Sentence examples for sexual prerogative from inspiring English sources

Park Chan-wook's new movie, "The Handmaiden," transports that book's tale of subterfuge and sexual prerogative, originally set in late-nineteenth-century England, to Korea in the nineteen-thirties.

Men and women participate in several age sets throughout life; sexual prerogatives and various responsibilities are associated with each.

Never mind that the citoyennes of 1789 lost those rights before they ever had them, or that they got to vote only after the Second World War, or, for that matter, that until they took to the streets two months ago, in protest, they were expected to accept the extraordinary sexual prerogatives of their republic's male leaders.

And yet there's much delight to be taken in the sinuous surprises and reversals of its plot, as we watch the wicked Valmont and Merteuil become ensnared by emotions they have rigorously held in check in order to assert their sexual prerogatives.

Writing in The New Yorker, Rebecca Mead worried that Knox's notion of sexual empowerment excludes the prerogative "to say no as well as yes".

Though the genetic material exchange and recombinations occur in haploid organisms, including bacteria and other prokaryotes, the genuine sexual reproduction is a prerogative of the eukaryotes and it is coupled with the alternation of the diploid and haploid phases of a life cycle.

The depiction of high-powered operators links traditional morality, with its winking assumption of women's chastity and men's prerogatives, to sexual violence (a recurring theme in Preminger's work).

Moore goes back to Hillary's student days, playing a clip of her commencement address at her college graduation, and evokes the opposition that an entire generation of early feminists faced as they attempted to speak out for women's equality at a time when sexual harassment and male prerogatives were utterly commonplace, unaddressed and unredressed.