Sentences with phrase «inflicted upon women»

In some senses, photography has historically been inflicted upon women as the subject of photography, and with many of the conventions of photography having been developed by men.

The late reversal of humiliation in Melissa K. Stack's screenplay does little to assuage the abundance of embarrassment inflicted upon the women.

Made by Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir - Hosseini, it shows the casual brutality inflicted upon women in a country that views independent females with suspicion and, perhaps, even fear.

It's a unique kind of torture inflicted upon women, wherein the people the bride allegedly loves most in life are forced to bicker ad nauseum over whether they should wear pearl or sterling silver stud earrings with their mint - hued gowns.

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Sometimes the picture of hell has been painted in lurid fashion, with ghastly punishment inflicted upon «lost» persons; more frequently, at least in recent theological writing, this aspect has been muted or denied, and stress has been put on such ideas as persistence after death apart from God's presence — or even in that presence, which for the utterly unworthy man or woman would be horrifying, as when an evil person is compelled to be with someone whom he or she deeply hates.

Not only because it is Afro - Americans themselves, especially men, who now inflict these wounds upon themselves — through the ways they betray those who love them and bear their progeny, through the ways they bring up or abandon their children, through the ways they relate, or fail to relate, to each other, through the values and attitudes they cherish and the ones they choose to spurn, through their comforting ethnic myths about their neighborhoods, through their self - indulgences, denials and deceits — but because only they as individual men and women can find the antidote to heal themselves.

Never before have a man and woman inflicted more pain upon each other in a movie.

As the tortures inflicted upon the characters in the film - within - the - film intensify, Francesco's behaviour also gets worse as do his strategies for getting the women to scream the way he would like them to.