Every form of escapism we create makes people worry — and VR and personal video screens like the Glyph offer incredibly potent escapism.
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It's escapism, yes, but it's not the escapism that takes place while watching something that doesn't touch on social issues at all.
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Perhaps the ultimate comic to use to unplug from reality this week, this issue of the Adventure Time comic is escapism upon escapism.
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Plessow: Speaking on a personal level, I practice escapism from the job I have as a DJ. I have been very concerned with a form of escapism, that I again seek my escapism by drinking tea and making this kind of meditative music.
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" For some, however, she noted that it's "sheer escapism.
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"), escapism ("You can't just fly away from your problems!
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Here's to playful escapism and a healthy dose of humor.
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I guess that's better than the other forms of escapism.
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A little bit of escapism is necessary now and then.
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Escapism is a big part of our music as well.
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Now, more than ever, we need the escapism of entertainment.
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It's escapism if you like, to let off some steam.
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I get that the images are lighthearted — escapism, not science.
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This is the romance and escapism you were talking about!
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This story appears in VICE Magazine's Burnout and Escapism Issue.
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Lilith in Pisces uses sex as a form of escapism.
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It's a simulation-type video game ... escapism at its finest.
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It is comfort, escapism and reassurance in a troubling world.
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But however it started, the effect was escapism with purpose.
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Or is the book a celebration of education and escapism?
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This story appears in VICE Magazine's Burnout and Escapism Issue.
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But now, killing treaties has become another form of escapism.
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"I'm not interested in escapism," Halsey told Art in America .
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So many shows — comedies and dramas — have been about escapism.
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In its escapism, Overcooked reveals the true natures of your friends.
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The escapism I sought needed to be unchallenging, soft, and assured.
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It might be safer, then, to look back for your escapism.
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Pisces is the sign that rules illusions, escapism, and even addiction.
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And hey, who doesn't love a little escapism every so often?
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A little bit of escapism is nice every now and then.
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Lately I've found myself searching for a different kind of escapism.
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I find it so difficult to place so much on escapism.
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Perfecting a virtual body can be a cathartic form of escapism.
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The Pet Shop Boys sound like escapism in its purest form.
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Both have provided escapism and something for Americans to aspire to.
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For many, its escapism is a gift that keeps on giving.
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People need forms of escapism for what's going on around them.
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Do you think drug use is always a form of escapism?
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There isn't a lot I miss, except the illusion of escapism.
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Through the lens of escapism, the wagon train makes sense. Whether
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Escapism has long been considered by many the point of fashion.
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But don't we all need a little escapism now and then?
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Escapism, however, is the last thing that Safran-Hon's work offers.
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Hockney's brightly colored wood paintings, on the other hand, encapsulate escapism.
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Perhaps we need to reframe the way we think of escapism.
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Escapism should always include at least five sets of googly eyes.
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As Trump's Syria blunder shows, it's political escapism, not national strategy.
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Editorial Notebook At first, "The Crown" seems like perfect postelection escapism.
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This jolly ice-breaker is also a calculated dose of escapism.
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I feel it can be used as a form of escapism.
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Isn't this album a shameless, conniving, manipulative slice of feelgood escapism?
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Superhero comics and comic movies are so often about escapism, and this film feels like it embraces a radical, dark, ugly kind of escapism from sanity that's pretty seductive, no matter how irresponsible or antisocial it is.
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It rules art and photography, escapism via drugs and alcohol, and meditation.
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That's what the movies offer: Escapism into lives other than our own.
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And I had my escapism so that I wouldn't feel that pain.
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Another inning of efficiency from Zack Greinke and escapism from Max Scherzer.
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But, as has been pointed out, escapism was likely also a factor.
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Also, what image is "escapism" in the most literal sense like "beaches"?
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Francis decried a modern escapism into consumerism and computers that isolates people.
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He also notes his brand of escapism is relatively rosy and privileged.
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The indie films kept coming and coming, engagement or escapism be damned.
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A good period drama is one of our favorite forms of escapism.
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What we give to people is escapism and they really like that.
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If Sherlock has anything to offer, though, it must lie in escapism.
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The video's all about a sense of escapism, though not through hedonism.
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He brought up his addiction to escapism and recognized it as such.
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So personally I'm doing the pure escapism in books, at the moment.
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" The track also paints us "a picture into [her] world of escapism.
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My propensity for destructive escapism found a lot of fuel in Berlin.
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And even those attempts at escapism have ended up being swiftly disenchanting.
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They made a pretty good case that escapism is always an option.
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There's a sense of escapism along with a healthy dose of slapstick.
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The third (and final) installment in Kwan's escapism extraordinaire series about the .
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When I first began performing, standup felt like a mode of escapism.
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But I also want people to go the movies, and have escapism.
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" - Demo, 49 "I don't believe in escapism that delights in torturing women.
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"There's an element of escapism," Spencer Honeyman, VirZoom's director of business development, says.
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We should strive for more than pure sensationalism or escapism in our entertainment.
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When you cover American politics, that sort of escapism is often completely necessary.
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To what extent can we truly refer to modern video games as "escapism"?
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Tudor's music is multidimensional: fantasy and fact, technology and escapism, poetry and game.
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In a dark year, I'll take all the escapism YouTube has to offer.
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There is nothing wrong with seeking out joy and escapism in hard times.
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Their mechanics and worlds are usually marshalled purely toward the goal of escapism.
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I think it has effects on everybody: increased isolation, depression, anxiety, addiction, escapism.
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This is escapism at its chintziest, and we mean that as a compliment.
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Because it implies a degree of escapism, the term can be used sardonically.
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Loher's strong perspective in her creativity is a unique escapism for her viewers.
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Photo via Twitter For many of us, YouTube is a form of escapism.
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Meanwhile, it's been a depressing week, so we both engaged in some escapism.
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When you're playing out do you feel a responsibility to aid with escapism?
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Escapism is actually not something we should disparage; it's something we can celebrate.
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Because lust and love no longer feel like solace and escapism to me.
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This fall's crop of home design books offers the usual inspiration and escapism.
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That's wonderful, but it can be dangerous, because it can feel like escapism.
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But sometimes escapism, especially escaping into alternative virtual worlds, contributes to the problem.
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"It's escapism for what's going on, one hour of feeling good," she said.
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That the collection took fashion's penchant for escapism via clothes and weaponized it.
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If anything, they said, their pavilion was conceived as a moment of escapism.
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And I think that's a more powerful idea than that of mere escapism.
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All the best bits of escapism and relaxation without any of the work.
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Considering the attention they demand, video games are an incredibly effective mode of escapism.
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The gallery describes the new exhibition as part escapism and part instrument of inquiry.
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Astrology and unicorns blew up around the 2016 election as a form of escapism.
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That's a whole other kind of escapism, but this one is a better one.
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The '803s are somewhat akin to pure escapism from the harsher realities of life.
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That it has instead grown hugely is chiefly owing to the power of escapism.
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After the 2017 we've had, Netflix has given everyone the gift of total escapism.
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Both artists suggested that questioning fantasies of escapism are as important as creating them.
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For some, the functional escapism of the past is not the antidote they need.
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It was a pure form of escapism, hedonism as a means of self-vanquishment.
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It gave me some escapism from being in the desert and in Las Vegas.
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Another bad approach to the arts under extreme conditions is the philosophy of escapism.
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Escapism or ecstasy suggests an abnegation of thought: It renders the critic totally useless.
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"I suppose it's kind of escapism for me," Mr. Hannah said of his painting.
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In their early 20s, Annie's life was miserable and she was looking for escapism.
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That might be exactly the sort of escapism you're looking for in February 2017.
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And this fantasy is at the heart of the power of YA fiction: escapism.
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But while the film is sure to induce coos, Kedi isn't just pure escapism.
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Escapism is one of the stories we tell ourselves so that we can live.
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It doesn't even work as timeless escapism, because it's not entertaining enough for that.
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Finally, a little escapism: Here are five of our favorite travel stories from 2017.
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Temporary escapism, the kind that ultimately brings you back to reality, can be fun.
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That cloistered focus could have worked if the VMAs could still offer effective escapism.
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I find such qualities apt, exactly suited to the album's particular flavor of escapism.
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That pressure can lead to people trying to find a quick means of escapism.
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Reading YA novels was and is, above all else, a form of escapism for me.
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In that way, then, maybe TV's spate of death is its own form of escapism.
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As much as travel has sometimes served as a form of escapism, it centers me.
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People watch television for a host of reasons, and escapism is only one of them.
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This isn't to say the MCU hasn't engaged with the real world beyond pure escapism.
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APB is a fun show, but it missed out being anything more than light escapism.
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It's been a long few days, so this week's comic roundup is all about escapism.
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And so, as a form of escapism, we turned to the culture of our childhood.
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There is however, some argue, a greater possibility buried in this music than mere escapism.
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The appeal is a cute form of escapism—akin to puppy cams or cat memes.
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Rarely does our society put more time, effort, and money into what is ultimately escapism.
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But although the music inspires escapism, it's actually a feminine anthem of bold self-assertion.
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Shonda Rhimes' Scandal offers the kind of escapism that's best viewed from afar, not experienced.
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On the record, there are themes of escapism and kind of hiding behind a mask.
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But there's no escapism to be had in the flower catalogues or the nursery aisles.
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The escapism argument is not a novel one when speaking about American pop culture consumption.
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"Overanalyzing pop rivalries is enjoyable escapism," he concludes his chapter on hip-hop's ultimate conflict.
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Yet it also offers escapism, and that helps explain why the gala hit a chord.
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"I see a lot benefit in escapism," he told writer John Ochoa at the time.
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Of course, it warrants noting that this trope also contains a hefty dose of escapism.
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Some of the most powerful escapism comes from setting real, flawed characters in fantastical worlds.
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But I think I disagree with you about the film's narrow escape into, uh, escapism.
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But even in its past-looking escapism, the collection was charged by the politicized present.
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"People look to comics for escapism," said Mark Evanier, a comic-book writer and historian.
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The Moon, in Sagittarius, clashes with Neptune at 9:15 AM—watch out for escapism.
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It's badass escapism and they really created their own world in a 20-minute song.
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You can get all-consuming escapism in many ways, but not Destiny 2 it seems like.
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It's great that video games offer escapism, but there's a difference between escaping and getting lost.
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It's this tension, between escapism and everyday anxieties, that drives Pumarosa's kaleidoscopic debut album The Witch.
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It's escapism, but it also ultimately shines a light on universal aspects of the human condition.
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So I found a counterintuitive form of escapism: an exhaustive chronicle of early UK punk rock.
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And if sports are about escapism and vicarious empowerment, few institutions provide these like the LNAH.
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This is a record about escapism made by escapists, attempting to escape an unforgiving urban environment.
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This sense of isolation—of escapism and separation—on Antisocialites is decidedly opposite from their debut.
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And they are pretty much all on display in the panoply of offerings for summer escapism.
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But, for all its twee escapism, vanlife is a trend born out of the recent recession.
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And their fans get a couple hours of complete escapism, sweaty dancing, and hoarse vocal chords.
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As I wrote before the final, the tournament gave us so much fun, beauty and escapism.
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With a ruling planet like Neptune, Pisces are also known for their escapism and active imagination.
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Let's return, now, to the soft, warm embrace of semantics for a final dash of escapism.
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But the vision of a black princess is alluring because it supplies a bit of escapism.
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But if "Black Panther" had wanted simple comic-book escapism, it wouldn't have hired Mr. Lamar.
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Shit-hits-the-fan escapism—a big part of the alt-right imaginary—never predicted this.
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Sitting on the seesaw is part exercise in trust (often in a complete stranger), part escapism.
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I think the Black Party is all about escapism, which we definitely need for the moment.
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Is there still a place for the escapism that has sustained Art Basel since its inception?
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Like many fairy hobbyists, Alma Abrams, 64, of Eastlake, Ohio, considers it a form of escapism.
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In other words, a beach read offers escapism; an excellent read offers the means to escape.
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On "Running" from blkjptr you talk about escapism and dealing with identity issues in this time.
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The Shape of Water isn't escapism; it invites us to celebrate the lives we already have.
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Post-World War II was a golden age for comics, as people sought escapism and laughter.
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Blame it on nostalgia or escapism, but the pastel unicorn trend of 2017 is still going strong.
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It's about two famous New York politicians locked in a dirty, ugly, mud-slinging political campaign. Escapism!
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Fashion became a source of escapism and it survived the revolution even though the monarchy did not.
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I might try games that focus on escapism and alternate worlds that are more pleasant than ours.
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It's a cleverly assembled movie, but for anyone in search of scam escapism, it's a tremendous buzzkill.
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The images I most commonly associate with "Margaritaville" are beaches, tropics, leisure activities, islands and escapism. 10.
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Crack served as a form of escapism "in a poor neighborhood deprived of options," in Hart's words.
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" And when it comes to class, we're as hungry for reality as we are escapism," says Alice.
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The otherworldly scenes in Norwegian photographer Maren Klemp's series Between Intervals are not an exercise in escapism.
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Luke returns to the cave that broke his leg Games are escapism, even from our own flesh.
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Video games are generally associated with guns and explosions — a medium better suited to escapism than intimacy.
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Perhaps because of what is a clear desire on many designers' parts for... Southern comfort and escapism.
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Escapism is fine but there should be some kind of reflection on what's going on around us.
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As far as the stars tell it, that's a match made with a strong sense of escapism.
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But while it can be a form of escapism, mindfulness can also help spur you to action.
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This girl who hasn't even had the sex talk is defiled, and there's no escapism from that.
