Sentences with phrase «as escapism»

We think of entertainment as escapism — a way to get our minds off the realities of our jobs.

This series explores the act of roll - playing as both escapism and a way to order the world according to the boundaries of our childhood experience.

I've never used games as escapism, but there were moments in 2017 where everything felt like too much.

I love the solitude and the secrecy of it - as well as the escapism.

But the movie works as escapism even if you do know enough to come in out of the rain.

Millie and David have loved one another since high school, a misleadingly fun prologue tells us: what follows is about an hour of deadening, repetitive, useless nonsense that fails, completely, to provide a universe in which this stuff makes any kind of impact, even as escapism.

Horror as escapism is a whole other discussion.

The 2010 me felt a little uncomfortable watching a terrorist casually stroll through the city with a nuclear bomb stashed inside of a backpack, but the post-9 / 11 icks are fleeting, as Leder keeps the action Hollywood enough to enjoy as escapism while the chills slowly crawl up the back of your neck.

This kind of femininity is always an act, whether one tries it on for a night or wears it for a lifetime, and it can function simultaneously as escapism and armor.

People who visit crafty pages on Facebook have things going on in their lives too — try to see your page as escapism for them, rather than a sounding board or soapbox for you.

Karl Jaspers has labeled as escapism a great deal of the current interest in Oriental religion and philosophy, especially on the part of young people.

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Evidence of this cultural septicity is everywhere: in the rise of hedonistic escapism, in the violence of our popular entertainment, in the media's embrace of assisted suicide as the next great progressive cause.

Most radicals are not educated on religion, they have secular educations and start as moderates (they become radical as a means of political escapism).

I've written posts about moving from absolutism to openness, from eschatological escapism to kingdom - building, from propositions as fundamental to love as fundamental.

And it has encouraged me to think of salvation in terms of God's plan to restore and repair the whole world, as opposed to thinking of it in terms of individualistic escapism.

We then have the temerity to apply our own labels such as «mightily anointed» (i.e. «I'm right, so if you disagree then you're in opposition to God») to this Disney-esque Sunday morning escapism.

This is as it should be, for «retreatism» seems to be, as relevance's opposite, another form of «escapism.»

i can understand how a non-Christian might regard that belief as its own form of escapism, but — unlike Buddhism — regarded from within its own self - articulation, it is the very opposite of escapism.

I think spiritual escapism happens when we stop looking to God and instead start looking for his «benefits», like the latest book on the latest prayer trend by the latest guru that will fix our lives, or the bucket of money that will fall from the sky as we sing (Man, stories like that one you just told make my skin crawl!)

It will then be transformed into the style of religious escapism known as «gnosticism.»

They're not as romantic as the palm tree, but they still evoke a sense of otherworldly escapism.

Tropical - leaf wallpaper — that great convergence of Polynesian escapism, Palm Beach decor, and things Solange would wear as a pantsuit — is the clear choice for the new crop of beachy bars.

Hats off then to organizer Michael Eavis, the vacant throne of Marks & Spencer awaits you as Glastonbury becomes the dependable deliverer of what people want - perfectly packaged escapism.

Ken Clarke hits out hard at the bellicose anti-immigrant rhetoric coming out of Downing Street, with a description of concerns about EU freedom of movement as «typical right wing, nationalist escapism»

Ken Clarke has hit out hard at the increasingly bellicose anti-immigrant rhetoric coming out of Downing Street, with a description of concerns about EU freedom of movement as «typical right wing, nationalist escapism».

As KidsHealth points out, parents should teach their kids that the TV is «for occasional entertainment, not for constant escapism.»

The poem in its entirety speaks to the innocence of childhood making way for the escapism we all seek as an adult.

A lot of people see it as an easy source of escapism.

Chinese sociologists have classified this as a type of adult game, the creation of an online fantasy relationship, and little more than an exercise in escapism.

Most people see this as a great piece of escapism but if you have genuine concerns about what you and your loved ones would do if zombies were to stalk the earth, you may want to get some practice in.

But it wrongfully scapegoats escapism as a reason why people do not care.

Maybe it's a little harsh to characterise Kate Plays Christine as a spoil sport movie, as it's not saying that all escapism requires the viewer to self - flagellate as penance for their spectatorship sins.

Everything from breaking up the movie into chapters (titles rendered in trendy fonts) to faux - New Wave montages, to doubling - up on visual information with unnecessary voice - over (for instance, as Hawkins and Considine leave a restaurant together and enter his crystal - covered van, Oliver announces to the viewer: â $ œIt seems dear Mom is having an affair.â $), all provide escapism, not for the audience into the movie, but for the movie away from itself.

Yes I want some escapism, but mix it in with some realism and credibility as Curtis lives in a London I don't recognise, that's litter and chav free for starters...

Escapism often gets a bad rap, especially when it's combined with the word «entertainment» (as in «escapist entertainment»).

It's almost as if its distributors, Warner Bros, knew the film would find a world in dire need of escapism when they chose its release date of mid-November 2016.

But in the meantime I will enjoy both the fantasy and escapism that narrative movies can bestow us as well as the likes of these 5 nominated documentaries that show us the truth.

It is a tremendous sensory experience, but at the risk of heresy, I have to confess to finding something a bit precious in its swooniness, a tonal register that is detectable despite, or because of, the periodic stabs of unsentimentality and brutality that function as alibis for the charge of escapism.

As a bit of art - house escapism, that it is a trip well worth taking.»

It was (as it always has been) my medicine, my way to fight back, and my chosen method of escapism.

But it's only entertaining as a bit of escapism, because the various relational entanglements...

With Evolution effectively snuffing out the intriguing genre escapism the original film provided, it seemed as though the Underworld promise was cut down prematurely.

Most superhero comics were created as a form of escapism during the Great Depression, so they have a special place in our hearts.

«In Time» is one of those high - concept sci - fi movies that are too complex to explain in a single paragraph — the easiest way to describe it is as a less crazy version of «Logan's Run» — but it's a pretty cool concept that, if executed correctly, could make for a really fun piece of escapism entertainment.

Outside of that demographic, it remains entertaining (but certainly unexceptional) as a bit of innocuous escapism.

received drubbing from critics when it released in 2008, but Colin Firth said it is one of his favourite films as it is «hard to do pure escapism».

Burroughs» story and Stanton's visual treatment are fine for film escapism, but the script flaws (and some of the acting and pacing) really lessened the movie as a whole for me.

Which brings us to Rampage, a sweaty, lunkish slab of lowbrow escapism starring the former wrestler Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson as a primatologist fending off an attack of giant, genetically mutated beasts with the help of a super-sized gorilla.

As the movie walks a fine line between serious drama and satirical comedy, and between topicality and escapism, it beguiles the viewer with...

Escapism hasn't really been done as on the nose as it has been with the Harry Potter stories.