Sentences with phrase «portrayed as victims»

Women in a Man's World: (1:47) Historical accounts are typically written by men, and women tend to be portrayed as victims.

I don't buy the narrative and I think it detrimental to women to be portrayed as victims in that.

The JP Morgan CEO and the Chinese e-commerce giant are being portrayed as victims of harsh regulatory regimes.

Akira, they wrap themselves in the twin cloaks of patriotism and the moral high ground while wielding their bible as a sledgehammer — at the same time, they feign persecution and portray themselves as victims despite their blatant discrimination.

I love it when oppressors try to portray themselves as victims.

Subtly but surely, we have shifted responsibility away from poor people by continually portraying them as victims, and doing battle on their behalf.

This obsession so many Christians have with portraying themselves as victims is just so tiresome.

We live in a time when the strong love to portray themselves as victims.

But many political observers think it backfired, allowing Moser to portray herself as a victim of outside interference and parlay the episode into a second - place showing behind Fletcher, who topped the seven - person field.

Duesberg sometimes seems to relish his status as an outsider, portraying himself as a victim of groupthink who has been persecuted for daring to question the status quo.

The one for I, Tonya could conceivably read, «Tonya Harding's life underwent a momentous change when she agreed to be interviewed for a sympathetic biopic starring Australian star Margot Robbie that portrayed her as the victim of a psychotically abusive mother and husband rather than an evil little scheming piece of white trash.»

I, Tonya is sympathetic to Harding, who's portrayed as a victim — of her mother, of Gilhooly, of the figure skating association, and of society itself.

At the same time, Halley, a mother who's like a child herself, is never portrayed as a victim.

Ultimately, opponents decided their best path was to portray themselves as victims.

Santa Monica, California — Plenty of reports have circulated about the death of Scion, which has been portrayed as a victim of crumminess, goofiness, and inattention following a brilliant debut in 2002.

«Manipulators often play the victim role («poor me») by portraying themselves as victims of circumstances or someone else» s behavior in order to gain pity or sympathy or to evoke compassion.»

You avoid explicitly avoid defending him or mentioning his bullying behaviors while portraying him as a victim.

But the firm posted several messages on its official Twitter account that essentially portray it as the victim of a biased, unfair smear campaign.

Not exact matches

(The defense portrayed the victims as «as rich and out of touch,» and «sophisticates who didn't carefully read the documents Mr. Shkreli gave them,» The New York Times reported.)

Or Harper might prefer to take the loss, the better to portray the oil - sands industry as a victim of global nanny - statism at the next election.

In a defense outlined in papers filed in the foreclosure, the Kelleys are portrayed by their attorneys as victims of unsound lending practices by bankers.

Selfies that portray us as the humanitarian hero with our arm draped around some impoverished victim do a disservice to the dignity of those people — and actually tell a false story about their humanity.

Whatever genuine aid SNAP may provide victims of priestly sex abuse is well matched by the harm SNAP does by mounting little less than an anti-Catholic smear campaign and wantonly portraying every priest as a sexual predator waiting to happen and every bishop an enabler.

Or more subtly, they speak of the mass pathology as something passive, portraying ordinary people as (in Jim Garrison's words) «victims of a compelling nightmare, hypnotized and magnetized» in a dreamlike state like that of children following the Pied Piper (Darkness of God, p. 3) Interestingly, this view reverses Caldicott's formulation, in which the people were seen as adults and the leaders were the children.

In Heb 2,10 - 12 Jesus is portrayed as the heavenly high priest (i.e., as he exists in his risen state) officiating at the Eucharist, and at 2,8b - 9 Jesus is portrayed as the heavenly victim (i.e., as he exists in the Eucharist).

The times I have seen it play out, a great deal of shaming the victim went on in an effort to portray them as being selfishly motivated and putting themselves ahead of the «work of the gospel».

Planned Parenthood and its defenders have tried to portray the abortion behemoth as a victim of a dishonest right - wing smear campaign.

One of the principal means through which the perpetrator will attempt to clear his conscience is by clothing his victim in a mantle of evil, by portraying the victim as an object that must be destroyed.

