Such a charitable description unfairly demonizes Israel and romanticizes Palestinians.
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"He definitely romanticizes being an amateur," says one particularly frank friend.
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The irreversible events of his life would disabuse anyone who romanticizes violence.
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Everyone romanticizes "love at first sight" but for Victoria Beckham it actually happened.
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The production, beautifully designed, does aestheticize women's suffering, though it rarely romanticizes it.
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Ancestry.com has come under fire for releasing an ad that some say romanticizes slavery.
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The show at once romanticizes and minimizes suicide, which is something art sometimes does.
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I'd take that a step further and suggest the show romanticizes mental illness altogether.
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Mental health experts warn that "13 Reasons Why," a popular Netflix series, romanticizes suicide.
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The film romanticizes a devastating breakup as a catalyst for life change and personal growth.
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In 2019, no art form (besides maybe fashion) still romanticizes the apocalypse to that extent.
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She believes views like Jones' stem from a Western perspective that romanticizes ruins and fetishizes original structures.
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Braham gives Legend a moody, misty, light-dappled look that romanticizes the jungle to an extreme degree.
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If Tea over-romanticizes that walk for a moment, it's a small price for so much truth.
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At its worst, the comparison romanticizes a life-threatening disease on the basis of the 'tortured artist' stereotype.
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The image of the white cowboy reproduces and romanticizes the mythic iconography of settler colonialism and white supremacy.
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The tourist industry is so heavily reliant on the past that it often fetishizes, romanticizes, and whitewashes it.
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But scratch the surface, and it is yet another film that romanticizes a gangster and attempts to redeem him.
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" Derek Turner, the spokesperson for Montgomery County Public Schools, told News4 that the series "romanticizes" some "very adult themes.
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It romanticizes an event in which we're all "vaporized" at once and nobody has to deal explicitly with loss.
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Lady Bird romanticizes the city wholeheartedly, and it seems that Gerwig caught a bit of that bug from her mom.
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This is not to say that Goodfellas did not earn its legacy as a film which romanticizes crime and violence.
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The lo-fi grain of Greer's handheld camcorder helps maintain that nostalgic and timeless feel that romanticizes New York grit.
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Although our society holds a standard that romanticizes the hourglass figure, the truth is less romantic than it is salacious.
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It's a messed-up genre that romanticizes and trivializes some of life's most gruesome realities, exploiting our deepest traumas and fears.
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N.L.: Disconnecting the idea of romantic love from capitalism and patriarchy is particularly challenging in a culture that eroticizes and romanticizes labor.
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Did you worry that the movie romanticizes fascism or Nazism, because it seems like the philosophical spark for some "mad genius" like Varg?
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Yet neither artist romanticizes or trivializes our planet's climate emergency; their uses of digital screens and virtual spaces are not grandiose or slick.
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I know this is a divisive issue and there will be those who feel this story romanticizes assisted suicide, but so be it.
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Ellen's extreme thinness is the subject of much of the criticism, as are fears that the movie romanticizes what can be a fatal disorder.
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No to a president that not so subtly romanticizes white supremacy and mourns its loss though we all know it has been alive and well.
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Jeff Goldblum said his latest film, The Mountain, "de-romanticizes" American life in the 1950s, tackling beliefs about masculinity and mental health at the time.
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The movie is one of the greats and romanticizes the talking filibuster in a way that does not reflect the reality of the filibuster today.
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Similar to Everett Millais's painting, the short romanticizes the tragic end of Ophelia's story giving it room to breathe and exist in new and digital way.
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However, the Democratic Party's embrace of bigoted officials and candidates, as well as identity politics increasingly romanticizes anti-American and anti-Semitic terrorist organizations like the PLO.
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He's someone who tells you all his faults up front as if to absolve himself of responsibility; someone who romanticizes self-destruction in both himself and others.
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The art world rarely acknowledges lack as a defining factor in artistic production, yet it romanticizes artists who remain "pure" by persisting in a state of financial insecurity.
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" She also hates the fact Toobin's book "cites one of my kidnappers as its main source, romanticizes my rape and torture and calls my abduction a 'rollicking adventure'.
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"She Has a Plan For That" romanticizes the idea of having ideas as a core characteristic, rather than focusing on the ideological common denominator of the ideas themselves.
