Sentences with word «epithet»

Mr. Bean's Holiday (PG for mild epithets) Rowan Atkinson reprises his role as the incomparably accident - prone bumbling Brit for a slapstick - driven misadventure meandering from London to Paris to Cannes during which he is suspected of kidnapping, creates havoc on a movie set, and finds romance with a beautiful young actress (Emma de Caunes).

It claims to be nonjudgmental and committed to freedom but subsists on condemnation, tarring reasoned dissent with epithets of ignorance and bigotry.

Here have a dog breed that is given a name that is a racial epithet for their original breeders and that has been selectively bred out of a much more diverse landrace based upon one European couple's ideal of beauty is.

Defense attorneys alleged that he planted the second glove in a racially motivated attempt to frame the athlete, and asked if he had used racial epithets in the past.

I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonymous with epithets of weakness, and that those beings are only the objects of pity, and that kind of love which has been termed its sister, will soon become objects of contempt.

How he would send people out to hire blonde white h - o - o - k - e-r-s and beat them viciously, screaming racial epithets at them, then he'd do his thing with them and kick them out.

To divorce historical and cultural context by removing racist epithets in a literary novel, is the height of stupidity.

Did none feel tempted to substitute some other epithet for «statesman»?

Others may hurl epithets at the «wealthy» but the pastor knows a lonely and guilt - ridden man confused by the Bible's debate with itself over prosperity: Is prosperity a sign of God's favor or disfavor?

The cerci are found at the insect's rear, and the specific epithet of the new flea, Atopopsyllus cionus, recognizes this feature.

A recent incident — someone scribbled antigay epithets on blackboards in several classrooms — demonstrated that there is still work to be done.

A Massapequa - based business repeatedly allowed employees to use epithets against minority co-workers — even condoning employees programming their phones with a racial slur announcing a colleague's call — the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a suit against the company.

While most Mets sat complacently on the bench in the dugout and watched the action, Foli paced back and forth across their field of vision, screaming epithets at opposing players, umpires and even his own teammates.

Not long ago people like you uttered the same disgusting epithets about jewish people.

After shouting epithets at the driver, who never stops, Oscar runs into the street to cradle the injured dog.

He was booed in Harlem, and bombarded with anti-Semitic epithets.

It is the case, as Posner asserts, that the legal academy is filled with theorists whose writings will never persuade anyone other than their fellow travelers, and whose risk «averse life situation is well summarized by that famous epithet, «tenured radical.»

Since 1951 the paintings of Philip Guston (1913 - 80) provided a most interesting resolution of the two contrary pulls in contemporary abstraction, of the differences between «action painting» (the useful epithet originated by the poet critic Harold Rosenberg in his important article, The American Action Painters) and the more absolutist tendencies of Rothko and Still.

The title of the book, «The Bride and the Dowry», at first seems an unusual choice but actually makes quite a fitting epithet as it is a reference to the revealing metaphor used by the then Prime Minister, Levi Eshkol to explain the fundamental aims of Israeli in the aftermath of the war.

On Saturday, a barrage of hateful words ended in Carson's death when Elliot Morales allegedly shot Carson to death after hurling anti-gay epithets, police said.

When Michael and BBD find themselves in the same room, they'll be using remarkably similar epithets toward «deniers.»

«Patent Trolls: a pejorative or deserved epithet?

While describing use as many epithets, similes, metaphors, allusions, and all the other figures and tropes of speech as it is only possible in order to make the readers feel like being a part of this very picture.

The first thing Josey hears at orientation is a muttered epithet beginning with «c»; this is, however, positively collegial compared to having it scrawled in fecal matter on the walls of the women's locker room.

Caro's storytelling has a Homeric flair to it — he sprinkles each volume with little epithets and repeated stories that hammer major themes of Johnson's life into the reader's memory, making the process of reading almost participatory.

Taking up a popular epithet for him, Milligan calls Pell a «bully» over a dozen times.

Logue's Homer has more sense than to weight the flight of his song down with repeated epithets that might have helped a singer of tales to keep the thread and to improvise, but which only clog and spoil writing.

The fact that racists are using the gold farming phenomenon as an opportunity to hurl racial epithets does not affect the gold farmers» moral culpability one way or the other.

The first epithet reflects the joyousness of that fellowship, and the second its radical nature.

And since people who are accused of Nazi thinking don't appear threatening — they don't wear «SS» insignia on tailored black leather coats or boast funny mustaches, and they haven't swallowed the poisonous ideology of fascism — the Nazi epithet is more likely to undermine the accuser's credibility than persuade his audience.

The AG also retweeted a message from his chief of staff, Micah Lasher, decrying the «disgusting epithets» angry fantasy - sports fans have been posting online.

The fact that he did not conform to conventional ideas of what a religious teacher should do or should not do would be enough to evoke such opprobrious epithets.

Both boys and girls told researchers that the consequences for boys who were perceived as adopting feminine behavior, like painting their nails, ranged from being bullied and teased with harsh epithets to being physically assaulted.

«Additionally, the Buffalo News has confirmed after watching the video that the Senator used no racial epithets during the incident.

Fritz Zwicky, she says, was «very decent, kind,» a doting father who took her to tea when her mother and two older sisters went shopping, and who used the «spherical» epithet only twice, and even then only regarding Swiss politicians.

One simply takes the genus name, which is a noun, and modifies it with an adjective, or species epithet.

Even though homosexuality has become increasingly acceptable in mainstream culture, the rapid succession of antigay marriage legislation and the antigay epithets heard around high school campuses with astonishing frequency can make being openly gay difficult.

There, Timiras encountered prejudice from her classmates — one time, when a boy called her an ethnic epithet, she gave him a black eye — and resolved to outshine them.