Sentences with phrase «from peasant»

After experimenting with Futurism and Cubism, when he depicted scenes from peasant life through basic geometric shapes, Malevich turned to pure abstraction.

The narrative takes its cue from a peasant, surprised both by the view of tourists playing golf on the terraced rice fields along with the cohort of a singular phenomenon.

In Sandra Sterle's video Round Around the artist, dressed in traditional clothing borrowed from a peasant woman from the Croatian island of Mljet, runs until exhaustion, around an olive tree, in a personal ritual set in the original location of the island.

In an effort to rapidly convert the country from a peasant agrarian society to a modern industrial one, Chairman Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward had pulled millions of people away from farms to build roads, canals, railroads, and steel plants.

Despite Huntington's thorough presentation of the evidence, I am not convinced that the research shows that the process of assimilation - in particular, the acquisition of language and improvements in student achievement - is proceeding any slower among second - and third - generation Mexican - Americans than it did among other immigrants from peasant and village and small - town backgrounds.

Here (Unrated) Romance drama, narrated by Peter Coyote, about an American cartographer (Ben Foster) who falls in love with a photographer (Lubna Azabal) from a peasant family while on assignment in Armenia.

The fairy tale is centered on the redo of its title character, who goes from peasant to princess with the wave of a magic wand.

From peasant tops to maxi dresses, there are endless possibilities when it comes to laidback summer looks.

Even Pol Pot came from a peasant family considered relatively wealthy by the standards of the times.

Those from peasant and ex-untouchable castes are no less prone to patronage politics, as the chapters by Lucia Michelutti and Diane Mines show, than those from historically dominant groups in Indian society.

The kids will love progressing from peasant to king!

In the parable of the Chassidic Rabbi, Moshe Leib of Sasov: «How to love man is something I learned from a peasant.

In Power and Privilege Gerhard Lenski identifies clergy as members of the «retainer» class, buffering the ruling elite from the peasants.

Segantini is most well known for his paintings depicting natural settings, from peasants living in nature to detailed mountain landscapes.

Reigns: Kings & Queens from Nerial and Devolver Digital: As a monarch of the modern age, players face a seemingly never - ending series of requests from peasants, allies and enemies.

Upgrade your warriors from peasants to knights and develop your own unique strategy with specialized tower power - ups.

For most of the history of the world, the vast majority of the population, from peasants and serfs to factory workers on up, toiled countless hours and lived like virtual slaves.

Not exact matches

Like the original Star Wars, these characters owe a debt to the two peasants from a 1958 Akira Kurosawa adventure saga.

Jesus was an illiterate Jewish peasant / carpenter / simple, dirty (a new book), sometimes sick (the same book) preacher man who suffered from hallucinations (or «mythicizing» from P, M, M, L and J) and who has been characterized anywhere from the Messiah from Nazareth to a mythical character from mythical Nazareth to a ma - mzer from Nazareth (Professor Bruce Chilton, in his book Rabbi Jesus).

... they appear convinced that the large crowds who have defended Morsi since his fall are paid peasants brought in from the countryside.

Shlomo ********* from Szczuczyn worked on the farm of a Polish peasant named Adamczyk to whom he gave all his possessions, including a cow.

Spirit moves through all, including an illiterate Jewish peasant / carpenter / simple preacher man who suffered from hallucinations.

But so it is with all Christian death, of course, whose ambivalence flows from the arresting brutality and terrible glory of a peasant's cross.

Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was one of 14 children from an Italian peasant family who became a historian, diplomat, bishop and then Pope John XXIII.

In Mexico, these peasants revolted from time to time, sometimes successfully.

Much of the claimed gain comes about in the shift from self - sustaining peasant life to dependence on the market, and many are skeptical that the small gains in income mean that those involved are better fed, better clothed, or better housed than before.

Jesus was an illiterate Jewish peasant / carpenter / simple preacher man who suffered from hallucinations (or «mythicizing» from P, M, M, L and J) and who has been characterized anywhere from the Messiah from Nazareth to a mythical character from mythical Nazareth to a mamzer from Nazareth (Professor Bruce Chilton, in his book Rabbi Jesus).

I come from Burkina Faso, at the heart of West Africa and I represent here a peasant - farmer organisation created in 1996 to build a capability for representation and negotiation, to defend the interests of the farmers faced with certain trends, certain programs, certain policies over which they have no control.

