The first principle is that every forward march is inspired by the emerging mass class, with progress defined in terms of its insecurities and aspirations.
The network's costume dramas might let you commune with genius, the logo hinted: they'd improve and elevate you, like a lecture at the 92nd Street Y. But, as TV drama grew out of its insecurities, the PBS lineup, despite small charmers, like "Call the Midwife," began to seem stuffy, snoozy, and rather silly, an artifact of a time when the medium had to put on airs.
The world is simply an extension of its insecurities.
But in following the individual stories of migrants it addresses the most pressing issue of our times, the globalisation of desperation and poverty: life in the black economy of Sheffield, its insecurity, exploitation and hierarchies, isn't so different from that in India.
We can understand that Moscow would strongly object to NATO advancing on its borders, but this proposal should reassure Moscow in a way that does not guarantee Russia's security at the expense of its neighbors' insecurity.
Of course, the robot's jokes aren't a product of its own insecurities and failings.
As New York turned the Oscars into a fun-house image of its own insecurities and power games, Manhattan was hooked on L.A.'s big night.
Mr. Jia, the foreign policy expert in Beijing, counters that Japan's suspicions are more a reflection of its own insecurities and guilt.
It seems we're the first generation to graduate from high school -- to escape all of its competition and insecurity and desperation for belonging and attention -- and then to voluntarily throw ourselves RIGHT BACK into it.
In that spirit, here are five ways that America isn't like Mavis Gary, the beautiful but utterly reprehensible protagonist of Young Adult. 1. America doesn't pour all of its anger and insecurities into young adult novels published under a pseudonym.