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Apocalyptic fatalism is the same sort of lazy escapism as fantasies of hyperspace day trips to Rigel.
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The drama of "Hopelessness," by contrast, comes from listening to her rage against chaos and club escapism.
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Adults want their escapism and their whimsy, and kids are like, Hit me with the dark stuff.
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Editors' Choice These days it feels like books offer one of two diverging paths: immersion or escapism.
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For Gucci's Alessandro Michele, it's a form of escapism — a wearable way of unleashing the animal within.
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"The Purple Rose of Cairo" is a bittersweet love letter to the magic of movies and escapism.
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"Maybe Friday..." For Saad, thinking about and planning her family's favourite dishes is a form of escapism.
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" When asked if she'd call it a form of escapism, Neuwirth replies, "I'd say it's a balm.
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I was glad I experienced Luxury Escapism: The Oddly Satisfying Spa, and would recommend it to others.
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She looks as if she needs a dose of pure escapism, to take her mind off things.
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The levels of excess and escapism might be a turnoff, the sometimes dopey genuineness eye roll inducing.
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We are perpetually fascinated by the upper echelons of society because it's become our version of escapism.
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After all, isn't escapism — to different coasts, scenes and states of mind — at the very heart of fashion?
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The pleasure of "escapism" is the ability to ignore the reality of the world as we know it.
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There's certainly something to be said for escapism during stressful times, and entertainment can most certainly provide that.
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There is a beauty to the escapism of what pop music gives people and being aware of that.
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I've never used games as escapism, but there were moments in 2017 where everything felt like too much.
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No one else has taken on the idea to comment on the need for escapism in these times.
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We really wanted the cover image to speak to the Burnout and Escapism theme in a playful way.
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" He adds, "None of them, except for Capra, came back with an appetite to do escapism or nostalgia.
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This is serious escapism for folks not ready to pack up and leave for Montreal, Toronto or Windsor.
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It's not escapism and it's sure as hell not wilful detachment, but it might be all we've got.
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His work imposes a socio-anthropological lens to explore escapism and suffering in the face of social malaise.
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I have never been a huge believer in the sports-as-escapism philosophy, but I'm getting into it.
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As our outlets of escapism find themselves plastered with closure notices, Britain gets more boring by the day.
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Seeing no connection between hard work and reward, young people increasingly opt for the escapism of celebrity culture.
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I mean, who doesn't like a new cute sweater, or a little lipstick escapism from time to time?
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To celebrate the upcoming release of the compilation, THUMP called Twitch to talk about escapism, nihilism, and hedonism.
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This year, be careful when it comes to shirking responsibilities via escapism—it could lead to dangerous situations.
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Because whether you're in need of candy-coated escapism or some solid eye-roll therapy, this shit delivers.
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Think back to the week of January 7, as these themes of overly-idealistic fantasy and escapism reoccur.
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Like societies around the world, football is both a mode of escapism and a means to escape poverty.
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On one hand, it is fundamentally romantic painting, and about a kind of escapism in image and process.
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And now, a little escapism: Come with us on a tour of one of America's last pencil factories.
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Small structures have made home ownership more affordable, he said, for some accelerating the new mood of escapism.
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Small structures have made home ownership more affordable, he said, for some accelerating the new mood of escapism.
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I didn't know what to expect in terms of interaction with the people who worked at Luxury Escapism.
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Yet they each have distinctive character and depth, which ought to satisfy wine lovers seeking something beyond escapism.
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And the grain of truth grounding its escapism is what makes Notting Hill feel more resonant and real.
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These works may help you lighten up, but others offer more poetic means of momentary, THC-free escapism.
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Escapism, the new album by Fred P (performing as Captain P) came out today on Soul People Music.
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There are few better ways to confront the consequences of a rapidly transforming economy than brief, meaningful escapism.
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It becomes an act of transformation and escapism, something Niemi has enjoyed since dressing up as a child.
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The best YA stories make their readers question the world around them, through the lens of fantasy, of escapism.
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"James Bond is a hugely coveted, iconic, beloved character, that takes audiences on this massive escapism journey," he said.
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Daredevil Mars syncs up with fantasy-fueler Neptune in Pisces, the sign that rules both esoteric matters and escapism.
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After all, no one's perfect — and sometimes, watching ridiculously bad parenting on TV is a great form of escapism.
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"The great illusion of carnaval," Brazilian songwriter Vinicius de Moraes wrote of his country's cherished annual dose of escapism.
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Mindfulness tools are not meant as a form of escapism, to let you float away from all your worries.
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When people talk about escapism in video games, they usually mean huge, sprawling worlds you can get lost in.
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It's a socially acceptable form of escapism, and it can be an indicator that someone's mental wellbeing is shaky.
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Mostly, I enjoy budget diaries in the same way I enjoy Terrace House — they're mundane, pleasant bits of escapism.
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I get really excited and when I walk into the park, it's like this moment of escapism and joy.
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That was my escapism at that time and I mean, they're some of the fucking greatest pop songs ever.
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If escapism is what you need, we've picked some of our favorite political films in honor of election season.
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Op-Docs Video games are generally associated with guns and explosions — a medium better suited to escapism than intimacy.
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Though Bartlet's fictional presidency looks centrist in retrospect, he was at the time the perfect vehicle for progressive escapism.
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And, ultimately, it's hip-hop's musical form and social context that make Coloring Book's escapism refreshing rather than toothless.
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Without much to say on the systematic discrimination of transgender people, Southern Comfort seems content to function as escapism.
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Service-related injuries and PTSD, she found, seem strongly linked with escapism and coping as motivations for playing games.
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It's easy to argue that princess fans demonstrate some kind of arrested development, a longing for childhood and escapism.
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Look out for substance abuse or other forms of escapism that can take a toll on your mental health.
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Fantasy lies at the core of Summoning, and with that comes escapism, one of heavy metal's most beloved themes.
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And finally, Ross recommends some Wild West escapism: "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs," the Coen brothers' new anthology movie.
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And this suggests another reason presidents may be drawn to the mystery genre: It's escapism for the control freak.
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"It's escapism," said Allison Page, the general manager of United States programming for HGTV, Food Network and Travel Channel.
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"But we were comforted by the idea that the four of us working wasn't escapism or denial," he added.
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Even friendly Facebook has become a no-go zone for some escapism because of all the pontificating political posts.
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Above all, it's a reminder of how genre storytelling can provide real-world social commentary, not just breezy escapism.
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But in Yuknavitch's work there's no quick cauterizing of the wound, nothing to allow us to engage in escapism.
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Luxury Escapism let me and my friend Marianne (who is not an ASMR enthusiast) visit their facility for free.
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This was one part of the Luxury Escapism experience that made me feel the most like a kid again.
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Carnage and Makonnen's big-hearted candy-trap ode to drug-dealing as escapism makes the American dream feel (almost) real.
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And good luck to Broadway audiences looking for some happy escapism this year that may also fill you with dread.
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The series, titled "It's Always Darkest Before Dawn," seemed to be a relatable reflection on solitary escapism and collective fear.
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But this show is best if not overthought; if you're going to make time for it, just enjoy the escapism.
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It's particularly rare in the fantasy and superhero genre, which tends to be about escapism, power fantasies, and wish-fulfillment.
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These films are trying to carve out space not just for Asian American narratives, but for glossy Asian American escapism.
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"You try to find things that sort of give you escapism from the situation," he told reporters during an Aug.
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She called social media a "public health risk" that results in issues like increased isolation, depression, addiction, escapism and anxiety.
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Our TV shows reflect the time we live in – the same escapism from the outside world just isn't available anymore.
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It provides a welcome dose of hilarious and humane escapism that satisfies like a nostalgia trip even while subverting it.
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He's crafting street dream escapism by highlighting the victories instead of the losses, and it has worked in his favor.
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They are less about escapism, glamour and the power brokers of old, and more about the urgency of contemporary issues.
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Coming from Turkey, "Sex and The City" provided more than just funny and stylish escapism; it made me feel liberated.
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This focus on island destinations is thoroughly rooted in middle-class escapism, making a place like Sandals a perfect partner.
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Overly-optimistic Jupiter squares off with deceptive Neptune 11:18 AM on Sunday, helping subdue this week's stress with escapism.
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These are also two planets that love to party, creating a whimsical, over-the-top carnival of opulence and escapism.
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"I think people are wanting a bit of escapism," said Steven Murphy, the editor of the weekly Inside Soap magazine.
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Yes, there's The Handmaid's Tale, The Act, The Looming Tower, and the four-part documentary Hillary if you're anti-escapism.
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The imperative to encompass both escapism and the issues of the current day can be an awkward balance to strike.
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"The Whispers" is a masterful exploration into the power of storytelling but also its dangers, including self-denial and escapism.
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But La La Land is technicolor escapism wrapped in a Hollywood bow; I understand why it was favored to win.
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Gliding and burbling, ringing and spattering and glitching, a lyrical escapism animates an album whose loveliness and silliness are inextricable.
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The Moon opposes hazy Neptune in Pisces at 5:08 PM—watch out for escapism or people who deny the truth.
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The appeal of these kind of traditional travel accounts is no surprise; aspirational escapism is a huge part of Instagram's success.
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Theoretically dancefloor escapism gratifies, but these rhythmically topheavy odes to maximalist kitsch suggest a caricature of catharsis, an empty decontextualized uplift.
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So studios devote millions of dollars to persuading the Academy that their movie is more than just two hours of escapism.
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Consensual sexting is the ultimate form of escapism and if you don't agree with me, it's because you've never sexted right.
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The interviews touch on the importance of escapism and an artistic Gemeinschaft—a community—in the face of terrorism and turmoil.
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Or maybe you just don't see how watching a bunch of fish do their thing could be perfect and informative escapism.
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Even those more engaged with wider humanity will frequently return too, since there's always some need for escapism in troubled times.
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Natural Wonders When you are ready to dip back into real life, two meditative memoirs offer rich forms of literary escapism.
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I was always interested in it, I love film and the escapism of it all and that was always my interest.
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A DJ's role remains the same as it was during the Barack Obama era: play well, and offer escapism to many.
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The whole thing raises more anxieties than it relieves—not a good sign in a genre whose primary purpose is escapism.
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It's sort of no wonder, then, that it seemed people were turning to lighter fare when it came to fictional escapism.
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This line of argument says that simulated murder is simply escapism, blowing off steam, or experimentation with a sophisticated software system.
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That being the case, loudmouthed, isolationist trumpery may just be a sideshow, an American exercise in après-moi-le-déluge escapism.
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It's not "La La Land," despite a shared pedigree, but the movie's buoyancy does offer similar moments of gravity-defying escapism.
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Fantastical artworks are a type of escapism, and the way that we choose to escape reality is defined by that reality.
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The Absolute Life Transformation offered in A.L.T. is partially about the form of video games, and their role as fantasy escapism.
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They're both forms of escapism that feature universally innocent acts shot through with the thrill of subversive temptation, of danger even.
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It was all about creating escapism, which was dependent on the audience member—and you get as much as you give.
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One reason presidents are drawn to the genre is surely its escapism — its promise to replace impossible decisions with comforting formulas.
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For another, whereas "Casablanca" put forth a spine-stiffening anti-fascist call to arms, "Allied" offers the comforts of elegant escapism.
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Travelogues like Henri Cole's "Orphic Paris" and Shirley Hazzard and Francis Steegmuller's "The Ancient Shore: Dispaches From Naples" are pure escapism.
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It's the most immersive way to experience gaming, seemingly dropping you into a world different from our own for pure escapism.
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Exclusivity is cloaked as inclusive community, escapism is dressed up as empowerment, and philanthropy is used to deflect from profit motive.
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Those brands of escapism invite failure and heighten nuclear dangers, while the combination of deterrence and diplomacy has a proven record.
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Tariq, an accountant from Berkshire, used partying, drugs, alcohol, clubbing, and sex as a form of escapism because he was secretly gay.
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It was among the first companies to recognize that VR's true power wasn't in games or pointless escapism, but in other people.
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The sixth season cheats a bit in that regard but still conjures thriller-style escapism informed by thought-provoking real-world echoes.
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Matthews may have broken through a full two decades after Buffett and his fellow beach enthusiasts, but the escapism remains the same.
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Whether that means sheltering yourself from problems in the real world or spicing up your selfies, it's best used for social escapism.
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There is an element of escapism in all altered states, but as society changes, so do the motivations and means of escape.
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Considering video games' lingering reputation as a form of deviant escapism, the depiction of addictive drugs in popular titles shouldn't surprise anyone.
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The fantasy story of a female-led insurgency against a domineering Empire seemed like space opera escapism only a few days ago.
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TC: Humor is great escapism, but the internet is a resource for millennials to learn about politics, technology and current events, too.
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THUMP: Danilo, Marcus, to me the album sounds like an ode to escapism, even in terms of song titles and the artwork.
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Even America's go-to dealer of sugar-coated escapism, the network television comedy, has been infected by our nation's deepest existential fears.
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As beacons of hedonism, escapism and human connectedness, they remain to be some of the world's best – it's what we're known for.
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And that's not to say everybody is undeserving at all, it's just to say we've narrowed down entertainment into celebrity and escapism.
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Ideally, a hobby gives you escapism (like TV does), but also lets you pursue a passion and feel a sense of purpose.
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Of course, I still love television—it's hard to escape escapism in all its forms, as ineffective a salve as it is.
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It inverts what we've come to expect from mainstream electronic music—less about partying and escapism than appealing to something more existential.
