Sentence examples for prescribed ideals from inspiring English sources

Because there are no ideals to which a lesbian can live toward, a lesbian necessarily fails to achieve the conventional and prescribed ideals, because they are heterosexist.

Hilary Duff is a fan -- that freaks me out!" Yes, this coming from the same girl whose Teen Vogue coverline reads, "Prescribed ideals of how girls should look are over," and whose song of the year is a deadpan indictment of pop-culture consumption.

They not only register society's state but bring it into line with some prescribed ideal.

A systematic frequency domain design approach is presented for designing multidimensional recursive digital filters that approximate prescribed ideal frequency response specifications.

A heterosexual male gaze still dominates our advertising and media, and a narrowly prescribed ideal of female beauty is what we're force-fed: women who are no fatter than Kim Kardashian, no darker than Beyoncé, no older than Nicki Minaj, and with fewer human imperfections than a retouched ad for anti-acne cream.

They are acted out in accordance with social scripts prescribing ideals which are unrealizable, but which none the less provide the framework for our activities.

Art works themselves prescribe ideal viewing positions.

Thus, student athletes feel pressure to maintain a body type that can sometimes be ideal for their sport, but it may be opposite of the culturally prescribed thin ideal.

Since the New York City Ballet founder George Balanchine prescribed an ideal physique, some not born with a narrow, short torso, long legs and delicate arms have tried to compensate with excessive thinness, using diet pills and diuretics or inducing vomiting to lose weight.

Pregnancy provides an interesting challenge to body image theories in that the natural physiological changes push women further from the socioculturally prescribed thin ideal which these theories hinge upon.

For the average female student, they might experience dissonance when they do not meet the standards of our societally prescribed thin-ideal.