Sentences with phrase «as meddlers»

Warner said Wednesday that the continued proliferation of fake news after events like the fatal Parkland, Florida, school shooting showed that the big social networks haven't solved what he acknowledges are tough problems, and ones he fears will only get worse as meddlers and others get more sophisticated.

15 If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer or thief or any other kind of criminal, or even as a meddler.

Not exact matches

It is possible to think of God intervening in worldly affairs and physical happenings according to two different models: as a constant cosmic string - puller who controls each and every event of any importance (either by causing it or by consciously allowing it to happen), or as an occasional meddler and zapper, limited (perhaps by self - restraint) to intervening in a certain number of instances.

Wheeler - dealer Len was never been a favorite with major party chairman who saw his Indies as annoying meddlers.

He has long specialized in small and midsize films, from «Being John Malkovich» to «The Meddler,» an April release starring Susan Sarandon as a busybody mom.

Annie's fiancé, Matt (Jason Ritter, «The Meddler»), is portrayed as long - suffering but rather simpering, and the couple's frequent postponing of their nuptials prompts many barbed comments.

But Lorene Scafaria, who wrote and directs «The Meddler,» has apparently hoped to do just that, to bring in an audience interested in seeing how she coped with her father's death, or rather how her mother dealt with her own husband's demise; her rising career as a scriptwriter, her mother's generous donation to a young friend to enable her to have a classy wedding ceremony, and her mom's volunteering at a hospital in L.A..

Everybody's feelings, of course, eventually get more or less sorted out, as «The Meddler» hums pleasantly along toward a resolution that brings mother and daughter closer together, with the help of a charming man (J.K. Simmons, his maple - syrup voice spreading sweetness over the movie) who catches Marnie's eye.

Writer / director Lorene Scafaria's The Meddler could easily be dismissed as a one - percenter film.

Though the scenario bears some comparison to the recently - released «The Meddler,» Ade's slow - burn approach unfolds as a meditative storytelling technique that makes it tough to categorize.

Our Pick of the Week is The Meddler, as previously discussed, which expands today from NY / LA to San Francisco, San Diego, Chicago, Phoenix, and DC.

Imagine if Clueless had starred a 68 - year - old Susan Sarandon as an overbearing mother and you'll have the right idea about Lorene Scafaria's The Meddler, a sweet and sneakily effective portrait of a woman learning how to re-engage with the world after the greatest loss of her life.

Sam Elliott, after playing supporting parts in Dreams and the similarly themed Grandma (J.K. Simmons played the Sam Elliott part in The Meddler), stars in The Hero as Lee Hayden, a washed - up western star reduced to doing BBQ sauce commercials.

What an impact: reporters everywhere are finally asking tough questions about the influence of non-Canadian power on our regulatory processes, and the government is calling for measures to begin «fixing» the system to ensure that these foreign meddlers can not achieve their ultimate goals of stopping Canada's economic development, to turn Canada into «one giant national park,» as the prime minister himself put it.

The way in which his handwritten letters have been described in the press as the «black spider letters» seem to suggest that the Prince is an eccentric meddler.