Sentences with phrase «wider malaise»

In a House of Commons debate on the riots Home Secretary Theresa May stated that the riots were symptomatic of a «wider malaise» including worklessness, illiteracy, and drug abuse but also stated that «Everybody, no matter what their background or circumstances, has the freedom to choose between right and wrong».

This reflected a wider malaise in the training regime at Morton Hall which needs to be addressed urgently by the Ministry of Justice.»

It seems an odd attitude for someone so articulate and successful, but perhaps reflective of a wider malaise driven by timidity and indifference.

I interviewed Carswell back in September of that year, when he told me he viewed Martin as a «symptom of a wider malaise».

Time Inc (NYSE: TIME), which was spun off from Time Warner Inc (NYSE: TWX) in mid-2014, could be another casualty of an industry - wide malaise that has rendered print media on the brink of extinction.

The failure of science and technology to bestow values on the facts with which they deal contributes to a world - wide malaise or sense of meaninglessness.

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Empty shopfronts in some of Perth's high - profile retail strips are a sign of WA's wider economic malaise.

«Given that the recession has been so long, and given that the growth is not strong enough to create real employment, the social malaise is so wide that... certainly a very large part of the society is afraid of the future, is angry, is against the people that have managed the country in the last decades,» Passera, who was an independent minister under the Mario Monti government, said Thursday.

The wide dissemination in the Near and Middle East at this time of dualistic faiths, the staple of that religious phenomenon loosely labeled Gnosticism, was another manifestation of the same malaise; while in Hellenism many suffered from a «sense of helplessness in the hands of fate» which made them «wonder whether it is possible to be at home in the world at all.»

Symptoms are wide ranging!!!! And can include fatigue, maladjusted, exhausted, loss of strength, malaise, lightheadedness, loss of balance, insomnia, etc..

Instantly recognizable as a Terrence Malick film, Knight of Cups has the same low - and - wide photography, the philosophical voice - overs, the general human malaise peppered with joy, that has been his signature directorial style since his coming out of hiatus with 1999s The Thin Red Line.

Backed by the furrowed brow malaise of Luke Wilson (Home Fries, Dog Park and one of the best episodes of The X Files) and the way - cooler - than - his - brother Casey Affleck (200 Cigarettes), Graham's wide - eyed charm is disarming and convincing.

Droll, dry and ultimately rather heartless, it's clear that Kirn («Thumbsucker») positioned his novel as a kind of «Bonfire of the Vanities» for post-millennial readers, a work that diagnoses the ills of corporate America and chimes in with a wider sense of social malaise.

Alex Aldridge in The Guardian: Does the sacking of Christopher Grierson over # 1m in false expenses reflect a wider moral malaise among City lawyers?