Sentences with phrase «about idealistic»

Our style becomes less about idealistic dreams and more about the balance between our home dreams and reality.

It's a moving but entirely unsentimental book about idealistic people trying to be better than they are and trying to leave the world better than they found it.

It's about our idealistic attachment to liberty, equality, and the pursuit of happiness.»

The Good Catholic (PG - 13 for profanity and a sexual reference) Romantic comedy about an idealistic, young priest (Zachary Spicer) whose vow of celibacy is tested when he develops a fondness for a parishioner (Wrenn Schmidt) while taking her confession.

Our Idiot Brother (R for nudity, sexuality and pervasive profanity) Paul Rudd stars as the title character of this stoner comedy about an idealistic ex-con's effort to readjust to civilian life with the help of his three sisters (Emily Mortimer, Zoe Deschanel and Elizabeth Banks) after serving time in prison for selling pot.

is about an idealistic, socially awkward woman named Ruth (Melanie Lynskey) who, after having her home broken into and having some valuable possessions stolen, goes on a moral crusade to find and confront the person (s) responsible, not just for taking her things but for violating her privacy.

A legal drama about an idealistic lawyer facing a crisis of personal and professional ethics, Roman J. Israel, Esq. also features the very busy Colin Farrell as Roman's ruthlessly pragmatic new boss.

The film isn't subtle about his idealistic stance on income equality and workers» rights: The scene where he explains his politics to his pre-teen daughter feels like a communism commercial conceived by a team that normally handles ladies» hygiene products.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening October 7, 2011 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Ides of March (R for pervasive profanity) George Clooney wrote, directed and co-stars in this adaptation of the play «Farragut North,» a political potboiler about an idealistic press secretary (Ryan Gosling) who compromises a presidential candidate's prospects by becoming embroiled in a scandal while on the campaign trail.

The grand old man of Japanese animation has retired and this film, not a fantasy or mythical adventure but a delicate biographical drama about an idealistic engineer devoted to making «beautiful airplanes» for a country he knows will use them as instruments of war, is his final feature.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 2, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Lorax (PG for mild epithets) Danny DeVito stars as the title character in this animated adaptation of the Dr. Seuss classic about an idealistic 12 year - old (Zac Efron), raised in an artificial reality, who searches for a real tree in order to impress the girl of his dreams (Taylor Swift).

«Old Joy» helmer Kelly Reichardt plays to her strengths in Wendy and Lucy, a modest yet deeply felt road movie about an idealistic young drifter, her faithful canine and the wide - open spaces of the Pacific Northwest.

But most of all, it is Rowling's cracking good story about idealistic youths up against corrupt elders.

One more point about the idealistic past that you refer to, I would be allowed to have slaves legally.

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But the most remarkable fact about SpaceX is that — right from the start, before the first rocket had lifted an inch off the ground — it was explicitly intended as the means to another, far more grandiose and idealistic end: colonizing Mars.

Love takes the time to meticulously explore all the characteristics and nuances about a person rather than fill in the blanks with projected idealistic expectations.

Please adjust your thinking according to reality and FACTUAL evidences about god's ACTIONS as EVIDENCED and not some idealistic egoist psychosis and disillusion projection about «HOW» you think god is.

So saith Ozbama, the Great and Powerful, to an idealistic young Dorothy, a bright - eyed millennial Obama Girl wondering how she can ever get back to the land of expected economic American normality all her sweet elders told her about.

Breaking a ten - year silence about his own experience, Stoen stated last July that «what made Jim Jones a historical figure was his genius in giving the utopian dreams of idealistic people a tangible structure for expression.»

These middle - class, idealistic church people entered a tangled world of hate and oppression most of them knew little or nothing about.

The Christian indeed has always recognised the immediate primacy of secondary causes in the bringing about of natural phenomena, but as serial causes have been traced further back, and their astonishing inter-dependence demonstrated, the scientist has tended to proclaim either a mathematical universe in which theses secondary causes may be identified with some primary basic formula, or equation, synonymous in definition with a physical ultimate, a universe inwhich God has no place; or else he has preferred to identify intellect with matter itself and has come to accept that idealistic cosmic pantheism which is almost as common a philosophy today as evolutionary materialism.

They might talk the idealistic talk of type - 2 pacifism, they might have fan - boy enthusiasms for U2, Dylan, and the latest idealist rockers, but they are ultimately about formulas.

The New Deal did not, in their estimate, constitute the hardest step in bringing about a socialized economic system; the idealistic weekly was sidestepping the crucial issues of class conflict and the factor of coercion in effecting social justice.

