Sentences with phrase «blackness does»

According to modern interpretations of LDS theology, the curse of blackness does not refer to skin color, but generally refers to those who lack the enlightenment of the gospel in their lives (Alma 32:35).

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As we do, we must also recognize that these unnecessary deaths are part of a cultural death — the death of blackness itself at the hands of life - denying, anti-blackness.

For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people, the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them.

Sometimes these stories contain vivid portrayals of heaven and hell, where those who come forward can enjoy eternal bliss with God, while those who do not will suffer eternal torment in the flames and blackness of hell.

However this morning after a pain filled, tossing and turning night, I awakened far to early, after trying for an hour to go back to sleep, with the events of this last week going round and round in my mind, filled with anxiety, every muscle in my body tense, fighting to not be engulfed by the blackness of depression, I cried, Father I can not do this.

But don't worry about the blackness of the first as this is to be expected and not a problem.

Does it help that your role model appears unapologetic when it comes to talking about blackness?

I don't have to give up my blackness.

Importantly, those catastrophes that do not come hurtling out of the blackness of space depend on us.

Living in the pitch dark blackness of the sea, why did they need eyespots?

Why do I have to qualify my blackness?!

And no, a white partner doesn't automatically make you less conscious, less engaged with your own blackness.

The son questions why anyone bothers with cave diving, and, with these shadowy recesses leading to blackness and constricted tunnels that seem to go on forever, we can only ask how anyone can have the gastrointestinal fortitude to do it.

Simien's film takes place at Winchester University, a predominantly white, prestigious university where we're introduced to six significant characters: Sam White (Tessa Thompson), the biracial activist who overcompensates her blackness; Lionel Higgins (Tyler James Williams), the black homosexual who lives in an all - white residence building, and feels little sense of belonging; Colandrea «CoCo» Conners (Teyonah Parris), the white - washed blogger who acknowledges racism yet chooses to ignore it in fear of non-acceptance from the white majority; The Dean (Dennis Haysbert), who has worked hard his whole life solely to over-emphasize his superiority and intelligence towards white corporate men, specifically the president of Winchester; The Dean's son Troy (Brandon Bell), who spends his college career doing things to make his father happy and impress the white majority; and Kurt Fletcher (Kyle Gallner), the privileged, ignorant son of the President of Winchester.

Conversations about blackness and race do not have to be limited to the month of February, or to elementary classrooms.

Your classroom's deconstruction of blackness (or race) may be written in your plans for the week, or you may encounter the unexpected as I did.

She makes the case that African - American students do not achieve to their potential because they're hindered by «society's deeply ingrained bias of equating blackness with inferiority,» the effects of stereotype threat, and curriculum that is not meaningful to them.

So does another thing Ms. Gee says when she starts each science class telling us about a leader of color in science — she says she will never stop showing her blackness, because at one point we couldn't.

But this ethnic self - discovery did not alter the fact that whiteness continued to be defined, as before, primarily by what it isn't: blackness.

The color accents recall the Dodge Dart interior, and liven up the bleak blackness of the whole, as do the color stitches on the seats.

Brunetti was struck by the very blackness of the man's skin, then bemused by his own surprise: what other colour did he expect an African to be?

Does your experience of the world support his three - stage Theory of Quintessential Blackness?

Does your experience of the world support his three - stage Theory of Quintessential Blackness, summarized in Fiske's closing monologue?

This works not both ways but all ways: do you read outside your own blackness or maleness or femaleness, or your Asian heritage or your Hispanic background or your Polynesian family tree?

Western Digital's $ 99 streaming box does much of what the Roku does, but it has a slicker on - screen interface, compared to the boring blackness of its rival.

To begin with, the story is simple yet the dialogue is hilarious — you begin the game with a cutscene explaining that after the last game, the «Absolute Evil» (you), had nothing to do after driving the world into blackness and despair.

For some time we even toyed with adding a pseudo-minimap or compass of some sort, but ultimately we didn't want any UI elements to interrupt the blackness or the reveals of the world.

They do not depend on surprise or illusion, like the central cross that leaps out of Reinhardt's blackness just in time to scare one.

Do not count Adam Fuss's black snakes on an empty bed or the snaky blackness of his photograms on newsprint.

The painting is not only done with blue pigment, but the overall affect is one of a romantic dusk in which the light begins to fall and the blue gradually turns to blackness.

«The craziest thing about blackness is that «black people» didn't create it, Europeans with a commercial interest in dehumanizing us created black people...» — Hank Willis Thomas, Gifted

Of course his blackness and his family and his upbringing has played a part in that, but he doesn't want to be defined by it.

She described dense arrays of string nailed to the wall and floor, from 1974 and 1978, as female and male, and do not go thinking of the «purity» of white as female or blackness as male.

«I did little kids in flower gardens and in church, little brothers and sisters on a swing, this whole romantic idea of Blackness.»

The conceptual artist challenges the notion of a monolithic blackness in the sculpturethat opens «Five Decades,» Which Mike Do You Want to Be Like...?

Does the blackness of her prints evoke a film strip, with a detective holding the evidence up the light?

It doesn't bother me because I'm not going there looking for blackness.

«Art professors don't know how to read blackness — as a color, a material, a concept, a tool,» she tells me.

The Turner Prize — nominated British artist's piercing images of blackness dramatically revise the history of portraiture to include black sitters and, in doing so, meditate on who has been kept out of art history.

His solo exhibitions include Awesome things you can do with blackness at Kenny Schachter Rove in London, Five Ways to Say the Same Sadness at the University Art Museum at the University of Albany, and the eRacism touring retrospective.

«The Black Factory does not make blackness, it performs blackness.

Does the Blackness of the berry have any effect on the taste of the juice?

Mutu's contribution to the gallery's sprawling summer group show, «Blackness in Abstraction,» was a brief and furious blend of painting and dance and an unforgettable sight considering that much of her performance work doesn't happen before an audience.

And the other figures in the show, in the portraiture work that mythologized blackness, always verged on being too fantastical, yet didn't look like he was referring to a distant fable, but to people I knew or perhaps had met before.

How does «Blackness in Abstraction» bridge performance?

Describing her practice, she explained: «I'm doing black on black on black, trying to make it as layered as possible in the deepness of the blackness to bring it out.»

Bradford talked about «the blackness laid on me without me deciding what it meant to me» and that he «didn't want to be defined so narrowly.»

How did you first come to focus on blackness in abstraction?

CULTURE TYPE: The title of the exhibition Blackness in Abstraction naturally conjures the concept of black identity and representing it in abstraction, but that is not necessarily what you are trying to do.

«Once you put blackness on someone you don't even see them, the blackness is an obfuscating element that obstructs anything that's behind.»