Sentences with phrase «social malaise»

Loveless A story about a broken marriage and a missing child becomes a withering snapshot of Russian social malaise in this bleak and beautifully shot drama from the gifted Andrey Zvyagintsev («Leviathan»).

The depression itself had disastrous consequences elsewhere, especially in Europe, and in Germany the economic predicament and the resulting social malaise contributed to the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich.

Nigeria has a debilitating social malaise which has to do with the lack of a sustained sense of national outrage over ethical and criminal offences that...

Sorrow becomes social malaise.

In these major works, Fischl continues his exploration of moral ambivalence and social malaise against a suburban backdrop.

Eric Fischl presents new paintings at Skarstedt Gallery in «Late America,» an exhibition that continues the artist's theme of exploring moral ambivalence and social malaise while depicting scenes around suburban pools.

From installation and sculpture made of edible materials to performance and conceptual objects he explores social malaise in the face of a frustrating system, the defeat of the institutions, globalization and the submission of the Mexican government to U.S. dictates among others subjects.

Richter has admitted to his concerns about social malaise, psychological alienation, death, loss, and self - doubt, which he observed during his childhood in post-World War II Germany as the damage done by the war to many Germans became apparent.

«Given that the recession has been so long, and given that the growth is not strong enough to create real employment, the social malaise is so wide that... certainly a very large part of the society is afraid of the future, is angry, is against the people that have managed the country in the last decades,» Passera, who was an independent minister under the Mario Monti government, said Thursday.

«The social malaise that has been accumulated in this country, like in most other countries, is fostering populistic — kind of — political approaches in parties,» Passera said.

As I said earlier, Christianity, as a movement, was born from the ashes of late antiquity's social malaise, gobbling up the philosophical attitudes and cultic practices that were lying about, offering ultimate meaning to the Greeks, ultimate justice to the Jews, a City of God to the Romans.

She thinks that, given Africa's poverty and social malaise, we can not condemn the promiscuous sex that is spreading AIDS.

Droll, dry and ultimately rather heartless, it's clear that Kirn («Thumbsucker») positioned his novel as a kind of «Bonfire of the Vanities» for post-millennial readers, a work that diagnoses the ills of corporate America and chimes in with a wider sense of social malaise.

Directed by Lebanon's Ziad Doueiri (who is banned in his homeland but not in Israel), The Attack is insightful on the social malaise of Israeli - Palestinian relations.

Over a thirty year career, Kudo, who worked in France and Japan, developed an extremely complex body of sculpture, installation, and performance - based work in reaction both to World War II and Japan's subsequent transformation into an industrial society and to European Humanism which, he believed, abetted environmental degradation and social malaise.

However, as Family Picture, a number of his self - portraits, and later works, such as the triptych Departure (1932 — 33) and Paris Society (1925, 1931) show, Beckmann's canvases don't just present the viewer with a feast of social malaise, they also attest to spatial dislocation, implying how the horrors of Europe's early - 20th century distort one's ability to see the world.

«Eric Fischl: Late America» exhibits a series of new paintings that return to Fischl's exploration of contemporary life, social malaise and moral ambivalence set in suburban scenes.