What's the difference between makeup and minstrel?

Makeup


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) HCECs display an unusual combination of cytokeratin IFs and neurofilaments, together with vimentin, and are heterogeneous with respect to their IF makeup.
  • (2) That is the makeup of the Labour party,” he said.
  • (3) We emphasize recent studies on the histochemical makeup of the middle ear, as well as the enzymatic and immunologic defense systems of that space.
  • (4) The Observer ran the article I wrote , accompanied by a photograph of me, in a lot of makeup, looking younger than I usually do.
  • (5) British spies don wigs and makeup to testify at US trial of al-Qaida suspect Read more Abid Naseer was first arrested in 2009 in Britain on charges that he was part of a terror cell plotting to blow up a shopping mall in Manchester, England.
  • (6) This carbohydrate was isolated, and its chemical makeup was established.
  • (7) Around the Belfast entertainment circuit, he performed as a drag artist in fishnet tights and heavy makeup, calling himself Samantha.
  • (8) Although I’m curious as to how her hair, makeup and crypto-Burning-Man outfits stayed perfect through three battles, a kidnapping and a spell in hyperdrive.
  • (9) As the field of human genetics successfully continues to unravel the secrets of an individual's genetic makeup, the social processes of stigmatization and ostracism of those with "undesirable" traits have the potential to increase.
  • (10) The development of EMC virus-induced diabetes is dependent on the genetic background of the host and genetic makeup of the virus.
  • (11) The inactivation of the alpha 1,3GT gene in ancestral catarrhines was probably the result of an intensive evolutionary pressure for alteration in the makeup of cell surface carbohydrates (i.e., suppression of alpha-galactosyl epitope expression) and for the production of the anti-Gal antibody.
  • (12) And if you're going to film me in HD my agent says I need a rider in my contract for a makeup artist."
  • (13) Cluster analysis of these data, which did not include variables pertaining to drug abuse, resulted in nine types of addicts with different sociocultural backgrounds and psychological makeups.
  • (14) Trematode diseases have remained the same, but the tools (1) to exploit the innate ability of cells to replicate and produce biological products upon demand, (2) to manipulate the genetic makeup of an organism, (3) and to biologically or synthetically manufacture peptides have provided scientists with new reagents for diagnosing, treating, preventing and controlling trematode diseases.
  • (15) Last year the state comptroller listed what he considered excessive expenditures on takeaway meals, cleaning, makeup and hairstyling.
  • (16) The outcome variable, VOC emission rate, was examined relative to selected independent variables: latex type, latex amount, makeup air into the drying oven, residence time in the drying oven, and their interactions.
  • (17) We show further that the CD4 molecule expressed on BM cells is similar in molecular weight and epitope makeup to the CD4 antigen found on thymocytes.
  • (18) Last week the prime minister said he found windfarms noisy and “visually awful” and disclosed that the government’s aim in the RET deal was to reduce the number of wind turbines as much as possible, given the makeup of the Senate.
  • (19) They adjust wires and lights, listen intently to headphones, and a makeup woman dashes over and dabs at the shine on Brydon's forehead.
  • (20) Once the survey is over we compare the profile of the people we have spoken to with the true demographic makeup of Britain (as recorded by the census) to make sure that our results are properly representative.

Minstrel


Definition:

  • (n.) In the Middle Ages, one of an order of men who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sang verses to the accompaniment of a harp or other instrument; in modern times, a poet; a bard; a singer and harper; a musician.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He went from minstrel show to blackface, from vaudeville to Broadway before he hit a fabulous prosperity as the most sentimental of all sentimental singers, a poor Russian cantor's son daubed with burnt cork and down on one knee sobbing for the "mammy" he had never known in a south that nobody ever knew.
  • (2) KA Lee’s Bamboozled and Genet’s The Blacks are critiques of black and white minstrel shows; they do not simply recreate them.
  • (3) She doesn't say it, but I take this to be a reference to Henry's notorious appearance on the touring Black and White Minstrel Show in the 1970s.
  • (4) Black artists have a dubious track record of appearing in and supporting racist art in the past, for example the black and white minstrel shows.
  • (5) I'm a bit of a wandering minstrel: my day often begins with breakfast meetings, before I head to my desk.
  • (6) As offensive as The Black and White Minstrel Show, as embarrassing as The Benny Hill Show, and just as certain to be consigned to the past.
  • (7) Consequently, to some commentators, Dolezal is a self-tanning, hair-frizzing fraud, knowingly masquerading as black, a hideous contemporary version of blackface minstrel.
  • (8) Ten years ago the National Trust bought the redbrick house studded with romantic details including turrets, stained glass, window seats, a miniature minstrels' gallery and a well, and opened it to the public for the first time.
  • (9) As the ratings and the money roll in, Delacroix is haunted by a machine from the minstrel era, a late-19th-century "Jolly Nigger Bank", in the shape of a grinning black boy, whose metal arm swings backward to deposit a coin in his mouth.
  • (10) Maybe it’s time to let go of it, look forward and see what we can find.” Goat have also found themselves having to bat away accusations that wearing increasingly extravagant tribal regalia is, at best, cultural appropriation and, at worst, a kind of cosmic minstrelism.
  • (11) French Vogue failed to respond to our queries, and meanwhile, in other blacking up news, Dizzee Rascal has what looks like a load of black-and-white minstrels on the set of his new video, Dirtee Cash.
  • (12) Spike Lee’s Bamboozled does so to great effect, Jean Genet’s The Blacks is a minstrel show written by a white playwright that is highly provocative and charged with racial tension to expose the hypocrisy and deeply embedded racism found at all levels of society.
  • (13) The audience may be more haunted by the minstrel show's central stage prop, a huge portal in the form of a thick-lipped, bug-eyed bellboy; performers in black-face enter from backstage through the gaping mouth.
  • (14) The household calamities continued in her expenses from 1 April 2007 to 30 June 2007 as Moran claimed £2,282.65 for repairs and decoration after a "front room roof collapse", with other expenses for the same period including a silk cushion for £5, £150 on a Milano silver mirror, £270 on even more bedding and a packet of chocolate Minstrels for £1.75.
  • (15) "He is from that school of medieval minstrels who played with paradox and the absurd," adds Fo.
  • (16) Some players have told me that a failure to act would only endorse what they have always felt: that black people have no place in this game other than as minstrels performing on a stage.
  • (17) In Spike Lee's new media satire Bamboozled, Damon Wayans plays Pierre Delacroix, a television producer who creates a minstrel show that exploits racial stereotypes that were shamed off the stage decades before.
  • (18) The day in 1936, perhaps, when the 17-year-old Seeger heard Bascom Lamar Lunsford, the "Minstrel of the Appalachians" , play the banjo at a festival of folk music in North Carolina and took up the instrument with such aptitude and devotion that his own subsequent book, How to Play the 5-String Banjo , became and remains a standard text for students of the instrument.
  • (19) The minstrel boy to the war is gone, In the ranks of death you'll find him.
  • (20) Young's father was a multi-instrumentalist and teacher who schooled his children in music, forming them up alongside their stepmother as the New Orleans Strutters, and playing carnivals, circuses and minstrel shows.