Sentences with phrase «as concubines»

Who: Elisabeth Moss, Samira Wiley and Joseph Fiennes What: A 10 - episode series based on Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel about a near - future world in which women serve as concubines for the leaders of a fundamentalist state When: Premieres April 26 Where: Hulu Why We're Excited: After a trailer for the series aired during the Super Bowl, the 1985 novel rocketed to the top of the Amazon bestseller list.

The Handmaid's Tale focuses on a dystopian future where women are forced to live as concubines under a fundamentalist dictatorship.

On the one hand, he is telling his followers and us to choose life; but on the other hand, he is directing a policy of genocide in the aftermath of war, a policy under which the enemy's sons would all be killed, the nonvirgin females in the enemy tribe also killed, and the virgin females used as concubines.

But Abraham believed, and Sarah wavered and got him to take Hagar as a concubine — but therefore he also had to drive her away.

When Sarah bore no children, she urged Hagar on Abraham as a concubine.

Set in a dystopian future, a woman is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.

Dakota Fanning is appropriately innocent and then conflicted and ultimately haunted as Beverly Aadland, the chorus line extra that Flynn selects as a concubine and aggressively pursues.

-- as a concubine.

I particularly appreciated when Peony and her life - long love (who she was unable to marry due to social position) determine to remain faithful to one another by staying virtuous even though Chinese society at the time would have accepted her as a concubine and would not have judged him for taking a woman other than his wife.

When Zoe is dragged aboard an extraterrestrial ship, she thinks she's been chosen as a concubine by the huge red - skinned male with horns and a devilish grin because he has a hard - on for Earth girls.

Not exact matches

Dabiq claimed that Emwazi displayed his «kindness and generosity» by giving away a concubine he had received as a gift to an unmarried injured IS fighter.

(Annunziata also once referred to a female bridge project manager as «the governor's concubine.»

They have forgotten that the concubine of Bethlehem, the raped princess of David's house, the daughter of Jephthah, and the countless unnamed women who lived and died between the lines of Scripture exploited, neglected, ravaged, and crushed at the hand of patriarchy are as much a part of our shared narrative as Deborah, Esther, Rebekah, and Ruth.

For example, there is the book On Woman, [109] in which he plainly makes legal provision for taking four wives and, if it be possible, a thousand concubines — as many as one can maintain, besides the four wives.

It seems as a king he thinks he has the right to many wives or else concubines.

Try to imagine a man who had 300 wives and 700 concubines being extolled as the virtue of wisdom!

But think of the horror of being one of these young women being rounded up, never to see family or loved ones again, with nothing ahead of you but to spend your life as one of the king's concubines.

For instance, a figure whom the text treats as a subsidiary character may become for feminist analysis the central character of the text (e.g., Jepthah's daughter in Judges, chapter 11, or the Levite's concubine in Judges, chapter 19).

On the other hand, it does praise Solomon as the wisest of men and he had over a THOUSAND wives and concubines.

A male soldier and a female prisoner of war Women could be taken as booty from a successful campaign and forced to become wives or concubines.

As governor general, he insisted that his subordinates make honest wives of their concubines, made Catholicism the official religion, forbade divorce, and on one occasion placed his handkerchief on a woman's décolletage, telling her, «Modesty should be the endowment of your sex.»

And just as we no longer countenance slavery, which both Old and New Testaments regarded as normal, so we also no longer countenance the use of female slaves, concubines and captives as sexual toys or breeding machines by their male owners, which Leviticus 19:20 f., II Samuel 5:13 and Numbers 31:17 - 20 permitted — and as many American slave owners did slightly over 100 years ago.

Most do not want to return to a time when fathers owned their daughters and sold them to the highest bidder (Exodus 21:7; Nehemiah 5:5; Genesis 29:1 — 10), when multiple wives and concubines were a part of everyday life (even for men of God like Abraham, Jacob, and David), when women were forbidden from owning property, when foreign virgins could be captured as spoils of war (Judges 21), when a woman's lack of virginity could get her executed (Deuteronomy 22:11, Leviticus), when the stories of brave women like Tamar and Dinah and Esther and Vashti and Leah and Rachel emerge from contexts of oppression.

