Sentences with phrase «about class distinctions»

Like many of Dahl's other stories, including Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, this film also features negative depictions of obese characters and subtle messages about class distinctions.

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So, as Catherine and Micah pointed out, the passage about women not wearing jewelry and fine clothes can serve as a reminder that we are to avoid materialism and make sure that class distinctions do not get in the way of loving others and sharing the gospel.

There are only about 500 similarly classed hotels in the entire world that have been granted this distinction.

Perhaps one of the main reasons for this distinction is that the Samatva Yogalaya teaches yoga only in small class sizes of about 10 students.

Learn Bible principles about racial equality, marriage, and dealing with class distinction.

The reward for your close observation is an unexpected conclusion sure to stimulate after - movie discussions about the loneliness, economic class distinctions and the nature of humans to embellish facts and even tell falsehoods to alleviate grief.

The interior of the Tradesman Cargo Van offers a staggering 131.7 cubic feet of cargo space — a best - in - class distinction that allows you to haul just about anything you need.

To Capture What We Can not Keep, stylish, provocative, and shimmering, raises probing questions about a woman's place in that world, the overarching reach of class distinctions, and the sacrifices love requires of us all.

Lawn Boy is an important, entertaining, and completely winning novel about social class distinctions, about overcoming cultural discrimination, and about standing up for oneself.

Carmichael argues that the continued oppression of African Americans is rooted in economic and educational inequality, while de Falla's opera serves as a cautionary tale about the polarizing social implications of class distinctions.

«The initial impulse for this work was looking at the way gay marriage and the debate around that seemed to also hinge on class distinctions and cultural choices about identification,» Segade explained in a conversation after Future St.'s showing at the Broad.

I presume climatologists as a class are pretty clear about that distinction — and also that they wish the rest of us were, too.

Isn't it interesting that so many of the philosophers who accepted the ontological argument of Saint Anselm (1033 - 1109) about God's necessary being were first class logicians and mathematicians: Descartes, Leibniz, Russell, Gödel, while its detractors (from Thomas Aquinas to Hume to Kant) were without any mathematical distinction whatsoever?

This sort of law is not wholly different from past sumptuary laws, which were ostensibly aimed at «restraining luxury or extravagance... in the matter of apparel, food, furniture, etc.,» as Black's puts it, when in fact they were about maintaining social class distinctions and hierarchies — and mostly they failed.