Sentences with phrase «inspired by a prisoner»

Inspired by a prisoner she remembered from a Tolstoy story, Bone took herself on imaginary walks through all the cities she'd visited.

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He'd been inspired by the story of Iqbal, a Pakistani child labourer who escaped a carpet factory where he'd been held prisoner and then gained worldwide attention by speaking out for children's rights.

Among the high - profile premieres this year are «Antz,» the new Dreamworks animated film; James Ivory's «A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries,» with Kris Kristofferson playing a character inspired by novelist James Jones; «Dancing at Lughnasa,» starring Meryl Streep in the film of Brian Friel's celebrated play; John Waters» «Pecker,» with Edward Furlong as a fast - food worker whose photos are embraced by the New York art world; Helena Bonham Carter and Kenneth Branagh in «The Theory of Flight,» about a work - release prisoner assigned to a woman with Lou Gehrig's disease; Ben Stiller as a drug - addicted TV writer in «Permanent Midnight»; Christina Ricci in «Desert Blue,» about slim prospects for a teenager in a town of 89 people; «The Imposters,» the new film by Stanley («Big Night») Tucci, starring Tucci and Oliver Platt as cruise - ship stowaways; «Rushmore,» with Jason Schwartzmann as a prep schooler who is a lousy student but hyperactive in campus activities; Cameron Diaz in «Very Bad Things,» about a bachelor party that ends in murder; Cate Blanchett as «Elizabeth,» the story of England's 16th century monarch, and «The Judas Kiss,» with FBI agent Emma Thompson on the trail of the kidnapper of a computer genius.

It's about weary old soldiers becoming tired of killing and being inspired by the stoic suffering of their prisoners to become better men themselves.

Read Emily's poem inspired by Picasso's The Old Guitarist and (scrolling down from the poem) her story inspired by Van Gogh's Prisoners» Round.

Designed for adult learners taking Functional Skills courses (ICT L1 and L2) Inspired by my father and his references to cell block H, this resource encourages people to think of the cells as prison cells, and the data inside them as prisoners.

Outside, a circular hot tub topped with natural slate is a sight to behold — although you're unlikely to notice such details, with your gaze held prisoner by the resort's truly inspired Pacific Ocean views.

He was inspired by graffiti and the so - called «outsider» art of psychiatric patients, prisoners and children, work that was at odds with the academic, classical notions of beauty in art.

Their 2007 project The Killing Machine, which included an electric dental chair and two robotic arms that attacked an invisible prisoner, was in part inspired by the accounts of torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad (and in part by a Franz Kafka short story).