Sentences with phrase «about the grandfather who»

But it was a whole channel devoted to, basically, hypnotic fractal patterns and some odd programmes in bright colours (like one about a phallic vegetable chef and another about a grandfather who hid, fairly oddly, in a cupboard).

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• «My grandfather — who is now 94 and who's got all the zipper machine patents in Google patent search — took me to Radio Shack when I was about 8 years - old.

My grandfather di ed with Jesus» name on his lips, and I can tell you it leaves no sense of «extra» satisfaction with those who miss him today that his final thoughts... however comforting they were to him... were not about his family.

Considering it was a Mormon missionary who befriended my Grandfather and talked him into to joining the church at 70 years old, and than stole a million dollars worth of real estate from him, something the family knew nothing about until he was on his death bed, because he was too ashamed to tell anybody that he lost the family property.

You may be talking about his great grandfather Miles Park Romney who had 5 wives, but only one had been married before and she was a widow when Miles married her.

We are reminded of the boy who rode about in the wagon of his grandfather, a rag - picker, in the movie Lies My Father Told Me.

I thought about my great - grandfather's struggles to control his emotions during Sunday services following the sudden death of his 14 - year - old daughter, Ella, who had played organ at the same church.

But it might come more natural to someone who knows that he had a grandfather, whose grandfather told him G - d gave the Torah to his ancestors, whose ancestors were told G - d gave the Torah to their ancestors, and so on, each year, generation after generation, from then to now, that person would think about the time that G - d did give the Torah.

When asked how he felt about the world's reaction to his Grandfather's death, Will, who is also a preacher, said: «To be honest, I haven't had much time to process it all.

This also started a conversation about veterans — who they are, how they served and how even my grandfather was a WWII veteran.

«Many know the story of our great - great - great grandfather, Charles Nelson — the pioneering founder of Nelson's Green Brier Distillery and the leading producer of Tennessee Whiskey in America in the late 1800s,» says Charlie Nelson, «but few know about Louisa, his devoted and hard working wife who assumed control of the family business after his death in 1891, until Prohibition forced her to shutter it in 1909.

I didn't know about that part It's funny, while I have some Irish heritage (pretty distant though — my family's been in Canada a looooong time), it was actually my English grandfather (and my only grandparent born outside of Canada) who made Irish soda bread all the time for his kids.

Indeed, asidefrom Casey at the Bat (which his grandfather used to recite while milkingcows), he says, most attempts at baseball poetry are utterly lamentable.Marianne Moore was a fine poet who wrote about baseball with disastrousresults.

It was the first Atlanta United game for his grandfather, who drove down about 80 miles from Ellijay, Georgia.

The best way to be inclusive is to explain that when you talk about «fathers», this includes fathers, stepfathers, grandfathers, uncles, other father - figures — and could include «someone who's like a dad to you» (and specify that «it could be your mum»).

However, when we talk about fathers in early years settings, we also include father figures: step - fathers, older brothers, uncles, grandfathers, mentors and others who may be the «lead adult male» in a child's life.

A preschooler who is told that her recently deceased grandfather has just «gone away for a while» will become anxious and confused about death, distrustful of your explanations, and inclined to think that telling the truth isn't really all that important.

During our conversations about the Legislature, he repeatedly quoted a homespun homily — «You get more flies with honey than with vinegar» — from his grandfather Andrea, a grocer who came to America by boat from Southern Italy.

The prime minister wrote to the Saudi government to protest about the «extremely concerning» case of Karl Andree, the British grandfather who had been threatened with flogging for possession of alcohol.

The House of Representatives responded yesterday by stating that Obasanjo has no moral authority to talk about corruption, accusing him of being the grandfather of corruption in the country, who introduced corruption to the National Assembly on its first day in 1999.

«I will be on Fifth Ave. not as your honoree but as a humble Puerto Rican and grandfather who at 74 continues to be committed to helping raise awareness about the fiscal, health - care and human - rights crisis Puerto Rico is facing at this historic juncture,» López Rivera wrote in the piece.

«Rob Astorino is a good man, but we need someone who is going to get elected,» Paladino told about 3,000 gun enthusiasts who had traveled to Albany for a rally against the act, which bans assault - style weapons and mandates that owners, under a grandfather clause, must register with the state.

In 2012, only about half of Americans who received health insurance from their employers were enrolled in grandfathered insurance plans, Myriad Genetics said.

Tom Hooper made his first film, a short about a runaway dog, at age 13; a short he made the next year (about a boy who learns that his grandfather had died in WWII) was the runner - up in a BBC young - filmmakers competition.

Host David Steinberg interviews comedian and actor Chris Rock, who talks about his influences including his minister grandfather and Eddie Murphy, the type of material that plays across all cultural boundaries, his respect for Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor, and his struggle for fame and success in the years after he left «Saturday Night Live.»

