How To Use Status quo In A Sentence
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As Marx said, faith in God too often becomes a way for people to abnegate our responsibility, deny our power and become passive in the face of a sacrosanct status quo.
Philocrites: Back to the reverence debate!
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It is a rebuke to those who grumpily accept their snail-paced status quo.
Times, Sunday Times
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If the reform stuck to a market-based insurance system - so went the reasoning - access could be within reach of more people without causing disruptions to those benefiting from the status quo.
Anja Rudiger: With all eyes on the 'market,' health reform overlooked human rights
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There is no doubt that the voters wanted to shake up the status quo and they have done this by creating what is almost a hung parliament.
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This continued until war broke out and when war broke out, General Hertzog, again with his strong feeling of South Africanism, said, "While we do not wish to be disassociated from the British Empire, while we are willing to remain with the British Empire on the same footing as heretofore, we do not see why we should declare war now, why we should not maintain neutrality and the status quo, even though Great Britain go into war.
Racial Relations in the Union of South Africa
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NCIS was perturbed at the end of last season, and the pendulum is slowly returning to status quo.
Prone and supine : Bev Vincent
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Pending a settlement, the status quo of the boundary should be maintained.
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Yet restoring the status quo ante will be phenomenally hard.
Times, Sunday Times
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This expansive alteration of the Federal System was to have been achieved by converting the rights of the citizens of each State as of the date of the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment into privileges and immunities of United States citizenship and thereafter perpetuating this newly defined _status quo_ through judicial condemnation of any State law challenged as "abridging" any one of the latter privileges.
The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952
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These old people have been brain washed by the conservative special interest that want to the status quo to continue.
House to back off from controversial plane purchase
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The resulting paradox - a transgressive aesthetic supporting a conservative social and political status quo - would endure until the end of the Old Regime.
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Damnably difficult to disturb the status quo.
Times, Sunday Times
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Parts of the administration may be changing but others have been obdurate defenders of the status quo.
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But it would be wrong to blame everything on the scribes, those unreflective, unthinking mouthpieces of the status quo whose job it is to anaesthetize the public.
Archive 2007-10-01
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Even here, there was consistent fear of anything that threatened to shake up the status quo.
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The prosocial behavior is an important sign for the individual socialization. However, the status quo of the prosocial behavior for the undergraduate is not optimistical.
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But neither could defenders of the status quo point to conclusive proof that teaching passed muster.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, we can all help to maintain the status quo of good versus evil in the world.
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We're far from the satisfactions of a genre that at its coziest promises restoration of a safe-seeming status quo.
And Then There Were Ten
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While the fundamental risk remained Global Thermonuclear War prosecuted by one or both of the only nation-states capable of accomplishing such a civilization-threatening feat single-handedly or 'cooperatively', the contributing risks represented by escalation and alliances opened a larger number of paths from the status quo to the unthinkable outcome and some of those paths had distinctly lower thresholds standing between origin and outcome.
The Speculist: Doomsday Clock Speculist Challenge
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The simplest assessment is that it means no changes in the status quo: the round is stalemated for now, though there will be attempts, however faint, to revive it in Geneva in the months to come.
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When there is no cash, there is no social mobility and therefore no threat to the status quo.
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They have no wish for any change in the status quo.
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At the core of the academic studies is a basic rule: Investors believe in the status quo.
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In ‘And Now for Something Completely Northern: Institutions of Governance in the Territorial North,’ Graham White offers the heartening possibility that there are indeed viable political options beyond the status quo.
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`It's an acronym,' I replied, placing the Halcyon Rules between Status Quo and Steppenwolf and closing the book.
MUSIC FOR BOYS
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Their already ambiguous moral roles freed female outsiders to express discontent with the status quo.
Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France
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These will include maintaining the status quo, retaining hunting with new restrictions, a partial ban, and a total ban.
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A class is created of dogged self-righteous obstructionists with a vested interest in the status quo, however obsolescent, however decayed, however inappropriate to the site.
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The conventional option was the decisive and effective one in preserving the status quo and the peace.
Preventing World War III - A Realistic Grand Strategy
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The status quo is good enough for those who do not care about the suffering of others
Obama speaks with Gates' arresting officer
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The British showed poor judgement in supposing that the French status quo ante might be restored.
