Sentences with phrase «reality escape for»

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«Ready Player One,» director Steven Spielberg's science - fiction thriller about a grim world where people seek escape through virtual reality, opened as the top film in North American theaters, delivering the first No. 1 debut this year for Warner Bros..

A good book can be an escape from reality, an inciter of tears — or, for people intent on self - improvement — a sage tutor.

However, the time had come, as in all periods of speculation, when men sought not to be persuaded by the reality of things but to find excuses for escaping into the new world of fantasy.»

What we might say is that the modern condition of the person is of a soul longing for its recovery as soul, longing for an escape from the reductionism of person to mere self, to consciousness disoriented from reality.

...... «In reality a new bondage has been set up, a gilded bondage in some regards, for the moment man was brought under the law he was given the hope, in spite of all the evidence, that a means was given him whereby he could please God and escape his wrath.»

This realism gives him a clear idea of what the choices are in the given situation, but he will not take the action that is automatically indicated — though he will be tempted to do so; for reality, once seen, is hard to escape from.

It is not without significance that the modern artist has given himself so fully to envisioning evil and nothingness, or has been so deeply bound to visions of Satan, of chaos, and of emptiness; for the artist can not escape the reality of his time by fleeing to an earlier moment of history.

Those moderns who too superficially account for religion by Freudian formulas and, in particular, conceive it habitually as a mere mechanism of escape from disliked realities, should take the measure of this area of Judaism.

The early Church heresy of Gnosticism tried to escape the reality of Jesus» incarnate form, because the heretics felt that earthly matter was too debased for God to touch.

I don't agree that Jesus wouldn't mind people smoking pot — if it was for the purpose of getting high and escaping reality.

Of course, other explanations of the experience are possible and Freud, for example, a century later, suggested that religion is a collective expression of neurosis and an attempt of individuals to find an escape from the realities of a hostile and indifferent universe.

Writing Searching for Sunday forced me to consider that perhaps real maturity is exhibited not in thinking myself above other Christians and organized religion, but in humbly recognizing the reality that I can't escape my own cultural situatedness and life experiences, nor do I want to escape the good gift of my (dysfunctional, beautiful, necessary) global faith community.

To avoid facing up to this reality we argue that these conditions are exceptional, temporary, the result of personal inadequacy, necessary for national security or simply a reflection of «human nature» — the prime excuse for escaping responsibility and avoiding action.

For the present, my argument is simply that the talk about «immortality of the soul» has served to provide for a great many Christian people what they wrongly took to be the right and proper Christian way of escaping the stark reality of total deaFor the present, my argument is simply that the talk about «immortality of the soul» has served to provide for a great many Christian people what they wrongly took to be the right and proper Christian way of escaping the stark reality of total deafor a great many Christian people what they wrongly took to be the right and proper Christian way of escaping the stark reality of total death.

The new Gender Architecture - a giant with clay feet standing on sand, not on the firm ground of reality and what is good for the human person, will sooner or later collapse, even if now, it seems virtually impossible to escape the cultural, political and anthropological tsunami it will inevitably provoke.

Process theologians debating God's relation to space - time have focused on the theories of relativity and regional inclusion, grounding their speculation in Whitehead's escape from traditional theism to Process and Reality.1 That extended essay on organic cosmology with its interpretation of «God and the World» is an obvious quarry for ideas.

For this quest was initiated by the enlightenment in its effort to escape the limitations of dogma, and thereby to gain access to the whole reality of the past.

Nor was escape possible by making them mere thoughts in mind, since this would sacrifice the reality of the objects thought, an objective reality not to be accounted for by the ever - changing sense world.

This is just a new kind of gnosticism with its own esoteric knowledge reserved for the initiated who desire to escape the tangible realities of this fleshy world and ascend to the unsullied heights of theological thought.

I did drugs and alcohol and had tons of s.ex for a long time to try to escape reality.

Faith in God for him does not try to escape from the reality.

«We're a place where people of all ages can come out and escape reality for 60 to 90 minutes,» McCracken says.

