Sentences with phrase «in a harem in»

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To announce its staff holiday party this year, the retailer sent out an internal flyer to employees instructing them to «break out» their «juttis, kurtas, turbans, saris, lehenga cholis and harem pants,» referring to apparel worn in South Asia.

On this day, he is wearing green - gray harem pants (he has several pairs in various colors) and a triangle necklace to commemorate the birth of his son, Summit.

«What we're seeing in our economy is corporate harems, where a few men - company CEOS and senior managers - are extracting the value created by female labour - value that used to be extracted by husbands or fathers.»

In other parts of the world, they face much worse — including the beheader's knife and the kidnapper's harem — but Eberstadt's lens is usefully focused on us.

the Bible did nOT support them keeping harems... just because something is recorded in the Bible doesnot mean it is supported..

David's adultery, and David and Solomon's harems come to mind, particularly in the context of this conversation.

(Like when the biblical Esther is compared by a popular pastor to a contestant on «The Bachelor» when, in reality, she was one of hundreds of women forced into the king's harem!)

To that end, they are throwing a staff Christmas party in which everyone is being asked to dress up in some sort of vague approximation of Oriental culture, asking staff to attend in their «juttis, kurtas, turbans, saris, lehenga cholis and harem pants.»

Common denominator between both of these guys being that the indulged themselves in polygamy and harems.

The stags rut with antlers locked to be in charge of the harem.

The Church will not, for example, be able to baptize an African chieftain who wants to keep his harem; yet she may, in certain circumstances, judge that he has a subjectively good conscience (though he has heard the message of the gospel and is willing in principle to believe in it), because in his actual social and human circumstances he can not yet realize the moral demand of monogamy, as little as formerly king David and king Solomon.

The eunuchs were the ones who served in the harem.

He also had a palace in Susa with a large harem.

But in order to get around that, they gathered large harems and had affairs with other women as well.

Part of the reason for this is because after spending a night in the kings bed, the woman was returned to the harem of concubines, where she would spend the rest of her life in luxurious but desolate seclusion.

a man who has been castrated, esp (formerly) for some office such as a guard in a harem 2.

Kings used «born eunuchs» to guard their Harems because those men were not interested in women.

Instead, he theorizes: «The performance of Papitou's nudity is a part of what Malek Alloula names as the colonial «anthology of breasts,» a tradition in Orientalist visual culture in which the bust of the «colonial harem» is displayed in one of three forms.»

Perhaps she observed Shabbat even in the harem of the king, in secret.

But even more pernicious was the influence of the harem — that breeding - ground of seditions and knavery, as well as the source of the monarch's personal demoralization, in every oriental court through history — which was firmly established by David and much enlarged by Solomon.

Female leadership in the Ottoman Empire is a surprising and important aspect of this section; indeed, Madden credits the Sultan's harem with the Ottoman Empire's survival.

He had consulted with the older counselors, who apparently retained some sense of political realities, if not actual memory of events in the reign of David; but he accepted the view of the young fellows of the court, his boon companions reared, like himself, in the diseased artificiality of the harem - infested court and doubtless for long anticipating the day when with his enthronement they should do as they pleased.

An idle, aging king in the heady, evening air of a Jerusalem springtime; the beautiful Bathsheba and her incorruptible husband Uriah; the king's prompt, efficient, confident steps to cover the results of his lustful intoxication; Uriah's integrity as soldier and his unwitting and ultimately fatal frustration of David's self - protective scheme merely by the virtue of his extreme loyalty to his compatriots still in the field; David's unhesitating but premeditated resort to murder; the complicity of Joab, always intensely, blindly loyal to David; and continuing this picture of the king's total moral collapse in steps of progressive deterioration, David's calloused words of reassurance to Joab, «Do not let this matter trouble you...»; and at last the consummation of the whole sorry episode when Bathsheba is added to David's harem and another son added to his progeny.

As we discussed a couple of weeks ago, if Esther was anything like a typical teenage girl in this ancient Near Eastern patriarchal culture, she would not have expected to have any say in her marital future to begin with, and so when she is «taken» with the other virgins into the harem, the chances that she would even think to defy her male guardian, or even worse, the Persian Empire, are incredibly slim.

