Sentences with phrase «about a young woman who»

I felt honoured, but realised I hardly knew anything about this young woman who was paying me such high compliments.

(May 24, 2016) A coming - of - age story about a young woman who moves from nowhere (we never learn where) to New York and gets a job at a thinly veiled Union Square Cafe.

This book not only highlights important issues for those who have or plan to adopt a child of a different race and / or culture but it also offers a compelling story about a young woman who spends most of her life searching for answers about her past, her identity, and where she belongs.

Colbie is singing about a young woman who is pregnant.

Swift, stylish, tough - minded and sharp - tongued, this engaging fact - based drama, about a young woman who at one point ran the richest poker game in the world, is worth recommending if only to see its star, Jessica Chastain, at the top of her nerviest, most icily self - controlled game.

It is a riveting half - hour drama about a young woman who becomes a high - end prostitute, which may make it sound like little more than salacious cable programming, but there's SO much going on here that it takes more than one viewing to really appreciate it.

The second of 2015's collaborations with her real - life director boyfriend Noah Baumbach, Mistress America was one of the best films at the Sundance Film Festival, an old - school screwball comedy about a young woman who befriends her dad's new girlfriend.

Touched North American Premiere Writer / Director: Karl R. Hearne Starring: Hugh Thompson, Lola Flanery Logline: A ghostly, psychological drama about a young woman who disappears from her building and her solitary landlord who tries to track her down.

A - Song One Rated PG - 13 for a scene of sexuality, and brief language Available on DVD and Blu - ray Anne Hathaway stars in this low - budget indie about a young woman who comes home to help out with her brother, who is in a coma after an accident, only to fall in love with the musician he was obsessed with before the coma.

WES CRAVEN»S «THEY» Though the alternate title is «Wes Craven Presents «They,»» Craven neither wrote, directed nor produced this middling horror film about a young woman who becomes the target of unspecified demon forces from the other side.

Best supporting actress: Here's where Scarlett Johansson will be honored for the wrong performance: The academy will nominate her for «Lost in Translation,» where she was indeed wonderful as the young newlywed who becomes Bill Murray's late - night soul mate, instead of «The Girl With a Pearl Earring,» where with only a handful of spoken words, she tells us everything we need to know about a young woman who could have achieved anything, if only she had been born in a different time and place.

Nonetheless, how can you not like a game about a young woman who has a pet cow!

«Martha Marcy May Marlene» (Fox), about a young woman who escapes a commune - turned - cult but remains haunted by the legacy, earned three Independent Spirit Award nominations: for Best First Feature, Best Actress (Elizabeth Olsen, in an acclaimed performance) and Best Supporting Actors (John Hawkes).

Alexandre Moors («Blue Caprice») will direct a remake of the Korean film «Failan»,» about a young woman who enters into an arranged marriage with a gangster she's never met and connects with him via a series of letters.

I had seen «Blackbird,» David Harrower's disquieting two - hander about a young woman who confronts the man who sexually abused her as a girl, at Manhattan Theatre Club in a production starring Jeff Daniels and Alison Pill.

Violent erotic horror from cult director Jean Rollin, about a young woman who finds herself stranded in a remote village where the population has become infected by a deadly zombie virus.

This film is a reflection of the times, telling a twisted coming - of - age story about a young woman who sets out on a crime spree that she broadcasts on social media.

The Orchard has unveiled an official US trailer for Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier's new film Thelma, about a young woman who moves to Oslo and begins to fall in love with another woman, discovering that she also has fantastic, terrifying «super» powers.

Not to be confused with the documentary also titled Social Animals, which just premiered at SXSW, this is a quirky rom - com about a young woman who is trying to get her life in order.

It may seem insane to fear that but we're talking about a young woman who makes complicated performances look effortless and Effortlessness can be anathema for awards voters.

Comedian Nicole Byer («Girl Code») stars in this dramedy about a young woman who moves to West Hollywood.

There is something highly appealing about this atmospheric CBS series, based on a popular novel by Catherine Marshall about a young woman who, after a brief stint at college, arrives in Appalachia in November of 1912 to establish a mission school.

Jennifer Merin: Their Finest is a delightful British World War II dramady about a young woman who is hired to write patriotic screenplays that will boost the spirits of Brits as they stiff upper lip - it in the midst of air raids and shortages.

