Sentences with phrase «romanticization of»

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

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.

No, The Twilight Samurai seems an apologia for the romanticization of violence and, moreover, for the elevation of the cult of masculinity out of the mud of bestial muck — where it at least in some measure belongs — and into realms of ritualistic divinity.

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.

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.

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.

We get that flat - out denial of the retrospective romanticization of this period again and again: the road trip across America is awful, meeting Bud Grossman at the famous Gate of Horn is awful, being signed with a legendary ma and pa folk record company is awful, and so on.

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Patterson himself seems to fall into this romanticization when he fails to require the same personal responsibility of «victimized» African - American women as he does of African - American men.

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.

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

The artist does not see his work as a romanticization, but rather as a speculative recalibration of cultural and social norms.

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.

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.»