Sentences with phrase «of predatory men»

When it comes to screen depictions of predatory men, Australian director Cate Shortland has you covered.

Almost immediately, she's honed in on by two very different types of predatory men: Her boss (Justin Bartha) is a cavalier yuppie who comes on to her in his office (which she goes along with willingly), while a neighborhood drug dealer named Blue (Brian «Sene» Marc) simultaneously teases and covets her (again, she goes along willingly).

At a time when every news cycle reveals new cases of predatory men abusing their power in the workplace, The Post emphasizes the truth that, with mutual respect, there's no reason men and women can't have long - standing fruitful relationships in a professional setting, without sexual overtures.

Since its birth, Hollywood has been a breeding ground for a certain kind of predatory man — from Errol Flynn and Roman Polanski to Woody Allen and Bill Cosby — that seeks to take advantage of women.

Not exact matches

Like Hollywood, Washington and New York City, Silicon Valley is in a moral crisis after a litany of revelations about predatory behavior by powerful men.

Who, after all, after Harvey Weinstein, wants to be seen as anything other than standing on the side of victims and against predatory men?

The conversation surrounding #MeToo even resulted in the downfall of several predatory men, such as Harvey Weinstein, and the women (and men) involved in the movement were named 2017's Time Person of..

Roe empowers the strong and predatory — men of the sort unmasked in the continuing #MeToo scandals — and crushes the small and weak.

Gothard's teachings involve rules upon rules all dealing with the outward, dress, hair, smiling, bright eyes, no birth control or dating, no higher education for girls who must stay in the home until the father decides what they should do, how God blesses and is happy with you if you do such and such, so many rules, those who really wanted to please God were under the weight of things they could never accomplish... plus the male regime and women having to be careful not to defraud men by their dress or looks made it so easy for sexual predatory behaviors to take hold and the woman at fault for the man's problems and such... ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!! No wonder some of the children of this regime became athiests.

A part of the process of conversion is the conviction of guilt, and so halfway through the cycle of the man remembers and relives in graphic images his years of predatory behavior.

The story is told of Mark Twain's encounter with a man who managed to combine the appearances of piety with a predatory career in business.

Man is the most cunning and predatory of all animals.

The England man is often praised for the timing of his runs, but on Saturday his predatory instincts came to the fore.

I have been saved 24 years and most of the «Christian» men I have come across have been everything from shallow traditionalists to predatory liars.

Of course, many people will jump to conclusions as to why older men dating younger women is on the rise, going straight to the clichés about predatory «dirty old men,» and dudes who can not hack it in a relationship with a woman who is his equal.

The story is female - centric, ripped from the headlines, and pits a fiercely loving mother and her vulnerable child against a predatory older man, all tropes of the type of TV movie that makes middle - aged moms cry into their chardonnay.

A disjointed series of excruciatingly pointless conversations between a babyish self - pitying woman and various predatory men, mostly ugly.

Strangely, director Ward adds a creepy misogynistic tone, with all of these predatory, sleazy men plus camerawork that leers at female anatomy, which leaves the gay subplots feeling almost offensively cursory.

His Alejandro is a man of no allegiances, who, with his pointed goatee and predatory body movements, appears to be more wolf than man.

With no knowledge of the ways of society outside of the convent, Emma becomes disillusioned with this simple life and finds temptation in a trio of men: the young legal clerk Leon Dupris (Ezra Miller), a rugged marquis (Logan Marshall - Green), and the predatory Monsieur Lheureux (Rhys Ifans), a local shop owner who expands and improves her wardrobe and household decorations.

You've heard of predatory lending, but probably never imagined that this unethical financial practice could apply to man's best friend.

Kelley's heroine has to do a lot of listening — to young men almost as constrained as she by a preposterous stack of books, their own predatory instincts, or her nightmares of revenge.

Most of these clippings concern the legendary trumpeter — a cartoon announcing «Armstrong Wows at Cotton Club» beneath which he scrawled the name of Martin Luther King — while others are more whimsical, such as one labelled «BRUSSELLS BELGIUM», featuring several naked women, a man holding a flying bowler hat by a rope tether, and a flock of predatory birds.

Surely no one has previously sculpted the New Testament's Annunciation of the Incarnation as Ofili has: the Angel Gabriel as a predatory black bird - man with gorgeous, bronze swan - like wings copulating with a golden, submissive Virgin Mary.

Over wine, we recounted our parallel experiences: opportunities brokered by powerful and predatory men; negligent and rudderless institutions; and sexual harassment and violence as the real currency of completing scientific work.