Sentences with phrase «of white character»

The former highlights some of the multiplayer systems, while the art focuses on the Academy Assassin and Herald of White character builds, both of which can use powerful miracles and magic spells.

One need only turn on the television to watch Machine Gun Preacher for a similar portrayal of a white character who travels to «Africa» to «save the children» against the backdrop of black - on - black slaughter, rape and torture which is never historically contextualised (see The Guardian's Catherine Shoard's critique of the white criminal - turned - saviour character of Sam in Machine Gun Preacher as «half saint, half psychopath»).

Hostiles has less success with its broader exploration of the Old West and the United States» genocide against the Native Americans, in no small part because Yellow Hawk and his family aren't afforded the same development as most of the white characters here.

And this brings us to the critical backlash to this film: a feeling in some quarters that for all its powerful and compelling female lead, the movie appears obtuse on race and blackness by making it a subsidiary function of the white characters» moral journey.

Like so many other American, Hollywood movies, it tells a story of black culture through the eyes of white characters, and it celebrates white characters that are brave and wise enough to open up to African - Americans.

The racial prejudice that Annie and Sarah Jane encounter throughout the film is confronting, and the amount of screen time dedicated to exploring their problems is interesting — and a deliberate attempt by Sirk to draw attention away from the more insignificant problems of his white characters.

Most of the white characters treat the indigenous as if they were property or a pest, depending on their specific relationships, but the script, care of writers Steven McGregor (The Warriors) and David Tranter, is not without nuance.

Alas, the focus of the film, as in The Constant Gardener, is the liberal quilt and romantic troubles of its white characters: In this case, Nicholas learns that his best bud is none too nice but nonetheless decides to sleep with one of the dictator's wives.

Not exact matches

Level 3: An Obama character drops a copy of the US Constitution from the top of the White House as the Clinton character waits below to try to hit it as far as possible

If you're looking for more reading material about the Trump White House and its rotating cast of characters, here's a quick guide to some books already published and yet to come in 2018 — some of which might seem like beach or airport reads until you remember the reports are rooted in real life.

Notice all or most of the factory workers were non-white, while the character in the lab coat was a white guy.

In addition to a long - awaited ginger emoji, there are curly - haired, bald, and white - haired characters, all in a range of skin tones.

But like many superheroes of color in the Marvel (and DC) universes, Black Panther was relegated to the periphery of the pantheon of superheroes — most of whom were white male characters created by white men.

In November, Musk told CNBC that Trump «was not the right guy» for the White House, adding that «he doesn't seem to have the sort of character that reflects well on the United States.»

Most of the programming featured white men as protagonists; women and black men were, by and large, secondary characters.

The «difficult men» are at once the characters who defined this current golden age of television — Tony Soprano, Don Draper, Walter White — and the obsessive, cantankerous men who thought them up, including Chase, but also Matt Weiner (Mad Men), David Milch (NYPD Blue and Deadwood) and others.

What it's about: Another Disney hit, «Bambi» uses an all - animal cast of characters in a story about a white - tailed deer, his animals friends, and a haunting death in the family.

Hoping to avoid the possibility of a white actor taking on the role of the Chinese warrior, Molnar wrote: «Casting a Caucasian actor as a character of colour, regardless of reason has a direct, harmful impact on not only the movie itself, but the audience, as well as POC members of the acting community.»

It's benefiting this cast of characters; it's a bunch of white dudes getting rich,» he said.

After the allegations began to surface, top Republicans, such as White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Porter's former boss Sen. Orrin Hatch (R - UT), went out of their way to defend Porter, vouch for his good character, and say he shouldn't resign.

McDormand, Rockwell, and Woody Harrelson are so good in Three Billboards that I think a lot of voters have totally forgotten the less successful aspects of the movie: How every white character is immensely colorful but every black one is a cipher, that whole thing about Woody Harrelson's big dick (stop!

April 23, 2018 • Ziggy Stardust and the Thin White Duke are just two of the characters David Bowie created for himself.

After the allegations surfaced, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R - UT), whom Porter worked for, came to Porter's defense, vouching for his character and saying he shouldn't resign — although they both backed off somewhat days later.

RELEVANT looks at the many characters of Jack White, especially his priest - philosopher and family man personas.

On Wednesday's broadcast of CNN's «Wolf,» Representative Steve Cohen (D - TN) reacted to White House lawyer Ty Cobb's departure by stating, «Nobody can stay around Donald Trump long who has a conscience and who has character and who believes in ethics.»

In thick - rimmed glasses and an all - white suit, Hale's character, Buster Bluth, is the epitome of quirky.

