Sentences with word «manacle»

We see the yoke of slavery represented by twisted manacles of welded steel in the work of Melvin Edwards, progressing to the migration of black people away from the South in the mournful collages of Romare Bearden.

He said that such torture, which he himself has experienced, includes sleep deprivation, the placing of manacles on the hands and feet, covering the head with wet sacks that are injected repeatedly with tear gas, and subjection to continuous hours of questioning.

The shackles of slavery, Edinburgh's sugar trade links, Blake's mind - forged manacles: so many histories are embodied in this poor broken nude.

From his wrist hangs a broken manacle.

The human cargo was chained and manacled in the hold, where they rolled to the left and then back to the right, their rotations determined by the undulating waves, but on each occasion that the vessel dipped, the cargo received the blessing of a libation of slime.

God is manacle psychopathic murder!

When it comes to absent fathers who could afford to support their children and opt not to, out of selfishness, spite or manipulative motives, I will happily join David Davies MP in a fantasy involving manacles and some medieval flogging.

Iron manacles and collars hint at slavery, but might have been used for prisoners or dogs.

His «Alchemist's Garden» was bursting at the seams with richly decorated armor - like bracelets, finished off with multiple rings, among them Austen book clutch bags chained to manacle bracelets sitting on top of the world.

«Gerald's Game» is a ravenously sinister reaping of interiorized horror and Mike Flanagan trickles it with cautionary black humor (such as when the Viagra side effect is cardiac arrest and Jessie Burlingame (Carla Gugino) is still manacled akimbo to the bed posts and the front door is ajar).

Robot is just manacle!

But at that moment he couldn't answer the question as he felt incapable of unbolting the steely chains of social conformity manacled to his critical - thinking mind; consequently, he believed he had no choice but to change the subject as tactfully and as quickly as possible.

For Gay, CRP is politically emancipatory because it «releases the intellect of students of color from the constraining manacles of mainstream canons of knowledge and ways of knowing» (p. 35).

They'd looped around the back of the compound, met more manacled gardeners and orderlies, many hoeing a dark loam against the rear wall.

But in fact her head is lolling from a muckle chain — instead of a spine, this woman has marble manacles.

But, conversely, this annexation gradually freed drawing from its representational manacles, allowing it to bloom in countless different directions.

In one display, ambiguously labelled Metalwork 1793 — 1880, he presented slave manacles alongside luxury silverware, thus radically questioning the histories that museums choose to narrate.

It manacles my soul and breaks my heart, yes.

The person who deems it necessary to attack or demolish the seeming wall with a sledge hammer is entirely convicted of the same self protective world - view or mind - forged - manacles that created the wall in the first place, and in every now - time moment too.

Far from being biblical, the kind of control that stops spiritual growth seems to verge upon the sinful; it is to self - forge a manacle for one's soul.

And of course the wall is just the very concrete manifestation (and projection) of our mind - forged - manacles.

Two thousand years later, the lives of most people are still sadly crippled by the manacles of religion and the chains of spiritual blindness.

With a wave of Uday's arm the manacled boxer was led into the room by Iraqi secret service.

The list includes: genital clamps, butt plugs, semen, manacles, and spreader bar.

What is a manacle?

One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.

Article 94 of the 1992 Constitution, a cornerstone of participatory democracy or a manacle on freedom of contract and association?

In a non-specific metropolis not unlike New York City, a horrifyingly fat man is found dead, manacled and face down in a plate of spaghetti.

The Daily Express portrayed her as a loving woman wretchedly separated from her man, while other papers tagged her as a demon preying on «the manacled Mormon.»

The one big exception is Jake's manacle, which, for reasons that become clear in a slowly revealed backstory, seems capable of vaporizing the marauders.

Michelle wakes up in a sparse room, a drip in her arm, but manacled to a pipe.

Following an expertly - staged car crash, Michelle awakens in a bare concrete room, manacled and disoriented; Winstead conveys both the terror of this development while also exhibiting the survival instinct cunning that serves her so well as the plot progresses.

Here, Arterton with her mascara - laden doe eyes proves very adept in conveying this, manacled and gagged as she is for considerable periods.

His hands are manacled, and he is shockingly attired in a woman's dress.

The first woman to tightrope walk over Niagara Falls was circus performer Maria Spelterini who, reportedly, once crossed while her hands and feet were manacled.

His hands are manacled, and he is shockingly attired in a woman's dress.The constable who finds the body warns our hero, Superintendent Thomas...

When a person is put into the manacles of restrictions at different level, he starts feeling life as burden.

Every human being or animal desires to be free from the manacles of any restrictions that are subjected to his or her life.

A wall devoted to the African American Melvin Edwards assembles many of his curious fetishes soldered out of cast iron hardware, manacles and hammerheads — a potent row of heavy metal knuckleheads — and Okwui Enwezor, purposefully featuring as many black artists as he can, includes strong mini-retrospectives by Ellen Gallagher, Lorna Simpson, Kerry James Marshall and Chris Ofili.

The pages are bound with cable ties, the manacle of choice for the modern military.

The Royal Academy has real cheek to present itself as a heroic champion of the new when it has worked so hard down the centuries to fetter British artists with mind - forg'd manacles.

Includes candid personality shots (playing tennis at home, dressed as a pirate in manacles, etc.) and film portraits and scenes from Montana Moon, Rain, Today We Live, Ice Follies of 1939, Johnny Guitar, Autumn Leaves and more.

We must manacle these mediums for the sake of expression itself....

But if the error had been retained, the U.S. might have been bound by the manacles of international law into something important enough to be considered a treaty under the U.S. Constitution.

Once you've shaken loose the manacles of lock - step salaries, however, you can usually fetch a slightly better salary when you make a move.

Paul Falvey, a tax partner at accountancy and business advisory firm BDO, says: «Hammond's hands are not only tied by Brexit uncertainty, they are handcuffed and manacled by low growth forecasts and a wafer - thin majority in Parliament too.»

«For more than two centuries, American consumers have been shlepping toward justice — they've been manacled to an expensive lawyer in order to solve a legal problem, or protect, assert or defend their rights.