How To Use Poitier In A Sentence
- Poitiers, dedicated to the queen of Clothaire I. -- who afterwards took the veil, and was distinguished for her piety -- there is shown on a white marble slab a well-defined footmark, which is called "Le pas de Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
- As an actor, Poitier was quite effective in his understated, quietly confident way.
- Curtis earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance in 1958's "The Defiant Ones, " playing an escaped racist convict chained to a black prisoner, portrayed by Sidney Poitier.
- In film portrayals of African Americans, by the early 1970s, the sexless and self-sacrificing characters played by Sidney Poitier during the civil rights era had been replaced by hypersexual superheroes who had achieved spectacular wealth by means other than “working for the Man.” A Renegade History of the United States
- Actor Sidney Poitier was honoured with a Life Achievement Award.
- Actor Sidney Poitier was honoured with a Life Achievement Award.
- In the 1770s Edward Gibbon had little difficulty imagining Islamic theology being taught in Oxford and across Britain—if only the battle of Tours-Poitiers in 732 had turned out differently.
- The Defiant Ones (1958) - When convicts John "Joker" Jackson (Curtis) and Noah Cullen (Sidney Poitier) escape a chain gang manacled together, they must put aside their mutual antipathy. John Farr: Two Passing Greats: A Tribute to Arthur Penn and Tony Curtis
- William of Poitiers more Christian in his realism, ac - ceptance of the incarnation, and his humanism than his monastic adversary? LOVE
- Grolier, Maioli, Lauwrin, Canevari, De Thou, Peiresc, and other distinguished collectors, and also examples of bindings bearing the arms and devices of Francis I. of France, Henry II. and Diana of Poitiers, English Book Collectors
