Sentences with phrase «prevailing mood»

«If there was no obvious winner, there was a very clear prevailing mood.

The notion of Carney as an inspirational figure tasked with an exceptionally difficult job explained the prevailing mood of guarded excitement in the Thatcher Room at Westminster's Portcullis House.

Greg Braca, group head for US Retail at Canada's TD Bank, captured the prevailing mood in a call on March 27:

In a country where the last hundred years of foreign rule have destroyed the concept of social equality and intensified class stratification, where a foreign system of education has created a wide gulf between the educated class and the masses, the prevailing mood of the people is to recover their lost dignity and equality.

Such cautions in fact come naturally to those of us who came of intellectual age in the middle - to - late 1950s — that brief, golden era of consensus, with its prevailing moods of irony, ambiguity, and paradox.

The denomination is distinguished from the ecclesiastical body through the principle of voluntary association and by congregational organization, and from the sect by size, prevailing mood, and «democratic» leadership.

While two or more groups may present very similar pictures as far as the prevailing mood and the sociological structure are concerned, the theologies of these groups may be worlds apart (Adventist - Holiness - Pentecostal groups).

This community of Disciples also shared the prevailing mood characterizing American Protestantism of that time.

When personal and humanitarian hopes collide with the complex and confining social crises of our time, the prevailing mood is increasingly one of perplexity, anxiety, frustration and resentment.

Indeed, whereas the earlier Chicago school had set its face against any understanding of Christian faith that required defending disputable philosophic views, Hartshorne was engaged in creating a metaphysical position in lonely isolation from the prevailing mood of American philosophy.

I was shocked by a comment in a recent article in The Spectator, where self - professed atheist Matthew Parris criticised the Church for being unfaithful to her theology and «bending to a prevailing mood».

But in the fall of 1939, as World War II was beginning, uncertainty was the prevailing mood.

The second is that the prevailing mood regarding the case is neither titillation nor perverse curiosity, but a deep sadness.

The eurosceptic press added considerably to the weight of opposition to the single currency, although it undoubtedly reflected the prevailing mood.

Price quotes approvingly the words of Francis Williams, Attlee's wise press secretary:» [Newspapers] have to go with the prevailing mood.

No party ran a campaign responsive to the seismic impact of the expenses scandal - and to the prevailing mood of disillusion with Westminster politics

But in the town centre the upbeat slogan does not rest easy with the prevailing mood.

For all the optimistic talk of hope and renewal, the prevailing mood during this past week in Brighton has been one of suspicion and paranoia.

Alexander believes that the Tories are trapped by their own manifesto, which will show their policies to be in disharmony with the prevailing mood music.

The prevailing mood at Labour's annual conference this week was one of «suspicion and paranoia», writes Dan Hodges in his latest column for TP.

The prevailing mood of The Current War is indifference; there's no point listing the crimes against the past committed by Michael Mitnick's dramatically inept script...

Before long, he starts hemorrhaging, and a prevailing mood of enforced silence and secrecy pervades all exchanges, official and private.

But the truth is that a movie about deeply personal obsessions can't work if it doesn't have some of its own, and the prevailing mood of The Current War is indifference; there's no point listing the crimes against the past committed by Michael Mitnick's dramatically inept script, which ends with a tacked - on, emotionally manipulative paean to the wonders of cinem - ah that anyone who cares about film history will likely find insulting.

The film doesn't make an issue of gender beyond the odd line of dialogue (referencing the multiple all - male squads that failed), but given the prevailing mood in Hollywood, its timing is impeccable.

The prevailing mood as L'Inhumaine opens is closer to Surrealism or even Abstraction.

Unexpectedly, the prevailing mood is one of bizarre, cutup comedy, exploited by a supporting cast that would shame most topliners: Alec Baldwin (in his unpredictable Miami Blues register), Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone and the superbly rude Mark Wahlberg.

Each, of course, is representative of the prevailing mood: the arid amorality of the drug underworld; the sad desperation of daughter and father; the sparkle of a too - good - to - be-true standard of living.

Even the brutality of Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway elided with the prevailing mood.

Classroom climate refers to the prevailing mood, attitudes, standards, and tone that you and your students feel when they are in your classroom.

Unfortunately, the prevailing mood when it comes to debt relief seems to be gloom and doom.

But don't move your money around based on their predictions or your fellow investors» prevailing moods.

This post on Falkenblog (which I found via Larry MacDonald's Investment Ideas blog) captures the prevailing mood by arguing that the equity premium does not exist by making the following points:

For Ben and the rest of the 300 - strong team involved with creating APB, the prevailing mood is excitement.

The next gallery shared dreamy adolescent depictions, ennui, troubling encounters, and interiors that become characters in the prevailing mood of these dramas.

Each work in the exhibition is dominated by a melancholic blue and the title of this winter show sums up the prevailing mood of disenchantment: this strange year is indeed over now.

Michael Bracewell's exhibition at Maureen Paley in Bethnal Green provides a sober ending to the year — entirely congruent with the prevailing mood.

One title nails the prevailing mood: Comfortably Edgy.

This is what allows a liquid, plasmatic state in my working method... and for me to react organically to the prevailing moods.»

But despite the delay in appealing, and despite the 26 - week overall time limit, the Court of Appeal was still willing to entertain the challenge and uphold it, with an indication that (against much of the prevailing mood recently) the need for robust case management should not prevent a meritorious appeal from being considered.

In sum, the prevailing mood among the thinkers, the tinkerers, the educators, and the profession appears to be something of a reluctant willingness to consider alternatives to articling.

That old adage seems to sum up the prevailing mood in a number of national treasury departments as they contemplate how best to address the phenomenal growth of cryptocurrencies across the world.