Sentences with phrase «penetrated national consciousness»

The reality of innocent people in our prisons has finally penetrated the national consciousness, and I feel that we are on the verge of many more great legislative accomplishments.

When the film was released in March, the alt - right hadn't yet penetrated national consciousness; a key scene, featuring Breaking Bad's Dean Norris as a proud neo-Nazi, probably has even more of a disturbing charge now than it did in those comparatively innocent days.

Smaller factory towns barely penetrate the national consciousness, dizzied by the shell game of today's global manufacturing: will they stay or will they go?

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Stories questioning the safety of football have appeared in such leading publications as the New York Times (with Alan Schwarz covering the issue in depth), NPR, GQ, and The Atlantic, though the issue has struggled to penetrate the broader national consciousness.