Sentences with phrase «not idealized»

We are not idealized and they are not the enemy.

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 she's not idealized; she has a streetwise sensibility that eventually comes out, and a way of talking tough.

If you're single, make sure you're reflecting the real you, not the idealized person you think your date is dreaming to meet.

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.

This hope is not idealized or polite.

And although the images weren't the idealized representation of children in a pumpkin patch, they epitomized the chaotic reality of parenthood.

Not exact matches

It's time that we put an end to the idealized notion that successful entrepreneurs are super humans who don't need to eat, sleep, relax or have a little fun once in awhile.

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?

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?»

The difference between Greek pessimism and the oriental and modern variety is that the Greeks had not made the discovery that the pathetic mood may be idealized, and figure as a higher form of sensibility.

They don't need their spouse to be some idealized portrait of masculinity or femininity.

Most of these «Abephobes» are libertarians and neo-Confederates who blame Lincoln for a host of modern ills; some, it seems, also idealized Lincoln as youths and became permanently disillusioned after learning that he was not wholly above the usual run of human flaws.

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.

Second, I do not mean that the poor and oppressed are, because they are poor and oppressed, to be idealized or automatically included in the church.

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.»

Far from being ascetic, he not only idealized marriage as a true figure of Christ's union with the church, but he carefully prescribed the complete satisfaction of biological needs in the marriage relationship and commanded that neither party physically defraud the other.

Marvin Meyer and Herman Waetjen are among scholars who see the youth in Mark not as an angel but as an exemplar or «idealized disciple.»

well, maybe in some compound he might fit in... he does not fit the aggresive greedy business personality so popular and idealized these days, especially amongst «christians.»

He idealized youth and wanted young thinkers to develop their own ideas, not spend their best years on a Nachlass.

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.

Thus he gave to the Hebrews the city which was to become not only their political capital, but idealized, the very center for the rule of God himself — not finally, or always, on the Palestinian hills, but high and lifted up in the heavens — «Zion, city of our God.»

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.

After seeing overly idealized and unrealistic photos of breastfeeding, Suzie realized a need to capture the reality of breastfeeding, that it can be difficult, stressful, frustrating, or even merely boring, but not at all glamorous.

Motivated by fear, I allowed myself to present a picture of my breastfeeding journey and an idealized image of «successful» breastfeeding that simply wasn't true.

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.

Psychologically, she may not have expected her delivery to go this way (especially if she had an emergency c - section and had idealized a natural delivery).

I felt this extreme guilt of not responding properly to what everyone expected of me as a mother or what I idealized of myself as a mother: that, at the time I held the baby for the first time, a magic would happen and my own needs and desires would simply vanish... that I would be complete and happy straight away, only for being a mom... as if this dark part of questioning, frustrations and pains simply don't exist.

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..

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 level of muscularity and attractiveness that are idealized in the media often are not attainable for the average man,» Tantleff - Dunn notes.

Except for the first model, however, all the models aren't practical because they represent idealized situations with a perfect arrangement of pores, Niarchos said.

The topography of the painted city, however, does not match Rome's, so it may be an idealized version of the city, or another city entirely, perhaps Alexandria or Carthage.

«The majority of previous studies have relied on conceptual, idealized models, which are not physically and geologically accurate,» Liu said.

Astronomer Avi Loeb of Harvard University says the idea of dark matter stars «relies on idealized assumptions that may not be realized in nature.»

Because we think of psychological disorders on a continuum, we may worry when our own ways of thinking and behaving don't match up with our idealized notion of health.

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.

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.

«Marketers may need to rethink the prevalent practice of using images of idealized relationships to sell everything from cookies to cameras,» Cavanaugh said, «because many consumers don't have those relationships.

Ask yourself if you're enjoying the process, not just flinging yourself toward an idealized destination.

I couldn't go back to the nasty trap of thinking I needed some impossible idealized body to be valuable.

We believe people have a certain beauty born not of idealized image, but of natural uniqueness.

Not only does it look incredible, but it also cost a fraction of my idealized Burberry one.

Too many choices also lead people to make decisions that aren't aligned with their stated idealized mates.

If we become aware of each other digitally, fine, but I'm not going to submit my entire physical and psychological profile into a database, nor am I interested in inputting some idealized parameters into it and hope it returns the data set that includes the right person for me to find after hours of scouring through profiles.

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.

is not all sunshine and fairytales, and it has been idealized online far too often..

But in the opening scenes, dashing literature professor Richard Haig (played by Pierce Brosnan) channels the spirit of his roguish father Gordon (Malcolm McDowell) and delivers a lecture to his class about how the Romantics were all about instinct and individualism, not about some idealized, Hallmark - penned celebration of love.

This was not about exhibitionism, it was about being present at — and perhaps encouraging — the revelation of suppressed issues and stresses behind the idealized middle - class family that no one wanted acknowledge, let alone discuss.

It's very hard to write an idealized, perfect relationship without making it feel corny or cheesy in some way, or not real.