Or hop on a plane and escape reality for an entire month.

knowing that to a large extent he is responsible for millions of worldwide fans anger, disappointment and lack of happiness.Football is a place where people and fans escape from the harsh realities of life and when arsenal lets us down year after year it becomes unbearable..

For the first time in his life, basketball, his escape hatch from reality, was taken away from him.

I'm grateful to Disney Cruise Lines for inviting us on a preview sailing of their newest ship, the Disney Fantasy, as this busy break from reality allowed us to escape from winter's doldrums and provided me the impetus to create a new Cruising section of Have Baby Will Travel.

It's the very reason that people buy these kinds of magazines — to catch glimpses of fantasy (whether it be for escape or aspiration) and threads of reality that perhaps bind us all.

I see Kesem as an opportunity for campers to escape the hardships of reality and to form the most unexpected friendships.

Seriously, ladies, sometimes this mom of 3 just needs to escape reality for an hour with something that doesn't take any brain cells to comprehend.

That is the social reality that he faces, and it is impossible for the individual, as individual, to deny or entirely escape it.

To McGonigal, the addictive draw of games represents a remarkable opportunity to improve reality, not simply escape from it, because games create a powerful arena for collaboration.

One final caveat: If you always fall for much younger or older men and the relationships don't go well, take some time to think about whether there's something you're looking for from these partners — such as a yearning to be taken care of or a desire to escape from the reality of middle - age — that you can give yourself, without all the relationship drama.

I am just reminded of my own reality — a reality that I'm trying to escape for just a moment.

If by «meditation» you mean getting outside of yourself for a few minutes to zone out, decompress, and escape, then virtual reality would do the trick.

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As a full - time working mother of two young girls (one who recently made her debut into this world), this is the reality for the masses, and yes, while it is «just a stage» and «this too shall pass», it can be frustrating and detrimental to our well - being if we really don't take that time to escape from our mad, mad worlds.

This is exactly what I need and it will be so nice to just reset myself and escape reality for a few days.

Weekend trips are what I live for because they give me something to look forward to and I feel like I escape reality.

So I know back home in the U.K. Festivities and winter weather are in full swing, so you'll have to excuse the summery outfit post, but reality is these days more and more of us escape for a little winter sunshine to ease us into the darker months.

I am looking for someone to talk to, email, and escape reality with once in a while.

I didn't take it seriously, for me it was a simple escape from my reality.

Some of the greatest stories are so bizarre and unpredictable that they could only come from real life, and documentaries are a terrific showcase for the strange - but - true realities of our world that have escaped notice.

Fifteen - year - old Brandon longs for a pair of the freshest sneakers that money can buy; assuming that merely having them on his feet will help him escape the reality of being poor, neglected by the opposite sex and picked on by everyone — even his best friends.

Starring Harriet Dyer as Sam, and Ian Meadows as her boyfriend Ian, the two go on a camping trip away together to escape reality for a weekend.

Ready Player One Rated PG - 13 for sequences of sci - fi action violence, bloody images, some suggestive material, partial nudity and language Rotten Tomatoes Score: 76 % In Theaters Based on the best - selling novel by Ernest Cline (and one of my favorite books in recent memory) Ready Player One explores a futuristic world where life in the real world is quite terrible, but people can escape into a virtual reality program called the OASIS, where they can be anyone and do anything.

However it does deal well with how the affair becomes addictive, what it answers for the parties that they would risk so much and how a secret love affair simultaneously feels real but offers an escape from the reality it can also destroy.

There are people who don't take to the ending of The Florida Project, when the movie breaks with the reality it has been hewing to for close to two hours — a reality that has finally become unbearable — and escapes into a heartbreakingly close - at - hand flight of fantasy.

Colin's John McBurney seduces the three women who are starved for male attention and an escape from their reality, ripping their blouses (01:14) and slowly, he turns them against each other as he recovers.

Based on the beloved book by Ernest Cline, Ready Player One is a nostalgic trip back to all things 80's and like the Oasis, the film gives the audience a chance to escape reality for a few hours.

Alfre Woodard has a knowing cameo as a planter's mistress who schools Solomon in the reality for genteel female slaves: submitting to lust is less onerous than backbreaking work in the fields (Patsey escapes neither).