Sentences with phrase «social tragedy»

What hope is there that the law can make any difference in these fragments that form a mosaic of impending social tragedy that is as much a part of the American bicentennial observance as are TV specials and patriotic oratory?

While the film's plot does become loose at times late in the second half, it is one of the few shortcomings and one that's forgotten during a highly emotional finale that balances social tragedy with a glimmer of fantasy befitting of friendship's positive nature.

But deep as was the sense of personal tragedy in Hawthorne and Melville, it was part of a larger vision of social tragedy.

«It is a social tragedy that a majority of children from wealthy families attend college, but only 10 percent of children of poor families attend college,» the governor said.

The characters have enough dimension to avoid appearing to be symbols of a social tragedy, and the movie's relative gentleness makes the harsher realities of Brandon's world all the more distressing.

On the one hand: social tragedy, religious despair, wasted humanity, a primal wail, seediness and grime.

Rwanda has become a classic case study in how mounting population pressure can translate into political tension, conflict, and social tragedy.

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We might say our resulting view of marriage is a joke - if it didn't also contribute to many tragedies, particularly the social tragedies that half of all marriages end in divorce and many who stay married are sexually unhappy and alienated.

When we reflect on some of the atrocities that were committed, as does the Black Day, Sun Rises, Blood Runs multimedia display at Melbourne Museum's Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre, it is not difficult to understand how we should see the social tragedy facing Indigenous communities within contemporary Australia as similar to societies recovering from the trauma of war and conflict in other parts of the world.