Sentences with phrase «escapism rather»

After all, electronic amusements habitually indulge audiences with doses of carefree escapism rather than depict the myriad of meticulous steps leading...

shows that sometimes audiences just want a bit of silly escapism rather than more ambitious attempts to wow us with...

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It is not idealism or escapism, nor is it false optimism; rather, it represents a realistic approach to eschatological hope.

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.

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

«The idea that you can have some fundamental debate that somehow stops all these foreigners coming here is rather typical right wing, nationalist escapism, I think.»

Rather than succumb to addiction or other forms of escapism to avoid the boredom of everyday life, you must find healthier ways to stimulate your senses.

Even the resourceful, likable Reynolds is at a loss to elevate this rather dreary piece of would - be escapism, which calls out for the wry, pulpy touch of a John Carpenter (or his acolyte David Twohy) and instead gets the strained self - seriousness of director Tarsem Singh.

With the possible exception of Pixar, no other animation company has a better hit - to - miss ratio: the Oscar - winning short Creature Comforts (1989), those incredible Wallace and Gromit shorts and their 2005 feature The Curse of the Were - Rabbit, the great poultry escapism of Chicken Run (2000), the sheer (or rather, sheared) genius of Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015).

Yet for the 32 - year - old musician and actress those genres have never been about escapism but, rather, a means to express how it feels to be an outcast.

But even the resourceful, likable Reynolds is at a loss to elevate this rather dreary piece of would - be escapism, which calls out for the wry, pulpy touch of a John Carpenter (or his acolyte David Twohy) and instead gets the strained self - seriousness of director Tarsem Singh.

There is nothing wrong with pure escapism, but rather than compare this to the classic 1988 Die Hard, it really has more in common with this year's mediocre A Good Day to Die Hard.

Young people in the United States today, she says, are suffering because of «school stress, the college admissions process, high - stakes testing, cutthroat competition, the emphasis on stardom rather than on enjoyment of activities, sleep deprivation, parental pressure, the push for perfectionism, the need for escapism, the Age of Comparison, [and] the loss of leisure and childhood...» Among her favorite culprits for this state of affairs are testing in general, the SAT in particular, the «Nation at Risk» report, and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), which she believes turned elementary schools and junior high schools into testing factories.

This isn't about distraction or escapism or even entertainment, but rather the innate beauty of gameplay, of the sort that Lantz and Zimmerman promote.