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I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.
Toni Morrison
People
Black
Understanding
Everybody
Else
Totally
About
Bear
Brunt
Annoyed
Contempt
Smiling
Always
Demons
Suddenly
Why
The people sometimes who are closest to us are the ones who bear the brunt of our frustration.
Lynn Nottage
People
Frustration
Sometimes
Our
Bear
Brunt
Closest
Us
Who
I am often the brunt of my own humor.
Charles R. Swindoll
Humor
Own
My Own
Brunt
Am
Often
Disgracefully, the arts have too often borne the brunt of short-sighted cuts to educational budgets.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Too
Borne
Brunt
Budgets
Educational
Often
Arts
Short-Sighted
Cuts
My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women bore the brunt of so many things in society.
Annie Lennox
Women
Society
Incredibly
State
Visiting
Bore
Brunt
Developing
Developing Countries
Countries
Obvious
Became
Stimulated
Issue
Many
Things
This is the thing: I know I'm paving the way for the next generation of girls, and they're not going to have to do this. That's what I hope. I'll take the brunt work and just handle it, and then you guys can just sail right on through.
Ashley Graham
Work
Hope
You
Generation
Girl
Sail
Way
Guys
Brunt
Through
Take
Know
Handle
Going
You Guys
Just
Then
Next
Paving
Next Generation
Right
Thing
This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930s Great Depression.
Barry Eichengreen
Depression
Great
Problem
Thanks
Great Depression
Those
Crisis
Impact
Having
Brunt
Bearing
Studies
Long-Term
Know
Unemployment
Depths
Series
Lives
Profoundly
Damaging
Careful
Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they're not the brunt of the jokes. In this, they're the heroes of this story; we love these guys.
Bobby Farrelly
Life
Love
Jokes
Heroes
Long
Real Life
Tell
About
Guys
Brunt
Well
Real
Story
Them
Twins
The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.
Harold Pinter
Government
Selfish
People
Others
Totally
Brunt
Highly
Encourage
Whole
Media
Competitive
Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.
Irwin Redlener
Best
Charity
Poverty
Country
Community
Extraordinary
Carry
Brunt
Faith-Based
American
Across
Organizations
Even
Initiatives
If a person is a U.S. citizen, and he is on the battlefield in Afghanistan or Iraq trying to attack our troops, he will face the full brunt of the U.S. military response.
John O. Brennan
Will
Citizen
Face
Military
Our
Battlefield
Response
Brunt
Troops
Attack
He
Iraq
Person
Trying
Afghanistan
Full
A lot of white men in the music industry are promoting and participating in black culture in a way that is pretty careless. They want the currency of blackness, but they don't want the brunt that comes along with that.
Kelela
Music
Culture
Black
Men
White
Careless
Music Industry
Way
Promoting
Pretty
Blackness
Brunt
Participating
Along
Industry
Lot
Currency
Want
Women in finance bore the brunt of layoffs more than their male counterparts during the Great Recession in 2008 and were also more likely to have been in back office jobs that were replaced by computers.
Mary Pilon
Finance
Great
Women
Recession
Back
Jobs
Bore
More
Brunt
Layoffs
Computers
Counterparts
Likely
Also
Were
Been
Male
Replaced
Than
Office
Arguably, the families most at need of housing assistance are systematically denied it because they're stamped with an eviction record. Moms and kids are bearing the brunt of those consequences.
Matthew Desmond
Consequences
Those
Kids
Systematically
Record
Brunt
Bearing
Arguably
Most
Because
Housing
Denied
Families
Stamped
Moms
Assistance
Need
Trumpcare would be devastating for millions of American families, but perhaps no one will bear the brunt of its cruelty more than older Americans.
Raja Krishnamoorthi
Will
Cruelty
Older
Would
Would-Be
More
Bear
Brunt
Devastating
No-One
Perhaps
Families
Than
American
American Families
Millions
The real gender inequality in marriage stems from the tendency to regard women as the default parent, the one who, in the absence of family-friendly work policies, is expected to adjust her paid work to shoulder the brunt of domestic responsibilities.
Stephanie Coontz
Work
Marriage
Women
Gender
Adjust
Responsibilities
Parent
Absence
Brunt
Tendency
Stems
Policies
Inequality
Real
Domestic
Expected
Family-Friendly
Regard
Shoulder
Paid
Who
Her
Default
Our family has gone through a very difficult time. My husband and I have taken the brunt of it. I've never known what it truly felt like to be so sad and desperate inside.
Tracey Gold
Sad
Time
Family
Desperate
Husband
Gone
Difficult
Our
Inside
Brunt
Through
Never
Taken
Like
Known
Felt
Truly
Very
Difficult Time
Not one of the 9/11 terrorists entered through Mexico - and yet Mexicans bore the brunt of this country's immigration response to the terror attacks.
Beto O'Rourke
Immigration
Country
Entered
Response
Bore
Brunt
Attacks
Through
Terror
Terrorists
Mexicans
Mexico
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