Sentences with word «peasantry»

«POSTERS OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 1917 - 1921» continues through November 8, 2015 The exhibition includes graphic posters communicating the ideals of Communism to the Russian peasantry of 1917 - 1921.

Relying heavily on studies of ancient peasantry in order to extract from Josephus and the Gospels a picture of Galilean antipathies and unrest,

The tale is both elemental and rich, and in addition to giving a masterclass in screen acting as a patriarch at most one generation removed from peasantry, Auteuil is generous with opportunities for his fellow players, especially Astrid Bergès - Frisbey (in the title role), Kad Merad, Sabine Azéma and the ineffable Jean - Pierre Darroussin (the Inspector in Le Havre).

Even the patrons were mostly local peasantry.

All that remained was an ignorant and impoverished peasantry, trying to bring back a «scorched» earth into cultivation.

In fact, the Kerry blue terrier was used by Irish peasantry to silently hunt nobles» lands in Ireland, according to the AKC.

The Song of Deborah comes «from below»; it is the voice of an oppressed peasantry protesting the overweening power of the Canaanite city - states.

The production design gleams, fusing sophisticated, gentrified wealth with agricultural peasantry and penury, aesthetically rooting the audience in late 19th century England, undoubtedly spectacular but not imposing enough to salvage the film from its overall narrative shortcomings.

Marie Antoinette did not say «let them eat cake» when she heard that the French peasantry was starving.

The exhibition includes graphic posters communicating the ideals of Communism to the Russian peasantry of 1917 - 1921.

Star ratings go back to that simpler time when film critics stood on far hillsides and signaled to the grateful peasantry with torches and brightly colored flags.

Mile on mile of flat corn and scattered copses where Europeans turn into well - off peasantry.

His was a world preoccupied with the problems of late feudal rural life, especially the tensions between peasantry and nobility.

Faulkner's description of the rape of the land, the destruction of a stubborn and hard - pressed peasantry, and the corruption of the southern middle and upper classes by those values transcends its particularly southern context and applies to America generally.5

However they may be unraveled, the fact remains that there was indeed a transition from the tribal league with its occasional rallies of Israelite peasantry to fight for their freedom to a monarchy with a standing army, career military commanders, up - to - date armaments, the capacity to take and hold new territory.

The majestic peasantry of Millet and Van Gogh are products of discerning Christian vision, a claim easily documented from the writings of the artists themselves.

(70) 18:22 — «In this ideal world [of the Galilean peasantry] forgiveness could be stretched to seventy times seven; whereas in the real world sevenfold forgiveness touched upon the impracticable».

Tragically, Stolypin was assassinated by terrorists who feared the success of his plan (which Solzhenitsyn estimates could have created an independent peasantry in twenty years and prevented Communist revolution).

They were followed by the fishermen of the Danube... who would render their fish - dishes more palatable with the red spice, and at last the Hungarian peasantry, consuming with great gusto the meat of fattened oxen and pigs or tender poultry which were prepared in Paprika - gravy, professed their irrevocable addiction to Paprika, which by then had become a characteristically Hungarian condiment.»

Incompetence, greed, cronyism, religion, peasantry attitude, etc. are the shackles we are dealing with today.

Roebuck went on to specify the social and political benefits of an educated populace, including the possibility of reasoned debate rather than «a stack - burning peasantry or sturdy pauper population,» and «a people industrious, honest, tolerant, and happy.»

It pushes for new legal frameworks that recognize peasantry and food sovereignty.

The local peasantry have been panning the Busang River in Borneo for thousands of years, but it is Wells and Acosta that come in with a modern engineering approach and take a plethora of core - samples in the nearby mountains.

Given its centralized marketing role, the state could have reallocated land to build up a rural peasantry and helped it invest in modernization.

They are exposed to people and social classes that they would have never encountered otherwise and Guevara found himself transformed by his observations on the life of the impoverished peasantry.

His explanation for the scale of the abuse was focused on the allegedly brutal character of the Irish peasantry; «the culturally and intellectually impoverished class from which many of the Christian Brothers were recruited.»

An agricultural peasantry could be reduced to utter penury by famine conditions, and in the Sudan recently, they have been.

An important figure in French painting of the mid-19th century, the artist Jean - Francois Millet was a founding member of the Barbizon landscape school in France and is best known for his genre - painting and landscape painting - mainly featuring the back - breaking rural life of the French peasantry.

It was a steep price to pay for avoiding rent paid to a landlord class or peasantry.

In some societies the line of division was not drawn so clearly between men and the animals, as between the nobility and the peasantry, the latter being treated with much the same attitude as the animals.

Shameful should religions be and all their emotional transparencies that disenfranchise the establishments of secularism and cultured barbarism around «pagan» peasantries.

I refer to the peasantry.

He rallied the peasantry in charismatic fashion to go to the rescue of Jabesh - gilead against Nahash, king of the Ammonites (1 Samuel 11).

Although the triumph of Yahweh is identified with the triumph of his peasantry in Israel (v. lib, c), all that is actually described at this point is the march of the peasantry down to the gates (vs. IId, 13).

This army continued to be augmented from time to time by the traditional rally of the peasantry (14:20 - 23).

It was rather a nightmare in which the peasantry were drafted away from vines and fig trees into the army or taxed out of the possession of their small farms in order to support the Solomonic magnificence.

More to the point for Tolkien, however, was the connection between poetry and peasantry.

People such as Stephen Carter who suggest that there is something to be said for dissenters who are trying to get up a counter-march must be discredited as extremists who are inciting the peasantry to warfare in the streets.

The Bolshevik regime thus tried to build a caricature of modernity through forced industrialization and a frontal assault on the traditional foundations of the Russian way of life: the peasantry, an independent intelligentsia, and the Orthodox Church.

«The kingdom of God movement was Jesus» program of empowerment for a peasantry becoming more steadily hard - pressed... through insistent taxation, attendant indebtedness and eventual land expropriation, all within increasing commercialization in the booming colonial economy of a Roman empire under Augustan peace,» he wrote.