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Callejero epitomizes artists' tendencies to seek inspiration in the underbelly of society and also the hypocrisy of an art market that romanticizes poverty while actively participating in elitism.
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So, the show also sets the stage for a conversation about perspective, illuminating the ways in which contemporary art romanticizes, exoticizes, and monetizes objects with no practical value.
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Western literature romanticizes Alexandria's belle epoque, which began in the late 19th century, when a mélange of Europeans, particularly Italians and Greeks, gave the city its cosmopolitan flair.
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Others find the show too graphic in its depiction of suicide, and say that it romanticizes suicide as a means to get revenge on the people who hurt you.
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The seeds of a potential rock revival are chewed up and spit out in an overproduced bastardization of rock that romanticizes the hippie era without any of its relevance or defiance.
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Early Work is a cautionary tale; it reveals, with damning irony, that one who romanticizes the agonized and drug-addled artist, prioritizing the lifestyle over any actual output, does so at his peril.
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How to Be Parisian romanticizes even as it cheekily exposes, mingling text with black-and-white photographs of messy white bed sheets and Sunday recipes for baked apples and pea-and-carrot soup.
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When we say that a movie or a book "romanticizes" a harmful activity, we usually mean that it irresponsibly makes drug use or violence seem like something that the viewer might also like to do.
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Similarly, The Civil War has come under fire from time to time for the ways in which its critics say it romanticizes the Confederacy (often because of the extensive participation of the historian Shelby Foote).
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Though American culture romanticizes the mafia as an American dream story, too little attention is paid to the other half of that romance: the unsung women who often held "the family" and its business operations together.
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"We are concerned about our children watching this series without adult supervision because it romanticizes and sensationalizes the idea of suicide," Lisa Brady, superintendent of schools in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., wrote in an email to parents.
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BuzzFeed reports that The Knot Worldwide, which owns the Knot and WeddingWire, is working on new guidelines that would ensure wedding vendors on their websites don't use language that glorifies, celebrates or romanticizes Southern plantation history.
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While Stodden certainly romanticizes Marilyn, she says she actually keeps her around as a reminder of how very wrong it can all go: the trauma, the pills, and having your narrative consumed by the men around you.
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In a way, this picture romanticizes things too much — they do have competing ideological visions — but the essential argument is that Boehner and Obama would work together just fine if it was the two of them alone.
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"We tend to forget, when we romanticizes these Inca or pre-Inca or ancient responses, that they were never taken by individual families," said Postigo, a senior research scientist at the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center.
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They claim it not only romanticizes his suicide but perpetuates the stereotype that life is not worth living for differently abled people — that a paralyzed life is so terrible that not even a great love could save it.
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Over and over again, America romanticizes the immigrants of our parents' and grandparents' generations, but when it comes to new arrivals, we question whether they are as valuable, patriotic, or law abiding as those who came before them.
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That standing drew Ronald Reagan, both George Bushes and a litany of lesser-known candidates to pitch themselves to the few voters here, hoping that the ritual would draw notice in a state that romanticizes small-scale candidate visits.
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Although an early "Kill Bill"-tinged sequence romanticizes the pleasures of a good, old-fashioned on-screen scrap, the rest of the shrewd set pieces are about finding "a good way to stop the bad," as Walter puts it.
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It's deeply frustrating that this story has reappeared, with all its problems, at a moment when we're taking a hard look at the very kinds of power imbalances and consent issues within the industry that this film reifies, and even romanticizes.
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Some, such as the organization Suicide Awareness Voices of Education (SAVE), felt that the series should not have shown its extremely graphic scene of suicide, and that having Hannah tell her story following her death by suicide romanticizes ending one's life.
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The first is that I am from West Virginia, and I like Didion's depiction of the drag of life in the South; most writing about the region by outsiders romanticizes its struggles, and insiders are defensive and not as common.
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Spokespersons for both Pinterest, a social media platform that gives couples ceremony and reception inspiration, and The Knot Worldwide, a site dedicated to wedding ideas, products and services, will stop promoting content that "romanticizes" these Southern venues, BuzzFeed News reported.
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The decision comes one day after BuzzFeed News reported that Pinterest and the Knot Worldwide will no longer promote wedding content that romanticizes former slave plantations in response to a campaign from the civil rights advocacy group Color of Change.
