Sentences with phrase «of ordinary women»

Screening: Three Lives at Brooklyn Academy of Music Taking its name and format from Gertrude Stein's first published book, Three Lives (1971) was one of the first films to center exclusively on the experiences and struggles of ordinary women.

Feminist Frequency was so excited to share the final episode of Ordinary Women: Daring to Defy History, that we're releasing it ahead of schedule!

Still, an engrossing portrayal of ordinary women in extraordinary circumstances.»

Says Cole, «It's that idea of ordinary women getting caught up in something much bigger than themselves.»

With eloquent body language and bruised - looking circles beneath her big, blue - gray eyes, the actress infuses a heartbreaking mixture of dignity, vulnerability, and strength into her two latest entries in a gallery of ordinary women under extraordinary pressure.

Lady Macbeth is just an evil version of ordinary women in the home.

Men prefer averagely shaped women, according to a study that compared the body shapes of ordinary women, Playboy centrefolds and professional escorts.

Letty Russell has described the importance of «kitchen table» theology, which begins with the faith stories of ordinary women grouped around kitchen tables or in other everyday settings.

The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty, which launched in 2004 and included photos of ordinary women, rather than models, was an early example of the strategy.

For all its genre trappings, this is an intelligent, probing study of an ordinary woman under extraordinary duress.

On the surface, the story of an ordinary woman falling in love with a Hollywood star sounds like a fairy tale, but Monsters is actually a very realistic look at a relationship between two adults.

Like Audrey Niffenegger's 2003 bestseller, Rhonda Riley's debut tells the story of an ordinary woman in love with someone who's... not so ordinary.

The epic yet intimate story of an ordinary woman thrust into extraordinary circumstances when she becomes first lady.

Vida Nueva Aventura (New Life Adventure), an online travel journal is the vibrant personal account of an ordinary woman in pursuit of an extraordinary life.If you've ever pondered on packing it all in and starting over in the tropics, here is a first hand account.

However, it was indicated that the new iteration of the franchise would start off with a «young and inexperienced» Lara in the «journey of an ordinary woman who finds out just how far she must go in order to stay alive.»

Not exact matches

Critics want to know where Sheryl Sandberg, the Harvard - educated, billionaire COO of Facebook, gets off pressing ordinary women with ordinary educations, ordinary bank accounts, and ordinary access to child care to work harder and seize the reins of their careers.

A close observer of mid-Manhattan's changing commercial geography, he saw «a new society» rising on Park and Fifth Avenues after the completion of Grand Central Terminal, «a society made up of women who willing to pay well for things a cut or town above the ordinary,» as a 1938 Fortune article observed.

One of them is Vicki Saunders, whose startup, SheEO, aims to raise capital from ordinary women (by definition, people outside the usual capital networks) to finance female - led companies.

«Now it depends solely on your good sense and your way of life whether you die as an ordinary musician, utterly forgotten by the world, or as a famous kapellmeister, or whom posterity will read... whether, captured by some woman, you die bedded on straw in an attic full of starving children, or whether, after a Christian life spent in contentment, honor, and renown, you leave this world with your family well provided for and your name respected by all.»

«And like other women, survivors of violence are faced with an economy that has become harder for ordinary people.

Her family described her as, «an ordinary Welsh woman who did an extraordinary deed in wanting people in the diocese of St Davids to benefit after her death.»

«She is a free woman, like any ordinary citizen,» said Abdul Hameed Rana, one of Rimsha's lawyers.

It aims to lift up in witness a recognition that while the war and events leading up to it clearly revealed the worst of human potential, among some ordinary people it also brought forth the very best of which men and women are capable.

These new expressions of faith, fed by passions of ordinary men and women, did not merely diverge from received authority; increasingly they failed even to take into account the standard theological categories that served as guides for religious experience and formed the common denominator of theological discussion between disputants.

To regard the ordinary embodied experience of men and women as theologically significant in a positive way is to receive all these images of physical delight, of beauty and ecstasy, of human growth and nurture, of the contact between human persons that the touching of bodies can make possible.

The memories rose up out of my mind and threw me backwards decades to sensations of panic I thought I'd forgotten, the ordinary fear almost every woman remembers experiencing in some way.

«We are still confused, including ordinary Muslims, and ask why this is happening,» said the woman, who was interviewed by ENI during a meeting of the executive committee of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, in Bangalore, India.

