Sentences with phrase «as desperate family»

And, as I wrote last year, I also will never forget the days that followed, as desperate family members searched for loved ones and the faces of everyone in that usually vital city reflected shock and fear.

And, as I wrote last year, I also will never forget the days that followed, as desperate family members searched for loved ones and the faces of everyone in that usually vital city reflected -LSB-...]

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After that fateful line, «But time went by,» we see him smile only once, and it is a rather desperate smile as he runs off with the branches, filled with ambitious plans for wife and family and goodness knows what else.

Mayim Bialik as Amy Farrah Fowler in The Big Bang Theory Kathryn Joosten as Karen McCluskey in Desperate Housewives Julie Bowen as Claire Dunphy in Modern Family Sofia Vergara as Gloria Delgado - Pritchett in Modern Family Merritt Wever as Zoey Barkow in Nurse Jackie Kristen Wiig as various characters in Saturday Night Live

As agricultural productivity decreases, farmers who are desperate to feed their families often turn to cutting down trees to sell for cash, or to clear land for farming.

I am in desperate need of a great resource such as this cookbook to keep my family in good health!

Barcelona — ambassadors for Spanish independence and freedom will be desperate for a victory over Real Madrid who are seen as the seat of establishment in the Spanish royal family.

Did your child enter adolescence with a sudden cloud of distance, brooding, sullen behavior, and a desperate need to be as far away from your family as possible?

I was desperate for sleep as my 2.5 year old was still not a good sleeper - then I found fast asleep consulting and it changed my family's life!

Teachout is a Catherine wheel of ideas — in the course of the day we talked about anti-trust, fracking, the desperate need for broadband in rural communities, the way Big Ag gobbles up subsidies meant for family farmers, and the «chickenization» of production that puts all the economic risk and environmental damage on farmers as firms like Tyson keep squeezing the market.

There have been desperate scenes as rescuers and family members searched for survivors, often with bare hands.

Since most are aged between 24 and 35, they are at an age when to ask for assistance from one's family is seen as a desperate recourse.

Such are the lyrics of Broadway's famous musical Fiddler on the Roof, about Tevye, the father of five daughters, and his desperate attempts to maintain his Jewish traditions as outside influences encroach upon the family's lives.

Desperate and determined to rescue his son at all costs, he makes a deal with the U.S. attorney to work as an undercover informant and infiltrate a drug cartel on a dangerous mission — risking everything, including his family and his own life.

As the family matriarch, Hortense is desperate for help but where are the men when you need them?

Cast as a man whose desperate attempt to escape the monotony of suburban life includes a bundle of large helium balloons and a lightweight deck chair, Ifans charmed Australian audiences in the family - friendly effort.

In this episode, meet a woman who has programmed her dead friend into a chat bot so he can live on forever; a Japanese family who has adopted a childlike AI robot as a member of their tribe; and a desperate mom turning to spyware to track her teenager's every move.

The film's broader shift in perspective is its most impressive, as its sympathies gradually tilt from Lady Bird, a teen desperate to transcend her upbringing, to Marion, a mother who sacrifices her time and her body for her family without reward.

Infantile regression the rule of the day in a climate increasingly desperate to shoehorn its post-modern anti-narratives into comfortable family fare, it's interesting to consider that the original was already seen as something of a throwback to Depression - era family values at the time of its release.

Krasinski and Blunt pull off fiercely expressive performances as young parents desperate to keep their family safe at all costs, and Blunt in particular has a deft way of combining horror, grief, and love into one masterful expression as Evelyn watches helplessly while her family fights for their lives.

Jason Biggs stars as Guy, an out - of - work expectant father desperate to find a job to support his growing family.

SING stars Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey as Buster Moon, an eternally optimistic koala who puts on the world's greatest singing competition to save his crumbling theater; Academy Award winner Reese Witherspoon as Rosita, an overworked and underappreciated mother of 25 piglets desperate to unleash her inner diva; Scarlett Johansson as Ash, a punk rock porcupine with a beautiful voice behind her prickly exterior; Taron Egerton as Johnny, a young gangster gorilla looking to break free of his family's felonies; as well as Seth MacFarlane, John C. Reilly, and Grammy Award - nominated Tori Kelly.

As Sadie chooses to crash with her «art parents» (Kathryn Hahn and Paul Giamatti) instead of her actual parents while figuring out her next life move and agrees, in a lovely scene, to donate her eggs to help the desperate couple, we watch her soul grow richer and older on screen in the midst of an unconventional, makeshift New York family.

She is at odds, as teenagers are, with her mother, a hard - working nurse, who's always reminding her how poor the family is and nagging at her to tidy her room, but they're still close and Marion is desperate for her daughter to stay in California.

Lesley Manville glitters as desperate mother Mary in O'Neill's grim family portrait.

Through AFI's Narrative Labs project, with support from the Sundance Institute and New York's Cinereach organization (which has also helped produce small, memorable films from Citizenfour to Beasts Of The Southern Wild), Howe was able to complete Gabriel, which stars Rory Culkin as a young man navigating a mental illness that distances him from his caring and frustrated family, and leads him on an increasingly desperate quest throughout the film.