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The Knot Worldwide, which owns the Knot and WeddingWire, is currently working on new guidelines to ensure wedding vendors on their websites don't use language that glorifies, celebrates, or romanticizes Southern plantation history, chief marketing officer Dhanusha Sivajee told BuzzFeed News.
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Some fans just don't like the idea of Kylo Ren getting together with Rey, others say that writing about their relationship romanticizes abuse, and some still speculate that they're siblings, and shipping them is condoning incest, regardless of who Rey's parents are.
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The fine grain of the 35mm film beautifully complements the old-school methods of Bennie, who romanticizes the ways of the past and prefers bizarre burlesque numbers (tigers, aging chanteurs and plus-size exotic dancers) that would never show up in slick strip clubs.
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And whereas in years past it might have been used as a symbol of humiliation and struggle, like when Eminem silently raged in the back seats in "8 Mile," Jay Som romanticizes the shared space with glee, offering the chance for her followers to hop on board.
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Here's the sentence at the end of the first paragraph that best captures her opinion of the album: The seeds of a potential rock revival are chewed up and spit out in an overproduced bastardization of rock that romanticizes the hippie era without any of its relevance or defiance.
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"You can go a long way of getting rid of a bad stereotype that Staten Island and Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights are bad, that somehow it's a haven that idolizes and romanticizes guys who fancy themselves as wise guys," Curtis Sliwa, a conservative radio host and founder of the Guardian Angels, a vigilante crime fighting group, said at the same rally.
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"I am of course very troubled that the trailer may be giving some people the false impression that our movie in any way romanticizes the actions of this horrendous serial killer, so I want to assure those concerned that our film in no way glorifies Bundy or his atrocious acts, nor was the trailer intended to give that impression," Berlinger told BuzzFeed News in a statement on Wednesday.
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If a novel's mandate is to bottle and exhibit the zeitgeist through character in a way that is, well, novel, Nutting, the author of "Tampa," goes for it, all out, à la David Foster Wallace, and romanticizes nothing, à la David Foster Wallace: not marriage, not love, not family, not sex, especially not technology — and definitely not finding one's way in the world, since many people, she realizes, don't.
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Otherwise, any mention or appearance of technology in Pixar movies usually romanticizes older forms of tech, like the gas-guzzling autos from Cars, or the dirigible and homemade take on a hot-air balloon in Up. Because these are children's movies these characterizations can, for now, be chalked up to the studio's efforts to preserve what Baby Boomer execs see as a more innocent time, before the acceleration of current technology totally preoccupied kids with iPads and YouTube.
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But in dissing gangsta rap as a genre he first makes a calculated boast about his authenticity, claiming that the genre romanticizes atrocities that he's experienced for real unlike the rest of you fake MCs, and second, more importantly, he accuses the genre of profiting from the romanticization of such atrocities and hence indirectly contributing to institutional racism, of brutalizing a black audience being sold racist stereotypes of themselves and entertaining a white audience titillated by the stereotypes in question.
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These included the Raghubir Singh retrospective at the Met Breuer, which was protested in a performance organized by his former assistant, Jaishri Abichandani, who says he harassed her; a petition asking the Metropolitan Museum of Art to remove a Balthus painting, "Thérèse Dreaming," (the Met declined to do so) claiming it "romanticizes the sexualization of a child"; the Baltimore Museum of Art selling of some pieces in its collection (including work by Andy Warhol and Robert Rauschenberg), to buy work by women and artists of color; and the firing of curator Helen Molesworth, who organized popular shows such as a solo exhibition of Kerry James Marshall, from Los Angeles's Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Intimate heterosexuality (BS) romanticizes women as having sexual purity and views romantic intimacy as necessary to complete a man.
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Oxford: Osprey Pub., 2011. the book tells of Cantoni's bravery and dedication through many battles and events. Garibaldi highly romanticizes Cantoni as a heroic figure.
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Though the playwright romanticizes Antigone's sense of honor and duty to what is morally right, in this case resisting the Nazi forces, it can also be said that Anouilh, like Sophocles before him, makes a convincing argument for Creon's method of leadership.
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One of Mr Hale's pupils is a local mill owner, John Thornton. Margaret takes an instant dislike to Thornton, seeing him as the embodiment of the harsh, working-class north. Margaret, feeling homesick, romanticizes the south. Mr Thornton, on the other hand, is immediately struck by Margaret.
