Throwing off paternalistic strictures and discovering self-sufficiency were in the air during the eight years Abu Nowar spent trying to get projects off the ground in Jordan; production on Theeb coincided with the start of the Arab spring.
Pious shopkeepers looked on with pride and dismay as some of their most brilliant and ambitious children made a great show of casting off parental strictures and the fetters of custom and claiming their individualist American birthright.
Reporters look at the statistics (around two-thirds of Iranians are under 30) and think the rebellious kids represent a younger, more open Iran seeking to throw off the strictures of its present leadership in a riot of fashion and fun.That seemed to be the case in the late 1990s when a resurgent student movement helped propel a reformist, Muhammad Khatami, to the presidency.
Efforts to reassert the country's racial legacy started in the 1920s with Brazilian Modernism, which cast off Europe's academic strictures, and the novels of Mario de Andrade, which focused on the switch from a white to a black culture.
That culminated when Verizon, citing cellular and cable competition and federal regulatory strictures, laid off more than 2,700 workers in New York and New Jersey last month, generating a Christmas blizzard of news media reports about the plight of the newly unemployed.
The tapering off characteristic of the stricture in the ureteropelvic junction usually can be visualized by conventional sonography.
Goldsmith says the stricture would choke off supply: "50% of nothing is nothing".
The directors react against these strictures, they get pissed off by bourgeois taste, and everything kind of deteriorates.
For sophisticates like Boyce and his circle, zealous advocates and practitioners of the zipless fuck, theirs was truly an age of Aquarius, when old inhibitions and strictures could be cast off, and the sexually enlightened could enjoy what Reich called "the genital embrace" without guilt or encumbrance.
On a checklist of "daily hassles," for example, they were more likely to note feelings of loneliness, suggesting, she said, that their devotion to moral strictures was experienced as off-putting by others.
