Sentences with phrase «role as slave»

For example, Nyong» o's role as a slave kept in bondage could not have been played by a white actress.

Will he ever see his family and freedom again, or is he simply adapting to his role as slave and destined to be stuck there?

White nonsmoking granddad looking for sub to train hard, build up, teach to be devoted and focused, accepting of life - role as slave.

The self can go on sinning and still rue his role as slave rather than master.

Not exact matches

Christians did not work for change so that slaves would be regarded as having equal value while maintaining a subordinate status and role in society.

But frankly, all the pastors ought to be doing in the first place is being a servant and a slave to others — that's what a pastor is anyway, at least what sketchy little bits of «pastor» roles can be made out in the NT, as it's scarcely mentioned — not necessarily standing up there and teaching everyone two or three times a week, running the show, and acting like some kind of CEO.

The human drama has been marked by pell - mell successions of roles, which could be designated as winners versus losers, victors versus victims, masters versus slaves, empires versus colonies, superpowers versus underdeveloped countries.

The problem is still the same — there are all manner of teachings abroad that essentially disconnect the believer from their true freedom in God's redemption and their role as «slaves» of Jesus Christ to love each other and the community around them.

Despite its limitations and the significant abuse women suffered as a result of it, Williams argued that the mammy role was «the most powerful and authoritative one slave women could fill.»

Curiously, coconuts — so important in the Spice Islands — do not play a role in South African curries.Late in the seventeenth century, with the «revictualling» station in operation, commerce between the Dutch East India Company and the new Dutch colony of South Africa picked up considerably because of an important commodity: Malay slaves, referred to in South African literature as «the king of slaves.»

From our role as wet nurses in slavery being forced to breastfeed and nurture our slave owners children often to the detriment of our children, to the lack of mainstream role models and multi-generational support, to our own stereotyping within our community — we have a different dialogue around breastfeeding and it needs special attention.

The remains of the wall found at the Timna site, once considered a barrier used to contain slave laborers, apparently played a different role as well.

Great example is Lupita Nyong, a new face in Hollywood that just got an Oscar as support role in movie «12 years as a slave».

love to role play as an obediant oral slave until you are finished with me... love to...

Would play a slave role and cook and clean as well, mostly one on one but if you have friends who need to spank someone who am I to say no, master;)

I'm into sex, spanking, fisting, bondage, whipping, canning, torture, orgasm, torture, role play, house hold slave (Domestic)... I'm looking for a real Master to serve and to own me 24/7 as his property, and to train me to his taste.

The first opens on a dusty road on the eve of the Civil War, as the avuncular Dr. Schultz (Christoph Waltz) claims chain gang slave Django (Jamie Foxx) by violently disposing of his two owners (one of them is James Remar, who crops up later in the second of these three films in a different role).

Jackson, buried under makeup and adopting an elderly stoop and geriatric traits, is outstanding in what must have been a challenging role as the «house nigger» - aside from a black slave owner, the most despised of roles for a black man in this era - and shows that he can be as ruthless as his master.

I think that novelist - now - screenwriter Emma Donoghue originally wanted to present an ironic counterpoint for a character who is manic and crazed from seven years as a sex - slave captive (five of them as a mother), oublietted away in some freak's (Sean Bridgers, who already played this role in Lucky McKee's The Woman) garden shed.

Kenyan actress Nyong» o has earned a nod for her role as Patsey in 12 Years a Slave, here pictured with Best Supporting Actor nominee Michael Fassbender.

The award for Best Picture went to Steve McQueen's «12 Years a Slave,» which also took home awards for Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Lupita Nyong» o. Cate Blanchett won her second Oscar, this time as Best Actress, for her role in «Blue Jasmine.»

Doctor Strange is set for release on October 25th in the UK and November 4th in the US, with Scott Derrickson (Sinister) directing a cast that includes Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock) as Stephen Strange, Tilda Swinton (Snowpiercer) as The Ancient One, Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) as Baron Mordo, Benedict Wong (The Martian) as Wong, Rachel McAdams (True Detective) as Christine Palmer, Mads Mikkelsen (Hannibal) as Kaecilius and Benjamin Bratt (The Infiltrator) in an as - yet - unrevealed role.

The Envelope, Please: At this point, it's a two - horse race between Jennifer Lawrence's portrayal of a volatile wife in the 1970s and Lupita Nyong «o's role as a horrifically abused slave.

Directed by Academy Award ® - winner Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire, London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony), Frankenstein features Benedict Cumberbatch (12 Years A Slave, Star Trek: Into Darkness) and Jonny Lee Miller (Trainspotting, Mansfield Park) alternating roles as Victor Frankenstein and his creation.

Following his upcoming role in DJANFO UNCHAINED as freed slave - turned - bounty hunter, Jamie Foxx is set to play the US president in WHITE HOUSE DOWN...

12 Years a Slave is just Dillahunt's latest role in a great movie as he seems to pop up in some of every year's best.

Muna Otaru shines in her first feature starring role as Mad, showcasing both inner strength and courage not often properly portrayed on screen in relation to the slaves of Southern families.

The Kerryman was nominated by the Academy in the Best Supporting Actor category for the first time for his role as a brutal slave owner 12 Years A Sslave owner 12 Years A SlaveSlave.

Nyong» o won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance in 12 Years A Slave earlier this year, while Christie in known for her role as Brienne of Tarth in Game of Thrones.

The two roles have similar elements; Han's in love with Qi» ra (Emilia Clarke) as he also schemes to escape — whereas here, he's an indentured teen slave.

Meanwhile, Oscar winner Lupita Nyong» o follows up 12 Years a Slave with a role as a chirpy air hostess (boasting a dubious cockney accent), while House of Cards» Corey Stoll pops up as a buddy cop who could have been drafted in from the 1990s.