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The critical consensus reads, "Great Balls of Fire romanticizes the more disturbing elements of Jerry Lee Lewis' controversial life story, but Dennis Quaid's crackerjack performance and a soundtrack stuffed with classic songs gives this flawed biopic some smolder".Great Balls of Fire! at Rotten Tomatoes. Last accessed: February 10, 2010.
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The film stars Mickey and Minnie Mouse and romanticizes the decade of the 1890s. The film features original and adapted music by Charles Wolcott. The voice cast includes Walt Disney as Mickey and Thelma Boardman as Minnie. Animators Ward Kimball and Fred Moore have cameos where they each voice a caricatured version of themselves.
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Her early life was not recorded in historical records. She married Ma Miao, governor of Jiangyou, a city located in Sichuan province. The most notable mentions about her were in the 14th century historical novel, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which romanticizes previous events and during the Three Kingdoms period of China. The novel introduces Lady Li in Chapter 117.
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Le Calvaire is a largely autobiographical novel, in which Mirbeau romanticizes his devastating affair with a woman of dubious morals, Judith Vinmer, who appears as "Juliette Roux" in the novel.Jean-Michel Guignon, « Aux sources du Calvaire - Qui était Judith/Juliette ? » , Cahiers Octave Mirbeau, n° 20, 2013, p. 145-152. See also Owen Morgan, « Judith Vimmer / Juliette Roux », Cahiers Octave Mirbeau, n° 17, 2010, p. 173-175.
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This loss of culture on the part of Ocol is what disturbs Lawino the most. The poem is an extended appeal from Lawino to Ocol to stay true to his own customs, and to abandon his desire to be white. The book also advocates for the African culture that has been lost by the educated elite. Lawino bemoans her husband's lack of African pride and she romanticizes all that is black.
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Some studies have criticized the emphasis on local food, claiming that it romanticizes local production, but does not produce very much environmental benefit. Transportation accounts for a relatively small portion of overall energy consumption in food production, and locally produced food may be much more energy intensive than food produced in a better area. Additionally the emphasis on "inefficient" local producers over more efficient ones further away may be damaging.
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Samantha convinces him to release his mother, who escapes out his bedroom window and runs from the house screaming for help. Henry begs Samantha to run away with him but when she refuses he stabs himself in the chest. Days after his death she receives his journal in the mail and is flattered by what he has written about her. In the end she romanticizes their relationship despite its troubles.
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The Hussar Ballad () is a 1962 Soviet musical film by Eldar Ryazanov, filmed on Mosfilm. In effect, it is one of the best loved musical comedies in Russia. With most of its dialogue delivered in verse, Ryazanov's script romanticizes the adventures of Nadezhda Durova during the Napoleonic wars. The swift paced, action packed, humor filled adventure is ingeniously mixed with light-hearted acting bravado and memorable operetta pieces.
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In a few episodes, Sydney is actually shown conducting conventional excavations, though she abandons the digs in question once it becomes apparent that the answers she needs are in a nearby sacred cave or ruined temple. Fox has an on-screen connection with Nigel Bailey. This connection is apparent through the emotional and physical bond they share as they work closely together. The storyline romanticizes and draws on an exotic setting in some episodes.
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Eugen Simion, "Tot despre modelul grec în cultura română: parabole mitologice, comedii de moravuri. Belphegor în lumea balcanicã (II)", in Caiete Critice, Nr. 2/2011, p. 5 Vulpea was also an unseen character in an unpublished play by his former colleague Iordache Golescu, which romanticizes his encounter with Vladimirescu.Golescu & Moraru, pp. 54–55 Ion Ghica also relayed fictionalized anecdotes about Vulpea as the protector of barbers and the object of adulation by the clinically insane.
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The Rifle is a 1995 novel by American writer Gary Paulsen. The novel is a work of historical fiction, written for a young adult audience. The story focuses on the history of a rifle crafted prior to the American Revolution, and on the lives of its various owners until the present day. Although Paulsen romanticizes the creation and the uniqueness of the rifle, the novel provides a sober reminder the importance of handling guns responsibly.
