Critics contend the cemetery bedlam reflects a societal breakdown in which impunity is widespread.
Writer analyzes this society's "breakdown" in which an act of violence can be taken as a "symbolic gesture of protest".
Just as the roles become confused, so Nina herself moves towards what resembles a clinical breakdown in which she can't distinguish fantasy from reality.
The United States is in the midst of a nervous breakdown in which conspiracy theorists insist that the president is using his office's powers to destroy the country.
The Energy Department proposed $3.3 million in fines against managers of the Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory because of a security breakdown in which classified documents were found in a trailer-park drug raid in northern New Mexico.
A couple of years after his Hollywood return, Nichols had a medication-induced psychotic breakdown in which he believed he was broke and unable to provide for his three children.
At issue is whether Mr. Stern's stated opposition to the use of quotas masked something more insidious, and whether the department's racial breakdown, in which both the upper echelons and specific geographic assignments are almost exclusively white, is happenstance.
While in confinement in Kuwait, before his arrival at Quantico, Private Manning had a mental breakdown — in which he "lost control, screaming, shaking, babbling," Major Fein said, and made two nooses.
Their musical strategy highlighted the "breakdown," in which instruments drop out of a simple, memorable, funky song and then return to rebuild it at a more intense pitch of excitement.
It's a major retreat from the Letwin position, and came after Cameron had failed to mention child poverty in a Glasgow speech on social breakdown, in which he instead emphasised the role of the individual in tackling poverty and deprivation.
