Sentences with phrase «political figureheads»

The camera's ability to cast fiction as truth resonated with the fundamental tension that Bacon identified in religious and political figureheads: a conflict between public image and innate animal instinct.

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The political shifts which destroyed Scottish Labour were clear to everybody apart from the party's figureheads, who remained oblivious to the changing landscape post last year's independence referendum.

Gordon Brown has dismissed the sentencing of Burma's opposition figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi as «purely political».

Tony Benn, one of Britain's towering political figures and a figurehead of the far - left, has died at home following a period of severe ill - health

Syriana is populated not with characters but with figureheads for some political position or another and they speak not in dialogue but in talking points.

As well as being a superhero, Black Panther, played by Chadwick Boseman, is a religious figurehead and a political leader whose strength comes from his intellect, the superior technology in his suit, a herb that only he can eat without being poisoned, and the knowledge of his ancestors.

Stephen Parkinson is Theresa May's current political secretary and former Vote Leave figurehead, who hit headlines for outing Sanni as gay in a Downing Street statement.

What they choose to react to amongst many complaints put forth (on an almost daily basis) depends upon the political mileage that may be gained therefrom (as it might positively reflect personally on an agency's figurehead, in this case, Commissioner Aitken).