It will neither flatter liberal pieties nor assuage feelings of collective guilt.
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Or, let us say, their loyalties lie beyond the pieties of clan.
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Many pieties were expressed about the cash being conditional on political and economic reform.
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This effect rules even though the writers undercut the characters' pieties now and then.
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For a number of years, we were awash in familiar farm-to-table pieties.
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The "alt-right," a movement of younger white ideologues and internet teens, respects him for his willingness to spit in the face of social pieties — the "pieties" in question being, not coincidentally, the belief that nonwhite people are actually equal to white people.
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These varieties reject the idea of a creator and dispense with all pieties regarding human nature.
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As an observer, Flashman was often caustic but never blinded by the pieties of his age.
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And what was so enjoyable about him is that he just punctures all pieties, you know.
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No matter what pieties are preached by proponents of such practices, they will always be illegal.
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It is a convention of our quadrennial pieties to insist that this election is singularly important.
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P.J. O'Rourke, a conservative humourist, perceptively skewered left-wing pieties in books like "Parliament of Whores" (1991).
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Joshua Harmon's uneasy comedy about white privileges and pieties, directed by Daniel Aukin, accepts its final audiences.
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But, by the same token, Rosenfeld's attack on upper-middle-class pieties is unerring in its aim.
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Joshua Harmon's uneasy comedy of white privileges and pieties, directed by Daniel Aukin, accepts its final audiences.
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She traded in clash-of-civilizations rhetoric about Islamic immigration; he's fluent in the pieties of multiculturalism.
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No more eliciting pieties by explaining what happens when carbon dioxide rises past 400 parts per million.
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In her speech on November 7th, Ms Kramp-Karrenbauer repeated the customary pieties of Franco-German comity.
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No more eliciting pieties by explaining what happens when carbon dioxide rises past 400 parts per million.
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Alone among the siblings, a younger brother, Kong Minghui, forsakes wealth and status to rediscover the ancient pieties.
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And it demands more than the gauzy pieties and press-a-button platitudes that too many politicians spout.
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The satire is largely aimed at the kind of pieties about inclusion that are espoused by woke white liberals.
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A lifetime of Republican pieties, put forth by the bow-tied best and brightest, has gone up in a poof.
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But Look urged him to transpose the scene to Vietnam, which would obviously have implied a different set of pieties.
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But eventually Trump's presidency will end, and just as quickly as they abandoned these pieties, Republicans will try to reclaim them.
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For all their liberal pieties, we see the full measure of the confusion and disgust with which they view his decisions.
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It's the same sensibility evident when her character, Lady Hunstanton, delivers the Lady Bracknell-like pieties of her class and time.
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Understanding this shift requires looking back at the social and political pieties that helped to spur America's contemporary gun-rights movement.
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Mr. Greenfield: For me he was more willing to mock the pieties of politics than anybody I have seen before or since.
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In relatively peaceful times, this approach could seem banal, as if the films are arguing for pieties that everyone already agrees on.
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And he's vulnerable not just because of his personal history and public demeanor, which amount to a raging bonfire of the pieties.
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As a host, Hannity was quick to test boundaries, to jab at what he regarded as the liberal pieties of the student body.
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Actually, Mr. O'Hara has always reserved his most wicked blows for the liberals, puncturing their comfortable pieties and exposing their unexamined blind spots.
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This brilliantly caustic début collection of stories is an attack on the pieties of contemporary social life and the niceties of traditional fiction.
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In this moment when our pieties about identity are unraveling to admit more nuance, what's wrong with letting people do two things at once?
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The director is Robert Eggers, whose previous work, " The Witch " (2016), re-created the rustic pieties of New England, in the early sixteen-hundreds.
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Now that the Presidents' Day pieties are over, let's look at some alternate ranking systems that take account of the things that really matter.
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A former priest, L'Heureux retained his faith but left the vocation, and his work is simultaneously impatient with pieties and deeply, even ecstatically, religious.
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Combating this strategy of demagoguery and nonsense is difficult, but the first step is to correctly identify it rather than spouting vague pieties about togetherness.
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When America submits to diplomatic pieties, conventions or the sensitivities of its allies, he believes, it is negotiating with one hand tied behind its back.
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He is less likely to soften his work with patriotic (or even anti-patriotic) pieties that put America — as opposed to its victims — dead center.
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He "got" Israel and wasn't going to abide the State Department's failed pieties about the peace process or the location of the United States Embassy.
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He commands attention not through conservationist pieties but with the way his forest-killers and tree-loving zealots are equally off-kilter and contradiction-filled.
