Sentences with phrase «for social outcasts»
In Küba (2004), Kutluğ Ataman interviews 40 residents in an Istanbul slum known for social outcasts and rebels.
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That same day, News Corp. finalized the deal that would make official MySpace's dramatic fall from a social media powerhouse — acquired by Rupert Murdoch & Co. for $ 580 million in July 2005 — to an outcast unloaded for the bargain - basement price of $ 35 million.
Unexpectedly and uncomfortably accepting outcasts by breaking social mores, he created a sense of belonging for them, which frequently conflicted with the moral sensibilities of religious people of his day, angering them.
«I became convinced after my study of the subject in Abolitionists Abroad,» says Sanneh, «that 18th - century evangelical Christianity represented a social revolution of enormous import for the New World and for Africa by offering outcasts, slaves and captives a moral perspective on their oppression and exclusion....
In the middle of that crowd — which likely would have included more than a fair share of holy or influential or important or preferred or religious people — Jesus heads right for that tree and calls out to that guy — the one who is a social and religious outcast, ridiculously perched up in the branches — to come on down because Jesus wants to go to that guy's house for supper.
He secured the passage of the Lunacy Act of 1845, which for the first time treated the insane as a «person of unsound mind», rather than as a social outcast.
This is especially true of his practice of table fellowship with sinners and social outcasts, a habit for which he was severely criticized by those whose religious heroism was implicitly put in question by such inclusive praxis.
Jesus got into trouble for eating with social outcasts because for the Jews, meal is also a symbol of fellowship with God.
The Exodus story of Yahweh's redemption of an oppressed people, the prophetic protest against neglect of the poor, Jesus» proclaiming the good news to social outcasts — this theme of divine concern for those who lack power and possessions is too dominant for us to ignore when we ask what God is like.
However exciting and fun it may be, the dating scene can also be rather complicated, cruel, and unforgiving, especially for social minorities and outcasts.
As Michael Atkinson has written for Criterion, «Without its iconic precedent, there would have been no Humphrey Bogart, no John Garfield, no Robert Mitchum, no Randolph Scott, no Jean - Paul Belmondo (or Breathless or Pierrot le fou), no Jean - Pierre Melville or Alain Delon, no Steve McQueen...» Soon after Pépé, Renoir's antiwar masterpiece Grand Illusion hit, and it was an even bigger smash, cementing Gabin's superstar status; in this and all of his most successful roles (La bête humaine, Le jour se lève), Gabin played some form of working - class social outcast, and he always provided audiences with a strong point of identification.
We learn the story of 9 year old John Bennett, a social outcast who receives a teddy bear for Christmas.
As Wallace, Segel soars, offering his most personal and affecting work yet and Eisenberg (who's perfected the fiercely intelligent but emotionally - guarded social outcast gambit) proves an able fulcrum for Segel's Wallace to pound ideas from.
He also elevated their social status because if you pick on someone considered an outcast and get in trouble for it, it only makes you «cooler» in the eyes of your peers.
For decades, a myth has been perpetuated that bullies are outcasts who use aggression because they lack social savviness and empathy.
Women have long been treated and portrayed as outcasts, banished to a literal or symbolic wilderness on the fringes of the social order, whether for political, cultural or religious transgressions.
Our Social Security disability lawyers have helped thousands and thousands of needy people obtain disability benefits that have enabled them to supply for their families and kept them from being destitute and homeless outcasts.
Citing R. v. Généreux, 1992 CanLII 117 (SCC), the Court of Appeal found no basis to recognize being a member of the Canadian forces as an analogous basis for discrimination: «We are not in a period of massive demobilization, nor in a period when military personnel are treated as social outcasts.