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
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These cooperators were not utopians, but rather male heads of households seeking to make it to old age without upsetting the status quo.
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This, he explains, would analyse our make-do-and-mend culture, our suspicion of the bravely new, our ingrained preference for the status quo.
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But on the other hand, you can read books about the politics of the effort to discredit him. His cause was obviously unpleasant to the status quo.
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Or are they to give the benefit of the doubt to the antis, and preserve the status quo?
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Will the West use its influence to maintain the status quo and not disrupt the flow of oil?
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Protozoan diversity of the ecosystem stability of the status quo stated.
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I did look at the last few pages of the final issue, though...and if I'm reading things correctly, you could probably do some kind of deconstructive analysis of the story, with Thor representing Marvel Comics' desire to maintain the status quo, and Loki as DC, wishing to struggle against the status quo but ultimately falling before it.
Archive 2004-10-03
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He did not readily embrace my suggestion of a return to the status quo ante.
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The Republican party mantra and status quo is weakened, and will be for some time.
Romney PAC raises $1.6M in six months
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Around 1,500 armed riot police were sent in to enforce the status quo.
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As is often the case in the cosy cartel of party politics, the bigger parties are more than happy to retain the status quo.
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From which the esteemed author concludes that the status quo is to be maintained unless there is a really good reason (according to whom?) not to maintain them any more.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “What Sort of Burden Does It Place on the University … to Strike ‘of Our Lord’ from the Diploma?”
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He rarely bucked or challenged the corrupt status quo - in stark contrast to his image as a reformer.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cynic within suggests that perhaps the status quo is driven by self interest of the major parties who benefit.
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We need more people who are both questioners of the status quo and visionaries.
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This paper summarized the status quo of animal husbandry development and animal product trade, the existent problem in presence animal product and the developmental countermeasures.
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remediate" the status quo ante — the first railway coaches, for example, being coaches on rails.
Golgonooza Text
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The only legitimate and productive political action must be bounded by the limits of the status quo and the Democrats who protect it.
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Those millions do not face a return to the status quo ante.
Times, Sunday Times
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Conversely, after the Chinese intervention, support declined, based on dimming prospects for gains beyond the status quo.
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I also saw that men were relegated to supporting the status quo even at their own expense if they choose to accept it.
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I encourage all councillors and our reeve to open the books widely, to solicit public input and challenge the status quo.
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Parts of the administration may be changing but others have been obdurate defenders of the status quo.
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We needed a three-year lead-in period where the status quo remained.
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As is so often the case in Washington, the official spinmeisters have been circling the carcass, offering all the reasons why nothing ever came of all the promises to change the sleazy status quo.
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He will LEAD THE AMERICAN PEOPLE to change the status quo, because it can only be done if the American people and the President work together to bring it about.
In Big Iowa Speech Today, Edwards Will Amplify Case For Confrontation
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You'd have paid them money when you could and returned them to the status quo ante.
Times, Sunday Times
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Under this approach, a court does not start with any presumption favoring, or disfavoring, the status quo.
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He was dissatisfied with the status quo.
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There are many people who wish to maintain the status quo.
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So hopes of a quick snap-back to status quo ante at the end of hostilities quite misread the situation.
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Punk music, with its live-fast ethos and objurgation of the status quo, never was meant to last long.
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Marxism and liberation theology condemn religion for supporting the status quo and legitimating the power of the oppressor.
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I'm there to upset the status quo of someone's self-induced limitation.
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Of course leaving the status quo in place instead would again be penny-wise and pound-foolish.
Matthew Yglesias » Fiscal Crunches Are Resolved When There’s No Alternative
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What we are looking at, in The United States today, is a status quo that supports a neo-fascist and corrupt political system.
Matthew Yglesias » Passing Costs on to Consumers
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It is always more difficult to try and justify the status quo than to wave the banner for a bold, if imprecise, vision of things to come.
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Environmental conservation generally works in favour of maintaining the status quo.
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We have to take leave of the idea of status quo; the orchestras, conductors and soloists will have to become more flexible and less demanding financially.
Times, Sunday Times
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But as the Turkish society has been thoroughly Kemalized by the Kemalofascist military, bureaucracy, and judiciary for almost a century, and as it has also been thoroughly Islamized by the their Muslim leaders, with their strong economic base; there is no danger of any form of subversion from the Turkish people against the status quo or any wish for real democracy.
