Sentences with phrase «compulsion toward»

Is it perhaps time to adapt to the frailties of human nature and reconsider our compulsion toward monogamy?

Reveling in the suburban panic punctuated by an hysterical self - help culture, compulsion toward decoration, and docudramatic tragedy, Josh Faught's current work uses elements of textiles, collage, sculpture, and painting to triangulate between a space that negotiates the history of textiles, a social / political history, and personal history.

The compulsion toward self - reflection is represented as inherent within the process of artistic creation, and self - fulfillment is — ultimately — an exhaustive undertaking.

When culled from the proliferating archives — at the curatorial hand of the artist or the artistic hand of the curator — the compulsion toward photographic evidence that underpins this history comes up haunted by the vicissitudes of time, belief, prejudice, and ultimately, the betrayal of control and intention.

But even that description is misleading, because there is no compulsion toward interpretation.

As soon as they square themselves with what they've unconsciously been up to, they're free — free from the compulsion toward rejection and free to explore their history of rejection and heal it.

And by appropriating our own darkness, we might also undercut the compulsion toward hatred and violence that occurs whenever we disown that part of ourselves.

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Awareness of this point, and of the extreme suffering that accompanies such compulsions, should make us sympathetic toward Christian weight - watching.

Were we able through faith in Jesus» revelation to come to a more accepting posture toward our own shameful side, we would likewise be delivered of the compulsion to project it out onto others.

«They sit there, sweating, shifting their attention away from the compulsion and toward some healthy new behavior.»

But the film's compulsion to clip along at a restless pace, toward a third act that is infinitely less interesting than the rest of the story, prevents these small flourishes from being explored to their fullest.

Like Summerhill, the Sudbury Valley School (SVS) believes that parents tend toward the unnecessary use of authority and external compulsion to educate children which Sudbury tries to avoid.

She blames its snobbish attitude toward traditional craft media such as pottery and its mistaken conviction that his dressing up is a gimmick rather than a compulsion rooted in childhood trauma.