Sentences with phrase «even as a young boy»

Director David Fincher (Panic Room, Fight Club, Se7en) says that the crimes of the Zodiac, which still remain unsolved, have enthralled him for years, even as a young boy growing up in the Bay Area.

Even as a young boy I was a regular visitor to our local library where the world opened up to me through books and reading.

Even as a young boy he was fascinated by science and math and got his greatest adrenalin rushes from discovering elegant solutions he calls «tricks» to solve unique problems.

Not exact matches

Even the rare incidents involving young boys get passed over because headlines about Lutheran pastors aren't nearly as invitingly lurid as «pedophile priests.»

About what a young boy in his class had said to a cluster of girls, how he referred to the girls» private body parts and what he wanted to do them, in such horrifyingly derogatory terms that this seasoned teacher could not even repeat it — and was at a rare loss as how to handle or move forward — beyond an immediate suspension.

Zeus (the Jupiter of the Romans), the chief deity of this crew, was not only a brute who practised cannibalism, devouring one of his daughters and murdering other close relatives, but he was also an uncontrollable adulterer who victimised many single and married «gods», violated his sisters and daughters - in - law, ravished his own daughter and even his mother, and who, moreover, kept a young boy whom he had abducted as a lover.

Boethius... as for myself, I have never, even as a young Catholic (altar boy), fallen under that spell where I believed that I had to toe the party line.

Reizner, nicknamed Sonny due to his positive disposition, gambled before he even had money, betting on games of marbles as a young boy.

Laca has a beard - so does Giroud.Other than the fact they are both French there is no comparison.Give this kid (yeah I know he's 26 but that's still young at my age) the service and he will be a top top player.Look at his movement and see how frustrated he gets as the ball continually goes from side to side and backwards.I see a lot of Ian Wright in this boy but even Wrighty would struggle with the way we are set up and play.When Sánchez is gone he will become our main man and just watch the difference.Remember those days when the football was slick and fast?Remember when we had pace all through the team and had players who knew how to use it?When we change manager a bring in a coach who gets the best from players by playing to their strength you will see a totally different Lacazette and Arsenal

Stirling did not cost as much as Cazorla or Ozil, hw is even more younger than them, but the boy will run all game, Henderson is not the best but he puts in the underrated performances.

The Coach had suddenly become stale overnight and that filtered to the boys on the field with a penchant for unseriousness, lackadaisical attitude and to prove that, talented young players in their generation such as Theo Walcott, Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain, Jack Wilshere and even Aaron Ramsey peaked at an early stage in their careers without knowing that they had peaked because there was very little coming from the coach.

«Young men who grow up in homes without fathers are twice as likely to end up in jail as those who come from traditional two - parent families... those boys whose fathers were absent from the household had double the odds of being incarcerated — even when other factors such as race, income, parent education and urban residence were held constant.»

Her reflections on «moms in their skirted suits, which never really hid their cellulite - pitted thighs» offers a stark reminder that even though many of us middle - aged mothers probably experienced similar relationships with similar boys, we aren't as young as we used to be.

These sympathetic souls include Green Moms with college - age kids — La Marguerite, Karen Hanrahan, Anna from GreenTalk and Diane MacEachern — as well as many with elementary school age kids like my Big Boy — the Not Quite Crunchy Parent, Surely You Nest, Sommer from Green and Clean Mom and even a few like me, still dealing with diapers — Alana from Gray Matters holding the honor of having the youngest baby among us.

In fact, as a young boy, I even went so far as to view it as a retardant of happiness, since I would often wonder, who has time to play and be with friends and family when one is locked away in a room reading and writing?

The challenge takes on even more urgency with recent developments, including a federal administration now more open to exploring the potential of stem cells, the recent FDA approval of a human trial involving embryonic stem cells, as well as the reported case of a young boy who developed a brain tumor four years after receiving a stem - cell treatment for a rare genetic disorder.

How wonderful that you got even 3 proposals from your husband and that you were clever enough to say no as you were too young for a marriage regarding the first one from another boy.

