Sentences with phrase «as a boy who»

And the odd adolescents» such as the boy who appears out of nowhere to join a kibbutz in A Perfect Peace» retell some of Oz's own experience.

He is chiefly noted as the boy who handled Native Dancer.

As a role model for kids as young as my boys who are 10 and 7, you just can't sing those in public.

Don Cockell was acclaimed by sportswriters on both sides of the Atlantic for his ability to absorb hundreds of Marciano's hardest blows, and one Englishman went so far as to write that»... this was the kind of extra courage which makes you proud to belong to the human race and to have been sired by the same breed as the boy who grew up in the back streets of Battersea.»

(Perkins is a resident in the same housing development as the boys who were accused of the crime.)

New York State Police have identified brothers, ages 6 and 9, as the boys who went over the Lower Falls at Letchworth State Park Saturday evening.

After the success of the live production of the Sound of Music, NBC returns with Allison Williams as the boy who never wanted to grow up and Christopher Walken as Captain Hook.

With the actual Harry Potter sequel, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, heading to the London stage, Rowling is making her screenwriting debut with Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a film set in the same universe as The Boy Who Lived, just 80 or so years earlier.

Based on one of Marvel Comics» lesser - known franchises dating back to 1969, this is the tale of Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), an earthling abducted as a boy who, a quarter of a century later, is working as a Han Solo — style outlaw for hire under the self - ordained nickname Star - Lord.

He plays Steven, a cardiologist who befriends an odd 16 - year - old boy named Martin, played extraordinarily by Irish actor Barry Keoghan, who is perhaps best known as the boy who was accidentally killed on Mr. Dawson's «little boat» in Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk.

The movie wastes one sincere, quietly emotional performance by Max Deacon as the boy who thinks his last moments will come in that collapsed plant.

It portrayed someone as a boy who started to play chess.

As soon as The Boy Who Loved Fire was released into the wild, I turned my attention to my next indie project.

Comment: There have been many non-fiction books written recently about autism, including titles such as The Boy Who Loved Windows; there have also been many fiction books, most notably The Curious Incident of the Dog in The Night - Time.

Play as a boy who is on a quest to catch the guardian fish.

In The Last Guardian, players play as a boy who forms a deep bond with a giant creature called Trico, who helps in solving puzzles, fighting off guards and reaching areas that the boy can not reach alone.

Taylor Wilson, is known as the boy who played with fusion, because at the age of 14 became the 32nd individual on the planet to achieve a nuclear - fusion reaction.

We also know that girls who experience 2 or more categories of #ChildhoodAdversity are twice as likely as boys who experience 2 or more types of childhood adversity to develop autoimmune disease in adulthood.

Not exact matches

During Sessions» confirmation hearings in 1986, Thomas Figures, who was an Assistant United States Attorney for seven years and an African - American working for Sessions in Alabama at the time, alleged that Sessions referred to the NAACP as «un-American» and repeatedly referred to Figures as «boy.»

The storyline is about an orphan girl in the early years of Great Britain, Mary «Jacky» Faber, who has to disguise herself as a boy to sneak onto a Navy ship just to have a chance at life.

With a net worth in excess of $ 66 billion, Amancio Ortega is the second - richest man in the world thanks to his control of the Spanish fashion behemoth Inditex, which Ortega — who started out as a delivery boy for a local clothing store at 14 — turned from a small - town dress shop into one of the largest fashion empires on the planet.

Every day another jerk emerges as the latest poster boy of ego and entitlement, someone who can't figure out how to keep his hands to himself and / or his ugly mouth shut.

Ashby, a psychotherapist who turns 50 in June, played with G.I. Joes as a boy, but few survived, falling victim to encounters with firecrackers and little parachutes that failed to open.

Adopted as a young boy after getting lost and separated from his family in India, as a young man, Brierley used Google Maps to jog his memory, ultimately reuniting with his birth mother, who stayed in the same town where he was born.

Manning came across as a laid back southern boy but on the gridiron he was a clinical, ruthless competitor with an off - the - charts football IQ who changed plays at the line of scrimmage to outsmart opposing defenses and torched opponents with a big arm and dead - on accuracy.

Barcelona (AFP)- A British - Australian boy aged seven who had been reported as missing by his grandfather was killed in the vehicle rampage in Barcelona, his family and Spanish officials said Sunday.

