Sentences with phrase «of beggars»

Entitled «The Queen of Beggars Sees All», the video goes into a bit of a background of The City's history, and how there is about to be a shift in the balance of The City, presumably of who is in power.
In her display, images of beggars from art history are exhibited on a low table, quite literally begging a closer look, while a series of nine woodblock prints, based on Ernst Barlach's 1919 sculpture of a cloaked mendicant, initially seem childlike in terms of their composition, but prove deeply affecting.
The true spirit of the beggar can be discovered when he encounters a garbage container: He faces the garbage with a sense of anticipation.
One person rhetorically (I suppose) asks of Africans: «What do you say about a people whose lives are collectively lived as a race of beggars
A borrower is simply never in charge; rather, they assume the subservient position of a beggar in need.
While you're in the process of withdrawing money, a group of beggars will approach you from behind to try and get your attention.
What Governor Rajan did say, in his remarks made off the attached written text, was that the policies followed by major central banks around the world were in danger of slipping into the kind of beggar - thy - neighbour strategies that were followed in the 1930s.
Matthew tells us that the woman approaches Jesus with the traditional cry of a beggar: «Have mercy on me.»
It is evidently assumed that the rich man's life of ease and sumptuous feastings was evil, presumably because he was indifferent to the suffering of the beggar at his gate.
He was taken by the breathtaking lavishness of the church, but he could not ignore the contrast between the opulence of the basilica and the destitution of the beggars outside its doors.
When one does give, it seems to me important to look into the eye of the beggar — if he or she is not blind — and to see there a fellow human being.
• The confusion of «success» with sheer wealth by individuals, businesses, and corporate boards, which empties economic life of its vocational nobility and inculcates a counter-ethic of beggar - thy - neighbor competition that's a grave danger to markets and a threat to the capacity of free enterprise to help people lift themselves from poverty.
The presence of the beggar communities for both Malas and Madigas illustrates the virtue of sharing with poor despite their poverty.
Not good enough Wenger has turned us from a club of Champions to a club of beggars grasping for every little crumb we can find
I'm not even saying that it isn't important to have a strong and «quality» British core but holding Ramsey as an example of this beggars belief.
Who knows how cold it will be the week of beggars night?
The first answers from here provide references related to income and expenses of beggars.
«There is an influx of beggars particularly the disabled ones in the city but we will no longer allow them to operate in the CBD [central business district]» Janet Ouko, an education and social services county executive, told the Standard.
Suspect admitted using the cover of a beggar to sustain surveillance on his targets.
Henriette is kidnapped by a lascivious nobleman, leaving Louise to wander helplessly about until she too is «stolen» by a family of beggars.
Subsequently photographing such films as Outbreak (1995), Sleepers (1996) and The Legend of Beggar Vance (2000), Ballhaus would once again find himself Oscar nominated for his work on Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York.
To curb his arrogance, Wong's father forces him to undertake the tutelage of Beggar So (Yuen), an old drunkard who masks his near super-human abilities with his intoxicated, debauched appearance and behavior.
Östlund includes frequent shots of beggars and street hustlers.
Wellman's son William Wellman, Jr. delivers audio commentary on Kino Lorber's upcoming home video release of Beggars of Life, which utilizes the best print of the film known to exist, the 35 mm version preserved at George Eastman Museum.
Disc two provides numerous bonus materials such as: deleted scenes and the deleted song Any Day Now, a documentary about the filmmaker Norman Jewison, the Easter Egg The Tale of the Beggar, an interview with John Williams called Creating a Musical Tradition, interviews with the cast members who played Tevye's daughters, photo galleries, and the movie's trailer.
For example, Begscape (built with Twine, which I'll discuss later), puts the reader in the role of a beggar.
With the help of an underground network of beggars, a beer - brewing monk, and an Italian playboy, they discover that behind the false accusation is a plan that will endanger the entire German Empire.
In fact, a lot of beggars in SF have a dog.
Obviously, a busy city like Granada has its share of beggars, gypsy women wanting to read your future and pick - pockets.
Some time ago I bought doubles of Beggar Prince and Water Margin with the intention of saving them for trading down the road.
This show focuses on two rare self - portraits — one owned by the Frick Collection in New York, the other by London's National Gallery — by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617 — 1682), the Spanish Baroque artist best known for religious paintings and genre scenes of beggars and street urchins.
German - born Buttner's work is typical of the Turner Prize's newfound humility - her signature pieces are nine simple, line - drawn, black - and - white woodcuts of beggars, while her other work shows a fascination with the lowly and mundane.
Recent volumes have become attempts at capturing the acoustic nature of this world in transit, the snippets of overheard conversation, the plea of the beggar, the muttering of the insane, the announcements of the conductor and the screech of the braking train.
Others grappling with the potential, but also the challenges of voice - enabled speakers include Simon Wheeler of Beggars Group.
A single day of beggar mentality («Please, somebody give me a job.»)
The Poisoned Pawn sees the return of The Beggar's Opera character Inspector Ramirez, who is back pounding the streets of Havana and Ottawa on a new case to uncover a cold - blooded killer.
Focus Points are earned through completing story missions and by donating money to a woman known as the Queen of Beggars (Granny Rags much?).
There's a lot to read and look at before we even get to Büttner's large woodcuts — a bare black silhouette of a hill, jaunty potatoes floating in a field of colour, a number of simplified images of a beggar, a body humped over, arms extended in supplication.
The second phrase emulates the spirit of the beggar.
Giovanni exchanged clothes with one of the beggars and he himself begged for alms.
Our situation now is like that of the beggar: the other cures have failed.
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