Shows these virtues by fainting and crying whenever her delicate sensibilities are challenged, usually starts out with a mysterious past and it is later revealed that she is the daughter of an aristocratic or noble family.

The sound of the record challenged existing punk sensibilities ; it was " punk " at a fundamental level, but thanks to bold and experimental combinations of hardcore, prog-punk, techno, and even jazz sounds, it was worlds apart from pop punk bands such as Green Day and Blink-182, and even more traditional punk rock bands such as Bad Religion and Pennywise.

Hurston, though, had no trouble with language that challenged the sensibilities of others.

In the later part of the 1960s Debabrata was seriously challenged by the authorities over his audacious style and quite a number of his records were prohibited from commercial production for reasons attributed to wrong spirit, wrong tempo and other melodic excesses not regarded as harmonious to the purity of Tagore compositions.

" Many female hip hop artists have challenged male rappers ' use of the word bitch to refer to women, with Queen Latifah asking in her 1993 song " U. N. I. T. Y.

It featured the major Headbangers Ball and rock radio hit " You Can't Bring Me Down ", a thrash epic which challenged the PMRC, as well as the televangelist bashing funk-metal track " Send Me Your Money ", and the melodic thrash song " Alone " – all released as singles and music videos.

The show introduced a " Stump the Band " segment in which audience members challenged the band to play obscure song titles, with the band responding with a comic piece.

Castle's specialty song was challenged on copyright grounds, and management cut it.

Denton saw the beginning of the Musical Challenge segment, and challenged musical guests to perform a song from a barrel full of well-known songs.

On the Triple J drive-time show Merrick and Rosso, they had a weekly spot where they were challenged to write a song in an hour, with the topic and style chosen by the hosts.

Singer Gackt also challenged Gackpoid users to create a song, with the prize being 10 million yen, stating if the song was to his liking he would sing and include it in his next album.

In a press release, McFarlane stated, " We choose to work with people who convey a particular attitude and this video is a tribute to that attitude ," while Pearl Jam stated, " As artists we are challenged to expand the meaning of our work and by utilizing this visual medium and working with a visionary like Todd, we were able to further explore some of the themes we depicted in the song " Do the Evolution ".

The song tested and challenged Carey's vocal range and is her first song to require the execution of multiple whistle notes.

* Peadar Kearney, writer of The Soldier's Song ( Amhrán na bhFiann ), also penned the song " Knockcroghery ", when he was challenged to find a word to rhyme with the village's name.

At least one " audience participation " song is traditional: one half of the audience may be challenged to sing " their " chorus louder than the other half.

Morton stated in his interview that, with an empty song portfolio at the time, he felt sufficiently challenged by Barry, whereupon he left the Brill Building and angrily drove his Buick to a Long Island beach that night, and, full of inspiration and desperation, spent the evening writing his first song while sitting in the dark in his parked car.

In variants in which the song describes a confrontation, the person being challenged is always a woman.

The song was written after an argument between Gilmour, Waters, and co-producer Bob Ezrin during production of The Wall in which Gilmour and Ezrin challenged Waters to come up with one more song for the album.

While Parton's song features an empowered ( if challenged ) working woman, Easton's song features a passive, love-struck woman waiting around at home all day for her lover to return to her.

These include " Beat the House ," where listeners are challenged to guess the identity of the mystery guest who was a notable figure in recent Canadian political news who gives a series of clues, which has moved to the website.

In 1992 the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Challenged ( NLS ) network circulated millions of recorded books to more than 700, 000 Physically challenged listeners.

The following year, The Guardian challenged the succession law in court, claiming that it violated the European Convention on Human Rights, which provides " The enjoyment of the rights and freedoms set forth in this Convention shall be secured without discrimination on any ground such as sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, association with a national minority, property, birth or other status.

Beowulf is challenged by a Danish coast guard, Evelyn Paul ( 1911 ). Beowulf begins with the story of King Hroðgar, who constructed the great hall Heorot for his people.

The traditional ascription of the whole book to the prophet Joel was challenged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by a theory of a three stage process of composition: 1: 1 – 2: 27 were from the hand of Joel, and dealt with a contemporary issue ; 2: 28 – 3: 21 were ascribed to a continuator with an apocalyptic outlook.

This splitting of the book ’ s composition began to be challenged in the mid-twentieth century, with scholars defending the unity of the book, the plausibility of the prophet combining a contemporary and apocalyptic outlook, and later additions by the prophet.

This system has been challenged often, beginning with an NCAA committee proposal in 1979 to have a four-team playoff following the bowl games.

Jerome's version of the Life of St Anthony the Great, the hermit monk of Egypt, written by Athanasius of Alexandria, was widely disseminated in the Middle Ages ; it relates Anthony's encounter with a centaur, who challenged the saint but was forced to admit that the old gods had been overthrown.

John Thomas believed that scripture, as God's word, did not support a multiplicity of differing beliefs, and challenged the leaders to continue with the process of restoring first century Christian beliefs and correct interpretation through a process of debate.

* A " tainted acquittal ", where there has been an offence of interference with, or intimidation of, a juror or witness, can be challenged in the High Court.

He knocks a friar from his horse, and is immediately challenged by an armed Basque traveling with the company.

In the story of the labyrinth Hellenes told, the Athenian hero Theseus is challenged to kill the Minotaur, finding his way with the help of Ariadne's thread.

The boy was later challenged with variolous material and again showed no sign of infection.

There are many others, though, from " vertically challlenged " for short people, to " vocally challenged " for those with mediocre singing voices.

However, the gasoline engine, with its new emission-control devices to improve emission performance, has not yet been significantly challenged.

In continuation of his " program " with which he challenged the mathematics community in 1900, at a 1928 international conference David Hilbert asked three questions, the third of which became known as " Hilbert's ".

With it Erasmus challenged common assumptions, painting the clergy as educators who should share the treasury of their knowledge with the laity.

It is argued that when psychics are challenged by skeptics and fail to prove their alleged powers, they assign all sorts of reasons for their failure, such as that the skeptic is affecting the experiment with " negative energy " or their cellphone is causing interference.

He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors and he epitomized the group of filmmakers known as the New Hollywood, that includes Martin Scorsese, Terrence Malick, Robert Altman, Woody Allen, William Friedkin, Philip Kaufman and George Lucas, who emerged in the early 1970s with unconventional ideas that challenged contemporary film-making.

Social Darwinism challenged positivism's claim of deliberate and rational choice as the determining behaviour of humans, with social Darwinism focusing on heredity, race, and environment.

Unlike their parents who challenged leaders with an intent to replace them, Gen Xers tend to ignore leaders and work for more long term institutional and systematic change through economic, media and consumer actions.

Beginning roughly in the 14th century in Florence, and later spreading through Europe with the development of printing press, a Renaissance of knowledge challenged traditional doctrines in science and theology, with the rediscovery of classical Greek and Roman knowledge.

He began the process of replacing Christianity with a new moral code that rejected humanitarianism and challenged the Christian concept of marriage.

Initially, the President was merely a symbolic figure with the Reichstag dominant ; however, persistent political instability, in which governments often lasted only a few months, led to a change in the power structure of the republic, with the president's emergency powers called increasingly into use to prop up governments challenged by critical or even hostile Reichstag votes.