Sentence examples for social gravity from inspiring English sources

Alternatively, in cities, networks are widely dispersed and no center of social gravity is perceived.

The center of social gravity, in Schrag's formulation, may be finally shifting back to the young.

Some lawmakers even think the hotel could reverse Cheyenne's legislative diaspora and become the center of social gravity once more, like the old days.

HOUSTON — Bryan Escobedo's smile is proof that social gravity, a force that draws like-minded people together, can be particularly potent in the military.

More broadly, as Peter Schrag wrote in "Paradise Lost: California's Experience, America's Future," Prop 13 "changed the center of social gravity — from the young to the old, from mobility to security".

The inspiration for this pyro-gastronomical experiment was the communal ovens still found burning in some towns around the Mediterranean, centers of social gravity where, each morning, people bring their proofed, or risen, loaves to be baked.

In terms of population and importance — cultural, political and social — its gravity sucks the ambition out of the rest of the nation.

Divine right gave way to popular sovereignty; the social centre of gravity shifted from the landowning aristocracy to the wealthy bourgeoisie.

In the decade since Helen left London, the social centre of gravity has shifted east, from Bridget Jones's old stomping ground of Notting Hill, to Shoreditch and beyond.

This final episode considers the social and formal gravity now applied to the last meal of the day – while the inestimable CDW ends the series with her conclusions about the way we eat (and consequently live) now.

He wrote and submitted a spoof article, Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity to Social Text, a trendy academic journal.