While access to books is something that most of us might think only happens in certain oppressive societies in far flung places, this level of censorship — especially when parents have purchased the book and given permission for their children to take part — is shocking in the 21st century.

Not exact matches

Blacks alongside gays, alongside Hispanics, alongside the poor and the middleclass??? Shouldn't we all band together in a common cause - to be recognized and accepted, for equal rights for all members of our society??? Shouldn't the 99 % be the voice of this country - as opposed to the oppressive 1 %??? I think we should all band together - pushing for a common cause, and making America the true beacon of what a Modern society looks like!

In the corruption, illiteracy, poverty, and oppressive governments that plague many Muslim societies, those seeds find fertile ground in which they take root, sprout, and flourish — as well as in historical memories, foreign - policy missteps by Western governments, and alienation felt by Muslim youth in Western societies.

Indeed the desire of the counter-cultural types to take charge of the education of their own children seemed a reasonable extension of the kind of liberty we were being taught, in the public school, that America had been founded to protect, and a rational response to the kind of oppressive social control some of the cooler teachers taught (this was a college town, as I said) capitalist society imposed.

Further, most non-supernaturalists that I know have nothing against Christians, they only despise the doctrines of Christianity that are incompatible and oppressive to modern society and personal freedom.

While God lived, the oppressive machinery of society stood in the way of the production and release of my curative to a needy world.

He also treats blacks principally as victims of an unjust, racist society and a pernicious, oppressive global capitalist system.

For so long as women settle for a position of subordination in marriage, in the church, and in the economic order, we will be aiding and abetting the ills of racism, militarism, and all the other oppressive structures in our society.

A vital goal of all movements in quest of social liberation is consciousness - raising, an omnibus term which involves (among other things) making the oppressive factions of society aware of what it's like to be oppressed.

Interestingly, Christianity already survived severe restrictions and Sharia law under oppressive Islamic societies in the 700s through the 14th century in the Middle East.

And liberation involves not mere personal repentance but, far more important, social revolution, freeing the downtrodden from the oppressive structures of society.

No, because yesterday in the group discussion, women complained that all traditional societies were patriarchal in character and were oppressive of their personhood.

A weakness in gestalt is an underemphasis on the responsibility of truly liberated persons to strive to change the oppressive structures of society.

this society, our so - called free society, is rotten to the core — it's oppressive and corrupt and unjust, it's materialistic and ruthless and immoral and soft, rotted with pornography and kitsch.»

It is more humanizing and less oppressive for a society to hold strong truths weakly, than for us to insist upon weak truths strongly.

The result was that Marxist societies were often oppressive of individuals.

By similar action, peoples throughout the world struggle to attain their goals in societies dominated by oppressive political and economic systems.

The third factor making marriage enrichment crucial is the epidemic of loneliness in our urbanized, mobile society — a loneliness that becomes increasingly oppressive in the mid-years.

Out of praxis that aims at transforming oppressive social power arrangements arise fresh theoretical understandings of the structure and dynamics of oppressive relationships within society.

You can be a Christian in an oppressive (Romanesque) society, as willing slaves (who obey their masters as they obey God), or in any other situation.

They have inspired powerful movements of social protest (like Hebrew prophetism in monarchical Israel, or the bhakti movements in medieval India) which have attacked both the oppressive rigidity of the religious systems themselves, as well as of the unjust socio - economic and political structures of the societies in which these religions flourished» (Voices from the Third World, p. 153)

In the middle of its society there stands the secular state, a respectable notion that has become oppressive and tyrannical in France.

In my view and that of my constituents, the niqab and the burqa are oppressive dress codes that are regressive as regards the advancement of women in our society.

Many see science and technology as oppressive and uncontrollable forces in our society.

Set in America at a time in which Cold War paranoia and the Civil Rights injustices of the early 1960s have created an oppressive atmosphere for those on the margins of society, it's the story of a mute - since - childhood cleaner (Sally Hawkins) who falls for the amphibious humanoid (Doug Jones) being experimented upon at the underground research facility where she works.

Callum discovers he is descended from a mysterious secret society, the Assassins, and amasses incredible knowledge and skills to take on the oppressive and powerful Templar organization in the present day.

To see a society where that's not the focal point, where gender is not the fabric with which society is built and the delineations of sex are not oppressive, that's really cool.

An erstwhile member of the most cerebral and ruthless of the factions, Caleb has already expressed misgivings about their rebellion, reasoning that while the faction system is certainly oppressive, it also provides stability in a post-war society — which the very existence of his sister threatens.

The screenplay by Phyllis Nagy (based on the novel The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith) isn't particularly interested in the oppressive systems of society at large.

The goal behind Speak Truth to Power is to provide a learning platform for students who may find themselves in chaotic situations or oppressive communities whether in school, home, or society.

«My students face daily the challenges of poverty, of immigration, of language barriers, of an oppressive and racist society,» says Stocklin, «and yet they still consistently outperform the global mean on every type of essay on the AP English Language exam.

I believe schools should equip and empower students to navigate and shape society in order to deconstruct oppressive social institutions like racism and classism by being places that model democratic decision - making.

Exotic locale, a society oppressive to women, a charming investigator, and a great story combine to make this literary mystery too good to be labeled by one genre.

Cubans are becoming more expressive in a society that has been traditionally oppressive.

Juliusz Machulski, the satirical sci - fi film tells the story of two time - travelling men striving for male liberation when threatened with sex - change in an oppressive, post-nuclear feminism society.

She rephotographed 1980s images because she believes that they have been used as an «oppressive and subjective tool» in society.

But while gender roles are not as stable, not as oppressive in our contemporary society as they once were, one cursory look at any glossy magazine or Hollywood movie reveals that we've taken little more than a baby step away from the me - Tarzan - you - Jane approach.

The Surrealists sought to overthrow the oppressive rules of modern society by demolishing its backbone of rational thought.