Remember, her New York boyfriend was uppity—British, and named Tim.
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It seemed like she had dispensed with her usual uppity pretentions.
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Large deals will increasingly fall foul of trustbusters or uppity shareholders.
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"Uppity" is used to describe black people in general who challenge authority.
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These uppity events are full of speeches, applause, and awkwardly tense moments.
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Trump, of course, will blast any protest as some version of uppity.
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Threatening that status quo is not just uppity — it can be dangerous.
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Bronn is a sellsword, a lowlife, and Cersei is an uppity, vengeful queen.
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Either way, if you're an ant, it pays to be uppity and reclusive.
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The offspring got too uppity, so their fathers, and another gang, turned on them.
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Rep. Katie Porter angered uppity Americans by wearing a costume to Congress ... on Halloween.
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Non-whites were deliberately given poor schooling, lest they get uppity or, worse, skilled.
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He's not one of them uppity, stuck-up stars that you're afraid to go near.
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And did the librarians consider him and his colleagues to be useful or just uppity?
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If Mr Trump is lashing out at an uppity underling, that too is a bad sign.
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He infamously called the proceedings "a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks": It's a national disgrace.
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" And if you dare to reach beyond some imaginary line of demarcation, you're seen as "uppity.
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Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld takes a shine to her uppity skepticism of the Iraq war.
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She's not "comically inept," she's a freaking Terminator who happens to be bested by some uppity kids.
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In comparison, a white, straight man is almost never called bossy, sassy, or uppity for asserting himself.
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I think a lot of people in Arkansas thought he was 'uppity,' to use the old smear.
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"You see the problem is, Peter," bleats an uppity lawyer named Bunny in A Legacy of Spies.
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King Vajiralongkorn of Thailand stripped his official mistress of all her titles and honours for being too uppity.
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I always thought that she was very uppity, I always felt like she thought she was above me.
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There is nothing uppity or unwelcoming about the gallery, which makes it the right home for this show.
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They rely on a "zone of lawlessness" that allows the state to suppress uppity private-sector interest groups.
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They've always been very clear it's about punishing me for the latter, because it's seen as being uppity.
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Dennis, University of Manitoba, Health Science, 24Failed: BiologyReason: House of CardsThe faculty I'm in [medicine] is uppity, bro.
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Kathi Wolfe is the author of "The Uppity Blind Girl Poems" and a contributor to the Washington Blade.
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It was Anita Hill who was being uppity, who deigned to think that her workplace rights had been denied.
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Once, while scattering buttons around the club that said "Uppity Women Unite," a male waiter asked for a handful.
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Lynching photographs showed our mangled, disfigured bodies as constant reminders of what was in store for an uppity African American.
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From a certain angle, this programme looks more like a hidden tax on uppity private firms sitting on big cash piles.
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It was that her rival was so uppity, and so unbecoming too, with her rural accent and obvious lack of education.
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And because we were so unapologetic, we were in the eyes of many way too uppity, we were way too arrogant.
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My father was physically attacked by white men in public on several occasions because they thought he was acting too uppity.
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It started as a cockamamie idea hatched over dinner at an uppity cantina in the gentrified side of San Francisco's Mission District.
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Once the inmates leave, the pair start mocking their superficial small talk, pretending to be uppity white women named McKenzie and Amanda.
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As for me, for now I guess I'll just stick with the uppity philosophers, where I'll certainly find myself in good company.
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The uppity investors who are making their presence felt in French and German boardrooms should constrain CEOs tempted to stretch financial logic.
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They also happened to provide a cheap labor pool for workers who could be expelled back to the homelands if they got uppity.
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But Captive only scratches the surface of the subjects that I find much more enthralling — and, at the risk of sounding uppity, intellectually stimulating.
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Mr Winton makes a few gibes at the well-meaning but uppity folks in Melbourne and Sydney and has an obvious disdain for journalists.
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Sometimes, it has been about gays and transgender people and uppity women looming, but usually it has been about people with darker skin looming.
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How to act, how to assimilate but not too much, how to remind them about the Holocaust when they got uppity about Jewish privilege.
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"Gimme a break, kid," you'll have to tell some uppity grandchild who's asking whether you possess the know-how to construct a workable flood defence.
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WHEN Clarence Thomas, rigid with anger, accused the Senate judiciary committee of subjecting him to a "high-tech lynching for uppity blacks", white America winced.
