Sentences with phrase «classist in»

Belonging to a distinctive tradition of British school of painting, Yiadom - Boakye is a classist in her practice.

«I, Tonya» is a meditation on upward mobility and the elusiveness of achieving the American dream, showing that systems are in check to prevent a true meritocracy, be they patriarchal or classist in nature.

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Christ came to the people who, during that time, were not even allowed to give offerings to «god» in the temple: they were poor and considered worthless ~ it was a time of a classist society.

Just as androcentric competition in the polis had the dark underside of classist, racist, and sexist repressions of women - slaves - children, so Greco - Roman cultures and politics came to renounce even their limited democratic ideals and practices in the pursuit of the certainties and necessities of militaristic imperialism.

In keeping with its origins in traditionalist Spain, Opus Dei is quite rigidly classist and sexist; thus, university - trained people are segregated from others and men are segregated from women, who are given essentially housekeeping jobIn keeping with its origins in traditionalist Spain, Opus Dei is quite rigidly classist and sexist; thus, university - trained people are segregated from others and men are segregated from women, who are given essentially housekeeping jobin traditionalist Spain, Opus Dei is quite rigidly classist and sexist; thus, university - trained people are segregated from others and men are segregated from women, who are given essentially housekeeping jobs.

How could the child of a slave, raised in poverty in a racist and classist society, love God so totally and unconditionally and ask nothing but the privilege of service?

It's not that I hate the book: it's that it symbolizes the modern evolution of casual citations of Michael Moore movies and easy reliance on simplistic conspiracy theories that I think gives over-educated white people a dose of comfort for the guilt of living in a racist, classist soc

It's not that I hate the book: it's that it symbolizes the modern evolution of casual citations of Michael Moore movies and easy reliance on simplistic conspiracy theories that I think gives over-educated white people a dose of comfort for the guilt of living in a racist, classist society.

As quick to fire off a barbed tweet as he is with a parliamentary put down, in recent years Bryant has fallen out with both the singer James Blunt — who labelled the then shadow arts minister a «classist gimp» after Bryant suggested his music career had benefited from a wealthy background - and the boxer Tyson Fury.

Blunt accused Bryant of being a «classist gimp» after the frontbencher questioned why so many leading figures in the acting and singing professions had been privately educated.

For the first time in many of our lives, we now have a president who rose to office on the power of racist, sexist, classist, and xenophobic campaign promises.

Historians and classists have studied in detail the language of Elements — which was first written on papyrus in Greek — and how its text changed over time.

The adultery is bad, and the extortion that follows is only to be expected (squint a little and Adrian Lyne could have been directing this milk - fed, soft - porn crapulence in the»80s), but the moment that Charles consults black mail - boy Winston (The RZA) for advice on what to do with criminals is the moment Derailed identifies itself as the worst kind of classist, racist, misogynistic bullshit.

Making Scooby a star in the same way Mark Borchardt gained a measure of dubious celebrity through American Movie, «Non-fiction» deflates its potential for classist vitriol with Solondz's fourth - wall breaking introduction of a film editor (Franka Potente).

In response, Blunt called Bryant a «classist gimp,» while theatre legend Sir Michael Gambon said «the more Old Etonians [who go into acting,] the better».

It's hard not to empathize with this troubled teen and his equally mercurial mother, but the writer - director undercuts his characters by wallowing in classist squalor

The young heir to a vast Mexico City banking empire runs away from the cold, corrupt, racist, money - driven, super-elite, super-rich, classist world into which he was born, takes a wrong turn down a wrong road, and finds himself stranded in a poor, remote, beach community where he experiences a love at first sight with an exotically beautiful local girl — one that will place him — and her — in grave danger at the hands of a ruthless drug lord.

It's classist snobbery in the extreme.

(For example: «Do not advocate for your issue in ways that are racist, sexist, heterosexist, cissexist, sizeist, ableist, ageist, classist, etc.»)

The title of the show is attributed to English Pre-Raphaelite artist Sir Frederic Leighton's famous classist painting Flaming June (1895) which portrays a sleeping woman in a vibrant orange gown.

The satirical performance commented on the U.S. capitalism system, the classist nature of the high - art world, and on the superficial value of «whiteness» in U.S. racial politics.

Writing for the Outline, Miles Howard attacks Willard Thames» approach, saying it «slots neatly into the classist myth that millions of adults in this country [the US] still believe.»

We are wrapped up in our classist history perhaps — we want to be the well - heeled retainers of well - heeled clients, but if lawyers are going to help with the access to justice crisis we will have to be the middle - class (even lower middle - class) agents of middle - class clients.

• The illegibility of Ashley Smith's agencies in the Smith case functions as a technology of governance that serves to maintain the invisibility of, and even further obscure, the agencies and voices of adolescent young women from the formal discourses of law while supporting racist, classist, unequal valuations of which mothers are «good» and count;

At the heart of this kind of thinking, of course, is the sexist, classist belief that «prostitution is bad» (even though it's not universally illegal in the US).