Sentences with phrase «as blanche»

As Blanche pieces together Jenny's past for clues, she discovers that her frog - hunting friend had more than a few secrets.

«Jessica Tandy: Theater Legend to Screen Star» (7 mins., SD) is hagiography through - and - through — and I'm still waiting to see footage of her legendary turn as Blanche in «Streetcar».

Woody Allen's «Blue Jasmine» earned Cate Blanchett her sixth Oscar nomination and she is a wonder as a Blanche DuBois in contemporary San Francisco.

But sometimes love is offered and, as Blanche DuBois says, famously, in A Streetcar Named Desire: «Sometimes — there's God — so quickly!»

Nixon as Hamlet, Nixon as Lear, Nixon as Blanche DuBois, Nixon as Krapp — clutching every last tape to his breast with the wild fury and despair of a man on the precipice... Nixon in his study, poring over his past, gazing at his own multiplied mo...

She was «predatory and vulnerable» on stage as Blanche Dubois, «coolly assertive» on our screens as DSI Stella Gibson — and still found time to publish a novel, writes Kathryn Bromwich

After her acclaimed performance as Blanche in London, Anderson will reunite with co-stars Ben Foster and Vanessa Kirby for a New York production of A Streetcar Named Desire

They might, in fact, be the exact same pair as Blanche had on!

Some authors, such as Blanche A. Jenson, are responsible in their methodology, fairly representing the thinking of specific feminists they question.

Not exact matches

Many companies I consult with see this as an issue, they'd like to have some flexibility in home working, but they don't want to give carte blanche to the employees.

It is not for me to interpret God's word as carte blanche to kill other human beings.

And then you have carte blanche to behave as badly as you like to «save» people from this horror which you invented in the first place.

For example, in his days as an undergraduate at Oxford Waugh's fellow student Harold Acton used a megaphone to shout out lines from T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land from an open window of his upper - storey college suite and was later thrown into a fountain by some drunken students in the middle of the night; while another student, Brian Howard, spoke with a stutter and gossiped his head off: all of which got fused in the character of Anthony Blanche in Brideshead Revisited.

- Well considering you are now cherry picking and not realizing that if you truely believe our «works don't save us» then what you've just told me is that as long as I have faith in god and christ I have carte blanche to go on a rampage and kill people, or be a di.ck, or anything else I want to do because my works on earth apparently mean nothing.

Religion gets carte blanche to be as vocal as it wants, to knock on our doors and accost us in our homes, in our places of work, in our personal and professional lives.

As John Boswell has shown in a magisterial study, these parents were not monsters; they knew what Tennessee Williams's character Blanche DuBois knows — that one can usually rely on «the kindness of strangers» (the title of Boswell's book).

The racists in this country have been given carte blanche to be just as out there, as abusive and oppressive as they can be!

But as Professor Laura K. Donohue of Georgetown University Law Center has pointed out, the secret FISA courts have given the surveillance bureaucracy a virtual (meaning also real) carte blanche.

Or again, is the chance to see the story of Christ's Passion as Mel Gibson reimagined it — blood - drenched and harrowing and brilliant — worth giving the same R - rated carte blanche to Quentin Tarantino, or worse, the makers of torture - porn thrillers like Hostel and The Hills Have Eyes?

You simply can not,, as a society, hand one group carte blanche to physically attack another, nor protect one group to the exclusion of the rights of others.

Are you really naive enough to believe that Wenger would bring anyone into this current locker room that is going to be given a strong voice... have you not been watching, listening or reading about our club for years... Lehman is a blind Wenger follower, which is the only reason he was even considered... just for a second think of all the strong personalities that have played for this club that have never been seriously considered even though they have expressed legitimate interest in participating in the coaching process... even worse, think of all the former greats who aren't even allowed on the same pitch as Wenger because they have offered their advice and / or criticism to the infallible one... I dare you to find a manager that has distanced himself from his former players as much as this man... it's the very reason why only one player I can think of has ever returned to play for Wenger and that was Flamini, which was hilarious considering we were desperately looking for a top quality defensive midfielder but Wenger could somehow find no one better than Flamini in the whole wide world... let's face it this club was simply trying to appease it's disgruntled fans by declaring that Wenger would no longer be given Ca rte Blanche when it came to the backroom staff so they probably asked him to give them a list of those who he would allow in the locker room... on that list he wrote Lehman, Pires and Bergkamp, likely because the first two are the only former players who haven't publicly questioned his horrible decision - making and the last one because he won't get in an airplane

The team was owned by a group headed by Barron Hilton, the hotelman, and some say that its name was a play on the Hilton corporation's credit card, Carte Blanche, as in «charge it.»

The trial - by - fire schedule paid off as Salesian's only two losses came against Florida powerhouses, Montverde Academy and Blanche Ely - Pompano Beach during the City of Palms Classic in December.

