Sentences with phrase «idealized by»

The appeal states that «a Natural State, sometimes idealized by movements with a tendency to look toward the past, does not exist and has probably never existed since man's first appearance in the biosphere, insofar as humanity has always progressed by increasingly harnessing Nature to its needs and not the reverse.»

Sunset slit is part of a body of work that deals generally with otherness, self - consciousness and displacement, and specifically addresses how the people and environments of the tropical regions have been historically idealized by others, and the subsequent internalization and re-performing of those fantasies by the subjects in which they originate in the first place.

It was from his residence at the Plataforma Atacama, idealized by the curator Alexia Tala, that the works in the exhibition were born.

Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, Four Elders of Mt. Shang, and The Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup also epitomize the refined way of life idealized by the scholarly class in Korea and Japan.

The exhibition, idealized by Fabiana de Barros and Leonora de Barros, brings an overview of the artist's production, spanning through the many diverse fields of artistic expression.

Reaching the throne fired by Enlightenment philosophy and determined to become the embodiment of the «benevolent despot» idealized by Montesquieu, she found herself always contending with the deeply ingrained realities of Russian life, including serfdom.

The patriarchal underpinning of this is vividly explored in sci - fi such as The Stepford Wives and Cherry 2000, where we are ushered into worlds where compliant and submissive female robots are idealized by their male creators as the epitome of perfection, and always exist completely under their thumb.

Most people think Utopia is a description of a society idealized by Moore but most literary scholars say that historical evidence indicates it was a satirical critique of 16th century England.

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In even sharper contrast, the idealized self is the exaggerated self - image by which people seek to maintain feelings of worth.

Some theologians have idealized a purity of theological work that would make it unaffected by this general human reflection on the human situation.

For McGovern, Novak presents an «idealized picture of capitalism,» and McGovern tries to show throughout the volume how many injustices have been created by and amid capitalism, even though Spanish colonialism inaugurated many of the problems.

I can tell you as a religious studies scholar that your use of «religious» to differentiate between some idealized, sincere faith (a very Protestant idea, by the way) and hypocritical institutional religion and its trappings is pretty specious.

His machine is just as much an abstraction as he claims the materialists» matter is: an arbitrary, idealized device with absolutely identical interchangeable parts, with no history and no determinate future, completely subject to adjustment and transformation by its human inventors and users.

Since, in the initial act of distancing, the gods were portrayed as idealized men and women, the beauty celebrated by the Greeks was ever the beauty of the human body.

Humboldt as an empiricist, psychologist, and historian was ever attracted by the riddle of individuality, while his philosophical interest forced him to seek the idea or norm in which reality appears idealized.

I idealized my marriage as, in the words of playwright Robert Anderson, «a picnic without mosquitoes» («Notes of a Survivor» in The Patient, Death and the Family, edited by Stanley B. Troup and William A. Greene [Scribner's, 1974], p. 82).

Motivated by fear, I allowed myself to present a picture of my breastfeeding journey and an idealized image of «successful» breastfeeding that simply wasn't true.

One thing I've noticed is that these negative comments often come with riders like «in your idealized world» and «clearly written by someone who doesn't have children» and «just wait until your children reach their teens» and «the writer has obviously never had to deal with a strong willed child» etc..

SH: I use «myth» to denote an idealized representation of a phenomenon, either by a collectivity as a whole, or within a specific ideological framework — it can refer to a historical moment, like the French Revolution; certain moral and political values («we are a freedom - loving people»); exemplary social groups like the bourgeoisie or the proletariat; or leaders like Napoleon or de Gaulle.

«Humiliation peaks when you are convinced that the Other has intruded into the private realm of your own life and has made you utterly dependent... [A] future in utter contrast with an idealized, glorified past a future in which your political, economic, social, cultural conditions are dictated by the Other.»

Theirs is a life of patient expectation followed by hapless attempts to break through the barrier that separates them from their idealized destination.

According to them, in 1980's Soviet younger generations idealized the West and thought that simply by dismantling the «evil empire» and switching to capitalism would bring an era of prosperity.

The study examined what the future could look like in an idealized world where soot and methane emissions were severely cut by 2035.

By accounting for the intermolecular attractions of different gases, van der Waals extended the idealized gas laws of Robert Boyle and others to the behavior of real gases.

Chen et al. simulated the pressure and temperature caused by an idealized lightning strike on rocks and found that lightning can produce the same conditions and effects caused by impact events.

