How To Use Downtrodden In A Sentence
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It must have displayed the compassion you carry for the downtrodden and the victims.
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Only the most optimistic would believe it at the first time of hearing; the more downtrodden cynics took longer to convince.
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The downtrodden majority stay downtrodden because there are no opportunities for them to exploit.
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Regardless of his contentious stances on such issues as abortion, contraception, homosexuality, and divorce, she argued, the fact that he had succeeded in fashioning himself, against formidable odds, into a powerful opponent of communism and a defender of the downtrodden everywhere was to be commended.
Saint John Paul?
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Western-style democracy, rationalism, objectivity, and the autonomy of the individual are slogans designed to convince the downtrodden that subordination is justice ...
Life Upon the Wicked StageFreedom of Artistic Expression
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I must have looked desperate and downtrodden because she agreed to be party to the duplicity.
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Camby's tenacious play kept the downtrodden Clippers (8-24) in the game and helped Los Angeles outrebound the Suns 29-18 by halftime.
USATODAY.com
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It was a downtrodden nation during centuries of foreign occupation.
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On the other, the victim gays seek to deny the power of the pink pound and prefer to present gays as poor and downtrodden.
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Israel figured his father just liked to come off as downtrodden and henpecked.
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The purpose of art is not to support the underprivileged or downtrodden.
Times, Sunday Times
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I was brought up to believe in the modern myth that housekeeping is only drudgery, and the housewife is a downtrodden martyr.
Archive 2008-10-01
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The quest for unavailable rewards is not reserved for poor and downtrodden folk.
Sociology and Religion: A Collection of Readings
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The Italian playwright was awarded the Nobel Prize for ‘emulating the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden’.
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If Democrats care so much about the "downtrodden," and if the GOP is playing on their false consciousness by emphasizing things that don't matter like abortion and homosexuality, why don't the Democrats simply adopt pro-life and antigay positions, so that they can win office on their superior economic programs and actually do something for these fortuneless folks?
Archive 2005-01-01
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But these men overmilk the melodrama with relentless sprawling guitars and Alejandro's earthy, downtrodden vocals.
Evansville Courier & Press Stories
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This is not the story of a downtrodden people seeking power denied by remote colonial masters.
Times, Sunday Times
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The track opens with a series of agitated sci-fi effects, homely robot tones that later segue into what sounds like the malfunctioning calliope of a downtrodden circus.
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Lynott suffused his songs with images of the lone ranger, the jailbreaker, the downtrodden underdog.
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Nor would they stoop to depriving the downtrodden fans of a struggling club of an adored star just by offering him some filthy money and the chance of European football.
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But they all praise the author, and fan the flames of his remarkably well-presented public posture of brilliant author posing as humorous, downtrodden schlemiel posing as brilliant author.
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Don't they realise it gives the downtrodden masses something to aspire to?
Times, Sunday Times
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Urdu is a downtrodden language for our nation, surprisingly so because it is the national language of our country.
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His claim to be a representative of the downtrodden masses is, of course, completely bogus.
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Squat and uncharismatic, Pressman built his career upon a distinctive combination of shoe-leather, watch-doggedness, and empathy for the poor and downtrodden.
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They only had need because they were downtrodden, and were only allowed to behave that way because they've never been shown a better way.
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It was the fourth consecutive rise for the Nasdaq, as investors continued to exhibit a preference for downtrodden tech stocks.
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It is a God who embodied justice, who had the ‘will to bless those by circumstance accurst’ - in other words, the kind of God dad could believe in, a social God, who helps the downtrodden.
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The owner is making huge profits at the expense of downtrodden peasants.
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“People see conservatives as not caring about the downtrodden, which is not true” said McCombs, who said conservatism was about empowering people to succeed for themselves — she mentioned she was especially disappointed with UW students who had protested the state legislature asking for more tuition assistance.
Taking on Patty Murray: GOP Hopefuls Take Stage in Bellevue « PubliCola
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But to cloak one's personal gripes, however subconsciously, in the cloak of solidarity with all downtrodden is just plain disingenuous -- to use the nicest word.