Just as crucially Tom Wilkinson lends a quiet, easy authority to the role of Lord Mansfield, Belle's great - uncle, the Lord Chief Justice whose ruling on a landmark slave - trade court case was deeply influenced, the film argues, by Mansfield's familial relationship with Belle.

The 31 - year - old Kenyan's searing performance as Patsey, Solomon's fellow slave, was her first ever film role.

Paul Giamatti (born June 6, 1967 in New Haven, Connecticut) played supporting roles in Man on the Moon (1999) by Milos Forman starring Jim Carrey as comedian Andy Kaufman, Cinderella Man (2005) by Ron Howard starring Russell Crowe as boxing champion James Braddock, The Illusionist (2006) starring Edward Norton, Duplicity (2009) by Tony Gilroy with Julia Roberts and Clive Owen, The Ides of March (2011) by George Clooney, Saving Mr. Banks (2013) with Emma Thompson, 12 Years A Slave (2012) with Chiwetel Ejofor, Love & Mercy (2014) about Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys.

As for the other characters, they are all so thinly drawn that the film feels somewhat like an ode to Neeson, with Julianne Moore's talents being largely restricted to looking concerned, and Lupita Nyong» o (who excelled as Patsy in «12 Years a Slave «-RRB- playing a role so half - baked we barely remember her namAs for the other characters, they are all so thinly drawn that the film feels somewhat like an ode to Neeson, with Julianne Moore's talents being largely restricted to looking concerned, and Lupita Nyong» o (who excelled as Patsy in «12 Years a Slave «-RRB- playing a role so half - baked we barely remember her namas Patsy in «12 Years a Slave «-RRB- playing a role so half - baked we barely remember her name.

That seemed to be the case for Matthew McConaughey, who won the first of what could well be multiple acting wins for his role as an unlikely AIDS crusader in «The Dallas Buyers Club»; the prize gave him an early - season edge over «12 Years A Slave's» Chiwetel Ejiofor and other contenders.

It was Jackson's role as Stephen, Candie's house slave, that turned out to be the real antagonist in the movie.

Ejiofor has been roundly praised for his exceptonal acting talents, as have the rest of the cast, who include Brad Pitt, Paul Giamatti, Paul Dano, Benedict Cumberbatch, Alfre Woodard and Michael Fassbender, whose role as the heartless slave trader Edwin Epps has also been widely applauded for his unflinching brutality and realism.

Gugu Mbatha - Raw, who shone opposite Nate Parker in the little seen romance Beyond the Lights, stars as the former slave who becomes his wife, in what promises to be a plum role for the underrated British actor.

Consider too the appearance of an interpreter played by Chiwetel Ejiofor in an uncomfortable echo of his recent role as Solomon Northup in 12 Years a Slave, speaking to the essential problem in American pictures that African - Americans are generally recognized for playing servile (slave / servant), athlete, musician, or criminal — the very roles they're cast into in American society, as it hapSlave, speaking to the essential problem in American pictures that African - Americans are generally recognized for playing servile (slave / servant), athlete, musician, or criminal — the very roles they're cast into in American society, as it hapslave / servant), athlete, musician, or criminal — the very roles they're cast into in American society, as it happens.

Brangelina have been a fixture on the red carpet this awards season as he basks in the success of 12 Years A Slave, which Pitt co-produced and had a small role in.

As Epps, the half - mad, drunken sadist, Michael Fassbender (in his third role for McQueen) is terrifying, not just violent and unpredictable but actually demonic, tormented by lust for one of his slaves, the beautiful Patsey (Lupita Nyong» o, very affecting), to the rage of his no less vicious wife Mistress Epps (Sarah Paulson).

The series was a spin - off of the theatrical film with James Caan and Mandy Patinkin, with Gary Graham in the Caan role as a rough and tumble human cop and Eric Pierpoint in Patinkin's part as his humorless but dedicated «newcomer» partner, one of hundreds of thousands of Tenctonese survivors of an interstellar slave ship that crashed on Earth five years before.

Despite having a big question mark in the script department, Assassin's Creed seems to have a lot going for it: New Regency, the production company behind the Oscar - winning films 12 Years a Slave and Birdman, is producing the film; fantastic actor Michael Fassbender (X-Men: First Class) is playing the lead role of Callum Lynch (a character created specifically for the film); and seasoned actor Jeremy Irons joined the cast as Abstergo Industries leader, and father to Marion Cotillard's character, Alan Rikkin.

Aja Naomi King's movie ascendancy as the slave girl Cherry in Nate Parker's blazing battle cry, The Birth of a Nation (based on the Nat Turner rebellion of 1831), is a complete boomerang from the role that made her television rep.. After an assortment of credits in film («Positive Polly» in Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress and Rosa in the underseen comedy The Rewrite) and in prime - time series such as Emily Owens, M.D. and The Blacklist, King was whisked aboard the mother ship of Shondaland's How to Get Away with Murder, starring the inviolable Viola Davis.

Rock plays Andre Allen, who is basically him under a different name, as he attempts to transition away from comedy with a starring role in a drama about a Haitian slave uprising.

It he'd been a more intelligent man he would have stopped at the armband phase and used state authority to force Jews into a permanent role as virtual slave labor.

Its infamous role as the largest slave market in Eastern Africa meant that at its peak an estimated 50,000 slaves passed through the island each year until slavery was outlawed in 1873.

You take on the role of Casey Black, who has been slaving away as a pilot for Weyss.

The family heirlooms played a role in the story of emancipation by functioning as coded maps that guided escaped slaves to freedom.