Sentences with phrase «of black things»

If pressed, I'd have to say my absolute favourite colour is black, and yes, I own lots of black things and wear them all the time.

And I can't think of a blacker thing.

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Yet because she brings up things that management doesn't want to hear or deal with, they've now made her the black sheep of the organization, and as a result no one wants to listen.

Instead, what my boss saw was a black woman who had made a dubious request for time off to attend a distant relative's funeral and was now sitting next to a box of things he couldn't possibly imagine her needing.

Being able to study things like black hole mergers through gravity will shed light on some of the «darkest yet most energetic events in our universe,» said Albert Lazzarini, deputy director of the LIGO Laboratory, in an American Physical Society press release.

Swaths of pink and white enshroud group work, while blues and blacks denote individual workspace, for things like meditation or phone calls.

If you were one of the 850 lucky Torontonians who managed to get a ticket to the Stop's inaugural Night Market, you could have spent the long, sweltering evening of June 20 eating, among other things, Korean fried chicken; garam - masala - flavoured doughnut holes; white sangria snow cones; pig - tail tacos; tortillas smothered in black beans, quinoa, avocado and aged cheddar; steamed buns with pork belly; wild boar meatballs; mini pulled - pork sandwiches (there was a lot of pork) and vegetarian pad thai.

In fact, ever since the financial crisis when the thing few ever predicted would happen, happened — the black swan — the possibility of uncertainties became more cringeworthy than ever.

«One of the things that I think is remarkable about black women is that even with all of the headwinds that we face in terms of advancing ourselves, there is this incredible appetite for learning and preparing ourselves for leadership,» says Susan Reid, Morgan Stanley's global head of diversity and inclusion.

Burns says there are plenty of things corporate America can and should be doing to make sure that the black women currently in the pipeline have a chance to succeed on their own terms.

The thrill of finding a bargain on Black Friday is a real thing, but sometimes the hunt for those deals can overrule common sense.

Do The Right Thing, Spike Lee's 1989 fi lm about the hottest day of a Brooklyn summer, remains the most critically acclaimed thing he's ever directed; as per Maggie Anderson, it also offers a perfect summation of one of Black America's core economic probThing, Spike Lee's 1989 fi lm about the hottest day of a Brooklyn summer, remains the most critically acclaimed thing he's ever directed; as per Maggie Anderson, it also offers a perfect summation of one of Black America's core economic probthing he's ever directed; as per Maggie Anderson, it also offers a perfect summation of one of Black America's core economic problems.

Another thing to note, according to Jon Holmquist many retailers didn't sign up for the event until just prior to or the day of Bitcoin Black Friday.

Since that time, he has written a long - form essay broken into three books: The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, and Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder.

«I was the only black executive in many meetings,» recalls Rougeau, now an attorney with Arent Fox in Washington, D.C. «I went through a lot of things that hopefully most executives won't go through, and I had to deal with a lot of problems as one of the only black executives.»

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!

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this will cost obama the election by catering to the gays he wil loosel a large portion of the black and latino vote who are very conservative on this issue.and this will only make mitt romney stronger, with a weak economy unemployment as high as 8 % and a republican house there seems the last thing obama needs is to loose more votes that he will gain from this.he will loose the entire south including florida and many swing states.although he will win san francisco for sure.way to go barry

Treatment of black / colored people is the only thing you got better than previous generation.

b4bigbang, you're aware that mathematical models predict all kinds of fun things like parallel dimensions, black holes, warping of space - time, and the like?

He didn't add any qualifiers like, «except of your neighbor is gay or black or poor or,,» So - called Christ - ians superimpose what Paul (a man, a mortal) said about women, and they add on things that are OT based in order to justify so much hatred and bigotry.

In other words, a properly ordered will (one that leads toward good things in good measure) following closely on the heels of right reason (one that perceives and presents to the will goods really perfective of the human person) goes a long way to putting the passions in their place (which is not, emphatically, squashed way down into a virtual black hole).

Can't blacks create something for themselves instead of making white things and making them black..

It's not a negation of truth or absolute truth, it's just a recognition that we might be as confused over things as our kin in the faith who chained up Bibles, burned the bones of reformers, tossed bombs into the basements of black churches and burned crosses on the front yards of black people, who ignore the plight of the homeless and the poor while we struggle to decide between the 36 and 72 inch plasma screen tv.

Catholics, Baptist, and Christians even Jews had slaves and killed and transported Millions of Black, Natives, and Asians... Never has Mormons ever did these things on record..