The film — about a young woman who has a passionate affair with an artist sent to paint her portrait — was thought to be a potential awards contender, in part because of the presence of Vikander who won last year's best supporting actress Oscar for «The Danish Girl.»

For two decades, Sarah Polley has been desperately trying to adapt Margaret Atwood's book about a young woman who was abused, mistreated and silenced in the mid-1800s.

Given my predilections, I have high hopes for Nicolette Krebitz's Wild — about a young woman who leaves civilization to live with a wolf.

She's next up in Isn't it Romantic, with Liam Hemsworth and Priyanka Chopra, about a young woman who mysteriously finds herself trapped inside a romantic comedy.

In one group, for example, students analyzed a music video about a young woman who chooses to stay in an abusive relationship.

Island of the Blue Dolphins is a story about a young woman who, along with her brother, remain on an island while the rest of their people leave their island.

A couple of weeks ago, two articles ran in this paper about a young woman who was offended because she was turned away from a school dance for wearing what school officials called an inappropriate outfit.

From the PEN USA Award - winning author of A Country Called Home, a richly imagined new novel about a young woman who leaves the dusty farmland of 1960s Oklahoma to follow her husband to the oil fields of Saudi Arabia and finds a world of wealth, glamour, American privilege, and corruption.

Henderson's new novel, The Flicker of Old Dreams, is a beautiful literary novel about a young woman who comes most alive while working in her father's mortuary in a small, forgotten Western town.

So begins this beautifully written coming - of - age story about a young woman who struggles to overcome her family's frightening legacy and keep her own child from similar emotional harm.

It's no surprise that librarians are looking forward to How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry, a charming novel about a young woman who inherits a bookshop in an English village.

Last week Amazon released a funny sequel to their commercial about the young woman who doesn't have a Kindle (while her male friend does).

Almost like a black remake of Jennifer Egan's first novel, The Invisible Circus, Bridgett Davis» Into the Go - Slow is also a story about a young woman who idolizes an older sister who perished in a foreign country and decides to re-trace the older woman's steps.

When seventeen - year - old Sharlet is sent to marry her enemy, she never imagined she would discover hidden powers within herself and an ancient prophecy in which her fate was already decided.This is the Young Adult Fantasy story about a young woman who is sent to fulfill the evil plot of her family, but instead, finds love and friendship within the arms of her enemy.

This tiny watchtower is the catalyst of many myths and legends about young women who have been imprisoned and, lovesick, leapt to their deaths.

Timespinner is a 2D Metroidvania Platformer about a young woman who travels through time to destroy the empire that killed her family - at its heart, a child of the great pixelated classics of the SNES and PS1 age.

Very trending of the games, «What Remains of Edith Finch», is about a young woman who returns to a sprawling house, that has been in her family for generations, with the motive of learning about their family heritage.

Usually we're talking about young women who want to know these stories, they want to know the background those are the perfect candidates for the intake position because we don't want them trying to solve this person's problem and most of us even after a few months in the legal industry, we think we have enough information to jump to solving.

John called the other day to share a story about a young woman who burst into tears in his office while being confronted after making a mistake.

As I sat reading an article about a young woman who was kidnapped and killed, I noticed that a car pulled up right behind me and stopped.

Mary Kay's latest novel The Fixer Upper is about a young woman who takes on the task of preparing her father's family homeplace (a fading Victorian mansion in a small Georgia town) for flipping.

I was a little non-plussed last week by a story about the young woman who was horrified that the new Samsung phone comes in default airbrush mode.

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The other series are episodic shorts, like The Birch, about a young man who befriends a tree - like monster after he's bullied, and Sunny Family Cult, which follows a young woman whose family is part of a murderous clan.

I thought about how the gender gap persists in tech despite declining in other STEM fields, how hard we've been working as an industry to reverse that trend, and how this was yet another discouraging signal to young women who aspire to study computer science.

Shaq's book report revealed it had been less than transformative: «This is about a young man who has power, wealth, and women (much like me), and gives them all up to pursue a holy life (not so much like me).»

But, you know, I see many, many young women now — and that's part of what excites me about the startup world — who have left great jobs and said, «I think I can build something.»

Synopsis: «An adaptation of the fairy tale about a monstrous - looking prince and a young woman who fall in love.»