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On the second weekend of August, South Park City hosts Living History Days in which volunteers in period dress perform the role of 19th-century townspeople. Living History Days romanticizes the vices of frontier America, such as playing Faro, which became popular during the California gold rush of 1849. It is illegal to play faro for money in all fifty states because the odds favor the players. Faro demonstrations will be conducted at Rache's Place Saloon in the park.
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It is considered to be underrated as a work of literature for many. Conrad romanticizes the jungle environment and its inhabitants in a similar style to that of his Heart of Darkness. This novel was adapted into the film Outcast of the Islands in 1951 by director Carol Reed, featuring Trevor Howard as Willems, Ralph Richardson as Lingard, Robert Morley, and Wendy Hiller. The work was quoted in T. S. Eliot's The Hollow Men ('Life is very long.').
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Therefore, Behn describes Oroonoko's native beauty as a spectacle of 'beauty so transcending' that surpassed 'all those of his gloomy race'. She completely romanticizes Oroonoko's figure by portraying him as an ideal handsome hero; however due to the color of his skin, his body is still constricted within the limits of exoticism. Oroonoko has all the qualities of an English royal, but his ebony skin and country of origin prevent him from being a reputable European citizen. Due to these foreign qualities, his Englishness is incomplete.
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The Qin Empire III is a 2017 Chinese television series based on Sun Haohui's novel of the same Chinese title, which romanticizes the events in China during the Warring States period primarily from the perspective of the Qin state under King Zhaoxiang. It was first aired on CCTV-1 in mainland China in 2017. It was preceded by The Qin Empire (2009) and The Qin Empire II: Alliance (2012) and followed by The Qin Empire IV (2019), which were also based on Sun Haohui's novels.
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"Moon Song" romanticizes a lover who hates themselves. Many commentators singled out the couplet "We hate 'Tears in Heaven'/But it's sad his baby died" as particularly memorable: these lines refer to guitarist Eric Clapton's account of his son's tragic death. She wrote the melody to follow-up song "Savior Complex" in a dream, which carries on the subject of a difficult relationship. "ICU"—as in intensive care unit—has been called a "devastating breakup song" and recounts Bridgers' breakup with collaborator Marshall Vore, who remains her touring drummer and confidant.
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Noting that his use of colors often leads to "theatrical illumination", and that this work, unlike his former is "affirmatively full of life". Kirkus Reviews criticizes how the book romanticizes the violent behavior of the brothers, and the expression of masculinity that reminisces on the "boys will be boys" attitude. Women in the novel are diminished to secondary roles of love interests and mothers, and diversity within the novel itself is severely lacking - as most characters are presumed white. They note that the read requires "painstaking effort and patience".
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One of the ways Chin's characters escape the dead-end of Chinatown is by valorizing their ancestor's heroism in the face of oppression and poverty. The title of "The Eat and Run Midnight People" refers to the narrator's peasant ancestors in Canton Province, China: "...the get out of town eat and run folks, hungry all the time eating after looking for food". And the narrator of "Railroad Standard Time" knowingly romanticizes the life of a grandfather he never really knew. Another way his characters escape the static nature of Chinatown culture is through motion.
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Archeologist Anne Pyburn described the influence of Indiana Jones as elitist and sexist, and argued that the film series had caused new discoveries in the field of archaeology to become oversimplified and overhyped in an attempt to gain public interest, which negatively influences archaeology as a whole. Eric Powell, an editor with the magazine Archaeology, said "O.K., fine, the movie romanticizes what we do", and that "Indy may be a horrible archeologist, but he's a great diplomat for archeology. I think we'll see a spike in kids who want to become archeologists".
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For example, institutions that held power in rural areas were quick to implement national laws regarding the peasantry's use of idle land. Real enforcement power was in the hands of these local institutions and the soviets. Russian historian W.E. Mosse points out, this time period represented "the only time in modern Russian history when the Russian people were able to play a significant part in the shaping of their destinies".Mosse, "Interlude: The Russian Provisional Government 1917," 414 While this quote romanticizes Russian society under the Provisional Government, the quote nonetheless shows that important democratic institutions were prominent in 1917 Russia.
