Sentences with phrase «of peasants»

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (born June 26, 1892 in Hillsboro, West Virginia) was an important and much lauded American writer, famous for her depictions of China and Chinese culture, which earned her a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for the novel The Good Earth and the first Nobel Prize awarded to an American woman for Literature in 1938 «for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces».

Im sorry but unless bioware decides to turn away from epic war stories and focus on the common day to day live of peasants in the dragon age world a «plus size» character makes no fucking sense.

Some arid regions will turn into deserts and rising seas will inundate fertile but low lying delta regions that are home to tens of millions of peasant farmers in countries such as Bangladesh and Egypt.

Disguised as the Cloaked Bandit, Juliana Wessex robs from the rich to provide for the band of peasants who live under her protection.

I remember listening to a sermon discussion on the same text by a group of peasants on the outskirts of San Jose, Costa Rica.

The long - term solution is, first, to reduce population, and second, nearly as important, to increase the output of millions of peasant farmers around the globe.

Jean - Francois Millet (1814 - 75) Devout French painter of peasants at work, member of the Barbizon School.

He advised princes, in a pamphlet published in 1525, to kill «robbing and murdering hordes of peasants».

In 1912, Malevich showed his paintings of peasant subjects at the «Donkey's Tail» exhibition in Moscow.

A largely poor readership can readily identify with the New Testament society of peasants and small craftspeople dominated by powerful landlords and imperial forces, by networks of debt and credit.

All underscore the incredible disparity between the glittering lives of the Romanovs and the desperately impoverished ones of the peasant population.

In Sickness Unto Death, he tells the story of a peasant who sought to put on a new self and new clothes.

It also refers to the state of liberation from the exploitation of the peasants by various classes and masters.

On the occasion of a new government tax, thousands of peasants marched on London from all over the country and burned the palace of the duke of Lancaster and also murdered the Archbishop of Canterbury.

If we could have seen the exploitation of the peasants in czarist Russia, we would have understood the frenzy of the Marxist revolution.

He does not shirk the horrid facts of a massacre shortly before the First Crusade: ``... bands of peasants, mostly illiterate and drunk on the idea of a holy war, planned to march to the east to fight Muslims and long before they had left even their own state began to attack the Jews.»

Jean - Francois Millet (1814 - 75) Devout realist painter of peasants at work; member of the Barbizon School of landscape painting.

Instead, we should build on practices that have developed all over the world out of peasant experience, and follow nature's guidance in the development of agricultural ecosystems that can have the generative capacities of natural ecosystems.

Born in 1879 to a Polish family who had fled to Kiev after the failed uprising against the Tsarist army, Kazimir Malevich spent his childhood living in villages across Ukraine, where he developed a love of peasant art and embroidery.

The other traditional classes of history and portrait painting were present, but the period is more notable for a huge variety of other genres, sub-divided into numerous specialized categories, such as scenes of peasant life, landscapes, townscapes, landscapes with animals, maritime paintings, flower paintings and still lifes of various types.

Then cries rang out and the endless lines of peasants rushed towards the Towers.

Dog of French royalty and nobility and working associate of the peasant shepherds high on the slopes of the Pyrenees Mountains.

Whatever the name, it is a beautiful, primarily white dog with a «certain elegance» which for centuries has been the working associate of peasant shepherds high on the mountain slopes.

One of the peasants came forward with an oil lamp to facilitate identification of the strange object.

He called for the uprisings to be crushed, even as he advised the feudal lords that the revolts were their own fault, thanks to their oppression of the peasants, which oppression they should cease.

It is as a result of this that we have become part of a peasant - farmer platform bringing together ten West African countries.

This is the voice of a peasant hope for the future, a voice that is not impressed with high towers and great arenas, banks and urban achievements.

Even up to 5,000 years ago such settlements were small, consisting of semi-permanent villages of peasant farmers.

When they see the skyscrapers rising in Shanghai, they are prepared to overlook the misery of the peasants, the workers, and the unemployed, expecting this misery to prove a temporary cost in the overall rise to prosperity of until recently underdeveloped nations.

Stackhouse and McCann celebrate the «relationships, group solidarities and cosmopolitan understandings» made possible by the new economic order in contrast to the miserable condition of the peasants in traditional societies.

AA occupied Blue NG offices on Friday 17th, Via Campesina Day, in solidarity with millions of peasant land - workers demonstrating globally against agrofuels.

It is through education that the daughter of a peasant farmer can become a doctor, that a son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a nation»

In Frankenstein, Whale conjured nightmarish visions of peasants marching on Frankenstein's monster with pitchforks and torches.

Muehlhausen, the place Muentzer reached from Allstedt, was to become one of the centers of the peasants war.

Social history presents narrative descriptions of peasants, their families, behaviors, roles and the like.

The thought of a peasant woman a queen could have had and must have had, just as what the king said in that instance a peasant too would have been able to say and doubtless would have said.

I've been baking up loaves of peasant bread from Alexandra Cooks about twice a month.

I was pregnant with our third child and having great success baking beautiful artisanal loaves of peasant bread and pumperknickel bread, crisp pizza crust, sandwich loaves better than Wonder Bread, seeded buns — you get the gist.

I'm a sucker for 70's influences and can't get enough of your peasant top.