Sentences with phrase «such a culture shock»

It's useful for students to learn to interact with other instructors so that it's not such a culture shock when they go to college or into the workforce or even when they find themselves in classroom settings within the community.

That is such a culture shock.

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For three weeks, I had been in an environment of such abundant grace, in a culture that was so thoroughly, vibrantly Christian, that returning to a world of shopping malls and artificially intimate liturgies was a real shock.

There is no doubt that Bale needs to get the hell out of Real if he ever wants to be the kind of player he once was... this isn't to suggest that he his skills have diminished, he simply isn't the fiery, determined and aggressive player that struck fear in the hearts of his opponents... the small fish in a big pond just doesn't fit his profile... I can't even remember the last player I've seen who has become so invisible on the big stage (maybe Pogba last year)... maybe it's a case of culture shock or maybe he wasn't able to handle the notoriety that invariably came with his big money signing, but regardless of how it happened this guy is a shadow of his former self... although I doubt he would ever come to a team in such disarray, he could quite easily fill the shoes of Sanchez, who ironically was in a similar predicament in Barcelona, as Bale would return to his favoured left side and would be given the same freedoms that have allowed Sanchez to flourish... ultimately I think the cache of wearing a Real jersey and competing for the top trophies would be too difficult to give up for a wannabe club run by suits who care little about those kinds of accolades

I'm going to go for David James (actually an intelligible individual, with some interest in things other than football, such as art, culture, shock horror.

It was a trip of such adventure, intrigue and culture shock; I knew I had to travel more, further and longer.

Morocco can be a bit of a culture shock so it was really nice having such a cool place to go back to each night.

The answer is long and complex, and has much to do with the radical shifts in culture that have occurred over the past 25 years or so, both in Britain and the world: the unstoppable rise of art as commodity and the successful artist as a brand; the ascendancy of a post-Thatcher generation of Young British Artists (YBAs) who set out, unapologetically, to make shock - art that also made money; the attendant rise of uber - dealers such as Jay Jopling in London and Larry Gagosian in New York; and the birth of a new kind of gallery culture, in which the blockbuster show rules and merchandising is a lucrative sideline.

Mixing art historical references with images taken from the internet, their subject matter knows no limits: from icons of popular culture such as Roy Orbison to much admired paintings of the past such as Georges Seurat's Bathers at Asnières (1884); from the lonesome cowboys in a Steven Spielberg film to the shocking photographs of Mexican photographer, Enrique Metinides.

It caused such controversy that culture secretary Chris Smith criticised the jury for deliberately selecting «shock» installations that gave the country a bad name abroad.

A traveler is also likely to face different attitudes and expectations that can worsen their culture shock, such as:

A sense of culture shock may initially be triggered by differences in social interaction, such as:

Reverse culture shock is a condition that has been studied by organizations such as the Peace Corps and the military.

Such is the culture shock of a B.C. resident leaving Comox en route to Calgary for the Banff Western Connection 2011.