Sentences with phrase «soap operas»

Bravo auditions for reality television shows, dating shows, and plenty of sitcoms and soap operas.

Honestly, you would think soap operas were real life the way some people act.

Also I love enjoying life with no b.s. soap operas.

Thais just love the soap operas and you will pick up some really useful romantic Thai phrases I just think having dated in Germany, Italy, and Korea, language can always be a problem, culture and for the most part being honest.

FROM Tartan Noir dramas and soap operas to satirical comedies and sports shows, Scotland has been producing its own television programmes for over sixty years.

Latin America's «telenovelas» (soap operas) could represent another opportunity for mass market players.

Seoul's fashion industry famously benefited from the Hallyu wave of Korean soap operas and music exports to other Asian markets.

I'm Joyce Armistead from lovethediva.com, I grew up in Latin America watching mexican soap operas with gorgeous divas who would go to bed with flawless makeup and wake up dressing from Valentino.

For the US has witnessed an impressive range of cultural commentaries on the epidemic, exploring the conflicts and evasions that determine so much social policy, from safer sex campaigns to television soap operas.

Of course, that means that other scientists will also have to come up with some funky, species - specific soap operas to test them on.

To get around this impasse, the scientists behind the new study turned to soap operas and high - tech eye - tracking technology.

Story number 4: Older women who watch mostly talk shows and soap operas score poorly on tests of mental functioning.

Over dinners I wanted to discuss Emerson and Dawkins, while my family wanted to discuss soap operas and game shows.

We urge every one to get their decoders and start enjoying sports, news, movies, documentaries, soap operas and others».

Now a Stay At Home Mom, she hates molds and bandwagons, so she researches every aspect of her family life and is determined to be purposeful in living... no soap operas, bonbons, store diapers or vaccines for her!

The majority of the babies finish up watching Chinese soap operas constantly.

Our mothers» generation watched soap operas in the afternoons.

Although that scenario is common in soap operas, fewer than one in 1,000 women end up with an unplanned home birth.

These were identified most often in health and parenting programmes, followed by medical dramas and soap operas, daytime non-fiction programmes, intermission advertisements, and news and documentary programmes (table 1).

While a lot of people might believe that she's sitting around and catching up on soap operas while the kids nap (and good for her, if she is!)

It featured as a running story line in three soap operas during the sampling period (EastEnders, BBC1, Coronation Street, ITV, and Brookside, Channel 4).

I eat bonbons and watch soap operas mostly.»

Whilst a number of storylines enter into the fantastical, there is the odd occasion where soap operas manage to convey a more accurate depiction of family life.

If someone asks you how you can stand staying home all day, make a joke about eating snacks and watching soap operas.

Girls watched soap operas on the lunchroom's four television sets — once used for educational viewing.

Some situations going on today were previously only seen on TV soap operas.

I love watching latina shows but not as much as I used to watch «novelas» (Mexican Soap Operas) with my mother but now «novelas» are from the past and Reality Shows is the new thing for me!

Dear Abby: I'm writing in response to «Bored Husband, Akron, Ohio,» whose wife is addicted to soap operas.

The stereotype of a woman sitting at home watching soap operas while eating bon - bons is a distant reality for the SAHM.

In cultural terms, soap operas and TV generally show bottle - rather than breastfeeding as part of daily life with a new baby.

«To them, scary series are like soap operas.

The face on the TV screen in the small house in the center of Los Angeles often belonged to Lawrence Welk or to a member of the cast of one of the various soap operas.

She tunes the TV to soap operas while doing the books.

There is no reason for DJ to not be a huge star at this point besides the fact that idiotic casual fans don't respect small guys and only get excited about soap operas where two guys talk smack about each other.

Up until then the only local soap operas were some daytime dramas in the 1960s and ABC's innocent rural drama Bellbird (1967 - 77).

The novels of Jane Austen and James Baldwin are «realistic narratives»; so are the histories of Gibbon or your local newspaper; so are soap operas.

I have noted before that the culture shifted because soap operas and sitcoms seized the political initiative and made the case for change via emotive narratives and shameless pulling at heartstrings.

These «myths» that television uses — these «pictures of reality» — are rarely explicitly stated, but they underly almost all forms of programming: news, sports, drama, situation comedies, advertisements, soap operas, and even, or more accurately particularly, children's cartoons.

One does not need to watch for long to note the similarity of formats used and the development of identifiable sub-rituals: news, current affairs, sports, soap operas, situation comedies, drama, and the mini series.

After that, it was Father Knows Best and soap operas and women were supposed to be at home and be good wives and mothers.

Such words strike a deep chord in this age of cheap sentimentality and ethics shaped by the story lines of soap operas and sitcoms.

We have become used to dismissing matters of religion («Oh, it's all rubbish»; «Causes more trouble than it's worth» etc) and we find it easier to sludge along with our culture soaked in TV soap operas and rising crime figures and drunken teenagers hanging around bleak shopping centres shouting at one another on Saturday nights.

News, sports events, dramas, situation comedies, musicals, soap operas, documentaries, full - length feature films, even the weather report — all are providing part of the mass media «s mythic world.

And through careful attention to stereotypes and formula situations, from its soap operas to its dramas, television provides us with scenarios which we can «put on» and use in dealing with real situations in everyday life.

While they are rarely explicitly stated, they emerge in dramatic or narrative form in almost all forms of fictional and non-fiction programming: news, sports, drama, situation comedies, advertisements, soap operas, and children's cartoons.

From soap operas to news to sports, commercial telecasting performs a fundamentally sacramental function: it mediates and legitimates a belief in the American way of life.

Commercials, MTV (whose music and fast - paced visual rhythms almost hypnotically envelop us), soap operas and situation comedies give us detailed, visual narratives of the ups and downs of the American Dream.

North Koreans are also not allowed to watch foreign media, including movies and even soap operas.

We're a little thin on plot details right now but, well, soap operas aren't known for their coherent plot details anyway so let's not trouble ourselves too much over that.

The media through entertainment, soap operas and film has helped to promote and reinforce values which are detrimental to family life.