Sentences with phrase «obsession with appearance»

In fact, writer Stephanie Dolgoff4 suggests that our cultural obsession with appearance and thinness keeps us from focusing on the more important, and often more difficult - to - discuss, things in life.

With society's increasing obsession with appearance and diet it can be difficult for parents to know how to support positive body image.

«The obsession with appearance, surface, and notions of success and beauty push women to compromising extremes...»

In our modern society, weight concerns, obesity rates, and obsession with appearance have changed the way we look at food — and not necessarily for the better.

Somewhere along the road, the fat body became «normal «and the well defined muscular physique became a freakish thing — working out and watching what you eat is a total waste of time and energy, done by stupid and shallow people who have an unhealthy obsession with their appearance.

He had an obsession with appearances, and was very good at projecting the appearance he wanted.

Obsession With Appearances??

Humankind's obsession with appearances has spawned McMansions and Cadillacs.

Not exact matches

In an appearance Friday morning on Fox News, Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence blamed the news media for what he characterized as an obsession with «unsubstantiated» claims by Trump's accusers.

Now I'm pretty certain that the obsession with our size and our appearance and our youth is just another way to sideline us, to put us on the bench, to keep us away from engaging with the repair of the world.

But it's a shaky assumption that just because poor and working - class women are exposed to the lifestyles and tastes of the wealthy they are also susceptible to the neuroses of the wealthy interviewed for the Mothers Movement Online, clinical psychologist Daphne de Marneffe suggests that it's disingenuous to focus so narrowly on wealthy women's «obsession with externals and appearances and competition» and then turn around and ask «Does anyone have an inner life?»

Our long obsession with website appearance (usually the only aspect of a site to which senior management pays attention) is becoming less and less relevant as the consuming devices define the conditions in which our content appears.

After losing 35 pounds for her role in the latest Star Wars movie, she spoke out against society's obsession with physical appearance in saying, «We treat beauty like an accomplishment, and that is insane.»

But at what point does a child's curiosity cross over into an unhealthy obsession with his or her image or appearance?

In a world filled with physical appearance and an obsession with dieting it is easy to get absorbed and lost in it all.

There's no comfort to be found for the two whom she left behind — not in religion (Waititi makes a brief appearance as a minister with an obsession with metaphorical doors) or in their home life or even in each other.

Despite its obsession with Warholian celebrity, Zoolander 2 makes for a terrible celebrity cameo delivery system, including superstar science guy Neil DeGrasse Tyson, whose appearance late in the film feels weirdly predictable and inevitable (he also appeared in Batman V Superman a month after Zoolander 2).

Misguided obsession is elemental to film noir, a genre that Blood Simple was credited with reanimating upon its appearance in 1984.

Snooty villagers also find it hard to get along with them due to there laid - back style and lack of obsession of their physical appearance.

One of my lovely beta readers spotted that I apparently have an obsession with recycling bins: the frequency of their appearance in this book has now been reduced.

In the beginning, Roger was pretty insufferable, with his obsession with upward mobility and appearances and, while I warmed to him throughout the book, I found myself wondering how someone so wonderful as Major Pettigrew would have an offspring like Roger.

There is a certain amount of nostalgia that Metal Slug 7 carries with it, from its earliest appearances on Neo Geo hardware to the recent Anthology (the PS2 and Wii versions received a healthy 8/10 from Console Obsession).

Behind Ballard's bohemian appearance was an obsession with psychosis, assassination and violence, and a complex past in part explained by his novel Empire of the Sun (1984), which was adapted for the screen by Steven Spielberg.

His survey of 8,000 gallerists was published in his 2015 «Management of Art Galleries» book, from which data was paraphrased by Bloomberg Business: «It turns out that the upbeat world of biennials and art fairs and parties is in fact a cutthroat, antiquated, deeply flawed industry hampered by an obsession with keeping up appearances and an often misguided aversion to making money.»

This new edition includes discussions of our obsession with physical appearance and with body - fixing options.