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Kenny Rivero's Gotham City Screams and Supermane address how fantasy and escapism can inspire people to challenge aesthetic, sexual, and racial hierarchies.
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Though some of the intent is lost in translation, the music communicates that Cosmatos' heavy metal fantasy isn't in service of escapism.
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He is lonely because he prioritizes escapism, and the "cool" image he believes he projects is instead, to my eyes, off-putting.
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But I think it's a little weird that they've gotten so bad at raw escapism, when that's their reason to exist, ostensibly.
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Even pop songs, traditionally the realm of gleaming escapism, are getting slower and sadder—the minds behind the factory admit as much.
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There is a sense that watching a show about a repressive dystopia isn't the best escapism when your political reality feels repressive.
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Watching a legislative body maul, maim and paralyze itself through grotesquely irrational infighting probably doesn't sound like your idea of summer escapism.
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A red carpet scattered with Swarovski crystals led the way to an evening full of fairy tales and elegance, escapism and surprises.
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Isabelle Silva from Massachusetts thought about escapism: Blindfolded and a duct taped mouth, this man is oblivious to the world around him.
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It's also representative of escapism and self-numbing through drugs or other habits that take us to artificial realities (hello, social media!).
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Mr. Rettig, a liberal who chooses his words carefully in conservative North Dakota, believes that escapism is essential to the show's appeal.
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A lot of people seeing this movie coming after an intense and difficult election year seem to be embracing it as escapism.
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Odell's How to Do Nothing, a delightful read on techno-escapism, included long meditations on sitting in a rose garden, screen-free.
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On its surface, Luxury Escapism: The Oddly Satisfying Spa seems like The Museum of Ice Cream, 29Rooms, or other selfie-optimized art experiences.
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I think it's hard to tell what impact the current politics will have on people's needs and desires in their escapism imaginary world.
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Fortunately for anyone looking for a bit of escapism of the madness of everyday life, we have two words for you: comedy podcasts.
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Netflix is my weekend comfort, the best way to refresh is to detach yourself, so I like to binge-watch shows — it's escapism.
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"I think, personally, that this isn't a time for escapism," he said about the current political turmoil occurring the U.S. and the world.
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"This is the classic time for us all to want a bit of sunshine, love and escapism," one viewer wrote at the time.
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Chances are, you've already got your own list of songs that have provided the soundtrack for escapism, activism, or a combination of both.
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An escapist homage to the escapism industry, "Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood" is as much of a fairytale as its title implies.
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If getting to know our favorite characters better provides that escapism, shows like This Is Us are here at exactly the right time.
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Merry isn't advocating for using escapism as the sole way to solve your problems—there's story after story about how that goes badly.
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In a day and age where the world seems like its own version of Hell, seeking answers to the unknown feels like escapism.
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It combines the desire for escapism with the mission to make games that appeal to audiences that aren't interested in high-octane action.
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For gamblers, it is not always the sense of chance that is attractive but the predictability of the game that underpins the escapism.
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In an era defined by Trump, Brexit and ongoing concerns about the suffering environment, our desire for escapism may be reaching new heights.
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For us mere mortals, staking £30,000 a weekend and earning a living from the profits seems like paperback twaddle – escapism at its finest.
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Escapism can be healthy and healing; it's refreshing to vacate our consciousness and temporarily retreat into another reality, particularly when life gets stressful.
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Which kind of escapism the inmates at Sterling gravitate to is perhaps best illustrated by the moral alignment they choose for their characters.
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As the world moves indoors, Animal Crossing: New Horizons has become not only a source of entertainment but a beautiful moment of escapism.
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The result was not escapism (even if Mr. Van Noten did use the word, that is one service clothes can't provide — Ibiza, maybe).
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Yet once I decide against escaping, I succumb to a general atmosphere of escapism that seems to have taken hold of the country.
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But if Luxury Escapism ever introduces a more traditional in-person ASMR experience with actual human contact, I'd be down to try it.
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There were several worthy works of escapism, of course, but the literary world mostly reflected the gravity and tumult of the larger world.
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The pieces in Dre Britton's Structural Integrity each allude to kinesthetic possibilities and futures — expansion, escapism — yet everything is stiff, frozen in time.
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For adults, these cease to be exercises in learning, instead becoming a kind of escapism (and often paired with alcohol for good measure).
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I'm not sure I'm ready for reality just yet, but it looks like I have to find my next dose of escapism somewhere else.
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Between Ghost and Night Time, My Time, Ferreira's work remains true to a feeling that pop music doesn't have to be pure, pleasant escapism.
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Television, for so long, was primarily thought of as a home to soaps, sitcoms, and reality shows that get written off as silly escapism.
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"Our mission statement, for us internally, we're thinking about how to engage and entertain a youth audience, everything from escapism to activism," Fishman said.
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And nothing rips you from the escapism of VR faster than having a pair of glasses constantly fall off the bridge of your nose.
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Audiences keen on pure escapism won't bother with such distracting quandaries, but they reflect the lack of care for developing a fully realized world.
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Theaters of Fiction features work by seven contemporary artists that use the physical space of the theater to explore ideas of illusion and escapism.
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With titles like "Hallo Von der Anderen Seite" or "Norderney," the listener is sucked into a world of wanderlust and escapism from the everyday.
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Alpha Industries CEO recently told Complex magazine that these items have become very popular lately, probably due to a mixture of escapism and nostalgia.
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Some DCOMs abandoned all pretense of escapism and just got extremely real, including commentary on race relations, the environment, disability, and even 9/11.
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Witness the rain forest of tropical shoes and bags that sprang up in Milan last week, where escapism proved the engine of the eye.
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In short, it's poised to be a much-needed dose of meticulously crafted, emotionally satisfying escapism with a few more sobering insights mixed in.
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If the first reviews are to be believed, Ready Player One may be just the shot of epic, '80s-tinged escapism you're looking for.
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This morning, a music writer who I hold in high esteem wrote something extremely stupid about feeling guilt towards the inherent "escapism" of music.
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On Sunday, your planetary ruler, Jupiter, squares off with Neptune, planet of fantasy, creating a whimsical, over-the-top carnival of opulence and escapism.
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Neptune is the planet of fantasy (and escapism)—is there anything better than losing track of time and space when you're in someone's arms?
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But these writers fail to credit Bay for having created a unique, prolific set of films that have both escapism and a distinctive style.
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Escapism must either specify a danger or prove so irresistible that you could plug in any danger and reach for the same escape hatch.
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Video games are a form of escapism, and are not meant to be a reminder of the relentless political misery of the modern world.
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They were happening at the same time, but you said disco was a form of escapism, whereas punk was like dancing in the decay.
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While sports as a salve for societal problems is surely overstated, Detroit's teams provided a needed jolt of optimism and a dose of escapism.
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I had always thought the Oscars were a bit of fun escapism for America where we celebrate and honor the craft of making movies.
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As the blonde duo aloofly ponders the perfect sky above them, the viewer gets a glimpse of something darker, a riposte to bland escapism.
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There has been variety — silly movies and somber ones; chapters that proclaim their topicality and episodes that embrace pure escapism — as well as consistency.
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Bourdain is comfortable being seen as a purveyor of escapism; he is less comfortable with the responsibility that attends the show's more serious material.
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"James Bond is a hugely coveted, iconic, beloved character, that takes audiences on this massive escapism journey," Elba told Vanity Fair magazine last year.
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Will audiences, and Academy voters, crave uplift and escapism, avoid violent or depressing films, or search out films with a social or political message?
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And it tackles real-world issues in a way that stands directly opposed to the idea that video games are best served as escapism.
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Going to the cinema -- and especially films where the lines between good and evil are clearly drawn -- speaks to the enduring desire for escapism.
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"But it's also still possible to find beach-hopping escapism on Palawan, which inspired Alex Garland to write 'The Beach' all those years ago."
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That's a slight exaggeration, but by this point in the experience, I would say I felt closely entwined with the universe inside Luxury Escapism.
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Coogler is an ideal candidate to help deconstruct the patriarchal fantasies of postcolonial escapism that make the Bond movies so simultaneously irresistible and frustrating.
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Yugoslav punk was based on rebellion, with the youth escapism that characterized some parts of the punk scene in the West almost completely absent.
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A little daydreaming, in balance with focus and calm attention, is fab—we just need to make sure escapism doesn't take over our lives.
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The costume prompt — "Pink and Teal, Summer and Sea, Eternal Vacation" inspired looks that nodded to Vaporwave's aesthetic blend of old technology and gauzy escapism.
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It's a different sort of escapism than pretending to be Hyrule's savior after a long day at the office, sure, but the fundamentals are there.
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Next up: A new outfit called Dreamscape Immersive promises to supercharge the escapism of "location-based" VR. The key is a nifty motion-capture algorithm.
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It's entertaining and reasonably suspenseful, but other than perhaps Adams, a long shot for awards consideration, while not exciting enough for those seeking blockbuster escapism.
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But when it comes to why people still love these novels, both Anna Baseness and Harper Kincaid repeatedly circle back to the idea of escapism.
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If trauma is met with phrases like "stop crying" or "man up," people may learn to deal with their pain in other ways, like escapism.
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Even virtual reality, which untethers you from the desktop screen, relies heavily on advanced optics and display technologies to deliver the most immersive escapism possible.
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Flame-wars, bad news, fake news, worse news and anxiety-fueling comment sections meant that social media is no longer the escapism it once was.
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It was scoffed at as escapism, but over time it drew an ever-growing crowd who used it primarily to indulge their greed and lust.
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These shows demonstrated that science fiction and fantasy could be a form of astute commentary on society embraced by mainstream audiences, instead of just escapism.
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Between unicorn hair and mermaids and dragons popping up on our Starbucks menus, one could surmise that adults have dived into a pool of escapism.
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She inverts pop to make a point: there are no safe places anymore, no more apolitical retreats, and no more time for avoidance and escapism.
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As for what Waters might say to someone who's looking for escapism rather than politics at a rock concert, the musician didn't mince his words.
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Miyazaki is the best when it comes to escapism, but it's his inimitable brand of whimsy that sticks with viewers long after they're done escaping.
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But her manipulation of her mother has, so far, been about creating that double life, and gaining some unhealthy recreational escapism, all because she's bored.
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I was hoping beyond hope that this little bit of escapism could soothe my dysphoria enough to keep living the life I was supposed to.
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There's an inherent escapism at the heart of it—or at least a yearning for such—which makes the music's jitteriness all the more effective.
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This year even the summer, traditionally a time for escapism — lightweight thrillers and science fiction, inexpensive reality shows — has taken on a more serious cast.
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Mostly, the film seems particularly attuned to those who might be in the mood for a certain brand of escapism, the less demanding the better.
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Vaguely intellectual escapism has a long, proud history on cable television (and in American pop culture more generally), and Westworld ably slots into this tradition.
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This leads me to wonder if horniness is that big of a factor in Fab Swingers' popularity— or if, in fact, it's more about escapism.
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Normally, being online serves as escapism, she said, but as more people are throwing their anxieties onto the internet, it has begun to feel different.
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Jupiter, the planet of abundance, clashes with Neptune, the planet of escapism, and you can spend a lot of money on party favors and dates.
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"When They See Us" In 2019 nearly all of the best television series tended not to escapism but hard examinations of humanity and its failings.
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Although the show is about the power of deception, it won't let us fool ourselves into luxuriating in antihero escapism, the way many dramas might.
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"I think it's a good year not so much for escapism but for uplift," said Tim Gray, who covers awards for Hollywood trade publication Variety.
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As we're seeing today, when times are hard, escapism is more necessary than ever, and most of us seek solace in music scenes and clubs.
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And while the notion of treating video games exclusively as escapism robs the medium of power, sometimes the world is worth ditching for a little while.
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Genre pioneer Jeff Mills has spoken extensively of the techno producers' desire to create sound which engulfs the listener, and revels in that sense of escapism.
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Regardless of these movies' failure to function as escapism, it's maybe a little comforting to think that kids the nation over were absorbing these ambitious ideas.
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Aside from his specific role, Boyle gets to be part of a production that offers a bit of magical escapism to those who desperately need it.
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The games there become a form of escapism for Kid, a way to immerse themselves in something where they don't feel so trapped in their life.
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Shock and Awe-Shucks, Bless You Child Rambunctious Romping Futile Escapism Unhinged Showmanship Doubly Determined We hope you have as much fun celebrating as we do.
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So I'd say no matter how you're feeling about the world, for me, music or art or self-expression is like a little bit of escapism.
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Blame it on escapism or nostalgia, but the mystical creatures are here to stay — and we just got a sneak peek at the next big rollout.
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The 33-year-old musician once said that he used his music as form of escapism, but now sees that art and activism are inherently linked.
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Rather than pose questions—perhaps accidentally, given how much it seems to want to be read as escapism—the game makes a very clear political statement.
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She asked in the description of her last video what kind of content they wanted to see during this time, and the answer was clear: escapism.
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For a thriller writer, these conflicts must seem irresistible: Suddenly, what is often dismissed as escapism and fantasy has taken on an eerily prescient, resonant cast.
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Because of its use with sex, often arranged on hookup apps with two or more men, the combination — disinhibition, connection, escapism — was too great to resist.
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It is typical of Brooker's grimly ironic narrative sensibility that Cooper's escapism should bring him to a technologically enhanced haunted house, a dark parody of home.
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She spoke to Business Insider with her mother present, said she walks her dog to chill out, and listens to vinyl as a form of escapism.
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And as summer escapism goes, it has a little more texture, though a little less urgency, than competitors like CBS's "Zoo" and "The Mist" on Spike.
