Sentences with phrase «libertine life»

And he has more in common with this fellow traveller than you might imagine, if you judged Owens purely by his looks or the libertine life that finds such fulsome expression in his retrospective.

You could lead a completely Libertine life and be ok because were no longer under the law.

Not exact matches

The libertine and ascetic Gnostics strike us as being incompatible heretics, however in the act of day - by - day living each may have slipped into the other's territory.

The libertine guardians of the sexual revolution brook no dissent from the idea, so famously articulated in Casey vs. Planned Parenthood, that «at the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.»

About a year later, Morton would see the release of In America, Jim Sheridan's acclaimed slice - of - life tale of an Irish family immigrating to New York City's Hell's Kitchen, for which she would receive her second Academy Award nomination, this time for Best Actress.Morton continued to take on challenging assignments such as the futuristic Code 46 opposite Tim Robbins and directed by British helmer Michael Winterbottom, and appearing opposite Johnny Depp in the little - seen The Libertine, and the period drama River Queen.

Tehran Taboo This handsomely animated film, much of it set in the libertine underworld of Tehran, makes an unassailable point about the hardships of life in today's Iran, mostly involving sexual morality and the status of women.

Mond holds tight on James as he spends his days living like a drunken, self - absorbed libertine, and his nights taking care of his mom as she slips into fevered dementia.

THE LIBERTINE by Ben Kopit After the Head of the French National Assembly is placed under house arrest for accusations of sexual assault, he must live in a guarded apartment with his estranged wife until the case comes to a close.

Starring Caroline Ducey and real - life porn star Rocco Siffredi, Catherine Breillat's art - house stunner about a frustrated French libertine opened the floodgates for explicit content within serious works of cinema.

The list of icons making appearances was truly unprecedented: Superman soars twice — once in the «return» and the other as Ben Affleck; Crockett and Tubbs exude cool; Ethan Hunt falls short; Captain Jack Sparrow sets the stage for the finale; Jack Black sometimes wears stretchy pants; Huey Long is resurrected and somehow over-played by Sean Penn; the mass appeal of the DaVinci Code novel fizzled onscreen; Robert Altman's amazing career ended with an excellent adaptation of a radio series starring Garrison Keillor's made for radio face; Johnny Depp tried to untrack his career with The Libertine; Nicolas Cage was front and center in the disastrous remake of The Wicker Man, but if the preview is any indication, his sleep - walk was merely a tune - up for this year's Ghost Rider; Woody Allen (with Scarlett Johansson as his muse) re-emerged with his best comedy since Crimes and Misdemeanors; amazingly, Jen and Vince's real life break - up was more entertaining than the film version; and while on - set hook - ups seem to the norm, how could the dreadful You, Me and Dupree have been an aphrodisiac for Kate and Owen?

With mixed results, an honouring documentary chronicles the inevitable rise and the quick anticlimatic fall of Lillian Roxon, the blazing sixties rock critic and libertine described so notoriously by the feminist pioneer Germaine Greer, who wrote of a fellow Aussie «who lives with nobody but a colony of New York roaches, whose energy has never failed despite her anxieties and her asthma and her overweight, who is always interested in everybody, often angry, sometimes bitchy, but always involved.»

In terms of his personal life, he has been presented as a devotee of companionate domesticity, or as an irrepressible libertine, a Don Giovannimanqué.

According to an article in today's edition of The Independent, a life size marble statue of notorious Libertines frontman Pete Doherty is set to be displayed at a new art exhibition (titled «Stations Of The Cross») at London's St. Marylebone Parish Church, opening March 17.