Sentences with phrase «era of witch hunts»
I am sure you would have thrived in the era of Witch Hunts.
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In this masterful biography, Bird and Sherwin draw on thousands of documents to create an indelible portrait of a brilliant, naive physicist undone by a merciless McCarthy - era witch hunt.
To make one of the most inventive and unnerving horror films in recent memory, writer - director Robert Eggers conducted extensive research into folktales from the witch - hunt era of 17th century New England.
They are certainly not above mocking themselves, for instance, the plot, such that it is, involves at one point, a loopy fantasia on the era's witch - hunt of communist writers infiltrating Hollywood by kidnapping movie stars and indoctrinating them into the fold.
At first glance this might cause the reader to marvel at how far our civilization has come in so short a time, but then one is checked by the realization that the braying mob of the witch - hunt era has never gone away - it just keeps its head down waiting for times of stress and the voice of authority to give it a new name and feed the flames once again.