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"lily-white" Definitions
  1. almost pure white in colour
  2. morally perfect

114 Sentences With "lily white"

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Theirs will be lily white and ours will be black.
Lee said he could not support the "lily white" awards show.
Both Ted Cruz and Rubio are lily-white, of predominantly Spanish descent.
The former is drenched in golden sunshine, lily-white in its cast.
Trump's lily-white juggernaut is defined by its whiteness in deeply unsettling ways.
Perhaps desire does look all the same, albeit through a lily-white lens.
Immigration has radically transformed the state's rural heartland, which was once lily-white.
The biracial Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party aimed to unseat the state's lily-white official delegation.
But you wouldn't know any of that by looking at the city's lily-white government.
The ceremony was held in Hollywood, clearly a response to the lily white, upcoming Oscars.
Leann wastes no time in warning Claire that she's too "lily white" for the predominantly Black district.
So consumers can reduce the temperatures on their washing machines while ensuring their shirts stay lily white.
It's visually stylish, and it features two of the most attractive lily-white actors currently working in Hollywood.
She is a woman of color with an enviable track record in a lily-white field of candidates.
Lara Jean is half-Asian, making her a rarity in the generally lily-white world of rom-coms.
Undoubtedly, this will turn the tide on the lily white conservatism that has hijacked the Republicans Party for decades.
Broadening our conception of American literature beyond the cast of lily-white men would not simply benefit nonwhite readers.
He was surrounded at work by middle-aged white men, while "my night world was virtually lily-white," he added.
She wore a custom silk dress by Stella McCartney with a "bespoke lily white high neck" with a sexy open back.
How did this hostile-to-paranoid worldview attract the people-loving boxer who was bankrolled by a lily-white investment group?
Soon, Mr. Guthrie was "lamenting the bigotry that pervaded his new, lily-white neighborhood," he wrote, with words like these: I suppose
Elle notes that the designer will be making 23 replicas of Markle's reception dress in lily white, and 23 in onyx black.
That "minority segment" is now a majority, and in the past 10 years, it has finally established a lily-white Republican Party.
One member of the Mets' weird three-headed general manager team is Latino, but the rest of the organization is lily white.
It begins when Mia arrives in the pristine and lily-white Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights with her daughter, Pearl (Lexi Underwood).
Notice that I specify "a weekend" because I didn't last, but the dream is still alive somewhere in this lily-white corpus officium.
The bro-led takeover of Capitol Hill was consummated when brands started advertising directly to this new, lily-white and cash rich demographic.
And while they've welcomed the Obamas and dignitaries of many backgrounds into their home, the family itself pulses with pure, lily white British blood.
For the evening wedding reception, Meghan changed into a Stella McCartney design - a slinky silk crepe dress in lily white, with a high neck.
The thing about a lily-white Republican Party is that it doesn't have the diversity it needs to resist white resentment and white rage.
Even so, the emotions the president induced in the lily-white crowd, wearing Trump-branded T-shirts and shorts on a balmy evening, were impressive.
John Legend didn't hold back Sunday, saying Donald Trump's not the only racist in D.C. ... a bunch of Republicans are in his lily white boat.
Robinson was also a business leader who never stopped fighting for the cause, hosting multiple NAACP fundraisers on his front lawn in lily-white Connecticut.
The second dress, designed by Stella McCartney, is "a bespoke lily white high neck gown made of silk crepe," according to a statement from the palace.
Kaufman wrote the elder Trump embraced the FHA's guidelines promoting racial segregation, leading an unwitting Guthrie into the "lily-white neighborhood" he would come to loathe.
The President of the Motion Picture Academy has issued what feels like a frantic response to calls of boycott for the lily white 2016 Oscar nominations.
" On Twitter, she bit back against Hollywood producers who believe their "lead must be white" and advised the creators of lily-white content to "CARE MORE.
The year that "Internet" came out, Glover appeared in two episodes of HBO's "Girls"—cast, he suspected, to placate critics of the show's lily-white sensibility.
"The problem is that Zinke is clearly on a path in which we're going to have increasingly a lily-white Department of the Interior," he said.
But celebrating Old Hollywood — lily-white, often misogynistic — has abruptly fallen out of fashion over the last two years, since the #MeToo movement rocked the culture.
"The danger of the Republican party being taken over by the lily-white-ist conservatives is more serious than many people realize," he wrote in 1963.
The Williams sisters broke into a lily-white field when they went pro back in 1994 and 1995, and were subjected to their share of racist abuse.
