Sentences with phrase «scarlet letters for»

Should we have to face the scorn of society like the adulterous Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter for our very private sins?

Weight was the Scarlet Letter for the old car, Oppenheiser acknowledges.

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

A few seconds past 2:30 p.m. this Monday afternoon in Crosley Field in Cincinnati a young man — named Fowler, perhaps, or Nuxhall, or maybe Valentine or Baczewski or Podbielan — dressed in cleated shoes, flannel knickers, a peaked cap and a shirt bearing a scarlet letter «C» over the left breast, will stand for a moment on a low, hard - packed mound of dirt in the middle of a green square of grass, take a deep breath and then, with a violent twisting of his body, throw a baseball.

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.»

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.

She knows black men aren't hit with the scarlet letter that white girls are for dating outside their race.

Heady stuff for a pulp, you'll agree, bolstered by the fact that these Buffy the Vampire Slayers have a red cross tattooed across their face like a scarlet letter denoting their outcast - hero status.

«Shame» was slapped with the MPAA scarlet letters (NC - 17), making it virtually ineligible for awards and actually ineligible to play at many American cinemas.

Summary Capsule: A high school eschews the usual student response to «The Scarlet Letter» to instead embrace it for fun, popularity & gift cards

Five marks for misbehavior in a week puts a middle school student «on the RISE» (Restoring Individual Student Excellence), which entails wearing the equivalent of a scarlet letter, a white T - shirt instead of the uniform polo.

The National Council on Teacher Quality, in a lengthy report that largely praises Indiana and a few other states for their changes in teacher evaluation, calls this a «scarlet letter» approach and says it is bad policy.»

Minivans are a great utility vehicle and have come a long way from the boxy, somewhat embarrassing body lines that were worn like a scarlet letter by soccer moms and dads alike - who were merely looking for a vehicle to suit their family's needs.

Very clever of Hillary Jordan to use The Scarlet Letter as the jumping off for When She Awoke.

Hillary Jordan's dystopian retelling of The Scarlet Letter offers a worthy successor to Hester Prynne: Hannah Payne, a brave woman who is punished for having an abortion (she is «chromed» and her skin is turned red)-- then goes rogue instead of quietly accepting her punishment.

I was long overdue for a re-read of The Scarlet Letter and so I picked it up right after finishing When She Woke.

Why do you think Jordan chose The Scarlet Letter as a jumping - off point for her story?

The Scarlet Letter was required reading in my high school as well, but the district didn't pay for it; we had to buy our own paperbacks for some reason.

While I understand that many authors are seeing The Scarlet Letter hovering over their works, I think that the end result will be beneficial for most.

In my 11th - grade English class, a beloved teacher known as «Carp» (for Carpenter, not the fish) was giving a lecture on The Scarlet Letter when he suddenly hopped onto a table — a makeshift scaffold — and became Dimmesdale reincarnate.

When students study such work online they for sure will write scarlet letter essay, and this may become the essential part of the whole learning process.

Conan has been waiting a couple of YEARS for his forever family because he bears the scarlet letters FIV.

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).

The Cliff's Notes for the The Scarlet Letter, a novel widely taught in high schools across America, outnumber the sales of the actual novel by 3.6 to 1.

My girlfriends and I have been fascinated by the Amanda Knox story and the strange press frenzy surrounding it since the story hit newsstands when we were in Journalism school, so we're all really excited for the new video series she's hosting for Vice on Facebook called the Scarlet Letter Reports.

Will they make me wear the scarlet letter «M» for mixing modern and vintage tablescape ideas?