Sentences with phrase «idealized life»

One mainstream is represented in the works of Matisse, Picasso, and Monet: expressing beauty, sensuality, primitive power, painterliness, opticality, art as the conveyor of emotion primarily thru color, the spiritual archetypes of Jung, art as the an uplifting sensibility, art as a depiction of idealized life, art as a depiction of everyday (existential) life, and the act of painting itself.

It's simply an idealized life of rest, relaxation, and the endless search for matching furniture.

A study of the different ways of interacting with the site now offers an answer: Grazing on the content of other people's idealized lives may make reality painful.

Even the final twists and turns of Brad's journey, specifically the real vs. idealized lives he's imagined for his college friends, emerge less as shocks or surprises, but as expected and unsurprising due to their utter predictability.

The subject matter focuses on icons of popular culture, representing a dark and contradictory side to their otherwise idealized lives.

Not exact matches

Given how the state had spent time building up a new middle class,» [a] ny deviation from the mainstream, or irony, is seen as a threat to the credibility and legitimacy of the [Chinese Communist] Party in bringing [an] idealized way of life to reality,» Arsene told CNBC in an email.

It's a dramatic U-turn in the quest for the perfect work environment — a migration back to the cubicle from the often - idealized home office, but a cubicle reimagined for a time when the line between domestic and professional life has never been more blurred.

Why not make the photograph stand as an idealized representation of the departed, not in a state of decline or debility, but at the pinnacle of physical strength and beauty — even if the face being rendered thereby is a face from thirty or forty years ago, a face much more attractive and cheerful, but one that almost no one still living would recognize?

We were debating whether or not it's helpful to use language like «act like a man,» or «true womanhood,» or «real men» in our religious dialogs, and I was arguing that the goal of the Christian life is to be conformed to the image of Christ, not idealized, culture - based gender stereotypes.

Historical critics are not immune to this danger, as Luke T. Johnson observes about John Dominic Crossan's 1991 work, The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant: «Does not Crossan's picture of a peasant cynic preaching inclusiveness and equality fit perfectly the idealized ethos of the late 20th - century academic?»

Blending laugh - out - loud moments with serious cultural critique, Evans discovers that living the actual teachings of the Bible means surrendering idealized role - playing in favor of becoming an eshet chayil — a woman of strength and wisdom.

Now, Ruddick is extraordinarily careful to write of maternal thinking not as an ontological given but as a hard - won epistemology that emerges from engaging in maternal practices, and she specifically attacks the «idealized Good Mother,» pointing out that many mothers «who live in the Good Mother's shadow... come to feel their lives are riddled with shameful secrets that even the closest friends can't share.»

Certainly the story is idealized and condensed, but it vividly highlights the essence of the crisis: the life of Israel — of whatever size and constituency — was now made bitter with hard, rigorous service (v. 14).

Victorian women, confined to the private, domestic sphere, were idealized as the incarnation of a higher and better humanity; males, split between the private personalized life and the public competitive life, were considered less moral, less spiritual, less altruistic and sensitive, and needing the «feminine touch» to humanize them.

I know this is an idealized outlook, but I want my job to reflect my life style and values as much as my free time does.

Our Corner Grocery Store tells the story of a day in the life of an idealized neighborhood market through the eyes of a young girl who is fortunate to be the granddaughter of the owners and also their Saturday helper.

Mostly the way married people feel compelled to present an idealized version of their lives online.

Yes, there can be a pathology to women like Friedman who fall for an inmate; many have a «wound,» as Visiting Life: Women Doing Time on the Outside author Bridget Kinsella says or have a «need for a safe, idealized, romantic fantasy of love» that «transcends judgment» as Women Who Love Men Who Kill author Sheila Isenberg says.

But we might want to at least tell stories and show models of love that don't look so predictable, that speak more to the way we actually live and love instead of some idealized and often unsatisfying or unsustainable version of it, stories that recognize that loving relationships are as varied and beautifully complicated as we humans are.

«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.

For example, one theory holds that people post idealized versions of themselves on Facebook, and comparing those to your own real - world life is toxic if you don't take part in the online theater.

