Sentences with phrase «society woman who»

At the rehab facility he finds himself badgered by Sybil (Nina Arianda), a nut - case society woman who believes her husband molested their daughter and wants Simon to kill him because she once saw Simon play a killer in a movie.

«Blue Jasmine» traces the downfall of a high - society woman who discovers her husband's fortune is based on financial fraud.

Shearer also stars in A Free Soul (1931), as a carefree society woman who falls for gangster Clark Gable.

Not exact matches

To a large extent, society pats men on the back for holding down big jobs, but grimaces at women who do the same, implying that they're lousy parents.

When I talk to my mother, who is of that same generation, she speaks of the women who attended Seven Sisters» colleges as strong and independent, career - minded, and determined to change society — certainly not the idea I had in my head.

In Canada, the report notes, unlike in the U.S., there have been strong efforts to emphasize diversity at the highest levels of government and society, most notably that of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who appointed 15 men and 15 women to cabinet positions.

I also like to look at the single mom statistics, since single women who heads a household is part of a growing component of our society.

A close observer of mid-Manhattan's changing commercial geography, he saw «a new society» rising on Park and Fifth Avenues after the completion of Grand Central Terminal, «a society made up of women who willing to pay well for things a cut or town above the ordinary,» as a 1938 Fortune article observed.

You might know Strauss already — the Rolling Stone writer is also the author of «The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists,» a book that's become something of a bible to awkward young men who would like to learn the curious arts of charming women.

In honor of International Women's Day, here are 10 leaders who discuss the power feminism and gender equality can have in not only creating more tolerant, safe workplaces, but in advancing society as a whole.

Consider mentoring, volunteering and / or donating to your favorite women's empowerment related causes this month, to help those who may need a leg up and work to continue the momentum of progress for women in society.

Why is it so much easier for our society to believe white women who say that patriarchy exists than it is to believe people of color who say racism exists?

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

As is anyone who believes in bridging the inequality between men and women in society,» it continues.

Leaving aside the manifold ways in which stay - at - home moms are utterly crucial to their families (some of which — to be sure — can be replaced, however imperfectly, with paid labor of one sort or another), there is this: could the many institutions of our civil society continue to function without the tireless efforts of women who don't regularly participate in the working world?

Common sense would dictate that if the people of a large society wanted to pay less to house criminals, wanted fewer abortions, and more people working — they would put their resources towards educating their youth on how to not get pregnant, providing contraception to those women who do not want children until they are equipped to raise them, and towards making sure all children obtain the highest possible education they can achieve.

He sounds like a little kid who's playing house with 4 women for short term gratification, but doesn't consider or acknowledge the long term affects on the children or on society.

Hope amidst suffering, hope when men know only defeat and despair, hope when death seems to smother out the shoots of life springing from the hearts of men, hope for our society, our world, our city, our schools, courts, prisons, legislatures, hope for our children, for our elderly, hope for all the millions of men and women over the face of this globe who simply want to live out their lives as free human beings not trampled down and stepped on by the overlords of this world.

A male, who held the highest position in society, and held the highest class status, was seen to be «feminized» by penetration, and designated as a social inferior, (female), by a male of lower class status, and thus his status was lowered, to that of a woman.

They saw that abortion was violence against women by a society who did not value women.

Feminism also harms women: one of its pernicious effects in law and society has been to put a lot of men off marriage to the detriment of many good young women who would like to find a good husband to marry.

We recognize that some societies and cultures have unjustly limited women's full participation, but biblical, church, and secular history record countless women of vision and tenacious faith who, through prayer and perseverance, overcame limitations of every variety to influence the shaping of human history.

It is the story of how a group of men and women who had been consigned by society to its scrap heap, banded themselves together and conquered the «unconquerable» craving, becoming an inspiration to their fellow men.

There is this woman — this small, unnoticed, uncared - for woman who hardly counted as a person in her society.

Maybe most women who get abortions will be more susceptible to the dominant religion of their society, and so they will plunge into the comfort and its method of «justifying» the proselyte.

At the same time, it was clear that, for all their wrong - headed and occasionally malicious attacks on the Church, these ladies were giving voice to something which was also generally felt within society and particularly by younger women who knew nothing of the Network or its antics but who were not comfortable with answering the Church's critics.