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Most probably it thought him uppity—making overtures to India, for instance or for his quiet questioning of the deep state's attachment to unsavoury Islamists.
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"Only reason this pilot got involved was to assert his white male power over who he thought was just some uppity black girl," Mallory tweeted.
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Such unwillingness to bow to an uppity judiciary surely impressed Mr. Trump, who sees his own judgment as superior to any moral or legal precept.
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I was vexed by the media concern-trolling Trump about his McDonald's order and its massive calorie count, because it struck me as uppity and disingenuous.
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Anne Hathaway plays Colossal's protagonist Gloria, a minor-league drunk who leaves New York for her hometown after her uppity boyfriend (Dan Stevens) kicks her out.
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He had the state take over the first independent national TV network, he turned the state Duma into a pocket parliament, he went after uppity oligarchs.
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And from my standpoint, as a black American, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves.
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The point is to send a clear message that uppity hussies have been having their own way for far too long, and that there should be consequences.
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My name, in fact, wasn't Harry, but Henry Harding, after my father, who, my mother said, had been named by his uppity relatives for a famous painter.
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Her 2016 role (and first ever role) as Barb from Stranger Things paved the way for that beloved road—always the spare part to uppity Nancy Wheeler.
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Dana White says Meryl Streep is an "uppity 80-year-old lady" who was completely WRONG when she took a shot at MMA during the Golden Globes.
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To put all of Washington Square Park's diversity into ironic context, check out Boccherini's String Quartet in E Major, an arrangement often reserved for uppity and homogenous gatherings.
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One person who's faced these words is Michelle Obama, who has been described as uppity and sassy even as she was simply fulfilling her role as first lady.
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The director of the Arts Council prize for English Murder actually said that, when they gave out the first awards, before the feminist Twittersphere got uppity about it.
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" He adopted the nom de plume David Wolff because, as he told McGilligan, "I didn't want the people at the Bureau to think that somehow I was uppity.
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If they had a backstory, it began as the happy-go-lucky adult, corrupted by uppity post-millennial angst, low wages, and a daily barrage of homework assignments.
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At times, it appeared that Judge Kavanaugh was channeling Judge Thomas himself, who in 1991 denounced a "high-tech lynching for uppity blacks" at the hands of Democrats.
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The only reason "uppity" former clients like Vietnam resist Chinese territorial claims, the narrative goes, is because the United States has misled them about their place in the hierarchy.
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Tech industries lobbied hard for the loophole to further indenture H-1B guest workers to their assigned employer and thus keeping them more pliant than uppity American tech workers.
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" Then, Thomas provoked blacks to circle the wagons when he declared the hearings a "high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves.
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Mr. Mishustin is considered competent but not threatening to Mr. Putin, and he knows a lot of secrets that could help his boss should anyone among the elite get uppity.
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Read more " _____ Susan Wright in RedState: "Donald Trump doesn't like being upstaged, and today's Rose Garden conference looked suspiciously like a dash of cold water, right in Bannon's uppity face.
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And from my standpoint as a black American, as far as I&aposm concerned, it is a high tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any dame to think for themselves.
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And in his latest tweet about Puerto Ricans, he appears to be comfortable using his words to reinforce obvious social stereotypes about their being lazy or "uppity" that are extraordinarily damaging.
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The film gave a distorted but sensational view of the Reconstruction South, where white heroes, in the form of the Ku Klux Klan, put uppity black villains back in their places.
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LONDON — You're probably familiar with Mr Tickle, Mr Happy, and Mr Strong, and you may even be aware of the slightly less well-known figures of Mr Uppity and Little Miss Fabulous.
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Chic is Starbucks' greatest asset everywhere, but it is facing a determined rival in the homegrown Luckin, which wants to transform the uppity $20163 latte into a more chill, mass-market product.
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I could see how my father identified with Mr. Jackson's unspoken but visible feeling that he had to play down his insight in order to not come off as an uppity minority.
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"The implication here is that when a black person is being 'uppity' it means they don't know their place, that there is a limit to how high their place should be," Lui wrote.
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Kim Yo Jong's aloof expression when she wasn't meeting with high-ranking South Korean government officials and high-tilted chin prompted scorn from many South Koreans, who said she looked "too haughty" or "uppity".
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Nice Centurians trapped inside Friend Zone on the moon of Fedora," and "How to lower defense grids of uppity Taursus Omegas that won't let you inject your neural cord into their cerebral cortex chambers.
