Sentences with phrase «idealized image»

«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.

It's only become crazy like it is because people are afraid of it, and shamed by it, and often when they DO encounter sex, it's via the type of male - dominated porn I mentioned above or through over-sexed idealized images in advertising or sex - ed classes that teach «abstinence - only» or parents who are scared and embarrassed to talk to them about sex or say «sex is only for marriage» and leave it at that, crossing their fingers & hoping for the best.

In these works, McCartney combines an inventive, toy - like playfulness with theatrical stage - like settings to create idealized images of urban life.

At L.A. Louver, a sharply focused show zeros in on LeWitt's capacity to transform abstract ideas into concrete objects that viewers experience as slippery interminglings of drawing, painting and sculpture — while comparing and contrasting such physical entities with idealized images of geometric perfection, which inhabit the mind's eye but never appear in the real world.

After the first meeting between the two women at Greer's college, Greer forms a highly idealized image of Faith and the change she's making in the world.

The works in the exhibition include idealized images of Florida's natural landscape as well as Saint Augustine architecture that still exists today.

In this far less idealized image of the artist at work, and of Martin's last piece, her pen never dropped, nor did she, well... die.

These superficial adornments often combine as beautiful idealized images, or sometimes fearfully hideous mirrors.

Since 1986 he has been recycling sad old jokes — like «I never had a penny to my name, so I changed my name» — through several series of paintings, «redrawing» cartoons the way he had been «rephotographing» idealized images taken from furniture or Marlboro Man ads in magazines.

Selfie culture similarly exploits digital technology to disseminate idealized images of gender, but it could also be used to undermine them.

And they feature stylized or idealized images of women — African - American, Mexican - American, Asian - American or Middle Eastern — that he hopes will drive home the point of the show.

This idealized image functions as a substitute for real self - esteem, creates self - idolatry, demands a pattern of rigid relationships, and makes it necessary to constantly compare oneself with others.

An exposition of her major theories, including the three defensive ways of relating and the idealized image.

Growth results from discovering, affirming, and rejoicing in who one truly is, rather than pursuing an idealized image of what one should be.

Church attendance is increasingly a private matter, and it is correspondingly easier for each of us to maintain an idealized image of ourselves as regular attenders when in fact we may only manage to attend church two or three times a month at the most.

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.

The early days of breastfeeding are a far cry from the idealized images in breastfeeding pamphlets.

You could argue that this is an idealized image of home birthing, and that would be somewhat true.

Personally, I wonder whether the fact that he had no contact with the actual politics of Israel itself (he died in 1940) has helped to maintain his idealized image as a non-socialist social leader.

The masks present an idealized image of the deceased in repose, ready for the afterlife.

Even forewarned with the knowledge that since the age of eight she has required twice - daily insulin injections to control her diabetes, anyone meeting Grace would have good reason to see in her the personification of that idealized image of a past generation's sketchers and artists, the American Girl.

We believe people have a certain beauty born not of idealized image, but of natural uniqueness.

Real products are rarely the idealized image of perfection that many have been led to believe.

In fact, a study at the University of Florida found that you shouldn't wait longer than 17 to 23 days before testing your spark in real life; those who stall can end up creating an idealized image of their date in their heads that reality can struggle to live up to.1

Real love requires letting go of the idealized image of the perfect partner and realizing that you are sharing your life with someone who will have annoying habits and dull work stories, who will sometimes need to work to fix mistakes, and who is, ultimately, a regular, non-perfect person.

Waiting too long leaves ample opportunity for your date to get bored and move on or - possibly worse - to create an idealized image you can't live up to when you're finally face - to - face.

But a heartbreaking revelation will sorely challenge T'Challa's idealized image of his father.

Or are they in love with the idealized images of their spouses they project onto one another?

I had originally joined because my dream had been to work in Africa — I suppose I had this idealized image of myself teaching under a jambu tree in a Kenyan village or in some corrugated shack in Soweto — and everything seemed to be going to plan.

Nurse of Greenmeadow, combining the harsh gestural surface, the brutal treatment of the paint and the subject, with what was formerly an idealized image designed specifically for its sexiness, here approaches these constructs from a new perspective that again exposes the strange mechanics of image presentation and interpretation in our consumerist, media - drenched society.

Abu - Shaheen examines how the idealized image of one culture interacts with the reality of another.

Contradicting the idealized image of a husband, this character represents an antihero for Taylor.

Puma's self - analysis points to the problematic nature of a culture where youth is synonymous with beauty; and her work shines light on the potential danger that idealized images of youth and beauty can have for women.

«There is an idealized image for everything and reality is starting to become insufficient, unable to satisfy visually.

In The Conventional Codes Of, four artists break down the idealized image culture holds of the formal world.

Though they do not imply that our current relationships may be made into our idealized images of perfection, he offers a vast number of tools that we can use to better approach the difficulties we encounter.

This business of continuously allowing unethical people and their concommitant unethical behaviour to survive, flourish even, under and above the radar, is the single most damaging reality that constantly derails the idealized image of the Realtor Canada wide in the publics» mind.