Sentences with phrase «from peasantry»

The tale is both elemental and rich, and in addition to giving a masterclass in screen acting as a patriarch at most one generation removed from peasantry, Auteuil is generous with opportunities for his fellow players, especially Astrid Bergès - Frisbey (in the title role), Kad Merad, Sabine Azéma and the ineffable Jean - Pierre Darroussin (the Inspector in Le Havre).

Though the story hardly lacks for event as it traces Khayyam's ascension from the peasantry to the royal court, the period costumes and sets look to be on loan from Medieval Times, as do most of the actors, and the boxy, harshly lit compositions make everything feel even more cardboard.

The Punjab civil service cultivated an image of benign paternal rule while cracking down on any attempts by nationalists to win support from the peasantry.

He had risen from the peasantry, and to the end he understood his people and was properly restrained by his knowledge of their stubborn love of freedom and by the nature of his own position as dependent upon them.

Not exact matches

His explanation for the scale of the abuse was focused on the allegedly brutal character of the Irish peasantry; «the culturally and intellectually impoverished class from which many of the Christian Brothers were recruited.»

However they may be unraveled, the fact remains that there was indeed a transition from the tribal league with its occasional rallies of Israelite peasantry to fight for their freedom to a monarchy with a standing army, career military commanders, up - to - date armaments, the capacity to take and hold new territory.

The Song of Deborah comes «from below»; it is the voice of an oppressed peasantry protesting the overweening power of the Canaanite city - states.

This army continued to be augmented from time to time by the traditional rally of the peasantry (14:20 - 23).

It was rather a nightmare in which the peasantry were drafted away from vines and fig trees into the army or taxed out of the possession of their small farms in order to support the Solomonic magnificence.

Relying heavily on studies of ancient peasantry in order to extract from Josephus and the Gospels a picture of Galilean antipathies and unrest,

But in the Soviet version of upward mobility, the next generation of Communist Party functionaries had risen from the bottom of the proletariat, sons and daughters of the peasantry suddenly catapulted into the twentieth century, as Khrushchev himself conceded with remarkable candor.

The production design gleams, fusing sophisticated, gentrified wealth with agricultural peasantry and penury, aesthetically rooting the audience in late 19th century England, undoubtedly spectacular but not imposing enough to salvage the film from its overall narrative shortcomings.