Sentences with phrase «political disillusionment»

Particularly pertinent in today's global climate of social and political disillusionment, Shonibare explores both historical and contemporary cycles of revolution, seeking to demonstrate the destructive patterns of human behaviour that repeat themselves across time.

A pivot to glass by the sculptor shows an attempt to see hope through political disillusionment

Born in Philadelphia in 1943, R. Crumb has used the popular medium of the comic book to address the absurdity of social conventions, political disillusionment, irony, racial and gender stereotypes, sexual fantasies, and fetishes.

Do you have any sympathy with the political disillusionment Jeremy Paxman voiced fairly recently?

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Some pointed to disillusionment about Obama's interest in economic liberalism, and others suggested an increased awareness about the political strength of major corporations and rising wealth inequality.

His political biography shows the nature of his alignments: social disillusionment with both capitalism and Marxism; embracement of pacifism, and then the abandonment of it during the rise of American isolationism and European fascism in the 1930s; the championing of U.S. intervention in World War II and a cold war stratagem to contain Soviet power; and indictment of the pretensions of American messianism and scientism when the U.S. first intervened militarily in Viet Nam under John F. Kennedy.

His aim is so to bring the Christian perspective into the concrete political and social experience of modern life that the possibility of achieving justice and brotherhood in human affairs will be increased because men are in some measure freed from the sentimental and romantic notions which can only lead to bitter disillusionment.

In one sense Christianity emerged out of man's disillusionment with the doctrine that the road to life and joy and justice lies through the exercise of political force and the growth of national power.

A few of the obvious drives that pack us off, daily or weekly or episodically or, for some, in hope, permanently, are fear or even terror in the particular given set of circumstances; the sheer discouragement and exhaustion of facing questions without answer; profound disillusionment — it takes many forms — with the pertinent, prevailing system or systems; deep and bitter contempt for one's own society, bred of the abysmal failure to attain in consistent practice even a semblance of the justice professed and acclaimed; despair — so it was with the college generation of the late sixties — over the formidable obduracy of a political establishment in going its merciless way quite apparently deaf to the cries of anguish of its empathetic and real victims, victims by the tens of millions here and around the world.

While some expression of disillusionment is understandable, it seems premature to dismiss Khodorkovsky's political ambitions and focus on his potential challenge to the regime.

Green supporters share with those of Ukip a certain populist disillusionment with the political mainstream (for example, three - quarters agree with the statement that «politicians don't care what people like me think»), but there is a crucial difference: they are much more likely to have a sense of political efficacy than Ukip's followers.

The text of the press conference jointly signed by Sheikh Usman Abubakar Babantine and Imam Musa Tanimu, Chairman and Assistant Secretary respectively said, «The discernible sense of disillusionment of the masses was clearly seen during the just concluded intra party local government primary elections in many states in the country which resulted into rioting, use of weapons, massive killings and vandalism, «This shows that we are still lacking qualitative and responsible political leadership.

And in a third sign of growing disillusionment with Cuomo by Democrats and others on the political left, Working Families Party activists, furious over Cuomo's alliance with Senate Republicans, are threatening to back someone other than the governor in the November election, a move that would aid GOP gubernatorial contender Rob Astorino, sources said.

[2] However Health Concern put their success down to disillusionment with political parties that had failed to take action over the hospital and that they would represent local opinion.

Expressing disillusionment with Iran's current state of affairs, Alimohammadi recounted his political activism from 3 decades ago when he participated in the Islamic revolution.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

Ewan McGregor has not been successful in adapting Philip Roth's Pulitzer Prize - winning 1997 novel, revolving around a father's disillusionment with the American Dream when his daughter becomes a terrorist during the social and political turmoil of the late 1960s.

And as the American ideal of a country in which economic mobility and opportunity are accessible to all seems to be moving further and further away, disillusionment with the political system grows.

The popular genre was a direct reflection of the pessimism, uncertainty and disillusionment sweeping the country in the wake of gangster - driven crime, political scandal and economic crisis, and marked a decidedly American departure from the classic whodunit formula.

At first, their future seems well - assured — Nan's graduate work in political science at Brandeis University would guarantee him a teaching position in China — but after the fallout from Tiananmen, Nan's disillusionment turns him towards his first love, poetry.

A group of 25 diverse women artists were invited to create art about present conditions of DISILLUSIONMENT, whether personal, global, cultural, political or societal — addressing issues of deception, falseness, unfaithfulness, betrayal and treachery — with reference to wearing, inhabiting, being veiled, clothed, draped, revealed, exposed or wrapped in disillusion.

Josh Kline's immersive installation, Freedom, addresses the sense of widespread disillusionment and upheaval in a climate of surveillance and builds a critique through samples of digitally archived political - media content and references to mass data tracking and social unrest.

Many of Tooker's works dealt with themes of isolation and despondency in contemporary urban life, and disillusionment with bureaucratic political systems.

The artist began this series during the economic and political struggles at the end of the Bush era, and the photographs deal with disillusionment, guilt and ultimately the conflict between desire and need.