Sentences with phrase «social polemic»

As a dark poem of love and madness, Swoon is powerful; as social polemic, it's strained.

It's a vivid and persuasive social polemic, rooted in real children's lives, that brings the schools of urban America leaping off the page — and should be forced reading for Michael Gove and his merry band of free - schoolers, who, having filched the idea of charter and KIPP schools from the US, now need to look West again to see how fiddling with school structures can never, by itself, help pupils do better.

Not exact matches

Wilcox has not written a religious or political polemic here but rather a scrupulously even - handed report, basing his conclusions on his statistical analysis of three large - scale national surveys of U.S. adults» social attitudes conducted from the late 1980s through the»90s.

Best known for his classic defense of liberty and polemic against statism, The Road to Serfdom, Friedrich Hayek was deservedly honored by the Nobel Prize as one of the most influential economic and social thinkers of the twentieth century.

When according to critical study, that text is set in the Exile as an affirmation to Israelites and a polemic against Babylonian imperialism and Babylonian gods, the social function of that equilibrium emerges.

The polemic of the prophets against worship of false gods in Israel was combined with the struggle against political and social wrongs.

For a tradition of filmmaking that harks back to the Beat generation, it's surprising to see that even the social conscience films are visually and resolutely apathetic to the polemic embedded in their storylines.

«Jamaica Sweethearts,» Reyna's recent pop - up installation at Julius Caesar, a prominent Chicago artist - run project space, examined art's social agency in an apparent endeavor to demonstrate Willats's cool polemics.

«Jerry Smith's works address the polemics swirling around contentious social issues and then explore the resulting dualities and paradoxes,» Michael Golden, Central Art Gallery director, said of Smith's recent exhibition in Houston.