Sentences with phrase «social tumult»

This social tumult formed an opportune ground against which Agnetti pursued his deconstruction of language and power.

Already a hit in Japan (it's the highest - grossing domestic production of 2016 there), the film is being released in the U.S. for a limited run in the midst of the kind of social tumult that tends to engender the best Godzilla movies.

The vast collection of sources is what makes the film, despite the bafflingly poor sound quality of some of the interviews, as it provides colourful detail to what would otherwise be a straightforward history of social tumult.

Not exact matches

I think it's fair to say that's what a fiction writer is most often drawn to — tumult of one kind or another; and in that sense the family in the last quarter century seems to me to be among the most fascinating of human social or economic inventions — more than business or real estate, no matter what Tom Wolfe says, more than the church or the law or the hospital.

Coming out of the political tumult of France in the 1960s, the activities of the group were not hermetic, isolated occurrences, but rather a response to the particular intellectual moment, one defined by radical philosophy and social unrest.

Judd hosted dinner parties and social gatherings, and had a genuine curiosity for new ideas and debate about the intersection of art, culture, history, and politics at a time of great tumult and change in the United States and the world.

How do you elaborate forms in response to social, political or historical tumult?

This show includes paintings that evoke a multitude of social and philosophical ideas, as well as a multiplicity of attitudes to nature, not only its changing moods, but also the feelings called forth by them in the painter's own mind — from the effusiveness of Spring Rain to the tumult of Stormy Sea and the dense melancholy of Damp Autumn.