Its headlines have included "Hoist it high and proud: The Confederate flag proclaims a glorious heritage", "Birth control makes women unattractive and crazy", and "Clinton aide Huma Abedin 'most likely a Saudi spy'".
The furthest thing from a glorious celebration of the birth of a nation, the movie is a pointed rebuke to a tub-thumping nationalistic epic like "Exodus".
It is because the civil rights campaign, in its glorious fecundity, did give birth to many newer inspirations, one of which turned out to be the modern movement for gay rights.
But either way, there's a glorious irony in The Birth of a Nation it took the story of a slave to set its star, writer, and director free.
"I am certain," he wrote in yet another letter, "that the results of this request shall be attended with success and welcome by the public as an ample and honorable means of restoring downfallen Belgian Prince a new birth, a glorious reputation, a new Australian name".
The birth mother was glorious in those last weeks of pregnancy.
Come 1945, it was logical for the state, besides setting up its own oil company, to nationalise the electricity and gas companies, the Renault car company, the insurance companies and the banks.What followed was what the French love to call les trente glorieuses, the 30 glorious years in which the birth rate, the economy and living standards all boomed in unison.
The mosque, they claimed, had been built upon the site of the Hindu deity Rama's birth, after destroying a glorious temple that honoured him.
The French culinary revolution -- the glorious period for breakthroughs like the birth of the modern restaurant and the fashion for toast at breakfast -- is being celebrated at an exhibition in Paris at the Musée d'Orsay on the Left Bank.
