Sentences with phrase «social encumbrance»

This was still the era — it would end later in that famous decade — when to be young was a social encumbrance, a mark of irrelevance, a faintly embarrassing condition for which marriage was the beginning of a cure.

«This was still the era — it would end later in that famous decade — when to be young was a social encumbrance, a mark of irrelevance, a faintly embarrassing condition for which marriage was the beginning of a cure.»

The film is set in the narrowest sliver of historical time, the immediately pre-youthquake Britain of 1962, when, as Ian McEwan writes in the novella upon which the movie is based, «to be young was a social encumbrance... a faintly embarrassing condition for which marriage was the beginning of a cure.»

Not exact matches

This attempted flattening of social hierarchies by relational artists was not without its encumbrances.