How To Use Poitier In A Sentence
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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
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As an actor, Poitier was quite effective in his understated, quietly confident way.
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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.
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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the early 1970s, the sexless and self-sacrificing characters played by Sidney Poitier during the civil rights era had been replaced by hypersexual superheroes who had achieved spectacular wealth by means other than “working for the Man.”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
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Actor Sidney Poitier was honoured with a Life Achievement Award.
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Actor Sidney Poitier was honoured with a Life Achievement Award.
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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.
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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
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William of Poitiers more Christian in his realism, ac - ceptance of the incarnation, and his humanism than his monastic adversary?
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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
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In the example of the pill bug, Thierry Rigaud and his collaborators at the University of Poitiers in France have shown that males prefer not to mate with feminized males.
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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.
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Le Grand Meaulnes, that Richard the menuisier found in a depôt-vente in Poitiers.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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In August, Philip visited Poitiers in a triumphal procession.
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The prince then moved to Poitiers and allied with his uncle Childebert against his father.
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After this feast, the King brought the Count of Poitiers to Poitiers, that he might take seizin of his fiefs, but when the King was come to Poitiers, he would gladly have been back again in Paris; for he found that the Count of La Marche, who had eaten at his table on Saint John's day, had got together a number of men-at-arms at Lusignan by Poitiers.
The Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville
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Spencer Tracy as the father of the would-be bride is pressing Mr. Poitier on whether he has considered the sufferings their mixed-race children might have to endure in America.
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Several historians of the 1569 Protestant siege on Poitiers provide detailed descriptions of the city's topography.
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He was there more than fifteen days or the prince would speak with him because of the chatelain of Amposte and his men, who were against him in the battle of Poitiers.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
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To me, when it comes to black actors, Morgan Freeman ranks second, beneath Sidney Poitier.
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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
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Evenings I longed for the lisp of Poitiers, the sarcasm of the Angevin back country.
The Best American Poetry 2008
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The story concerned a young African-American doctor, played by Poitier, who wants to marry Houghton, a young white woman.
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We talked of this to the young vicar, who highly approved of my plan, and albeit monsieur his uncle thought such a scheme somewhat contrary to rule and to what he termed the proprieties, we made use of his nephew, the young priest, as a lever; and M. de Poitiers at last consented to everything.
Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
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Actor Sidney Poitier was honoured with a Life Achievement Award.
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In the aisle stands another altar-tomb, which has the sides panelled and adorned with shields of arms and bears the figure of an earlier Sir Thomas Markenfield, clad in armour of the period between Poitiers and Agincourt, and wearing a very curious collar of park palings with a stag couchant in front, possibly
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric
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He was not at all pleased to see me, but gradually thawed and explained that owing to the tracasseries of the Bishop of Poitiers, he had been made the victim of a continuous and vindictive persecution.
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As one sees from his Crucifixion and his Battle of Poitiers, hung alongside, Delacroix was rapacious for colour; especially, in picture after picture, for the cruel colour of blood.
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During the fourteenth century, the shroud was often publicly exposed, though not continuously, since the bishop of Troyes, Henri de Poitiers, had prohibited veneration of the image.
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Thursday is market day in Poitiers.
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Poitier starred in the classic film 'In the Heat of the Night'.
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In his company there were certain knights and squires, men of arms, who were more favourable to the French king than to the prince; and when they saw that the parties should fight, they stale from their masters and went to the French host; and they made their captain the chatelain of Amposte, [3] who was as then there with the cardinal, who knew nothing thereof till he was come to Poitiers.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
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Washington was just a child when he saw Sidney Poitier become the first black actor to win an Oscar for a leading role.