Wake up Kurdistan!
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Either you are going to have to do a major structural rethink or just accept the status quo and muddle on.
Times, Sunday Times
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The GOP-supported health insurance industry status quo is what is toxic to our health.
RNC spoofs drug ads in new 'Reforma' Web video
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Two weeks prior to my January visit, Internationals, Israeli's and locals implemented a creative challenge to the status quo imposed by the Israel government for the times they keep 'changin': the Billin'ers erected their own outpost.
Nonviolent Solidarity : Sometimes we win, sometimes we die
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But his approach to changing the status quo is gradualist rather than revolutionary.
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conservatives who want to maintain the status quo.
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Whatever else, significant social change requires, as Gandhi put it, "noncooperation" with the status quo and a "matching of forces" with those who would maintain it.
Brendan Smith: Is Social Networking Useless for Social Change?
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So, I think Bush will be -- this is not a status quo vote, despite the evenness or the equalness in the vote outcome.
CNN Transcript - Special Event: Election 2000: Bush, Gore Locked in Unprecedented Fight for Control of the White House - November 8, 2000
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The connotation and the practical teaching status quo had been analyzed about the applied chemistry specialty.
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Even here, there was consistent fear of anything that threatened to shake up the status quo.
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I'd have to say I was content with the status quo or, alternatively, that I wanted change.
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The connotation and the practical teaching status quo had been analyzed about the applied chemistry specialty.
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But neither could defenders of the status quo point to conclusive proof that teaching passed muster.
Times, Sunday Times
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Respondents unanimously rejected maintaining the status quo, expressing instead an openness to, and a desire for, change.
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The denials issuing from Santos are almost pathetic in their plaintive appeal to maintenance of the status quo.
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These will include maintaining the status quo, retaining hunting with new restrictions, a partial ban, and a total ban.
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The conventional option was the decisive and effective one in preserving the status quo and the peace.
Preventing World War III - A Realistic Grand Strategy
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Both he and his advisers felt that every day's delay was a substantial gain, and that the maintenance of the _status quo_, with no fresh outbreak at home and no unfriendly expression aborad, was of incalculable advantage to the cause of the Union.
Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860
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Men are a solitary animal and are generally content with the status quo.
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Their intimidation tactics too often succeed, and the rental board authorities only maintain their status quo.
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His presumed pragmatism upholds the status quo by ridiculing the relative few who dare to challenge it.
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Either you are going to have to do a major structural rethink or just accept the status quo and muddle on.
Times, Sunday Times
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So the Congress of Vienna must be one of history's best examples of a concerted and successful attempt to defend and preserve a major and long-lasting status quo.
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What they are are establishmentarian types comfortable with the status quo who don't hate gay people and want their wives and daughters and selves to have access to abortion and accept it more or less as a given that poor people's children probably shouldn't be left to starve in the streets, provided it doesn't cost too much money to feed them and move them inside at least during the winter.
Disproving their liberal bias by giving liberals a wedgie
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In the event, the two became great friends and the status quo was maintained.
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Iran's challenge to the regional status quo is multifaceted, which is why Washington must adopt a comprehensive approach as it formulates its nascent engagement with Iran.
Iran's New Target: Egypt
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The reasons for this condition of the collective conciousness is infinately interesting, however, and should be debated in order to rescue authentic democracy from the simulacra of democratic norms that make changing the status quo seem a quixotic endeavor.
La Profesora Abstraida
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Victory for the status quo will prove short-lived.
THE STRATEGY MACHINE
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Because the status quo is not sufficiently originalist?
The Volokh Conspiracy » An Eminently Sound Approach to (Supposed) International Human Rights Norms, from the Ninth Circuit
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Breyer and Ginsburg are fine Supreme Court justices and capable defenders of the status quo, but neither are what Cass Sunstein has called "visionaries" - justices that have "a large-scale understanding of where the nation should be heading" and are "entirely willing to press a controversial theory about, say, liberty or equality or the president's power as commander-in-chief, even if that theory offends many Americans.
Doug Kendall: The Supreme Court Intensity Gap
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His priority is to preserve the status quo and an endangered euro currency.
Times, Sunday Times
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Certain people always want to maintain the status quo.