People say she only wants all of his wealth or that she is young enough to be his daughter or horror of horrors, he is termed as a sugar daddy or even referred to as a boy toy.

What Jerry now has going for him is that single mum bookkeeper Dorothy Boyd (Zellweger), with her young son (Jonathan Lipnicki), has slavishly fallen in love with him over his idealistic decision and is willing to go the extra-mile to support her lover boy as she quits her steady job with the agency to be his entire office staff — she even takes it upon herself to apologize for his mistakes, and they get married.

A provocative, genre - defying film as supernatural as it is intimately human, Midnight Special follows a father, Roy (Michael Shannon), who goes on the run to protect his young son, Alton (Jaeden Lieberher), a boy with mysterious powers that even Roy himself can not comprehend.

The abundant tropes remind the viewer of those featured in vehicles favored by the likes of Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, and James Coburn, men's men who made movies for men that weren't even likely to interest boys with a taste for action, as the work of the next generation of action stars (Stallone, Schwarzenegger, and Norris» other slightly younger Expendables cast mates) would.

Even as he amounts acting gigs — like a major role in Noah Baumbach's latest comedy about aging, art and losing one's edge, «While We're Young» as a 40 - something father who's the opposite of cool — Horovitz is proud to stick to this label of a Beastie Boy (read our review).

On the other hand, it's Bridges's particular gift to invite interest and respect even when most ravaged, which in turn means that Bad will inevitably find the son he has never known in Jean's young boy, Buddy (Jack Nation), who is the same age as was Bad's own son when they last had any contact.

The new 10 - episode mystery series Gracepoint (airing Thursdays) at least has a solid pedigree, remaking last summer's acclaimed eight - part Broadchurch from BBC America, even starring David Tennant in the same role (albeit with an off - putting attempt at an American accent) as a detective newly arrived in a coastal California town, where the murder of a young boy rocks the local residents to the core — including his resentful partner (Breaking Bad's Anna Gunn)-- turning neighbor against neighbor until a shattering denouement.

Montenegro is outstanding as Dora, and de Oliveira (Linha de Passe) as the young boy is charming even if he's a bit pushy for a kid.

The big evening hit at the Eccles was Patrick Stettner's «The Night Listener,» an eerie, Hitchcockian thriller starring Robin Williams as a gay late - night disk jockey whose publisher friend (Joe Morton) asks him to read a manuscript about a young boy (Rory Culkin) tortured by his parents and now dying of AIDS under the care of a foster mother in Wisconsin (Toni Collette).

No plot details are available, but the time period indicates that young versions of Tony Soprano's parents Giovanni, aka «Johnny Boy,» (played in flashbacks by Joseph Siravo) and Livia (Nancy Marchand), as well as uncle Junior (Dominic Chianese) will appear, and maybe even Tony (James Gandolfini) as a bBoy,» (played in flashbacks by Joseph Siravo) and Livia (Nancy Marchand), as well as uncle Junior (Dominic Chianese) will appear, and maybe even Tony (James Gandolfini) as a boyboy.

Luckily, this remake of the 1943 film My Friend Flicka (that starred a very young Roddy McDowell as the main character) has stayed true to the essence of Mary O'Hara's story, even if the lead role was given to a girl instead of a boy.

Just when you think Red Dawn's plot is about as far - fetched as it can get, the movie becomes even more of an adolescent boy's fantasy by turning the six young men and a pair of new female additions (Lea Thompson, Jennifer Grey) into capable defenders of America.

Claflin and Butterfield are effective, respectively, as the broken captain and the young boy eager to contribute, even if the depiction of the Stanhope character is perhaps a little too reliant on facial tics to portray inner turmoil.

It was a cold November school night, and as the credits rolled on the early evening screening, the young boy sat behind me leapt on to his seat, and in a moment of unbridled joy and uncontrollable passion, he started pounding his fists on the seat to my right.