The premise of portraying characters having teeth whiter than the Osmonds seems ridiculous to me, but I'm not an expert.

When, in 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., declared his «dream» — that we Americans should one day become a society where a citizen's race would be an irrelevancy, where black and white children would walk hand - in - hand, where persons would be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character — this seemed to many Americans both a noble and attainable goal.

Even if Mormons believed that «The characters Lehi, Nephi, Laman, and Lemule were the founding Jews from which all inhabitants of the Americas descended,» which they don't, the DNA test of the American Indians wouldn't refute that because the book says that all the descendants of Nephi perished, and the descendants of Laman and Lemuel were changed from white to dark, i.e., their race was changed, so of necessity, their DNA was changed, too, unless all races have the same DNA, which I doubt.

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

Jackson faces the elephants in the room of whites and blacks having deep, meaningful relationships very quickly, especially in book two when one of the White main character's husband, Denny, is mistaken by, MaDea, an aging African American woman who is suffering from dementia, as one of the men who brutally lynched her brother nearly 70 years ago.

What is offensive that Ms. Harris is so pained by a fictional Christmas character being represented as White that she would rather see said character portrayed in the form of a bird rather than a human being.

I find it much less disturbing that Megyn Kelly should make a point of observing that the character of Santa Claus is traditionally white than the suggestion by Aisha Harris that there is something intrinsically wrong with a white Santa Claus.

But, as Vale shows, this success and popularity rested on sustaining the projects as the home to a very narrow spectrum of the Boston poor, those deemed both deserving and respectable: two - parent, mostly white, single - earner, low - income, working - class families of good character in need of a temporary leg up — a stratum «below the bulk of blue - collar employees but above that of the unemployed, the irregularly employed, and the welfare - dependent.»

The several rocks with different shapes and characters which are placed here and there on the white sand are nothing but the self - expression of the true Sunyata which lets everything stand and work.

Piper refers to Trump's «divisive rhetorical style... and his reckless Twitter form of leadership,» and says, as his third point, that a «huge percentage» of white evangelicals voted for Trump «even though the character issues were screaming to be taken more seriously» (Statistically, around 80 percent of white evangelicals voted for President Trump in the 2016 election.).

While these characters» ethnicities are not explicitly stated in the book, they're coded as white (and have been depicted as white in almost all of the book's artwork), so it's revolutionary casting, and it made waves.

It paints a cohesive picture of Walter White's character and situation in just under an hour: This guy's a bottomed - out, emasculated, bored - to - tears genius.

Bowler notes a distinctively American character in the prosperity gospel, whether it is the early «hard prosperity» of E. W. Kenyon's «dominating faith» or the contemporary «soft prosperity» of Joel Osteen, T. D. Jakes, and Paula White.

The black - and - white morality of Dorothy versus the Wicked Witch in Victor Fleming's classic 1939 The Wizard of Oz (actually the eighth screen version) is an epic tale of classic heroism and villainy, though within that the most interesting parts of the story include a cowardly character finding courage, the brainless using brains, and the apparently heartless discovering love.

«The attack on the character of Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas by militant white feminists, in books and newspaper articles, should not be ignored by anyone concerned with the misuse of the Black American Civil Rights Movement.

[Sources: Karen Jobes, Esther (The NIV Application Commentary); «Esther,» Sidnie Ann White Crawford in Women's Bible Commentary, edited by Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe; Michael V. Fox, Character and Ideology in the Book of Esther]

When a believing friend wrote that the Bible did not apply to the character and conduct of a President, that is when I realized how deeply the White Evangelical Church of the United States had committed itself to its marriage to All Things Republican.

However, the latest wave of this trend, including but not limited to, Snow White and the Huntsman, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters and Jack the Giant Slayer have each demonstrated, in their own way, a fundamental flaw with this premise; they lazily force these classic characters to «grow up» by ratcheting up the angst and violence instead of revisiting the more complex layers that exist within the original stories themselves.

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Santa Claus, being an undeniably fictional character and an invention of the Dutch, is most certainly white as that is what he has been depicted as since he was invented hundreds of years ago.

(Later, Huck can only make sense of Jim's kindness to him and Tom Sawyer by concluding he must be «white on the inside,» a comment that reveals Twain's gift for creating characters that both critique yet fully inhabit their cultural contexts.)

44 % of self - identified white evangelicals think Trump has strong moral character 49 % think Trump does not

Evoking the mystery and the suddenness of the characters» deaths by means of abrupt shifts in viewpoint and by the use of white space, Greene makes of death a strange departure for an unknown destination.

We also see in the feelings of White's characters a reflection of his ambiguous attitude toward people in general.