The rise of organised retail will save Indians money, even if it adds a little anomie.

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Mr Rykwert has his worries, to be sure, but he does not see ruin or anomie everywhere.

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Mr Warren took post-war evangelicalism and reshaped it, yet again, for the world of suburban anomie and the search for meaning.

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But the exterior sheen conceals a growing sense of anomie, compounded by swelling unemployment and material expectations fed by rising educational standards.

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But the cookie-cutter anomie of chain restaurants may actually encourage this kind of abuse: was she lashing out at the server or the corporation?

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Sociologists even have a term for this: anomie.

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Taylor and his 2007 account of the Bright Young People, which had just been released in paperback in the U.S. with an Americanized subtitle that suggests Jazz-age parallels of youthful glamour, anomie and eventual doom.

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We characterize the modern cities sometimes as a place of alienation and anomie and the faceless lonely crowd and so on, but when an emergency like this happens and people are pushed against the extremes, you see extraordinary acts of solidarity and kindness between strangers.

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