Over the next 69 days, an international team worked night and day in a desperate attempt to rescue the trapped men as their families and friends, as well as millions of people globally, waited and watched anxiously for any sign of hope.

Giving nothing for the audience to grasp onto or connect with is always a risky strategy especially in a film with such a simple narrative and although our protagonist has one redeemable quality, being a loving family man, it is only when Kuklinski's world starts to collapse around him that we are shown little pieces of reason, logic and humanity as he becomes emotional, desperate, abusive, and even panicky.

When it doesn't, it feels as if he's overcompensating for the weak, routine material that comes with his character — a scared guy who's desperate to get out of the fight, keep his job, and maintain his family obligations (His daughter, played by Alexa Nisenson, has a talent show later in the day, and his pregnant wife, played by JoAnna Garcia Swisher, is three day past her due date — one guess as to how the movie's climax plays out in between the fight sequence).

«Desperate Hours» (1990) A remake of a 1955 film starring Humphrey Bogart, «Desperate Hours» starred Anthony Hopkins and Mickey Rourke, in a story of an escaped convict and the family whose home he wants to use as a hiding spot.

A prologue establishes how ruthless the film is willing to be, and then we pick up over a year into the apocalypse as a competent, intelligent, desperate family man (Krasinski) tries to keep things together in his little kingdom, knowing that even the most negligible dropped clanger will attract toothsome, long - armed creatures with avocado - skinned skulls which are composed entirely of inner - ear architecture and teeth.

Michelle Williams (Certain Women), as Paul's mother Gail — who married into the family and then antagonized them by divorcing her husband, addiction - prone J. Paul Getty, Jr. — especially shines as a woman desperate to save her son, and who must accept all manner of indignities to get even a fraction of the ransom money.

Desperate and determined to rescue his son at all costs, he makes a deal with the U.S. Attorney (Susan Sarandon) to work as an undercover informant and infiltrate a drug cartel on a dangerous mission — risking everything, including his family and his own life.

Kirsten Dunst gives another powerful performance as the young boy's desperate mother, while the cast is rounded out by Sam Shepherd as the cult leader and Joel Edgerton as a state trooper supporting the family in their bid for freedom.

The film casts Scarlett Johansson (The Prestige, The Black Dahlia) as Annie Braddock, out of college, out of a job, and so desperate for money that she accepts a gig as a nanny for a well - to - do family in ritzy Manhattan.

As Margaret finds herself drawn into the inner circle of the wealthy, mysterious Wilcoxes, Helen devotes herself to a young working - class man desperate to improve himself, setting up the three families for a calamitous encounter when long - buried secrets and private prejudices come to light.

Delivering an explosive performance as a desperate father whose every move could be his last, Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson (Fast & The Furious, G.I Joe: Retaliation) stars in Snitch — a story inspired by true events about consequences, redemption and justice, and the lengths that a man will go to in order to protect his family.

Starring: Riley Keough and Joel Edgerton Directed by: Trey Edward Shults Synopsis: Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to the test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.

Far more entertaining are Collette and Tolman as the desperate moms trying to keep their families together.

Limited financial resources brought these families to near bankruptcy when their child was critically injured through a mishap or an accidental inattentive moment, and the often so desperate situation seemed to be reflected, as well as accentuated by their living environment and social conditions.

I'm hoping that the current administration is committed to seeing this plan take flight, instead of treating it as a side note uttered to appease a small group of educators and families that are desperate to see true equity in education.

So the strategy to label charter schools agents of segregation is a pretty desperate attempt to save jobs, maintain control of marginalized families, and protect the business of masking shit as free and appropriate education.

Tinti is a writer gifted beyond her years, both literary in her perceptions — «the sailboat passed a cargo ship the length of an aircraft carrier, stretching across the surface like a giant guarding the edge of the world» — and possessing a thoroughgoing comprehension of the human condition, our sometimes desperate search for love and family, the rage we often feel as we stumble through our ignorance and past our fear to confront our mortality.

Other families in the land were not so fortunate as to have two such sensible parents, and as happens in countries being pillaged by rivals or nature, the weak — the elderly, widows and orphans — were as desperate as ever on the colonized peninsula.

Through desperate struggles and hard - won triumphs, its members are bound together by deep roots as they face enduring questions of faith, family, and identity.

Sold as a slave to an influential New York Tory family, 13 - year - old Isabel spies for the patriot side during the American Revolution in a desperate hope to gain freedom for herself and her 5 - year - old sister.

Carla, as an adolescent, lives in desperate poverty with her younger brother and grandmother in Guatemala after her mother illegally immigrates to the U.S. in order to provide for her family.

Just as there are always approved families waiting to adopt rescued springers, there are always desperate springers awaiting foster homes to welcome them in.

As for anybody who doesn't have a Season Pass and is simply contemplating buying A Matter of Family separately, it's seemingly small price - tag may be alluring but it really isn't worth it unless you're absolutely desperate for just a little bit more Arkham action.

This time around, you play as Javier, a man who's lost his family and is desperate trying to find.