Effectively, there are 22,000 peasant - farmer organisations at the village level which, since 1967, try to propel economic development from their culture by opposing imported production models.

What do the peasants of Brazil and the bureaucrats like me from the European Community have in common,?

It may be liberation of Blacks from oppression by racist society in the United States or liberation of Latin American peasants and workers from the bondage of economic colonialism and class oppression.

Women, men, children, unemployed people, excluded and oppressed people, workers, landless peasants, communities suffering from racism, impoverished city dwellers, indigenous peoples, students, intellectuals, migrants, small business people, outcasts, declining middle classes - citizens - are asserting their dignity, demanding respect for their human rights and natural heritages, and practising solidarity.

The peasant looked up from his prayers, thought for a moment, and then smiled, «Yes, he's very fond of me.»

A European peasant could expect a reasonable amount of protection from his lord, for both body and soul, in exchange for his labor.

That was the century when, during two terrible years, the Black Death killed more than a third of the population from Iceland to India, returning four more times before the era was up; when gangs of terrorists roamed and plundered Europe without hindrance; when the Hundred Years War took on a life of its own, frustrating efforts to end it, «an epic of brutality and bravery checkered by disgrace»; when new weapons and errant knighthood brought an end to chivalry; when widespread peasant revolt was answered by terrible aristocratic repression; and when internal scandal robbed the church of its ability to comfort and save.

I did not go logically from here to there but to refute your statement of fallacy that «If it was verified, it was verified by peasants» which you hold to be true but when crushed you shrug and say «So What»

Since the 1950s, millions of peasants have left their villages because of guerrilla and military violence or to seek a better life in the cities, changing the balance of Latin America's population from rural to urban.

I'm reminded of the story of the Russian empress (or maybe princess) who traveled through town seeing prosperous peasants, not realizing that her corrupt advisers had hidden the misery of the real peasants from her.

Similarly, if the development of West China follows a path of making peasants there more prosperous rather than displacing them from their homes by «modernizing» agriculture just when petroleum - based agriculture is collapsing worldwide, rural China can become a vast market for industrial goods.

«33 The reason is attributed to the availability of adequate soil coverage and water systems in Nazareth that make agriculture possible even at the hilltop.34 Archaeological digs at Nazareth by Bagatti has shown that the artifacts recovered under the shrines of Nazareth, among others, include silos, olive - pressing and wine - pressing installations, cisterns, and holes for storage jars, some of which coming from a period as early as the Iron Age.35 This led Meyers and Strange to conclude that Nazareth was a peasant village since «the principal activity of these villagers was agriculture.

The recognition of the parables as being drawn from the daily experiences of the peasant life, in the first century Palestine, 150 lays stress on the close connection between ordinary day - to - day experiences in life and the message concerning the divine rule.

They thus came naturally to him to be used as metaphors in his parables proclaiming the Kingdom of God, to an audience predominantly consisting of peasants and others who belonged to the deprived and alienated social groups.40 The images from nature, therefore, become meaningful to an audience who were in constant relationship with nature in their daily activities on the farm, with its experience of pathos and joy.

79 They derive from an attempt to provide «alternative symbolic universe» as a cultural reaction to the peasants» situation.

Other than peasants, those whom Jesus ministered from the lower strata of society included: sinners (Mk.

A people who have been pushed to the periphery from their farmland, as a result of the Herodian policy of city building on agricultural lands, the peasants found themselves against the arduous task of making an inhospitable land fit for cultivation.

Jesus was an illiterate Jewish peasant / carpenter / simple preacher man who suffered from hallucinations (or «mythicizing» from P, M, M, L and J) and who has been characterized anywhere from the Messiah from Nazareth to a mythical character from mythical Nazareth to a ma - mzer from Nazareth (Professor Bruce Chilton, in his book Rabbi Jesus).

For example, the shift from subsistence farming to agribusiness throws many peasants off the land.

The peasant women shielded the flame from bursts of wind.

It reveals something which can not be destined for the worms... this is far from all theology, simply the fact that the poorest little woodcutter, heath peasant or miner can have moments of emotion and a frame of mind which give him a feeling of an eternal home to which he is near.

The peasants never gained much benefit from these promises.