Sentences with phrase «skinned woman whose»

While Hurston described Leveau (as Hurston spelled it) as a light - skinned «Creole Quadroon,» Stout chose to portray her Laveau as a very dark - skinned woman whose unexpected bright green eyes pierce you and draw you into her world.

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When we look at the self - image that Our Lady left imprinted on the tilma — we notice that she is a brown - skinned young woman: a mestizo, whose family background includes a mix of descendants from Europe and indigenous peoples.

The Mütter Museum of medical anomalies at the venerable College of Physicians of Philadelphia is well supplied with helpful staff and airy colonnades, but what it could really use is a little stack of printed leaflets explaining to the modern visitor how he or she is supposed to feel about all this, or at least what to make of it: the uprooted genitalia and beach - ball tumors, the skeleton of the man whose muscle has turned to bone, the woman so fat that after death her body transformed itself into soap, the embryos in jars whose peeling labels break the sad but unsurprising news that not having a skull, or a brain, or a stomach, or any skin, is a state of affairs «incompatible with life.»

Red maca is not ideal for men, since they need DHT for their health and vitality, but excellent for women, whose skin is vulnerable to even the slightest elevation in DHT.

These masks are great if you're like most women, whose skin alternates between dry, normal and oily depending on season.

► After a man follows a woman into a dark room we see him walking into what looks like a pool of liquid and then disappears under the surface; we see the man floating under the surface and we see another man whose flesh is bloated and loose, the second man reaches for the other man and touches his hand before he pops and his flesh (it looks like a snake skin) billows in the liquid.

But the star is undoubtedly Vikander, whose surgically calibrated performance as Ava locates the character squarely in the tradition of sci - fi's great artificial women: Maria in Metropolis, Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost in the Shell, Pris in Blade Runner and, more recently, Scarlett Johansson in Under the Skin.

Aufort, whose credits include the richly emotional costume drama «A Royal Affair» (alongside Gabriel Yared) and the murderously sensual genetic creation of «Splice» is clearly someone who can get into a womens» emotional skin, especially when given a journey of personal discovery.

She was electrifying as an alien seductress in Jonathan Glazer's 2013 horror Under the Skin and is at her very best in Luc Besson's high - concept action thriller Lucy, which opened here yesterday, playing a women whose mind becomes explosively powerful after she's injected with a synthetic drug.

Directed by Jonathan Glazer (whose latest film Under The Skin will be released this year), the commercial features the inimitable French actor Denis Lavant as a leather - clad Satan who tempts — and rewards — a group of women with a handful of the Cadbury confection being advertised.

Other times, the monsters were man - made: men whose noses were cut off in battle, or as punishment, or for revenge, the centers of their faces evolving into a large weeping sore; women whose dresses caught fire, becoming houses of flames from which their owners couldn't escape, the skin on their faces turned into melted wax, their mouths permanently frozen in screams.

Her 11th novel centers on the relationship between a light - skinned black woman and her dark - skinned daughter, whose different skin tones create a divide between them.

At the center: a woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue - black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life; but which caused her light - skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love until she told a lie that ruined the life of an innocent woman, a lie whose reverberations refuse to diminish... Booker, the man Bride loves and loses, whose core of anger was born in the wake of the childhood murder of his beloved brother... Rain, the mysterious white child, who finds in Bride the only person she can talk to about the abuse she's suffered at the hands of her prostitute mother... and Sweetness, Bride's mother, who takes a lifetime to understand that «what you do to children matters.

Featuring an alluring woman in uniform whose skin is colored with his signature hand - painted Ben - day dots, the piece was purchased on November 9, 2015, by an anonymous buyer at Christie's New York for 95.4 million dollars.

His wife holds his young son, whose skin, with its beautiful and delicate appearance echoes the woman in

The fact that a group targeting young female lawyers put on an event whose message is that women have to conform to gendered norms of beauty (you either have to have flawless skin or don't be cheap and buy some expensive foundation to cover up) to be taken seriously in law is very upsetting.