Sentences with phrase «robber baron who»

There's no moment of moral choice here: The leader of the seven (Denzel Washington) is now a U.S. Marshal with a score to settle with the villain (Peter Sarsgaard), the sort of robber baron who walks into a room with a prepared monologue about capitalism, complete with visual aid.

Forget Mexico: The community in peril is now an American frontier town called Rose Creek, threatened not by bandits but Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard), the sort of robber baron who introduces himself by declaring, «This country has long equated democracy with capitalism, capitalism with God,» before an audience of (presumably confused) townspeople.

The old guy was a befuddled robber baron who only knew enough to screw it all up.

The heroes are robber barons who pool their various resources to outmaneuver the competition by any means necessary, but money doesn't buy acceptance.

Rather than updating the narratives of art's conceptual, formal, and material interests to reflect today's developments, the largest and most visible museums in the United States are increasingly being dragged back toward the values of the robber barons who founded them.

Not exact matches

Jay Gould, American railroad executive, financier, and speculator, an important railroad developer who was one of the most unscrupulous «robber barons» of 19th - century American capitalism.

The «Robber Barons» were no robbers and their greed was exaggerated, natural right - grounded classic liberals rejected Social Darwinism, and men like Justice Peckham who «discovered» and defended the liberty of contract were good men attuned to what might plausibly be derived from a natural development of American jurisprudence.

Now, with the so - called Avengers, the latest mutation of militants, they are being raped by home - grown robber barons, who kill, rob and plunder — but blame outsiders for their crime.

(The City's Real Estate Robber Barons) Photo Illustration Credit: Gary Tilzer @unitednyblogs Using a clever photo illustration borrowing from an anti-Tammany cartoon by Thomas Nast Brooklyn - based blogger Gary Tilzer asks, «Who stole the people's -LSB-...]

Our «free» communication is not free; for example the New York Times holds on to its independence but is hardly free of its major financiers, who are the ever - growing wealth / fossil fuel antiregulation robber baron freedom sector dominated by ever fewer people.

Klein instead prefers the story that there is sufficient wealth, but that evil robber barons keep it from those who need it — a childish «zero sum game» view of wealth and inequality.