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Recent hits like "Flirty Dancing" and stalwarts like "The Great British Baking Show" offer gentle escapism in a genre better known for manipulating participants for entertainment.
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Ms. Leonard suggested that this season's shift in tone may have less to do with making a sociopolitical statement than with acknowledging a taste for escapism.
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In addition to escapism and inspiration, Black Panther offers African Americans the opportunity to reexamine and reimagine their place in the world, both literally and figuratively.
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Where a mother's words of guidance on "Be Yourself" come to a cautionary close, his euphoric acid trip on "Solo" is a bright, hazy point of escapism.
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"Things that will inspire, things that will enlighten, things that will educate but will also allow for some escapism, because God knows we need some right now."
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Steve McQueen's Widows is a much darker, higher-stakes heist film than Ocean's 8, but I found its groundedness more appealing than the other movie's purported escapism.
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In some respects, the list vindicates time-honoured Hollywood wisdom: sequels have a ready-made audience; viewers want slick, action-packed escapism and retina-burning visual effects.
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"The show serves as escapism for Thais who imagine a kingdom that is united against foreigners instead of fighting amongst themselves," says Waranya Pimsri, who studied anthropology.
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That history makes a win for La La Land's musical escapism — over a movie about a black gay man's tumultuous coming of age — look even more likely.
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The escapism of Amber's (Rose McIver) trip to Aldovia, where she falls in love with the titular holiday royal amid many hijinks, is something we all need.
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Yet against a troubled backdrop, there's been a growing appetite for the kind of escapism dance music offers, centered largely around the efforts of Cairo's liberal youth.
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Maybe it's escapism, the chance to make yourself at home in a world that feels and looks like a place you might one day get to visit.
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But its nomination haul and probable Oscar triumph speak both to how well-crafted it is and how much America could use a little escapism right now.
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But for me and a few others I've met, escapism through simulation games is, or was, a way to feel in control when things are going south.
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It's Mary Poppins after all, a cinematic universe that's like a warm blanket on a cold night; Returns offers similar pure escapism flavored to suit modern audiences.
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There's nothing apolitical about food, though some may insist that it's merely a source of comfort, escapism, and refuge from all that is wrong with the world.
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The challenge now is to find ways to resist royalist escapism and instead to recommit to the radical majesty of the egalitarian project, re-enchanting the everyday.
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They built off and commented on the issues that dominated the year, going beyond mere escapism to provide thoughtful, damning, and entertaining reads to keep us sane.
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Opinion: 'Sex and the City' liberated me "Sex and The City" provided more than just funny and stylish escapism, writes Pinar Tarhan, who grew up in Turkey.
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An ideal Hollywood moviemaker of Depression-era escapism, Busby Berkeley, the choreographer and director of musical comedies, was also a pioneer who expanded the language of cinema.
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Last September, he teamed up with Gurl Crush to make a UK bassline ode to escapism, "Want 2 Release," featuring remixes from JX Cannon and DJ Demasiado.
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Or maybe you'll stick your head in the sand and pretend you're not doing anything wrong—that's totally possible whenever Neptune, the planet of escapism, is involved.
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Pop, like all music, can often be a form of escapism—a way to forget yourself, especially if being yourself can mean facing a multitude of hardships.
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Both offer escapism, but at least in the case of "Thank U, Next" and the films referenced in its music video, the message being pushed is empowerment.
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For book lovers such as myself, the silver lining of Trump's election was the possibility that readers would be looking for escapism and big ideas in art.
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"The chorus [of the song] is the escapism moment like, Let's go into nature, and into the the wild, to let these issues be free," she explained.
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It might be working for now, as far as ratings go, but the show's brand of romantic escapism appears increasingly marred and untenable in the long run.
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We all need a bit of escapism these days, a moment away from the relentless mess of trade wars, Brexit, missile testing and the redefinition of truth.
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Speaking by phone from Los Angeles, Mr. Chazelle discussed how the awards circuit is different this year and why he doesn't think of his musical as escapism.
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I visited the "Luxury Escapism: Oddly Satisfying Spa" in Brooklyn that promised a relaxing, detoxing experience with the help of ASMR triggers and immersive art and technology.
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Though its plot concerns the creation of a favorite current form of escapism — the horror movie — "Berberian Sound Studio" is hardly made for cathartic hoots and shrieks.
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Travelers customize the level of "escapism" they want, using filters for their maximum flight time, a preferred environment (polar, jungle, desert, mountain or coastal), and other factors.
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In addition to the new album, the producer also dropped The Incredible Adventures of Captain P: Escapism, a 23-minute short film to accompany the new album.
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Not to make this like a childish escapism thing about my process, but those are two tools that I think are great and I've stuck with them.
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It's also not the strangely sadomasochistic, pat-yourself-on-the-back escapism that is white liberals like me watching OITNB—which tempts the viewer to congratulate herself for pursuing media that depicts a world outside her socioeconomic group and comfort zone—or the upsettingly realistic The Night Of. Rather, SVU's brand of escapism brings the viewer to an alternate universe where NYPD cops are really good at their jobs.
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The notion of art as escapism, regardless of the political climate, is far from a new one—but the first three episodes of Veep's latest installment really does feel like escapism in its purest form, a half-hour trip to an imaginary America where the unspeakable gaffes made by the people who govern the country are still funny, partially because they have no effect on our real lives.
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Given the pent-up hunger for "Harry Potter," and perhaps greater demand for pure escapism, the movie should be a major holiday attraction, without rising to Harry's heights.
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They cycle between documentary and the surreal, resulting in the best kind of escapism — where reality and fiction are so intertwined, you can't imagine them without one another.
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Meanwhile in the background, military spending skyrockets, a Republic turns into an Empire, and entire worlds are strip-mined for resources without a thought for the environment. Escapism!
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I released my debut EP in April, and somehow — and I didn't mean for it be that way, but all of the songs had a layer of escapism.
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The movie he created at first appears to be a combination of skate porn and teenage rebellion, but it's really a movie about self-discovery and adolescent escapism.
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If you're settling back in to work after a long holiday season and looking for a little bit of winter wonderland escapism, the Jonas family has you covered.
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In terms of new series, the popular themes this season include escapism, nostalgia (in the form of reboots, movie adaptations and returning stars) and a bit of silliness.
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Tempering expectations for the possibility of a reshoot, it notes that the state of the world demands escapism via sci-fi and fantasy like GoT and Star Wars.
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While Shonda Rhimes might not have any powers of political prediction, she has created a series capable of both escapism and smart commentary on the world around us.
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Seen through that lens, the superhero boom is about the need for escapism, maybe, and the sheer fun of watching big-screen spectacle done well, to be sure.
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But if you ask him, this output isn't just the fruit of an ambitious work ethic; it's a mark of his tendency toward a kind of rigorous escapism.
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It's music that offers joy and catharsis—not through romanticizing or escapism, but through the power it reclaims by looking the absurdity of modern life in the eye.
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If it's first day back escapism you're after, look no further—play this on a loop for a while and soon you'll be far away from that desk.
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Fast and funny, it exposes the entitlement that can accompany obsessive fandoms, where part of the attraction of escapism is in the power to control or exclude others.
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"In an era defined by Trump, Brexit and ongoing concerns about the suffering environment, our desire for escapism may be reaching new heights," wrote British historian Susan Jonusas.
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"Avengers," which Internet Movie Database says has grossed $1 billion worldwide and could eclipse "Avatar" as the biggest film of all time, certainly falls in the escapism category.
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When I see Gwyneth, I have every emotion I had when I was reporting and writing and closing and publishing that story, which is the opposite of escapism.
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And while we flirt with notions of escapism, the fact of the matter is that we'll never fully get away from COVID-19 until it is completely eradicated.
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Baumeister's luscious mixture of black paint and gold pigment and the capering pink and blue brachiform droplets by Krause feel like pure escapism (both are untitled, from 323).
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There is an element to which new kits are a guilty pleasure, then, an addiction which gives us diminishing returns but serves as a form of escapism nonetheless.
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Writer Mike Power explains that this resurgence is less about counterculture, and more about escapism—a shift due, at least in part, to the advent of the internet.
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And also, we fully recognize that when people come to watch our shows, that there's an escapism there, and we don't want to bog them down with political discussions.
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When that same music dipped into demonstrative boasts of wealth and hedonism, that was played off as escapism on one hand and the reward of hustling on the other.
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Suicide Squad, The Dark Knight, Deadpool, Thor: Ragnarok, Batman & Robin, whatever the film's Rotten Tomatoes rating, they offer a form of escapism that makes me happy without hurting myself.
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While traveling together, I set out to continue shooting pictures that embodied the ongoing themes in my work: escapism, romance, and maintaining a balance between the real and imaginary.
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" Reiterating Smith's point about escapism, Kingham advises buying into the fantasy and frivolity of the decade: "Investing in luxurious clothing doesn't always need to be about simple timeless pieces.
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It's a story that strikes the perfect balance between escapism and serious reflection, and it's the perfect military sci-fi series to escape into for a week or two.
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In this piece, which appears in VICE Magazine's Burnout and Escapism Issue, staff writer Marie Solis explores the harmful repercussions of activist burnout for both organizers and their movements.
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"I actually think art has more of an effect if it's fun and people react to it," Sparrow said, adding that felt "is escapism" and "Prozac for the soul."
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Aside from the escapism of pretending your dreams of being on reality TV have finally come true, there's also truth to the name of being an epic social experiment.
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But this apocalyptic urge—the notion that there is nothing to be done except to wait for the hammer—is not harsh realism, it is a fearful, resigned escapism.
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Several artists took spoke their minds through words and music, addressing political and social issues, reminding us that music is more than just a means of entertainment or escapism.
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While I did enjoy both escapism as well as a rich and rewarding gameplay experience, I never thought that the benefits I would reap would be quite so literal.
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Yet, in a twist befitting his mischievous career, these eleven originals cataloging the bitterness, escapism, and heartache of divorce happen to come from a happily married father of two.
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Even TikTok, which was designed to be pure escapism (but of course was never going to stay that way), isn't immune to the deluge of scary and uncertain news.
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So perhaps it was fitting that Mr. Piccioli framed his collection not as escapism but rather as an opportunity to put the old idea to rest and move on.
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In December, Mr. Buffett was still looking to make the show an even more authentic testament to the lifestyle he created and the escapism he knows his fans want.
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Becki Hack, Houston "The Hawaii Cure," by Wells Tower, treads a well-worn path of colonialist tropes as a writer indulges his escapism fantasies with a trip to Hawaii.
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A game set in Dubai could offer the same sense of escapism, thanks to the city's proximity to one of the most untamed lands on earth, the Arabian Desert.
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So, for better and for worse, I turned away from the glittering escapism of a perky makeover montage, and found myself in the wine-soaked misadventures of Bridget Jones.
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From "iron hood," Mike moves to the nervous fugue of "(how could anybody) feel at home?" and the quasi-religious "hymnal," where church songs are hopeful bits of escapism.
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We have enough problems, and though The Bachelorette is escapism at its finest, there's really no need for icky exploitation like the kind found on a two-on-one date.
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Rather than accepting fashion's façade as a space for glamorous escapism or criticizing it outright, Wiseman takes a subtler approach, revealing an air of ennui in all those pretty faces.
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When writing songs for this album themes of escapism and longing kept coming up and seemed to intertwine so perfectly with images of palm trees, neon signs, and tinted windows.
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For those midday moments when you'd give anything for a magic carpet to whisk you from your computer screen to the lounge chair, use fragrance as a form of escapism.
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After weathering a slump in the British film industry during World War II, a post-war demand for escapism led to an uptick in cinema attendance that bolstered Hammer's fortunes.
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Another aspect of Missy Elliott and Supa Dupa Fly's enduring legacy is a sense of escapism, fantasy, and reality bending in both the production and the album's iconic music videos.
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A study from Syracuse University about binge-watching via streaming versus traditional television schedules confirmed this idea, finding that binge-watching better delivers a feeling of escapism than regular viewing.
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The short winds up as a study in aspiration, depression, and escapism, but first, it's just an exercise in dreams come true, as shared with an equal and expressive partner.
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Sure, these days such utopian notions toward humanity immediately register as escapism in its purest, most naïve form—but isn't that why we go to the movies to begin with?
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With echoes of not just Alien but also 2001 and Gravity, Life knows its place as gritty, B-movie escapism gussied up with a little star power and decent effects.
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While the first two gave me escapism, adventures on the high seas and prettiest beaches the GameCube could handle, Animal Crossing gave me a cozy, much-needed taste of home.
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But if escapism is what academy members want, both of the docs (admittedly awards long shots) might be hurt by the cold, hard, if necessary, truths that they drive home.
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Most writing about fashion revivals assumes two things: That they are primarily about the young people who rediscover old styles, and that they are a form of nostalgia or escapism.
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Their obsession with the pair of Christian Democrats offers a means of escaping the world's bitter realities, a strange escapism they have pursued even more vigorously after the European election.
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"I guess he provides a little more escapism for Twitch, because a lot of the times you're just watching a real dude play a game, which is great," he says.
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"I guess he provides a little more escapism for Twitch, because a lot of the times you're just watching a real dude play a game, which is great," he says.
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And just in time, too; its emphasis on escapism and spending time in nature led my colleague Palmer Haasch to call it a perfect game for alleviating social distancing woes.
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Lines like "Airbnb/Going to set me free/Slated walls/47-inch flat TV, yeah/Lounging, daybed/American idea" are humorous and poignant comments on both escapism and consumer culture.
