Sentences with phrase «book escapism»

That makes him a rare bird in a multiplex of comic - book escapism and cheap formula.

Not exact matches

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!)

Being a busy mum of two, I really crave the escapism from real life that a book can offer but I have been struggling to find a story that was able to hold my attention.

Genres, rather than books: science fiction has never appealed; pastel - covered chick lit, whose promise of escapism rapidly becomes irritation.

Next to an annual vacation, books are the ultimate form of escapism.

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That is where the escapism of reading books comes in.

Reading the same type of book for escapism isn't as much fun as it used to be, so I tend to read a lot of nonfiction.

Books are competing for consumers» ever - fragmented attention against other media forms for entertainment, escapism and knowledge - building.

The six artists in Bibliothecaphilia, on view beginning January 24, 2015, explore the medium and ethos of libraries: institutions straddling the public and private spheres, the escapism that libraries offer, libraries» status as storehouses for physical books — and thus for experiences and knowledge — and the way that these objects circulate and are re-used.

There is a sense of escapism throughout, books are featured prominently, and the air is rife with the nostalgia of adolescence and Americana.

Sand, soft ice cream and escapism: In large - format photo books, photographers from Martin Parr to Pamela Littky offer an escape from the daily grind.

In response to George Monbiot's book, Feral: Searching for enchantment on the frontiers of rewilding, Steven Poole observes that the «pastoral literary genre has long been a solidly bourgeois form of escapism», and that it reflects a regressive form of politics.

Books on cleaning, as sad as it may sound, are a form of escapism, like losing myself in Instagram posts of exotic travel destinations (although the goal of the former is more attainable).

[citation needed] In his book Masochism and the Self, psychologist Roy Baumeister advanced a Self Theory analysis that cuckolding (other forms of sexual masochism) among otherwise mentally healthy people was a form of escapism.