Sentences with word «handmaiden»

His favorite tack is to describe his detractors as handmaidens of «fossil fuel interests.»

But then, the New York Post comes along and validates and reports a position I have taken from DAY ONE — interracial dating isn't about exclusion, but inclusion; and choose character above color — and now it seems previous outlets who viewed me as hell's handmaiden for white supremacy are beginning to soften their position.

Abortion rights advocates dressed as handmaidens from the Margaret Atwood tale hold a silent protest Monday to call for passage of a reproductive rights bill in the state Senate.

For example, Elaine Lawless has studied the contrasting stylistic devices in the performances of women evangelists and preachers in Handmaidens of the Lord: Pentacostal Woman Preachers and Traditional Religion.

Abortion rights advocates dressed as handmaidens from the Margaret Atwood tale held a silent protest to call for passage of a reproductive rights bill in the New York State Senate.

Emerging work looking at the role of one common sugar in the body, fucose (not to be confused with fructose), suggests that it may play an essential handmaiden role for certain harmful bacteria.

He believed that a holy God did not play handmaiden to the system that oppressed them.

Any left unable to see the way we are enslaved by lust will end up the unwitting handmaiden of those who exploit.

During the Japanese occupation of Korea, young con - woman Sook - Hee is hired to be a wealthy heiress's handmaiden at an isolated countryside estate.

All those old yahoodies tolchocking each other and having the old in out with their wives» handmaidens while drunk on Hebrew vino.

Tens of thousands individual pension monies cast into the abyss; Fleeing corp leaders can cry baby shoes and escape; Society forced to pick up those obligations unless the politicians (corporations handmaidens) sniff «no funds»; Privatization of stolen capital and the socialization of the costs.

Since Sarah (his wife) could not conceive, Abraham prayed that his son Ishmael, born of Sarah's handmaiden Hagar, would be his heir.

Instead of remaining a free and independent institution, religion (and education and politics) can become just one more handmaiden of the secular commercial society.

«If we have any historical memory, we know science is a fickle handmaiden,» she wrote.

She lays out a great banquet in her palace, and then sends her beautiful handmaidens into the streets to call the men of the city to her table.

Virtually all pediatricians follow the dictates of the American Academy of Pediatrics, CDC and other handmaidens of the big pharmaceutical companies and vigorously support every vaccination program that comes down the pike.

After wearing, my scarf (made with 273 yards of Handmaiden Lady Godiva) is about 70 inches / 178 cm long, and 5 inches / 13 cm wide along the length with the garter stitch ends about 7 inches / 18 cm wide.

A spectacular loss in Westminster will make opposition online all the more important and will make Gordon Brown an inadvertent handmaiden to his party's digital renewal.

In the 20 April Nature, scientists claim that colony life offers celibate handmaidens the equivalent of a life insurance policy.

In her latest upcoming flick, The Imitation Game, Keira Knightley sheds away the stylish, fashionable look that she Keira Knightley (born March 26, 1985) played Queen Amidala's handmaiden Sabé in Star Wars...

(Talk show host Larry King also gets added screen time as their transgendered handmaiden, uttering the line, «That Prince Charming makes me hotter than July.»)

«Brave» performance tropes aside the role of the pickpocket / handmaiden requires physical comedy chops alongside the dramatic demands.

After about five minutes of grandiose solemnity, Park drops the charade, revealing that the titular handmaiden, Sook - hee (Kim Tae - ri), is actually a master thief who's been assigned to persuade a Japanese heiress, Hideko (Kim Min - hee), to marry Sook - hee's confederate (Ha Jung - woo), who poses as one Count Fujiwara.

There's the «kitchen wench» and handmaiden Cathleen (Morton), the educated, treacherous valet John (Farrell), and the center of attention whether off - screen or on, the Baron's daughter Julie (Chastain).

How did the meek handmaiden opposite Brad Pitt in Troy become one of the big screen's most reliable comedic actresses?

After starting out in Australian cinema — a career most notable for starring opposite Heath Ledger in Two Hands and winning the Venice Film Festival Best Actress prize for The Goddess of 1967 (which you can stream on YouTube)-- Byrne made the jump to the States to play Natalie Portman's handmaiden Dormé in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones.

SYNOPSIS: Japanese heiress Hideko employs a new handmaiden, Sook - hee, but what she doesn't know is that the girl is a pickpocket.

Yet their love stories seem like coursing through fair weather when compared with the storm that is the relationship of Annith, the third handmaiden, whose love, Balthazaar, is resident of the Underworld.

When Christopher Columbus stumbled across a group of islands dotting the eastern Caribbean Sea in 1493, he thought them so dazzling that he named them «Las Virgenes», after the 11,000 virgin handmaidens of the legendary St Ursula.

I understand your political agenda for targeting the energy companies and their denier handmaidens as villains, and for telling people that they can continue their lifestyle with minimal modifications as we transition into renewables, but it's a dead - end approach in the long - run.

Among the winners of the Ansari X Prize was the X Prize Foundation itself, which, as handmaiden to Burt Rutan's accomplishment, has been accorded prestige that in turn has granted it access to the most rarefied levels of the entrepreneurial economy.

Dispatches from the debate: Any left that is unable to see the way we are enslaved by lust will end up the unwitting handmaiden of those who exploit.

Scientists who have been skeptical about manmade global warming have been called traitors or handmaidens of big oil.

If the Oscars were handed out today the winner would be: My heart is with «The Handmaiden,» but I could see it going to Luke Davies for «Lion.»

Seo - Kyung Chung, Chan - wook Park, «The Handmaiden» Jay Cocks, «Silence» Luke Davies, «Lion» Tom Ford, «Nocturnal Animals» Whit Stillman, «Love & Friendship» August Wilson, «Fences»

«Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead.

Otherwise, it has been the handmaiden of limitless expansion of Federal spending and concomitant inflation.

Float is a handmaiden to good results, but not worth the attention paid to it.

Among those gathered here in her modem voice (through scriptural images, verbal echoes, parallel situations) are women whose stories have been muffled in the Bible's tradition — Hagar, Bilhah, Zilpah, Mary, the Lord's «handmaiden,» Sarah, Rachel, Leah, Rebekkah, Ruth, Puah and Shiphrah (the Hebrew midwives in Egypt), Jael, Jephthah's daughter, the «Jezebel» of Revelation, and other, unnamed ancestresses, «missing persons without textual authority.

The thesis of this book is that the Cambridge Platonists, among others, minimized dogma, ritual, and intellection in the hope of constructing a democratic, least common denominator religion, consequently contributing to the Augustan culture in which religion becomes the handmaiden of social conduct, «morality with frosting.»

My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has regarded the low estate of his handmaiden For behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed; for he who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name.

Rorty and Vattimo differ about what caused Christianity to begin to overcome its metaphysical captivity and grow into the handmaiden of democracy.

The psychological interpretation of the biblical text can best be seen as a handmaiden to a better understanding of God's acts of salvation: the servant of, not the substitute for, theology.

A man, a woman and her property — a female slave The famous «handmaiden» sketch, as preformed by Abraham (Gen. 16:1 - 6) and Jacob (Gen. 30:4 - 5).

As Tomlin notes, in the end theology must always act as a handmaiden for the transforming power of the gospel.

The handmaiden of neither the church nor the state, this ideology was to have an independent existence.