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Ultimately, City of Girls provides a sort of summertime escapism that doesn't sacrifice sharpness or wit, a rare example of a "beach read" with shrewd edge and something to say.
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The stories of adventurers, Robbins believed, should be about more than just entertainment or escapism; the forms of their narratives become natural metaphors for how humans interact with the wild.
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Although they deal with traumas that stem from a similar place, Dog Days allows respite through daydreams and escapism, while Loverboy grabs things by the collar and sizes them up.
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Kansai's clothes characterize a specific breed of 1970s escapism — into outer space, to new and imaginary cultures, to the future, from the past, shedding gender while you were at it.
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We might ask: is Reflection simply an opus of escapism that allows us to momentarily shield ourselves from the ceaseless onslaught of shit that's inundated us since Bowie died last January?
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There's an obvious underlying science-fiction metaphor in probing the relationship between humans and mysterious others they don't understand, one which tinges the movie's escapism with a vague sense of dread.
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Instead, it seems more concerned with escapism, and how much its characters use pop culture as a womb to shelter them from the ugly realities they've accepted from the world outside.
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That's the question at the Emmy Awards this year as voters choose whether to reward television dramas and comedies that provide comfort and escapism, or bleaker fare that echoes troubled times.
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It's easy to look at Ready Player One-inspired fears of escapism, where we all dine on Soylent, never leave our homes, and avoid physical contact for extended periods of time.
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Clearly, it was a bad year for music, a year of escapism and mediocrity; it was all too personal or too vague or too business-as-usual — just insult Trump already!
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However, it's fitting that both Melissa Broder's The Pisces and Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation have been published during a season when readers are typically looking for escapism.
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Noisey: Let's get the more formal talk out of the way: what's the "big picture" message when it comes to Primal Rite, and more importantly, your new LP, Dirge of Escapism?
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If, however, you're more interested in a little escapism after a news cycle from hell, may I suggest you instead spend your time learning how a star is actually born, literally?
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Even pure, unadulterated escapism from real life needs to be diluted to accommodate constant connectivity needs – and so Vive has both an eye on and line back into the real world.
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However, the sweetly sung refrain of "fell in love with the devil" adds a sinister edge to the song's escapism, proving there's more to this group's smoothness than meets the eye.
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Dancing or singing along, I've been one of the literal "wasted zombies" to which the chorus is addressed, spiraling in the Trump era into loops of alcohol-fueled escapism and dread.
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For most of us, Keeping Up With the Kardashians provides a welcome dose of escapism, a chance to turn off our brains and lay aside the existential burdens of modern life.
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Younger generations, embracing video games and smartphones as their escapism of choice, seemed indifferent or bored by D&D's make-believe world of swords and sorcery, labyrinthine rules and polyhedral dice.
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The escapism of sports — an alternate world governed by its own arbitrary logic — dissipates, and I find myself switching my attention among the referee's calls, the replays and the TV's corrections.
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Video games have long provided such escapism, and their popularity proves how millions around the world actively prefer spending their time in pretend places over the ones that they call home.
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Perhaps it's because the socio-political landscape at large is so endlessly frustrating that our methods of escapism are becoming increasingly integral to daily life, but, have you noticed how…. lately….
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Or are you none of the above and simply tired of reading about global disaster, aching for a little escapism, living vicariously through the courtship of the young, rich, and famous?
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When you hear people complaining that games ought to be "fun" or "just for escapism," or demanding that politics and games be kept entirely separate, Resident Evil is a valuable counterargument.
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What's more, reality television — which millions watch (including me) for its compelling combination of escapism and familiarity, falseness and relatability — has permeated wider, societal conversations, taking on a strangely educational function.
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Next to stories of grave injustice, the movie "Paddington 2," about a bear that wears a red hat, is still considered an "an inviting, necessary bit of escapism" by Vanity Fair.
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The story is billed as "a first trip to the island, in a desperate bid to escape the news," but with no hint at the short distance between escapism and exploitation.
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I seek escapism and refreshment in wild travel or vivid autobiography, expressing the strongest sense of individuality (not mine) both in style and content, even to the point of extreme eccentricity.
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Not only did I not know what to expect from Luxury Escapism: The Oddly Satisfying Spa, but I walked right past its unassuming front door in the Dumbo neighborhood of Brooklyn.
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"It might seem counterintuitive that creative individuals should need moments of escapism in order to keep producing, but when you look closer at the psyche it makes complete sense," he says.
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But that was far from the first time NBC's 12:35 am switchover from The Tonight Show's determined escapism to Late Night's thoughtful dissections made for a telling study in contrasts.
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Although it invokes the realm of the imaginary, the exhibition eschews escapism; instead, the site-specific works on display show artists thinking creatively about the dispiriting circumstances of our own world.
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Escapism has been TV's bread and butter since the medium's inception — not just through overt fantasy or science fiction, but through stories revolving around the idealized lifestyles of the rich and famous.
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Now you can say that the movies are intended and escapism and, God knows, everyone deserves to sit in a dark room and be free from the news for a couple hours.
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The struggle to elevate sci-fi from mindless escapism to a genre capable of proactively engaging everyday life, either politically or psychologically, is one that has been present ever since it's conception.
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And even if you're not sympathetic to the fear of escapism that comes with every new form of media since the novel, you still can't help but feel a twinge of worry.
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And we need fun (by which we mean a hefty dose of escapism) more than ever right now — which just might be why we're finding our beauty products getting foamier and foamier.
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Taking a page from the movies, TV has turned to escapism in the summer, with original dramas offering a relatively light, popcorn-y garnish to augment the annual onslaught of unscripted shows.
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If the current fixation on unicorns, glittery bath bombs, mermaids, and childhood novelties like Harry Potter and Beauty and the Beast is anything to go by, escapism is so hot right now.
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They could not have guessed that the appetite for escapism would have grown so severe that people were literally enchanted by an app that placed cute cartoon animals in their everyday surroundings.
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Their latest track, "Escapism Deluxe"—the video for which is premiering below—boasts a bass line Metronomy would be keen to call his own, with a synth-assisted chorus that's platinum perfect.
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There is some power in that escapism, in turning off your brain and getting away, but the beauty of Environments is that its construction also illustrates how facile that whole endeavor is.
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Where is that nuanced look at the other side of the political fence anywhere in the popular liberal television landscape, which is broadly comprised of prestige-cable period dramas and fantasy escapism?
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I could tell that each element of the spa was designed to interest each of the five senses, for a totally immersive experience – and that was definitely something Luxury Escapism pulled off.
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Related: The Nemesis of Brazil's Beleaguered President Is Now the One Feeling the Heat "The great illusion of carnaval," Brazilian songwriter Vinicius de Moraes wrote of his country's cherished annual dose of escapism.
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The Oscars might be entertainment and escapism, but they're also our most mainstream representation of popular culture, which is first in line in the president's firing squad for arts funding and free speech.
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Obviously, there's room for light escapism, but also scant incentive to see a movie that feels like a sitcom pilot, or what would be turned into one in the unlikely event of success.
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When we take the time to stop thinking about the election and relax at a Bon Iver show, are we guilty of escapism, of making the political situation worse with our own inaction?
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And the women-led entertainment of 2017 often reflected that reality, or offered escapism from it through fantasies like Wonder Woman imagining female empowerment as the magical ability to be stronger than men.
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It proves that a certain kind of escapism can be smart, clever, and confident — often more so than games that grasp at issues they can't properly work through, like the muddled Mankind Divided.
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It achieves what no game can deliver—escapism into a true fantasy, to a place that exists but the likes of myself, and the hugest percentage of readers, will never see for themselves.
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As America becomes more and more divided—or more self-aware about its divisions—imagining a piece of technology that can get everyone on the same page about the facts is beautiful escapism.
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This franchise feels made for the thick of summer, for those hot heavy days when the only thing that makes sense is slipping into a cool theater for an extravagant bit of escapism.
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In their therapy sessions, she and Walter bond over dreams of going on a road trip to California together—it might be a romantic fantasy, but it could just as easily be escapism.
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The cinema's location at a busy intersection in the Ampelokipoi district of the city guarantees a big audience for her work and allows passers-by an opportunity for escapism however brief, she said.
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TV shows to help you find your happy place Whether you're the type of person who prefers to feed your anxiety, our you desire escapism via television, we have a list for you.
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A high-concept premise like No Tomorrow's can make for plenty of fun, and the show's use of Los Angeles locations looks like the kind of bright sunniness that can offer great escapism.
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American playgoers visiting London's theaters in search of escapism may find that there's an awful lot on this city's stages to remind them of political frictions they only thought they'd left at home.
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The band's most recent album, "Ibn El Leil" ("Son of the Night"), was inspired in part by Mr. Sinno's period of escapism in Beirut nightclubs after the death of his father, a urologist.
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It's a heart-pounding bit of escapism that has the added benefit of making you really want to get off the couch and get moving — just what I want to read right now.
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Fashion week is often more about escapism than about politics, but for these designers, the shows were a chance to make their voices heard in a way that comes to them most naturally.
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Started in 2012, Lady and Pups is now so established that it has spun-off into a book; Lee's moody cookbook-memoir, The Art of Escapism Cooking, was released by William Morrow today.
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And while most of us probably look to Vanderpump for its escapism, it's pretty helpful to see someone who leads a perfectly Instagrammable life admit that everything isn't actually okay all the time.
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Photographer Mark Mahaney takes us to Alaska to witness their long hours of darkness, while the California Sunday Magazine has produced a suite of wildly entertaining stories of escapism across three different continents.
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Our response to the wrongness of the world (and of ourselves) can often be an unhealthy escapism, and we can turn to the holidays as anesthesia from pain as much as anything else.
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Occasionally funny and frequently profane, it provides commentary without being heavy-handed, and escapism by gliding through the serialized jockeying for power and advantage against a decadent backdrop of the lifestyles of the .
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I wasn't really a fan of knives and swords before I began watching Forged in Fire, but it's opened up a whole new world of escapism and beauty that I'd been yearning for.
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These blind dates are the perfect escape for those who lament the decline of the rom-com, and also enjoy bite-sized videos that offer a bit of escapism from their day-to-days.
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Most moviegoers want to be able to easily imagine ourselves within our escapism, and what better way to compensate for the limitations and hang-ups of the adult imagination than doing it "for real"?
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Yuki Ozawa, illustrator of "Sanju Mariko," about an 13-year-old widow who sneaks out of her crowded family home to live on her own and write, thinks escapism plays a big role too.
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The movies need this sort of escapism, of course, but the Sad White Person Movie is so often treated as a story that explores some darker corner of human existence — and it rarely is.
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Miguel also provided some much needed escapism by serving one of the greatest rock and roll performances this side of Prince, replete with dance moves that I'm pretty sure knocked up half the audience.
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So if you've already burned through your Westworld theories by the time you finish your turkey, maybe it's time to clear the dishes and opt for a form of time-tested escapism: the book.
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The way things are going, it wouldn't be a surprise if pure fantasy and escapism ends up carrying just as much currency as the Kardashian brand of open-diary-like documentation, if not more.
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There's this prevailing thought in parts of the metal community that metal and music in general is meant to be about escapism—that you shouldn't have to think about the art you are consuming.
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Banks' findings suggest that servicemembers and veterans tend to approach games with a higher level of escapism than the general public, and tend to identify deeply with their on-screen representations when they play.
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Far from the happy escapism of its early years, the game is now about the unrelenting bleakness of our existence, making you confront the harshest of realities and the most monstrous of human fears.
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Especially in first-person shooters, which (self-defeatingly) pride themselves on escapism and action, it's preferable that the story has a simple moral: Soldiers are heroes; terrorists are villains; and good triumphs over evil.
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A lot of people are really focused on extreme hedonism and escapism, and I felt with the material that I've been curating and helping develop with Deep Sea Mining Syndicate provides an alternative narrative.
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At the end of that film, we have this dance sequence that [the director] Danny Boyle put in, which was kind of an ode to the city and culture and the escapism of Bollywood.
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"It validates the thesis that people will turn to escapism offered by digital content on mobiles during times of crises," analysts from London-based brokerage Peel Hunt said in a note on the company.
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At least half of those talking about it are fed up with her network and its employees shoving politics down its throat in a place that's supposed to represent escapism via sports from politics.
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The show itself provided a dream-like escapism, serving as a quasi- Saturday Night Live Jr. with a stable of kid comedians performing off-the-wall sketches alongside a rotating roster of musical guests.
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But she believed that fashion — an industry often dismissed as frivolous and one whose value is traditionally considered its "escapism" — not only should have a place at the political table, but also deserved one.
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In a world where everything seems saturated with politics, Vegas is the ultimate place for escapism and that's why audiences keep coming back to see their childhood icons Donny and his younger sister Marie Osmond.
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"I'm a person who believes that we should…not just have films that have messages but, depending on where you live in this country, you might need a little bit of escapism — just pure fun."
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It is a joyful, toe-tapping musical that has offered effective escapism for American moviegoers in troubling times, but it's also a love letter to Hollywood, evoking the style and themes of classic Tinseltown musicals.
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It generated almost as many thinkpieces about tourism, insensitivity, and cultural appropriation as it did essays from other women who shared Gilbert's yearning: for escapism, for absolution, for romantic freedom, for a brand-new life.
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While not every tune that rises above the other Top 40 tracks has beachy vibes (or the season in the title, à la Demi Lovato's "Cool For The Summer") these songs are pure pop escapism.
