Sentences with phrase «rigid social conventions»

This juxtaposition of human evil with the innocent child may be a reaction to Japan's rigid social conventions.

Most recently, I've returned to my YA roots with Passion Blue and Color Song, a pair of historical novels set in fifteenth century Padua and Venice, about a talented girl's struggle to become a painter in defiance of the rigid social conventions of her time.

Newland Archer (Daniel Day Lewis), a wealthy dandy, and Countess Ellen Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer), a divorcee considered to be damaged goods, are lovers who struggle against rigid social conventions.

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The purpose of Yin yoga is to take us out of the systems of social convention indoctrination, and mechanistic ways of thinking, not to reinforce them by demanding conformity to rigid, limited paradigms.

Very few people in this category will likely check all of the boxes, but a common set of themes for people who have an Asperger's - like way of operating emotionally in relationships can include: Not sharing emotions, using overly blunt language, under - investing in social conventions, being reserved in social situations or avoiding social situations altogether, difficulty with tolerating frustrations, particularly social frustrations, insisting on rigid ways of interacting or getting things done, and being obsessive over details.