(v. t.) To free from chains or slavery; to let loose.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Britain needs to talk about the R-word: racism It is also a wakeup call to those who recognise racism only when it is played out like a scene from Django Unchained , those who think that racism has to be some vulgar incident perpetrated only by the backward, ignorant and poorly educated, those who believe that racism has to be an act, rather than a complicated and intangible framework that sets up obstacles.
(2) The Wolf of Wall Street is already the ninth-biggest 18-certificate movie at the UK box-office, behind Hannibal (£21.6m), American Beauty (£21.3m), Seven (£19.5m), Silence of the Lambs (£17.1m), Bruno (£15.8m), Django Unchained (£15.7m), Basic Instinct (£15.5m) and Fatal Attraction (£15.4m).
(3) In April, Quentin Tarantino's revenge western Django Unchained was withdrawn from cinemas minutes into its first screening; it reopened a month later with three of the goriest minutes missing and flopped.
(4) Updated at 5.23pm BST 2.20pm BST Right, I have been unchained from the desk and I am going to use this freedom to escape from the building and visit the local sandwich emporium for some much-needed nourishment.
(5) Tarantino, Django Unchained's director, had already reined in the movie's gore for the Chinese market, retouching footage to tone down the colour and bloodshed.
(6) Tarantino himself recently told a Bafta audience that the violence and horrific conditions depicted in Django Unchained were nothing compared to the historical reality.
(7) Two years ago, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained was yanked from cinemas after censors claimed it showed scenes too violent for Chinese audiences.
(8) He could very easily have made Reservoir Dogs 2 instead of Django Unchained, and cleaned up at the box office.
(9) In 2014, four out of the nine nominated films passed, in 2013 , six out of nine passed (a bumper year boosted by Django Unchained, Life of Pi and Beasts of the Southern Wild).
(10) Django Unchained pulled from Chinese cinemas during debut screening Read more Seek McCartney is a Chinese-French co-production , with the local contribution also helping to explain why censors handed it a release spot.
(11) The remaining five – Ben Affleck's Argo , Steven Spielberg's Lincoln , Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained , Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty and Tom Hooper's Les Misérables – seem to address and express this particular year.
(12) A Sony spokesman for Tarantino said the "adjustments" to Django Unchained were "progress rather than a compromise".
(13) This spells good news for Steven Spielberg 's epic Lincoln biopic (which leads the field with seven nominations) and for Quentin Tarantino 's slavery saga Django Unchained (five nominations).
(14) Following the December release of Django Unchained , his blood-soaked spaghetti western homage, Tarantino has been drawn unwillingly into the debate over gun violence in the wake of last month's Newtown massacre.
(15) It follows his film Django Unchained in 2012, a western starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz which won Tarantino an Oscar for his screenplay – but Tarantino says that the new project is not connected.
(16) On business rates, a newly unchained Scottish parliament could institute an immediate revaluation of properties, bringing with it a higher threshold before rates are payable and allowing some businesses to escape payment altogether.
(17) 12 Years a Slave will inevitably draw comparisons with Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained , which garnered a second Oscar for the maverick film-maker earlier this year (while drawing criticism from figures such as Spike Lee for its liberal use of the "N" word).
(18) Debate about the film has turned into a major talking point in a number publications large and small, with editorials in defence and critique of Django Unchained laying out their case for readers, while one of the film's stars, Samuel L Jackson, highlighted the discomfort over the frequent use of a racial epithet in the movie when he challenged a journalist to say the word out loud.
(19) Iam a bit worried I might be a massive racist because last week at a preview screening* I laughed like a hallucinating pig several times during Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained , a preposterous cartoon romp through the laugh-a-minute world of slavery.
(20) Quentin Tarantino would go on to cast Foxx alongside Don Johnson, best known as Crockett on the original TV series, in Django Unchained.
Unfetter
Definition:
(v. t.) To loose from fetters or from restraint; to unchain; to unshackle; to liberate; as, to unfetter the mind.
Example Sentences:
(1) Backed by the British government, it was controversial among many campaigners in the UK and Europe , because it was seen a template for how multinational businesses wish to erode national regulations in favour of a more unfettered market access.
(2) The Ayn Rand Institute in Irvine, California , venerates the late philosopher as a prophet of unfettered capitalism who showed America the way.
(3) In order to assess the general applicability of a scapulohumeral force couple model, and the functional significance of the differential development of the scapulohumeral musculature among primate species, we have undertaken a detailed study of shoulder muscle activity patterns in nonhuman primates employing telemetered electromyography, which permits examination of unfettered natural behaviors and locomotion.
(4) In 1995, the Electronic Frontier Foundation won a landmark case establishing that code was a form of protected expression under the First Amendment to the US constitution, and since then, the whole world has enjoyed relatively unfettered access to strong crypto.
(5) To people who have faith that the world can heal itself through the unfettered interaction of economically rational individuals, and that, if capitalism were allowed to operate freely, there would be no more slumps and bubbles because the invisible hand of the market would guide everything to its rightful price, the seasonal rush must seem like an orgy of blasphemy.
(6) Instead of allowing an unfettered choice of family doctor, the health secretary announced that next year three cities will have pilot schemes to allow patients to have more flexibility over registering with a GP close to their workplace or near their children's school.
(7) A generation of activists successfully defended Washington Square Park against Robert Moses ' plan for a cross-town highway, and Jane Jacobs ' The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), which Berman greatly admired, did much to end the unfettered power of planners, architects and their politician-enablers.
(8) Not everyone’s experience online is cathartic and unfettered.
(9) Since his glory march through the streets of Fiorito, Mendez has become a barra brava , a self-proclaimed soldier for his club and part of a well-organised and violent network of fans that now wields almost unfettered power over the multi-million-pound business of football in Argentina .
(10) The 70 recommendations include: Government inspectors will have "full and unfettered powers" to inspect police services.
(11) Resistance to reform is predicated on an evangelical belief that the market knows best and must remain unfettered.
(12) Welsh finance secretary Mark Drakeford similarly called for “unfettered access to the single market” for Wales.
(13) Those criminal government officials would continue to act in an unfettered way, above the law.
(14) The White House called for a ceasefire in the region , backed by Russia, Ukraine and separatist groups , to allow for unfettered access for a "full, credible and unimpeded international investigation as quickly as possible”.
(15) And if the executive is unfettered in determining what those rights are, because in the UK the executive largely controls the Commons, then there can never be effective protection.
(16) One gets invited to those meetings only if one blindly affirms the right of the US to do whatever it wants, and then devotes oneself to the pragmatic question of how that unfettered license can best be exploited to promote national interests.
(17) It found they were “highly sceptical” that unfettered access to the EU market would be replaced with a growth in trade with other parts of the world.
(18) Two years later, the production and arrangement entirely in Bush's hands, came her wholly unfettered mistress-piece: The Dreaming .
(19) A report by the US senate's narcotics control caucus in June said: "Congress has been virtually moribund while powerful Mexican drug trafficking organisations continue to gain unfettered access to military-style firearms coming from the United States".
(20) For 100 days, the killers did their work unfettered.