Sentences with phrase «concubine who»

Shao Jun is a former concubine who was inducted into the Assassin Order after the death of Emperor Zhengde (Ming Dynasty emperor from 1505 - 1521) whom she served.

Fame is the responsibility, the perennial discipline, the concubine who solicits and imbibes, bit by bit, the love, the relations, the serenity, and the soul, leaving behind the subaqueous plaudits that pinch to the core..

These dudes are just weak overlords who are just seeking the aggrandizement of themselves, their families, friends, associates and concubines who are quicker to despoil their subjects than govern, can't you see?

Not exact matches

Then Kristine read the story of the concubine from Judges 19 who was thrown to a mob by her husband, gang - raped, killed, and dismembered.

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.

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

He no longer threatened to shoot parishioners who might criticize him for keeping a concubine, for he had no concubine.

In the evening she went, and in the morning she returned to the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's eunuch who kept the concubines.

and Esther praised for graciously submitting (by illegally requesting an audience with her husband, who she was forced to marry after he slept with hundreds of other concubines to pick his favorite?!).

No one exemplifies the ostentatious nature of the Capitol residents better than Elizabeth Banks» Effie Trinket, the District 12 liaison who wears more makeup than a concubine.

What a disappointment from Chen Kaige, who has made great movies («Farewell, My Concubine») and no doubt will make them again.

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

Jane Campion took the prize for «The Piano» in 1993, but she shared the award with director Chen Kaige, who tied for the Palme with his «Farewell My Concubine.»

Campion, who is the first and only female filmmaker to have won the coveted Palme d'Or in 1993 for her film The Piano (which she shared with Chen Kaige for Farewell My Concubine), has assembled a first - time female - majority panel which include: director Sofia Coppola, actress Carole Bouquet, Iranian actress Leila Hatami, Korean actress Jeon Do - yeon, director Nicolas Winding - Refn, actor Gael Garcia Bernal, actor Willem Dafoe, and Chinese director and former Cannes award - winner Jia Zhangke.

That would have made Rachel a concubine and him a fool for paying with a year of his life for a girl who had only a grindstone, a spindle, and the clothes on her back to her name.

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.

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.

Emperor Jiajing was the eleventh emperor of the Ming dynasty and was alleged to have been a sexual sadist who tortured his concubines.

For instance, there's the heavily armored Blood Knight who stands in stark contrast to the Vampire Concubine.

Many figures with little relevancy to the period, particularly the female figures who for the most part did not participate in any of the battles, have larger roles; Koshosho, notable for being Motochika Chosokabe's concubine in real life, becomes his primary rival in his conquest of Shikoku and is the representative of the Miyoshi clan in - game.