Sentences with phrase «brahmin who»

I came across the story of Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak, an Indian Brahmin who has spent his life

Few men on earth had less in common: Khrushchev was a short, pudgy, uneducated Russian peasant who'd climbed to power by tenacity and brutality; Lodge was a tall, thin, Harvard - educated Boston Brahmin who'd been born into America's aristocracy, scion of one of the families immortalized in an old New England toast: Here's to good old Boston, Home of the bean and the cod, Where the Lowells speak only to the Cabots And the Cabots speak only to God.

At least the brahmins who represented Aryan orthodoxy affirmed an ambiguously defined brahman.

Not exact matches

Women who want to take a bit of Boston's beauty home with them visit Mario Russo's salon to pick up nail polishes with names like Boston Brahmin and Red Socks.

As a 600 AD, Muslim traveller noted, the Hindu Brahmins, who were the keepers of the faith keep changing their histories and stories to fit their needs.

They found initial expression in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries among Brahmin intellectuals who were disillusioned with British rule and sought a more traditionalist basis for political and cultural identity.

Your argument is just like that of Brahmins in my country who used to scare people that solar eclipse occurs bcoz we made the gods angry and lightning strikes for the same reason.

At the top were the Brahmins, who considered themselves as the most ritually pure.

Even so, said the Buddha, is the case of the ascetics and the Brahmins, each of whom sees only a part of the truth, and who claims «This is true, not that; or that is true, not this.»

One of a host ofCatholic youngsters who toted bags for the Brahmins, Ouimet popularized golfthe country over when, at the age of only 20, he defeated Harry Vardon and TedRay, Britain's greatest, in the playoff round of the U.S. Open.

The vast majority of the consumers are not the among the legion of sports memorabilia collectors who covet Michael Jordan's jockstrap but rather are Japanese fashion Brahmins with an eye for camp who actually wear what they purchase.

He was a Brahmin [member of the highest Hindu caste] who devoted his life to saving untouchables [the lowest caste] from the horrible job of cleaning dry latrines with their bare hands.

The sales associate who once sold me a Brahmin told me they are popular with young attorneys because they have enough structure to sit nicely on a table or floor and enough polish / professionalism / organization for the courtroom, and yet they are stylish enough to go out to a bar with jeans.

With small tilts of her head, darting looks, nervous flutters and a Brahmin imperiousness that gradually eases and warms, Ms. Streep creates an acutely moving portrait of a woman who in liberating herself helps instigate a revolution.

Set in an alternate Victorian London, this fantasy is about Dr. Maya Witherspoon, daughter of a Brahmin lady and an English physician, who practices both standard Western medicine and the magic of India.

The Velveteen Rabbit Beatrix Potter's A Tale of Two Bad Mice The Three Little Pigs How the Leopard Got his Spots by Rudyard Kipling The Three Bill Goats Gruff Johnny Appleseed The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen How the Camel Get His Hump by Rudyard Kipling Jack and the Beanstalk Goldilocks Pecos Bill Rip Van Winkle Rumpelstiltskin The Elephant's Child by Rudyard Kipling John Henry How the Rhinocerous Got His Skin Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby The Night Before Christmas Anansi Red Riding Hood Tom Thumb Noah and the Ark The Legend of Sleepy Hollow The Emperor's New Clothes Paul Bunyan Pinocchio Annie Oakley Davy Crocket Parables That Jesus Told Aladdin Beatrix Potter's Tales of Mr. Jeremy Fisher Mose the Fireman The Bremen Town Musicians Beatrix Potter's The Tailor of Gloucester The Emperor and the Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen Princess Scargo and the Birthday Pumpkin The Boy Who Drew Cats The Firebird Follow the Drinking Gord The Tiger and the Brahmin Peachboy The Monkey People Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit The Steadfast Tin Soldier Squanto and the First Thanksgiving The Fisherman and his Wife Stormalong

The Palazzo Barbaro on the Grand Canal in Venice has played host to Henry James, who used it as the setting of The Wings of the Dove; to Isabella Stewart Gardner, who designed her museum in Boston to mimic the space's splendor; to other members of the Boston Brahmin, who brought over guests such as John Singer Sargent and Robert Browning; and to centuries of Venetian elite, who occupied the opulent confines since it opened in 1465, which was, you know, a few decades before the Italian Christopher Columbus came to America.