Sentences with phrase «obsessed culture»

As Pat V. Combs says in «A nod to youth» (June 2007, page 8), we live in a youth - obsessed culture — which is reflected in REALTOR ® Magazine.

... the documenting of activity and the liability - obsessed culture of government services is such that if there are substantial cuts to administrative staff with an expectation of the same levels of activity recording, there will be significant consequences for the amount of time clinicians can spend with their patients.

But in today's youth - obsessed culture, those in their 70s and up sometimes seem to be all but invisible.

Kids need time and space to run wild and free, but it depends entirely on parents allowing them that freedom — something that is increasingly rare in a safety - obsessed culture.

Free play is so important, yet gets short shrift in our safety - obsessed culture.

In an article for «The Idler,» Twigger writes that micromastery is the key to having fun and enjoying learning, and yet it's largely ignored by our work - and goal - obsessed culture:

In our pop star - obsessed culture, people give away a lot to get noticed.

It's a brilliant take on the evolution of society to our smartphone obsessed culture.

More generally this provocative series of photographs focuses on consumer branding within America's commodity - obsessed culture, and the extent to which advertisers target racial groups and exploit the Black male body for marketing and product promotion.

Perhaps my own fear, uncertainty and / or expectations of inevitably aging in America's pitifully image - obsessed culture lead me in this direction.

It is also a direct reflection of America's gun - obsessed culture of violence.

Samira Kawash's Candy: A Century of Panic and Pleasure is a scrumptious, sweeping history of sweet treats that includes the early days of mass production, its eventual entanglement with morality and how it became downright vilified by a diet - obsessed culture.

Under the hood will probably be a 1.0 - liter or a 1.3 - liter four - cylinder motor and for the company's sake, we hope that America loves the small car by its release in 2012 or 2013, because an engine that big won't sell well in a power obsessed culture.

Perhaps not the most elegant solution, but seems in keeping with our iPad - obsessed culture.

Then came the nerd - cool days and the high tech revolution, a status - obsessed culture of consumption, more sophisticated and devastating U.S. imperialist wars, purblind postmodern doxa, and, of course, the trend towards cultural studies in the academy.

«Bright Young Things» has the glamorous, inviting ring our youth - obsessed culture craves.

The rest of the film is how one little lie combined with a media obsessed culture can generate a mountain slide of deceit.

What made the film so brilliant and compelling despite its theoretically repellent cast of characters is that instead of going for cheap shots or silly attempts at psychological insight, Coppola simply observed them in ways that helped inspire a certain understanding into their mindsets and how they had been shaped and influenced by a celebrity - obsessed culture that overwhelms them on a daily basis.

Loaded with great performances and a smart script, Men, Women & Children is able to tap into the zeitgeist of our tech - obsessed culture yet it doesn't feel pedantic or forced.

Ingrid Goes West surprises in a way that you don't see coming while bringing mental illness to the forefront in this social media - obsessed culture.

Five years later, after all the dust has settled, what's left is a deeply strange, occasionally unsuccessful, yet never uninteresting examination of narcissism in a celebrity - obsessed culture.

Generation Wealth / U.S.A. (Director: Lauren Greenfield, Producers: Lauren Greenfield, Frank Evers)-- Lauren Greenfield's postcard from the edge of the American Empire captures a portrait of a materialistic, image - obsessed culture.

HAPPY - ISH PICKED UP TO SERIES; 10 - EPISODE ORDER TEAM: Shalom Auslander (w, ep), Ken Kwapis (ep), Emily Ziff (ep), Alexandra Beattie (co-ep), John Cameron Mitchell (d) LOGLINE: The blistering attack on our youth - obsessed culture centers on Thom Payne, a man facing his own obsolescence after his advertising agency is taken over.

David Cronenberg forges both a wicked social satire and a very human ghost story from today's celebrity - obsessed culture.