Instead of idealized spherical magma chambers, the scientists found different shapes, including «an oblong ellipsoidal kind of thing, that looks a little bit like an egg that's been squished down in the middle,» Zebker said in a recent interview, surrounded by humming computers in his office.

By creating models in which an idealized trader borrowed money and bought stock, Black and Sholes derived a mathematical formula for the real value of the option.

This change in radiative forcing is described as «idealized» by the CMIP group [2].

Stop trying to fit in an idealized body image promoted by the media.

«Medical students are surrounded by the same environment that everyone is in this country, a culture of idealized images of physical attractiveness in which thin is good and fat is bad,» said Mara Vitolins, professor of public health sciences at Wake Forest Baptist, in a statement.

A new study published by Routledge takes a closer look at what we think of as our «idealized selves,» which is what we project on our dating profiles.

When coupled with scattered accents and gallows humor, these idealized landscapes seem to suit a tale all about an America that never quite was, a homestead driven by desire, but built on bodies.

If the earlier X-Men evoked a pleasant prep - school camaraderie, those in the new group are forever referring to themselves as a family, an alternative and in many ways idealized family where those who are feared and misunderstood by the larger society can forge a sense of identity.

«Westworld,» the 1973 sci - fi film conceived by novelist Michael Crichton that marked his directorial debut, is often regarded a high - concept precursor to his later work, «Jurassic Park,» in which a high - tech amusement park descends into chaos when its primary attractions — in this case automated denizens of an idealized Old West, rather than T - Rexes and velociraptors — turn on the attendees.

The tenement setting is clearly idealized, but the details recall a way of life that's cherished by Chinese audiences — and they're vivid enough to be appreciated across cultures.

But in the opening scenes, dashing literature professor Richard Haig (played by Pierce Brosnan) channels the spirit of his roguish father Gordon (Malcolm McDowell) and delivers a lecture to his class about how the Romantics were all about instinct and individualism, not about some idealized, Hallmark - penned celebration of love.

Like with the greatest modern director of romantic comedies, She's Funny That Way questions the very nature of the cinema's relation to reality, reveling in the idealized illusions while simultaneously undermining their spell by pointing out their unreality.

The resulting series of portraits — of an idealized, enigmatic female figure, dubbed «Lili» by a friend of the couple — jumpstarts Gerda's career and leads her husband to embrace a new identity as a woman.

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The only benefit of having him in the movie is to make our main protagonist, Quentin, almost seem tolerable by comparison, even though he's yet another quirky and idealized schmuck that Green can't seem to resist spotlighting.

Midge's early cab ride downtown evokes an idealized movie musical as the scenery outside the cab grows more vivid; a fitness class populated by wives in pastels and divorcées in black provides the backdrop to some winningly frantic banter (and physical comedy) between Brosnahan and De Young.

Elizabeth Banks plays the owner of a baby store whose absurdly idealized birth plan, in an irony too obvious to pass up, gets swamped by a rough pregnancy.

Cody tends to write characters that are what the science - fiction fans call «a Mary Sue» — meaning an awesomely idealized version of the writer, so brilliant that the other characters sort of gaze in amazement at her.Tully has some of the narcissism seen in Juno and their follow - up, Young Adult, but there's also some unusually raw material, acted by Charlize Theron with barely smothered fury.»

Admittedly, there is a level of predictability to the plotting, as it's clear that the idealized Baxter will have an easy time wooing the despairing wife away from the macho, egotistical husband, played well by Aiello.

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The selected building sample departed from the idealized 20 per school level by poverty or diversity levels.

Built by Carrozzeria Bertone, the Marzal borrowed as many cues as possible from the idealized future.

For skeptics who believe that she might have idealized the courage and generosity of ordinary Italians during the 1940s, Russell closes her author's note with the following inscription chiseled on the marble memorial stela in Borgo San Dalmazzo by the Jews of Saint - Martin - Vesubie in honor of the people of Valle Stura and Valle Gesso: When racial hatred raged in Europe, Jewish Refugees, uncertain of their fate, coming from distant countries — Austria, Belgium, Germany, Poland — found hospitality and safety in these valleys.

They formed an idealized view of life in Hawaii, encouraged by the marriage brokers.

This idealized, simple life is rocked by no small list of heartbreaks: animal abuse, suicide, rape, murder and the near falling apart of a family.