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In the positive endeavour to realise an opinion, to convert a theory into practice, it may be, and very often is, highly expedient to defer to the prejudices of the majority, to move very slowly, to bow to the conditions of the _status quo_, to practise the very utmost sobriety, self-restraint, and conciliatoriness.
On Compromise
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But neither could defenders of the status quo point to conclusive proof that teaching passed muster.
Times, Sunday Times
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By eating the same amount of foods day after day, your body grows accustomed to the amount of fuel and macronutrients it's being supplied, and it begins to think of this as the status quo.
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Moreover, he added the status quo is unacceptable.
Emanuel: 'We are not sitting back like the Maytag man'
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Retrospective media coverage has whitewashed King while ignoring how his messages are radical challenges to the status quo of today.
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Well, individuals fighting or rebelling against the status quo, the establishment, is good for drama.
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His detailed explications of a single patient's symptoms, his willingness to share stories from his own life and his references to medical texts from earlier centuries are not only atypical of how most neurologists work today, they defy the status quo.
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It forced him to question the status quo at a very young age, it also left him with an extraordinary technical facility as a master concert percussionist.
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Much easier and safer is maintaining the status quo and trying to hang onto the users who, for whatever reason, are still updating their profiles.
Why MySpace Is Really GeoCities 2.0
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amendable" with terms remaining "status quo" throughout negotiations overseen by the National Mediation Board.
California Progress Report
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They wanted a return to the status quo before the war.
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The mining engineer has been forced to become a salesman, and a salesmen trying to sell that hardest of ideas: the status quo.
Times, Sunday Times
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At least the medieval inquisition recognised that printing was a threat to the status quo.
The Sun
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Adding to the proceedings the tale of the antiseptic marriage of Peter (Jeff Allin) and Ann (Colleen Delany) does lay the groundwork for some intriguing parallels: Peter is a smugly self-sufficient target for both Ann and Jerry (James McMenamin), who share a restless disdain for the status quo - and a potential to explode.
'At Home at the Zoo' expands Albee's classic one-act play
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It would have been immobilism reaffirmed - the status quo with lipstick.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is fairly likely that your boyfriend is enjoying the current status quo and is averse to change.
Times, Sunday Times
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The navy practises on the river in the hopes of a restoration of the status quo ante.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Are we to accept this prevalent attitude among our politicians who can cry “sodomy!” only when it suits their interests, but who would otherwise be quite content to allow the prevailing status quo to remain unchallenged?
Global Voices in English » Malaysia: Anwar Ibrahim sodomy trial
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Issue 139 introduces a new status quo for the team -- Cyclops is gone, Angel and Kitty Pryde join and Storm takes over as leader.
Six by 6 | My six favorite issues of Claremont and Byrne’s Uncanny X-Men run | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
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By supporting the status quo they have put political expediency before the interests of our children.
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He emphasized the need to maintain the status quo.
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We are challenging the status quo of the androcentric field of chemistry and demanding that the conscious and subconscious gender bias operating within the field be acknowledged, addressed and stopped!
Archive 2008-06-01
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Good stuff, and it will be interesting to see how Rucka deals with the assassin reborn - I trust him enough to think that the status quo will not return.
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Any sense of community and collectivity is subverted by the status quo.
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Or whether long-term rivalries will again reign and ensure the status quo.
Euronews
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Reagan optimism is code for status quo Republican agenda.
Hillary Personally Slams Obama Over Reagan Comments
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If you don't love something you're not going tog the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.
Steve Rosenbaum: The Explosive Power of Art+Science
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Will the West use its influence to maintain the status quo and not disrupt the flow of oil?
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Environmental conservation generally works in favour of maintaining the status quo.
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Senator DeMint is only interested in defeating Obama and protecting the status quo.
DeMint fires back at 'false' DNC ad
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The conventional option was the decisive and effective one in preserving the status quo and the peace.
Preventing World War III - A Realistic Grand Strategy
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This will cost more than the government would like, which is why we are being offered the carrot of a salary increase to accept the status quo.
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Politicians, media commentators and analysts may be ill equipt to deal with the changing electorate, increased power of the blogosphere and massive discontent with the status quo.
Ben Cohen: 10 Republicans Who Should Go Away
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On the face of it, this does seem like a mystery: global hegemons don't usually declare war on the status quo.
