The poet's 'role' is usually to provide thoughtful social commentary".
Despite the social worker's thoughtful advice, I can't help but feel that I let my neighbor down.
Midnight in Peking could be usefully supplemented by a book such as Robert Bickers's Empire Made Me (2003), which tells the tale of a British policeman stationed in Shanghai between the wars, and combines a wonderfully atmospheric account of the city's "noisy stinking streets" with a thoughtful social history of the changes in the substantial British presence in China.
When it first started, rap music was intelligent, thoughtful social commentary (like the stanza above, even though it was a posthumous 2Pac release).
An ethnographic sociologist rather than a quantifier of social trends, Hochschild elicits thoughtful reflections from ordinary people.
"Ultimately," he writes, "we are talking about traditional social norms — being friendly, thoughtful, considerate, sincere, respectful — and how we carry those with us when we enter the world of social media and mobile devices".
It's a triumph of subtle social engineering, full of thoughtful design touches meant to foster a sense of community; any well-thought-out modern suburb owes a debt to Riverside.
Whatever party is successful will have to be thoughtful about social messages, as they represent the bulk of notifications by volume.
Learning how to use social media and developing thoughtful and practical policies to address inappropriate behavior takes much more work.
If you want to be valuable and raise your social capital, make clear, thoughtful introductions with specific direction.
