Sentences with phrase «escapism with»

Then Colbert launched into his song - and - dance number that married escapism with serious headlines.

has been approved for viewing by the communist regime, I suspect even they recognized this movie for what it really is: Violent escapism with a light and fluffy topping of divine platitudes unlikely to leave anyone with a craving for organized religion.

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.

Norwegian Escape's Margaritaville restaurant and bar will embody that essence of escapism with a laid back atmosphere inspired by the lyrics and lifestyle of Jimmy Buffett.

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

Not exact matches

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 anyway.

But hey, just because it's not high art, doesn't mean there's anything wrong with a little escapism.

«Happiness» has become a threadbare and shopworn word, tinged with the superficialities of the ordinary and even with escapism.

If mysticism loses touch with sacramental symbols, with apophatic patience, and with the needs of the social world, it becomes a form of religious escapism.

Most Insightful: Julie Clawson with «Embodied Theology» «When faith is all about a dualistic escapism, it sadly allows no room for mercy.

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!»

Ken Clarke hits out hard at the bellicose anti-immigrant rhetoric coming out of Downing Street, with a description of concerns about EU freedom of movement as «typical right wing, nationalist escapism»

Ken Clarke has hit out hard at the increasingly bellicose anti-immigrant rhetoric coming out of Downing Street, with a description of concerns about EU freedom of movement as «typical right wing, nationalist escapism».

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

There is definitely an element of fantasy to this month's Lust List — though I think we all can do with a bit of escapism now and then.

The spring / summer 2018 collection brings us a sexy athleticism together with a soft sense of escapism by offering sport inspired pieces for the urban everyday.

«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.»

With specific regard to the sex industry some psychologists believe that it is the escapism element that drives consumers to spend more at times of economic hardship.

The 2010 me felt a little uncomfortable watching a terrorist casually stroll through the city with a nuclear bomb stashed inside of a backpack, but the post-9 / 11 icks are fleeting, as Leder keeps the action Hollywood enough to enjoy as escapism while the chills slowly crawl up the back of your neck.

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

This is decidedly not escapism, until a major twist flirts with that label and may very well divide audiences or at least require a lot more processing time to determine how they feel.

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

Critics Consensus: True Blood's second season is still mostly content with delivering pulpy escapism.

Critic Consensus: True Blood's second season is still mostly content with delivering pulpy escapism.

Anchored by a great screenplay and some strong performances, the film really dances with its scenery, costumes and overall escapism.

That's not to knock these films on quality or suggest that anything with name actors is merely mindless escapism: Fox Searchlight's thriller The East efficiently mines suspense out of Brit Marling infiltrating Alexander Skarsgaard and Ellen Page's eco-terrorist group (at least until it goes south in its last third) and the Paul Rudd - Emile Hirsch two - hander Prince Avalanche makes the most of its pastoral settings and gently bro - centric chattiness, to name just two.

Everything from breaking up the movie into chapters (titles rendered in trendy fonts) to faux - New Wave montages, to doubling - up on visual information with unnecessary voice - over (for instance, as Hawkins and Considine leave a restaurant together and enter his crystal - covered van, Oliver announces to the viewer: â $ œIt seems dear Mom is having an affair.â $), all provide escapism, not for the audience into the movie, but for the movie away from itself.

It ponders the possibility that whimsical escapism comes with its ethical caveats, that mindless enjoyment is often powered by a startling, unavoidable manipulation of reality.

Yes I want some escapism, but mix it in with some realism and credibility as Curtis lives in a London I don't recognise, that's litter and chav free for starters...

While we're being flooded with new sexual assault accusations, viewers might be hungry for escapism and wholesome heroes.

Escapism often gets a bad rap, especially when it's combined with the word «entertainment» (as in «escapist entertainment»).

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).

In this sense it seems fitting that Moonlight — made on a budget of $ 5m — will go head to head with the inspired escapism of La La Land when it comes to the Oscars.

Take a step back from any given genre title and you'll quickly realize that the qualities of immersion and unmitigated escapism are fundamental strands of the open - world DNA; qualities that grant the gamer with an unparalleled degree of player agency — invisible walls be damned.

Edge of Tomorrow remembers it, along with a few other things about that movie and others, weaving all its inspirations into an entertaining slice of summer escapism.

Catrin's journey with the film crew encapsulates magic of movie - making and how storytelling becomes escapism when real life is too big of a burden to bear.

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

With Evolution effectively snuffing out the intriguing genre escapism the original film provided, it seemed as though the Underworld promise was cut down prematurely.

This all - star rom - com looks to capture the 60 + demo with a light piece of escapism.

Although it lacks an extraordinary pace that would normally accompany the collision of two disparate genres, the picture is a comfortably entertaining slice of summer escapism, blasting away with a blissful discharge of six - guns and lasers.

In the year of La La Land, the Hungarian «Sing,» about a children's choir, sounds like the exact sort of uplifting escapism that might go over like gangbusters with Academy members.

It's an interesting historical piece, showing a side of civilian life not usually shown in wartime era films, with a theme that art can help the war effort with morale and some choice escapism from the harrowing events of the day.

... magical, old fashioned cinema, which proves to be vibrant, delightful escapism rich with emotion and significance.

But Twohy executes his diverting, forgettable paperback thriller with a modicum of cleverness and style, and the Kauai locations add to the mood of breezy escapism.

Which brings us to Rampage, a sweaty, lunkish slab of lowbrow escapism starring the former wrestler Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson as a primatologist fending off an attack of giant, genetically mutated beasts with the help of a super-sized gorilla.

As the movie walks a fine line between serious drama and satirical comedy, and between topicality and escapism, it beguiles the viewer with...

The Brothers Bloom is an odd, somewhat distancing, but still curiously satisfying confection that may not leave the indelible impression in the mind that Brick does, but, thanks to the brilliant performances, literary presentation, and kitschy European art design, offers a nice bit of escapism into its uniquely quirky world, not dissimilar to the way Wes Anderson might do if he were to create a film with more of a conventional plot (Anderson's Bottle Rocket perhaps comes closest to the spirit of Johnson's film from a story standpoint).

Escapism hasn't really been done as on the nose as it has been with the Harry Potter stories.

Burt Wonderstone pretends to have a message about friendship, but it's clear this film's main goal is to provide the audience with the escapism and then, just like magic, pretend you forgot you ever saw it.