Sentences with phrase «women characters as»

Written in a series of personal letters, Jennifer Ryan's debut novel, The Chilbury Ladies» Choir, follows a diverse cast of women characters as they navigate village life, love, friendship and dangerous family secrets.

Count The Last Kiss as a film that treats its women characters as the entire Greek pantheon of hysterical goddesses, from a flat - crazy mother (Blythe Danner in a series of ironed housecoats) pining after an old flame to our collegiate temptress (who, for no earthly reason, is mightily attracted to thirtysomething milquetoast Michael), to finally our damsel in distress Jenna, three months pregnant (her hormones blamed more than once for her behaviour — and she agrees!)

Not exact matches

Her character is super complex and as she ages and has these adventures of a lifetime, she explores strength as a woman, love, friendships, sexuality and her own dreams.

It seems Watson's taken a page from her character: During her first big speech as a United Nations Women's Goodwill Ambassador, she once again worked to inspire bravery in men.

Most of the programming featured white men as protagonists; women and black men were, by and large, secondary characters.

Anything less than this dishonors both the character of men as well as the women and girls we are hoping to protect.

you have remember that it was a women that led us to sin and most of them have this same flawed character and the nuns know this as this is in Torah.

These it takes as the conditions for nurturing «qualities of mind and character» (ICC 25) that have enabled and should again serve to enable «generations of men and women to grasp a vision of the good life, a life of responsible citizenship and human decency» (ICC 6).

Vindicating the Vixens looks at female characters in the Bible who have often been judged, condemned, marginalized, ignored, or ridiculed, and shows how these women are actually presented by the text as heroes to emulate or examples to be followed.

Man in a position of leadership without the right gifting and character is just as bad as assuming a woman teaching and having authority.

Jackson faces the elephants in the room of whites and blacks having deep, meaningful relationships very quickly, especially in book two when one of the White main character's husband, Denny, is mistaken by, MaDea, an aging African American woman who is suffering from dementia, as one of the men who brutally lynched her brother nearly 70 years ago.

Like an earlier woman mystic, Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1179), Julian stressed the motherly character of God's love and said that God is really a Mother as well as a Father.

Jesus» service, then, was a means to gentle evangelization and that is perhaps something these Christian businessmen and women should consider, even if it seems counterintuitive to the character of evangelization, as Americans understand it.

Their stories often suggest the appalling extent to which the church tends not simply to ignore sexual, physical, emotional and spiritual violence against women and children as a major crisis, but actually to provide theological justification for this violence in its teachings about male headship, women's subordination, and the sinful character of sexuality.

She has a keen understanding of her place in Hollywood, right now — as one of the breakout stars of a beloved sitcom; as the most fascinating character on Legion, one of current TV's most fascinating shows; as a high - profile woman in an industry currently under an enormous amount of scrutiny for how it treats women; and as an actress building a singularly astonishing resume of excellent, low - flying indie oddball films like Ingrid Goes West and Safety Not Guaranteed.

Infuriated by the moral decadence he finds about him, Lancelot Andrewes Lamar determines to create a stern new morality of his own, a revived courtly righteousness which will put an end to the American baboon colony, as he calls it, where men and women cohabit as indiscriminately as characters in a soap opera.

I have never had a problem with the story of Jesus saving the woman... but that last comment of go and sin no more always struck me as odd... so out of character with Jesus previous statement...» Neither do I accuse you».

(besides, a wisdom - seeker as a woman makes plenty of sense seeing that is how wisdom is portrayed as a woman - character in multiple religious literature, including but not limited to the Old Testament...)

The mode of election whereby God appoints individuals to their lifework is seen as not different in character from the mode whereby he elects them to serve him as men or women, as American or Asian, as first - or twentieth - century men.

The use of the women as the characters and the mention of the anointing of the body may be elements suggested to the author of this legend by the story in Mark 14:3 - 9, in which an unknown woman, and the only woman «disciple» mentioned elsewhere in Mark's Gospel, anointed the feet of Jesus with costly perfume.

But Ward keeps pulling you back with compelling characters, poetic writing, and an unforgettable protagonist who remembers her mother as a woman whose laugh «swooped up into the sky with the pelicans and flew away, wind - ready and wide as their wings.»

That's because, too often, we focus on the Proverbs 31 Woman's roles as a way of reducing womanhood to marriage, motherhood, and domesticity, when really, this passage is about character that transcends both gender and circumstance.

Still, the findings are an unfortunate reality and according to the report the odds are even worse for women as, «only 22.3 percent of senior characters in these acclaimed films were female.»

OLDTEASER: And am the same mime, you have been witness to the deeply anal character of Western Man — or Woman — as in Brown.

If both the wealthy, domestic superstar of Proverbs 31 and the single, childless, field - gleaner Ruth are identified as women of valor in Scripture, then Christians should be able to honor women who exhibit strong character, regardless of their various roles and stations in life.

It is through the re-reading and reappropriation of texts from the early period of the formation and quest for identity of the church that one can reclaim, question, and integrate the experiences of women, recognising that - then as now - the «universalizing effect of the Christian master narrative... concealed the subaltern status of many of its characters.»

