Sentences with phrase «into nobility»

Hey all, we had an excellent chat with the stars of Belle, the Georgian - era biopic of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate child of a British Lord and an African slave, who was raised into nobility and whose influence helped end slavery in the UK.

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Its author was born in Florence into a family of minor nobility, Guelph in its political alignment and thus siding with the popes in the city's political tensions (as opposed to Ghibellines, at the time mainly banished from Florence, who favored the imperial cause).

The findings fly in the face of the classic account of the life of Saint Patrick, who grew up as a member of the Roman nobility in western Britain and was supposedly abducted and forced into slavery in Ireland around 400 A.D..

Whereas the genius of the Greeks — so his story goes — was to gaze without illusion into the chaos and terror of the world, and respond not with fear or resignation but with affirmation and supreme artistry, they were able to do this only on account of their nobility, which means their ruthless willingness to discriminate between the «good» — that is, the strength, exuberance, bravery, generosity, and harshness of the aristocratic spirit — and the «bad» — the weakness, debility, timorousness, and vindictive resentfulness of the slavish mind.

Through the course of the opera's violence, the desperation of its characters, the nobility of simple deeds, and the determination of Sister Helen and her fellow nuns to be Christ for others, Heggie's music reaches beyond the proscenium to gather us up into the chorus of hope and redemption.

It reveals courage and nobility, but also agony and insufficiency: darkness from which a spiritual salvation (if there were one) might deliver us, and some scattered gleams of the glory into which it might, in delivering, translate us.

It is likely that the original version of this dish was mostly meat, and reserved for the upper nobility; sauerkraut and cabbage were added to stretch out the meal, but eventually were incorporated into all preparations.

Favouring the people always entails punitive policies directed at elites who too readily convert their socio - economic advantages into political oppressions; policies ranging from publically conducted, popularly judged criminal trials to the violent, wholesale elimination of the nobility.

Suffused with nobility, she declares the slaves, including Danny Glover as a bow - tied patriarch and Issach De Bankolé as a scowling rebel, to be free, and she turns their former overseers into indentured workers.

With nearly 30 films to his credit, Steven Spielberg continues to find new paths of entry into his career - spanning themes: the value of a single human life, the nobility of social outsiders, and, most famously, the impact of fathers.

McKellan slips into the robes of Gandalf perfectly with great nobility that gives importance to a lot of the exposition of a lot of his dialogue.

Reminiscent of the political intrigue of «The Illusionist» and the haunting stylings of «Bram Stoker's Dracula», «The Countess» tells the tale of Erzebet Bathory (Julie Delpy) an aging noblewoman whose years of solitude and loneliness transforms her into a cold and distant figure among Hungarian nobility.

Mr. Dosunmu, a former fashion photographer and music video director, and Mr. Young, who also shot the lovely - looking coming - out drama «Pariah,» turn Djbril's politely persistent hustle into something almost melancholic, while Trini acquires a wounded nobility.

As Joe Denton, the hapless ex - cop / ex-con protagonist of Small Crimes, Nikolaj Coster - Waldau wears a thick goatee that somehow, all by itself, transforms his look from Lannister nobility into discount Josh Brolin.

Yet it seems like a done deal that Hathaway will win for a cameo, in which she cries through a song and transforms a character's nobility into rank self - pity.

Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet also less incalculable and remote: one of the Kings of Men born into a later time, but touched with the wisdom and sadness of the Eldar Race.

As her world of unprecedented royal splendor crumbles, the charming Marie Antoinette matures into a heroine of inspiring stature, one whose nobility arises not from the circumstance of her birth but from her courageous spirit.

Max Emil Friedrich von Stephanitz was born in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony, into German nobility on December30, 1864.

Poodles, especially the smaller varieties, were popular with the nobility, who would mold the little dogs» hair into extravagant styles, sometimes mimicking the ornate pompadours that French men and women wore themselves at the time.

Marquis offers a lighthearted look into the Maltese nobility through the ages.

Frescoes from acclaimed Baroque Masters offer insight into the dreams, follies and symbols of the nobility of the past.

Yakuza does this sort of alchemy a lot, turning quests that, by and large, should be boring into something interesting because the game goes to the trouble making the underlying nobility and emotional rewards explicit.

One can scarcely think, before the anti-traditional 19th century at least, of any artist who sprang from the ranks of any more elevated class than the upper bourgeoisie; even in the 19th century, Degas came from the lower nobility — more like the haute bourgeoisie, in fact — and only Toulouse - Lautrec, metamorphosed into the ranks of the marginal by accidental deformity, could be said to have come from the loftier reaches of the upper classes.

As Western metaphor the horse symbolizes power, grace, nobility, strength, endurance and freedom which I integrate into classical yet contemporary forms.

Here, for this youth - oriented era is a grownup institution, a museum that fulfils its mission by the nobility of its bones and the depth of the art that fleshes them out, so bravely foregoing the cascades, mounds and interventions of found and made stuff that titillate fairgoers into styling as art what is largely froth.

Benjamin Thompson was born into a Massachusetts farming family, and worked his way up to European nobility.