Sentences with phrase «escapism in»

New Growth's playful scrutiny intertwines cosmology and escapism in an attempt to blur the lines separating past, present and future.

The Turner Prize is commonly awarded to conceptual artists who make people think outside of the box or create escapism in an other wise grim and gloomy world.

Pieces by Noémie Goudal, Scarlett Hooft Graafland, Richard Long and Boomoon highlight barren landscapes and open spaces, offering moments of escapism in an age defined by hyperactivity.

The title of the exhibition makes reference to a pronounced escapism in the works, metaphorical opportunities to be taken through outlets such as pipes or rabbit holes, and to the literal pipes and rabbits (in reference to Alice in Wonderland and Donnie Darko) that recur constantly in Lonsdale's visual vocabulary.

How important was entertainment and escapism in the lives of people in those desperate conditions?

And there's finer post-apocalyptic escapism in Bong Joon - ho's «Snowpiercer,» which is playing around the country and arriving on VOD platforms this Friday.

For this reason, this is strictly for viewers that watch nearly every B - movie suspense film on the rental shelves, straight - to - video or otherwise, offering sensational escapism in place of plausibility, pressing the titillation button in our psyches whenever possible.

Classic films present escapism in its purest form, and I can't think of a better example than William Wyler's romantic adventure, Roman Holiday.

They provide inspiration and escapism in the bucket loads and I just love the variety it brings to my favourite blogs (including my own), seeing holiday outfits, restaurant guides and generally just beautiful photos for some serious escapism.

If a young woman in Scotland hadn't dreamed up the «pre-tribulation fly - away» in 1830; if a British clergyman hadn't hijacked her dream and sneakily planted it around the world in the 1800s; if a crooked, jailed - for - forgery lawyer with no theological background hadn't come out with a reference Bible in 1909 with the same fly - away escapism in marginal notes; and if modern - day rapture robber barons and tribulational tycoons hadn't found numerous ways (and gimmicks like four «blood moons») to widely mass - market the same delicious delusion for the masses while breaking sales records, no one could now be into the moonshine, looking up at the moon and saying «Moon, you mush be drunk becaush I shee four of you!»

Not exact matches

But if ever there were a time to indulge in escapism, it's in our twilight years.

Harlequin romances: Romantic escapism was alive and well in 2009.

In a deft synthesis of escapism and dreadful reality — like successfully mixing ice cream with Buckley's cough syrup — an unknown sports sophisticate and political junkie named Paul Kaplan (an Atlanta Braves fan, but that's not a crime) sent a letter to his congressman to protest the defeat of his baseball team in the National League playoffs and demand they be crowned the winners anywaIn a deft synthesis of escapism and dreadful reality — like successfully mixing ice cream with Buckley's cough syrup — an unknown sports sophisticate and political junkie named Paul Kaplan (an Atlanta Braves fan, but that's not a crime) sent a letter to his congressman to protest the defeat of his baseball team in the National League playoffs and demand they be crowned the winners anywain the National League playoffs and demand they be crowned the winners anyway.

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.

Such benevolence promotes human responsibility, not escapism and passivity, and hence these metaphors are helpful ones in our time.

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.

There is no room for mystical escapism; we find God - become - man himself involved in the messes and miseries of the human situation and requiring his followers to do the same.

The way out, paradoxically enough, lies in no form of uncommitted escapism, but in a closer commitment to life.

But hoping and peacemaking, we must see, are very different things from indulging in one form or another of nuclear escapism.

The McGovern revolution of 1972 continues today, he believes, in holding liberalism hostage to the leftist escapism of Michael Moore, Howard Dean, and John Kerry, for example.

A second prominent ingredient in the post — World War II church boom was a quality of escapism and nostalgia.

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.

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.

In contrast to such escapism, John of Patmos sees heaven coming to earth.

The easy dismissal of death, or the assertion that «for those who believe, there is no death», is taken to be, what it often is, an easy evasion of the dread reality itself — escapism, childish refusal to face facts, and above all (in our special interest) unwillingness to accept our human mortality.

But does not the restlessness resident in religious visions perhaps encourage an escapism with respect to the cosmos?

My recipe for coconut and spice quinoa porridge is generous, sustaining, nourishing, exotic in aroma and the spices of cardamom and star anise tickle the senses of escapism and luxury.

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.

I have always loved reading, it has been my escapism from times while growing up in instability and allowed me to dream.

The perfect literary escapism before the recession bites in the New Year.

It is good for the mind, good for the body, and has a purity of escapism that few other things in life offer.

Out of sight of parents, some college kids further cave to online escapism or use gaming to acquire resources in - game and sell them in the real world.

Better still, it seems that in learning to do this people also get better at tolerating, and so engaging with their more difficult emotions — meaning less need for disengagement and escapism to cope with them.»

Wounds: Fear of asserting boundaries, escapism, addiction, denial / not living in reality, having a parent with an addiction or who was mentally ill

You can aim to get in touch with what's really important in life (Henry David Thoreau's Walden is good for that), learn something new, or just go for pure escapism with the latest frothy romance or beach - read paperback.

That behavior is rooted in escapism or even just the need to control something.

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

It was this escapism, a dream, a fantasy people lived in.

For me it is sort of escapism and treasure hunting combined, I can spend hours navigating through it and every time I will find an absolutely unique, super interesting item that in most cases I'm not going to find on other retailer's site.

In the vein of my new favorite mental vacation series, Escapism, Mrs. Hanna Seabrook of Gadabout is sharing not one, but two lovely getaway outfits for a couple's trip to the ever - glamorous Hamptons.

In conclusion, the film is not groundbreaking by any means, if you are simply looking for a few hours of escapism, these are the seven heroes you have been waiting for.

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.

«My theory is that people are fed up of hearing about the recession, and they're saying: «To hell with it, I'm going to get out there and share what's going on in my life...» It's a healthy 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.

Planting itself squarely in the collective consciousness, War of the Worlds is a rare pop culture artifact: a summer movie that discourages escapism.

A pop artist through and through, Spielberg, with his earlier popcorn pictures, evinced a willingness to indulge in pure escapism and nostalgia.

Like all of Craig's turns in the tux, Spectre is a blast of bespoke escapism, full of globetrotting action and thousand - thread - count opulence.

It's a fizzy concoction that runs too long (the picture could easily lose 15 minutes), but conjures enough escapism to appeal, peppering in a few hunky guys to keep young female viewers satisfied.

The metaphor for terrorist attack is so front and center it hardly bears mentioning; War of the Worlds is pure popcorn escapism of the highest order if you want it to be, or more, but it's never less than thrilling, thanks in enormous part to the film's magnificent, sternum - rattling sound design, surely another of the film's Oscar - calibrated achievements.

There's all the slamming violence you might want in your gas - fumed escapism, mingled with real - world difficulties.