Sentences with phrase «to old acquaintance»

It's painful for him, he said, to do the idle chit - chat thing with every new and old acquaintance he meets.

One day Lily receives a visit from an old acquaintance, Samantha Lamb - Henderson, a well - known biblical scholar.

«When old acquaintances said that he had no religion they based their opinion on such remarks as that the God, of whom he had just been speaking solemnly, «was not a person.»

It was no longer just the swarm of spiritists in Saxony; news kept coming of new reformers giving new teaching in Switzerland and the Rhinelands; Zwingli Oecolampadius — and, among them, his old acquaintance Bucer.

I know it's something we all experience, the subject of small talk and of catching up with old acquaintances at big events, but it's true.

There were obviously a lot of old acquaintances in this game between Real Madrid and Chelsea to decide who won the International Champions Cup in Miami.

(Samuel, 70, about how old acquaintances react to his new medical condition.)

«Polar vortex,» an old acquaintance In this case, a portion of the vortex spilled down in the United States, bringing cold air and winds with it.

Just now I checked and, sure enough, a personal website created by an old acquaintance is still running 10 years after he died, with no mention of...

It includes a scene based on a supposedly true story he heard from an old acquaintance.

«Protect the skin, build barriers: Old acquaintance in a new role.»

«Cancer researchers identify new function in an old acquaintance.»

My black envelope clutch by Tosca Blu is an old acquaintance you have seen me wearing in many occasions.

With its fresh focus on introducing new people instead of reconnecting old acquaintances, MeetMe has seen a great deal of success.

Whether you are trying regular dating sites like Match.com or meeting up with old acquaintances, being matched up by family and friends or trying dating sites for single parent just like you, one thing is certain: love is still out there waiting and beckoning on you.

Bette and Tina discuss plans for a new life together, but the reappearance of an old acquaintance of Bette's threatens their future; Tasha and Alice seek counseling for their compatibility issues; an old flame sends Helena reeling.

Over the course of a lost Manhattan weekend, Patrick's remorseless search for satisfaction, haunted by old acquaintances and insistent inner voices, sends him into a nightmarish spiral, including a disastrous date with the girl of his dreams.

In her new guise, the chorine is returning aboard a Big Apple - bound luxury liner when she encounters an old acquaintance who begins blackmailing her for money.

Ray Donovan, Season 4, Episode 5: Ray and Mickey shake down Mickey's old acquaintance for the $ 4 million from the casino heist.

Stunned to find himself in his hometown after such a long absence, Large finds old acquaintances around every corner living quite unique lives as gravediggers, fast food knights and the panderers of pyramid schemes.

Should old acquaintance be forgot... Bring on 2011!

An old acquaintance of Logan is dying and requests his presence in Japan to say goodbye.

On the road to their final show, with whistle stops in Jacksonville and Savannah to renew old acquaintances and make new friends, Mike and the guys learn some new moves and shake off the past in surprising ways.

When old acquaintance Howard Stark (Dominic Cooper, Marvel's «Captain America: The First Avenger») finds himself being framed for unleashing his deadliest weapons to anyone willing to pony up the cash, he contacts Peggy - the only person he can trust - to track down those responsible, dispose of the weapons and clear his name.

Her worried husband Gavin Elster (Tom Helmore) taps an old acquaintance and former police detective John «Scottie» Ferguson (James Stewart) to keep an eye on her.

As it turns out, Brooke harbors a pipe dream of opening a restaurant in Williamsburg, and schemes to raise money from a wealthy old acquaintance (the reliably goofy Michael Chernus).

At one point, the wrongly accused protagonist encounters an old acquaintance from his radical days.

Reduced to its basics, the movie is nothing more than an extended, multi-part chase, with the feds trying to find Sloan, Shepard attempting to figure out why the wanted man is acting like he'll be returning to his new old life, and Sloan reuniting with old acquaintances while attempting to figure out the whereabouts of Mimi, who, in turn, is making her way to him.

The latter, from 2011, saw the Norwegian writer / director reunite with his compatriot, Anders Danielson Lie, here playing a recovering junkie who sets about reconnecting with old acquaintances in a city where he used to belong.