Coco is about 12 - year - old Miguel (newcomer Anthony Gonzalez), who dreams of becoming a musician like his deceased idol, Ernesto de la Cruz (Benjamin Bratt)-- despite his family vehemently forbidding any form of music at home, ever since his great - great - grandfather was said to have deserted the family to pursue a singing career.

In an interview about Spy Kids 2, veteran actor Ricardo Montalban comments: «I love playing this grandfather who has so much vitality and excitement to him and I hope it will open more doors for showing the elderly on screen.

In a few words, Kiarostami's film is about a prostitute assigned to an old client who does not seem to want sex and who becomes a grandfather figure in the young woman's perception.

Todd starts to believe Colton when he starts opening up about meeting people like his great - grandfather and sister who died before she was born.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Tim Burton's cinematic take on the first of three novels in Ransom Riggs» popular dark YA fantasy series, introduces Jacob (Asa Butterfield in the film), a child who ventures out to find the fabled Miss Peregrine (Eva Green), whom his late grandfather had told him so many enrapturing stories about.

About the only Oscar that is a sure - thing this year will go to this Pixar hit about a young boy who enters the world of the dead on an adventure to find and gain the blessing of his grandfaAbout the only Oscar that is a sure - thing this year will go to this Pixar hit about a young boy who enters the world of the dead on an adventure to find and gain the blessing of his grandfaabout a young boy who enters the world of the dead on an adventure to find and gain the blessing of his grandfather.

All his life, he's heard his beloved grandfather (Terence Stamp, who departs far too quickly) tell him outlandish stories about his own youth on an island off the coast of Wales, where he grew up at an orphanage for misfits with magical powers.

Also remember, The Hateful Eight isn't your grandfather's «Stagecoach,» the 1939 John Ford classic about a group of travelers who find out about their companions and themselves while riding the stage in Old Arizona.

Speaking of actors who will seemingly appear in just about anything - and are all the more awesome for it - Michael Caine is reportedly set to play Josh Hutcherson's grandfather.

, or seen the Saturday Night Live skit where two guys who are trying to help their grandfather understand today's movies admit that they don't know what the characters are talking about.

All his life he has listened to his grandfather's tales about his forbearers who spent their lives hunting for a treasure supposedly hidden by the Founding Fathers of the United States.

Nicholas Cage plays Benjamin Franklin Gates, a man who has listened to tales from his grandfather about a missing treasure.

September 25 Count Dracula learns all about being a grandfather when his daughter gives birth to a baby boy who may or many not have inherited the family vampire genes in Hotel Transylvania 2.

Earning the DGA's inaugural award for best animated feature was «Coco,» the Disney flick about young musician Miguel who sets off on a quest in the Land of the Dead to find his great - grandfather.

In other movie news, Delfin Vigil offers interviews with Clive Owen, about his new action thriller «The International» (Page 20); and with Illeana Douglas, who reminisces about her grandfather Melvyn Douglas» Oscar - winning role in «Being There» on the 30th anniversary of the Peter Sellers classic, which has just been released in a deluxe edition DVD (Page 24).

Mau Mau Sex Sex is about two geriatrics who made exploitation movies back in the 1930s to 1960s, basically your father (or rather grandfather's) smut.

The Velveteen Rabbit (G) Screen adaptation of Margery Williams» children's classic features a mix of live - action and animation in a modern fairytale about a lonely little boy being who comes to grips about being raised by his strict grandfather with the help of a stuffed animal magically transformed into a real rabbit.

Reading The Wall Introduce and read aloud The Wall, Eve Bunting's thoughtful and moving book about a father and son who visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in search of the boy's grandfather's name.

For example, the test corresponding to a 2nd - grade unit on Canada and Mexico consisted of a passage about a boy and his grandfather, who was born in Cuba and had moved to Miami.

There were stories about my grandfather, who was imprisoned by the British at age 15 — my son's age now — for being a freedom fighter.

Reverend Ames writes to his son about the tension between his father — an ardent pacifist — and his grandfather, whose pistol and bloody shirts, concealed in an army blanket, may be relics from the fight between the abolitionists and those settlers who wanted to vote Kansas into the union as a slave state.

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (2004) In 1956, Reverend John Ames writes a letter to his son — about his father, a pacifist preacher, and his grandfather, a minster who fought in the Civil War as an abolitionist.

Facts about her family - a homesteader whose name was Bonnycastle, like the Reverend in the novel, and a grandfather who was a coal mine operator in Edmonton - appear in the novel.

In Oblivion, the unnamed narrator travels to the abandoned uranimum mines on the outer edges of the Siberian taiga to discover the truth about Grandfather II, a family friend who played an important role in his upbringing.

In one of the first 21st century Russian novels to probe the legacy of the Soviet prison camp system, a young man travels to the vast wastelands of the Far North to uncover the truth about a shadowy neighbor who saved his life, and whom he knows only as Grandfather II.