(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.
Show
Definition:
(v. t.) To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the person or thing seeing or beholding; as, to show a house; show your colors; shopkeepers show customers goods (show goods to customers).
(v. t.) To exhibit to the mental view; to tell; to disclose; to reveal; to make known; as, to show one's designs.
(v. t.) Specifically, to make known the way to (a person); hence, to direct; to guide; to asher; to conduct; as, to show a person into a parlor; to show one to the door.
(v. t.) To make apparent or clear, as by evidence, testimony, or reasoning; to prove; to explain; also, to manifest; to evince; as, to show the truth of a statement; to show the causes of an event.
(v. t.) To bestow; to confer; to afford; as, to show favor.
(v. i.) To exhibit or manifest one's self or itself; to appear; to look; to be in appearance; to seem.
(v. i.) To have a certain appearance, as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear.
(n.) The act of showing, or bringing to view; exposure to sight; exhibition.
(n.) That which os shown, or brought to view; that which is arranged to be seen; a spectacle; an exhibition; as, a traveling show; a cattle show.
(n.) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occuring a short time before labor.
(n.) A pale blue flame, at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of fire damp.
Example Sentences:
(1) Forty-nine patients (with 83 eyes showing signs of the disease) were followed up for between six months and 12 years.
(2) Cancer patients showed abnormally high plasma free tryptophan levels.
(3) In contrast, arteries which were exposed to CO showed a higher uptake of cholesterol as compared to their corresponding control.
(4) After stimulation with lipopolysaccharide and calcium ionophore A23187, culture supernatants of clones c18A and c29A showed cytotoxic activity against human melanoma A375 Met-Mix and other cell lines which were resistant to the tumor necrosis factor, lymphotoxin and interleukin 1.
(5) We also show that proliferation of primary amnion cells is not dependent on a high c-fos expression, suggesting that the function of c-fos is more likely to be associated with other cellular functions in the differentiated amnion cell.
(6) These results show that the pathogenic phenotypes of MCF viruses are dissociable from the thymotropic phenotype and depend, at least in part, upon the enhancer sequences.
(7) In addition, intravenous injection of complexes into rabbits showed optimal myocardial images with agents of intermediate lipophilicity.
(8) These surveys show that campers exposed to mountain stream water are at risk of acquiring giardiasis.
(9) In the surface epithelial cells, the basolateral cell surface showed moderate enzymatic activity.
(10) These studies show that metabolic activation is necessary for the expression of the mutagenic activity of aflatoxins B1 and G1 in N. crassa.
(11) In contrast to previous reports, these tumours were more malignant than osteosarcomas and showed a five-year survival rate of only 4-2 per cent.
(12) During and after the infusion of 5HTP, none of the patients showed an increase in anxiety or depressive symptoms, despite the presence of severe side effects.
(13) Snooker, which became and remains a fixture in the BBC2 schedules, was chosen for showing because it is the sport in which different shades are most significant.
(14) Tests showed the cells survive and function normally in animals and reverse movement problems caused by Parkinson's in monkeys.
(15) In this paper, we show representative experiments illustrating some characteristics of the procedure which may have wide application in clinical microbiology.
(16) Histological studies showed that the resulting pancreatitis was usually mild to moderate, being severe only in association with sepsis.
(17) The PSB dioxygenase system displayed a narrow substrate range: none of 18 sulphonated or non-sulphonated analogues of PSB showed significant substrate-dependent O2 uptake.
(18) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
(19) Furthermore, all of the sera from seven other patients with shock reactions following the topical application of chlorhexidine preparation also showed high RAST counts.
(20) They spend about 4.3 minutes of each working hour on a smoking break, the study shows.