When he bumps into an old acquaintance, he's offered a pill that would open his mind and give him super human abilities.

But when an old acquaintance (John Michael Higgins) suggests he attend a self - help seminar on positive thinking, Carl is convinced by its steadfast guru (Terence Stamp) to begin saying «yes» at every opportunity.

He doesn't want old acquaintances from his high school days, when he was a star footballer, to see the desperate straits into which he is falling.

The bulk of the story takes place in the fictional town of Hawthorne, Nebraska, where Dave and Woody stop on the way to Lincoln to reunite with Woody's living relatives and old acquaintances — all of whom take his fantasy of good fortune for fact.

A chance encounter with an old acquaintance leads Carrey to attend a seminar run by charismatic guru Terence Stamp, who demands his followers stop saying «no» and start saying «yes» to everything asked of them.

Along the way, the men take a bit of a detour to visit their small, old town in (fictional) Hawthorne, Nebraska, where Woody's million - dollar claim makes him a bit of a celebrity among his old acquaintances.

As he subsequently tries to start over in the drug - ridden Baltimore neighborhood where he grew up — meeting resistance from both his ex-girlfriend (Zazie Beets) and potential employers — he winds up finding trouble with old acquaintances.

The plot machinations of the early going do feel like just that as so many things seem to magically fall into place for DJay's transformation — the keyboard; a spontaneous run - in with Key (Anthony Anderson), an old acquaintance and sound engineer who then takes him to a soul - stirring church choir performance — in an almost implausibly pat manner.

The local cattle baron is someone who calls himself Colonel Stephen Bedford (Leslie Nielsen), formerly a Texas gunslinger named Johnny Bledsoe and an old acquaintance of the reformed gunslinger Jason.

The latest refinement in misbegotten remakes, «Rich and Famous» aspires to update «Old Acquaintance,» a John Van Druten play that supplied Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins with a richly entertaining movie vehicle in 1943.

But, under duress Logan is summoned / lured out of hiding to say goodbye to a dying old acquaintance in Japan.

She totes her kids and seeks shelter with an old acquaintance, all the while trying to restart her life.

Woody is addled with dementia and has settled into a kind of leave - me - alone stasis, but he's dead set on making the trip from Montana to Lincoln to claim it, which in turns leads to a stop in a place where he hasn't seen old acquaintances and relatives for decades — and which opens up the story to all sorts of narrative and thematic possibilities.

This is a pretty grandma - safe comedy — Tomlin hands out cute - misanthropic one - liners and thumps her granddaughter's jerk boyfriend in the nuts with a hockey stick when he mouths off to her — but it's also a surprisingly Bechdel - friendly story, with plenty of bonding moments between three generations of estranged women, and Tomlin and Garner on a quest together that encompasses plenty of old acquaintances, including Judy Greer, Elizabeth Pena, Marcia Gay Harden, Orange Is The New Black's Laverne Cox, and in a strikingly touching role, a mustache - free Sam Elliott.

He tells Andy that two old acquaintances of his are the ring - leaders.

Director Jason Reitman understands the antithesis of Mavis» opinion and realty, and the reason her acerbic digs at her old acquaintances are funny is that we know they aren't entirely correct.

Looking up old acquaintances, however, merely amplifies Greenberg's self - loathing, which he masquerades with an unconvincingly carefree demeanour.

Michael Welch (Emmet) and Anson Mount (Garth) are standouts as the two guys who don't quite belong in Mandy's new world, being a former best friend and older property manager at the ranch, seeing Mandy interact with old acquaintances and new speak to how formidable she is mind as well as body.

When he hears rumors that his old acquaintance Eldric has been seen in Antigua the hero knows that he needs to pick up his trail in order to find Storm Island, where the Air Temple is located.

The GSE 2013 that composed research presentations in the various disciplines, themes and areas of education field, will afford the opportunity for renewing old acquaintances, making new contacts, networking across higher education and facilitating partnerships across borders.

«Rastafari, I wonder what happened to...,» she would say as she remembered an old acquaintance.