Sentences with phrase «reflections of real life»

Life is never just one thing, and movies are reflections of real life whether they're heightened realities or subdued and true to life.

More recently, Coronation Street's Rev Billy Mayhew (Daniel Griffith) is a gay character who struggles with the apparent conflict between his sexual identity and the Church he loves, which could be viewed either as a reflection of real life, or a deliberate ploy to drum up viewing figures by exploiting a delicate and complicated theological subject.

If movie plots are any reflection of real life, friends with benefits relationships are more common than one might think.

This reflection of real life also served as a reminder that things rarely play out like they do in Hollywood romances.

Unlike traditional historical fiction, historical fantasy doesn't aim to be a perfect reflection of real life in the time and place in which it takes place.

Shakespeare was talking about theater, but the principle is the same: just like a play is a reflection of real life, a book cover is a reflection of what's in the book.

This experience served as the catalyst for the Seattle - born, South - Central raised rapper's motivation to begin penning rhymes that would be an accurate reflection of his real life experience as opposed to commercial propaganda.

Maybe it's a reflection of real life with its ugly moments, like stubbed toes and existential dread.

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With John Paul, they pay special attention to the family as the heart of society, a «living reflection of and real sharing in» the gift of God's own love.

In his brief introduction Denis McBride states that his hope is «that these reflections will be a real support to you in praying the Rosary and help you in some small way, to grow personally closer to the loving lives of Jesus and Mary.»

Or (to mention a case which is more rarely to be seen in real life, but which dialectically is entirely correct) this despair of immediacy occurs through what the immediate man calls an all - too - great good fortune; for it is a fact that immediacy as such is prodigiously fragile, and every quid nimis [excess] which demands of it reflection brings it to despair.

As I complete my seminary studies this semester, often I have found your reflections and cartoons speak an incredible amount of truth and address «real life» ~ ~ incredibly honest and useful compared to some theoretical musings.

People are motivated to engage in this kind of reflection by the life issues and experiences that are most real to them.

I never truly felt the pain of unbelief until I began to believe,» observes Christian Wiman in My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer, a rich, beautiful, spiritually honest, theologically informed assembly of fragmentary, God - haunted reflections about suffering, death, love, life, poetry, and the shimmering gift of the real.

based on a fundamental presupposition that there is a metaphysical - moral realm that is real, transcendent to the empirical world, and simultaneously sufficiently present to human reflection and experience that it can be taken as the decisive point of reference for the understanding and guidance of empirical life and historical existence.

Storytellers are SavvyMom.ca's group of real Canadian moms, who are sharing reflections on their everyday lives through their blogs.

While they aren't full of the glitz and glamour of some more exciting recipes out there, they are a real reflection of how many of us (on either side of the screen) actually live and eat, and I find that authenticity to be important.

This modest film falls into the category of «character study», which generally means there there isn't a real plot or story follow, so much as a brief peek into a life of someone for a while, perhaps in the hope of learning a thing or two about a different mode of life, or as a reflection of our own.

He's discovered, or rather noticed, by a real - life reflection of what Wiseau is not: an all - American, conventionally handsome rising actor named Greg (Dave Franco).

Indeed, the real reason to watch The Secret Life of Pets is for the animation, with the beautifully sprawling vistas of Manhattan a wonderful reflection of the animals» idealised version of the city as their home and centre of their universe.

This post will act as the first of a regular series of reflections on the real - life implementation, struggles, and successes of going 1:1 for the first time.

Like experiential educators, proponents of brain - based learning stress the importance of creating opportunities for student reflection and regular feedback from peers as well as teachers so that lessons can be applied to real life and future learning,

DriveClub is the type of game where you can race real - life cars such as Aston Martins, BMWs and Ferraris in the rain and see the reflection of the environment on the wet road as you hit the accelerator and hear your blazing engine roar.

The worlds of Boundless are brought to life with breathtaking draw distances, advanced level of detail scaling, real - time reflections, HDR lighting, fog, bloom, depth of field, and volumetric lighting.

«The protagonist's life story, as told through the various works, is both sad and funny, reflective and rowdy, real and surreal, triggering reflections in the minds of the viewers that transcend the subject matter.

Reflection on his work leads to the realisation that daily life is largely devoid of sensorial pleasure, that the speed of twenty - first century living is such that moments of undirected thought (minus the rapid - fire imagery of television and other media) are almost unheard - of, and that the aspect of play in adult life (and increasingly that of children too) has been reduced to electronic communication with little or no real social contact or physical interaction.

Dan combines the feel of real life with reflections on the imaginary subjects and worlds.

Inviting the viewer to enter a space charged with symbolic elements, from the more obvious to the more covert, that configure the multiple realities and readings which give life to the artist's personal universe, «Something old, something new, something borrowed» essentially speaks of personal records and comforts, of the past and the present, of what was and what is — a series of reflections that convey a repertoire of emotions, interests, and stories particularly important to the author: distant family recollections, but also recent intimate memories; pleasant re-connections with domesticity after long periods of travel in the real world, but also disconnections and ironic provocations with the virtual world of social media; a long relationship with the universe of animation and video games, but also another with themes of classical representation from the history of art.

In the course of over 20 years she has founded the Israel Museum's international contemporary art collection and curated numerous exhibitions including James Turrell: Two Spaces (1982), Anselm Kiefer (1984), Three British Sculptors: Richard Deacon, Julian Opie, Richard Wentworth (1985), New York Now (Jeff Koons, Sherrie Levine, Allan McCollum and others, 1987), Christian Boltanski: Lessons of Darkness (1989), Life Size: A Sense of the Real in Recent Art (1990), Hidden Reflections (Marylène Negro, Christian Marclay, Hiroshi Sugimoto and others, 1992), Kiki Smith (1994), Gerhard Richter (1995), Marks: Artists Work Throughout Jerusalem (David Hammons, Juan Muñoz, Sarkis and others, 1996) Skin - Deep: Surface Appearances in Contemporary Art (Zoe Leonard, Ana Mendieta, Khalil Rabah, Jana Sterbak and others, 1999), Yinka Shonibare: Double Dress (2002), Nedko Solakov: Alien Auras (2003), Vanishing Point: Hidden Beauty in Contemporary Art (2005), Green Line — A Project by Francis Alÿs (2005), News (2006), Made in China — The Estella Collection (2007), Bizarre Perfection (2008), First Show: Contemporary Art from The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.

Our vision is to find ways to serve clients better: to bring down costs so that real people can afford us (and so we are better than the competition); to practice our profession ethically, based on deep reflection about what ethical obligations require of us in a changing world; and to do all of this while also living live good and fulfilled lives.

Luke: Twitter is a reflection of the people on it, so as long as racism is still a problem in real life, it will unfortunately be a problem on social media as well.

Aspects of the Peace Circle Process, self reflection and experiential learning via role playing and real life situations assist participants in being open about their fears, hopes and opportunities as a result of this very unique relationship.