Sentences with phrase «countryside life of the mind»

Scruton may prefer his countryside life of the mind.

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«Felicia's Journey» is a study in stark contrasts: among them, the blindly trusting Felicia and the devious - minded Hilditch; the tranquil Irish countryside of Felicia's youth as shown in flashbacks juxtaposed with grey, industrialized Birmingham; the old - fashioned lifestyle (Felicia lives as if out of a Jane Austen novel, passing hand - written letters to her beau via his mother) versus the ultra-modern (Hilditch places miniature video cameras inside his car to record the girls).

The countryside has become a foreign landscape for those living in suburban or urbanised areas, which has altered many children's perceptions of reality — changing their physical state of mind.

When I think of veteran painters like Raoul de Keyser ensconced in the small Belgian town of Deinze, or the reclusive expatriate James Bishop who has spent much of the last half century hiding out in the French countryside, the first lines of John Ashbery's poem «Soonest Mended» pop into my mind: «Barely tolerated, living on the margin / In our technological society.»

An important group in pre-revolutionary Russian art, it was an association of progressive socially / politically minded Russian artists, who predated Impressionism by a decade and who - chiefly concerned with rural landscape painting - toured the countryside painting what they saw in an effort to promote awareness of rural life outside the cities.

Bear in mind that many perennials will eventually outgrow life in a flowerbox, although the idea of these countryside pockets is to let them do so for as long as possible.