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" At Ani-Gamers, a reviewer known as "Ink" wrote that the series unduly "romanticizes" a bar, but praised its storytelling and staging techniques, the narration, its "casual dialog and effective visuals", and its balance. He described it as "a love letter to liquor as opposed to the consumption thereof," while Bamboo Dong of Anime News Network (ANN) called it "a delicious ode to mixology". Michael Toole, also for ANN, wrote that although it is "pretty cheesy...there is something deeply, compulsively watchable about Bartender in spite of its plainness. It's gentle and sentimental, with powerful and surprising transitions.
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' But that wasn't the picture I saw." According to the Los Angeles Times, Davis was interested in the script because of "the complex psychology of the female lead character, the lower-middle-class milieu where the tale unfolds, and how the story romanticizes the gun." Davis said, "I'd never held a gun before making this movie, I don't own one now and the last thing I want to do is romanticize guns. I wanted to show that America is obsessed with guns, and that if you have them around, bad things can happen because it only takes a second to pull the trigger.
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It is during this escape that Dillinger finally commits a federal crime, driving a stolen car across state lines. He takes a fellow prisoner Reed Youngblood with him, and they eventually meet back up with the gang, including new members Nelson and Floyd. They start a crime spree across the Midwest to the chagrin of Purvis, angry and jealous of the how the media romanticizes their exploits. The gang's luck runs out following a bank robbery in Mason City, Iowa, which leads to a violent shootout ending in Youngblood's death and the wounding of another member.
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Arabian Love was made to profit on the success of The Sheik (1921), a film which romanticizes sheiks and Latin lovers.McLaren, A., Sexual Blackmail: a Modern History. p. 161 Most films John Gilbert made at Fox Film Corporation flopped, but Arabian Love became a great success. Gilbert was praised for his portrayal of a sheik, but the actor himself loathed it and made sure he later would not appear again in that sort of character. Barbara La Marr was praised by the critics too, with the film magazine Moving Picture World stating that "the forlorn lovesickness of the sheik’s daughter [is] unusually effective".
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Additionally, adolescent definitions of cross-sex friendships closely match definitions given by adults, suggesting that children develop perceptions on the matter by imitating the opinions of adults in their lives. During adolescence, a distinction starts to form between romantic relationships and platonic friendships, which is influenced by personal experience as well as exposure to media and popular culture. Teenagers learn from portrayals of romance on television and base their own relationships on these representations. Popular media romanticizes and sexualizes interactions between people of opposite sexes, leading to a cultural expectation of sexual attraction in cross-sex friendships.
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Although the lyrical style is apparently classical, it is also pervaded by the characteristic dissatisfaction with the present of the romantics. Leopardi, here, romanticizes the pure intentions of the Greeks, since he was actually romantic in his sentiments and classical in his imagination and intellect. In the Epistolario a Carlo Pepoli, Leopardi attempts to prove to his friend the thesis (reminiscent of Buddhism) according to which, since life has no other aim but happiness and since happiness is unattainable, all of life is nothing but an interminable struggle. But he who refuses to work is oppressed by the tedium of life and must seek distraction in useless pastimes.
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One cottagecore fan told i-D magazine, "Even now when I go back [to my hometown] I can't help but feel watched and judged all the time for how I look or dress. It especially makes me feel like the things I loved in childhood, like having farm animals and picking blackberries in the fields and getting lost in the woods, are cis- and hetero-coded. So for me, cottagecore is an ideal where I can be visibly queer in rural spaces." Cottagecore has been criticised as perpetuating colonialist values, as it "romanticizes the legacy of settler colonialism and frontier living that relies on the stolen land of indigenous people".
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However, 20th century critics have not favored Recollections, and it is hardly read or acknowledged in the mainstream today, especially compared to Twain's comedic works such as Huckleberry Finn, Pudd'n Head Wilson, and Tom Sawyer. In the preface to his play Saint Joan, iconoclastic literary critic George Bernard Shaw accused Twain of being "infatuated" with Joan of Arc. Shaw says that Twain "romanticizes" the story of Joan, reproducing a legend that the English deliberately rigged the trial to find her guilty of witchcraft and heresy. Recent study of the trial transcripts, however, suggests that Twain's depiction may have been closer to the truth than Shaw was willing to accept.
