Sentences with phrase «anguished faces»

Manuel León shows anguished faces before a commonplace Venus in Vuelven los problemas del siglo pasado [The Problems of the Last Century Resurface](2016), reworking the iconography of the biblical tale of Susannah and the Elders.

«Grandpa turned the switch off and looked at our anguished faces,» ten - year - old Janina noted in her diary at the end of that long day.

Pellington holds on to close - ups of his actors» anguished faces for too long, while indulging slow - motion passages accompanied by soliloquys with howlers such as «Can what we hold in our hands be the same as what we hold in our hearts?»

Should pictures of anguished faces, bruises, half - smoked cigarettes, and angular bones be lifted up as an iconic, or even desirable, look?

Nothing compared to the anguish faced by those at the scene.

The movie, written and directed by Josh Mond, is essentially an hour and a half of close - ups of his anguished face as he gets wasted, starts fights, yells randomly at people and otherwise shows he's Battling Major Demons, namely the death of his dad at the outset and the impending death of his mother (Cynthia Nixon).

Plus, it'll be interesting to see Watson in a dramatic lead role, especially opposite Hawke, who seems cozy in his new niche as the anguished face of low - ish budget shockers (The Purge, Sinister).

Won't Back Down opens with a little girl's anguished face.

Not exact matches

That faced with so much suffering, anguish and loss they may know that the Christ of the cross and of the empty tomb stands with them in love and that his people care for them and remember them.»

Posting a website doesn't make your diatribe anymore truthful... you are an evangelical atheist troll who hangs out on the religion blog and attacks all people of faith... I'm not saying this as an insult but just a statement of fact... it's what you do but it doesn't have to be this way... I think you know enough to know that your way ends in an eternity of anguish... attack me now to save face but please open your hardened heart and take your own journey to find God... ignore the radical wingnuts because this is your own journey.

It may not be an exaggeration to say that the anguish of shame is the main problem each human being has to face.

I do not think it was the anguish and pain that he knew he was facing.

Tennyson's anguished lines from In Memoriam express the human longing for permanence in the face of perishing, and it is to such suffering as is expressed here that the religious perspectives of various peoples have been addressed:

A few of the obvious drives that pack us off, daily or weekly or episodically or, for some, in hope, permanently, are fear or even terror in the particular given set of circumstances; the sheer discouragement and exhaustion of facing questions without answer; profound disillusionment — it takes many forms — with the pertinent, prevailing system or systems; deep and bitter contempt for one's own society, bred of the abysmal failure to attain in consistent practice even a semblance of the justice professed and acclaimed; despair — so it was with the college generation of the late sixties — over the formidable obduracy of a political establishment in going its merciless way quite apparently deaf to the cries of anguish of its empathetic and real victims, victims by the tens of millions here and around the world.

Ivan is willing to face the anguish and terror inherent not only in thinking but also in living without God.

A look of anguish comes over his face as he notices the cage is empty, its door swinging open.

Looking at the faces of the arsenal fans in the stands you see so much sorrow, pain and anguish!!

During a sermon by senior pastor (and former North Carolina forward) David Chadwick on forgiveness, Witte stood up in front of the 1,800 worshipers, next to a photo of himself lying on the basketball court that night, his face soaked in his own blood, and told them that though he still feels the mental anguish from 28 years ago, he's ready to embrace his attackers.

The anguish on Chris Paul's face is just heartstopping... until you realize he is trying to pull off an unbelievable flop.

This is also where the newborn's screaming becomes so shrill and heartwrenching, where he screams until his lungs have nothing more to offer so his mouth becomes stuck in a silent, breathless, crimson - faced gape of anguish.

Those are expressions of anguish and doubt on their faces, not empowerment.

So if there is an anguished look on their faces, it's probably because they recognize your creepy mug and are trying to stop themselves from assaulting you.

ALBANY — Albany County District Attorney David Soares is facing a personal injury lawsuit filed by two leaders of a law enforcement union who claim they suffered «mental anguish» from comments Soares made about them during the 2008 election cycle.

The countenance on her face was that of anguish which reflected an inner feeling of sorrow that may take time to heal.

The problem that caused so much anguish seems on the face of it almost a technicality.

and the weight stalled, I thought he may drop it, but his eyes closed and his face winced in anguish and the bar moved upwards, I don't know it was the sweat from his face but I could have sworn tears came out of his eyes, and bar traveled further up until he had it midriff.

