Sentence examples for mild familial dysfunction from inspiring English sources

Knausgaard's portrait of his cold, authoritarian father, who drank himself to a squalidly premature death, may have scandalised the reading public of Norway, but it's a tale of mild familial dysfunction by comparison with, say, Edward St Aubyn's autobiographical Patrick Melrose series.

It seems a carnival of midwest familial dysfunction can bring that out in a person.

"The Royal Tenenbaums," opening Dec. 14, is a tale of familial dysfunction, failure and redemption.

Though fictionalised, This Is 40 explores Apatow and Mann's familial dysfunction, mining communication breakdowns for laughs.

Consider my mother, whose wise and mild familial remonstrations are known to readers of this column.

This is familial dysfunction at its delirious, laconic best, but Woodward's descriptions of incipient alcoholism make sobering reading: talent is squandered, relationships stagnate.

Its title -- at once sarcastic and entirely sincere -- recalls "High Hopes" and "Life Is Sweet," Mike Leigh's mordant anatomies of social and familial dysfunction in late-Thatcherite London.

By turns funny, touching and shocking, Deborah Kay Davies's Grace, Tamar and Laszlo the Beautiful (Parthian) is a breathtakingly astute portrayal of sisterhood and familial dysfunction.

Despite what might seem to be an uneasy melding of physics and familial dysfunction, "Parallel Worlds" is neither eye-glazing nor overwrought.

Nicolo Fonte's "There, and Back Again" is a quartet that explores themes of familial dysfunction in the story of Hansel and Gretel.

She cut down her drinking and left her demanding job at the council, having decided that both were contributing factors to our familial dysfunction.