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"My Dead Weight/Country") among the post-1989 dramatic texts to have "brought up [...] the Securitate issue, in a trenchant and even revelatory manner". Gârbea's fellow playwright Alina Nelega notes that Decembrie, în direct is his first entirely original text for the stage, and rates it over intertextual texts from the same period. Published alongside Decembrie, în direct, Capul lui Moţoc ("Moţoc's Head") reinterprets Alexandru Lăpuşneanu, a novella by the Romanian classic Costache Negruzzi, which romanticizes events in Moldavia's medieval history. Integrating further allusions to Romanian folklore (the Meşterul Manole myth), Shakespeare and various others, it is also seen by Alina Nelega as a close rendition of Ion Luca Caragiale's style.
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While environmental peacebuilding aims to address peace- and environment- related problems simultaneously and offers a more positive and less deterministic lens on environmental security, it has also been criticized both as a concept and a practice. Some researchers have argued that environmental peacebuilding suggests a win-win approach and romanticizes environmental cooperation, which risks giving rise to technical solutions that obscure wider political conflicts and socio-economic inequalities. For example, peace parks in southern Africa as well as large-scale hydropower cooperation can result in displacements of local populations and the occurrence of conflicts. Environmental peacebuilding can also serve as a pretext for coordinated resource exploitation, among other adverse consequences.
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After another night of sex with a random woman, O'Brien introduces Hunk to the chairman of the board of the Devil Himself Incorporated, Dr. D (James Coco), currently in the form of Atilla the Hun. Hunk notices that he also looks like Captain Kravitz, the former owner of the beach house. He tells Hunk there is a vast demon shortage and Dr. D plans to have him working with some of the worst killers in history, like Ivan the Terrible, Jack the Ripper and Benito Mussolini. After Dr. D leaves, O'Brien romanticizes the two of them bombing Pearl Harbor together as a pair of time- traveling Satanic salespeople.
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However, Meyer has been criticized by feminists who consider Meyer an antifeminist writer. They say that the series romanticizes a physically abusive relationship, pointing to red flags that include Bella's entire life revolving around Edward; never being in control of her own life; being absolutely dependent on Edward's ability to protect her life, her virginity, and her humanity; and the physical injuries Bella suffers from finally consummating her relationship with Edward. Meyer has dismissed such criticisms, saying both that the books center around Bella's choice, and that her damsel in distress persona is due only to her humanity. Noah Berlatsky of The Atlantic, in contrast, found Meyer's characters to be heroic.
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Another characteristic of Yoon's fiction is her view that captures the "patterns of a capitalistic life". Literary critic Kim Yeong-chan has said that "The characteristic, as well as a strength, of Yoon Sung-hee's fiction, is that even as she vividly lays out the individual living situations within the unhandsome peripheral modernity, she does not color it with another ideological narrative, or romanticizes it too rashly." And he adds that "meanwhile, the writer carefully captures the various patterns of individualistic lives, where people endure the harsh living of late modernity through self positivity as a dignified individual that cannot be reduced in any way."Yoon, Sung-hee, Yuteonjijeome bomuljidoreul mutda, Asia, 2014: 90.
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The film, directed by Edmund Goulding, stars Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone and David Niven as Royal Flying Corps fighter pilots in World War I. Of the several films that Flynn and Rathbone appeared in together, it is the only one in which their characters are on the same side. Although sparring as in their other roles, their characters are fast friends and comrades in danger. The Dawn Patrol's story romanticizes many aspects of the World War I aviation experience that have since become clichés: white scarves, hard-drinking fatalism by doomed pilots, chivalry in the air between combatants, the short life expectancy of new pilots, and the legend of the "Red Baron".Twatio, Bill.
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David A. Frank at the University of Oregon compares Obama's speech with the one given by Al Sharpton at the same convention, stating that while Sharpton did not stray beyond familiar themes of African American trauma, Obama broadened his scope to include all races and classes in a narrative that "harkened back to the Roosevelt-Johnson legacy of shared purpose and coalition..." In an alternative reading, Mark Lawrence McPhail criticizes Obama, stating that his "reduction of black trauma to 'slaves sitting around a fire singing freedom songs'" romanticizes the historical realities of black suffering and borders on the stereotypical image of the "'happy darkie' of traditional racism", and that his speech did not contribute to an open conversation about racism that is ultimately necessary for racial reconciliation.