Youth's reliance on video game entertainment has always been a concern, the evolution in gaming as seen recently with Pokemon Go players dying from carelessness, illustrates how dangerously obsessed a culture can become with gaming.

Deadpool breathed new life into the superhero genre for me thanks to Ryan Reynolds just OWNING his character, and Popstar held a mirror to everything that's ridiculous about our celebrity - obsessed culture, in true Lonely Island style.

In our awards - obsessed culture, the prizes have become more important than the work.

On one level, asking whether something a decade away from a century can continue to matter in a youth - obsessed culture, where something that's lasted four score and 10 years might as well date from the Mesozoic era, is going to be inevitable.

A wicked satire of our selfie and Instagram - obsessed culture, «Ingrid» features a knockout performance by indie comedy goddess Plaza as a woman who uses a $ 60,000 inheritance to move to LA and stalk an online celebrity (Olsen) with an equally vacuous existence.

Instead Refn has served up a scathing commentary on our image - obsessed culture, a feeling reinforced by the film's most potent line: «Beauty isn't everything... it's the only thing.»

Shlam and Medalia choose to approach their titular subject exclusively through the prism of Daxing's macho, military - obsessed culture.

In this youth - obsessed culture can you really compete with younger women?

Our youth - obsessed culture will naturally cause a wee bit of insecurity for a woman who's dating a younger man.

• In our caffeine obsessed culture (totally, guilty!)

Then again, in our selfie - obsessed culture, I suppose it is pretty normal these days to see people taking pictures of themselves anywhere and everywhere.

In today's youth - obsessed culture, more and more people associate aging with losing beauty and even love and respect.

But even within our lives full of lists and spouses and children and yoga poses to achieve, stepping out of our goal - oriented, doing - obsessed culture for a moment or two can lend tremendous insight.

This is a revolutionary approach, especially in our diet - obsessed culture.

Internalized fatphobia and the desire to find acceptance in our thin - obsessed culture can drive us towards dieting, and the desire to restrict our food.

Or they take up new fitness activities like running or crossfit where all the extra time spent «training» is perfectly accepted and even encouraged in a fitness obsessed culture.

I am hoping that creates some deep subject matter creds here for me to say: As the main physical element to one's lifestyle (beyond walking, commuting, playing etc) yoga can't just generate important weight reduction, it could tone and sculpt, drastically increase body awareness and generate satisfaction with all the body that departs from your maddening outside targets of our masochistically weight obsessed culture that continues to get bigger despite our fixation.

When you are getting off coffee while living in a coffee - obsessed culture, I urge you to keep your eyes on the prize and on how to create greater ease with weight loss via normalized cortisol.

It's understandable — I mean, for one we're a slightly aesthetic - obsessed culture (and there's nothing wrong with taking pride in your appearance and working to be your strongest, fittest personal best!)

Gisele grew up in the meat - obsessed culture of Brazil, so cutting out meat has been a work in process for her.

Experts point to our selfie - obsessed culture and the so - called Kardashian effect — but it's not just a millennial mind - set.

Yet today — more than 60 years since Einstein's death, despite living in possibly the most celebrity - filled and fame - obsessed culture in human history — where are all the celebrity scientists?

She is a leading expert appearing in Race to Nowhere, a documentary film examining the achievement - obsessed culture permeating America's schools, and serves on the advisory board of Challenge Success, an organization that supports schools and families in reversing and preventing the unhealthy tolls assessed by our current educational system.

Even if you couldn't care less about the shenanigans of celebrities and politicians, it's hard to totally escape it in our celeb - obsessed culture; this is often what passes for news nowadays.

It may even be accurate to say the movement has been here all along, that it was just confined to natural grocery stores until the recent popularization of food movements like Paleo, the increase in widely - publicized food recalls and our food - photo - obsessed culture.

In a diet - and health - obsessed culture, it is difficult to present the practice of Christian fasting as something other than another way to subdue and discipline the body.