Sentences with word «romanticization»

At their extremes, utopian alternatives capitalize upon romanticization of a female essence and idealization of female community.

Partly because of the growing acceptance, individualization and even romanticization of a «divorce culture» in America, approximately half of all first marriages — and at least as many second ones — do not endure.

Given the sabre - rattling among some Yoruba ultra-nationalists, the atavistic romanticization of Yoruba mores and ethos and the impassioned ethnic hate from a section still very bitter at the election loss of 2015, it is not easy to say.

Anytime an outside crew films a location, there are bound to be stereotypes that would no doubt offend the locals, but the director, John Madden, seems to successfully straddle the line between romanticization and condescension, emerging with a respectful portrait of the city, instead.

Although they cross paths across many years, Wong forgoes the melancholic romanticization of time we've come to expect from him and opts to tell their story in a disappointingly linear fashion, Hollywoodian flashback included.

Burnett Guffey served up the Dust Bowl on a sumptuous Technicolor platter, and historical accuracy was jettisoned in favor of glossy romanticization.

Titled «Still (The) Barbarians», it is one of a vast number of commemorative events and exhibitions around the country that are at their best when they ignore knee - jerk romanticization of past martyrs and instead explore how we deal with our histories, the imperatives for contemporary revolution and what the future might hold.

But in the long run I'm making a statement for me, and through me, about people's interaction with American Indians, and the selective romanticization of us.»

(A University of Toronto / George Mason University Professor who thinks local food is «romanticization of subsistence agriculture».

That is not totally incorrect, so long that romanticization is limited to the operating regional structure.

More than that, the sanctification and romanticization of revenge have been central to the ideology of white supremacy.

Call it S.E. Hinton for the new millennium, the romanticization of bad behaviour in a frantic stew turgid enough to embalm instead of bronze.

That focus on the media and the romanticization of fictional stories is one of the major themes in a story that often speaks to greater themes than its plot suggests.

I think one way to demystify this romanticization is to have frank conversations with young people about the prominent role that mental illness actually plays in completed suicides.

There is no romanticization here.

Elements of Dolan's painting are culled from disparate images and memes born out of financial anxieties, while Ulman's large digital prints of found postcards revel in the romanticization of what American economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen has described as «pecuniary canons of taste» (The Theory of the Leisure Class, 1899).

In many cases re-telling is a discreet revision of a history, a landscape, a narrative, a body; often a response to the initial telling being a gross glorification and romanticization.

This idealization and romanticization is exactly what holds «established» brands back from embracing innovation and change.

Colleen Heslin looks at water as an object, destination, or means towards a destination and our attraction and romanticization of these sites in modern society.

Faced with the obvious risk of romanticization, it appears all the more important to pursue an understanding of how American Fine Arts, Co. functioned as a gallery.

Founded in North Carolina in 1933, Black Mountain College was a manifestation of the period's romanticization of the avant - garde; the school shut down in 1957 for want of bucks.

[1] Adhering to direct vantages, soft gray light, frontal and three - quarter perspectives, and large - format cameras, the Bechers aimed to eliminate subjectivity and romanticization, referring to the objects as «anonymous structures.»

Its inaugural exhibition, curated by Melissa Levin, was called «Re-Telling» and promised «a discreet revision of a history, a landscape, a narrative, a body; often a response to the initial telling being a gross glorification and romanticization.»

At root, however, this perspective is infused by activists» distrust of large corporations and their romanticization of subsistence agriculture rather than fact.