Polygamy (more than one wife) is acceptable, as is a king's having many concubines.

How can we say the Bible preaches marriage as one man and one woman when David — a man after God's own heart, according to scripture — and others, like Solomon — had multiple wives and concubines?

The story of the dismembered concubine in Judges 19 is as much a part of «biblical womanhood» as stories about Esther and Ruth.

If the master - husband takes «another wife» (the «slave» is inferentially a wife), the concubine may leave without penalty if she is in the least neglected as to food, clothing, or marital relationship.

Does this mean modern American men should also have as many wives as they can afford to support, along with twice as many concubines?

In her best - selling 2010memoir «Some Girls,» Jillian Lauren chronicled her wild times as a suburban girl turned college dropout and then concubine in a sultan's harem.

He said it was only in the NPP government that concubines, ex-baby mothers, cousins as well as distant cousins have all grabbed juicy positions.

In his maiden Senedd speech, Hamilton took aim at both Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood and Lib Dem AM Kirsty Williams, describing them as «political concubines» in Carwyn Jones» «harem».

The flagstaff house is now not only a monument of corruption, but a family, friends, associates and concubines» commission as well as a brothel.

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Yirou puts Tianxin under house arrest, the Emperor wants to name Tianxin as his imperial concubine again.

Producer Nate Moore shared explained that the concubine element was ``... part of the original Christopher Priest run where they were all betrothed which we felt wasn't necessary to tell the story of the Dora and in a way we all kind of rejected as being a little creepy.»

Though prepared to be a concubine to the king, as the tradition dictated, the change to a more sisterly role never became an issue for her.

A film that shows Liberace's male concubines as true expendable assets; it weaves pretty much throughout the films narrative and holds it together - though Soderbergh's take on the glamour and insecurities of the mans life is well executed.

Farewell My Concubine may have been better received, but the Chinese director's follow - up is the more ravishing movie; set largely in 1920s Shanghai, it doesn't evoke a past era so much as a universe of indulgences, temptations, and sumptuous textures lost to time.

Keri Russell (TV's Felicity) enters the Hollywood tent pole derby as a compassionate doctor who treats Cornelius» ailing concubine.

Campion got her Palme d'Or back in 1993 for The Piano, and as Vulture noted, she actually had to share the honor with a man, «Farewell My Concubine» director Chen Kaige.

The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property — either as a child, a wife, or a concubine — must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

So Laban threw Bilhah into the bargain, giving Rachel status as a dowered wife, and Jacob the possibility of a concubine in time.

He had lain with his wives and concubines in the fields, as an old midwife suggested, and all he had gotten for that effort was an itchy backside and bruises on his knees.

The movie adaptation of Lilian Lee's Farwell to my Concubine is widely renowned and celebrated, but the novel perhaps not as much, and that's a shame.

Tzu Hsi, known as Orchid as a girl, was one among hundreds of concubines whose sole purpose was to bear the Emperor a son.

Moving from the intimacy of the concubine quarters into the spotlight of the world stage, Orchid must face not only the perilous condition of her empire but also a series of devastating personal losses, as first her son and then her adopted son succumb to early death.

Along with her husband, a harem of concubines, and a phosphorescent porcupine, she remains, as always, in hiding from the Polynesian Mafia.

As Epic Games and Cliffy B decided they would rather sit around drinking Mai Tai's, on a desert island surrounded by scantily clad concubines, development duties have been moved onto The Coalition (previously known as Black Tusk StudiosAs Epic Games and Cliffy B decided they would rather sit around drinking Mai Tai's, on a desert island surrounded by scantily clad concubines, development duties have been moved onto The Coalition (previously known as Black Tusk Studiosas Black Tusk Studios).