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And in this brief section of the speech, Obama mercifully spared us the tired pieties that have dominated discussion of this topic since Trump won.
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There are better ways to arrive at cultural equity than policing art production and resorting to moralistic pieties in order to intimidate individuals into silence.
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Her jabs at politically correct pieties delight the party's base, and the SPD, having been suffocated in coalition with Mrs Merkel, is happy to play along.
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" Among other pieties in the official statement from the likes of China and Saudi Arabia: "Gender equality is crucial for economic growth and fair and sustainable development.
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But to those in his field, Krueger was known for bringing a new level of rigor to economics research and puncturing a number of long-held pieties.
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While Breitbart did not traffic in outright racial slurs, it specialized in inflammatory coverage of police shootings, immigration and Islam in ways intended to prick liberal pieties.
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The impression we're left with is of a town that twists reality to suit its superstitions, pieties and (often warped) ideas about the way the world works.
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It may skewer capitalism, but it also lambasts some left-wing pieties, takes a few pot-shots at its audience and hardly suggests a more realistic way forward.
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Casting himself as an outsider, he not only savaged leaders in both parties but he made a mockery of nearly all the pieties of the American political system.
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That empathy makes him singularly effective and compelling: unlike most intellectuals' arrogant pieties that are driven more by resentment than concern, Peterson is obsessed with actual human suffering.
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He didn't grow up in the conservative hothouse; his very crudity means that he understands that his electoral chances depend not on repeating conservative pieties but on maximum ugliness.
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Bret Stephens If nothing else, Donald Trump's decision on Wednesday to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital shows how disenthralled his administration is with traditional pieties about the Middle East.
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But the refreshing irreverence toward calcified pieties of high art and culture that would drive all their subsequent efforts was succinctly embodied in these sweetly comical and deceptively unassuming pictures.
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At the risk of indulging in cozy liberal pieties, maybe the courage of American ideals is enough; maybe we can make the grayzone a home, rather than a strategic consideration.
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Yet his prominence as a public intellectual comes from a career-long rebellion against the pieties of liberal democracy, which, now that liberal democracy is in crisis worldwide, seems prophetic.
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What's most interesting in the film is the way in which young Jojo, and the other impressionable Hitler youth, fall under Nazism's sway despite its apparent idiocy and empty pieties.
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If theology often sharpens curses to dogmatic points, great novels can transform them into open-ended questions, unsettling easy pieties about cause and effect, past and present, crime and punishment.
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The story of an advantaged European face to face with desperately imperiled African refugees seems tailor-made for political pieties and the dubious enshrinement of one more white savior story.
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He "loved making a bonfire" of Berkeley's "liberal pieties" in his column in the student newspaper and trolling his peers with a "Bush-Quayle '88" sticker on his dorm-room door.
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And Blackstone is sometimes similarly portrayed as a dealmaking war machine, with Mr Schwarzman as the merciless field-marshal; not for him hard-to-measure pieties about the purpose of business.
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That contempt for feminine docility and the domestic pieties of the era is shared by so many of Plath and Stafford's midcentury contemporaries: Hardwick, Patricia Highsmith, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, Mary McCarthy.
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His other prescriptions reflect his preference for New Deal populism mixed with what he fashions as "neoliberalism," a reform-minded approach to governance that questions progressive pieties on such issues as education.
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They have emerged from their 1990s cringe; they're no longer afraid to challenge conservative pieties; and there's a lot of serious, well-informed intraparty debate about issues from health care to climate change.
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He broadened the liberal tradition by subjecting the bland pieties of the Anglo-American middle class to a certain aristocratic disdain; and he deepened it by pointing to the growing dangers of bureaucratic centralisation.
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"A Turn in the South" (19903) is a travelogue about the Deep South, and in an essay on the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, "The Air-Conditioned Bubble," he dissected American political pieties.
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Rather than the usual Atlanticist pieties about solidarity and burden-sharing, and windy promises to spend more on defence one day, NATO members, especially Poland and the Baltic states near Russia, are beefing up budgets.
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Li Wei, head of the Development Research Centre at the State Council, China's cabinet, sets out clearly that this is for reasons of self-interest—a shrewder tactic than merely mouthing pieties about Chinese benevolence.
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He has been promoting the full diversity of world music for decades, freely juxtaposing traditions in a way that can sometimes seem designed to flatter liberal pieties about multiculturalism, but more often simply feels vibrant.
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I don't regret what I did—I'd do it again—but it also sparked in me a bonfire of pieties, forced me to look more closely, more uncomfortably, at the relation between violence and politics.