The only difference was the Founding Fathers were lily-white men—a lot of them rich, slave owners—and their actions were considered appropriate for the time.
"Where were the throngs of lily white people in their Lacoste tennis shoes when OJ Simpson got off and everybody knew the man was guilty?" added Lewis.
"The problem is that Zinke is clearly on a path in which we're going to have increasingly a lily-white Department of the Interior," Menendez told CNN.
A candidate who beats expectations in, say, a diverse Deep South state like South Carolina might not see a similar pattern in a lily-white one like Iowa.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has wisely seized on the Seneca Village revival to underscore the need for remaking the lily-white landscape of historical monuments in New York.
Copying Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid's famous poses, and calling out the modeling industry for its lily-white ways ... has made a wannabe model the popular girl in school.
A black kid being transported from the hood to a lily-white affluent environment is a tale as old as time — or at least as old as Different Strokes.
The news that lily-white Orange County was targeting an all-ages rap show, despite this park having a packed calendar for most of the year, isn't sitting well.
Despite the character featured on the cover, the meat of the campaign is lily-white, largely ignoring the role that people of colour played in the First World War.
Democrats seem reluctant to admit that the votes they're competing for here are so lily-white, given how important winning minority voters will become more important in future primaries.
"So important that you watch other communities, because we don't want this election stolen from us," he said, referring to blacks, before a lily-white crowd near Pittsburgh last month.
One of the other things you do, that brings the street into the mostly lily-white tradition of history painting, is use graffiti on the mosaics, which alludes to tagging.
"There is the issue of a mentality that says I'm escaping the bad that's happening in the city and I'm coming up here to my lily-white community," she said.
The author, Lily White, still has a copy of "The Fine Art of Erotic Talk," by Bonnie Gabriel, the book that encouraged her to try something new with her husband.
But when it came time for the evening reception, the newly-minted Duchess of Sussex changed into a "bespoke lily white high neck gown made of silk crepe" by Stella McCartney.
It's a smart, frightening way to avoid softening Gilead's views on race without keeping the cast lily-white, and it also feels like an update that matches America's changing sexual mores.
Yet it has also exacerbated deep chauvinisms without which the explosive success of Mr Trump's racist dog-whistling and the seething mood of his lily-white crowds cannot easily be explained.
Meghan transformed from a regal bride into a chic newlywed, stunning in a custom silk Stella McCartney evening dress in "lily white" featuring a high halter neck and sexy open back.
Meghan Markle memorably changed into a a custom silk Stella McCartney evening dress in lily white featuring a high halter neck and sexy open back for her evening reception in May.
Meghan transformed from a regal bride into a chic newlywed, stunning in a custom silk Stella McCartney evening dress in "lily white" featuring a high halter neck and sexy open back.
Bob Menendez of New Jersey warned Monday that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is moving toward a "lily-white" agency with his reported lack of emphasis on racial diversity within his department.
Look, when we started this place, or even when I was in startups and I talked to other VCs, rolling back the tape a little bit, it was all lily-white dudes.
George Washington, Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison: Our lily-white founding fathers are all portrayed to perfection by a cast of some of the most talented non-white men in musical theater.
It's easy to say Wills should be the next Bachelor simply because the long-running series needs to enter the 21st century and end its long, nearly uninterrupted line of lily-white suitors.
A quick glance at the list of winning couples and it's lily-white, with the exception of Catherine Giudici, who is Filipino-American and the only nonwhite person to ever win a season.
Thankfully, other modern adaptations are aware and hope to address this issue, with the Nancy Drew NBC series that's been in the works since 2016 promising to bring diversity to her lily-white origins.
The other book is ''The Camp of the Saints,'' by Jean Raspail, a French novel from the 1970s in which a horde of murderous dark-skinned immigrants invades the lily-white center of Europe.
His performance wasn't spotless; his answer on his lack of black support was awkward and underlined the struggles he'll face once the primaries move on from lily-white states like Iowa and New Hampshire.
Racial tensions coursed through every aspect of the O.J. trial, including where the trial would be held (urban and heterogeneous Downtown L.A. or tony and lily-white Santa Monica?), to the makeup of the jury.
As Harry and Meghan made their glamorous exit from Windsor Castle, Meghan debuted her second look: a custom silk Stella McCartney evening dress in "lily white" featuring a high halter neck and sexy open back.
I thought I might get some of my questions answered during an information session at a downtown New York City fertility clinic, where the room was lily-white, both in terms of attendees and aesthetics.
