On the other hand, I thought, maybe I should see princess mania as a sign of progress, an indication that girls could celebrate their predilection for pink without compromising strength or ambition; that at long last they could "have it all": be feminist and feminine, pretty and powerful, earn independence and male approval.
In the meantime, the collection was more than "commercial," which was the general opinion leveled at it; it was a powerful declaration of independence and direction.
Her most frequent refrain – "I am lonely" – rubs up against something she understands far less: her powerful longing for independence, even for isolation.
It's difficult to overstate what a powerful incentive for independence their banishment would be for many Scots, particularly in the wake of the Bedroom tax and the gamble they're taking with Britain's EU membership, all for the financial gain of London's bastard-class and its reptilian-financial complex.
Iranians still consider Britain, the former colonial power there, a powerful agent of opposition to Iranian independence and the Islamic Revolution.
"We don't require the people running our own elections to maintain strict independence from powerful financial or partisan interests".
But the deep symbiosis of organized crime and an oppressively powerful state limited the independence of the gangsters and made it unnecessary to settle every difference with violence.
Lowell's vivid and powerful personality and her independence and zest made her conspicuous, as did her scorn of convention in such defiant gestures as smoking cigars.
Daenerys had to respond to the growth of her dragons, a powerful symbol of her independence, by chaining them up.
There are the Zaporizhian Cossacks of central Ukraine, who launched a powerful but ill-fated independence movement in the 17th century before being crushed by Catherine the Great; they have since been rebuilt as a pillar of Ukrainian nationalist sentiment.