Krasinski sets himself up to fail, but I couldn't even feel that good about saying, «Well, at least you tried,» because he makes so many choices I found excruciating: A Greek chorus made up of two guys talking about the female psyche drift in and out of the pastiches; a powerful monologue by Frankie Faison about the humiliating life of his father (a restroom attendant) is intercut with images of the father as a young man standing in the latrine, proudly standing stock - still in his white ice cream suit, while a dialogue ensues between the father of the past and the boy of the present that folds time in the most obvious, theatrical way you could think of.

Mary Tsoni's (Youngest) day job is as lead singer of the Greek Punk Band Mary and the Boy and without even knowing that you watch her along with the rest of the cast keenly aware that this could erupt in an angry angry volatile outburst of violence swearing social commentary and general anarchy and yet it never does.

As the eldest son of the Chief, Theo (Okwar Jale) must take charge even though he is only a boy, and lead his younger siblings and their friends away from the conflict.

Yet, even with the storyline lulls, the fact that it jumps from story to story every few minutes keeps you from falling asleep, as your interest will pick right back up again once you see Hugh Grant (Two Weeks Notice, About a Boy) as the Prime Minister, Colin Firth (What a Girl Wants, Hope Springs) attempting to break through a language barrier, Liam Neeson (Gangs of New York, K - 19) encouraging his young son to be a fool for love, or Bill Nighy (I Capture the Castle, Underworld) chew up scenery with an outlandishly fiendish burnt - out rock star performance.

I first saw Mark L. Lester's Commando as a young boy and even then I was rather surprised that Arnold Schwarzenegger's eponymous hero, John Matrix, didn't get together with his reluctant sidekick, Cindy (Rae Dawn Chong).

OUT OF STATE by Eric Pearson While driving his regular interstate bus route, an emotionally fractured ex-convict finds himself acting as a father figure to a forsaken young boy from the Philadelphia ghetto, even though he knows that the boy is smuggling drugs.

Set in the Sixties at an exclusive all - boys prep school, The Emperor's Club is immediately recognizable as another iteration of Dead Poets Society, even more so when one realizes that the film features the same quartet of student types (the troubled one, the trickster, the bookish one, the gregarious one — also the same breakdown you'll find in Stand By Me, come to think of it) and the same crinkly - eyed inspirational professor who finds a lesson for young lives in the heartening words of dead versifiers.

In Troubled Water (Film Movement), soft - spoken convict Jan (Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen) starts a new life for himself as a church organist who brings services to life with his music and even stirs the interest of the female pastor, a single mother with a sweet young boy.

«Director Muschietti uses horror tropes such as the young boy afraid of the dark empty cellar and the pouring autumnal rain to put you on the edge of your seat before you've even met Pennywise the Dancing Clown — and when that moment comes you won't be ready for it, even if you think you are.»

The shaggy - haired 16 - year - old boy, J. Paul Getty III, known as Paul (played by a young actor coincidentally named Charlie Plummer, though unrelated to Christopher), is chatting with prostitutes on a balmy evening in Rome when men pull up in a van and spirit him away, unaware that the boy and his parents are all but estranged from his paternal grandfather, the Getty oil tycoon.

In our history,» Cupid» has always been depicted as a young, innocent boy with an even more innocent smile.

The most interested passers - by were children, so our story is told from the perspective of a young boy who is enchanted with the violin music, even as his harried mother tries to hurry him along.

One last thought on leadership. When truly disruptive innovation collides with any market, historically the big boys don't survive. They are lacking the bold leadership required to make major course corrections. The top ten most profitable law firms - 9 of which have no blogging presence to speak of — will lose their position if they don't join the party. As Kevin O'keefe noted this week, anonymity online is a losing proposition, while others disagree. We aren't just talking about blogging though, it's the whole social media system - Legal Onramp, JDSupra, and even LinkedIN, Twitter, and Facebook. These are powerful tools, and real leaders will understand, like their younger counterparts, it is much more significant to harness the power of fire, than to simply try and stamp it out for fear of getting burned.

As a cautious by nature mom of boys, I have had to learn to let go and let my husband teach my boys how to be men and do things like get on the roof and climb ladders, even at young ages.