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To the end of his days, Baldwin believed that his book had been turned down because of its content, and the fact that he had gotten "uppity" in taking on the white bohemian world.
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And from my standpoint as a black American ... it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas.
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An uppity, lippy black like him, jabbering from six months old and always the orator at the centre of a crowd of boys, became an instant threat both to white men and, worse, white women.
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Indeed, he employs the same strategy Southern Bourbons used 120 years earlier when agrarian populists started getting uppity and talking about class interests: The Southern grandees made ethnocultural identity more salient, to distract from economics.
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These tend to feature chain saws and house parties in films for teenage boys, and sadistic rapists and serial killers for adult males, plus humiliations and deaths of uppity women for the well-educated misogynist.
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"As a black American, as far as I'm concerned it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas," Thomas said.
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And let's be honest: if you're going to be that uppity about your headphones where you have to be on the cutting edge of music-listening technology, wouldn't you replace your $200 pair in that period of time?
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They put out that African Americans were uppity, that they were claiming rights that they shouldn't have, that they were moving too quickly, that they were riddled with communists, and that they were trying to undermine the American system.
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And from my standpoint as a black American, as far as I&aposm concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity black who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas.
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And from my standpoint, as a black American, as far as I am concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves or do for themselves, to have different ideas.
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The Thomas hearings had the added incendiary element of alleged racism, with the jurist claiming he was the victim of "a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks" when he was accused of sexual harassment by Anita Hill, a former co-worker.
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The goal is to shunt blame for a concocted drive-by shooting onto some unnamed rival gang, and in the last episode, during a hospital visit with Hector, Nacho referred to a show of muscle that cowed an uppity crew.
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If Rhett Butler, in "Gone With the Wind," had not been a racist who killed a black man during Reconstruction for being "uppity," he would be not a "favorite," but at least someone, as a character of fiction, truly interesting.
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About 2,300 years ago, the uppity Greek-speaking kingdom of Macedonia subjugated the fractious southern city-states that now comprise Greece and then organized an all-Greek military expedition under King Alexander the Great that established an empire reaching as far as India.
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" John Marshall argued that "the McCain campaign is now pushing the caricature of Obama as a uppity young black man whose presumptuousness is displayed not only in taking on airs above his station but also in a taste for young white women.
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I mean, what's not to love in a game where you can fly around on a dragon, collect miso spice from bushes, then put it into a meal for an uppity witch who hates humans and sleeps in the bedroom above your cafe?
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MILAN/LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Ever since uppity investor Elliott Advisors turned up at Pernod Ricard late last year, Paris has been awash with talk that LVMH is lurking somewhere behind the gilded curtains, waiting to pounce on the $46 billion spirits group.
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Lynn WestmorelandLeon (Lynn) Acton WestmorelandJuan Williams: GOP to blame for civility's breakdown Veteran GOP lawmaker Westmoreland to retire GOP hits Clinton on email setup during Benghazi hearing MORE (R), who in fall 2008 described Obama, then the Democratic nominee for president, as "uppity"?
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At this point, though many people on all sides still refuse to acknowledge it, the evidence is overwhelming: It was cultural backlash, against immigrants, minorities, uppity women, liberals, and all the other forces seen as dislodging traditional white men from their centrality in American culture.
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Call me an uppity member of the Behyhive, but I'm perfectly satisfied with getting information about the twins when Bey gives it to me — especially since the singer has been pretty vocal about how invasive the public can be and how important her privacy is to her.
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His famous denunciation of the Anita Hill hearings as a "high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves" marked the beginning of a long and complex debate over Thomas' racial views that has continued in his two decades on the high court.
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Trump & Friends presented this dizzying White House purge as a twisted version of him growing into the job, even as everyone else felt he was going in the opposite direction, behaving disgracefully by 86-ing Rex Tillerson in a tweet and tormenting other staffers he finds annoying or uppity.
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Or so you might think, except that Wolff's action leads quickly to a trial by social media and a tribunal in the second act in which a woke interlocutor delves into the doctor's misuse (or not) of the word "uppity" in an attempt to topple Wolff from her perch.
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As soon as top management heard rumblings about unionisation through a hotline that local managers were directed to call, the retail behemoth sent a "labour team" from its headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, to the uppity shop, writes Rick Wartzman, a former head of the Drucker Institute, a researcher of corporate management.
