Sentences with phrase «emasculated by»

If I had trusted that my husband was earning as much money as he could, I wouldn't have emasculated him by implying that I found him lacking ambition.

It would be a crying shame if a bold and laudable initiative were emasculated by penny - pinching.

The history of modern art, from dada onwards, is littered with movements whose subversive force has been emasculated by cultural acceptance, a fact of which the artists here are painfully aware.

In «Taken,» Neeson began as a former CIA agent, emasculated by domesticity.

Fassbender is wild - eyed as the slave owner emasculated by his shrewish, controlling wife (Sarah Paulson), Cumberbatch is warm and paternal as the slightly - more - compassionate Ford, and Pauls Dano and Giamatti have a particular flair for playing despicable characters that they display here.

His avatar, Tony, is seen as weak — as was he, emasculated by both Susan and her Southern debutant mother (Laura Linney).

In so doing, he's turned into a mike - wielding Galahad trying to save the dragon that ate the princess; by the time Dawn Botkins apologizes on her best friend's behalf for forgetting to flip Nick the bird, Broomfield is the official last man emasculated by «America's first female serial killer» in one form or another.

Emasculated by Jim's mother, Mr. Stark (Jim Backus) is thus unable to provide authoritative advice to Jim when his son needs to decide whether to turn himself in for participating in the deadly «chickie run» with other teens.

Could he be emasculated by being with a woman who's likely to be more successful than him, both financially and socially?

Rather than being emasculated by women having power, they find themselves excited by her abilities.

«The entire world stands to benefit from an economically empowered African continent than from one emasculated by deprivation and with an over-dependence on others.»

They've been emasculated by there fear of politicians.

Tennessee's defense was completely emasculated by the Packer offense.

He isn't threatened by my intelligence or emasculated by my drive to succeed.

The Beast is powerful in his brute strength yet ironically emasculated by his terrifying form.

They are emasculated by the Congressional system that is also one of the main sources of this credit problem.

Not exact matches

Obviously I'm getting to you because your trying to offend me by emasculating me.

Well that type of «Christian» was said by the Apostle Paul should be emasculated for their heretical teaching.

By contrast, traditional philosophy tends to emasculate texts like the above, construing them as mere anthropomorphisms, since obviously Gad can not be described in emotional and temporal terms — or so the doctrine goes, despite massive evidence of religious experience to the contrary.

By contrast, traditional philosophy tends to emasculate texts like the above, construing them as mere...

The overarching weakness, he thought, was «a deep need to fulfill the emasculating and benign - to - a-fault role of the good little boy who pleases Mom by following all rules (the civil law, school rules, conventional morality, politeness, etc.)[while] remaining unthreatening and unphysical.»

They emasculated Colgate and Boston University by a combined 117 - 0.

This, by the way, would be profoundy emasculating and pointless, forcing the UK to abide by laws that it has absolutely no say in formulating.

He added, `' While the PDP was emasculating Nigeria on all fronts, including social, economic and political, the rapacious party was deceiving Nigerians by giving them the illusion of growth and prosperity.

The governor started his tenure undermining the comptroller and attorney general — both party - mates — by denying them powers and publicly emasculating both men.

My ex felt exactly the opposite, as he said he felt «emasculated» by my competencies!

You know, kinda like me being «politically correct» on a date and emasculating a chivalrous, masculine man by refusing to allow him to pay for me when he insists, and it's his pleasure to do so, and I take that away from him.

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Chris Parnell is here as a fellow emasculated grad - student - partner, padding out the number of NBC sitcom actors with roles in the film, which was produced by Universal, which owns NBC, yada yada.

This is when Spring Breakers finally lives up to the insanity of its premise, with a sequence involving Alien getting emasculated (in a way I won't begin to describe here) followed by a montage with Britney Spears» «Everytime» that'll become one of the year's most memorable scenes.

Presented almost as a sombre superhero origin story, Darkest Hour then details how Churchill won round his enemies — and there were quite a few — by standing up to Adolf Hitler and refusing to appease him with the various emasculating peace deals that his rivals had been touting.

Thus, we see how the sexualization and rape of sisters by plantation owners and their being forced to mate with strangers for breeding purposes rather than for love when added to the inability of emasculated brothers to protect their females have contributed to a distance and distrust still in evidence.

The Exorcist - Lite with a Hebrew twist, The Possession is an earnest attempt at a family drama masquerading as a horror movie, one that is ultimately rendered toothless by overly familiar tropes and a emasculating PG - 13 rating.

And so into the wilds of the Midwest they go — which, as shown here, really is a wilderness, where the best job Tom can find is sandwich maker at a local deli and, aided and abetted by a similarly emasculated «faculty husband,» he regresses into a neo-primitive, hunter - gatherer state, complete with mutton chops and crossbow.

Played with wide - eyed determination and desperation by an excellent Chiwetel Ejiofor, Solomon is a free man who is tricked by a couple of young shysters into losing his free papers and becoming a slave, where he remains for more than a decade under the mastery of two different plantation owners — the benevolent William Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch) and emasculated, tyrannical Edwin Epps (Michael Fassbender).

If you're off - put by the emasculating sight of male cows with udders, don't worry.

In the case of the Ford Mustang, there definitely have been some low points - the utterly emasculating ’74 Mustang II Ghia, the comically garish ’78 Mustang II King Cobra, the tragically wimpy ’81 «Stang with its 115 - hp V -8-but they've been outnumbered by the highs.

And the Polo is a car that doesn't define its driver by type, meaning anyone can get behind the wheel without feeling emasculated or retro - teenaged.

Judging by your track record responding to women (and those poor emasculated home husband - wannabe - writers), you'll probably dismiss it.

The other reason Horizon: Zero Dawn still holds some allure to me after so many blandly satisfactory hours is that it is unquestionably the most woke game released by a major studio in years, a «core gamer» game in which women and mothers are revered as righteous warrior goddesses and in which almost every single dude is either a maundering sad boy or an emasculated angry boy or simply a concerned bystander boy, waiting for your help.

Roped off, made safe for the public, they are domesticated, emasculated, by their installation.

While a grand if loosely outlined accord was forged in Japan in December of that year, subsequent negotiations over details left the pact emasculated, by many accounts, and also without United States support.

The «market reform» of the legal aid scheme will emasculate a system established by Clement Attlee's Labour government as a key pillar of the welfare state.

There is no predicting the effect the order will have on the respondent; it may be emasculating, the abuser scared by the prospect of prison into placidity; it may, however, be explosive, with the abuser allowing their outrage to consume them and make their behaviour worse.