(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(3) In April, Quentin Tarantino's revenge western Django Unchained was withdrawn from cinemas minutes into its first screening; it reopened a month later with three of the goriest minutes missing and flopped.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.
Unshackle
Definition:
(v. t.) To loose from shackles or bonds; to set free from restraint; to unfetter.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Fulham were unshackled, imbued with enhanced belief and, when Dejagah crossed low from the right, Richardson, an integral part of West Bromwich Albion's great escape round these parts in 2005, dispatched a fierce, left-footed shot into the far top corner from the edge of the penalty area.
(2) Under the effect of 5-HT the amplitude of the stereotypy movements declined, they would become better organized, whereas after administration of PCPA they would, on the contrary, assume a chaotic "unshackled" character.
(3) This continuing high debt calls for an additional response to address the crisis legacies and unshackle economic potential.
(4) Hamza wore simple blue prison garb and was unshackled during the court appearance.
(5) BBM : 60 million monthly active users The original phone-to-phone messenger, recently unshackled from its BlackBerry phone exclusivity to go land on Android and iPhone.
(6) So would Scotland be better off with its own central bank in Edinburgh setting borrowing costs and operating a currency unshackled from the pound sterling?
(7) This was a remarkable match in isolation but still more fascinating in context, evidence of a league unshackled from the constraints of logic and free to run wild and thrillingly reckless.
(8) This is not just the time to unshackle Britannia from her chains, though it certainly is, it’s a time to speak up for freedom across the whole continent.” Meanwhile, at a rally in London, Corbyn said the government, rather than Brussels, was to blame for the “many problems” facing Britain.
(9) When a measure was slipped into the budget to liberalise the cosy world of Italian lawyers – part of a drive to unshackle Italy's underperforming economy – MPs threatened to sink the budget.
(10) It seems remarkably unshackled by the “corpse” of Europe.
(11) The time has come to unshackle those political bonds, but even with independence England and Scotland can remain close, just as Sweden and Norway do.
(12) For the large contingent of Liverpool fans, who had unfurled banners and sang his name outside the stadium before kick-off, this was an unshackled version of Gerrard they had not seen in quite some time.
(13) The use of synthetic DNA (synthetic oligonucleotides) unshackles the technique from the need for an associated molecular biology laboratory and at once widens the horizon of application of the technique.
(14) Some 10 years ago Dr. Littler, in discussing thumb reconstruction, wrote "Just as the neurovascular pedicle method of composite tissue transfer unshackled the older but limited procedures and made possible more accurate planning in substituting for the structural loss, so must the new freedom, afforded the transfer of composite tissue through microvascular surgery, not fail to utilize established structural and functional principles.
(15) "We need to rid the classrooms of chaos by unshackling heads and setting our schools free," she barnstormed, to delirious applause.
(16) Empty downtown streets in mid-size cities in eastern Iowa or the Mahoning Valley of Ohio provided an awkward backdrop to a Clinton machine determined to accentuate the positive but fertile territory for Trump’s unshackled warnings on trade and the “rigged economy”.
(17) Rauner contends that businesses, unshackled from the burden of union contracts, will rush to create jobs in Illinois communities – contrary to a University of Illinois study that found no such evidence for such a broad claim.
(18) Capitalism, since it was unshackled by the deregulation of the 1980s, has widened the gap between rich and poor.
(19) Lifting sanctions would unshackle ExxonMobil’s planned multi-billion dollar operations in Russia , and boost Tillerson’s retirement fund.
(20) Unshackled by the travails of office, the leaders-to-be can tell us what they are all about.