Sentences with phrase «scarlet letter»

She has to pay her mortgage by the date written in huge scarlet letters on her wall, or the shylock would cast an evil spell on her that would impede her ability to earn those fabulous Ultimate Rewards points (or other points for that matter).

This brute moral proportionality may make very little sense when considered as a whole, but is probably preferable to the FA handing out scarlet letters for moral turpitude.

I should probably reread Scarlet Letter as above did.

Anti-marriage equality will be the new pro-life scarlet letter in statewide elections.

Determined to rise above that cinematic scarlet letter, Lamarr fled her unhappy first marriage and sailed to New York in 1937.

The director and cast get an A for effort, but The Crimson Rivers gets a shameful scarlet letter F for results.

A UBI removes the confusion and stigma because there's no application process and, since everyone is getting the same thing, there's no social scarlet letter attached to it.

And the failure doesn't get branded like a scarlet letter on your shoulder for life.

• And speaking of new shows... Amanda Knox, the American student who stood trial in Italy for the 2007 murder of her roommate, wants to draw attention to other women who were shamed for their sexuality and womanhood on her new show, The Scarlet Letter Reports, for Vice Media's Broadly.

Today's «undecided» students, however, are by no means wearing that label like a scarlet letter; rather, it's often seen as a symbol of whimsical youth, of spontaneous self - discovery, of a Tolkien-esque desire to explore: «Not all those who wander are lost...» Well, sort of.

Miley twerks against a guys crotch and we all go «scarlet letter» on her.

I had HIS actions follow me like a scarlet letter into the fleet.

But will not listing them on the archdiocesan website inexorably tar these priests» reputations with the scarlet letter of priest - abuse?

If judgement looms under every steeple If lofty glances from lofty people Can't see past her scarlet letter And we never even met her ----------- After she went down, no one loved her enough to help her.

It's also there in those who brand the woman caught in adultery with a Scarlet Letter.

Socially, it became the scarlet letter that Jews wore proudly when they were not allowed to marry someone's Protestant daughter, denied entry into their local country clubs, Ivy League universities, and banking professions.

«Perhaps she fulfilled Hester Prynne's dream,» Miller writes, and then quotes it from The Scarlet Letter: «The angel and apostle of the coming revelation must be a woman, indeed, but lofty, pure, and beautiful; and wise, moreover, not through dusky grief, but the ethereal medium of joy; and showing how sacred love should make us happy, by the truest test of a life successful to such an end!»

Donoghue sets out to read Moby - Dick, The Scarlet Letter, Walden, Leaves of Grass and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with two worthy aims: first, to explain how these works «make available to readers... a shared cultural experience, something in which American society is otherwise impoverished,» and second, to suggest how they «put in question the otherwise facile ideology of individualism on which American culture complacently prides itself.»

Later readings are gratefully stronger, particularly on the misanthropic hypocrisy that opens up between the substance of Walden and of its author, and on the «easy» glory of sin when «theology is reduced to psychology, and morality to good fellowship» in The Scarlet Letter.

Remember the book The Scarlet Letter that you were most likely supposed to read in high school?

Another is a pious heartlessness toward those whose sins have found them out and who wear the consequences like a scarlet letter.

She read The Scarlet Letter and The Red Badge of Courage over the summer, though the Glencoe text will revisit them during the course of the year.

It is fortunate that the rigid self - righteousness reflected in Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is largely a thing of the past.

A scarlet letter I never thought I'd wear.»

WHEN IT comes to quarterbacks, there's almost a scarlet letter M (for marginal) on guys who went undrafted.

How long does that have to be held as a scarlet letter over the man.

He was but a four - star recruit, which is almost like wearing a scarlet letter in Lexington.

I'm not suggesting society should embrace the «scarlet letter» extreme of public shaming.

A few weeks ago, I tattooed a scarlet A onto my chest, a reference to Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.

You would think that asking for consent to feed formula in a health - care institution, or requiring hospitals to purchase it, is equivalent to putting a scarlet letter on the foreheads of bottle - feeders.

Also, I don't understand this line: «You would think that asking for consent to feed formula in a health - care institution, or requiring hospitals to purchase it, is equivalent to putting a scarlet letter on the foreheads of bottle - feeders.»

But it is putting a scarlet letter on bottle feeders.

We are refusing to wear that «Scarlet Letter» that society wanted to impose on us.

The movie based off of The Scarlet Letter starring the ever witty Emma Stone?

A Manhattan Democratic club is opposing Lori Sattler's candidacy for Manhattan Supreme Court for her controversial ruling about abortion, sending 10,000 voters provocative mailings with images of «The Scarlet Letter's» Hester Prynne.

Hester in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.

Cuomo explained that non-violent offenders who do not commit a crime for 10 years will be eligible to have their records sealed, a move he said would remove a «scarlet letter» on young people's records which often served as a barrier to getting employment.

Not that it was about him; it was about those far less fortunate than him, who would carry this scarlet letter the rest of their lives.