Sentences with phrase «rail against social»

Ayn Rand was nothing but a self - righteous troll - railed against social programs, yet graciously took the help (under an assumed name) when she so desperately needed it.

But while Freud regarded such satisfactions as beyond the scope and ken of mere common folk, Lasch railed against a social order where opportunities for useful work are widely unavailable.

Jaron Lanier rails against the social trends being fostered by the Internet — in particular its power to stifle creativity and grant anonymity as well as encourage groupthink and a lynch - mob mentality

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The provocative 33 - year - old former editor of alt - right media website Breitbart News has turned railing against feminism, Islam, social justice and political correctness into a money - spinning show, sparking protests along the way.

While social media users railed against United on Tuesday, most airline analysts didn't mention the incident in their commentaries released that day.

They bash social conservatives as ineffective sellouts to the GOP establishment, and rail against neo-conservative hawks for their embrace of Israel.

Numerous sales consultants rail against «social selling kool aid purveyors» and remind everybody that cold calling and prospecting is the key to success.

seem to want to mold public policy based on the rantings of fictional characters created by a hypocrite who railed against socialist and collectivist principles and then collected her Medicare and Social Security benefits later in life, can we also consider alternatives?

Remember that all the great prophets were courageous and outrageous folks who railed against the powers - that - be, challenged self - satisfied piosity, threatened the prevailing social order, and would find you falling short in some significant ways.»

He rails against his parents when they offer him a new car for graduation, the final straw in what he sees as their lifetime of aimless materialism, then donates the remainder of his college fund ($ 24,000) to OxFam America, burns his credit and Social Security cards, and heads west in his battered Datsun.

Returning to filmmaking after saying he was retiring in 2014, the 80 - year - old Loach rails against the system with his trademark style of stripped - down social realism.

We cheer her on as she rails against abusive boyfriends and apathetic social workers, her defiance rendered in a rich Midlothian brogue.»

Founded in 1951, its organizing document rails against capitalism, asserting that it «has been incapable of satisfying the elementary needs of the world's population... unable to function without devastating crises and mass unemployment... produced social insecurity and glaring contrasts between rich and poor... [and] resorted to imperialist expansion and colonial exploitation.

The Koch family has been involved in American politics since the 1930s, when Dutch immigrant Harry Koch railed against workers» unions and New Deal programs like Social Security from a Texas newspaper he owned.