(a.) Born free; not born in vassalage; inheriting freedom.
Example Sentences:
(1) Freeborn's three sons - Roger, Ray and Graham - also died before him.
(2) Freeborn later worked with Kubrick, transforming Peter Sellers into multiple characters for Doctor Strangelove before designing the apes for the Dawn of Man sequence, in which primates react to a mysterious monolith, Kubrick's Space Odyssey.
(3) Freeborn's six-decade career led him to work on many classics, including Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey .
(4) LucasFilm said Irvin Kershner, who directed The Empire Strikes Back, would "note that Freeborn quite literally put himself into Yoda, as the Jedi master's inquisitive and mischievous elfin features had more than a passing resemblance to Freeborn himself".
(5) I'll do what I can for him," Freeborn told the BBC.
(6) Star Wars director George Lucas said in a statement that Freeborn was "already a makeup legend" when he started working on the space epic.
(7) Stuart Freeborn, the British pioneering movie makeup artist behind creatures such as Yoda and Chewbacca in the Star Wars films, has died.
(8) Freeborn's granddaughter, Michelle Freeborn, said he died on Tuesday in London from a combination of ailments due to his age.
(9) And, of course, the rights of the freeborn English were not won from the French or German governments but from other English people who devoted the full resources of the British state to denying them.
(10) Nick Maley, a make-up artist who worked with Freeborn in the 1970s, called him a mentor who "ran his department like a headmaster".
(11) Or the England of the freeborn radical, the Levellers, Chartists, Tolpuddle martyrs and suffragettes?
(12) Freeborn recalled being approached by "this young fellow" named George Lucas who told him: "I've written a script for a film called Star Wars.
(13) Born in London in 1914, Freeborn was the son of a Lloyds of London insurance broker.
(14) Michelle Freeborn, who lives in Wellington, New Zealand, said her grandfather was "like a hero" to her and inspired her and her late father to get into the movie business too.
(15) LucasFilm confirmed Wednesday that Freeborn had died, "leaving a legacy of unforgettable contributions".
(16) His transformation of Alec Guinness into Fagin complete with a large hooked nose was criticised by some as antisemitic, a matter of regret for Freeborn, who said he was partly Jewish.
(17) Carver hopes to find evidence of two particularly interesting characters known to have been buried there: 'Freeborn John' – John Lilburne – a radical campaigner and pamphleteer for the rights of the common man who greatly influenced the Levellers, was imprisoned in the Tower of London, exiled twice and eventually died while on parole from his final jail term.
(18) In addition to Michelle, Freeborn is survived by seven grandchildren and a number of great-grandchildren.
(19) MacColl’s own revival of Travellers’ Songs highlighted the plight of Roma communities, while compositions of his own, such as Freeborn Man and Song of the Road, also fed into a political agenda.
Slave
Definition:
(n.) See Slav.
(n.) A person who is held in bondage to another; one who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who is held as a chattel; one who has no freedom of action, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another.
(n.) One who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders himself to any power whatever; as, a slave to passion, to lust, to strong drink, to ambition.
(n.) A drudge; one who labors like a slave.
(n.) An abject person; a wretch.
(v. i.) To drudge; to toil; to labor as a slave.
(v. t.) To enslave.
Example Sentences:
(1) So Huck Finn floats down the great river that flows through the heart of America, and on this adventure he is accompanied by the magnificent figure of Jim, a runaway slave, who is also making his bid for freedom.
(2) As plantation owners go, Ford is a kindly sort: he delivers sermons and permits his slaves moments of humanity, even giving Northup a violin.
(3) It traces his progress of degradation unhampered by constituted authority and concludes with his magnum opus--the greatest massacre of South Sea Islanders in the annals of the South Sea slave trade.
(4) More than twice as large as Europe, Brazil has a population of 199 million, made up of descendants of colonial settlers, their slaves, survivors of the indigenous tribes they decimated and 20th-century waves of migration from Japan, Lebanon, Europe and elsewhere.
(5) The transformation of the global slave trade from a high-cost, slow-recruitment business to a low-cost, rapid-recruitment one is driving criminal interest in trafficking and slavery, which is why it is permeating every corner of the global economy.
(6) JV If you go back to a western point of view from the time, even the Romans, the slaves worked then in a feudal society.
(7) Northup eventually detailed his experiences in a book, also titled Twelve Years a Slave , which helped historians build a picture of the slave experience at the time.
(8) She was repeatedly raped, beaten and “treated like a slave” throughout her teenage years.
(9) As well as World War Z, Plan B has also produced 12 Years A Slave , the much-lauded slave drama released in the UK on January 10.
(10) Pathological changes indicate that the cemetery contained individuals representing two slave occupational groups, house servants and laborers.
(11) The irony of her image being exchanged in return for commodities in the future,” she said, “seems to recall the way that actual slaves’ bodies were serving as currencies of exchange.” Larson arrived at a different conclusion about the honor.
(12) It is permissible to have intercourse with the female slave who hasn’t reached puberty if she is fit for intercourse.” The pamphlet added that it was also permissible to buy, sell, or give as a gift female slaves, “for they are merely property, which can be disposed of”.
(13) From the steel mines where child slaves gather surgical steel, all the way up to senior doctors working 36 hours on no sleep, the most healthy people in the NHS are actually the patients.
(14) The report said Isis had begun holding online slave auctions with an encrypted application to circulate photos of captured Yazidi women and girls.
(15) The much anticipated landslide for Steve McQueen's powerful slavery drama 12 Years A Slave did not materialise, although it gained a single and respectfully prominent win as best film (drama).
(16) Alfonso Cuarón has won the best director Oscar for Gravity at the 86th Academy Awards, defeating a field that included 12 Years a Slave's Steve McQueen, Nebraska's Alexander Payne and Martin Scorsese for The Wolf of Wall Street.
(17) The details of her biography presented here are not as well known--especially the subsequent course of her illness and treatment and her struggle against prostitution and the white slave trade, the latter carried on with special fascination.
(18) But making immigration work for everyone and not just a few means people should contribute before they claim and we should never, ever allow companies to undercut wages and conditions of workers here by paying slave wages to those brought in from overseas.” Miliband also criticised the prime minister for his failure to commit to TV debates during the general election campaign, claiming Cameron was desperate because he “knows he has failed”.
(19) "She said she is going to be sold as a slave this afternoon, for $10," Kaliph said, his tears dropping into the brown dust.
(20) Twelve Years a Slave's Lupita Nyong'o and Game of Thrones' Gwendoline Christie officially joined the cast earlier this week, and the film will also feature Attack the Block's John Boyega, Ingmar Bergman-regular Max von Sydow and Harry Potter's Domhnall Gleeson.