Of the girls brought into the harem, Michael Fox writes, «What is significant — and most oppressive — is that their will, whatever it might have been, is of no interest to anyone in the story.

If Esther was anything like a typical teenage girl in this culture, she would not have expected to have any say in her marital future at all, and so when she is «gathered» and «taken» with the other virgins into the harem, the chances that she would even think to defy her male guardian, or even worse, the Persian Empire, are incredibly slim.

Esther's feelings about being brought into King Xerxes harem are not mentioned in the text because they are inconsequential.

So I carefully dressed Evelynn in her older sister's hand - me - down Christmas dress, but the older two couldn't be bothered: fashionista Anne wanted to wear harem pants and a lotus dress, pragmatic Joseph preferred his red hockey t - shirt.

In his introduction to his sermon series, he describes in irresponsibly certain terms Esther's entrance into the harem as deliberate «sexual sin,» her situation comparable to a woman who auditions for «The Bachelor.&raquIn his introduction to his sermon series, he describes in irresponsibly certain terms Esther's entrance into the harem as deliberate «sexual sin,» her situation comparable to a woman who auditions for «The Bachelor.&raquin irresponsibly certain terms Esther's entrance into the harem as deliberate «sexual sin,» her situation comparable to a woman who auditions for «The Bachelor.»

That's why they were usually safe to have in harems.

The devil would have won his attempt to temp in one stroke if he offered the guy a never - ending harem.

A senior church leader in Nigeria has described the «difficult» life being experienced by Christians in the country, as attacks on believers by militant Islamist group Boko Harem continue.

Or that, as the sexual property of the Empire and under the direction of the royal Eunuchs, Esther and the women of the king's harem each took a turn in the king's bed to see who would please him best.

I never learned in Sunday School that Esther, whose Jewish name was Hadassah, was forced, along with perhaps thousands of virgin girls from Susa, into King Xerxes harem.

If Abram had been given the choice of tests — a famine or his wife in Pharaoh's harem — we can be sure he would have chosen the famine.

I never learned in Sunday School that Esther, whose Jewish name was Hadassah, was drafted, along with perhaps thousands of virgin girls from Susa, into King Xerxes harem.

For me the real evil of masturbation would be that it takes an appetite which, in lawful use, leads the individual out of himself to complete (and correct) his own personality in that of another (and finally in children and even grandchildren) and turns it back: sending the man back into the prison of himself, there to keep a harem of imaginary brides.

In fact they had a law that if ever a man was allowed into the harem, he was not to be allowed within seven steps of any woman.

Some have even tried to tie her story in with modern - day, sex - slave trafficking as she was brought before the powerful king as part of his harem.

Jillian Lauren is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir, Some Girls: My Life in a Harem and the novel, Pretty, both published by Plume / Penguin.

But the bracing realism that infuses her storytelling lifts the veil of harem life and shows us the gritty truth of life in fantasy - land.

As it was with her first book and memoir: Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, Lauren's fictional debut proves, yet again, that she has what it takes to leave an indelible mark.

It's a motherhood memoir for the slightly less traditional moms among us, about going from being a member of a harem to a member of the PTA, and it comes out in May.

I'm the New York Times bestselling author of the memoirs Everything You Ever Wanted, Some Girls: My Life in a Harem and the novel Pretty.

Soon, Jillian found herself on a plane to Borneo, where she would spend the next eighteen months in the harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah, youngest brother of the Sultan of Brunei.

They seem to really want to know how I got from where I was back in the ol' harem days to where I am now.

I have rarely been quite so tickled as when I learned that my memoir, Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, had been banned.

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A jaw - dropping story of how a girl from the suburbs ends up in a prince's harem, and emerges from the secret Xanadu both richer and wiser At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with a tip about an upcoming audition.

Soon, Jillian was on a plane to Borneo, where she would spend the next eighteen months in the harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah, youngest brother of the Sultan of Brunei, leaving behind her gritty East Village apartment for a palace with rugs laced with gold and trading her band of artist friends for a coterie of backstabbing beauties.