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In Brazil and the Philippines, the political appeal of Bolsonaro and Duterte seems to be inversely correlated to their respect for human rights and the rule of law, to say nothing of modern ethical pieties.
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If close to half of America voted for Republicans in the Obama years and support Trump today, then clearly something besides the pieties of cosmopolitan liberalism is very much a part of who we are.
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One reason that the Republican right and its attendant media loathed Barack Obama is that his public rhetoric, while far more buoyant with post-civil-rights-era uplift than Douglass's, was also an affront to reactionary pieties.
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For Spencer and other alt-right enthusiasts of the 19th-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, that dark truth goes something like this: All the modern pieties about race, peace, equality, justice, civility, universal suffrage — that's all bullshit.
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The embrace of folk-based supernatural principles also fit nicely with the revulsion Hearn felt toward institutional religion, having experienced the hypocritical pieties of his great-aunt's household and the cruelties of his Roman Catholic boarding school.
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And however much some maintain that disparities in pay-cheques do not correspond to differences in human worth, such well-meaning pieties feel hollow when high-rollers earn hundreds or thousands of times what ordinary folk take home.
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It's noteworthy that despite the identity pieties that the media inflicts on the country 85033/7, a recent and massive new report revealed that popular revulsion against PCness and racial preferences in university admissions is on the rise.
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After she is murdered, two copies of her will are found—one favoring the son, the other the rental relatives—dramatizing the tension between received pieties about filial love and the economic relations that bind parents and children.
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HANSON: I think Trump was sort of like the apple commercial where the athlete ran and threw their hammer into the screen and it just shattered everything because he wasn&apost beholden to these pieties and conventional false wisdoms.
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Most university leaders serve not politically correct pieties but pressures to satisfy student "customers" and to avoid negative publicity, liability and losses in "brand" or "market share" — terms that belong in corporate suites but appear, increasingly, in deans' offices.
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At times, as when Earl uses abusive language to describe characters' racial, ethnic or sexual identities — only to smilingly signal he's O.K. with them — Eastwood seems to be simultaneously tweaking and accepting what he presumably regards as social pieties.
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"Ashes" is, in no particular order, a war story, a romance, a coming-of-age tale (several times over) and — here is where things get edgy — a challenge thrown down by a white American writer to white American pieties.
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Baseball hasn't quite figured out what will replace those conversations, but while their absence certainly strains the bonds connecting fans across generations, the game has never been freer from the sorts of tired pieties that hold progress at bay.
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And yet, we are hearing no pieties about American lives from Republican leaders on Capitol Hill, no sense that the cause of the failure should be investigated, let alone that Trump's role in it should be a major investigative focal point.
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The Trump insurgents – chief strategist Steve Bannon, senior adviser Stephen Miller, counselor Kellyanne Conway, the president himself, thumbs ever a-tweeting – are outsiders, storming into the White House and TV studios, assaulting liberal policies and pieties, proclaiming their alternative facts.
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" Trump will, if delivering a prepared speech, mouth similar pieties about "the self-evident truth Americans hold so dear, that no matter the color of our skin, or the place of our birth we are all created equal by God.
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Myron Ebell, the director of the energy and environment center at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free-market think tank, said he expected Mr. Malpass to "challenge many conventional pieties that have become institutionalized at the bank" like climate change.
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Even our age has a Naipaul, a Houellebecq, and meanwhile the whole deep human past is still there, and every age before ours is littered with aesthetic and philosophic visions that in no way conform to contemporary left-of-center pieties.
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I can't get enough of how she, formerly a food purist and determined orthorexic, uses that quote-unquote locution on her podcast Food Psych, a deceptively sweet piece of heresy that takes aim at the pieties, sophistries, and perils of diet culture.
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Of the many paradigms that his candidacy has exploded and pieties it has torched, few stand out like the pantomime of erotic sobriety that other politicians were routinely asked to perform, the garb of traditional, conventional morality that they were required to don.
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He writes about race less regularly these days, and, when he does, it is often to dismiss the new mood as a kind of cult, long on shibboleths and pieties but woefully short on methods for bettering the lives of black Americans.
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And this is the real problem, and danger, of satire: not that it mocks and belittles respect-worthy pieties, not that it "punches down," but that it has become impossible to separate it cleanly from the toxic disinformation that defines our era.
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The answer, I think, is consolation, including the consolation that comes from being part of a Christian community — people who walk alongside us as we journey through grief, offering not pieties but tenderness and grace, encouragement and empathy, and when necessary, practical help.
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It doesn't spoil anything to say that the narrative is pushed forward with details that are somehow both absurd yet compellingly believable: Out in one of the labor camps for women who've transgressed against the authorities, a new arrival spouts pieties drilled into her head.
