Yet, in truth, her worldliness applied to a very narrow band of the world, and there were large areas of ordinary American life about which her impeccably progressive, internationalist upbringing had left her astonishingly ignorant".
From the red carpet, minutes before the ceremony, an understated, thoughtful and genuinely approachable, Ruffalo credited his Catholic upbringing for his progressive thinking and support for the underdog.
It comes out of my own practical experience as an ordained, progressive Christian minister and my upbringing as an evangelical and very conservative Christian in the American South.
Unusually for his background and upbringing, Henry Tippett was a progressive liberal and a religious sceptic.
There is the standards-driven America's Choice Atlas Communitiess, which combines the work of several leading progressive thinkers; Paideia (from the Greek for "upbringing of the child"), based on the seminar format; and a model designed to create an emotionally supportive environment, called the School Development Program.
I like that she's nobody's victim.' Gyllenhaal's precocious confidence, alongside her progressive idealism, may have been instilled during her upbringing amid the LA film community.
There is no doubt in my mind that a primary reason why, 43 years ago, I decided to become an activist and organizer for progressive social change, a revolutionary, was my Christian upbringing.
On the other hand, she's doubtful that growing up somewhere "super-progressive" would have helped her creativity and ingenuity to flourish; her upbringing taught her "how lucky I am that I get to do what I do, but nothing is handed down to you".
Part of the story it tells is of Mr. Nelson's upper-middle-class upbringing, with a dentist father and librarian mother who sent him to a progressive private school in Manhattan and whisked him off to Martha's Vineyard every summer.
In short, he takes on a stereotype — and he extracts the substance from it, showing what's progressive about the professions, what's emotionally redemptive about the classical arts, how a liberal upbringing inspires young people to pursue adventure (whether private or public, erotic or political) and gives them the spectrum of thought and openness of response to help them through its dangers.
