Sentences with phrase «idealized past»

In the context of legal services, the idealized past we hope to reach in the future is one where the solutions address the needs and challenges of the people we are trying to serve.

I can't tell you which current or future development will bring us close to the idealized past, but I do feel confident in suggesting that lawyers interested in making things easier, cheaper, simpler and better need to get engaged.

Works on view, drawn from the Morgan's collections, survey illustrated publications from 1890 to 1935, contextualizing them within their idealized past — in touchstones of medieval and Renaissance book design — and mapping potential trajectories in experimental animation, the fine press, and works by graphic artists today.

He says the $ 2 - million rat project is an example of the park service's demonizing, and then annihilating, an animal to return the islands to some murky, idealized past.

Coppola picked up the stylized color palettes for The Godfather movies, where the sepia became an idealized past contrasted with the chilly present of Michael's corruption, and brought Storaro over to shoot Apocalypse Now, while Paul Schrader reached out to production designer Ferdinando Scarfiotti to be his «visual consultant» on American Gigolo and Cat People, films with defining, carefully painted color palettes.

In dramatizing America's idealized past in The Shape of Water, del Toro tries to get at the root of problems in the present.

We can use the mythology of the frontier, he writes, «to reify our nostalgia for a falsely idealized past,» or we can use it as a way of «imagining and speaking truth.»

Except for occasional fleeting memories of an idealized past, none of these six people regretted having children.

Not exact matches

[It should be noted here that complementarian notions of manhood and womanhood tend to be based on culturally — influenced stereotypes, many of which project idealized notions of the post-industrial revolution nuclear family onto biblical texts rather than taking those texts on their own terms — a topic we've discussed at length in the past and will continued to discuss in the future.]

So Decius who reigned at that time ruled with an unrelenting conservation aimed at restoring the lost stability of an idealized Roman past.

Unofficially, this is heard as comments like, «We've never done it that way before,» or «Old Rev. So - and - so (an idealized figure from the church's past glory days) never had to do that to get people in and build up the congregation.»

Even today, as throughout past centuries, Jews still dream of the glories of the Davidic kingdom, and pray for its restoration, idealized, no doubt, and moralized, and spiritualized, far beyond what it actually was.

Coming in with the mentality that the whole system is broken because it doesn't fit the idealized version of the past isn't a great way to restart a coaching career... hell, it's a dangerous way to start anything.

«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.»

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.

His characters in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and Failure to Launch are not him, because, much as McConaughey may otherwise assess his acting abilities, he's still an idealized version of a person we can't relate to.

Over the past decade, she has been exploring the theme of idealized female imagery as a means to investigate the issues of race, culture, identity, and perception in today's pluralistic societies.

Some artists, such as Richard Wilson, painted idealized scenes imbued with the spirit of the classical past, while others, such as Joseph Wright of Derby, pursued more individual and personal visions of the natural world.

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.»

But only if by «the past», we mean some idealized period when things were easier, cheaper, simpler and better.

Have you ever idealized a love interest in the past?