The auditorium, on the other hand, still represents a clear societal order.
Partaking in partying should not be to blame for "the shift in the societal order".
Not only did it nurture his literary career; it also seemed to offer the possibility of remaking the societal order.
Earthquakes, tornadoes and other natural disasters are often followed by spates of looting, as if nature's disruption is echoed by a fracture in societal order.
The French Revolution, liberalism, and equality were regarded as a brief aberration, against which the eternal foundations of societal order would prevail.
Victor is, in a way, the counterpart to Greaves himself, the man without a structure, the energetic person left to his own devices; his rage is the alternative to efforts to construct a better organized, more supple societal order.
WHAT IT SAYS ABOUT YOU You feel that societal order must be preserved at all costs, and that disagreeing with the wisdom of the selection committee is the first step toward anarchy.
For Lupino, a mother's relentless drive for her daughter's success is a way of resisting a societal order in which women face formidable obstacles in the quest for autonomy and financial independence, and in which the family itself is one of the most formidable of those obstacles.
The central issue of "Tannhäuser" is the minstrel-protagonist's inability to reconcile two conflicting forces — his urge for unbridled sensual love, as represented by his dalliance with Venus, and his need for societal order, associated in the opera with the Wartburg castle and its hall of song.
Now, in the quieter precincts of the Hamptons, some residents are fearing that the shift in the societal order could be made worse this year by a new wave of partyers, some of them driven north by Hurricane Sandy rebuilding efforts at New Jersey's rowdy beaches.
