Sentences with phrase «by social outcasts»

Miyazaki designed Irontown to feel like a settlement created by social outcasts much like the ones in classic westerns while basing the details of village life in traditional Japanese customs.

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That same day, News Corp. finalized the deal that would make official MySpace's dramatic fall from a social media powerhouse — acquired by Rupert Murdoch & Co. for $ 580 million in July 2005 — to an outcast unloaded for the bargain - basement price of $ 35 million.

Unexpectedly and uncomfortably accepting outcasts by breaking social mores, he created a sense of belonging for them, which frequently conflicted with the moral sensibilities of religious people of his day, angering them.

Whether he dealt with women, children, or slaves, whether the persons in need were Jew, Roman, Syro - Phoenician, or Samaritan, whether he associated with «respectable» people or social outcasts, whether he was illustrating true neighborliness by the story of the good Samaritan or declaring the principle of divine judgment on the basis of «as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren» — all persons were of equal and supreme worth to him because he saw them through the eyes of God.

«I became convinced after my study of the subject in Abolitionists Abroad,» says Sanneh, «that 18th - century evangelical Christianity represented a social revolution of enormous import for the New World and for Africa by offering outcasts, slaves and captives a moral perspective on their oppression and exclusion....

He responded by relating the parable of the Good Samaritan, one of my personal favorites... bear traps are hidden, and often unseen till bear or human are caught in them... the traps are deliberately placed, they don't just suddenly appear... the answer to the question was the man who had compassion on the man taken by robbers... he was a social and spiritual outcast who had compassion on someone who in normal circumstances would have hated his guts... because his doctrine and «lifestyle» were not acceptable to the religious establishment... I have had life experiences that bear this out, experiencing love and compassion from people whom today's religious establishment demonizes and looks down upon... any reading of the Good Samaritan story should be followed up by a reading of 1 Corinthians 13....

This is especially true of his practice of table fellowship with sinners and social outcasts, a habit for which he was severely criticized by those whose religious heroism was implicitly put in question by such inclusive praxis.

The sense of not belonging, of being unaccepted by the social, ethical, and religious requirements of his times led him to identify in a special way with the outcasts in order to give them a new and more secure sense of relationship, and therefore of life.

He chafed against the limits of social propriety by welcoming prostitutes and adulterers, crooks and outcasts into his gracious presence.

21 Jump Street Film Review by Kam Williams Polar Opposite Partners Infiltrate H.S. in Unlikely - Buddies Comedy Popular jock Greg Jenko (Channing Tatum) and social outcast Morton Schmidt (Jonah Hill) had nothing in common back when they were in high school, besides their both missing the senior prom.

Since then, Meg and her adopted brother Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe) have become brilliant - but - misunderstood social outcasts bullied by students and exhorted by adults to accept their loss and move on.

SYNOPSIS: A popular college student graciously accepts a social outcast's online friend request, but soon finds herself fighting a demonic presence that wants to make her lonely by killing her -LSB-...]

The chess machine is secretly operated from inside by the Italian dwarf Tibor, a God - fearing social outcast whose chess - playing abilities and diminutive size make him the perfect accomplice in this grand hoax.

Missionization By the time European explorers arrived in the Santa Barbara Channel, there were some 21 villages on the three largest islands of San Miguel, Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz, with highly developed social hierarchies that featured an upper class of chiefs, shamans, boat builders, and artisans, a middle class of workers, fisherman, and hunters, and a lower class of the poor and outcast.

has led us to the conclusion, so far, that art is not a free, autonomous activity of a super-endowed individual, «influenced» by previous artists, and, more vaguely and superficially, by «social forces,» but rather, that the total situation of art making, both in terms of the development of the art maker and in the nature and quality of the work of art itself, occur in a social situation, are integral elements of this social structure, and are mediated and determined by specific and definable social institutions, be they art academies, systems of patronage, mythologies of the divine creator, artist as he - man or social outcast.