Sentences with phrase «at a loose end»

Clients and candidates alike are sometimes left at a loose end when the communication breaks down once the agency has lost interest and moved on to the next agreement.
For the still deeper loneliness of feeling at loose ends with the universe and devoid of any deep - going roots, only a religious outlook can work a cure.
He seemed at loose ends when the voting went to a second ballot and it became clear he had backed the wrong horse.
For a creative touch, tie the pearl strands in a knot that will create a tassel at the loose end.
Now, he is at loose ends without any goals in sight.
His normally self - sufficient girlfriend is clearly at loose ends.
I was 56 years old and at loose ends when a friend asked me what I still wanted to do with my life.
This forgotten gem from John Landis sees insomniac Jeff Goldblum at a loose end in his dead end life until he becomes embroiled in a wild goose chase around LA with Michelle Pfeiffer, who's on the run from some Iranian gunmen.
This picaresque debut also stars a widower who feels at loose ends after his wife's death, although Arthur Pepper is decidedly more positive - thinking than Ove.
If you're at a loose end over this drizzly weekend — only a day of school hols to go, you can do it!
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Artists feel pressure from their galleries to produce work, to deadline, for the shows, and gallery owners are often left at a loose end when the work is not ready in time and they are forced to substitute other works or exhibit with a limited stock.
Rebekah worked at the service station for five years, but when the mechanic retired, she was once again at loose ends.
Chicago — Thank you for your superb story regarding limited park programs for teens («Limited park programs leave teens at loose ends; Poor, minority communities fail to get fair share,» Page 1, Sept. 21).
The race for Democratic National Committee chair, normally a quiet affair managed by party insiders, emerged as a roiling public campaign, as progressives loyal to Sen. Bernie Sanders and establishment Democrats jousted for control of a depleted organization increasingly at loose ends after eight years in the White House and then Hillary Clinton's unexpected loss to Donald Trump.
A 30 - year - old, more or less at loose ends and living at home with his family in New York City's suburbs, meets a woman he went to high school with, who's setting off on a hopeless journey in search of a career in Hollywood.
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In this case, the important call comes from Phil's sister Rose Dorfman (Jeannie Berlin), back in the Bronx, who'd like him to find some work for her son Bobby (Jesse Eisenberg), an aspiring writer at a loose end.
Frank, a hitchhiker at loose ends, stops at a roadside restaurant on the outskirts of LA and sees the MAN WANTED sign, posted by the owner, Cora's chubby, cheerful, and much older, husband Nick (Cecil Kellaway).
For the studio's first film, Nishimura tapped Marnie and Arrietty director Hiromasa Yonebayashi, and together with a stable of animators left at a loose end by Ghibli's closure, they created Mary and the Witch's Flower, a magical, colourful animated adventure based on the kids» fantasy novel by Mary Stewart.
Neglected by his hard - drinking single father, Charley Thompson (Plummer) is at a loose end till he meets a weather - beaten horse trainer called Del (Steve Buscemi) and offers to work for him.
In towns with large numbers of newly settled - out migrant workers, most of the newcomers are at loose ends on the fifth day.
It introduced the found object, questioned the aura of the gallery, and taught artists who were otherwise at a loose end to be pranksters.
Working in the legal team of one of the world's largest internet companies, Stephen Man is rarely at a loose end.
Lena Dunham herself plays the title character, at loose ends after graduating from Oberlin and returned home to live in her mother's downtown New York City loft while she figures out her life.
The LA Times blog says that the film «concerns a philanderer (Affleck) who, feeling at loose ends, travels to Paris, where he enters a hot - and - heavy affair with a European woman (Kurylenko).
You'll never be at a loose end when it comes to things to do during your stay in Luxor.
Coquelin — a player who is at his best when charged with policing teams with their own designs to control the game — was rather wasted against Sunderland, who saw so little of the possession he was often left at a loose end.
I occasionally find myself at a loose end when I am experiencing something exception (like a happy moment / event or hear something that is very sad and I then find myself deferring to god)... but that's not worship I guess.
In youth and age, on the other hand, the feeling of not being wanted, of being superfluous and at loose ends, is common.
Anyway, yesterday afternoon the Visiting Graduate Student and I, finding ourselves at loose ends, began to speculate about what a «Nativity of St. John the Baptist» dinner might involve.
Are you at a loose end in the first half of 2017?
When we went through an autonomous learning experiment, he often found himself at a loose end, sometimes bored and frustrated.
So it was a pleasure to finally get a chance to hear about some of her research, which she presented a few days ago at Mansfield College's Topical Symposium and Transitional Justice Seminar Series (for those of you at a loose end, she is giving a similar talk tonight in the DPIR, 17:00, seminar room D).
I absolutely love homesense and often have a trip to the one near me when I'm at a loose end.
A recent widow who was married for 50 years and now find myself at loose ends and lonely.
Disconsolate, bored and at loose ends, Megamind decides he must create a Metro Man replacement.
Bob and Margaret find themselves at loose ends one evening when, to their dismay, they find that there is absolutely nothing to watch on TV.
Yet once said surprise is introduced, Awake once again finds itself at loose ends, failing to generate any palpable tension from its scenario, as well as positing absurd conceptions of the afterlife and offering up monotonous inner dialogue from Christensen that makes one want to assume a state of mind opposite to the film's title.
The adults are at a loose end, poor and living hand to mouth with very little hope of ever living the American dream.
At loose ends, Claire meets and instantly bonds with another person on the other side of the velvet rope, a young South Korean film sales associate, Manhee (Kim Minhee).
Meanwhile, former frat boy Zac Efron (who led the ruckus in the first movie) is at loose ends.
«It concerns a philanderer (Affleck) who, feeling at loose ends, travels to Paris, where he enters a hot - and - heavy affair with a European woman (Olga Kurylenko).
Somayina, just a baby when her father left, is at loose ends, having to mourn a man she never really knew.
Ann Patty was at loose ends after being forced into early retirement from her high - powered job in book publishing.
An untrained observer might think he was idling, at a loose end in the countryside, but this wasn't the case.
And if that means I find myself at loose ends, I can always comfort myself with cinnamon gelato while I find my way again.
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