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Some analysts have however been critical of some work in cultural studies that they feel overstates the significance of or even romanticizes some forms of popular cultural agency. Cultural studies often concerns itself with the agency at the level of the practices of everyday life, and approaches such research from a standpoint of radical contextualism. In other words, cultural studies rejects universal accounts of cultural practices, meanings, and identities. Judith Butler, an American feminist theorist whose work is often associated with cultural studies, wrote that: > the move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to > structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of > hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, > and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of > structure.
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The show was highly praised for its realism and sensitivity, with a New York Times reviewer applauding the program's avoidance of stereotyping characters: "Sly, a jiving black student ... has solidly middle-class parents deeply involved in classical music" and a lower-middle-class classmate discovers that her father makes more money as a plumber than James' professor father. Tom Shales of The Washington Post opined: > Not perfect, not revolutionary, not always deliriously urgent, James at 15 > is still the most respectable new entertainment series of the season. > Consistently, it communicates something about the state of being young, > rather than just communicating that it wishes to lure young viewers. And if > it romanticizes adolescence through the weekly trials and triumphs of its > teen-age hero, at least it does so in more ambitious, inquisitive and > authentic ways than the average TV teeny-bop.
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In her review for the Los Angeles Times, Betsy Sharkey wrote, "In the end the collaboration between Ramirez and Assayas creates a fiercely astute portrait of a terrorist that neither romanticizes nor demonizes him, but rather dismantles the myth to take some measure of the man underneath. It also brings a searing insight into the early days of the guerrilla-warfare- writ-large style of attack that would evolve into the sort of terrorism we fear most today". However, in his review for The Washington Post, Hank Stuever wrote, "The result is a beautiful film that requires a hardy and determined viewer. I assume that anyone who will recognize and follow each and every event and the historical players portrayed in Carlos must have worked in foreign diplomacy back when the rest of us were busy watching the Fonz".
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The main complaints about the film are that it romanticizes banditry and relations between members of the criminal community in general, showing too attractive (especially for the youth audience) images of criminals.«Идиот» дороже «Каменской», но дешевле «Бригады» // Novaya Gazeta A striking example of this is the fate that befell Leonid Sidorov — the son of the Director of the series, who from the age of 8 was kept in a boarding school, because his parents were deprived of the rights to his education. As a difficult teenager, at the peak of the popularity of the "Brigade" in the mid-2000s, he put together a gang around him, whose members appearance and relationships with each other imitated the main characters of the series; for himself, Leonid chose the image of "Space". Initially engaged in petty extortion from peers, the criminal group reached serious crimes.
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In the 1970s, some scholars in communications studies, such as Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Jeremy Tunstall and Elihu Katz, advanced a "media imperialism" perspective. This theory posits that there is an "iniquitous flow of cultural production from the First to the Third World ... whereby the media of advanced capitalist economies were able to substantially influence, if not actually determine, the nature of cultural production and consumption within Third World countries," leading to cultural hegemonization in favor of individualism and consumerism. Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore, Hindu nationalists in India, and the Chinese authorities have all pressed for restrictions on Western media in their respective nations, viewing it as a possible threat to Asian values. Other scholars, such as Fred Fejes, Daniël Biltereyst and Hamid Naficy, have criticized the "media imperialism" theory, arguing that it unjustifiably relies on a "hypodermic needle model" of media effects, overstates the influences of media on the audience's behavior and views, and romanticizes "national culture" unduly.
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In particular, Creţu sees as outstanding the young critic's verdicts on George Călinescu's novel Enigma Otiliei (where Negoiţescu had identified, probably ahead of all other commentators, a level of parody running underneath the formal borrowings from Honoré de Balzac) and on the poems of George Bacovia (compared by Negoiţescu to the overall artistic standards of the local Symbolist circles, with which Bacovia had been formally affiliated). Written in parallel, Povestea tristă a lui Ramon Ocg, described by Ştefănescu as marking Negoiţescu's brief affiliation with Surrealism, romanticizes the life of Mexican film star Ramón Novarro, with emphasis on Navarro's homosexuality. In Bogdan Creţu's definition, the book shows Negoiţescu's commitment to anti-fascism, and especially his use of satire against "the fascist ideology, with all its abuses." Creţu also notes that the printing of Povestea tristă... was financed with money Negoiţescu had made by selling his leather boots, part of a Guardist's paramilitary attire.
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