Sentences with phrase «in a harem of»

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

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.

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.

Soon, Jillian was on a plane to Borneo, where she would spend the next 18 months in the harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah...

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

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 storOf 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 storof no interest to anyone in the story.

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.

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.

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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.

—AdoptiveFamilies.com «A punk rock Scheherazade» (Margaret Cho) shares the zigzagging path that took her from harem member to PTA member... In her younger years, Jillian Lauren was a college dropout, a drug addict, and an international concubine in the Prince of Brunei's harem, an experience she immortalized in in her bestselling memoir, SOME GIRLIn her younger years, Jillian Lauren was a college dropout, a drug addict, and an international concubine in the Prince of Brunei's harem, an experience she immortalized in in her bestselling memoir, SOME GIRLin the Prince of Brunei's harem, an experience she immortalized in in her bestselling memoir, SOME GIRLin in her bestselling memoir, SOME GIRLin her bestselling memoir, SOME GIRLS.

Lauren lifts the veil on harem life and shows us the gritty truth of life in fantasy - land.»

Jillian Lauren (who also wrote «Some Girls») tells her story of infertility, of adoption, and of moving past a history of drug use (and a stint in a harem) while watching other friends who are unable to escape that past.

Jillian Lauren is the author of the new novel, «Pretty,» and the memoir, «Some Girls: My Life in a Harem.»

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I Dream of Jillian: Life in an Asian Harem as Seen by a New Jersey Teen, May 20, 2010 by Courtney Ferguson http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/i-dream-of-jillian/Content?oid=2538923

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.

So, how does a Nice Jewish Girl From the Suburbs go from belting show tunes in the living room while her father accompanies her on piano, to becoming first a stripper, then a call girl, and finally one of many kept women in Prince Jefri of Brunei's harem?

Jillian Lauren is the author of the memoir, «Some Girls: My Life in a Harem.»

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Jillian Lauren is the bestselling author of the memoirs Everything You Ever Wanted, and Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, and the novel Pretty.

Lauren talks about her incredible real - life adventure «auditioning» for the harem of Prince Jefri, youngest brother of the Sultan of Brunei, and her new book Some Girls: My Life in a Hharem of Prince Jefri, youngest brother of the Sultan of Brunei, and her new book Some Girls: My Life in a HaremHarem.

You'll look instantly like the coolest mom on the block for putting your baby in these unisex harem pants reminiscent of MC Hammer.

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

For months I have been anticipating the release of «Some Girls: My Life In A Harem» by Jillian Lauren.

Jillian Lauren is the author of Some Girls: My Life In A Harem and you can read more at Jillianlauren.com

Males with large hyoids and deeper roars but more diminutive testes live in small social groups with often only one male dominating a number of females — a «harem» social model.