Sentence examples for social formulae from inspiring English sources

In Notes from Underground (1864), Dostoevsky is sympathetic to his narrator's rebellion against logic and reason and various Western social formulae ranging from British utilitarianism (as defined by John Stuart Mill and Jeremy Bentham) with its concomitant Hedonic Calculus to the Romanticism of Rousseau with its idealization of human behavior.

She rejects it in favor of a simplistic social formula: Don't be a tattletale.

Every country with an influx of migrant workers had to scramble toward some sort of social formula to absorb them (or, as often as not, pretend that they weren't there).

Denton devours biographies and autobiographies and articles about figures like Murdoch, Zuckerman, Huffington, and Barry Diller, and has styled himself, at times, a twenty-first-century saloniste, opening his SoHo loft, which is directly beneath Harvey Weinstein's old home, to carefully selected crowds of people, as if trying to crack the perfect social formula.

Dressed in high-waisted pants and carrying a cane, Bowie's elegance and showmanship on "The Dick Cavett Show," in 1974, while he was getting his plastic-soul thing together, didn't so much diminish the rather square-looking Cavett as inject a powerful social formula: what blackness looked like on a white artist.

In 2005, in the wake of the violent demonstrations by immigrants in housing estates in France's largest cities, Jane Kramer wrote a Comment addressing the issue: Every country with an influx of migrant workers had to scramble toward some sort of social formula to absorb them (or, as often as not, pretend that they weren't there).

As 2017's scandal over fake news and Russian disinformation on the platform demonstrated, there's a dark side to Facebook's eerily potent social formulas, and one it will need to answer for in 2018 if it intends to chart a sustainable future.

There would be no learnable social formula that could be of any use and no one's having successfully done it could count as "knowing" it in the sense of being reliably able to do it again or in the sense of being able to teach others.