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The Act contained provisions designed to preserve the status quo.
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Arguably, the parties would have remained deadlocked if the Ferrelli Application had not been commenced, as the primary objective of the Cantelmi Application was to maintain the status quo.
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Most of the blogs against Llais Gwynedd have been set up by Plaid themselves worried about upsetting the status quop in Gwynedd and Cymuned members.
Yet more strangeness from Llais Gwynedd
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The biggest problem was that in gearing up to fight the good fight for the public option, etc., many people started to believe the nonsense that the current bill is actually worse than the status quo.
Matthew Yglesias » History’s Greatest Monster
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This election is about one man, Barack Obama, who fairly or not represents the following: the status quo, Washington, leftism, Nancy Pelosi, Fannie and Freddie, and deficits in trillions, not billions.
Tea Party to the Rescue
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The emphases are laser ablation principle and status quoin fabrication of nano - particle, nano - fibre, nano - thin film.
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It is the story of a woman who dares to be different, who rejects the status quo and who uses humor and a strong sense of self not just to get through life but to have a side-splitting good time doing it.
Susanna Quinn: The Girlfriend You Have Always Wanted
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In almost every aspect of daily life, vitality seems to be measured by the desire to change the status quo.
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The Germans and French will seek to maintain the status quo but McCreevy is no stranger to bruising political battles.
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The most important takeaway is this: they repeatedly did things that felt like huge risks, that challenged the status quo and that seemed, on their face, to give too much power to their audience.
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The navy practises on the river in the hopes of a restoration of the status quo ante.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The aesthetics of things lies in the satisfaction with the status quo.
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The AU was quick in its condemnation and has threatened sanctions against Togo unless it restores the status quo.
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'It's their culture innit' seems to be the yardstick whether it's about 9/11 or the state of play around the world where Islamists are intent on wrecking the status quo in favour of their medieval seventh century barbarousness.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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President Obama has shown a commendable willingness to shake up the status quo in K-12 education by advocating reforms, such as charter schools, that have left his teachers union base none-too-pleased.
Black Colleges Need a New Mission
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Lo speaketh he more, in riddles “We would never advocate change for the sake of it …” but he also says” but neither should we defenders of the status quo.”
Archive 2008-01-13
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So is it possible that the rebellions of 2011 could also leave some disappointment behind in 2012 if and when the members of the old order start fighting back to protect the status quo just like the counter-revolutionaries in 1849?
Leon T. Hadar: 2012: The Year of Counter-Revolution?
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They like the status quo, the comforting warmth of what was shall always be, forever and ever, amen.
THE ENDLESS GAME
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We'll have to wait until the Tories come up with some concrete ideas to see whether they're really interested in departing from the constitutional status quo, or just looking for a different carpet to brush things under.
Archive 2008-05-01
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Some suppliers may announce a token cut but most will want to maintain the status quo.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's always been done this way, it would be hellish complicated to make a change and, besides, the only people who can make the decision have a vested interest in the status quo.
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This has been status quo for the supposed "holies" among us since I was in high school in the 60's, and probably long before that.
Diatribune - Comments
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Fitzsimmons notes that prior to 4 August, debates in the National Assembly were largely stalemated between those legislators who wanted reform and those who wanted to preserve the status quo.
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Conservatives were seen as mindless defenders of privilege, unthinking status quo-ists-in short, caricatured versions of Monty Python's Upper Class Twits.
The Times of India
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There are many people who wish to maintain the status quo.
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His role as maverick was most evident was during his stints on the Open Market Committee, where he frequently squared off against the status quo.
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The navy practises on the river in the hopes of a restoration of the status quo ante.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Now they're the old fuddy-duddies who are trying to keep the status quo.
Want to Bust Some Ghosts? There's an App for That
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Kids will be kids, and kids, as we know, constantly challenge the status quo.
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The instinct is to preserve the status quo against this irruption, not to see the irruption as constitutive of the status quo.
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Practical realism must dictate that there is no alternative but to maintain status quo on a permanent basis.
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But instead of this, the subsequent films shift the emphasis radically away from the Matrix (which is never anything more than a set for agents and rebels to play in henceforth) to saving Zion and restoring the status quo of balance between machine and rebel.
Two Out of Two Anders Agree: Infoquake/MultiReal is Brilliant!
