Sentences with phrase «upend social»

She uses humor not only to upend social mores, but also to open up dialogue about cultural forms that too often remain in the background of collective awareness.

At a rare press conference following Bo Xilai's dismissal, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao warned that without further reform China risked plunging into another «tragedy» like the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, when an aged Chairman Mao Zedong rallied peasants, workers and students to upend the social order as a way to vanquish his opponents.

He upended social norms by starting a blog called Since Being Single wherein he spoke candidly about the trials and tribulations as a British Asian man dating in the UK.

After an extended visit to a small town, wherein Schultz upends their social order by teaming with his slave to remove a wanted man out of the sheriff's office, «Django Unchained» has proven its prerogative in upsetting a certain status quo.

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The reason for Facebook's social media empire and Spotify's upending of the music streaming business?

The near ubiquity of smartphones and the irresistible lure of social media are upending how retail is done, all over the world.

Because just as social media upended communications, the transition to clean energy is rapidly undoing century - old expectations around transportation and, yes, oil.

Just as social media upended communications, the transition to clean energy is rapidly undoing century - old expectations around electricity, transportation and oil — and it's happening in market - shifting, often surprising ways.

Yes, He wanted social change; but for Him, that changed started when He upended how people thought about their neighbors, not just their rulers.

Sponsored by the Progressive Communicators of DC and facilitated by Massey Media's Sarah Massey, the discussion included dozens of DC - area media - relations experts and focused on the reality of promoting ideas and causes in a press environment upended by technological and social change.

In this way we can help solve the twin problems of increasing the number of qualified professionals while shrinking the social mobility and income gaps that threaten to upend our economies and the nature of our social systems.

The decision also could have come at the expense of Dee Rees, director of the acclaimed «Mudbound,» a nuanced social drama about prejudice in the Mississippi Delta, or Patty Jenkins, whose dazzling «Wonder Woman» upended the superhero genre in several important ways.

In this way we can help solve the twin problems of increasing the number of qualified professionals while shrinking the social mobility and income gaps that threaten to upend our economies and the nature of our social systems.

Social media is a tough road right now, with the world upended and chaotic, and folks are understandably distraught and upset much of the time.

In the carnival, social hierarchies are reversed, societal norms and conventions upended and subverted, and the sacred mingles with the profane.

Photographer and media artist LaToya Ruby Frazier uses the conventions of social documentary to probe and upend traditional narratives of urban growth and the triumph of industry.

«What is abundantly clear is that the problem goes way beyond the arts,» Laura Raicovich, the director of the Queens Museum in New York, told HuffPost, «and is a much broader social norm that we must upend.

For those who might question the relevance of such a show in their lives, Times art critic Christopher Knight delivered an opening line of his review that read: «Given deplorable declarations of American xenophobia now splashed across newspaper front pages, clogging social media outlets and upending television news shows, there could be no more impeccable a moment for a retrospective of Jimmie Durham's art.»

Lynda Benglis Blum & Poe, Los Angeles By Shana Nys Dambrot Through December 16th Lynda Benglis» career is characterized by the dramatic upending of many kinds of social and art historical expectations; as a practical matter her rebellion is not only stylistic, but material as well.