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Instead, Robertson assumes that if we can just add to the utopian visions of 1918 the progressive pieties of 2018—if we reform their gender essentialism and their implicit hierarchism and several other nasty isms—then we will at last arrive at the right utopia.
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From her 1997 memoir, "A Life's Work," so radically honest about the ambivalence of motherhood at the time, to her Outline trilogy, which finished up this year and laid waste to so many of fiction's pieties and conventions, she consistently pushes the form forward.
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Any discussion of the bombing that subsumes these realities in the stock pieties of politicians ("Our hearts are broken but our resolve has never been stronger," said Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader), or the analysis of "terrorism experts," obscures our vision and loses the plot.
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Donald Trump may be a know-nothing demagogue and would-be authoritarian who thinks and acts more like a mob boss than a statesman, but he has at least one indisputable talent: puncturing the pieties that prevail among members of the country's political and journalistic establishments.
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To relish that sensibility, you do not have to be familiar with what's being made mock of here: the hidebound institutions of parliament and the navy, the pieties of Victorian sentimentality and Italian operas in which improbably intricate plots were matched by the ornateness of the score.
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Women took purposeful steps to reshape their fortunes while, on the other side of the fence, our beloved Tyrion Lannsplained slavery to former slaves and the High Sparrow did his usual poverty-porn self-mythologizing for Margaery, who sees his empty brand-burnishing pieties for what they really are.
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With the resurgence of old hatreds in the 21st century, philosophers are challenged to think about the ways we trace the history of our discipline and teach our major figures, and whether our professional habits and pieties have been shaped by religious intolerance and other forms of bigotry.
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Fundamentally, the only message of the secret speeches is that Clinton is exactly who we thought she was — someone who's been around a long time, someone who knows a lot of stuff, someone who's cozy with the established players, and someone who doesn't really embrace good government pieties.
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As Arthur grew up, his family observed the standard pieties of postwar left-wing French intellectuals, but Arthur's collegiate encounters with computer science and economics had emboldened his self-image as a rationalist in the tradition of French positivism, and he took pleasure in the espousal of hard-headed heresies.
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This is the West almost as it looked in the 1930s: internally divided and inward looking, hesitant in the face of aggression, incanting political pieties in which it no longer believed—and so determined not to repeat the mistakes of the last war that it sleepwalked its way into the next.
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You might argue that Mr. Icke takes on more themes than he can handle, as liberal and religious pieties are folded into a thickening stew of anti-Semitism that features Naomi Wirthner as Wolff's abiding nemesis and a mannered Ria Zmitrowicz as an adolescent whom Wolff takes under her increasingly anxious wing.
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Just as Carter sensed that the New Deal-Great Society coalition was no longer viable and campaigned against certain liberal orthodoxies in '76, so in 2016 Trump offered a vision of the G.O.P. as a nationalist "workers party" in which certain Reaganite pieties would no longer set the terms of conservative debate.
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He is the scourge of simplistic, pernicious pieties, including: bias and social oppression as the presumed causes of inequality of outcome, equality of outcome as an unquestioningly desirable and enforced goal, identity as a subjective choice and the sexes as the same, patriarchy, white privilege, implicit bias, safe spaces, affirmative rights, postmodernism, nihilism, neo-Marxism, and identity politics.
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Since the United States has no real refugee problem, save one fabricated by Mr. Trump and conservative activists, and no immigrant crime wave, the chief answer has to be on the level of the opinion corridor: Liberal urbanites have to accept that many Americans react to multicultural pieties by finding something else — sometimes their own white identity — to embrace.
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"What planners didn't know was that some West Wing advisers were arguing that Davos would be the perfect venue for Trump to unleash an especially gassy stink bomb aimed at ideas—free trade deals, a more integrated global regulatory system, and all manner of liberal pieties cherished by global elites—he deplores," John Harris and Ben White wrote in Politico.
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Meanwhile, at least some of those Northern liberal abolitionists—including the likes of Henry Adams and the well-meaning Horace Greeley—managed, in the way of high-minded reformers, to let their pieties get the better of their priorities: recoiling against the apparent improprieties of the pro-suffrage Grant Administration, they made common cause with the Democrats who were ending democracy in the South.
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Punk rock has so often been about exposing the hostility beneath the passive-aggressive pieties of those in power; when those same powerful people adopt that pissed-off tone and combine it with a vague notion of fucking with The Establishment, they start to co-opt the messages that punk, metal, activism, protest, and resistance of all kinds have been working on for years.
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