Sentences with phrase «servant class»

All I can see when we start grading grit and gratitude it a plan to create a new servant class.

Jasper Johns has written that «artists are the elite of the servant class,» but in Schneider's formulation the artist becomes a more equal player, and the relationship between artist and collector, a collaboration based on trust.

But I've seen enough movies about the servant class to know that this small, involving Chilean drama is something relatively new.

The film, Gosford Park is ultimately a highly nuanced social commentary circa the early 1930s in Great Britain, regarding the upper class and a sharp observation of the servant class.

More generally, the ground rule presupposes a moral commitment to the servant class that determines much of what we see.

The premise — of replicants being more than they seem, worthy of equal value as humans — is compelling, particularly since we can see parallels to the way the hierarchical systems of our own world treat their servant classes.

Highlighted are the «upstairs and downstairs» aspect of the drama through photographs, costumes and furnishings that reveal the lifestyles of the merchant and servant classes.

Not exact matches

German's excessive debt burden after the Great War, for example, was «forgiven», unwillingly, mainly by middle - and upper - middle - class households and civil servants, whose fixed income portfolios withered to nothing in the hyperinflation that began in mid 1921 and ended in early 1924.

Having lived with a servant of the Word for more than fifty years in three Lutheran churches, I have this question: Why is it that the «white, middle - class, traditional, orthodox theologians» being told that their understanding of the church is no longer relevant, are told this by «white, middle - class theologians?»

There hardly was any middle class, just the few rich leaders and the rest of their poor servants.

- them shtik always had something unpleasant about it, as in the servant - problem humor in which working - class characters exist solely as....

For instance, feminists disagree on the interpretation of Swept Away, a Lina Wertmuller film that portrays an upper - class woman who is sexually dominated by her servant and who eventually begins to enjoy the domination.

His immense building program laid the ground for a huge class of temple and palace officials and servants.

According to Mormon Teaching — these Post-Dead converted Mormons are only 2nd Class Mormons who become the SERVANTS of Pre-Dead Baptized 1st Class Mormons.

Or, as in Stalin's ideology, if the Law of History dictates the ascendance of one class and the withering away of all others, then we are the true servants of history if we help the process by wiping out all dommed classes and all enemies of the process of history, including those enemies within the proletariat itself.

Jesus referred him to the classes of those who customarily didn't want to marry or couldn't marry - monks (for the sake of the kingdom of heaven - men damaged by the practice of making eunuchs for use as governmental servants (Egypt generally) and the class of people who «from their mother's womb «are not suited (for women?)

Rejecting the necessity for domination, it asks the radical question: Must there «always be a «servant» class, a facilitating group to take the mundane cares from the shoulders of the ««more important» group, and to be controlled by them?

Servant leadership does not abuse or exploit employees, nor does it discriminate against different classes of employees.

Since the clergy were the only literate class the kings of the Franks drafted them as civil servants.

The goal was lessons on discipline, work ethic and equality: A working - class man whose ancestors had come to America from Germany in the 18th century as indentured servants had no intention of passing along the ways of racial segregation that marked that place in time.

Class player without a doubt and a very loyal servant.

Older children would co-sleep with siblings, with a member of the extended family or, for the upper classes, with a servant or nurse - maid.

So it isn't an exact model: if domestic servants value productivity differs from (say) video game programmers, the price of the commodities they contribute to won't express the actual number of human hours of labour, but only the number of hours of human labour that our society (through market, production, class war) deems socially average.

It means funding the reception centres and sending our world class civil servants to help them where we can.

«Todd is a true public servant who grew up here in Nassau County and knows the issues that matter most to our communities, from helping Superstorm Sandy victims rebuild to holding the line on taxes for middle - class families.

For all the changes the area has gone through, it's held on to a large part of its middle class core: white and blue collar civil servants, private sector professionals, union workers and small entrepreneurs.

Having gained a first class degree from Oxford and begun his career working as a civil servant at 10 Downing Street under Baroness Thatcher, the former MP was nicknamed «Two Brains» by his colleagues due to his background and his serious approach to policy formulation.

«Under the new law, anybody, whether acting in concert with a public servant or not, who engages in a course of conduct to defraud a state or local government would be guilty of a crime ranging from the fourth degree (class E felony) to the first degree (class B felony), depending on the amount defrauded,» a release from the governor's office said.

