Sentence examples for suburban myth from inspiring English sources
One minute he's saying that violence is endemic in the US, the next he's saying that it's a paranoid suburban myth fuelled by the nightly news; this last certainly gets a much rougher ride from him than does that other media sensationalist Marilyn Manson.
Its traditions and stories are still passed from kid to kid, a game of telephone played with a mishmash of millennia-old European superstitions and modern suburban myths.
In "Moulin Rouge," that archetypal story isn't about suburban witches but the myth of Orpheus.
This comedy about a Brooklyn bus driver, his wife and his best friend, a city sewer worker, stands out not only because it focused on working-class New Yorkers just as the country was inventing the myth of suburban arcadia.
Mr. Wilson's writing is heartfelt and funny throughout, but decades of plays, novels and any number of other works of art debunking the mid-century American myth of suburban bliss have left the play stranded in a kind of aesthetic limbo.
The words have the hypnotic pull of a fairy tale, and for the next 400 pages, Ms. Friedan identifies, dissects and damningly indicts one of the most pervasive folk beliefs of postwar American life: the myth of suburban women's domestic fulfillment she came to call the feminine mystique.
"The Sopranos" plays on two themes of life in New Jersey and those Jersey wannabe places, like Long Island: the myth of placid suburban lives and the suspicion of a gangster in every neighborhood.
The writers and artists who defined the high culture of the golden age of the American middle class in fact spent their lives demolishing the myths around the suburban home.
Neither did the guys who made the movie, who changed it from annoying myth to something more suburban.
