Sentences with phrase «immolations in»

With undeveloped action sequences, slotted caricatures of Asian mobsters, and a tiresome and predictable Liotta further driving nails into its coffin, Revolver is a spectacular, gaudy trainwreck that serves as a punctuation mark on one of the goriest career immolations in recent memory.

Since then, there has been a wave of self - immolations in Algeria, Egypt, Pakistan, Punjab and elsewhere, by people who feel that they have no voice to counter what they have alternatively described as «injustice, oppression and lack of equality,» or «poverty, corruption and unemployment.»

«I thought the most appropriate first guest would be the gentleman who got me my last job,» cracked Paterson, making not the first joke about Spitzer's immolation in the wake of a prostitution scandal.

Five years after Mohamed Bouazizi's self - immolation in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia ignited the Arab Spring.

No doubt the realistic depiction of murder in Seven are unsettling, to say the least — only a viewing of Ken Russell's The Devils (1971) with its portrayal of Inquistional torture and immolation in excruciating detail affected my gastrointestinal system as adversely.

Not exact matches

As he finds the self - oblation and self - immolation of Christ in the Mass, he knows that «in the likeness of Christ, he has to give himself, body and soul, to be «bread broken for you» in the ministry of Christ.»

In my post, I wrote of an «epidemic of self - immolations,» noting that from mid-March to mid-July 2011 more than 40 Tibetans had set themselves on fire to protest the Chinese occupation of Tibet.

Tibetans - in - exile hold a candlelight vigil following the self - immolation attempt by a monk in Kathmandu on February 13, 2013.

Self - immolation began as a form of protest among Tibetans in China in February 2009, when a young monk set himself ablaze.

CNN: My Take: Dalai Lama should condemn Tibetan self - immolations Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» explains why he believes the Dalai Lama should abandon his position of neutrality on the «epidemic of self - immolations» going on in Tibet.

William Carey, for instance, braved personal danger to express his resistance to the Hindu practice of sati (the immolation of widows at the funeral pyres of their husbands) at the very places in which these were being carried out.

Religion News Service: Tibetans have «sacred duty» to support self - immolations As the 18th congress of China's Communist Party began in Beijing this week, six more Tibetans set themselves on fire as Tibetan leaders say they are powerless to stop a growing wave of self - immolations.

But in the annals of this sort of charity we find fantastic excesses of devotion recorded which are only explicable by the frenzy of self - immolation simultaneously aroused.

Together they perfectly captured the feminine art of vocal self - immolation, and they were destined to burn out in their own distinct ways, one by what she gave and the other by what she withheld.

I would have sacrificed everything in an unholy immolation and lost my own happiness forever.

The self - immolation of Zac Goldsmith's political career will in time be a footnote to the uncontrolled wildfire of 2016.

In fact, she suggested the exact opposite — that Grisanti's self - immolation was caused by multiple factors.

Her hold on the establishment has only been strengthened by the self - immolation of Anthony Weiner, who was in a strong position to contend in 2013 and who was popular among real - estate types because, in Tighe's words, «He seemed like one of the guys.

Stating that those who seek to diminish Aregbesola's achievements are only a self - immolation mission, the Bureau said PDP's inability to comprehend the Aregbesola program of changing the fortune of education in the state could only help to sink the party into its abyss of extinction.

Among the more extreme cases of mind control is the self - immolation of the Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc in 1963 to protest the repressive regime in South Vietnam.

This time, the story of the notorious punk band's self - immolation is told in relatively orthodox documentary style, pockmarked with film clips of the economic unrest that lit the punk fuse in England.

The tired device of slow motion for recording a death, on the other hand, is used well and sparingly, and is particularly effective in the immolation of Bigelow and Lorrie.

Has Michael's paraplegic ex-wife, Catherine (Shari Shattuck, her voice overdubbed), glimpsed in startling flashbacks to her self - immolation, returned from the grave in a fit of jealousy?

Soon Caroline happens upon a bunch of mutilated baby dolls and mirrors (see also: Walter Salles's similar - in - so - many - other - ways - too Dark Water), learns the story of how an old black servant couple (Mama Cecille (Jeryl Prescott) and Papa Justify (Ronald McCall)-RRB- were lynched and set on fire for teaching their white master's children the dark arts, and then discovers that Papa Justify, before his untimely immolation, had figured out the secret to eternal life by «borrowing» years from other people.

He understands Dickinson as an artist in a constant state of immolation.

The chameleon Rango (voice of Johnny Depp), who takes on the moniker after noticing a «Made in Durango» etching on a glass full of what can only be dubbed firewater (making for an extended bit of unintentional immolation for the cigar - smoker sitting next to him), finds his own sanctuary from birds of prey, unforgiving sunlight, and the seemingly rambling words of the Spirit of the West from an armadillo (voice of Alfred Molina) who's half - flattened from speeding traffic.

Nominees include the above mentioned surprising slump in indie sales, the not surprising shrinking revenues at the major publishing houses, the also not surprising continued self immolation of Barnes & Noble, and my winner... The impressive (and frightening) maturation of Amazon as a media conglomerate.

Even the mere picture of her, as the paint was dripping from Marta's clothes, aligned with the artworks in the back, was evoking the notion of self - immolation.

With humor and cynicism, Lamdark's conceptual disco mocks the Chinese cultural invasion of Tibet, while graphically commenting on the tragic self - immolation of Tibetan monks in response to their oppression.

Two years after the devastating fire on his Florida property, Rosenquist completes the painting The Geometry of Fire (2011), a meditation on the destruction; «The title is ultimately nondescriptive, because there is no such thing as geometry in fire, it's just wild, totally reckless, an accidental illumination an immolation.

These include paintings by Tenzing Rigdol that metaphorically depict the horrific self - immolations (now over 140) occurring in Tibet; Fadi Yazigi, who continues to reside in Damascus, Syria, making art despite the raging war all around him; and Rasheed Araeen, a Pakistani, London - based artist who highlights Afro - Asian, postcolonial racial oppression.

Rigdol's enormous «My World is in your Blind - spot,» made of five panels six - by - six - feet each, references the more than 100 self - immolations inside Tibet, as well as what Rigdol has called the «degradation» of the Tibetan language.

MarieE, I worked in Wall St. industries in the 1980's and 1990's, and watched the rise and immolation of Enron up very close.

And of course one must note that in Ayn Rand's fiction, the most horrible fates are reserved not for the cartoonish «collectivist» villains, but for the characters who of their own free will and choice, devote their energies to helping the unfortunate — because, you see, altruism is «self - immolation» and is «objectively» evil.