We live in a world where the «post-baby body» is idealized as a comeback — signaling the weight that women gain and the physical changes that happen to their bodies during pregnancy are to be exercised away.

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.

Perhaps their life circumstances have deteriorated and they are grasping at an idealized image of a connection they once had.

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.

Something many teens might enjoy about the film is the idealized portrayal of the «way cool» (for adults, they will be «way too cool to believe») parents, Kat (Enos, Sabotage) and Denny (Leonard, The Shaggy Dog), who grew up in the punk rock scene, only to settle down and live a straight - laced life, though still instilling a sense of individuality and fun in their own children.

Again like one of those college Id melodramas, it ends with a morally unmotivated suicide so that our idealized icons of impossible younger selves might gather in bad suits and unlikely haircuts to mourn the crush of years — to commiserate on how the best days of their lives were sacrificed at the altar of misspent youth, damning the crusty old Dean for separating their hale comrade from the only thing that ever gave his life meaning.

Flashbacks to Payne's happier family life are supposed to give us a feel for his angst, but these scenes are idealized fodder without any attributable personality to its characters.

Jamie and Darby are the freest of spirits, living an idealized, bohemian lifestyle full of art and creativity, the sort of joy from living life that Josh and Cornelia seem to have lost, especially as their closest friends (Maria Dizzia and Adam Horovitz) have become new parents and found increasingly less time to be social.

Alcott idealized and sanitized her own family to create the Marches, and Thomas connects with the real Alcott history when she suggests that Beth's shyness is actually profound anxiety, and that Mr. March is a dreamer whose lackadaisical approach to earning a living has cost the family dearly.

Dano is less a man out of time than simply removed from the life around him (his thin, tentative smile and shrinking violet body language presents repression without suggesting the yearnings beneath it) and the film's evocation of his inner life plays like bad community theater rather than a richly detailed fantasy of an idealized existence.

The neighborhood outside storefront diner, where Jeremy (Jude Law) offers the jilted Lizzie a sympathetic ear, is no realistic stop on a city tour but a dreamily idealized location, not so much lived in as warmly remembered.

Our protagonist is faced with a choice of living in a complete fantasy, one that is idealized, and the all - too - bleak reality of her daily existence.

His taste for the good life, however, and zeal for creating his own idealized surroundings eventually outstripped his legitimate income.

His life is so idealized, he runs around all day doing the cops jobs, playing poker with legends, and somehow pulls bestsellers out of his butt.

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.

I tried to make these connections part of my story, but I also tried to examine the many aspects of Louisa's real life that differed from the idealized world of Little Women.

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.

In the idealized world, we'd all have the cash on hand to deal with anything life decides to bring our way.

A new game aesthetic has to be explored: one that revels in problem - making over problem - solving, that celebrates paradoxes and ruptures, that doesn't eschew broken and dysfunctional systems because the broken and dysfunctional systems governing our lives need to be unpacked and not idealized.

But the future's rarely what we've idealized, and in Headlander, you wake up on a derelict spaceship to the stark news that you are the last organic life left in the known universe and Methuselah, the leader of the robot society that has supplanted humanity, wants you dead.

The sculptures in the exhibition include a life - sized black figurine of St. Katherine, an idealized gray vase, an over-sized black snake, and a pair of bright blue kidneys sitting on a checkered table cloth.

The promise of the idealized African American TV family pales in comparison to the reality of Frazier's family life.

Fauvists, despite their novel use of color, sought to create compositions that depicted life in an idealized or exotic nature.

Bickerton parodied do - gooding society types, contrived and idealized self and family portraiture, western fantasies of island expat life, and the mythological role of the artist.

They documented, and sometimes idealized, a vision of the simple life on the land.

Erin O`Keefe's photographs of still life and snapshot set - ups ponder tensions surrounding empty rooms, spaces in transition and the idealized versus the functioning artist's studio.

Culled from the artist's personal experiences and romps through Thailand, down ski slopes in Denver and date nights out with his real - life partner, the paintings depict an idealized union in action.