For by these facts the great conviction is forced upon us that just as we men and women have personality within that mass of chemical and physical activity which we call our bodies, so in the infinite universe of activity is there immanent an infinite Person whose existence and character account for its relationships, its tendencies and its achievements.

I am glad and sympathized to see the relatives of jailed prisoners but I am not happy to see our Muslims old and young men or women with the signs of «V» for victory which is not our Muslim character and to my mind we Muslims have to create or already exist in Muslim society what we are not realizing to replace the «V «sign as RED CROSS into CRESCENT MOON for Muslims character.

The stories in Rock Springs touch on the shocks that a young man receives when he's 16; on characters who, like those in The Ultimate Good Luck, hang out at dog tracks, or who have had scrapes with the law, steal cars and push dope; and on the fleeting presence of strange men and women whom we recognize, without being told, as home - wreckers.

And patriarchy doesn't work because God created both men and women to reflect God's character and God's sovereignty over creation, as equal partners with equal value.

In Corinth, for example, only women of questionable reputation or of frankly public character as prostitutes commonly functioned outside the domestic circle as leaders in politics or religion.

Sweet, gentle, mentally ill women turn up with alarming regularity as characters in my novels.

• the fortitude of not going with the crowd; 7 • the fortitude of knowing that caring for the world is a nobler task than that of mastering it; • the fortitude of knowing that a successful woman is not the same as a successful man; • the fortitude of realising that money is less important than character; that you are worth more than your salary is worth; • the fortitude of preparing yourself for a worthwhile commitment and sticking by it (self - worth is empty without self - commitment); • the fortitude of being proud to aim at being a woman of character, and to resist the pathetic envy we are all capable of towards a man or woman with more power but with a weak character.

Their women's division is a bit unlucky as they have lost sienna for a bit, hania turned out to be a jerk, taya can't leave USA and I think rosemary and yung are too similar in character.

thats ridiculous... first of all i am happy if somebody enjoys their work that much, and fans just shouldn't care about the private behaviors of players as long it doesn't directly influence their time on the pitch or things that are just plain wrong and show a bad character like terry / giggs (women) for example, criticise those things..

We have nothing against men or Dads, but we believe that providing Girls with role models that can relate to what they're going through as young women is essential to their character development.

Rather than addressing the real reasons women don't breastfeed - reasons that range from histories of sexual abuse and body image issues to economic and physical constraints - the campaign «portrays anything short of exclusive breastfeeding... as a sign of moral corruption and bad character....

Media (not just TV and movies, but books, comics, and video games) will not provide equal representation, so we often find ourselves making a special effort to find and promote children's entertainment that acknowledges that women and girls exist, and not just as stereotypes and girlfriend characters.

One of the more gag - worthy examples involves a mother dressing her 3 - year - old daughter up as a prostitute based on Julia Roberts «character in Pretty Woman.

Whether it is a two year old being pressured to do a strip tease and sexy dance with tassels hanging from her cone - shaped breasts or a three year old being dressed up as Julia Roberts» prostitute character from Pretty Woman, these beauty pageants and dance competitions are out of control.

The woman is either chastised for being so bold as to breastfeed in front of other people (like Sofia in Modern Family) or the woman's choice to breastfeed is being used as a severe character flaw (like Lysa Tully in Game of Thrones) or it's just some really funny, hilarious thing because boobs.

This week the Chicago Park District introduced its ranger force: all four of them, three men and one woman, armed only with walkie - talkies and $ 700 bicycles as they patrol the West Side's Garfield Park, a hangout for drug dealers, gang members and other ominous characters.

As a teenager, I loved the Saturday afternoon black and white films on TV, with strong women characters played by Bette Davis or Joan Crawford.

Okorafor said she was buoyed by the global success of the summer box office hit «Wonder Woman» — the first superhero movie to star a woman since 2005 — with the character hailed as a new role model for girls and a break away from sexism in HollyWoman» — the first superhero movie to star a woman since 2005 — with the character hailed as a new role model for girls and a break away from sexism in Hollywoman since 2005 — with the character hailed as a new role model for girls and a break away from sexism in Hollywood.

There was silent protest outside the Senate Republican conference room by women dressed as handmaids, similar to characters in the Hulu show «The Handmaid's Tale.»

I still hold out hope for women but characters like Pat Lynch and Xenia Mucha and Christine Quinn show at least some women are as capable of being as corrupt as any man.

Former TV personality Billy Bush has opened up about the infamous video in which laughs along with Trump as he talks about grabbing women, saying he didn't have the «strength of character» to change the conversation.

«Surf School» was released in 2006 and portrays women as bimbos while male characters try to win a surfing contest.

Sara - Igbe, who later addressed the crowd, described the former first lady as a woman of unquestionable character and decried the action of the EFCC against the wife of the former President.

According to the letter, «The continued portrayal of Mrs. Patience Jonathan as a woman of questionable character is totally condemnable by the people of Niger Delta, this we shall not fold our hands and watch.