Sentences with phrase «part escapism»

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Karl Jaspers has labeled as escapism a great deal of the current interest in Oriental religion and philosophy, especially on the part of young people.

It is possible to discover, beneath the inevitable layers of childish wishing and escapism that may at times form the upper crust of symbolic consciousness, a long and continuous straining after mystery on the part of the human race.

The metaphor for terrorist attack is so front and center it hardly bears mentioning; War of the Worlds is pure popcorn escapism of the highest order if you want it to be, or more, but it's never less than thrilling, thanks in enormous part to the film's magnificent, sternum - rattling sound design, surely another of the film's Oscar - calibrated achievements.

Best Directing of an Episode of a Comedy Series «Beach House,» Girls (Jesse Peretz) «Elevator, Part 6,» Louie (Louis C.K.) «Geographical Escapism,» Community «Lesbian Request Denied,» Orange is the New Black (Jodie Foster) «Looking for the Future,» Looking (Andrew Haigh)

Airy and lush (the film's Monaco backdrop, the location for Juliette's impending wedding, is gorgeously captured by master cinematographer Thierry Arbogast), Heartbreaker harks back to old - fashioned Preston Sturges — style escapism, with equal parts sophistication, screwball, and heart, that is all but extinct.

For the most part, this kind of thinking is nothing more than harmless escapism; a little light relief from the daily grind.

Obviously, a huge part of the appeal of videogames is the escapism they offer from the crushing, relentless misery that is our lives.