Sentences with phrase «as debauched»

Everyone else with a famous pedigree is as debauched as the subjects Kenneth Anger chronicled in «Hollywood Babylon.»

Mamoa plays Aquaman as a debauched rockstar, Miller plays The Flash as an antisocial nerd, and Fisher portrays Cyborg as a man torn between his humanity and robotics.

Not exact matches

«Drunkenness,» he says, «is a difficult thing for human beings; and as far as it is in my power, I should neither be willing to go on drinking nor to advise another to do so, particularly if he still has a headache from yesterday's debauch.»

I still kept a round of duties, and would not suffer myself to run into any open vices, and so got along very well in time of health and prosperity, but when I was distressed or threatened by sickness, death, or heavy storms of thunder, my religion would not do, and I found there was something wanting, and would begin to repent my going so much to frolics, but when the distress was over, the devil and my own wicked heart, with the solicitations of my associates, and my fondness for young company, were such strong allurements, I would again give way, and thus I got to be very wild and rude, at the same time kept up my rounds of secret prayer and reading; but God, not willing I should destroy myself, still followed me with his calls, and moved with such power upon my conscience, that I could not satisfy myself with my diversions, and in the midst of my mirth sometimes would have such a sense of my lost and undone condition, that I would wish myself from the company, and after it was over, when I went home, would make many promises that I would attend no more on these frolics, and would beg forgiveness for hours and hours; but when I came to have the temptation again, I would give way: no sooner would I hear the music and drink a glass of wine, but I would find my mind elevated and soon proceed to any sort of merriment or diversion, that I thought was not debauched or openly vicious; but when I returned from my carnal mirth I felt as guilty as ever, and could sometimes not close my eyes for some hours after I had gone to my bed.

God, referred to throughout as «the creator», is the driving force in the film, speaking to Noah through visions and judging humankind for its debauched and planet - wrecking behaviour.

Therefore if Trump or some person close to Trump engaged Cohen as a «fixer», tasked with persuading or coercing certain parties into concealing reports of some embarrassing debauch or unlawful deed, (via threats of litigation or by providing hush money then drafting possibly unactionable NDAs, or maybe via other even more unorthodox methods), such fixitious communications would not be protected.

For the immature adults it turns out to be a hectic lost - weekend in Sin City, as the groomsmen remember nada the next morning of their last night's debauched escapade that has them waking up in a trashed Caesar's Palace luxury suite ($ 4,000 a night) with a live chicken, a crying baby in a closet, a very large tiger belonging to Mike Tyson in the bathroom, Stu missing a front tooth, Phil wearing a hospital wrist - band and a missing Doug.

She wasn't «Vickers» until her breakthrough film The Big Sleep (1946), in which she was cast as Carmen Sternwood, Lauren Bacalls debauched, thumb - sucking younger sister.

No, the twisted brilliance of that marketing campaign is that it made mainstream the idea that there is a place where it's okay to be as completely debauched as you might dare to be.

Stone devotes considerable ingenuity to making atrocity appear as a terrifying kind of home movie, but «Savages» is no more than a summertime debauch.

Adapted from the best - selling memoir by Jordan Belfort, the Bronx - born trader whose «pump - and - dump» schemes and penny - stock frauds made him millions - leaving duped investors with busted bank accounts - The Wolf of Wall Street tracks the rise and fall of its merrily debauched antihero, from his brief stint at an old - money brokerage house to his drug - fueled glory days as the CEO of an epic con.

We get a glimpse at a day in the life of Mannix, as he sorts out a pregnancy scandal with a single actress (Scarlett Johansson), manages a cowboy star's (Alden Ehrenreich) miscasting in an art film, and searches for a missing debauched Hollywood favorite (George Clooney); all while keeping twin journalists (both played by Tilda Swinton) off his back.

The series, which was telecast last year on BBC Two just before the London Summer Olympics, features four historical plays by the Bard — «Richard II,» starring Ben Whishaw in the title role; «Henry IV,» Parts I and II, which in addition to Hiddleston stars Jeremy Irons as Henry IV and Simon Russell Beale as Hal's debauched, vain and earthy companion Falstaff; and «Henry V.»

This isn't the ultimate sci - fi opus to reflect our dehumanizing and debauched consumption of media, but it does step beyond Collins's novel to use reality television as an almost interactive storytelling tool.

(Bone Tomahawk's fanboy cult regards it with the same silly, ahistorical hipness as they do Tarantino's western debauch, The Hateful Eight.)

Kevin Kline has fun playing decadent, debauched Flynn, Dakota Fanning shines as the precocious Bev and Susan Sarandon conjures sympathy for Bev's sadly deluded mother, only too willing to look the other way.

As indicated by the tearful remonstrance of the ex-wife character represented by Cate Blanchett, emotional attachments are doomed to become less concrete or clearly defined, the highs fewer and far between (take the screen time give to Poots vs. the late appearance of Lucas), calling for more extreme measures (Natalie Portman's adulterous character), but always prone to fail since the pursuit of happiness is merely a debauched, self - serving fantasy.

Such a viewpoint is reinforced when an underling proposes that the Vors move back to Russia to escape the debauched culture of the Western world, only to have Semyon admit that his criminal crew has effectively been exiled to an island as if to avoid further infestation of contemporary Russian society.

The plot (or as much as can be revealed here with a massive spoiler spill) is thus: A group of five college kids — Curt the jock (Chris Hemsworth, pre-Thor), his girlfriend Jules (Anna Hutchinson), stoner Marty (Fran Kranz), good girl Dana (Kristen Connolly), and brainy nice guy Holden (Jesse Williams), head out to an isolated cabin in the woods for a nice weekend's debauch.

This is filmmaking as tactile exercise, and the atmosphere in which Kim houses his debauched delights is something like smothering beneath the tender insistence of a satin glove.

More often, though, as we see and hear in the slyly debauched narration of actor Rhys Ifans (the British bandmate in Greenberg), they create ephemeral works of subversion.

All gold does is sit there, yes, but it can't be printed, so it tends to appreciate against the dollar as the dollar is debauched.

This body of work — a significant addition to the legacy of American subculture photography forged by the likes of Peter Hujar, David Wojnarwicz, Philip - Lorca diCorcia and Nan Goldin — is characterized by McGinley's idiosyncratic admixture of hopefulness and self - awareness, as well as his unembarrassed disclosure of the melodrama of youth, its inextricably intertwined joy and heartbreak: the artist shows us his debauched, frequently naked friends, laughing and weeping, taking drugs and having sex, tagging walls and pissing off roofs.

Given the man's credentials, we might as well debauch until we fry.