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It was customary in her family to keep girls inside the homes.
And also important is talking to communities so that we change interpretations of religious or customary law, which is too often used to justify punishment and fuel stigma.
But fully two centuries before, the Enlightenment thinker Jeremy Bentham had exposed the indefensibility of customary practices such as the cruelty to animals.
Even though we tried to do all the right things, we still received our customary flood of video protests and angry emails and even a package that had to be scanned by security, but we have to remember people care intensely about this stuff, and it's because these products, this work, really, really matters to them.
Weidmann was due to be executed at the crack of dawn, as was customary at the time, but his executioner was new to the job, and he'd underestimated how long it would take him to prepare.
Commandeering civilian planes and using them as weapons, dropping atomic bombs, the use of gas chambers or poisonous gas in conflict, all of these actions, if committed, constitute acts of war and war crimes under customary international law and the Hague conventions.
That crash happened due to an error in converting between two measurement systems, U.S. customary units and their S.I, or metric, equivalence.
The community thought so too, opting to close a small area of reef to octopus fishing temporarily, using a customary social code, invoking blessings from the ancestors to prevent poaching.
This is customary there.
The film boasts grade-A Argento gore, with his customary close-ups set to savage rock scores.
But when Jimmy arrives, as a deputy commissioner of something-or-other out to reform reform schools, he slashes the air with his hands and jumps on the balls of his feet and spits out punchy Warners-First National dialogue with all the customary, and expected, panache.
Popping up in cool bits are Chuck "Porky" Mitchell as a detective, Patrick Wright in one of his customary policeman parts, and Tallie Cochrane as a corpse.
Yes, there are the customary scenes of gratuitious violence, one-liners that show the mind-blowing insightfulness of its characters ("The highway belongs to me...ME!"), and enough nudity to sufficiently distract us from the "plot", but still you'll leave this movie feeling alone and taken advantage of, like a puppy who isn't wanted anymore and is left in a box by the side of the road.
Certainly as long as he has been involved in the casting job, he has always been acting as a little man-an actor can change his customary dress but can hardly change his physical appearance-and the latter one can be an advantage when necessary.
Classy, elegant Adele (marvelously played with dignified resolve by Debbie Reynolds) and batty, frumpy Helen (the magnificent Shelley Winters going full-tilt wacko with her customary histrionic panache) are the mothers of two killers.
Of course, Hollywood took their customary liberties with the life story of Caruso.
That's not to say Grant and Dunne do not exude their customary charm and grace in their roles.
This is a customary splatter plenty of grisly killing,thrills,gruesome shocks, nauseating chills and quite boring.
Fortunately, we've also got the incomparable Vic Morrow on board hamming it up with his customary deliciously eye-rolling rip-snorting gusto as a crusty, macho, rough'n'tumble Robert Shawesque old sea salt fisherman sporting Vic's trademark furry mustache and a simply sidesplitting "won't fool you for a second" overripe Scottish accent ("I've been killin' sharks for most of my life!").
Val Lewton produced, and he gives the proceedings his customary spooky polish.
The uniformly ace acting from a tip-top cast qualifies as another significant asset: Lambert and Locklin make for sympathetic leads, Smith excels in one of his customary bad guy roles, plus there are stellar supporting performances by Jeffrey Combs as flaky, bespectacled computer whiz D-Day, Lincoln Kilpatrick as wise trustee inmate Abraham, Tom Towles as mean roughhouse bully Stiggs, Vernon Wells as vicious top con Maddox, and Clifton Collins, Jr. as scrappy young punk Nino Gomez.
It has become customary for tired Hollywood producers to look for European art house successes which can be remade in a more commercial style.
I saw the version in which the mighty Arnold speaks for himself in his customary Austrian brogue.
Morris displays his customary heavy handedness in driving home the trivial and obvious points with excess, unneeded imagery.
This seems to be something of a genre for the French and they are quite good at pulling it off - as is evidenced with this film - with considerable style and enough depth of plot and character to leave you considering and reconsidering the film for far more than the sadly customary 10 minutes.
Moreover, Bava stages the gruesome murder set pieces with his customary stylish panache: grisly highlights include a throat slashing, a hatchet to the face, a juicy decapitation, and, of course, the infamous impalement of two amorous adolescents in the middle of making love.
This is a decent romantic comedy that touches on several differences between American (lack of) culture and Indian culture (the correct term is actually offshored- outsourcing was historically an American stealing your job by undercutting the fee) a newly offshored manager flies to India to train his replacements and discovers Indian culture and living conditions, their insight on marriage and family and of course some blunders with customary practices in India.
This reviewer attempts to describe something of merit within each work under consideration, but with this wretchedly made film, one must slide by the woeful efforts by those who generally provide audience enjoyment, i.e., director, screenwriter, actors, editors, et alia, before finally recognizing the customary able efforts from crew technicians as the sole evidence of adequacy.
In Dolls he showed his indifference by underplaying the murders, while in Bay of Blood he took the opposite approach by amplifying the violent homicides almost to parody level, in the process relegating the story and characters to even less importance than was customary for the genre.
There are ancient taboos on the use of “poison or plague” as weapons or for warfare, and doing so has long been stigmatized in many cultures and prohibited by customary international law and international treaties.
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