Sentence examples for prevailing consciousness from inspiring English sources

Speaking to journalists at the Cannes film festival after the first screening of his film about Irish communist James Gralton, who was victimised by the political and religious establishment after daring to establish a dance hall in rural Ireland, Loach said: "Dissidence and countering the prevailing consciousness is a huge issue".

In bold defiance of the prevailing saturation of American consciousness with dysfunctional stereotypes of black culture, MC Justice's lyrics took on racism and police brutality and intergenerational injustice with a devastating, systemic, historical critique that placed the blame squarely where it belonged - at the feet of white America.

The prevailing religion puts its stamp on the consciousness of every group, providing common elements in areas that share the same religion, even though the groups are not in contact.

Yet it's hard to deny that the most intriguing outsider art often looks like the product of an alternative type of consciousness — one far less beholden to prevailing social and intellectual conventions and more attuned to intuitive, emotional and visionary impulses.

Sustainability and well-being require a shift from the prevailing system of domination and extremism to a global consciousness and a socioeconomic system based on interdependence and partnership.

Mário Maestri, a history professor at the University of Passo Fundo and one of the few Brazilian critics who does not reflexively dismiss Coelho, has written, "In spite of belonging to different genres, Coelho's narratives and self-help books have the same fundamental effect: of anesthetizing the alienated consciousness through the consoling reaffirmation of conventions and prevailing prejudices.

This implies strongly that the dreams of a better world are a constant, indeed transcendental drive behind our human activities but that the transcendence of prevailing conditions is an active and self-generating process of unmasking the "consciousness which is unintelligible to itself".

But this logic leads to a prevailing bias that reinforces a pervasive cultural tilt against unbelief and further embeds religious myths in the popular consciousness.

Perhaps the prevailing climate mattered.

Is that the prevailing view?

The voters are prevailing.