Sentence examples for generation clash from inspiring English sources

But the moment an Amitabh Bachchan film started, there would be an immediate ceasefire in our generation clash: he was the one thing we could all agree on.

The period suits the opera's inherent generation clash: it's entirely plausible that the ageing Pasquale feels out of touch, that the youth flagrantly disrespect him and that Norina's spending spree escalates into La Dolce Vita decadence.

A Generation Clash Last Thursday, hundreds of editors and clothes-loving Londoners stood among men on stilts for an hour and a half at the $1 billion-plus homage to goofiness that is London's Millennium Dome.

It has its scandals, it has its challenges fitting into a 21st century world where a lot of me-first values of different generations clash with the distinctive beauty of cricket.

Romcom specialist Nancy Meyers directs a generation-clash comedy, with Robert de Niro as a crotchety widower who bags a position as an intern at Anne Hathaway's online fashion firm.

New Generation has clashed bloodily with other groups, notably the Zetas, and has recently turned its fire on the police and army.

One of a wave of British films exploring immigrant culture and first-generation culture clashes, "Bhaji on the Beach" tracked the adventures of a van of Indian women on a day trip to Blackpool, the seaside resort that symbolizes British kitsch.

Though the generation-gap clashes between father and son over how best to confront institutional prejudice — and over Sidney Poitier's acting abilities — are another of the film's strong points, the plotting here becomes too contrived to be effective.

Indeed, it is so sharp when it comes to things like the generation gap, the clash between the provincial and the metropolitan, and marriage, that I used it as a model for Marriage Material.

The scene sartorially mirrored the previous electro-clash generation's love of garish, dayglo colours.

A couple of generations ago, the clash of national armies following the rules of the Hague and Geneva Conventions was called conventional war, as against a more terrifying unconventional war, which meant "nuclear" for a time; then that meaning changed to denote "special operations".