Fighting the unholy black pall of islam, a fight that would be won with such a policy, should be the only thing that matters.For those that will not support such a measure, you are not soldiers against islam.

By what we see around us in the creation, for our Creator, made us to see in color, not just black and white, to have a series of senses that allow us to thoroughly enjoy life, such as the capacity to feel very minute things with our fingertips.

I've been through a few surgeries and the only thing that I can remember about being unconscious is that «it was all black» so I'm not afraid of death.

The plan calls upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered women and the men who abuse them.

In the same way, African American friends have said that the fact that the Black church survived or that Native Americans still love Jesus is one of the greatest signs that God is at work in the world that we can ever imagine, considering the hideous, terrible things that we have done in His name.

@Vic: «but I can tell you that things like the Big Bang, the Multiverse, etc. are theories at best, and the Theory of General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics are in a direct collision course when it comes to the Black Holes, and Gravity is the show stopper for a Unified Field Theory, and so on and so forth.»

Other grass - roots activists (mostly from black churches) in Baltimore, Detroit, Phoenix, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Birmingham with whom I've spoken say the same sorts of things.

It is a good thing because I ignorantly thought that it played a critical and evil role in assisting the current condition of black people.

Thus the black / white thinking you mention will require ever more proof from the outsider and will inevitably conclude that there is nothing at all, not one thing, that any of them can do about any of it because the outsider refuses to offer real honest - to - goodness evidence.

It is a good thing that racism is completely eliminated in America because I would have said that it played an critical and evil role in assisting the current condition of black people.

To advocate self - help, to argue that affirmative action can not be a long - run solution to the problem of racial inequality, to suggest that some of what is transpiring in black communities reflects a spiritual malaise, to note that fundamental change will require that individual lives be transformed in ways that governments are ill - suited to do, to urge that we must look to how black men and women are relating to each other, how parents are bringing up their children, that we have to ask ourselves what values inform the behavior of our youth» to do these things is not to take a partisan position, or vent some neoconservative ideological screed.

He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of First Things, and his essay «Black Dignity and the Common Good» appeared in our issue of June / July 1990.

Fitch wrote «Their chief idols (sic) bee black and evil - favored, their mouth monstrous, their ears gilded and full of jewels, their teeth and eyes of gold, silver, and glasses, some having one thing in their hands and some another.»

Asked to name the most exotic thing in the universe, most of us would mention either the very large (black holes and supernovas) or the very small (all those spooky little particles).

Unfortunately I think the problem is that we try to see things too black and white... I think creationism is real in the context of evolution.

I would do the same thing your doing right now, but I would urge everyone that doesn't know it to look it up there are plenty of back and forth going on with the comments as expected but the APA has a bit of a black eye from it so you know they wont be liking it.

@balanced: It must be nice to live in a world where things are so black and white, beholden to the conventional wisdom of the times (and see Kenneth Galbraith's understanding of what conventional «wisdom» represented before you think I'm complimenting you.

Right wingers aren't comfortable when things aren't either black or white, perhaps due to a lack of gray matter in their heads.

Here, just for fun, I will fill in the blanks with things I have heard over the years: «All second marriages are of Satan»; «All blacks are proud and arrogant; otherwise, they would return to being called Negro»; «All bisexuals are promiscuous and unfaithful in marriages»; «Pro-choice people are always turning their backs on God»; «Same sex marriages can never be blessed by God's mercy»....

Whoever puts these things together must feel like a real comedy genius when he or she puts «Rebecca Black» as a Lollapalooza headliner to fool the 0.0 % of people who buy the joke.

From our fear of calling things right and wrong, to our inability to see things as black - and - white, we've become...

From our fear of calling things right and wrong, to our inability to see things as black - and - white, we've become a society that's comfortable living in the gray.

I agree Scott there are many churches that worship in different styles but they basically believe the same thing just execute it differently except of course Black Liberation theology which is goes counter the Biblical Gospel.

The Bible also says rabbits chew their cud, the earth is balanced on pillars, the earth is a flat disc, the stars are small ornaments hung up in the sky, which itself is nothing more than a black sheet covering the world at night... it says the moon gives off its own light, it says the world was created in 6 days less than 10,000 years ago... It says a lot of things that aren't true.

I think it's a part of a proud black lineage of black filmmakers who are making films with black heroes... I don't think it's a trendy thing, it's something that is part of kind of a historical continuum.»