(1) What goes on in The Handmaid’s Tale [the overthrow of the US government by a theocratic dictatorship that suppresses the rights of women] is actually confined to what used to be the United States.
(2) To those of us who work to protect women’s freedoms this case feels like the early days of The Handmaid’s Tale: the temperature in the bathtub is rising swiftly and silently.
(3) I was perhaps too optimistic to end the Handmaid's story with an outright failure.
(4) To quote The Handmaid’s Tale : “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
(5) Morally provocative and darkly funny with plenty of sex (including some fashionable sadomasochism), the series will be lapped up by fans of The Handmaid's Tale and Oryx and Crake .
(6) The Handmaid’s Tale neatly set my world on its head.
(7) The Handmaid's Tale has often been called a "feminist dystopia", but that term is not strictly accurate.
(8) Sarah: I read Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale at 19, struggling through my second year at a conservative Baptist college.
(9) Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale seems to have moved from fiction to prophecy, with news of a court case in England that could lead to the prosecution of women who drink alcohol while pregnant.
(10) The Handmaids themselves are a pariah caste within the pyramid: treasured for what they may be able to provide – their fertility – but untouchables otherwise.
(11) The Handmaid's Tale is reissued this month by the Folio Society
(12) No, this is not The Handmaid’s Tale , we are told, in a “ calm down, dear ” sort of way, and we should merely accept the DUP’s mix of creationism, misogyny and homophobia as a quirk of coalition.
(13) People – not only women – have sent me photographs of their bodies with phrases from The Handmaid's Tale tattooed on them, " Nolite te bastardes carborundorum " and "Are there any questions?"
(14) When asked whether The Handmaid's Tale is about to "come true", I remind myself that there are two futures in the book, and that if the first one comes true, the second one may do so also.
(15) The Handmaid's Tale has not been out of print since it was first published, back in 1985.
(16) On 10 June there is a cryptic entry: "Finished editing Handmaid's Tale last week."
(17) Stories about the future always have a "what-if" premise, and The Handmaid's Tale has several.
(18) In fact, in The Handmaid’s Tale , England is the country of choice where escaped women want to go.
(19) It has become a sort of tag for those writing about shifts towards policies aimed at controlling women, and especially women's bodies and reproductive functions: "Like something out of The Handmaid's Tale " and "Here comes The Handmaid's Tale " have become familiar phrases.
(20) Photograph: PR Ma’ Rosa (Brillante Mendoza, Philippines) Bacalaureat (Cristian Mungiu, Romania) Loving (Jeff Nichols, US) The Handmaid (Park Chan-wook, South Korea) The Last Face (Sean Penn, US) Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu, Romania) Elle (Paul Verhoeven, France) The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn, US) Out of competition Facebook Twitter Pinterest Steven Spielberg’s The BFG.
Servant
Definition:
(n.) One who serves, or does services, voluntarily or on compulsion; a person who is employed by another for menial offices, or for other labor, and is subject to his command; a person who labors or exerts himself for the benefit of another, his master or employer; a subordinate helper.
(n.) One in a state of subjection or bondage.
(n.) A professed lover or suitor; a gallant.
(v. t.) To subject.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was also acknowledgement for two long-term servants to the men’s game who will both leave the Premier League for Major League Soccer this summer.
(2) The Dacre review panel, which included Sir Joseph Pilling, a retired senior civil servant, and the historian Prof Sir David Cannadine, said Britain now had one of the "less liberal" regimes in Europe for access to confidential government papers and that reform was needed to restore some trust between politicians and people.
(3) I am one of those retired civil servants who has not received my pension.
(4) Senior civil servant Simon Case joined the UK’s EU embassy in March to lead work on the new partnership with the bloc, but EU diplomats are unsure how he fits into the picture.
(5) The report was addressed personally to Farr and says it is not to be seen by civil servants, only by him, ministers and their special advisers.
(6) "Public servants did nothing to cause the slump but are being asked to bear an unfair share of the burden.
(7) So sensitive is the case that Hunt, his civil servants and advisers are expected to rebuff any external lobbying – so they can base their judgement only on a analysis of the public interest issues raised by the proposed deal that was completed by media regulator Ofcom today.
(8) A series of reports, written by civil servants and approved by ministers, will be published from the spring of next year until 2014 to examine the impact of everything from directives to the European Court of Justice.
(9) Here, the balance of power is clear: the master is dominating the servant – and not the other way around, as is the case with Google Now and the poor.
(10) Unions warned it could lead to a system where civil servants were loyal to their political masters rather than the taxpayer.
(11) Similar measurements were made in subjects with essential hypertension (77 white and 23 black), and 48 healthy normotensive white civil servants.
(12) You've just joined Twitter – why would you recommend it to other civil servants?
(13) Public servants who loved their useful work find only a few hours waiting on tables.
(14) The package included pay rises for civil servants and security personnel.
(15) "There are idle MPs with no outside interests and there are fantastic public servants that do have them."
(16) Helena writes: Ilias Iliopoulos, a leading figure at ADEDY, Greece's union of civil servants, has just told me: “This is a warning to the government not to pass the measures.Today was a huge success as witnessed by all those in the armed forces and police who also participated because they, too, will be affected by these cuts.
(17) Because for more than a year, he had bent the rules, constantly and persistently, in the face of warnings from his most senior civil servants?
(18) The public servants’ ethos, their attachment to the civic realm, has been systematically trashed as mere unionised self-interest.
(19) It blamed "confrontation maniacs" for "[making their] servants of conservative media let loose a whole string of sophism intended to hatch all sorts of dastardly wicked plots and float misinformation".
(20) The current authors explored this issue in a cohort of 18,274 male civil servants, among whom there were 1,282 cancer deaths over 18-20 years of follow-up.