Sentence examples for preoccupation with appearance from inspiring English sources
Some fret that the preoccupation with appearance is leading to a shallower society, and to a host of social horrors from family breakdown to eating disorders.
It is when such a preoccupation with appearance undermines the whole point of getting case studies - that these real people give a dose of genuine authenticity to a story.
The fact that men too face pressure to look a certain way, and engage in constant efforts to improve their appearance, however, is not on its own sufficient to show that women's (and men's) preoccupation with appearance is not objectifying.
Because of the pervasiveness of this disciplinary power that inscribes femininity, women's constant preoccupation with appearance has come to be regarded as something natural and voluntary; it is something that women have internalised.
The impact of the intervention was assessed by self-reported daily measures of symptom severity (preoccupation with appearance, appearance-related checking behaviors, appearance-related distress, and strength of belief that their main problem is their appearance) and standardized clinician ratings of BDD severity (Yale Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale modified for BDD).
Years ago I wrote a book called Beyond the Looking Glass: America's Beauty Culture and tried to discover when and where our preoccupation with appearance ends.
Inevitably the stand-out performer is the excellent Matt Smith who, with his square jaw and clean-cut aspect, perfectly embodies Bateman's preoccupation with appearances.
Of course, the prime minister, Italy's richest man, who has three accounting fraud cases pending against him, has never exactly been paralyzed by a preoccupation with appearances.
The "final straw" was an ethical betrayal, of sorts, a preoccupation with appearances over substance.
"What effect has your preoccupation with your appearance had on your life?" Three.
In the first, his sister Amy rebels against their father's preoccupation with her appearance (weight, mostly) by impersonating people on the phone with such accuracy that no one can tell her from the impersonatee.
