Sentence examples for skewed values from inspiring English sources

The skewed values of the boom years – which I realize were only boom years for some – extend far beyond the corporate world.

To his critics, he is guilty, variously, of turning pop into factory farming, mocking the afflicted and contributing to the skewed values of a generation for whom the only worthwhile goal in life is to be rich and on TV.

Inarguably, children are more affected by a loopy society than alleged grownups, but in essence, Mr. Wright's three plays are about skewed values, media manipulation (of what? of our lives, that's what) and the silencing of the inner voice.

It is only by rejecting the skewed values and economic failure of this culture of inequality that we can understand the true choices we now face and decisions we must make.

The psychology behind the Tory proposal may be new; but the actual solution is rather old-fashioned.One big reason for this skimpiness may be that nasty behaviour such as the propensity of some British teenagers to drink too much, get pregnant or stab each other is often symptomatic of a deeper malaise: skewed values, social atomism, despair and so on.

Now would seem to be journalism's big moment to turn that light on itself, with deeply reported investigative articles about how things went so wrong: the failures of leadership, the skewed values and the willingness of an industry to treat the public with such contempt.

In that context, to spend enormous sums on appearance is not just indicative of a skewed value system, it's morally reprehensible.

Even if Marçal, employed as a security guard, has been allotted a unit with a daylight view, this is considered, within the skewed value system prevailing throughout the complex, an indicator of his comparatively low status.

Combing through the archive of columns from her mother's glory days, she chanced upon a particularly outrageous example from 1990, in which Hilary, enraged by a recent court judgment in favour of a disabled tenant whose landlord had unlawfully evicted her, had railed with unusual vigour against the left-liberal establishment's skewed value system.

Also, if you have more than one child, and one child is killing themselves to get good grades and the other is skating by with all A's, you are placing a reward on a skewed value-scale and sending the wrong messages.

Addressing Trayvon without first addressing the absence of critical thinking in our schools, the lack of introspection, the reasons for our low tolerance and our country's skewed value system does nothing more than create a sounding board for the ignorant.