Sentences with phrase «tendencies of pandering»

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Although White is absolutely right about the tendency of today's animated films (Tangled included) to pander to the most annoying and depressing aspects of popular culture even as they ignore or deny the richer, deeper culture from which most classic fairy tales emerged, the animated features that Disney brought to the screen when Uncle Walt himself still oversaw the studio made a point of drawing considerable aesthetic, emotional, and narrative power from specifically Christian aspects of the culture that, even today, America shares with Europe.

«Pandering to the party's oppositionist tendency may win back a few of the voters who don't like what has happened since May — but at the expense of many more who think the Liberal Democrats are finally getting somewhere.»

Whether this was intentional or not, calling a movie «too black» is a clear symptom of our tendency to see white as default and anything else as pandering or niche.

But in fact, by suppressing the student's natural tendency to make — and to want to make — moral judgments; by relentlessly denigrating the student's core western cultural heritage; and by pandering to the supposed victim status of some cultures in relation to others, this ideology is a recipe for further alienating a generation already too comfortable with a fashionable distrust of authority.

The most striking thing, to me anyways, was the continuation of Secretary Duncan's tendency to talk tough in friendly venues and then pander when he's rubbing knees with Weingarten or Van Roekel.