Mostly it comes through from Woody Harrelson's proclamation, a few slick looking character introduction scenes and some group shots of the assembled team narrowly escaping fire and fury.
In his official proclamation, President Obama mentioned "all those decades spent organizing, protesting and agitating," and took the occasion to list (in the proclamation) a few of the things that his administration has indeed accomplished to advance women's equality.
Between winter ice on monuments and summer proclamations on a few glowing billboards, people stand in the snow, waiting for their buses; and I, afraid to be found out in my improvidence, wander from queue to queue, searching for the winter woman who will take me home and save me.
Though the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect a few months later, Missouri's slaves were not free; Lincoln had only freed those slaves held in enemy territory, in an effort to maintain support among loyal slaveholders in Union-controlled territory.
But experts said the repercussions would fall short of catastrophic, despite a few proclamations of doom and sketchy evidence of past links between field reversals and species extinctions.
Add in a few inane proclamations: scientologists and freemasons are the real enemies i could make up my own religion to now everyone god is a cheeseburger who makes patties all day there pray to chicken nuggets.
Each subsequent president has issues a similar proclamation, although few Americans know about or celebrate the day.
Attempts to permit white and black viewers in the South to mix freely were met with resistance, with the consequence that at a few stops, the Emancipation Proclamation was exhibited to segregated audiences.
Although days of prayer are not uncommon here — Governor Riley declared one asking for rain to relieve a drought a few years ago — these proclamations conveyed the sense that at this late date, salvation from the spill all but requires divine intervention.
When Germany invaded the Netherlands on May 10, 1940, Wilhelmina issued a proclamation to her nation of "flaming protest" and a few days later left for England with her family and members of the Cabinet.
It's the same surprising comment every time: "Oh, you're an engineer?!" I would think that being in Silicon Valley, where there are quite a few female engineers, my proud proclamation would not elicit this kind of reaction anymore.
