Sentences with phrase «underclass into»

Now twenty - seven, Ludo works for a vacuous «communications company» that markets unwanted, unaffordable products aimed at the very underclass into which he was born and from which he escaped.

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In «Merits,» the underclass lives inside a hopelessly artificial digital colony and spends all day biking to power said colony, in exchange for a digital currency called «merits» that can be exchanged for entry into reality shows, swag for your avatar, or prepackaged apples.

Wallis in contrast, argues that «we have no right to be shocked» when underclass youth behave like violent, selfish materialists, because of the «moral pollution of rampant consumerism» the culture pumps into them.

Not only are more people classified as «poor» than ever before, but the underclass, composed largely of blacks and Hispanics, is locked into an intergenerational pattern of «dependency» that makes it almost certain that millions of people will never become self - supporting and law - abiding citizens.

The once almighty middle class sends a few upward into the meritocracy, while most sink down toward the dysfunctions of the underclass, as David and Amber Lapp's «Alone in America» narrates in painful detail.

In my own view, the Labour Party have actually managed in the last eleven years to create, in ascending order of wealth (i) a working underclass that is actually poverty - stricken (ii) a large benefit - sustained, inactive element that is now economically better off than most of those who work (iii) the working middle - classes, who are being hammered into submission by rising taxes and prices and over-regulation (iv) the rich who are either exempt from or indifferent to taxation or regulation.

Screenwriter Simon Beaufoy knows a thing or two about putting a cute spin on underclass travails: his script for the Full Monty happily obliged turning disenfranchisement into a cornball nude revue.

Surveying the ravaged landscape of the Detroit area — which could be a stand - in for post-Katrina New Orleans, or any other condemned, jobless American blight — Gosling turns common underclass desperation and exploitation into the stuff of nightmares.

uuu Spike Lee plunges into the world of underclass crime, focusing on a small - time cocaine dealer who agonizes over his brother's arrest for murder.

After Del's ancient truck breaks down, cinematographer Magnus Nordenhof Jønck («A War») keeps us close to the sagebrush and flatlands of Eastern Oregon as the boy and his horse (to whom he confides his innermost thoughts) travel together on foot, coming into contact with both the hard working underclass of American society and the dregs who prey on the innocent and trusting.

Today, failing public schools are part of the process of tracking millions of young people into the same permanent underclass, a world of unemployment and underemployment, that the civil rights movement fought against.

But Brian's life is about to change as he finds himself forced away from his friends into an underclass of local gangs, raves, police corruption and ram - raiding he didn't know existed.

Made at bus stops throughout the city, the large - scale black and white photographs capture the isolation of the urban metropolis through formally composed and carefully detailed views of desolate boulevards disappearing into the horizon, peopled only by the Los Angeles underclass waiting for the next bus.

If our political betters in Canberra don't get a grip and line up to kill the LRET very soon — in less than a decade — Australia will have created an entrenched energy underclass, dividing Australian society into energy «haves» and «have - nots».