Sentences with phrase «subsequent tumult»

Towles then uses this Trojan horse of a literary dreamboat, Count Rostov, to illuminate some 100 years of the ebbing of a lost Russian aristocracy, the subsequent tumult of Soviet revolution, and the failure of that revolution to transform society for the better, even as everything — or almost everything — of his former life is stripped from him.

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A 33 - year - old Egyptian artist from Alexandria, Mahmoud Khaled lived thought the tumult of the Arab Spring and the subsequent crackdown in the wake of Tahrir Square, and he makes work about the experience that tends to be arch, oblique, at - a-distance.