Despite being within striking distance of Clinton in the lily-white states of Iowa and New Hampshire, he faces much deeper holes in Nevada and South Carolina, two early voting states with more diverse populations.
Meghan wore a custom silk Stella McCartney evening dress in "lily white" featuring a high halter neck and sexy open back, while Kate changed into a white satin strapless evening gown with shrug for her reception.
"Gentrification is not integration but a new form of segregation," he says of Michigan millennials moving from lily-white suburbs to America's blackest city, a conclusion that ignores the complicated disjunction between individual and institutional racism.
Smith, an unrecognized great, got his share of racist hate mail, but the positive reaction to the team's return to winning far outweighed the few Neanderthals who would have preferred the team remain a lily-white loser.
Cardi B has an answer to the guy who's suing her for lifting the tattoo on his back for her album cover -- she says the dude on her album is black, and the plaintiff is lily white.
In even the most conservative places, including the lily-white northern suburbs of Pittsburgh, where Mr Rothfus won in November with a big majority, established centre-left groups report massive increases in support and new ones are mushrooming.
"They stayed lily white all these years, in New York City, of all places," Hazel N. Dukes, president of the New York State chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, remarked in the 1980s.
I came to the city expecting to encounter a lily-white sea studded by isolated islands of Somalis trying to float; instead I found a multicultural metropolis, a glimpse of what the future of America could look like.
Mr. Sanders, on the other hand, is a sort of anti-Clinton — a political maverick from lily-white Vermont whose main claim to fame has been his insistence on calling himself an independent, a socialist, anything but a Democrat.
The New York City commission that oversees public artworks embraced a lily-white version of history in March when it approved a monument to the women's rights movement that is scheduled to be unveiled in Central Park next year.
"I dedicate this to all the Indigenous kids in the world who want to do art and dance and write stories," he said in his speech, sending up a beacon for Indigenous artists in the lily-white space of the Academy.
Fit for a party, Meghan's custom silk Stella McCartney evening dress in "lily white" featured a high halter neck and sexy open back, and was accessorized with custom satin Aquazurra shoes featuring nude mesh detailing and baby blue-painted soles.
Instagram selfies revealing a lily white Lil' Kim made headlines in 2016; a few years earlier, Patricia "Tan Mom" Krentcil, arrested for taking her five-year-old daughter into a tanning bed, had gained notoriety for her dark brown hue.
So the fact that Clinton won by a nose in lily-white Iowa is a good sign for her, because it suggests she's likely to do even better in states like South Carolina and Nevada where many Democratic voters are black or Hispanic.
Legal cannabis has been lily-white and almost exclusively male from the beginning, a fact acknowledged first by self-conscious jokes at cannabis business conferences, and later by state and local "equity" programs meant to guarantee entrepreneurship opportunities to people of color.
Despite the empirical reality that "diverse" casts enjoy larger audiences and greater box office success (most recently demonstrated by the overwhelming global success of Black Panther), the lily-white female coming-of-age genre does not seem to be dwindling in popularity.
This was the first time in ages that I had to scrub a grid and pretty much start over, at which point DAFFODILS came to me, as well as LILY WHITE, OLD WORLD and BENDERS, and then everything slowly fell into place.
I think the range of shades is revolutionary for people of all different skin tones, but my very pale option was laughably lily-white (and see-through, so I wore a nude thong underneath.) I'd be fine with a more traditional nude.
But combining it with Olaf's Frozen Adventure, which takes place in a fictional country based on Norway and stars two lily-white girls, has been interpreted by some as an attempt to make white audiences more interested in a film starring nonwhite characters.
The New York Times bestseller chronicles how Stallworth went from working as a lowly police cadet for the lily white Colorado Springs Police Department to becoming the city's first black officer who led a case he seemingly had no business being a part of.
DREAMer protections, meanwhile, poll very well, and this not really the hill Republicans want to die on, even as Senate Democrats are aware that they have a number of incumbent members facing reelection in lily-white red states who also don't want to die on DREAMer hill.
Nikki Haley endorsed Rubio in the primaries and has tried to position herself as a different face for the Republican Party -- a governor who agreed that the Confederate flag must go and who as an Indian American offers a new voice for the lily-white GOP.
Trump's question and my in-laws' casual assertion were both curated for presentation in lily-white settings, detached by racial privilege and a lifetime of segregation both de facto and de jure from any need to grapple up close with the experiences of black and brown bodies.