TOC: The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF edited by Mike Ashley
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It's a downtrodden tale full of woe and misfortune, a portrait of loneliness and bleakness.
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He had great compassion for those who were poor and those who were ill and those who were needy and downtrodden.
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It's madness that we are allowing mainstream media to lead the way in absorbing and coopting the principal elements of Jihadi propaganda and shoving them down our throats constantly - the only result of which is not the vaguest hint of the furthering of the purported ideals of, say, human rights, egalite and fraternite or the rights of the downtrodden masses.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
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That is one reason why, in the heart of so many Taiwan cities, on valuable and useful urban land, sit row after row of ugly, downtrodden two and three story homes, unrenewed and unrebuilt.
Archive 2008-08-01
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What do they know about people downtrodden by the elite and who have lashed out in the best possible way?
The Sun
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Helping the poor and the downtrodden is a precept that has come down as a tradition well-remembered on Baisakhi day.
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This is not the story of a downtrodden people seeking power denied by remote colonial masters.
Times, Sunday Times
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On a bench nearby a frowzy loafer opened his red eyes and perceived that his moral support was due a downtrodden brother.
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This is not a tale of City greed v the downtrodden working man.
Times, Sunday Times
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Somehow I think unsung social workers can reach out to the poor and downtrodden better than narcissistic guys who have gotten too much attention in the first place.
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It was hardly the image of a downtrodden victim, and the jury took just 14 minutes deliberating over her fate.
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The public Mr. Waits is a bona fide character, a stomping, yowling beatnik who reflects the eccentric, downtrodden characters he sings about.
The Storyteller's Secret
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Ms Windsor gave the Queen a tour of the Elstree studios while Wendy Richard, alias downtrodden Pauline Fowler, escorted the Duke of Edinburgh.
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Or in a real -- a practical -- sense, I'd like to write a book that some downtrodden kid in Nowhere Town, Idaho or Killmenow, Scotland might read and find some hope in, suddenly see that going Columbine on their classmates asses is not the only option.
Magic 101
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It would raise the poor and the downtrodden, not to convert people to a belief but to help all people become happy and free in both body and mind.
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The polls are with her, and if the hopes and fears of a downtrodden and hurting middle class were translated into votes, she would be swept into the chancellery on a landslide.
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What about the downtrodden masses back in coach?
Times, Sunday Times
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etc. — all rather in the spirit of the suburban housewife with one downtrodden cook-general.
Collected Essays
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It's hard to see how some of the ideas could help the poor, exploited and downtrodden.
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In the hit TV comedy the cousins tooled around the Georgia sticks, helping the downtrodden and getting into trouble.
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The owner is making huge profits at the expense of downtrodden peasants.
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The latest misandrist attack on downtrodden men is another example of this bias against us.
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Downtrodden Sophie works in a hat shop and one day meets the a charming ladykiller.
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Against these downtrodden, travel-sick, spearhead-free West Indians, it felt a bit sad.
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What a breathtakingly practical way of helping a downtrodden group get going after decades of oppression.
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Visions of Toronto as a national Mecca for the downtrodden spring to some minds.
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It was the fourth consecutive rise for the Nasdaq, as investors continued to exhibit a preference for downtrodden tech stocks.
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She wanted to talk to Jim because she felt so disprized and downtrodden that she wanted to see somebody who adored her.
We Can't Have Everything
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He was portrayed as the savior of the downtrodden and of the victimized heroine, and is the most renowned of all Tamil stars for his screen fights.
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He commented that an effort is made not to over-represent a particular demographic, but that it is true that ‘many notes are from people that are downtrodden or disenfranchised.’
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All week, he has weighed whether voting would help his downtrodden hometown.
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So in offering prayers for downtrodden races, I would advise you not to overlook the downtrodden tourist.
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It was a downtrodden nation during centuries of foreign occupation.
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Do you think the downtrodden and the disadvantaged got rights just by asking the wealthy and powerful really nicely?
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He said his black clothing symbolized the world's downtrodden people.
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The owner is making huge profits at the expense of downtrodden peasants.
