Sentence examples for romantic projection from inspiring English sources

Hawke The first two films are so much about romantic projection.

There was, to be sure, a good deal of romantic projection involved in seeing Rembrandt as the patriarch of painterly integrity.

And yet at the same time, marriage remains a romantic projection, a utopian realm in which all our contending unruly drives find simultaneous and permanent fulfillment in a world of transience.

By exploiting their universe of exaggerated narratives, he taunts his audience with a romantic projection of what England was. .

Here, she doesn't sound angry about the boy who let her down, just bummed by her own romantic projections.

Here are clumsy 18-year-olds pretending to be loving couples, photographed in front of magnolias and azaleas, defenseless targets of the romantic projections of their parents.

The weary, cynical, yet romantic Rawlings is a projection of Hemingway himself: he has "big shoulders and a walk like a gorilla", likes raw onions, corned beef, neat whisky and Chopin records, and drinks at Chicote's bar.

Over a three-year correspondence with James, she had come to embody his romantic, idealized and eroticized projection of the Adirondacks, but there is absolutely no evidence that theirs was anything more than a platonic friendship.

I've been in enough failed relationships, both familial and romantic, to know that projection rarely works as a solid foundation.

In reality the successive sexual experiences accumulated during adolescence undermine and rapidly destroy all possibility of projection of an emotional and romantic sort; progressively, and in fact extremely quickly, one becomes as capable of love as an old slag.

Core essences of ballet — academic virtuosity, big-theater projection, formal grace, boy-hunts-girl romantic drama and spectacular ceremony — were forged in the era of 19th-century Romanticism in ways that audiences continue to respect.