Sentences with phrase «like idealized»

Some of my paintings are memories that I want to document, but for the most part, they tend to be more like an idealized memory of something.

It's almost like an idealized version of its predecessor.

It is modeled on «parent trigger» laws in other states, like those idealized in the propaganda movie «Won't Back Down», which made the opening of school rounds last Fall (as its predecessor, «Waiting for Superman» had been on in September 2011).

Some will say it feels like an idealized version of Africa, and to a degree perhaps it is that.

A clamped plastic sheet may sound like an idealized example, but in nature there are lots of thin sheets that are clamped — not at the ends, but to a foundation.

Not exact matches

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.

It is people like these who need to rediscover their humanity through Christ; the human beings who are defined and described in our theological abstractions exist only as idealized, abstract specimens of humanity.

Our modern day depictions of Jesus are so unrealistic and idealized into what we WANT Him to look like, not what he actually did look like.

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.»

It's not like it involved a wave of acceptance of the concept of free love, exploration into knew spiritualism, a reavluation of morality and ethics, and the first real key stages in recognizing that the idealized «Good Christian Family Values» of the 50's were a lie and a sham, that often enough were just a cover for a an abusive house - hold, treating women like second class citizens, and culuraly engrained and supported bigotry.

We know that while everyone has an idealized versions of the parent they'd like to be, no parent is perfect.

Intensive parenting is just what it sounds like: parent activities that are highly involved yet feel consuming — either because parents lack the support they need to work and raise children, or because parents overreach toward an idealized vision of themselves or their children.

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.

One thing I've noticed is that these negative comments often come with riders like «in your idealized world» and «clearly written by someone who doesn't have children» and «just wait until your children reach their teens» and «the writer has obviously never had to deal with a strong willed child» etc..

Because I idealized the perfect birth as «natural,» meaning without pain meds, I felt like I was weak when I begged for an epidural, like I had failed to do the right thing.

SH: I use «myth» to denote an idealized representation of a phenomenon, either by a collectivity as a whole, or within a specific ideological framework — it can refer to a historical moment, like the French Revolution; certain moral and political values («we are a freedom - loving people»); exemplary social groups like the bourgeoisie or the proletariat; or leaders like Napoleon or de Gaulle.

Historically, weak state institutions have led not to the idealized world of anarchists and libertarians, but instead to extended family tribal - like institutions and clannishness that subordinate members desire to express individual choice and freedom in the absence of a strong state, to clan needs for mutual protection and more.

The idealized UW computer simulation could help volcanologists better understand how energy builds up inside a system like Mauna Loa, which is a focus of the UW group's research, to predict when it will erupt.

The study examined what the future could look like in an idealized world where soot and methane emissions were severely cut by 2035.

Instead of idealized spherical magma chambers, the scientists found different shapes, including «an oblong ellipsoidal kind of thing, that looks a little bit like an egg that's been squished down in the middle,» Zebker said in a recent interview, surrounded by humming computers in his office.

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

You can also talk about some common or idealized examples such as like some kind of sport, like to travel or hope to find someone can share your own preferences, so both sides can harvest.

Light glides in purples and greens, bubbles hang like glass sculpture, and, for the length of a held breath, viewers (that is, the few who actually saw the movie before it was pulled from theaters) find themselves in the kind of idealized cartoon fantasy Jem could have been.

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.

Like with the greatest modern director of romantic comedies, She's Funny That Way questions the very nature of the cinema's relation to reality, reveling in the idealized illusions while simultaneously undermining their spell by pointing out their unreality.

Meanwhile, Danielle likes Matthew because she has found a guy who actually seems to like her for who she really is, instead of those who use her to make money or who see her as the idealized sex kitten in her videos.

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.

Educational technologists like to sit in their offices and dream of computers in idealized city schools, but that's not what really happens.

Teacher buy - in, and ultimately the success of educators to support their curriculum and teaching with technology, rests with district leaders who must meet teachers where they are and not promote some idealized version of what 1:1 really looks like.

Throughout, Flanders notes how difficult it can be to research or understand what everyday houses and homes were like over the centuries; the versions of «home» we see depicted in classic works of art, for example, were often idealized, and there has been little impetus, historically, to preserve humble homes for posterity (she offers the particularly stark example of the incredible scarcity of authentic examples of slave quarters in the American South).

Many criticize economists for imagining what the world should be like and then proposing policy off their unrealistic idealized models.

But, like what Dumas did after her, there is nothing saccharine or idealized in the work.

And though these «portraits» (more like truncated busts) are different for each site - specific installation, the sculptures tend to look similar, with idealized facial features, closed eyes, and serene expressions.

In A Doll's House, artworks like Miriam Schapiro's Dollhouse from 1972 and those by Laure Tixier subvert idealized visions of the home that extend from childhood.

Her portraits of historical figures like Napoleon, rock stars like David Bowie, and her own friends and lovers are linked through their depiction of celebrity and the artist's distinctive style of the idealized, feminized, androgynous male.

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

As thin doilies of color or tufts of mold - like growth spread over the object's surface, these hybrids work like a counterpoint and respond to the idealized representations of nature found in domestic patterns.

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.

It would be like an MRI image of the idealized democratic society, with roles played by normal Americans.

And I think the literature is pretty clear that under highly idealized circumstances — like all countries begin cooperating pretty much immediately even though they haven't done that so far, all technologies are available globally pretty much immediately, markets work perfectly efficiently — under those kinds of assumptions it still might be possible to cut emissions and stop warming at 2 degrees.

The picture in the top article above is one of a half dozen pictures that explicitly show that the an atmosphere with a thermal lapse in any direction you like is capable of doing work, because heat engines in the idealized world of thermodynamic arguments can run between any two thermal reservoirs.

So to make an idealized continent like Africa I just took a standard CLM input file and replaced the area approximately over North Africa with the zonal average values of West Africa (where the Sahara is the hottest).

Like it or not, an idealized carbon tax is DOA in Washington.

Of course, against such a idealized stick like «flat» framework, the range of possible future innate variation or even, bona fide «subcritical» abnormalities, would appear to be disasterous.

Competitive companies in other industries start from the position of determining what their clients want or need, and then figuring out how to deliver it to them, rather than beginning with how they would like the world to be, and looking out from that idealized vantage point to see if any clients will comply with that arrangement.

I like the emphasis on meeting the purposes of the readers of the document, because, though it may be a somewhat narrow, even idealized, view of the purposes of legal writing, it is at least a starting place that recognizes the connection between legal writing and legal reading.

The Huawei Mate 9 Porsche Design is like a concept car, intended to illustrate one possible idealized path for the world's third biggest smartphone maker, as it strives to close the cachet gap with Samsung and Apple.

Model conversations are idealized but artfully crafted — «I guess it hurt your feelings when your sister wouldn't let you play with her and her friend... you still can't stand outside her door and scream like that, sweetie» — and provide an entire vocabulary for the book's philosophy.

Judges typically consider a lot of evidence from multiple sources to get a sense of what would be best in a given situation for a specific child, rather than drawing generalizations based on what things should look like from an idealized perspective.

Bearded buyers were frequent drop - ins on floor duty on our part of Vancouver Island, gateway to idealized Shangri - La's like Cortes and Hornby Island — always two ferries away — sort of an early warning system for those occasions the sheriff sent his posse to look around.