Sentence examples for social rigidity from inspiring English sources
Though it's a (mostly) gentle confection, poking fun at turn-of-the-century fussiness and social rigidity, it ushered in an era of pre-Raphaelite hair and Oxford bags, coupled with energetic promotion of an aspiring middle class.
By the time it was filmed a year later, with Lana Turner, the story was so embedded in the American consciousness that its title was a byword for steaminess, sexual shenanigans and social rigidity.
The second effect is social rigidity.
France today betrays many of the signs of the cultural and social rigidity that has paralyzed Japan.
It should be stressed here that it was Iran's 1979 revolution that sparked, throughout the Arab region, the movement of reverting to social rigidity instead of modernity and advancement.
The social rigidity of the 1950s and early 1960s encountered a backlash as social movements to improve the standing of African Americans, the poor, women, and gays all became prominent.
Within France are activists like Sabine Herold, who are challenging the ossified structures of French society and standing up against social rigidities.
We now understand what conservatives 100 years ago did not: using schools to combat social rigidities requires a lot of compensatory work for the less advantaged.
The political system, for its part, is adding to social rigidities instead of counteracting them.The problem is not that America has become less dynamic.
It is easy to see how, back in England at her games-obsessed boarding school, such social clumsiness made her vulnerable, but in the long run Lively thinks it helped her: "It put me slightly outside that framework of acceptance of the social rigidities of the time, and enabled me to see how it was.
Even one or two raucous after-hours scenes of Louis Lester's band jamming somewhere rough and dodgy in the company of listeners who don't look like waxworks could have offered other perspectives on class, race and the power of music to shake social rigidities.