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Maybe that's why the idea of Asian American escapism feels so radical, even as there is, pointedly, nothing radical about the content of either Crazy Rich Asians or To All the Boys I've Loved Before.
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Yet Flaubert's early disapproval of his heroine's self-absorption, "icy charm" and vanity is curiously transformed, in the last 100 pages or so, by a softening towards, even forgiveness of, her tawdry and narcissistic escapism.
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Bodice rippers, however, are far from mindless guilty-pleasure television; these delightfully frothy, heaving-bosom period melodramas offer viewers as much sexy escapism as more "prestigious" fare like Game of Thrones or House of Cards.
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The video begins with the quote, "I've ran my entire life, I'm not even sure I knew what I was running from, but I ran…" representing a period in Rice's life marked by failed escapism.
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If St Vincent's MASSEDUCTION is all the melodrama that comes with intense attraction, MUNA's debut album, About U, is more wrapped up in the softness, the regretful aftermath, the escapism and growing pains that follow.
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"'2026' is an escapism, it's all the things I long to be, it's the black man I aspire to be: expressive, confident, not holding back, regardless of sexual orientation, gender or race," Mr. Kamara said.
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But it's hard to not hear something so straightforward as a twin-guitar harmony and process it as mere nostalgia, a rose-colored vision of better days—six-string escapism, only dressed up as rebellion.
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Escapism will drive an entirely different trend through dance music festivals, and they will create immersive whole body experiences for people so they can reconnect with themselves because that's half the reason people love festivals.
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With a woolen flat-brimmed cap over shaggy blonde hair, a British accent from his hometown of London and a 1972 Triumph Spitfire in "British racing green," he cuts a smart picture of Instagram escapism.
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It's a way to escape Though football -- or any sport -- could have these effects on viewers as their team wins or loses, it can also be a form of escapism for those who need it.
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Post-apocalyptic fiction too often pays lip service to serious problems like climate change while allowing the reader to walk away unscathed, cocooned in an ironic escapism and convinced that the impending disaster is remote.
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" He added that being in Botswana – where he sourced two of the stones for wife Meghan Markle's three-stone engagement ring (the other stone came from Diana's personal collection) – gave him "a sense of escapism . . .
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Is there any form of escapism more apt, in this current stage of American politics, than being able to dance on the hood of a cop car as the writer Aaron Stewart-Ahn does in this tweet about Watch Dogs 2 (a game with its own promise of escapism and empowerment that nevertheless commits some irredeemable trope-laden missteps along the way): It is telling, and dispiriting, to see how the efforts of the Black Panthers to transform their own fantasy into reality ultimately turned out.
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Take your mind off the situation Movies and TV shows should offer a convenient way to dodge the news cycle, but Hollywood's recent obsession with dystopias has shown to be uncomfortably prescient, making true escapism tricky.
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Then there are people like me, who feel like they left some fragment of themselves frozen in that moment, when Sean Baker's feature takes a leap into the saddest instance of escapism 2017 had to offer.
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"I see it as escapism," says Ali, who spent close to two weeks with KK. He and Leeson shot her with drones and underwater cameras, often maximising the sense of isolation, but also freedom, surfing afforded.
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Every night I'd get into bed and alternate between Marie Antoinette and Vanity Fair with Reese Witherspoon as Becky Sharpe—I'm not sure why period dramas appealed to me then, but it was probably the escapism.
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Escapism has its place, but this feels more insubstantial than even the early-21st-century reality-TV version of this idea, "The Simple Life," which unleashed city slickers Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie upon America's heartland.
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" NBC, meanwhile, will introduce a less-Earth-shattering form of escapism this month, "Midnight, Texas," a series about a small town populated by vampires and other supernatural inhabitants that bears a resemblance to HBO's "True Blood.
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Usually, when the skies are gray and this city's mood is bleak — that's status quo in 2016 — a classic rom-com (or rom-dram) can be relied on to provide sentimental escapism for West End audiences.
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Decades of research has shown that our relationship with all media, whether movies, television or radio, is symbiotic: People like them because of the gratifications they get from consuming them—benefits like escapism, relaxation, and companionship.
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If the Midwest was once a place to indulge in fantasies of innocence and escapism, it is now regarded as the locus of our worst tendencies as a country, a dead zone to offshore national guilt.
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And they managed dark themes with a sense of whimsy and a sense of escapism, and I think it kind of speaks to where we are in the world right now that people long for that.
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But even as the celebrities enjoyed the leisurely spa-town setting, and with blockbuster escapism dominating multiplex screens elsewhere, in this era of Trump, Brexit and refugee crises, cinema can still poignantly reflect wider feelings of unease.
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Merely believing this is perhaps the ultimate form of mental escapism; but physically, it means treating the body as a vessel of hope straight from the Field of Dreams playbook: If you build it, immortality will come.
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L.Y. While The Bold Type is a show about friendship, love, work, and living in New York City that provides elements of escapism and easy, feel-good viewing, the first season also tackled issues that really matter.
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More than simply offering up gross-out chills (though there are plenty of those), together they reveal something of our collective history of fear, escapism, and otherness that runs through pop culture and cinema to high art.
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Fashion has always been a form of escapism, a way to break away from the daily monotony, the sea of khakis and T-shirts, and the sameness that traps those who don't see the potential of clothing.
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As a vibey, synth-pop cover of "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" sets the tone, it's clear that these teens have a lot going on; however, their chosen form of escapism is cause for much debate.
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The news can be emotionally taxing for many, many reasons, but lately its been seeping into one aspect of my life that used to feel like pure fun and escapism: 2017 is fucking up my dating life.
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The board game industry had grown up, from a teaching tool for children to an entertainment for adults—and as it did, it abandoned the messages of the divine in exchange for the pure escapism of fun.
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During his exploration of modern hallucinogenic drug culture for this issue, the journalist and author Mike Power discovered there are signs that—outside of corporate culture and the science labs—drug escapism is experiencing a psychedelic renaissance.
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With the harsh realities of austerity, the rise of the far right and the increasing gap between rich and poor, people not only need a bit of escapism but also need to believe things can be different.
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Seriously though, as well as a form of entertainment and escapism this musical can educate and certainly make you ask questions about many issues around class, discrimination and access to the arts to name but a few.
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What could be more British than a man who plays an unrealistically benevolent Earl of Grantham in a TV drama that turns class division into cozy escapism fooling about on a boat that costs over £10 million?
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For pure escapism, nothing is quite like running away to the circus, and with the annual spring flurry of Broadway openings in the rearview mirror, now seems a perfect time for just such a change of pace.
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On the surface, the country's telenovelas look like pure escapism, the kind that might be especially appealing now that Brazil's fortunes have plunged, along with the gross domestic product and the reputation of dozens of national politicians.
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Cooking and travel shows can often feel like a laundry list of inaccessible luxury—think Chef's Table—a form of escapism that is so out of reach it can ultimately leave you with the feel of despair.
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I've sought — and still seek, in the age of 24-hour work cycles, hookup apps and boundless TV and escapism in every corner of the planet — emotional refuge in all the places that feel safe and immediate.
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What explains its success here is a different kind of escapism: a chance for Israelis to visit places and engage with subjects that they ordinarily avoid — and then return home safely with the flip of a switch.
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The last thing I want my students to do is engage in escapism especially in politics and public policy by only engaging in the same kind of narrow, ideological homogeneity that reinforces a sense of self-righteousness.
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In 2016, Withered remains one of the few bands willing to take the power inherent in extreme metal and focus it not on bloody escapism, but on the grinding reality that is daily life for most people.
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There is a certain amount of escapism in thinking about a life where your problems are mostly about finding a way to carve out the most comfortable position possible in your established rung of the social order.
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A 2016 XXL Freshman, his catalog is a well-weathered testament to when escapism meets existential; the rugged and poignant hood narrative returning to sweeten our steps once again through the eyes of a Pompano-bred Haitian underdog.
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"Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows" balances darkness and light, social commentary and ecstatic escapism: it is a well-gauged equilibrium that keeps the sex writing from feeling monotonous, and reinvigorates the subplots of honour killings and arranged marriages.
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Dealing with the ideas of grief, loss, acceptance and escapism, The Invitation draws you in as you try to unravel just what these hosts are up to and what they believe to be the answer to life's pain.
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It's not an easy time in the world right now so I hope that, in the old tradition of films being a form of escapism and a way to dream, this film can do that for its viewers.
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According to Klingbeil, the group of artists are using the show to explore "illusion and escapism from different perspectives," with its title referring to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
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Glastonbury excels in creating lawless spots where you lose all track of your mates, the odd item of clothing, time, space—that's part and parcel of the escapism that festivals promised so many are now starting to forget.
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La La Land isn't the first musical to question the genre's escapism—Chazelle has acknowledged a debt to The Umbrellas of Cherbourg—but its resolution feels like an apt way of reconciling its characters' romantic and professional dreams.
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There's something to be said about its absurdist nature capturing the twin elements of escapism and interconnectivity that define the current zeitgeist, but mostly it's good because he says "boom" a lot over a really hard 290 instrumental.
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But getting and spending go on; and to be honest, in a way I'm doing trade issues as a form of therapy and/or escapism, focusing on stuff I know as a break from the grim political news.
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But the burden of the prophet is heavy, as the collective anxiety of hardcore Nintendo fans stuck at home and looking towards their favorite company for a brief slice of escapism through kitchy marketing was turned towards Grubb.
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Untitled Goose Game lets you fall into the calming, pleasant escapism of an Animal Crossing game, where there are no real stakes — just the absolute freedom to be an animal that doesn't have to answer to any consequences.
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The other offers Afrocentric escapism and fantasy: Marlon James's best-selling new novel, "Black Leopard, Red Wolf," draws on ancient myths and recent pop culture as it launches an epic tale about the fight for a lost kingdom.
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So who can blame the internet for wanting to indulge in a little escapism and fantasize — even if for just one night — that their president was nothing more an old man who doesn't know how to use his phone?
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The looks are meant to symbolize what the collection embodies: vintage punk rock, escapism, and the kind of rebellious, anything-goes attitude that's been missing in NYC since Studio 54 turned into a place that serves pan-seared halibut.
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If religion and politics, resolutely sensitive subjects, were strictly off-limits for pretty much everyone we spoke to, that was largely because they're seen as separate to the escapism offered by events like Sandbox, and parties throughout the nation.
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To show the texture and purpose of the blotter paper tabs we tore corners off and poked tabs out, scattering them across the floor alongside other props that reminded us of burnout (a charging cable) and escapism (junk food).
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Still, there's something to be said for any movie that dares to inject climate change into multiplex horror—which usually offers apolitical blood-soaked escapism that's as easy to brush off as the popcorn that accumulates on your pants.
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In many cases it's a form of escapism, especially for queer people, who many times are living in one of many closets—whether they're completely out, or they're partially out, or they're out in some aspects of their life.
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"Given the glut of current real-world horrors, people are responding more to gory, horrific films as a means of escapism," said Amie Simon, creative marketing director at Smarthouse Creative, a Los Angeles-based digital marketing and media firm.
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Of course, there's a pragmatic aspect to pulling "Star Wars" from the realm of escapism into politics: doing so provides cover for media outlets that wouldn't normally devote much time to such a movie to latch onto its coattails.
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But in this sprawling universe that also covers the shred guitarists, the dadaist live streamers, the haul girls, the van dwellers and the extreme eaters, the couple stands out because they are good television; escapism without the queasy aftermath.
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"I think because in the last few years the world has become so fractious and so tense in so many different areas, with President Trump and with Brexit, something like this is a pure form of escapism," she said.
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It's not uncommon, with the world going to shit on a daily basis, to turn to entertainment for temporary escapism—at least among those of us who can afford televisions, stereos, evenings at the cinema, computers, games consoles and the like.
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So, to help my roomie and all other Dry January folk present and future, I decided to explore alternative, all-natural, and substance-free ways of getting fucked up that might provide them some mental escapism in this trying month.
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Cult vintage resellers (like Nishimoto's shop) have reintroduced the aesthetic of vintage Laura Ashley and Gunne Sax and the garments' myriad references (fairy tale, hippie, Edwardian) as precious objects that look covetable on Instagram and provide a tactile form of escapism.
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But now when he appears on-screen, the warmth of watching a beloved character is gone, and instead I find myself thinking not of the character Dave Sanderson but of the abuser Louis C.K., and my sense of escapism is shattered.
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While the historically enhanced scenarios described here might be interesting, stimulating in the moment or semi-entertaining, they run the risk of promoting regressive escapism, playing into the left-wing fantasy that superficial activism is enough, and, most importantly, sowing division.
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Lor Choc has created her own sound by combining her queerness, her pride in being a daughter of Baltimore, and her lifelong love of rap and R&B to make music centered around themes of escapism, survival, and city life.
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New Mystics, the new LA-based side project from Other Lives's Josh Onstott, has been quietly kicking around since late last year, releasing a couple of stirring, richly orchestrated singles that expand the Oklahoma band's sound into full-blown escapism.
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Rather than serving horror's usual implied purpose of helping us confront our fears, Christmas horror movies seem to provide a specific sort of escapism—the brain-dead kind best enjoyed with pie after smoking shake with your uncle behind the shed.
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This set for the ever-reliable Beats in Space show has a sense of that escapism, soaring through the cloud cities of some of house and techno's airiest corners—with a few straight-up zoners thrown in for good measure.
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From the post-9/11 anger of The Rising soundtracking my angsty puberty, to the golden sax of "Thunder Road" lending every drab British seaside holiday a sun-kissed haze, The Boss offered both escapism and grounding whenever either was needed.
