Sentences with phrase «black servants»

They have a couple of black servants (as for why they refuse to hire white servants comes out clearly enough).

She also makes the school's black servant girl feel good about herself.

Those fears only multiply as they leave Manhattan and head to mansion country, where the roads are patrolled by suspicious policemen, the grounds tended by black servants.

With the title reminiscent of Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel Gone with the Wind, the provocative piece uses silhouetted figures to portray slavery - era violence; white masters can be seen performing sex acts on black servants while other characters grope and defecate on each other.

Meanwhile, the movie brews a fine tension between the limits of parental largesse and Chris's own independence, while a disquieting number of black servants look on like wide - eyed zombies.

Angry picketers and tabloid headlines scream for Spell's conviction as black servants are fired by their fearful white employers.

Trouble ensues in the form of uncomfortable cocktail parties with lots of rich White retirees, brushes with the befuddling Black servants, and an insidious suburban scheme.

Meanwhile, the family's black servants disquietingly look on like wide - eyed zombies.

In Naming the Money 2014, 100 cut - out life size figures depict Black servants and labourers who Himid individualises, giving each of them a name and story to work against the sense of the powerless mass.

Swallow Hard: The Lancaster Dinner Service (2007), in which beautifully painted black servants and greedy landowners are overlaid on English porcelain, confronts Lancaster's links with the slave trade.

Gates may refer to black servant status as shoeshine boys, to the deep history of Western culture, or to nothing at all.

One recognizes Hollywood's age - old vocabulary of hysteria — the overeager black servant, the gospel - driven inner transformation, the Frankenstein's monster animated by lightning, the one and only love.

She has a castrato singing, her hairdresser, a young girl and two black servants listening.

The work draws attention to the stories of black servants who supported wealthy Europeans in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The advertisement included the text «Get your own black» (Box), an allusion to owning black servants, although ostensibly referring to the black branding.7, 8 The tobacco company was forced to withdraw the offensive advertisement — a resounding victory for the NAC on behalf of Aboriginal people.

Selected text from Naming The Money Catalogue The idea of a portrait as the likeness of a person, and to some extent a revelation of the inner character, is turned on its head when examining portraits of black servants.

A black servant is the last person seeing President Lincoln walking away from the camera after his Amendment has been passed.

When confronted, Violet denies knowing anything about the apothecary and pins ownership of the sorcery objects on the previous owners» black servants (Ronald McCall, Jeryl Prescotts) who lived in the upstairs room.

Throw in a Dad (Bradley Whitford) who's «not racist because he voted for Obama», hypnotist Mum (Catherine Keener) who wants to «cure» Chris» smoking habit and the oddly compliant and out of place behaviour of the black servants Walter and Georgina (Marcus Henderson and Betty Gabriel) and you have a film where we know something is amiss from the moment they arrive.

That's what Chris wants to know when Rose drags him to her parents» posh home, which is full of casual professional - class wealth, including the black servants they keep on from a sense (so they say) of noblesse oblige.

Rose's parents, Dean and Missy — played by Bradley Whitford and Catherine Keener, respectively — are the kind of affluent liberal white people who can't be racist because they consider their black servants to be «like family».

When victory is near, a weary Lincoln tells his black servant, «I assume I'll get used to you.»

More concerning is the strange behavior of the family's two black servants.

* Agaat, by Marlene Van Niekerk, about South Africa from the 1940's to present time, and the relationship between a black servant and the woman she works for.

The last section primarily focuses on Dilsey, one of the Compsons» black servants.

Austen herself, living in rural Hertfordshire, mentions in a letter the black servant of a neighboring household; these servants were often freed slaves, brought over from the family's estates in the Caribbean.

Closely based on the real - life experience of the author's mother - in - law, this gripping tale is a quiet commentary on separation and loss, as Devorah realizes how a black servant can be forced by law to live apart from her child.

Among them are a spittoon shaped like a black man's head, a golliwog - costumed mannequin, a Topsy - Turvy doll that allowed children to flip between a black servant boy and his white counterpart, and several sculptures of small black slave boys.

Her magnum opus here, A Fashionable Marriage, is a restaging of a scene from Hogarth's Marriage a la Mode (the original of which contains two black servants) as a collection of collaged and cut - out life - size grotesques.

Her 2007 paintings on butter dishes, jugs, plates and tureens overlay the glazed crockery with fat - cat country squires lumbering about on horses, black servants and slaves, querulous ladies pondering the abolition of slavery, in a motley procession of 18th and 19th - century types.

Ken Johnson: «A Tintin - style painting for a Bittercomix cover shows a happy white man on safari in an antique car driven by a black servant.

He turned to an illustration depicting the antebellum South, with a young white couple dressed in ornate evening wear, while a black servant slices up pieces of ham and gently slides them onto their plates.