They brought the majesty and otherness of God down to earth and allowed ordinary men and women to see and touch the divine.

Now if we turn from the life of Christ to our ordinary experience of people, most of us would probably agree that there are certain types of men and women who need to be shocked or jolted out of their self - love and complacency before they can begin to see and appreciate what we and constructive love is trying to do.

Failure to recognize this simple and patent truth about the people of our time, whether they be educated or uneducated, sophisticated or simple, explains to a large degree the admitted failure of what is compendiously called «neo-orthodoxy» to communicate itself significantly to the ordinary man and woman of our day.

ordinary women more attractive than pictures of super models.

I believe ordinary men and women would be amazed if they could see how often, in the black spots of the world's superstition, ignorance, disease and fear, the Christians were the first to arrive.

For the first time in modern history, we have had Popes who as young priests met and worked with women at university as a matter of course and on ordinary terms.

Contraception is generally regarded by the medical community as the ordinary standard of care for women.

A long time for a great evil — the religion of Paul which has spread across the world encouraging persecution of dissenters, slavery, an inferior societal role for women, persecution of homosexuals and criminalization of ordinary sexual behaviors of both gay and straight people, quite a few wars, poverty and ignorance.

Christians wish to minister to these kids — by teaching them the norms about men and women, about sex and marriage, that have brought decency to the lives of ordinary people for millennia.

The efforts of those ordinary men and women eventually led to victory for our country and the ideals it sought — and continues to seek — to embody.

These men had crowned the second Elizabeth before an astonished world in 1953, and made an ordinary young woman our anointed monarch in a ceremony of grandeur, mystery, and poetry, a vast moth - eaten musical brocade that in those days still comfortingly covered up the peeling wallpaper and cracked plaster of our national home.

I believe that what Tillich was attempting to say in his own particular idiom (based as it was on a combination of existentialist analysis of human sensibility and the philosophical outlook found in German idealist thought) can be put in another fashion — and one which in my judgment speaks more directly to the ordinary man or woman.

This is a cheerful, readable book which aims to encourage ordinary Catholic women with busy lives, with homes to run and children to raise, with responsibilities and with jobs and worries, to live in the presence of God and to make prayer part of their daily lives.

Me, I'm an ordinary woman — I write things and I preach sometimes, sure, I lead in my own way in a regular sort of life.

Moreover, whatever we make of Wilson's discussion of the well - known facts, Lewis's relation with the two women who (after his mother) played important roles in his personal life was, by ordinary standards, quite unusual.

While natural law and Augustine's moral theology might be difficult for some, the rules derived from them were understood by ordinary Catholics: Sexual intimacy is permissible only in a sacramental marriage between one man and one woman, and the purpose of marriage is the procreation and education of children.

It is clear that violence against women and violence within families is commonplace, and that the perpetrators and the victims of such violence are ordinary people.

Furthermore, the assertion that the women only realized when they were already on the way that they would need help to roll away the stone and gain access to the tomb implies a degree of thoughtlessness quite out of the ordinary.

«We are thus led to the conclusion that when Paul asks women to be silent... he is not talking about ordinary Christian women; rather, he has a specific group of women in mind,» writes Scot McKnight in The Blue Parakeet.

But above all, it includes the countless ordinary citizens, who knew nothing of Locke or Burke or Thomas or Aristotle, who've struggled and worked and fought and died so that they might live under a government responsible to their will, and constrained to regard them as free men and women rather than as members of a class, church, guild, tribe, town, or race.

One is the scene in which Dolly is on her way to visit Anna at Vronsky's estate in the country; as she travels, the narrative takes us into her thoughts, which are perfectly ordinary: her anxieties as a mother, principally, and as a wife, and her moral uncertainties; but it is all rendered with such confident and seemingly omniscient artistry that one almost feels as if one has momentarily become this woman, and can think and feel as she does; and more than one female critic has called attention to how well Tolstoy succeeds here at imagining his way into the worries and regrets of a wife and mother.

So, for example, in his well - known essay, «Our Calling,» Einar Billing, a Swedish Lutheran theologian of the early 20th century, wrote: «The more fully a Catholic Christian develops his nature, the more he becomes a stranger to ordinary life, the more he departs from the men and women who move therein.

However this may be, the fact is plain that for contemporary men and women, not only of a sophisticated sort but also of quite ordinary attainments, the notion of God as absolute power, as unyielding moral dictator, and as metaphysical first cause never Himself affected, has gone dead.