Even though these arguments are portrayed as absolute, scientific fact, these arguments are better understood as a rhetorical strategy to persuade mothers of the health threats to their children (c.f., Best's (1990) work on the construction of the child - victim).

This incredibly irresponsible article about sexting portrays young males as hapless victims of their own sexual and approval needs and young females as those responsible for redirecting the young men into more appropriate behaviors.

Often portrayed as dominating the sex industry, the scale of the victims of human trafficking represents a minority of sex workers in the UK: less than 10 % of female sex workers (2600 out of 30000) working indoors have been trafficked according to the Association of Chief Police Officers» 2010 report.

Ashton explains she was disturbed at the time by news reports that portrayed Garcia as the victim.

Demone Smith said earlier this week that he was unaware of his wife's activities and portrayed her as «a victim of an online predator» and someone who was «duped.»

The study found that people living with EDs find that the tendency to portray women with anorexia as the passive victims of media influence is often seen as patronising and simplistic by those living with the illness.

Although there is some research that portrays victims of bullies as unassertive and conflict - avoidant, other reports suggest that bullying is an «equal - opportunity» activity and that anyone of us is vulnerable.

The director isn't naïve enough to portray Ronnie as simply the harmless victim of a McCarthyesque witch hunt being run by guilt - wracked Larry (Noah Emmerich), providing the pariah with a date scene in which he ends the night by jerking off in the woman's car and then threatening her with violence if she dares mention what's occurred.

Writer / director Damien Chazelle makes sure to portray Andrew not as a victim, but a willing participant.

Hope and his family are victims of everything that happened to them, but the film portrays it all as being Hope's fault.

While Hollywood has a history of portraying the American hero as the victim of suffering and torture due to his mysterious superiority (Clint Eastwood's Western heroes come immediately to mind), the past three decades of war and growing social crisis, and accompanying ideological confusion and disorientation, have played at least an indirect role in the increasing number of movies based on the same theme.

Fruitvale Station, which won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at this year's Sundance Film Festival, looks past the media frenzy to the life of the victim, portraying him as an ordinary man with friends and family who loved him.

Linda is portrayed as a hapless victim, and this perspective is reinforced with repetition.

The extraordinary thing about Pride is that, underneath the mainstream presentation and heartstring - pulling manipulation (which never feels hokey, since it's largely based in fact), it quietly expands the horizons of queer cinema: Gays are portrayed not as frail victims, but as powerful heroes and defenders, and they aren't sexualized in the slightest (sex and romance are virtual non-factors).

By the same token, Linda Lovelace, portrayed here as a victim with a capital V, was probably not as pure as driven snow.

can feel like a disingenuous apologia, portraying Lawrence's character as the victim of neglect and increasingly repugnant violence bred out of her husband's indulging in his own idolatry: a blood - spattered muse.

As Pam Hobbs, mother of one of the victims, Witherspoon is relatively unburdened by stilted dialogue and convincingly portrays a tough, working - class woman facing unfathomable grief.

The most interesting thing about Buffy the Vampire Slayer is spotting the budding newcomer: Ben Affleck appears briefly as an overacting rival basketball player (a marginal surprise, as Affleck seldom shows a pulse anymore much less an instinct to upstage); the better - as - a-boy Hilary Swank portrays one of Buffy's idiotic pals in easily the worst performance of a terribly - performed movie; David Arquette sprays spittle - flecked invectives; and the unbearably beautiful Natasha Gregson Wagner has the bloodless role of a victim.

The reform literature shies away from an honest examination of this, preferring instead to portray the students as ill - served victims of an uncaring, unfair system.

Sir Michael, who in the past has drawn much criticism from teachers» unions, also warned that teachers» representatives should not portray themselves as «victims who have little control or say over their own professional lives».

Dahl uses his imagination to great effect when portraying these encounters, characterizing the victims as «jokers» or «genuises» and not hesitating to skewer even the most famous of men, especially his fellow writers (Proust and George Bernard Shaw get the worst of it).

Through a few eerie Hollywood depictions in the movies, hypnosis is portrayed as a frightening instrument of mind control where wicked and evil people (usually the villains) take control of a person's will creating helpless victims.