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Someone in our group makes an odd joke about their method of using the rope, but the surprise comes about 220 yards later when three new "customs officers" appear with a rope and spikes for the tires, in the event that someone uppity among us may have been considering avoiding payment.
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Even the nerve of some rich or visible African-Americans to protest that America, in its laws and in its police, has rarely been just to all has been met with the howls of a president who cannot tolerate that the lucky and the uppity do not stay in their place.
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"We think brain fitness is on trend, and it's something we're going to push out in the fall," said Mr. Fazio, the co-author of "Concierge Confidential: The Secrets of Serving Champagne Bitches and Caviar Queens," a 2011 memoir (with tips) of his years taking care of uppity guests at the InterContinental hotel.
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A "screwball comedy," Trading Places pits Akyroyd's uppity/educated twi against Murphy's street hustler until they realize they're being manipulated by the nefarious and ultra-rich commodities trading firm-owning fat cat Duke Brothers, who place a bet about the two they believe will finally settle the age old debate about nature versus nurture.
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That she was facing both justified criticism as a fighter and public figure and bile for being an uppity woman and that it wasn't always easy to draw a definitive line between the two (or explain that nuance to other people without being dismissed as a Rousey nuthugger or shill immediately, for that matter).
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Meghan was being "uppity," she was endorsing controversial "transgenderism," she was being "idiotic," columnists said in the week leading up to publication — even though a source told BuzzFeed News that a number of Meghan's critics only reached out to Condé Nast to obtain an advance copy of the magazine for review after their hot takes had been published.
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Those words could just as easily apply to Fred's son Donald, as The New York Times details, about his birtherism, his view that dark-skinned immigrants come from "shithole countries," his frequent classification of black people as uppity and ungrateful, his denigration of Native Americans, his incorporation of white nationalist thought into his administration, his equivocation over neo-Nazis.
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And from my standpoint, as a black American, as far as I'm concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that unless you kowtow to the old order, this is what will happen to you.
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No matter: On the same day that federal workers were being urged to try their hands at a barter economy, Mr. Trump was busy firing off a series of rabid, finger-pointing, wall-related tweets, including one about how a wall deal had been thwarted not only by "Democrat obstruction" but also by uppity federal judges.
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The political fights of Muhammad Ali "At a time when blacks who spoke up about injustice were labeled uppity and often arrested under one pretext or another, Muhammad willingly sacrificed the best years of his career to stand tall and fight for what he believed was right," said NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who called Ali a friend and a mentor.
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In Mark Osborne's animated reimagining of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's 1943 children's classic, a little girl being prepared by her mother to enter an uppity private school, where she'll spend all her time studying, encounters an eccentric neighbor called the Aviator, who regales her with tales of the magical universe he was introduced to decades earlier by the Little Prince.
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This hasn't been entirely without cause—the sport has seen some of its imperfect best and brightest flame out spectacularly in the past few years—but Jon Jones was already being labeled as uppity when he was stopping robberies, and Rousey was being dismissed as arrogant and classless even as she was helping Cat Zingano off the canvas and saying she deserved a rematch.
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" More recently, when speaking about Alexandria Ocasio-CortezAlexandria Ocasio-CortezFormer HUD secretary criticizes Bloomberg on housing policy Overnight Energy: Panel gives chairman power to subpoena Interior | House passes bill to protect wilderness | House Republicans propose carbon capture bill | Ocasio-Cortez introduces bill to ban fracking Ocasio-Cortez blasts Bloomberg on stop and frisk: 'People's lives were ruined' MORE, he pronounced her name with an exaggerated accent and dismissed her as "some young uppity.
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So you can see how some people can become so demoralized that instead of demanding change from these seemingly untouchable powers, like the corporations that move somewhere else or the government that is now no longer your neighbor of a neighbor, you start blaming it on these dual-earner families and these middle-income families and these uppity women and these men who don't know how to do a hard day's labor.
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No horror in my life has been so debilitating," he told senators, adding that "from my standpoint as a black American, as far as I'm concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you.
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Money more a crossroads than the crossroads be— its gnarled tree—the Bryant Store facing the tracks, now turnt the color of earth, tumbling down slow as the snow, white * & insistent as the woman who sent word of that uppity boy, her men who yanked you out your uncle's home into the yard, into oblivion— into this store abutting the MONEY GIN CO. whose sign, worn away, now reads UN Or SIN , I swear— whose giant gin fans, like those lashed & anchored to your beaten body, still turn.
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