Sentences with phrase «racial overtones»

Participants who were perfectly unbiased should have been able to pick the equivalent word pairs equally quickly, regardless of racial overtones.

That's not saying the author stays away from racial overtones.

And, in case anyone is concerned about weird racial overtones, the «china» bit refers to the fact that she's made out of porcelain.

As he turns over stones, he uncovers corruption at the heart of post Katrina recovery efforts with nasty racial overtones, which threaten him and his family.

Kara Walker's video silhouettes added racial overtones, Odili Donald Oditi's abstract wall - work (nodding obliquely to LeWitt) added Africanized color, Steve McQueen traced the path of the earth's most sought after ore, coltane, from Gravesend to the Heart of Darkness in the Congo.

Thus, there is an inherent tendency to resort to violence, often with racial overtones — and a violence which possesses a kind of moral authority all its own.

A fear of discrimination, with its racial overtones, has now come to influence many of our decisions, even ones that require, well, discrimination in the older sense of considered judgment.

Those policies don't really have racial overtones, at all.

This movie should be boycotted because of its racial overtones.

Update: NBC issued a statement on Friday explaining there were no racial overtones intended.

I don't care if it's a liberal, conservative or apolitical, did you or did you not continue a chain of e-mails that were offensive to the president, had racial overtones... We just had two governors back - to - back that were losers, we're looking for somebody who's going to put their head above this personal flotsam and jetsam that has paralyzed the office.»

«Cocky» could be code for «uppity» (with all of its racial overtones), but I've heard Obama described as arrogant - seeming by people who mean him well and are worried by how he comes off.

``... I have to stand here with my colleagues and listen to you degrade our leader and degrade us for not being fair with racial overtones?

When the district was redrawn in 2012, Espaillat warned that forcing the two groups to compete for the same congressional seat would lead to «20 years of nuclear political war,» and his subsequent campaigns against Rangel were speckled with racial overtones.

Once past the racial overtones and some admittedly impressive imagery that, like a gumball, loses its flavor within minutes, the film is only noteworthy in that it's Johansson's fourth to take on the same subject matter: What it means to be human.

When it comes to avoiding conflicts — especially those with racial overtones — Warikoo found the size of the two schools she studied had a significant impact.

A teachers strike in 1974, in which Schaefer took a strong stand against the teachers, also took on racial overtones.

Considering the racial overtones, it is one that is particularly unsettling.

Finally, in an argument reeking with racial overtones, they want to know if the Spanish speaking person whose dog they stole and killed is legally in the U.S..

Here the mood seems dire while the title reveals the racial overtones that informed Lewis's art from the beginning.

Recent neons by Patrick Martinez illuminate the racial overtones of NFL team mascots and the futility of wealth in the face of inequality.

They included complaints about the post's racial overtones, his call for vigilante justice, his seeming disregard for legal due process and his potential tainting of a jury pool.

On Friday, Chesapeake High Principal Stephen Gorski sent a letter home to parents saying a fight with racial overtones had broken out at the school.