white-hooded

• “Following rival clans at a time of clashing paganism and Christianity, it is a ceaseless flow of ravishing images: nuns clasping doves while climbing to a convent on a hill; the maiden Marketa's white-hooded head resting on her father's shoulder as they drive through a snow-bound landscape; stags glimpsed through trees in the aftermath of violence.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Reality Czech

• “I saw three white-hooded heads riding out to the city limits in their jalopy on large balloon tires that were pink like skin under a blood-like sky, past the buildings and factories crowding the landscape.”

  Fictionaut: carbon dating

• “Like the Catholics, the Jews peered behind the Prohibition banner and saw the white-hooded hatred of the Ku Klux Klan and the foaming xenophobia of the nativist pastors who dominated the Methodist and Baptist churches.”

  Simon & Schuster: LAST CALL

• “Or, is my duplicity blowing your white-hooded head as we speak?”

  Patrick Sauer: In Which I Extend An Olive Branch to White Supremacists

• “Suddenly someone grabbed my neck, and I twisted around to see a white-hooded Klansman looking down at me.”

  Simon & Schuster: Night Fires

• “It can refer to a violent burning, white-hooded hatred of a different race, or deep-seated attitudes in generally good and well-meaning people, etc.”

  Matthew Yglesias » What’s the Joke?

• “And if getting into an elevator with two Mexicans makes you and your white-hooded friends nervous, get ready to piss yourself.”

  Jackie Guerra: What Immigrants Really Want--And Why Bush's Plan Won't Stop Them

• “She found a tissue and held it to her face, watching as two hulking figures dressed in white-hooded coveralls and heavy work boots emerged from the pickup truck, hurried to the still figure on the ground, and pulled the motorcycle helmet from his head.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Messenger

• “Jay says: katy, when their hateful, warmongering heroes are bounced from office (and they will be), they go back under their rocks and their white-hooded sheets and their miserable, angry existences.”

  Think Progress » Rice Suggests Iraq War Resolution Could Allow For War Against Syria

• “To celebrate festivals such as Halloween and the Pagan New Year referred to as Samhain, Richardson swaps his jeans for his ceremonial white-hooded gown and goes barefoot into the forest for a ‘‘circle’’ ceremony of prayer.”

  Ireland: Where saints, sorcerers and witchcraft are real

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