The scholars who study Islamic culture today point out that the chief factors which have influenced contemporary Arab Muslim society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab society through education and increased contact with the West, socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which challenge religion in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and modern philosophy in the universities, and the modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.

Those of us who believe that human flourishing depends upon the recognition and honoring of marriage as exclusively the union of a man and a woman see this transformation of marriage into something radically different as a grave threat to human society and human happiness.

Why should a gay man or woman still repent, and return to God and his Church, when the secular society becomes a kind of pseudo-church where gays can be «happy» despite the absence of God's presence who is life and cure in himself (the great benefit of the true Church is the presence of God there who is life, cure and love in himself; the presence of God in the church causes real happiness)?

If we can murder an unborn infant who unwittingly threatens a woman's life, what prevents us from terminating other individuals or groups that cause us or our society undue suffering?

The amended Article 41 declares inter alia that two men or two women who are «married» to each other are to be regarded as a «natural primary and fundamental unit group of Society, and as a moral institution possessing inalienable and imprescriptible rights, antecedent and superior to all positive law.»

There's an episode called «Half Hanged» about a woman in western Massachusetts in the 1680s who is one of those outsiders: outspoken, non-religious, cranky, broke all the rules that governed women in her society at the time.

She has formed her own theology as she has learned from a long tradition of Chinese Christian women who struggled «not only for their own liberation, but also for justice in church and society

In fact, the Eckhart Society, which began in England in the 1980s, was founded by an Anglican man and Catholic woman who previously had been very attracted to Buddhism.

Before dismissing the above fantasy too quickly, let the reader think about why it is that our society seems so little concerned over female homosexuality, has regarded it so lightly, and has no idea of the amount of female sexual activity engaged in by women who are not admitted homosexuals.

Men are the ones who do most of the killing in society and the most destructive ones too, how can you say that women are not better than men?

In our history, in our society, in our churches, the heterosexual box is that into which girls are pressed into ladies who should marry and who must be held within the social order as subordinate to husbands, fathers, or father - surrogates — regardless of the unique and individual capacities, needs, and desires of either women or men.

Maybe justice and the good society are brought about precisely by lawyers and judges sending the jury out of the courtroom while they decide whether to admit the testimony of an old black woman who has been listening in on the whole trial of her son.

In my experience it's not unusual to encounter women who are frustrated and feel treated unequally and men who have checked out and all but given up on romantic relationships with women, perceiving that society has given them a raw deal.

Their method of computing «unmet need» is, typically, to measure by sample questionnaire the fraction of married women in various societies who say they are not using modern means of contraception and also say that they want no more children, or that they wish to delay the birth of their next child.

I know many complementarians who, although they believe men should hold authority over women in the home, church, and society, make an exception for the marriage bed, acknowledging the Apostle Paul's teachings on mutuality in this regard (1 Corinthians 7:1 - 5).

Moreover, equating same - sex unions with marriage would be a terrible injustice to married men and women, who perform an indispensable service to the common good of society.

Socialists, mental retards, lazy burdens on society, illegal aliens, most Katrina victims, and women who refuse to shave their armpits will all be voting with you for Hillary.

As a result, he judges Esther as he would judge a free woman in a free society, and he judges Mordecai as he would a free citizen who could protest his government's policies without getting himself and his adopted daughter killed for it.

Jennifer Lawrence was exploited by hackers who stole, posted, and distributed nude photos of her, but she, and so many other women, are exploited by a society that is convinced and comfortable that men should treat women as sexual commodities, online or in a relationship.

What a great showing of solidarity it would be for him to align himself with the millions of women around the world who are living far far less than equal lives in societies where male supremacist religions are powerful.

Women with children who try to compete economically as individuals have the worst of both worlds and society pays the price.

I wish that the Church were more focused on removing pedophile priests than punishing women who often serve the most vulnerable segments of society.

I refer to groups who in their various ways are calling for radical transformations of institutions and values — the poor, the blacks, the militant young, and, increasingly, the women of our society.

Our society can be very dismissive of those who don't fit a particular mold and I have experienced this firsthand as an African - American woman.