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Is he a pseudo-Marxist as his largely secret talk in San Francisco indicated … where he berated average people in Appalachia who didn't vote for him for "clinging" to religion in their poverty-paraphrasing religion the opium of the people dictum where Marx lachrymosely wails in behalf of the downtrodden who substitute God for material gains, a direct parallel?
THE IRATE NATION
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Those most vulnerable, the homeless, the underprivileged, and the downtrodden, will have to sweat in the heat as they wait for the postperson to bring them their inadequate social assistance.
The Last Snowflake
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Stop playing the poor downtrodden man and begin a campaign of civil disobedience.
Times, Sunday Times
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The story goes that downtrodden Sophie works in a hat shop and one day meets the glamorous wizard Howl, a charming ladykiller who has garnered the reputation of eating girls' hearts, despite looking more like a ladyboy.
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You've already done your part for the oppressed and downtrodden demons of the world.
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She is perhaps best remembered as a charitable friend of the sick and downtrodden.
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The German soprano Gabriele Schnaut, as the Dyer's Wife (the downtrodden slum-dweller who has the coveted shadow), even outsings Voight, but of course she benefits from having the earthier and more likeable of the lead soprano roles.
In Search Of A Shadow
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One of the Bible's best-known examples of how we are to embrace the downtrodden is in the parable of the Good Samaritan.
Rev. Dr. Janet Edwards: Gay Teen Suicides: People of Faith, Step Up for Our Youth!
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In spite of its downtrodden reputation in some quarters as a would-be city lacking in soul, Swindon still managed to attract four million day trippers last year.
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In the fight for change, the most oppressed and downtrodden come to the forefront.
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Stop playing the poor downtrodden man and begin a campaign of civil disobedience.
Times, Sunday Times
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The crowd cheered and applauded, their downtrodden spirits uplifted once more at their chosen king's words.
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Would you rather she just sat there, head downcast, assuming a suitably downtrodden, meekly supplicating air for you?
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When I got to the window, it suddenly became clear that the staff seemed much older and more downtrodden than the bubbly voice I heard.
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a heap o 'furriners creepin' inter these parts -- poor downtrodden cusses from Europe -- end, ef they're all like Roudi, they'll dew -- a'most as hendy wi 'the knife as our own people.
Tecumseh : a Drama
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But whatever else tomorrow means, it will not mean that the country wants its leadership to engage, above all else, in demonization of people who are different and downtrodden, and this is precisely what the GOP will continue to do.
Jonathan Weiler: Why the Republicans Will Misread Tomorrow's Elections Results
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So in offering prayers for downtrodden races, I would advise you not to overlook the downtrodden tourist.
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They say the movie title "Slumdog" should be changed as the word degrades the already downtrodden.
CNN Transcript Feb 19, 2009
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A prophet who adamantly declines the label messiah, and a kind of self-appointed Pied Piper in reverse determined to lead the downtrodden out of their misery, Moore makes his case in no uncertain terms as he winds crime scene tape all around Wall Street and insists on making citizen arrests via megaphone outside brokerage houses.
NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories
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Those who are still moved by the plight of the downtrodden and shocked by the presence of injustice in our midst should read the book.
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It’s perhaps of even greater interest to note that this Jewish support for the downtrodden is almost exclusively done on behalf of groups that are not Jewish.
Matthew Yglesias » Helen Suzman
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Let them all come, these marvellous, downtrodden people.
The Sun
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Today's corporate globalism, promising to improve the lives of the downtrodden, resembles the communist globalism of a bygone era.
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I was brought up to believe in the modern myth that housekeeping is only drudgery, and the housewife is a downtrodden martyr.
The Symphony of Supper-Time
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This was class war and the protesters were standing up for downtrodden workers - whether they liked it or not.
The Sun
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Transformed by the Eucharist we have received, we are sent to minister Jesus' presence to the lonely, downtrodden, and oppressed.
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Sitting in a coffee house expounding on the lightness of being, while you quote esoteric quotes to prove how in touch you are with the downtrodden is the equivalent of a hot breeze on a hot day; annoying and needless.
Archive 2009-04-01