Sentences with phrase «idealized selves»

The male lead and the female lead need to be our idealized selves in an ideal relationship and they need to have attractive people sex.

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.

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

Having a personal identity allows us to compare who we are today, at this very moment, with who we want to be — an idealized self.

Unless you have a record or something like that - there's no reason to hide behind an idealized self.

So profiles often describe an idealized self; one with qualities they intend to develop (i.e., «I scuba dive») or things they once had (i.e., a job).

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.

Originally shot for French Vogue, the photograph is as creepy as Schwegler's sculpture as it questions fashion imagery and the idealized self while Schwegler looks at the nature of the artist's body.

Not exact matches

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.

Armstrong's self - deception took place on a grand scale, to be sure, but his story has too many disturbing parallels to our own, as we construct our idealized identities in our own way and become unable to let them go.

He had come to associate himself and his self - worth with an idealized narrative, and as time went on, he became more and more obsessed with «controlling the narrative.»

The goal of education as paideia was something both very public and very political: the cultivating of politically skilled citizens for an idealized «democratic» self - governing polis or city.

Some high - achieving peers observe these intensely self - sacrificing students who relentlessly pursue an idealized, and often unattainable, success.

Rather than struggling to conform to an idealized concept of an all - powerful, all - giving mother while under threat of causing permanent damage to their children, Dally advocated for mothers increasing their self - knowledge.

Participants who read an idealized description of self - driving car ownership, in which the automation required little or no human intervention, were more accepting of self - driving cars than were those who read the more realistic scenario, which depicted a driver keeping close watch over the automation and occasionally needing to intervene.

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.

Jump forward 17 years, and the kid has grown up to become a gladiator named Milo (Kit Harington from Game of Thrones), a.k.a. the Celt, sporting long, flowing locks and abs so chiselled any self - respecting Roman sculptor would reject the look as excessively idealized.

There isn't a whole lot of screen time devoted to the clever twist that Efron's fratboy is Rogen's idealized, younger self, and in turn that Efron is grappling with the idea that he'll soon leave the childish antics of the fraternity behind, settling into a role of adult mediocrity, but it's there and adds a lovely, melancholy undercurrent to the movie that makes the entire experience much richer.

I want to examine what happens when preservice teachers face less idealized versions of their teaching «selves.»

Must history, in other words, be conceived of as something idealized, distant and dead that happened to other people, or is it something that involves the self?

These works also address classic feminist critiques of body language (the socialized differences of behavior between men and women) and reference the many works made by women artists that deploy imagery of hands: a symbol of domestic labor, idealized femininity, craft, and self - image.

Drawn from the museum's permanent collection, this wide - ranging exhibition looks at the representation of the self, examining the idealized and mythicized ways that artists have portrayed pop and cultural icons, from Malcolm X to Thelonious Monk to a New Orleans grand marshal.

Each image juxtaposes a stark self - portrait in the foreground against a softer idealized portrait reflected in the mirror; a literal reminder of the divide between one's self and one's self - perception.

A long wall of small, close up self - portraits shows Ms. Semmel not as an idealized figure — as she stresses in the video interview that accompanies the exhibition — or a generic model of femininity, but as a «specific person» captured at different moments.

Likewise, her meticulously rendered drawings of women's hair — isolated from the the bodies and faces of their owners — tangle with mass - media images of female beauty and the precarious projection of the self onto idealized and unrealistic models.

During this process, one can become more and more isolated from the world, coming to experience certain emptiness: an emptiness that arises from the futile attempt of attaining an idealized version of self.

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.

Initially, shallow circulations driven by differential radiative cooling induce a self - aggregation of the convection into a single band, as has become familiar from simulations over idealized sea surfaces.

Having low self - esteem made people compensate by creating an idealized picture of their romantic lives.

Their own self - esteem is enhanced (i.e., «mirrored») by the idealized value that they assign to those with whom they associate.