On April 19, 1995, former soldier Timothy McVeigh—a lifelong mediocrity who had grown up in the lily-white suburbs of Buffalo, New York—parked a Ryder truck containing a five ton fertilizer bomb in front of the Edward P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
Wleh, who said he had an unweighted high school grade-point average of 3.76 and a score of 1380 on the SAT, is now a freshman at Amherst and an African-American in what for decades in the United States had been a lily-white sport.
It's no small oddity that formerly lily-white suburbs built on racist housing policies — as recently as the 1990 census, Warren was 523 percent white — now had schools openly courting black children from Detroit, because, like all school districts, they desperately needed those per-pupil dollars.
What stands out in the most positive way is that Paris, Capital of Fashion avoided acknowledging the way Instagram and social media have reshaped the fetishization of Frenchness in a way that is visually dull, reductive, and borderline racist in its lily-white idea of Frenchness.
" A reporter once asked Williams if Maria Sharapova's beauty intimidated her on the tennis court—and when Williams celebrated beating Sharapova in singles competition at the 2012 London Olympics by dancing, she was heavily criticized for "Crip-Walking all over the most lily-white place in the world.
The biggest letdown, though, was that the acting nominee categories were rigidly, ridiculously lily-white—galling in any year, but especially stinging when such films as *Creed *and *Beasts of No Nation *featured awards-worthy performances from the likes of Michael B. Jordan, Tessa Thompson, and Idris Elba.
John Carlin, whose book inspired the film "Invictus", which portrayed Nelson Mandela inspiring an almost lily-white national rugby team to World Cup victory in 1995, the year after apartheid ended, says that black players have been "socially marginalised" and that "subtle racism" still prevails at the top.
Mr. Trump's mannerisms and patois are ineluctably those of New York, something he plays up at times, but he came of age on the mean streets of Jamaica Estates, a wealthy, exclusive, lily-white enclave in Queens, and seems to most enjoy the ambience of his Florida retreat, Mar-a-Lago.
The annual African-American Film Festival was happening, and the sheer saturation of black achievement on display — on an 87-square-mile strip of land that is home to some of the first integrated beaches in the country and also synonymous with the liliest-lily-white establishment — was something to behold.
While Johnson had been hoping that the Democratic Convention in Atlantic City would be a celebration of his achievements and his potential, the plans were upset when African-American activists arrived as the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and insisted they be seated instead of the lily white official delegation that was there.
For years, the prevailing history of American whiskey has been framed as a lily-white affair, centered on German and Scots-Irish settlers who distilled their surplus grains into whiskey and sent it to far-off markets, eventually creating a $2.9 billion industry and a product equally beloved by Kentucky colonels and Brooklyn hipsters.
Other titles this week include Frank Perry's "Mad Men"-adjacent "The Swimmer" (on Thursday), in which Burt Lancaster swims from pool to pool across a lily-white Connecticut county, and "Gran Torino" (also on Thursday), in which Clint Eastwood plays a racist veteran in the Detroit area who warms to a Hmong teenager (Bee Vang).
Hit: Diverse casting From Keke Palmer (as Marty, one of the Pink Ladies) and Mario Lopez (as TV host Vince Fontaine) to Wendell Pierce (as Coach Calhoun) and Boyz II Men (as the Teen Angels), the performers of "Grease: Live" were much more ethnically diverse than the lily-white cast of the movie 38 years ago.
Even for a city that was over half Caucasian in 2000, the Boston depicted in this movie is almost blindingly lily-white, and 99.999% Cartoonish Irish-American, to the point where the 1995-ish Celtics have only one person of color on the court at any given moment, who is certainly neither Dominique Wilkins nor Dee Brown.
Given the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s, as well as the racial incorporation process that has produced the largest black middle class in history, blacks are now generally allowed to venture into places that are absolutely lily-white, and to expect to be present there uneventfully, often as the only black person present.
" In a subsequent email, he said that even without any laws in place, the process of total segregation is further along than most people are willing to admit: "Ironically, on a sublimated basis, most white Americans — left included — vote quietly with their feet and occupy segregated neighborhoods where their children attend lily-white schools with a few Asians tossed in for verisimilitude.
But the resurrection of Jim Crow images, the anguished warnings that the loss of affirmative action will produce a 1950s-era lily-white campus, the allegation made by the director of the Center for Civil Rights Remedies at UCLA that the Trump investigation flips "core constitutional protections upside down and the concept of remedying discrimination on its head"-- these all typically cow critics and doubters into silence.
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