This arguably makes the leader into a kind of whipping boy, which, in the historical sense, was a boy who could be punished by a prince's tutor for the transgressions of the prince who, as royalty, was himself immune to being punished personally.

«I shouldn't have to suffer at the hands of my government,» said Zzyym, who was born in 1958 and raised as a boy.

Falling Whistles started as a journal about the young Congolese boys who are sent to the frontlines of war armed with nothing but a whistle, but it quickly became a movement tens of thousands strong of people wanting to help.

It was probably right around the time someone coined the term «brogrammer» to describe the kind of keyboard jockey who «breaks the usual expectations of quiet nerdiness and opts instead for the usual trappings of a frat - boy,» as Urban Dictionary puts it.

While he retains his reputation as a boy - genius coder, in reality Zuckerberg is something of a grinder — a 99 % perspiration guy who has surrounded himself with a group of people he respects and with whom he is constantly stress - testing his hypotheses.

Emwazi was born in Kuwait and spent part of his childhood in the poor Taima area of Jahra before moving to Britain as a boy, according to news reports quoting Syrian activists who knew the family.

The glass ceiling, the old boys club, brogrammer culture... it seems to me that these aren't signs of an all powerful patriarchy so much as an ongoing manifestation of men who are terrified to compete with women on a level playing field.

One referred to Martin Luther King Jr. as «the world - class philanderer who beat up his paramours» and who «seduced underage girls and boys.»

Acting this way also marginalizes the Amplifer, as the rest of the organization will soon tune them out along the lines of the boy who cried wolf too often.

It's been just as many years since Hawkins, who is 42, started stacking produce as a boy in the store run by his father.

Investors in far away Canada seem to be treating Ivernia West, which started life as an Irish zinc miner, with the same level of caution that Australian investors treat our local boys who go to Botswana or Uzbekistan — out of sight, out of mind and out of the investment portfolio.

It might feel as though the effect of phrase has diluted with year after year of false starts and setbacks — call it «Boy who cried «Tiger!»»

Amancio Ortega is the fourth - richest man in the world thanks to his control of the Spanish fashion behemoth Inditex, which Ortega — who started out as a delivery boy for a local clothing store at 14 — turned from a small - town dress shop into one of the largest fashion empires on the planet.

He started sprinting as a boy in the parish of Trelawny, tucked deep in Jamaica's Cockpit Country, a sugar - farming area that was the former stronghold of the Maroons, Jamaica's 18th century freedom fighters who resisted British slavers.

For a «backroom boy» who is supposed to avoid the press, Patrick Kinsella's name has turned up in a remarkable number of headlines during his 30 - year career as a political insider.

In her 2014 essay «Cassandra Among the Creeps,» Rebecca Solnit uses the story of Cassandra, daughter of the king of Troy, as an archetypical example of a woman who was not believed even though she told the truth, in a sort of reverse parable to the Boy Who Cried Wowho was not believed even though she told the truth, in a sort of reverse parable to the Boy Who Cried WoWho Cried Wolf.

I also have some investments outside of farming, mostly real estate, but some stocks and bonds as well.Maybe it's just because I'm an ignorant South Dakota farm boy who happens to like open spaces and seeing the stars at night.

Led by Arnold Harberger (who spoke Spanish and had married a Chilean), the Chicago Boys set out to make socialism irreversible by selling off as many state enterprises as possible.

Gundlach, who is no stranger to AdvisorOne or its sister publication Investment Advisor magazine — where he was its cover boy in October — has enjoyed his title as the «it» manager of the mutual fund space since being named 2006 Fixed Income Manager of the Year by Morningstar.

The people who have risk protection orders filed against them range in age from a 14 - year - old boy who classmates claimed «wanted to kill someone to see how it feels» to a 63 - year - old man who, court records state, was «seeing spirits» and purchased two shots guns and two handguns, insisting «I can buy as many (firearms) as I want.»

«I needed to know as a young little boy that I was loved, and that there is a Father — a supreme, sovereign Father — Who came — came to me — and had been watching me every day of my life,» he says.

A pedophile who preys on girls is just as bad as a pedophile who preys on boys.

The Obama administration is now requiring school districts to allow troubled boys who see themselves as girls to play sports and shower with females.

Newt Gingrich is a good ol' boy from Ga. and If you don't think that he is corrupt you yourself are as gullible as people who think Romney is not going to let his religion guide his presidency.