Sentences with phrase «in popular imagination»

Owning the stereotypical modest home with a white picket fence was long a hallmark of the suburban society that characterized the second half of the twentieth century (at least in the popular imagination).

Despite employing a relatively small percentage of practicing lawyers, «BigLaw» looms large in the popular imagination — and in the minds of incoming law students who aspire to walk its prestigious (and highly - paid) halls.

The cliché of the «evil lawyer» has such traction in the popular imagination that, in some ways, popular culture seems to be haunted by «madwomen and monsters.»

Just as carbon is roughly seen in the popular imagination as the elemental culprit in climate change, nitrogen, which comprises four - fifths of the air that we breathe, may also become a prime - time villain.

Indeed, according to many surveys, the ozone hole still resonates in the popular imagination — incorrectly — as a cause of global warming simply because it is so memorable and has something to do with the changing atmosphere.

In the popular imagination, especially in this country, when something bad happens, someone is always to blame.

«New Paradigms» confronts the varying narratives surrounding African American culture in the popular imagination.

This section of the show includes straightforward depictions as well as works that deal in a more oblique way with aspects related to the American territory, for instance questioning the way it is understood and represented in the popular imagination, or by presenting it as a beautiful and privileged spectacle ripe for plundering (by the movie industry and others).

The event represents a move away from the post-Katrina daze still imposed on the city in the popular imagination.

In the popular imagination, the neighborhood conjures the great era of 1920s cultural bohemianism known as the Harlem Renaissance.

Later on, his iconic images would help define the American West in the popular imagination.

Willem de Kooning, whose whiplash lines and sweeping gestures defined «action painting» in the popular imagination nearly as much as Jackson Pollock's drips, is said to have painted in a frenzy for a rolling camera, only to scrape it all out when the filming stopped because the reality of how he worked — painting a stroke, then staring at it for a few hours — seemed too dull to film.

In a new series of two - part ink drawings, Baselitz is «visited» by Katsushika Hokusai, whose exquisitely controlled color - woodblock prints epitomized the refined ukiyo - e genre in Japanese art and persist in the popular imagination today.

Few things in the popular imagination are as symbolically loaded as cars.

The exhibition reflects and addresses the pivotal role of the studio in artists» practice while alluding to its enduring status in the popular imagination.

The Vienna of the past looms large in the popular imagination, with the Hollywood film Woman in Gold bringing Gustav Klimt's portrait of Adele Bloch - Bauer to the big screen and high auction estimates for another painting by the artist, Portrait of Gertrud Loew, making headlines in advance of a Sotheby's sale.

In 1975 Tom Wolfe published The Painted Word, a book in which he caricatures «the Bergs,» proving that even after the heyday of Abstract Expressionism the two critics were still linked in the popular imagination.

In the popular imagination, the cultural motor of Los Angeles has always been rooted in Hollywood.

At the time Ofili was famous in the popular imagination for two things.

Playing upon classic sci - fi horror tropes of old, Syndrome takes players to one of the most terrifying places in popular imagination: a dimly - lit, deserted spaceship, floating aimlessly in the unexplored realms of deep space.

The Jungle Book and its characters went on to etched in the popular imagination in India and overseas.

With responsible owners and numerous groups devoted to promoting an accurate image of the breed, pit bulls are beginning to make a comeback in the popular imagination.

But in the popular imagination, it's Jobs» excited ambition that you think of when you imagine the head of a cutting - edge technology company.

The scientific conclusion Galvani reached — and the remarkable widespread interest it engendered — led to a surge of interest, especially in the medical community, but also in the popular imagination.

West Baltimore stands out in the popular imagination as the quintessential «inner city.»

And yet here we are, with a governor — aka #goalie — who enjoys Education Minnesota's support even as he moves forward with a number of overdue reforms despite having precious little to give in the way of money, and with the noble laborer front and center in the popular imagination.

Few family rituals have as fixed a place in the American household, and in the popular imagination, as board games, those impromptu or regularly scheduled contests played by parents and children on kitchen tables and living room floors.

In the popular imagination, fueled by Hollywood, hero teachers are charismatic figures, endowed with an unshakable will, and a deep, abiding belief in the untapped genius of their (inevitably) unruly students.

Even that's not the end of it, because once the public embraces a character, and the performance takes on a life of its own in the popular imagination, the character is beyond the reach of the writer, the producer, the director, and even the actor.

In the popular imagination, there will only be one Scarface, and he is Al Pacino playing Tony Montana in the lurid 1983 remake.

Looking sad eyed and put upon by fools, Paul Giamatti breaths life into one of the more shadowy founders of the American republic in the popular imagination.

Bigelow delivers an acute realization of the mission's execution that's eerily in sync with the way it played in the popular imagination.

The Basic Bitch has long been an ambiguous figure, and only recently has a clear definition of the Basic Bitch seemed to crystallize in the popular imagination.

In the popular imagination, blogging has become a viable career path with legions of aspirants.

Only recently has a clear definition of the Basic Bitch seemed to crystallize in the popular imagination.

Stem cells have assumed near - mythical status in the popular imagination as a possible cure for every disease under the sun...

Hollywood and Beverly Hills are — in the popular imagination at least — home to slim starlets splashing about in pools and frustrated screenwriters pounding word processors.

If the Pacific became in popular imagination a paradise and a place where civilisation ended, those first portraits, representing people as individuals, albeit through western eyes, remind us that mutual learning might have been possible, based on common humanity.

In the popular imagination, robotic surgery is a piece of cake.

Apple cider vinegar does have a few things going for it but its powers have been vastly over-estimated in the popular imagination

Orphanages linger in the popular imagination as unnatural relics, places from which neglected children need to be quickly rescued.

In the popular imagination, Albert Einstein is intimately associated with the atom bomb.

Shelley of course couldn't have imagined any of this hubbub, and indeed her tale has been wildly distorted in the popular imagination over the past 2 centuries.

With much the same size, mass and composition as our home, Venus was a lush jungle planet in the popular imagination of the early 20th century.

It was driven in large part by the dissemination of arguments that were not really true but which caught on in the popular imagination widely and almost instantaneously.

In the popular imagination, this fact doesn't seem to matter because Carp is so tough he doesn't care.

It seemed ironical to me that a Christian theologian who took seriously the ultimate unity of all things in God was regarded in the popular imagination as a Godless iconoclast.

As one of the Second Vatican Council's more enthusiastic experts — as well as one of its first critical interlocutors during the years of its sometimes questionable presentation in the popular imagination — Ratzinger can scarcely be accused of having a less than astute sense of the context within which the Church has to evangelise.

But emphasizing this new standard did succeed in cementing these categories of hetero - and homosexuality in the popular imagination.

Here we must hasten to point out that among Christian thinkers over the centuries the conception of God has varied considerably more in expression than is often popularly supposed, and theologians have always wanted to guard themselves against the implications of such crude and concrete images of God as may have been prevalent in the popular imagination.