Sentence examples for a prevailing ethos from inspiring English sources

Delinquency, addiction and mental illness became rampant and there ended up being a prevailing ethos of alienation and despair.

Way back in the nineteen-twenties, the generalists called themselves "management engineers," a reflection of the prevailing ethos, at the turn of the previous century, that science held the answers to most serious questions.

And some other male zealot underlines the prevailing ethos with a chant over the public address system: "Man is the guardian of woman, God has created some superior to others"; another intones from a holy book, "If you are afraid of women who oppose you and refuse to obey you, lecture them and do not go to their beds.

But noir's moral realism would be a nice supplement to today's prevailing ethos.

Red Bar's prevailing ethos of restraint makes dessert a conceptual problem.

The victory is itself a strange echo of the movie's own prevailing ethos.

But to portray mild-mannered performers like Mr. Cook and Mr. Archuleta, even humorously, as enemies plays into the prevailing ethos of pop music as a gladiatorial sporting event.

Kargman is gifted at stand up, weaving songs and stories together into a funny, entertaining evening, spoken from the perspective of an East Side mom at odds with the prevailing ethos.

Obama's rhetoric to build a low-carbon economy bodes well and matches the prevailing ethos of many European leaders.

Such things were once not only outside a newsperson's job description; they were against the prevailing ethos of the profession.

So, as a haute hooker, Audrey Hepburn was a fairy godmother, not only to feminism but to the prevailing ethos that style and cool trump all.