Sentences with phrase «prejudice were in play»

Unfortunately, human nature and prejudice were in play.

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So the trick that prejudice plays in the mind is: rather than knowledge leading to the attitude or belief, the attitude or belief pre-exists and forms the so - called «facts» that shape the prejudice and fuel it into action.

Touches of the wider world sometimes impinge on Austen's peaceful outposts — Wickham, a soldier, plays a prominent role in Pride and Prejudice, there are passing references to the British colonies and the slave trade in Mansfield Park, and the British navy's preservation of England in the Napoleonic Wars is duly noted in Persuasion.

As Jonas Barish points out in his sharply observed monograph The Anti «Theatrical Prejudice (1981), terms such as theatrical, operatic, melodramatic, and stagey tend to be hostile or belittling, as do phrases like play «acting, putting on an act, making a scene, making a spectacle of oneself, playing to the gallery, and so forth.

The result of Suarez fitting in and playing exceptionally for a historic Barcelona team has been a year - long rewrite of prejudice the player has harbored for a lifetime.

They acknowledge that it is hard to determine the role prejudice plays in Uber ratings, if any, without access to the company's internal data.

However further analysis revealed that it played no significant role in reducing aggression or prejudice or improving how socially - connected someone was.

Backstage's Great Perforamnces issue, on newsstands Dec. 6, will feature a piece on her discussing her craft, Knightley also took the time to speak frankly on several other topics, including how she often dies on film; how Wright was resistant to casting her in «Pride and Prejudice,» their first film together; and how her Mr. Darcy in that movie, Matthew Macfadyen, almost played her abuser in a public service advertisement.

The fact that Barton Fink uses working - class characters in his plays obliges him to be friendly to Meadows because if not he would show himself full of prejudice.

-- Austenland (Directed by Jerusha Hess, starring Keri Russell, JJ Feild, Bret McKenzie, Jennifer Coolidge)- Thirtysomething, single Jane is obsessed with Mr. Darcy, as played by Colin Firth in Pride and Prejudice.

Also, Pride & Prejudice / Surrogates star Rosamund Pike, who was previously rumored to be in line to play young Emma Frost, is now being pegged as a possible Moira McTaggert.

Since the so - called «Trojan Horse» plot became headline news teachers have been contemplating a range of difficult issues, including where exactly on the spectrum «extremism» starts and finishes, as well as how to have that debate in the first place and what role they are expected to play in policing prejudice.

Schools are reflections of our society, and they can and should play an important role in fighting prejudice and promoting acceptance.

The script tells the story of a shy schoolgirl who is desperate to perform in the school play, but who has to battle against a prejudiced, old - fashioned headteacher, her own nerves and the machinations of some jealous friends.

Learning will be grounded in conversations about the roles that race, bias and prejudice play in our schools and classrooms.

So much human prejudice, human ignorance, and religious righteousness and misinformation was in play to stop the force of what happened.

Section 8: Prejudice is one of the best multiplayer experiences I've played in quite a while, and I look forward to crushing you on the battlefield.

With every player having access to jetpacks and the Overdrive ability Prejudice plays like an arcade shooter, and that's nailed in with the feeling of the weaponry available.

There's a lot of choice in here even before you've unlocked anything, so you can expect to be able to play Prejudice your own way.

The grounds of this spectacular Tudor - cum - Italian palace were host to one of the most iconic moments in British television: Mr Darcy, played by Colin Firth, emerging from the lake in the 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.

Oppenheim speaks of growing up in Washington and California, his father's Russian ancestry and education in China, his father's career in engineering, his mother's background and education in English, living in Richmond El Cerrito, his mother's love of the arts, his father's feelings toward Russia, standing out in the community, his relationship with his older sister, attending Richmond High School, demographics of El Cerrito, his interest in athletics during high school, fitting in with the minority class in Richmond, prejudice and cultural dynamics of the 1950s, a lack of art education and philosophy classes during high school, Rebel Without a Cause, Richmond Trojans, hotrod clubs, the persona of a good student, playing by the rules of the art world, friendship with Jimmy De Maria and his relationship to Walter DeMaria, early skills as an artist, art and teachers in high school, attending California College of Arts and Crafts, homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, working and attending art school, professors at art school, attending Stanford, early sculptural work, depression, quitting school, getting married, and moving to Hawaii, becoming an entrepreneur, attending the University of Hawaii, going back to art school, radical art, painting, drawing, sculpture, the beats and the 1960s, motivations, studio work, theory and exposure to art, self - doubts, education in art history, Oakland Wedge, earth works, context and possession, Ground Systems, Directed Seeding, Cancelled Crop, studio art, documentation, use of science and disciplines in art, conceptual art, theoretical positions, sentiments and useful rage, Robert Smithson and earth works, Gerry Shum, Peter Hutchinson, ocean work and red dye, breaking patterns and attempting growth, body works, drug use and hippies, focusing on theory, turmoil, Max Kozloff's «Pygmalion Reversed,» artist as shaman and Jack Burnham, sync and acceptance of the art world, machine works, interrogating art and one's self, Vito Acconci, public art, artisans and architects, Fireworks, dysfunction in art, periods of fragmentation, bad art and autobiographical self - exposure, discovery, being judgmental of one's own work, critical dissent, impact of the 1950s and modernism, concern about placement in the art world, Gypsum Gypsies, mutations of objects, reading and writing, form and content, and phases of development.

Under the Morin framework, prejudice and seriousness of the offence «often played a decisive role in whether delay was unreasonable» (Jordan, at para. 96).