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From the post-9/11 anger of The Rising soundtracking my angsty puberty, to the golden sax of "Thunder Road" lending every drab British seaside holiday a sun-kissed haze, The Boss offered both escapism and grounding whenever either was needed.
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Todd VanDerWerff: My favorite movies in 2017 weren't escapism, not precisely, but they did take me so thoroughly out of my own point of view that reentering reality afterward could feel a little like resurfacing after a deep-sea dive.
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Just as frequently, it's the ones we've already seen that we want to watch again and again — whether because they provide the perfect combination of escapism and familiarity, or because they're the ideal background track for whatever else we're doing.
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As the son of Ghanaian immigrants, Mr. Abloh said his aim was to supplant the usual fashion-show escapism with political urgency, to use his presentation in Florence as a Trojan horse for sneaking up on consumers with crucial messages.
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Rather than doing an ordinary series about escapism in Depression-era cinema, MoMA is zeroing in on a single year, 1933 — well after the crash of 1929, but before the Motion Picture Production Code came into full effect in 1934.
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I don't see that critique and your assertion that this film confronts the escapism of superhero movies as mutually exclusive; in a sense, the audaciously ridiculous nature of extremist pundits feels like an escape from a reality their followers find untoward.
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Seda Gragossian, the clinical director at the Talk Therapy Psychology Center in San Diego, California, says engaging in an activity that doesn't take much contemplation is an example of mindful escapism where brain waves slow down and extraneous thinking is limited.
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Yet there's an underlying constant of escapism—creating a feeling that maybe, just maybe, if I sing along to these songs at the top of my lungs, I won't feel as alone as I do when I'm not singing along to these songs.
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Though it would have been a number one single at practically any point on the space/time continuum because it objectively slaps, the fact that it offers both realism and escapism at once makes it especially pertinent to this hellmouth of a year.
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I believe in their potential to affect those who choose to participate in them, to dip a toe in the culture and take time out from their days for a little digital escapism, above and beyond the possibilities of any other medium.
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This is because I love the sturdy escapism that a prolonged birthday celebration provides, and also because we are both still traumatized by the year I forgot Daleen's 19723th birthday in 21972, referred to here in shorthand as T.Y.I.F. ("The Year I Forgot").
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What happens if you tell a story typically associated with escapism and brave heroes doing brave things, but through the eyes of a bunch of psychologically damaged people who beat up criminals because that's the only way they can feel anything at all?
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I think that yes, cinema serves a purpose of escapism, and there's nothing wrong with that, but I think on the flip side there is also something we've lost the thread of for a little while, but like you said, is coming back.
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And if you do a lot of the aforementioned, you're probably familiar with that vague sense of dread and escapism that comes hand in hand with burying yourself inside the internet, particularly after staring at memes until your eyes feel dry and sore.
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Back in the 90s I could enjoy all this as absurdist escapism, but now we have a guy on TV who's very close to running the country—a blond narcissist, no less—demeaning women and threatening to toss out all kinds of laws.
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The lesson of the show's longevity and immense popularity was that even in the age of Very Serious television, our strongest appetite is for sheer escapism, and once we're hooked we don't really notice if what we're being served becomes progressively less savory.
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Some of us are eating our feelings, or pouring a stiff drink (or five) every night; others are taking up hobbies as form of escapism and stress relief; while the rest of us are scrolling through the internet all day in horror.
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One might argue that such machismo is a form of escapism, but there is also a sort of self-expression in casual culture which is about absconding from a mundane reality, something which most of us can relate to on some level.
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As far as escapism goes, it's hard to think of a more ideal destination than The O.C., with its scenic views, lavish mansions, witty dialogue, and ridiculously attractive, scantily clad, mostly 20something "teens" making out and punching each other on the beach.
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Very thoughtfully, she considers her own position, and the escapism from the state of the world that the walled off Coachella environment provides: As someone who frequently sings about America, it's not surprising that the political landscape would spur Lana into musical action.
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If this combination of details makes you wistful — a freewheeling Williamsburg, weird roommates in unsanctioned living spaces, post-22011/11 avant-garde escapism — chances are that you danced to a Scissor Sisters song, or even saw Mr. Shears perform one in a thong.
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LOS ANGELES, May 10 (Reuters) - Pride, celebrity, escapism and a fascination with all things British are driving U.S. TV networks to go to town on the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle with week-long specials, live streaming, and romantic movies.
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"Movies are escapism and they are there for everybody — not just some people, everybody — and we want our show to be a reminder of that," said Ms. Todd, whose primary job is running Pearl Street Films, founded by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.
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The possibility of escapism is the main allure of many video games but by contrast FUT offers only pure, unrelenting realism—a microcosm of the capitalist slog of 21st century soccer with a couple of morally contentious issues thrown in to boot.
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While escapism and hedonism are vital during these anxiety-ridden times, that old hippie adage that using drugs is a form of political resistance in itself—to the tune of Timothy Leary's "turn on, tune in, drop out"—started to sound outdated.
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But just as we're now living in a dual America — divided over politics, culture, and everything in between —a new version of Americana is emerging to compete with the old one, one that deals not in escapism, or looking back, but rather in creation.
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I liked the idea of the act being fetish like in its portrayal, communicating the feeling that the character was using it as a form of private escapism, a pre-meditated means of release, disconnected from any day to day role and of course monotony.
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But not to worry, Colbert sang, "everything is better on TV." He was joined by talent from shows -- including "This Is Us" and "The Handmaid's Tail" -- to express that while things are rough right now in the world, there's always the escapism of television.
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If the culture of commerical EDM is, at its core, about escapism, it's hard to tell where they're escaping to at this point; amidst the remixed excess, the night plays out like a feedback loop of hedonism and impluse at last approaching its singularity.
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The experience has stuck with the Oakland newcomer; unlike some rappers who glorify selling and using cocaine, molly, and other pills, Kamaiyah's feel-good lyrics on tracks like "I'm on" and "Mo Money Mo Problems," for instance, veer away from the escapism of drugs.
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Many of the songs that "speak to our moment" and portend the future on this list either offer escapism (as on Kungs' "This Girl"), wallow in misery (as on Future's "Mask Off"), or speak angry truth to power (A Tribe Called Quest's "We the People...").
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Instead, having their feelings validated by other lonely guys online may provide a small degree of apparent relief, and even more than that, fixating on an surgical solution that's prohibitively expensive but at least scientifically plausible could provide a form of escapism, however noxious.
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There is plenty of both suffering and struggle in Maxym M. Martineau's KINGDOM OF EXILES (Sourcebooks Casablanca, paper, $7.99), and plenty of fantasy, too — not just in terms of escapism, but in the genre sense of magic and curses and a vaguely medieval aesthetic.
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Escapism does seem pretty attractive these days, and on that count, too, Mr. Green provided for his audience, staging his show at dusk in Florence within the confines of the green-walled 16th-century Boboli Gardens, closed to the public for a few precious hours.
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During a stressful time marked by limited daylight, holiday shopping, and somber weather, literary escapism is certainly warranted — and as a new Insider Picks fellow, I found solace in a good book after spending weeks scouring Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals for our readers.
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Stranger in the Alps is heaving with references to life ending; listening to it feels less like escapism and more like confronting the things that eat away at you when you wake up in the middle of the night, if they had soft, solemn voices.
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" Spencer added: "I choose things that touch me or resonate within my heart, and that's what I want to put out into the world -- things that will inspire, things that will educate but also allow for some escapism because God knows we need some right now.
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In a way, the book is a complete antithesis to the cupcakes and cricket ideals espoused by Conservatives young and old, the people who'd prefer not to think as Britain as a nation that fundamentally needs the escapism that pubs and clubs and concert halls offer.
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When Gig on the Green folded in the early 2000s, it came at a time when punters couldn't get enough of the heady escapism offered by huge festivals held in a muddy field the middle of nowhere, where the campsite party can be kept going all night.
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They love to travel, due to their sense of adventure and love of escapism, so a spaced-out Pisces may pack a purse with loose, smelly nugs scattered all over the bottom en route to a country where the penalty for drug possession is literally death.
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The estranged (dis)embodiments of dystopia are elsewhere monumentalized: Esterio Segura Mora's "Right Hand" (212), implicitly "of God," clutches a hammer; Flavio Garciandía's hyperrealist painting "She is in Another Day" (21989), a companion to "All You Need Is Love" (22013) at the MNBA, suggests ironic escapism.
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The episode was a raw one, baffling in places, but impossible not to enjoy, especially in the middle of a week where real-world news conspired to create an audience that could be forgiven for wanting to find solace in the escapism of a fantasy world.
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It's just a personal ideology on self-medication and escapism, whether it's going to the bar four nights a week and drinking or prescription medication or drug use or any kind of ways people are numbing themselves, my choice to sort of remove myself from it.
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Both artists remind us that the world is beautiful, as long as we are prepared to look at it for long enough; but the tensions inherent in this exhibition may force visitors to question where the lines can be drawn between reality and truth, freedom and escapism.
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It felt silly to be in there, escaping from my escapism, and yet it turned out that I was a sucker for this simulacrum of upper-class island life: I longed to stay forever in fake-real Nantucket with Tabitha and Harper and Eleanor and Ainsley.
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On television, we have the frivolousness of the Kardashians, American Idol still selling the lie of being the next Kelly Clarkson, and rich people complaining about roaches in a mansion ("Real Housewives of Atlanta") -- the top series, from reality TV to Ryan Murphy, are about glamorized escapism.
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Film Series Rather than doing an ordinary series about escapism in Depression-era cinema, MoMA is zeroing in on a single year, 1933 — well after the crash of 1929, but before the Motion Picture Production Code came into full effect in 1934 — with screenings through March 31.
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The fight Saturday night threatens the pay-per-view revenue record set by Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao two years ago and could dwarf it in viewership as people use the event as a reason to have friends and family over for a little escapism and controlled violence.
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Such escapism feels necessary right now, a tonic to the toxicity of the story-cycles of our contemporary moment, where information flashes on a screen and disappears, leaving one bereft of the deeply imagined mythologies — the merrows and mermaids of lore — that have, for centuries, sustained us.
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Although there is something to be said about the importance of escapism in the living nightmare we increasingly find ourselves living in, Britain currently has absolutely no fictional political satire at the moment because of reasons highlighted by Thick Of It creator Armando Iannucci and others here.
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Introducing grim political realities into a football simulation seemed to set an uncomfortable precedent, with the joyous escapism of the game threatened by visa complications, economic uncertainty and the possibility that we might sign Jamie Vardy only for him to retire and become a local councillor for UKIP.
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It is escapism, but of a different variety: to a place where women are the center of the narrative, and where the realities of living as an ambitious woman in a society still very much frightened of them aren't papered over, but explored with great delight and dismay.
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For the LP lyrically, escapism has kind of an interesting dual meaning to me, because it is both from a psychological standpoint the avoidance of the unpleasant or mundane with fantasy, as well as the actions, both physical and mental, you'd take to cope with depression and anxiety.
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When Rashad released his debut Cilvia Demo EP in January 2014, a calming entity orbited into my routine—it wasn't music that could simply offer me escapism or distraction, it was music I turned to to provide clarity, and to help me make sense of what I was experiencing.
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Mr Abou Jaoudé says that they were not seen as political commentary but as pure entertainment and escapism; he points out that whereas white-saviour narratives are prevalent throughout the decades, most of the antagonists in these mid-century films are either fairy-tale villains or Soviet spies.
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As much as music can be, and is, a source of escapism and joy, so it is also an art form that can galvanize—it communicates in a way that can cut through color and creed, spreading a message more potently and swiftly than a painting or poem.
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Building on the giant video game franchise created in the '27.5s by a Japanese insect collector and game developer, Pokémon Go has become a phenomenon that takes advantage of our nation's ADD nature, our reliance on smartphones, the warm fuzziness of nostalgia, and our human thirst for escapism.
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His fallibility and earnestness, the characteristics that might make him seem unexceptional, are in fact liberating for home cooks and anyone else looking for a new form of Internet escapism, who need to feel empowered to fail, and to make food (or art) for ourselves, not to impress others.
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Whether you're in a sweaty strobe-lit club in Soho, or smoking a joint in bed with the person you're dating, the queer experience can feel dualistic—both very joyful and sometimes very isolating—because there's often an element of escapism from heteronormative society swirling among that joy.
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" After starring in a series of demanding, depleting roles — the mother of a missing child in the drama "Meadowland," a vengeful defender of abuse victims in the thriller "A Vigilante" and the dissident Julia in a Broadway adaptation of "1984" — Wilde was ready for the escapism of "Booksmart.
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Since he began this kind of production — building carousels, bistros and airplane terminals (and, last season, a rocket that took off) — guests have ogled and chafed and debated: Is this the grossest expression of fashion's self-involvement, or a genuine moment of escapism, proffered by one who can?
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I started to like how bleak and enveloping it sounded, how that whole album felt like heavy clouds and bleary eyes and escapism via little snatches of erotica, Z-grade horror movies and cyberpunk sci-fi references that I didn't understand, but would reveal themselves upon each listen.
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Clearly, the badness of that Virtual Boy ad reached the right folks in the marketing department, because for a few years, Nintendo steered into a school-kid era, emphasizing a gee-whiz escapism in these ads for the Nintendo 64 and Game Boy Color from 1996 and 1998, respectively.
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As is now required for the hottest months, Hollywood treated audiences to yet another plodding procession of sequels and remakes, franchise starters and extenders, reboots and reimaginings, too few of which provided even the most basic cinematic pleasures: romance, excitement, escapism, comedy, spectacles worth projecting on a 50-foot screen.
