Idiom
Hot button.
(USA) A hot button is a topic or issue that people feel very strongly about.
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Not just a formalist, Ms. Akerman also takes on hot-button themes like racism in the American South, illegal immigration in the Southwest and a terrorism in the Mideast.
But in future episodes, what we'll be left with is a touchy-feely magic-child story with a science-fiction angle, incorporating current hot-button themes like neural disorders and (in the pilot) cellphone radiation, while throwing around trendy geek talismans like Fibonacci numbers.
Anna Boghiguian, an Egyptian-born artist, who, like Lubaina Himid, has received a burst of attention comparatively late in her career, has a fierce wall of text and pastel drawings showing at Sfeir Semler, touching on hot-button themes of institutional racism and white privilege.
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"How the World Began," presented by the Women's Project and directed with a keen focus on the specificity of character by Daniella Topol, has a topical hot-button theme in the conflicting ideologies of confirmed secularists and faithful believers.
The hot-button topic of gay marriage is the running theme of "Some Men," with the attendant questions that the subject invariably raises.
It's a hot-button topic".
It has also been a hot-button topic.
Among politicians, immigration is still a hot-button topic.
Inclusivity in fashion is a hot-button topic right now, because inclusivity everywhere is hot-button topic, especially in light of Donald Trump's election.
This has become something of a hallmark for Mr. Perrotta, who has developed a knack for combining hot-button cultural themes (electoral corruption in "Election," mommy-and-me despair and vigilante justice in "Little Children") with flawed and complicated characters.
Each week the show will bring together scholars and other experts from different religious and philosophical backgrounds, not to sell a faith or argue hot-button issues, but to discuss universal themes like forgiveness or the nature of the spiritual journey.
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