«The incoming class includes some exceptionally talented public servants,» Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres, a speaker candidate, told Observer.

Although it is too early to evaluate the impact this will have on research careers in Spain, the FJI expressed some concerns: «We deem it necessary to take steps to prevent candidates with poorer records from using the PCD [system] to bypass the [traditional selection] procedure [for permanent staff], and to avoid the creation of two layers of «1st class» (civil servant) and «2nd class» (non-civil servant) appointees.»

And while it might sound like a high - class problem, there's the business of managing all those ever - present servants, who insist on calling her «Mrs. Grey,» mirroring the formal way they address her spouse.

Treated as a lesser class of person by her former companions, Sara instead befriends her fellow servants and turns to the power of imagination in order to maintain hope for the future.

Though a child of the colonial civil servant caste, Denis is by sentiment and inclination one of the last viable working - class filmmakers in the white - collar west, and so it is only appropriate that her film should be capped off with an appearance by Depardieu, the hulking star of Maurice Pialat's Loulou (1980), that bruising film of interclass love.

Much of the ambiguity stems from where exactly Harry Ross stands in relation to this class solidarity — as an invited guest or a trained servant.

After the quake, an affluent couple wait for word of their missing son; needing to pay for repairs to their ruined three - story home, they move into the servants» quarters and sublease the rest of the house to an aid worker, who then becomes embroiled in local class warfare.

When she's not bursting into servants» quarters with entitled hauteur, or flying off the walls in the horrifically beautiful climax, Julie walks with a sort of impeded gait, limping with the psychic burden of class paralysis.

Chastain relishes the more unhinged and rapacious facets of this meaty role, sinking under the skin of a Count's daughter whose housebound boredom and twisty desires spark an explosion of emotions between her and the story's two other characters: Jean, a worldly valet (Colin Farrell) whose cultural capital belies his lowly class position, and the devout servant (Samantha Morton) to whom he is woefully engaged.

Through a brilliantly acerbic series of events, the loathsome child Mikey (Jonathan Osser) hijacks control of his parentage and the fate of embattled housekeeper Consuelo (Lupe Ontiveros), ultimately facilitating his own demise at the hand of the servant - class's raging ire.

Her mother, Kathleen Alexandrina Eva Matilda (Rogers), was from a working - class English family, and her father, Vasiliy Petrovich Mironov, was a Russian - born civil servant, from Kuryanovo, whose own father was a diplomat.

The merit of Gosford Park, apart from its impressive ensemble acting and mise en scene, is its smartness about the relations between servants and their employers, not its insights into the nature of either class (which The Rules of the Game has in abundance).

Firstly, an article dating back to December 2011 revealed that Ullmann was scouting Ireland as a potential location for an adaptation of August Strindberg «s classic Swedish play «Froken Julie» (or «Miss Julie «-RRB--- a fascinating, controversial work exploring power, sexuality, class, identity, love and gender set in 1874 which will see Ullmann «use Irish actors as servants and British as the masters of the house.»

She goes far outside of her class and participates in a servants party.

Oldroyd and Birch provide plenty of smart and stinging commentary on class, race (Naomi Ackie's bullied black servant is another star attraction to this small - scale showpiece), and sex, but it's Pugh who takes the top prize.

In Germany, teachers are mainly civil servants recruited in special university classes, called Lehramtstudien (Teaching Education Studies).

Along the edges of the campus, there is an active fire station, an active fire training tower, and an active police substation, where students attend classes in academies taught by actual firefighters, police officers, attorneys, and other civil servants.

For the patrons of Lady Braganza, an afternoon outing for tea and cake becomes an immersion in high - class lifestyle, where mannered servants attend to their each and every need.

Despite mutual dependency, there is no love lost between mistress and servant, who have very different recollections - and grievances - from the early years, before Cennethisar grew into a high - class resort surrounding the family house, now in shambles.

In her portrayal of a variety of characters, including uneducated servants, Ikeda reads in various English accents (from upper to lower class) and a Scottish burr.

Gofers and factotums for the postdocs, these two belonged to a scientific service class, but no one dared treat them like servants.

Middle class civil servants John and Susan have never made more than $ 100,000 each, yet their combined pensions will be worth more than $ 3 million.