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They've since released a couple of fantastic seven-inches, signed to Revelation Records, notched a tour with Power Trip (upon which we grew closer as friends), and are now gearing up for the release of their debut LP, Dirge of Escapism (out January 26—we're streaming it in full below).
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Like many young men growing up in the 80s, Angemi first found his freedom through the escapism of heavy metal, BMX bikes, and the pages of comic books, but skateboarding was the tool that stuck and sent him on a trajectory away from after-school sports and into the unknown.
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The large majority of any given night out is going to be made up of people who are just there for their six hours of escapism before they have to go back to a work life that, on average, they will not enjoy, especially at 9 AM on a Monday morning.
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One theory holds that despite the topical themes, the key to the show's popularity lies in its escapism — it was a relief to watch a world in which Brexit doesn't exist, and a lone hero can resolve all problems (except his own, of course) in time-honored action-star fashion.
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Eleven years later, he expanded on that idea for GQ. "I think the legacy that I hope to leave is that people think of me as their friend on the radio, their friend on TV, who made it look pretty easy and was a source or a conduit for escapism," he said.
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"The whole idea of having this roller-coaster ride of a heist was ... to engage with that whole idea of escapism and ... the whole of that aspect of a thriller but not negate the political and the current ... social economical environment that we live in today," McQueen told Reuters in an interview.
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"Vogue is the place that we go to look at beautiful clothes and fancy places and escapism and so I feel like if the story reflects me and I happen to be wearing a beautiful Prada dress and surrounded by beautiful men and dogs, what's the problem?" she said, according to Slate.
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The world has gone a bit crazy, and so I'm curious: As someone who's made a career of music that's based in escapism—quite literally talking about drug use and going to space—has the shift in the political climate in the last couple of years played a role in your creativity?
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The series' brazen, goofy escapism embodies a country that was seeing its numerous local subcultures being gobbled up by a national monoculture (symbolized by FBI Agents hunting down various local monsters and urban legends), but it also saw, clearly, the paranoia and darkness animating many on society's fringes, then gave that paranoia voice.
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Khoshbakht posits that, while providing a kind of escapism through song-and-dance shows and sex comedies, the genre went on to aid Iranian audiences coping with social unrest from widening economic gaps between the 1953 coup d'état, in which then-Prime minister Mohammed Mosaddegh was overthrown, and the 1979 Islamic revolution.
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Not to harp on the shitstorm of horrific headlines dominating our timelines, but when the real world is the opposite of a paradise for members of the LGBTQ community, watching David and Patrick plan a wedding and lovingly gripe over venue details is exactly the kind of escapism I signed up for.
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Major: Also, I think a lot of music, for example growing up listening to a lot of classical piano music and a lot of that music was written and was influenced creatively by the stressed times behind it, but even the fact that it exists as a form of just escapism is related to it.
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Games have also been sold as a fantasy of consequence-free indulgence, which is fair to a degree — we all need escapism — but in social environments, that notion is often extended to social interactions between players with no regard for how, say, racist or sexual harassment may impede someone else's fantasy, someone else's escape.
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The show has been hailed for its optimistic portrayal of a community without homophobia (a clip of Noah Reid's Patrick singing "Simply The Best" to his boyfriend, Dan Levy's David, went viral), its knack for light, escapism comedy with a side of familial dysfunction, and the depth of its quirky characters like Murphy's Alexis.
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The hour-long program—which included at-home performances by Mariah Carey, Billie Eilish, Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, and Camila Cabello, among others—tried to modulate between solemnly addressing the public health disaster at hand and serving as an hour of escapism for the homebound, socially distanced American populace, and subsequently achieved neither.
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It's probably an interesting balance too because do people want to spend time on social media platforms if every time they open up their Instagram stories, they're getting some type of information about coronavirus or at some point, is the value of these platforms providing a form of connection to family and friends and escapism.
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You can read into it as a poorly-timed metaphor for modern politics (one critic called the film "Brexit propaganda") or you can choose to be carried away by the inherent escapism that makes the world of Downton so charming in the first place, even as it observes real history through a fictional lens.
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This Pretty Woman lightens the social commentary that helped make Garry Marshall's 1990 film so memorably self-aware in peddling its escapism; anchored by an insouciant lead performance from Samantha Barks (best known for playing Éponine onscreen in Les Misérables), it tends to abandon altogether the film's already ham-fisted portrayal of gritty LA street life.
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I grew up with Harry Potter too, but it was the books rather than the films that gave me that sweet escapism; it was the books that first made me wish for a Hogwarts letter and the books that gave me hours of entertainment as I raced to finish them before the other kids in my class.
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While the 1980s-set series, which counts trans activist Janet Mock as a writer-producer-director triple threat, has a deep undercurrent of abject despair — as the AIDs crisis and rampant homophobia of the time is a constant specter, if not an all out villain — the drama still manages to feel like a dazzling piece of escapism.
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Its deeply upsetting content (it opens with a sexual assault, then things only get grimmer) is there not simply to shock the audience, but rather to finally shake them awake to the whole point of the story — that the violence they ask for from their entertainment is an empty thrill, that they can't find fulfillment in escapism.
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I know, I know, there's a massive argument to be made that going, "Hey, everything's fucked so let's try and forget about it any way we can," is the kind of trite nonsense spouted by know-nothings with their heads firmly buried in the nearest sandpit, but when the world feels this fucked, escapism is more necessary than ever.
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The rest of Hovelle's collection offers a similar escapism to the daydream-inspired million-stitch garments, using artful details like "fine digital prints, detailed hand-drawn embroidered applications and brushed fleece fabrications," as well "as laser-cut heat-pressed satin, matte finish applications, and new abstract logo forms," Hovelle says, to "distract our minds from reality."
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The wider question in the gaming space, which excels at entertainment and escapism, remains how big VR might get when the hardware isn't so pricey and clunky, and when investing time and energy in building compelling content can start to look like less of a sinkhole prospect for developers who can now be seen pulling their horns in.
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Their debut LP felt special because unlike most music I gravitated towards growing up, it offered not escapism, but something better: it made the dull, boring place I lived in feel as though it too was worth exploration, worth observing with the care that Alex Turner paid to his own home of High Green in Sheffield.
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By telling a story about the future oppression of artificial intelligences, set in the weird future-past of the parks, the show is able to examine power structures of our own world through a literal funhouse mirror that offers just enough remove that viewers who'd rather think of the series as pure escapism wouldn't be wrong to do so.
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It's O.K. to sit back and enjoy the ride, writes Owen Gleiberman at Variety: Maybe there's no escaping that the final entry of this series, coming 42 years after the original "Star Wars," is — at best — going to be less a brilliant piece of stand-alone escapism than a kind of exquisitely executed self-referential package.
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Even so, Housewives fans themselves are diverse — the tenor of the conversation these days celebrates how so many of its fans are feminists, women, gay men, and queer people who digest the shows with both earnestness and irony, and who understand that the Real Housewives is best viewed as fun escapism rather than something prescriptive or aspirational.
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I deeply admire Samantha Bee and her staff for their intelligent and fearless coverage of Trump—but I am way more addicted to The Detour, which Samantha Bee created with her husband, because it's just ridiculous, over-the-top escapism that manages to get in little zingers about every social justice hot button while still being gross-out cable comedy.
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AR is most often a social and expressive medium (though it can also be a utility); whereas VR's big promise and pull is total escapism and the resulting 'immersive' entertainment value (with some potential use-cases for education/training) — though that of course means VR is having to compete for attention with existing entertainment powerhouse media, be it cinema, videogames or Netflix.
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Whether she was rapping about her upbringing and music as escapism in a distressed denim two-piece on "Dy-na-mi-tee", or channelling a unique combination of Blu Cantrell, Aaliyah, and Amy Winehouse on "It Takes More," Ms Dynamite's signature sound tended to lean more towards US-produced acts than anything coming out of the UK at the time.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads HOUSTON, Texas — In this long, hot summer of violence, election-campaign anxiety, and widespread malaise, seekers of relief might find solace in music, movies or visits to museums — that is, in art in general, not so much for escapism, but for art's reassuring messages about the endurance of the human spirit in the face of adversity.
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Or perhaps idealistic: frustration that the vision of alternative sexuality and romantic escapism presented by the music of Type O, and embodied by Steele, became foregrounded by camp, played for aberrance and freakishness, at the point it met the mainstream—Steele and his fans lined up like specimens beneath the drab lights of a TV studio for coast-to-coast consumption.
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His next three albums lost some of the initial magic, but they're also chapters in a story that's as unique to British rap music as it is honest: moving from fag-stained settees into celebrity culture and then escapism, with tales of spread-betting addiction, disease (Skinner has been diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/ME) and loss of family along the way.
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Anna Cathcart, Janel Parrish, and Lana Condor in To All the Boys I've Loved Before If the escapism in Crazy Rich Asians rests on the assertion that Asian American characters are just as deserving of aspirationally gorgeous romps through unquestioned extravagance as any of their predecessors in the genre, To All the Boys I've Loved Before opts instead for a more willfully limited act of wish fulfillment.
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If TV shows are a mirror to society (feel free to add in Pacey's constant harassment of his brother for being gay and refusing to admit it), watching Dawson's Creek made me confused as to how as a politically aware generation we've managed to find escapism in the culture of a decade which was as far behind our political ideals as you can get.
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"The Last Jedi" was admired by some and disliked by many, with the divide often carrying an ugly subtext: a resentment at the film's diversity casting, while others leapt to its defense for that very reason, turning what was supposed to be a piece of escapism into an ideological turf war as messy and overblown as some of us thought the movie itself was.
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Despite being packaged like the musical equivalent to IKEA furniture, loads of 80s bangers either concern themselves with existential plight ("Mad World" by Tears For Fears, and also everything else by Tears For Fears), loneliness ("I Wanna Dance With Somebody" by Whitney Houston) or sexy escapism (INXS's "I Need You Tonight" which literally opens with the lyrics "All you got is this moment / The twenty-first century's yesterday").
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One new detail that emerged about the Vive at CES is the headset has been tweaked to include a front-facing camera, allowing wearers to experience a mixed reality view — with the tech capable of blending real-world objects into a virtual environment, rather than simply offering the pure escapism of VR. Whether 'hybrid reality' proves any more compelling to the average consumer than pure-play VR remains to be seen.
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In a time when the world is getting ever scarier, and a little romantic escapism would be a welcome refuge from thinking about whether we're about to put a second man accused of sexual misconduct on the Supreme Court or we're going to wake up to find that we are in a nuclear war with North Korea, it's getting harder and harder to find a romantic fantasy that still feels safe.
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And in that song, I needed a song that kids in the ghetto could sing along with, kids that are still in the neighbourhoods, because a lot of what we're doing now in hip-hop is what we've always been doing, talking about money and cars and this escapism, but I think we need more opportunities, more moments, to where we're speaking to the reality of what's going on.
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For their fans, the Mets present a complicated sort of escapism, and an especially convoluted escape plan; if the idea of watching a game is to unplug from the broader world, there's something almost rude about the way that the Mets keep introducing classic broader-world shittinesses like Upper Management Is Extremely Petty And Quite Possibly Also Drunk and There Is No Truly Ethical Way To Enjoy Anything At All into the story.
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Peter Debruge, Variety "Frozen II" isn't obnoxious about its revisionist point of view... though it's hardly subtle about its millennial-minded politics either… Such themes surely resonate with today's younger audiences, who, when confronted with issues such as racial inequity and climate change, are being forced to reckon with the sins and shortcomings of previous generations… escapism stops being fun because the adults responsible have started overthinking the politics of it all.
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If The Bachelor is your poison of choice, well then, join me in the delight of escapism while also knowing that the producers do everything they can to manipulate the show's subjects, jam-packing every episode full of drama to keep your eyes glued to the TV. As it turns out, drama is much better for Monday nights than real relationships, and if romance looks too good to be true, it probably is.
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He started with a list of 533 films and eventually whittled it down to the 60 plus offerings featured in the series, where classics from auteurs like Darren Aronofsky (Pi) and Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men) stand side-by-side with blockbusters (Minority Report, Groundhog Day), indie milestones (Derek Jarman's Jubilee), and foreign favorites (Battle Royale, Los cronocrímines.) In a recent phone call, Siegel discussed the series of cerebral escapism at its August midpoint.
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Granted, it wasn't perfect – a lot time was spent being crammed between neon-vested bros drinking sugary cocktails and dancing to "Panda" on repeat, and at one point, a DJ legit played a happy hardcore version of the Titanic theme song – but at a time when the UK feels as though it's drowning itself in its own darkness and isolation, partying on a beautiful island in the blazing sun while watching all your favourite artists isn't just escapism, it's bliss.
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Still, after it was all over, after we had finished the trek from one cultural monument to the other — from the Musée Rodin, Invalides, the Centre Pompidou, the Palais de Chaillot, the Cirque D'Hiver (in case, you know, anyone was in any doubt about whether the French consider this particular discipline part of their patrimony) — it was clear that behind the tulle and chiffon, the crystals and crepe, efforts were being made to bridge the gap between escapism and the contemporary.
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The show, with its dynamic camerwork, detailed production, and soundstage-like set, was clearly designed as much for those unable to indulge in Coachella's marquee escapism as it was for the crowd before her—the kids watching online because they're too broke to go to Coachella, the small town fans whose biggest IRL exposure to alternative ideals is the local Urban Outfitters, to those who can only see a person who looks remotely like them achieving something by tuning into the biggest music festival in the world.
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