Sentences with phrase «women themselves helped declare»

Finally, around 1980, women themselves helped declare the death of modern art.

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«It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs,» Bathsheba declares, but Mulligan helps the character to find a voice of her own.

In the end, there were four scenes: A serf's house where the men discussed the tragedy while a mother nursed a dying child; an apothecary's store, where members of the medical profession debated cures for the plague; a church, where monks considered causes of the illness while they worked on illuminated manuscripts and where a priest was indifferent to a parishioner's pleas for help; and finally, a central market square where traveling Franciscan monks declared their beliefs about the plague, flagellants whipped themselves and blamed the Jews, and an old woman went crazy as she ranted about «the end of the world.»