Sentences with phrase «wailing women»

«I felt that Cory's expeditions into the frozen landscape were not just a hunter doing his job, but excursions into his own despairing psyche,» Cave said, «and the ghost - choir, the wailing women's voice and the muttered poetry all added up to a kind of haunting.»

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The blood of the men, women and child victims cries and wails for justice... let be so!

It was a more genteel time of boîtes and café - concerts, and disturbances would usually be limited to a some night owl on a bender wailing about his faithless woman or some lady hysterical over seeing her man with another woman.

God kicking through a woman's pregnant belly, God nursing from a woman's breasts, God furrowing his brow and concentrating with all his might to form the word «mama,» God releasing a cute baby belly laugh, God wailing late into the night.

the Israelite prophet Ezekiel deplored the fact that Jewish women in Jerusalem were «sitting and wailing for Tammuz» instead of being loyal to the God of their fathers.5

In the time of Jeremiah the Jewish women were rebuked for «kneading dough to make crescent - cakes in honour of the queen of heaven», the latter being the Babylonian goddess Ishtar.4 A little later Ezekiel found them «sitting and wailing for Tammuz».5

We could also look at the religious subjugation of women in Saudi, at the case of the Indian woman who died in Ireland because a Catholic hospital refused to abort her non-viable fetus, at the Magdalene Laundries, at women being arrested at Jerusalem's wailing Wall — religion has been a driving force in pinning women to inferior or powerless positions for millennia.

, get it together woman, playtime on the playmat, baby falls asleep for another 20 minutes and you manage to shower but forget to use shampoo on your hair, dress in last remaining pair of clean underpants plus jeans that still barely zip and a t - shirt that reminds you of your old life, retrieve now - wailing baby from clothing hamper aka crib, sit down to nurse again.

the woman wailed.

Though the woman wails, her own face remains a picture of seen - it - all determination.

But the experience of sitting through all 160 minutes of Les Mis can feel less like an awards bash than an epic wake, at which the band is always playing and women forever wailing.

If I want greatness I will watch «Ben - Hur» I just hope they don't do that music... I don't know how to describe it but you know like «Black Hawk Down» some Arab woman wailing in key.

The two leading women by the way, absolutely wail on each other in these action scenes.

Robin Wright's performance in «Woman Woman» as a fierce, wailing Amazon is a delightful departure from her usual calm and contained roles.

Weiner, Amanda Knox, Gleason, Jim: The James Folly Story, One More Time With Feeling, Supersonic, Certain Women, Team Foxcatcher, The Handmaiden, Krisha, Michael Jackson's Journey From Motown To Off The Wall, Toni Erdmann, Moonlight, Paterson, Westworld, Reggie Watts: Spatial, The Get Down, The Night Of, Vinyl, Under The Shadow, The Wailing

Also, discuss how Nina grieves: «With her free hand, she touches her face to make sure» (p. 4); «Again she thinks about those dark - skinned, Mediterranean women, women in veils, women with long messy hair, and she wishes she could beat her breast and wail» (p. 6).

On one side, the Irish woman who had discovered the body was blubbering and wailing prayers unfamiliar (because they were Catholic) and unintelligible (because she was blubbering) that prickled the hair in Kurtz's ear; on the other side was her soundless and despairing niece.

Sometimes a woman slips inside a man and wails like the memory of making love.

Setting the tone for the exhibition, her wailing figuration calls to mind the haunting incarnations of the weeping woman in folktales, wandering the liminal space between the living and the dead, keening for lost loves.

A woman ahead was told that she had to check her water bottle and she wailed, «But how will I stay hydrated?»

Fellow Cycle Hire riders moan: one woman passed wailing that she hadn't thought it would be so hard.