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Because their rudimental brain sprout does not provide for CONTEMPLATING about the real causes of the status quo.
Think Progress » FACT CHECK: Increasing Troop Levels In Baghdad Made Violence Worse
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Enlightenment humanism freed the individual from the status quo of natural identity, allowing humanity to reach beyond self, to change rather than simply be.
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The conventional option was the decisive and effective one in preserving the status quo and the peace.
Preventing World War III - A Realistic Grand Strategy
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The paper takes as an example the mechano-electronic majors of Beijing Jiaotong University to analyze the status quo of and the problems in their graduation design.
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Recently, a few rumblings of discontent with the institutional status quo have been felt from various parts of Canada.
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There are powerful forces arguing for the return to the status quo ante.
Times, Sunday Times
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To me, trying to "conserve" the status quo is a far more indefensible view, since the status quo is not all that great.
Rove: Palin's resignation lacks clear strategy
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And conveniently forgotten in fallacious references to a cycle of violence is that — following from their oft-stated call for the destruction of Israel — Hamas, Hezbollah (which is more or less an Iranian expeditionary force), Iran itself, and the Arab confrontation states are the parties that want to change the status quo, by violence and by their own flamboyant admission.
Why Israel Needs the Bomb
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Will the West use its influence to maintain the status quo and not disrupt the flow of oil?
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At the core of the academic studies is a basic rule: Investors believe in the status quo.
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Despite the ill nature of the offer, the city offered to put it on the ballot along with a vote to municipalize, but Xcel refused, demanding that the city also offer citizens a separate "status quo" measure.
John Farrell: Utility Fights Dirty in City's Battle for Clean Local Energy
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Their activities upset the natural status quo, and we awoke one morning to find a pair of adult boomslangs Afrikaans for tree snake—“boo-um-slung”, the female brown, the male pea green, looped in a bow at the top of the syringa tree in the driveway.
Rainbow’s End
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It is our solemn duty and obligation to defend the peaceful status quoin the Taiwan Strait.
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There are powerful forces arguing for the return to the status quo ante.
Times, Sunday Times
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Politicians, sensing wide and profound dissatisfaction with the status quo, have proposed significant changes in our federal income tax.
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On pensions, the Democrat proposes sticking to the status quo, but making sure that this generation puts enough aside for its retirement and does not run up bills its sons and daughters cannot pay.
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The mass outflow is simply a 'safety valve' for the maintenance of the status quo.
Mexifornia, a State of Becoming by Victor Davis Hanson
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The demand for social change offers them but one alternative, viz., that of upholding the violent method or of maintaining the status quo.
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Voter schizophrenia when it comes to public unions means that voters will support candidates who favor lower taxes and smaller government, but then side with unions to preserve the status quo when "antiunion" policies are subject to a vote.
Voters Still Carry Union Albatross
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In the end fear of a leap in the dark may outweigh frustration with the status quo.
Times, Sunday Times
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The character of such works, as Carl Freedman has written, “lies neither in chronology nor in technological hardware but in the cognitive presentation of alternatives to actuality and the status quo.”
Genre Fiction
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He rarely bucked or challenged the corrupt status quo - in stark contrast to his image as a reformer.
Times, Sunday Times
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I don't understand how anyone is rolling up their toes in glee that the status quo might win the day.
Democrats fear Obama health plan 'on the rocks'
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conservatives who want to maintain the status quo.
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Jahr hundert aims for a re view of the status quo in German language scholarship of the fantastic, as well as open up a dia logue with internationalresearch done in this field.
CFP: German Fantastic Conference by Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung, 30 Sept-03 Oct, 2010
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They can also see that the candidates have avowed not to disturb the corporate status quo.
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They have no wish for any change in the status quo.
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Environmental conservation generally works in favour of maintaining the status quo.
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The "rejectionist" atmosphere also welcomed radical proposals that conflict with fundamental tenets of American society, which were marketed as dramatic departures from the status quo and a means to limit the scope of government.
Bradford Kane: The Tea Party's Four Themes and Their Antidotes for the November Election
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Though commercial forms of play buy release from work and responsibility, traditional play allows for temporary inversion of the status quo.
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Its larger than life premise, prefixed with a true story tips its hat to every humanitarian unthankfully slogging for long hours to change the status quo.