The churches at this point have a great responsibility not to advocate over-all idealistic solutions but to emphasize the distinctively Christian message that is relevant to these issues, to help their members to see the world without the characteristic American ideological blinders, to challenge many of the prevailing assumptions about the cold war and nuclear armaments, and to encourage the debate on public questions about which most people prefer to be silent.

«A Remark about the Relationship between Relativity and Idealistic Philosophy.»

Stephen, if you think the discrimination only starts when people try to engage in «leadership» (which can be very broadly construed, by the the way), I have to wonder if you: a) have any experience with churches b) have any experience with discrimination Because you seem quite idealistic about the first, and naïve about the second.

Young people are the most idealistic and wholehearted about things.

I've always been idealistic, so there was a big part of me that dreamt about being a real writer, and having my words impact those who read them.

I don't get why people are so idealistic about footballers having a duty to any one club.

For example, in a study of 72 women who were interviewed about their nursing experiences, most said that pushing the idealistic goal of breastfeeding exclusively for any prescribed amount of time was not very helpful, and undermined their confidence as new mothers.

Starring Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson and Christoph Waltz, WATER FOR ELEPHANTS is a powerful, epic tale of forbidden love, based on the acclaimed # 1 best seller, in which an idealistic young man finds his destiny in a magical place filled with adventure, wonder and great danger... I don't know about you gals but I think that is a recipe for awesomeness.

And though I am about to graduate from college, finally, my fiance and I are barely above the poverty line and both have idealistic, low - paying jobs that won't allow one of us to stay home, so formula - feeding will probably be a necessity.

It makes so much sense because it kind of just goes back to what we were saying earlier about how it's probably in all of us that we have an idealistic view of the family experience and like gosh, I don't know if I really want to talk about it like it being hard or things happening to my moods

As Theos director Elizabeth Hunter notes, this «turns upside down the assumption that the young will be idealistic and hopeful about public life, while the old tend to be more disappointed and cynical».

«We immediately thought about the culture that has existed in Albany and we wanted to be able to empower women who work in politics, particularly young women and interns who head to their internships idealistic and wanting to be part of American government and are disillusioned by it,» she said.

He and Clegg were more businesslike than they were at the famous Rose Garden press conference in May 2010, when they spoke in idealistic terms about the advantages of coalition, and Cameron turned this into a joke.

Like just about everybody in the rocket business, his motivation is at least partly idealistic — to beat the rocket equation.

But he also has an earnest, idealistic side that comes to the fore when he talks about his upbringing.

This Is The One - The Stone Roses A great falling in love song has the power to dissolve any skepticism about romance, bringing you straight back to your idealistic teenage years.

Youthful personal ads were moaning for the past many decades about the boring picture of their idealistic heart due to the fact that the world marked dating black women personals as a non acceptable standard all around.

I admit that I am an idealistic person, and I dream of finding someone with whom I can share ideals about marriage and family....

good at both talking and listening highly compassionate care deeply about others idealistic and altruistic adventurous - enjoy new ideas fond of people who are direct, decisive, focused and tough - minded strive for harmony want a mate who is daring, playful and adventurous, yet one who...

Provo, Utah About Blog Braxton is an advertising & sport photographer in Utah who shoots with an illustrative, idealistic, painterly quality with a touch of beauty and heroicism.

Frank Capra's tale of an idealistic, yonug junior senator's revelation about, (and subsequent revolution against) Washington's rampant corruption is among his finest (and most typical) works.

But the historical drama itself — about how an idealistic German doctor influenced a silly king, romanced a queen, and brought the Age of Enlightenment to 18th - century Denmark — is kind of amazing.

But the historical drama itself - about how an idealistic German doctor influenced a silly king, romanced a queen, and brought the Age of Enlightenment to 18th - century Denmark - is kind of amazing.

Cast: Aml Ameen, Shantol Jackson, Stephen Graham, Fraser James, Sheldon Shepherd, Everaldo Cleary, For his feature directorial debut, Elba chose an adaptation of the Victor Headley cult novel about a youth who witnesses his idealistic brother's assassination in Jamaica.

WAKING THE DEAD This is the strongest romance of the year, a time - shifting story about a congressional candidate (Billy Crudup) haunted by memories and visions of his one great love, an idealistic activist (Jennifer Connelly) who was killed by a terrorist bomb years earlier.

Volatile, home - grown Mexican director and actor Emilio «El Indio» Fernández guides this simple melodrama through its paces to put across a relatively effective — though idealistic — story about social change.

The film is about a young, idealistic program coordinator at the United Nations, as played by Theo James (from the Divergent series), who stumbles upon a conspiracy involving Iraq's oil reserves.