The pain and anguish can be felt on the faces of each actor and Anderson sidesteps dialogue for a brilliantly constructed funeral conveying a sense of spiritual longing and faith.

It is unclear why «Creation» did not opt for a straightforward retelling of Darwin's life — the anguish and pressure faced by the great man is certainly worthy of a vigorous biopic.

We hear his shoulder dislocate, we see him break his knuckles upon the door, the blood running down his arms... His face awash with anguish.

It's difficult not to imagine the filmmakers attempting to extinguish any residue from the gossipy revelation that actor Stephen Boyd and screenwriter Gore Vidal gave the Ben - Hur / Messala friendship a gay subtext in William Wyler's Oscar - hoarding film, built as it was on loud silences and anguished - face acting.

We liked this particular cover due to the anguish depicted on the Surfer's face and the rage on Galactus».

I believed her emotional cracks and outbursts of emotion, which could have easily been overwrought, loud, and ingenuine, but each time I looked at her face, I saw the hurt, anguish, and pain of trying to understand and connect with her daughter while keeping a hold of her social life and flourishing career.

It's a film of quiet observation and muted emotions that are liberated only in the face of utmost spiritual anguish.

But here everything is given the po - faced treatment, with Neeson twisting himself into bitter anguish instead of having the kind of reckless fun he had in Taken.

Fassbender has relatively few lines but his face is a landscape of seething moral anguish and guilt.

Moll, played superbly by Jessie Buckley, is a ginger - haired woman in her 20s whose face can light up with pleasure one minute only to disintegrate into anguish the next.

He's red - faced, terrified, anguished, enraged - he plays every scene like it's the last season of «Breaking Bad.»

Harding ran onto the ice to avoid disqualification, started and then stopped her routine, skated over to the judges and hoisted up her leg, sobbing, her face a mask of tragedy, an image equally as iconic as Kerrigan's confused, anguished expression seven weeks earlier.

The narrative is fueled by the intimidating clack of shoe heels across wooden floors, the slap of faces hit by fists, the wail of anguish choked by a mute girl in an unbearable back - alley abortion.

Benjamin Bratt does not make an appearance (quite wisely, if that was his choice), although you do see the anguish in Gracie's face as she is coldly jilted over the telephone.

He wears anguish on his face well.

On the face of it, Dickinson might seem well - matched to Davies, the English writer - director whose penchant for penetrating studies of anguished women (The Deep Blue Sea, Sunset Song) ought to place Cynthia Nixon's performance in a recognisable spectrum, of distant voices and still lives.Instead, Davies's screenplay is remarkable mostly for an archness and artifice only partially redeemed by several of the performances.

Sorry, as much as Howell puts on his mope face at the end, he's just never remotely anguished enough to seem adequately remorseful for the embarrassment he's wrought on everyone he knows and loves.

More importantly, the anguished frenzy over nothing will make it just a bit harder for the adults in the room to be taken at face value the next time they're obliged to respond to one of the truly reckless, feckless spasms of our child president.

Its uncomfortable to face them, again and again, and its natural to want to avoid the strain and anguish of constantly disciplining them.

At five in the morning someone banging on the door and shouting, her husband, John, leaping out of bed, grabbing his rifle, and Roscoe at the same time roused from the backhouse, his bare feet pounding: Mattie hurriedly pulled on her robe, her mind prepared for the alarm of war, but the heart stricken that it would finally have come, and down the stairs she flew to see through the open door in the lamplight, at the steps of the portico, the two horses, steam rising from their flanks, their heads lifting, their eyes wild, the driver a young darkie with rounded shoulders, showing stolid patience even in this, and the woman standing in her carriage no one but her aunt Letitia Pettibone of McDonough, her elderly face drawn in anguish, her hair a straggled mess, this woman of such fine grooming, this dowager who practically ruled the season in Atlanta standing up in the equipage like some hag of doom, which indeed she would prove to be.

It does brook comparison to season one where Daenarys was raped; the directors were brave enough to keep the camera on her face, to show her anguish.

Sure, spiking Nina into the ground like a volley ball is great fun when you hit the perfect combo, but is it really worth the mental anguish of the countless times before hand that she'll pulverize your face into a fine paste all the while wearing an absurd cat suit that quite frankly can't be comfortable to fight in?

And with three console generations having passed since his first incarnation, Activision has been able to wring new shades of joy and anguish out of his furry little face.

Shock at the size of the beast turns to anguish as I realize that I'll have to pass through this way again and face the metroid before it can attach itself to Samus.