Mr. Wolfe's favorite novelists — Dreiser, Dos Passos, Steinbeck — had answers to explain the social collisions they wrote about.
Cultural and social collisions between modern and traditional values seem to have become real in many instances (Yang and Neal 2006: 113).
Fandom became a parallel world, where Big Name Fans and new arrivals duked it out in social collisions that sometimes mimicked exactly the kind of high school nastiness from which fandom promised escape.
In some post-collision interviews with family or friends of the deceased, the wider social context of the collision was explored with inclusion of, for example, details of family circumstances.
Perhaps some version of this perversely filial dating service will take off, fulfilling a need that's arising from the pressurized collision of social, economic, and historic forces.
Michael Harley, a bassoonist, portrayed an earnest Leonard Bernstein — another critical figure bridging the art-music and pop worlds — and sang admirably in selections from Bernstein's "Mass," another work in which aesthetic collision conjured social unrest.
When it comes to the head-on collision between social ideals and the realities of the street, you'd be hard-pressed to find a movie harder than this.
Akhtar, a Pakistani American who grew up outside Milwaukee, sees a land in distress: terror, right-wing extremism, gun violence, consuming capitalism and a backlash against traditional politics that have given rise to Donald Trump, a showman and presumptive Republican presidential nominee who epitomizes the collision of social media, celebrity and spectacle. .
Fig. 7 a The modified social force model, b collision-free and interactive range, c avoid and unavoid motion classification, and d direction of the force due to face orientation depends on the probability of approaching or avoiding derived, from face orientation.
This study aimed to supplement these routine sources with a thematic analysis of narrative text contained in coroners' records, to explore the wider social context in which collisions occur.
