Sentences with phrase «political malaise»

Politicians not standing for anything apart from slightly different forms of superficial niceness — Blair's trademark was insincere modesty, forced emotion, estuarine twang and emphatic hand gestures — is the cause of the political malaise that Blair ponders.

The causes of today's political malaise are too complex to be laid only on the schools, whether charter - or district - run, though there is reason to question the quality of civics and history teaching.

Olivier Dubois, secretary - general of the National Order of Medical Doctors in Paris, argues that French people need more treatment for depression and anxiety because of the country's high unemployment, political malaise, urban noise — which makes sleeping difficult — and the fact that the French were slower than other Europeans to move to cities and are still adjusting.

In truth the duck houses and moat cleaning were just symptoms of a deeper political malaise.

A statement from the Compass [i] pressure group argues that the Falkirk selection is a symptom of a much deeper political malaise because none of the traditional, mainstream political parties are thriving today.

The instigators were ideologically minded army officers who were fuelled by a revolutionary zeal to upturn what they saw as the social and political malaise in the land.

McWilliams reminds readers that Lasch offers a positive analysis of populism that speaks to the current political malaise.

While less comprehensive than the path offered by Dreher or Salam / Douthat, Gerson and Wehner offer their own distinct blend of foci as a cure for the Republican intellectual and political malaise.

Not exact matches

It would seem that our political leaders are afflicted with a certain malaise.

Italy's political class has struggled to deal with the underlying causes of the country's malaise, including a loss of international competitiveness and the stagnant productivity of its business sector that began well before the European financial crisis of recent years.

Why do we commit ourselves to the political process when there is so much cynicism and a malaise of despair in politics today?

As populist revolts multiply, we observe a malaise besetting our social and political institutions.

«The «malaise» of democracy must be countered with a «political economy of citizenship»».

The China phenomenon is frequently depicted at official and unofficial levels as having put European - US ties under strain, mostly arising from a confluence of the growing significance of Asia in US economic and strategic policy; Europe's political and economic malaise; and China's more confident and assertive external policies that include the prospect of enhanced financial and economic ties between major European countries and China.

This is symptomatic of a larger malaise in political television broadcasting.

The risk of Greek exit from the euro epitomises a familiar malaise of high unemployment, political and economic instability and apparently strong leaders, like Putin, who are admired by Farage and many others from the edges of politics.

But having political skills will be critical to getting the state out of its economic malaise.

These include the varying comforts and malaise of the «urban haute bourgeoisie» in Metropolitan (1990); how certain class cultures clash with political realities abroad in Barcelona (1994); and the collapse of the utopian ideals of disco in The Last Days of Disco (1996).

Saunders's work in the last six years has come to be recognized as one of the strongest - and most consoling - cries in the wilderness of the millennium's political and cultural malaise.

Triple Canopy will consider how various conceptions of malaise and deficiency mark us — as useful or useless laborers; consumers of essential oils, medical procedures, and pharmaceuticals; narrators of our own lives and the systems in which they are enmeshed; providers and recipients of care; political actors and community members.

Disorderly Conduct: Recent Art in Tumultuous Times features painting, video, and installation projects by local and international artists whose works reveals the political turbulence, cultural malaise and general instability of our tumultuous times.

Its political battles, formed in the dark days of the 1970s, won, the Tory party struggled to identify itself or its purpose, and it collapsed into its own internal chaos while the Labour party had rescued itself from its own malaise by cutting the party machine off from its traditional constituency, and reinvented its image.

Japan's aging population and rigid business and political systems have clearly contributed to the country's long economic malaise, which began in the 1990s.