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She compares the alleged misogyny characteristic of Lewis ' ideal of gender relations to underground male prostitution rings, which allegedly share the quality of men seeking to dominate subjects seen as less likely to take on submissive roles by a patriarchal society, but in both cases doing so as a theatrical mockery of women.
She compares Wulfstan's mention of a " chooser of the slain " in his Sermo Lupi ad Anglos sermon, which appears among " a blacklist of sinners, witches, and evildoers ", to " all the other classes whom he mentions ", and concludes as those " are human ones, it seems unlikely that he has introduced mythological figures as well.
" Shakespeare makes a subtle reference to Myrrha later when Venus picks a flower: " She crops the stalk, and in the breach appears, Green dropping sap, which she compares to tears.
She compares this with the chemical reactions of the brain and concludes that those who treat mental illness with drugs are treating the brain whereas therapy is aimed at treating the mind.
She compares the properties and rights of owning cows versus owning screwdrivers, enumerating how both can be utilized to serve human purposes in many ways but, when it comes to inflicting pain, there is a vital distinction between such ' properties ': a person can legally smash or grind up a screwdriver but cannot legally torture an animal.
She thinks a full appreciation of the work is only possible within the context of the remaining novels of The Baroque Cycle, and compares the novel to works by Dorothy Dunnett, William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, calling it " history-of-science fiction ".
She had studied briefly in New York, and the quality of her paintings compares favorably with professional art of the period.
She strongly looks up to her older sister, Michelle, and compares herself negatively to her.
" She compares the theatrical company in Thespis to the politicians that remodel fairyland in Gilbert's 1873 play The Happy Land and the Englishmen who reform the island nation of Utopia in Utopia, Limited ( 1893 ).
She then performs a strange " exotic dance " that Spock compares to a dance performed by Vulcan schoolchildren.
She is the second Kicking Deer to believe that he's Magic Boy, after she compares a photo of Ukiah to a photograph of Magic Boy the family donated to a museum.
She compares it to the first time she read The Gettysburg Address before passing out.
She compares her style to that of the Spaniard Arantxa Sánchez Vicario – minimizing mistakes, running down every possible ball, and being mentally tough.
She often compares American right-wing policy with the Alberta-bred Reform Party-Canadian Alliance Party, one of the predecessors of the Conservative Party formed through a merger between it and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada which has formed a minority government since 2006, with former Reform Party MP Stephen Harper as its leader and Prime Minister.
" She compares it to a patient's description of their schizophrenic experience of, " an intense cerebral activity in which inner experiences took place at greatly increased speed, so that much more than usual happened per minute of external time.
She may also be the Claudia whose height Martial compares to the Palatine colossus, a gigantic statue that once stood near the Palatine Hill ( Epigrams VIII: 60 ).
She furthers her thoughts by stating that the romance and sexuality seen in the movie are topics that compares to the romance and sexuality described in Hurston's novel.

She and her
She lay there, making no effort to get back on her feet.
She drank greedily, and murmured, `` Thank you '', as he lowered her head.
She rubbed her eyes and stretched, then sat up, her hands going to her hair.
She stared at him, her eyes wide as she thought about what he had said ; ;
She got to her feet, staggered, and almost fell.
She sat down at the table, shaking her head.
She clung to him, talking to him, and dabbing at her eyes.
She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.
She showed her surprise by tightening the reins and moving the gelding around so that she could get a better look at his face.
She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.
She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.
She swung the quirt again, and this time he caught her wrist and pulled her out of the saddle.
She came down against him, and he tried to break her fall.
She wiped it off with the sleeve of her coat.
She brought up her free hand to hit him, but this time he was quicker.
She finally regained her balance and got up in the saddle.
She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''.
She remembered little of her previous journey there with Grace, and she could but hope that her dedication to her mission would enable her to accomplish it.

She and struggle
She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.
She spoke of the progress of other reform movements and so framed for her listeners the social and moral context for the struggle for women's rights.
She concentrated much of her energy on the struggle to improve women's opportunities for higher education and in 1871 co-founded Newnham College, Cambridge.
She also supported African Americans in their struggle for greater equality.
" She decided that " One has to struggle much because the return for good is evil, and evil reigns.
She became one of his many mistresses in the middle of his bitter struggle with the Catholic League.
She is especially interested in showing how authors portrayed the many configurations of family relationships, from the early immigrant narratives of journeying to a new world, through novels that stress intergenerational conflicts, to contemporary works about the struggle of modern women to form nontraditional gender roles.
Among the major writers of the period were Guo Moruo ( 郭沫若 ) ( 1892 – 1978 ), a poet, historian, essayist, and critic ; Mao Dun ( 茅盾 ) ( 1896 – 1981 ), the first of the novelists to emerge from the " League of Left-Wing Writers " and one whose work reflected the revolutionary struggle and disillusionment of the late 1920s ; satirist and novelist Lao She ( 老舍 ) ( 1899 – 1966 ); and Ba Jin ( 巴金 ) ( 1904 – 2005 ), a novelist whose work was influenced by Ivan Turgenev and other Russian writers.
She wakes up in a hospital able to move only her eyes, forced to struggle to rehabilitate herself while finding the attacker.
She was in the Tarzana Psychiatric Hospital for 17 months, at age 36, and went through a great struggle at the start of treatment.
She gained popularity for her candor ; for example, she is open about her struggle with alcoholism and has supported the initiative to make the Riksdag an alcohol-free workplace.
She maintained that the struggle should be against capitalism, and not just for an independent Poland.
She expressed that " this battle wasn't just one man's struggle with a publishing house, but was a battle to preserve free speech and to stop censorship ".
She was honoured for her commitment to the anti-apartheid struggle and her social work when the World Peace Council, based in Basel, Switzerland, elected her president from 1993 to 1996.
She told of her struggle with his legacy and her three meetings with half-sister Paula Yates.
She died of liver cancer, aged 61, in December 1996 in Torquay, after a long struggle with alcoholism.
She contemplated suicide at the age of eight after what she described as a difficult childhood and her struggle with the fact that her father abandoned her.
She is best known for her 13-year tenure on NBC's Today program, followed by 12 years as co-host of Dateline NBC, and for her public acknowledgements of her struggle with bipolar disorder.
She was equally firm in denying that anything in the nature of a struggle had taken place between Peace and her husband previous to his murder.
Realising what is about to happen, Holly shoots several of the Armahagger, killing Mahomed in the process ; in the ensuing struggle Leo is gravely wounded, but the three Englishmen are saved when Billali returns in the nick of time and declares that they are under the protection of She.
She mentions having great difficulty in remembering things which other humans take for granted, such as the purpose of doorknobs, the way to fall asleep and how to forget things, but argues that, if she were to abandon this struggle, and give herself fully to her supernatural side, she would lose her humanity.
She had survived two bouts of cancer-a malignant melanoma in 1979 and a breast lump in 1991 — before her final struggle with ovarian cancer.
She returned, but after a vain struggle to find subjects or revenues, went back to Namur.
She held the seat with a majority of 25, 725 and made her maiden speech on 2 July 1997, speaking about her constituency's struggle with unemployment.
She began to struggle.

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