To keep saying that these incidents have a greater chance of happening to Arsenal because «of the way that they play», and «anyway — Arsenal used to stick their foot - in when Viera et al were playing for them», is utter nonsense and has actually given dangerous carte - blanche and license for it to continue as it does.

OK, as much as I would love to see the Blanche, Rose, Dorothy, and Sophia solve murder mysteries, this game does not actually involve any bloodshed.

Clearly we need to start organizing public tournaments with cheesecake and wine, and as long as I get to play Blanche we won't have to fight over the character cards.

The governor, who as attorney general filed a civil lawsuit against Espada over siphoning $ 14 million from his health clinics for meals and other personal perks, «has been given carte blanche to do anything he wants» said Espada.

You know as well as I do that the phrase «reasonable suspicion» is a carte blanche term of legalese which allows the police to prevent photography - like the film clip we're discussing - to be shown in public or even made in the first place..

The AP's Philip Elliott reports on how progressive activists have taken it to Democratic incumbents this cycle, using the primary challenge to Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln as a case study: Democrats already face an... Read More

«Arkansas state Sen. Kim Hendren, who is currently the only announced Republican candidate for U.S. Senator against Democratic incumbent Blanche Lincoln in 2010, has apologized for referring to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D - NY) as «that Jew,» at a county Republican meeting last week.

Just as dangerous will be those who pay attention to Grayling's speech and conclude they now have carte blanche to commit extreme violence on an intruder.

Sure, we can believe Sen. Skelos on this issue, just like we could beleive him when he said he was giving Republicans carte blanche to vote however they liked — even as he secretly locked every one of them into a «no» vote.

And yet Clarke, who expressed a willingness to serve in government as long as he was asked to, has carte blanche to say whatever he thinks.

Little Rock, Arkansas (CNN)-- The campaigns for Sen. Blanche Lincoln and Lieutenant Gov. Bill Halter are in full swing Tuesday as each candidate in the Arkansas Senate Democratic primary tries to get enough votes to break the requisite 50 - percent mark to avoid a run - off.

Arkansas can not afford to lose Blanche's leadership as Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee.»

The indulgence of MPs» private interests is all the less tolerable because it has been coupled with a failure to stand up for the authority of parliament as an institution — as was seen when the police were given carte blanche to raid the office of Damian Green.

«We are working with Honeywell to develop these displays for aircraft, but they could just as easily be used in cars,» Blanche said.

Therefore, the motion states, «[u] nder basic copyright law, as joint owners of the copyright in the original work, the Defendants had carte blanche to use as much or as little of the original work in subsequent works.»

It does, however, need to be consumed in an otherwise generally healthy diet in order not to cause additional inflammation in the body, and its status as a healthier cooking oil does not give carte blanche to eat tablespoons of it daily.

Please add common sense to what I am saying I am not giving you carte blanche to say «oh sod it I am menopausal I can eat as much cake as I want — it is all going Pete Tong anyway» NAH that is not my objective.

As for compatibility, the jeans have a kind of carte blanche due to which their ability to combine is much wider and more varied.

If you're really advanced, you'll take this as carte blanche that you can now wear anything on any body part.

Three years later, he earned widespread acclaim for his leading role in Patrice Leconte's Ridicule, in which he starred as an 18th century nobleman who learns to play a delicate and deadly game of wit at the court of Versailles.Born on Tahiti in 1958, Berling studied acting at a Parisian drama school located on la rue Blanche and made his stage debut in 1982.

The setting is Italy during The Great War; playboy Lt. Henry falls for mad «Cat,» who, as written by the legendary Ben Hecht (himself a decade removed from his best work and well on his way to becoming king of cheese epics), comes off as an entirely inappropriate nod to Blanche Dubois.

An extended, affecting riff on Tennessee Williams» «A Streetcar Named Desire», Blue Jasmine tones down the melodramatics and sexual tensions to reposition its Blanche Dubois as a ruined New York socialite (Cate Blanchett) forced to rely on the kindness of her working - class sister (Sally Hawkins) when she is bankrupted by criminal husband Hal (Alec Baldwin).

In Blanche (as noted on the inside cover notes of the UK video release), the scenario is set up in the three cuts that form the credit sequence.

First, the medieval chateau where the action is set, then a shot of a caged dove that Blanche keeps as a pet and then Blanche herself stepping from her bath.

From this, one can ascertain that Blanche, like the dove, is a prisoner of the chateau (and as it turns out later, of a marriage and a society which is not interested in her freedom).

There were many actors and actresses the director admired and whom he wanted to write for, and as he realized he was handed a carte blanche opportunity he would likely never get again, he decided to go for it.

(1962, Robert Aldrich) Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, rivals for most of their careers, got two of their greatest roles when they were cast by director Robert Aldrich as the house - bound Hudson sisters, Blanche (Crawford) and Baby Jane (Davis)-- two ex-film-stars turned eccentric recluses — in this mesmerizing, darkly funny, sometimes - touching suspense classic.