Sentences with phrase «at twentysomething»

One of the sleeper hits of the fall - festival season has been Noah Baumbach's «Frances Ha,» which in a climate of serious award - season dramas has stood out as a lighter but still thoughtful look at twentysomething life.

Before Brie Larson became an Oscar - winning actress, she starred in this critically acclaimed, little - seen indie that looks at a twentysomething supervisor at a treatment facility as she tries to get through to troubled youth and deal with her own problems.

All those things are worthwhile and good goals, but looking around my church at the twentysomethings who are making a lot of big life decisions, rarely do I see an example of a young millennial who has gone the traditional route of a four - year college degree to find themselves in a cubicle on the 11th floor — or at least who are happy being there.

Baumbach could have rocked this register and made a perfectly fun New Yorker piece out of the premise (Josh and Cornelia marvel at the twentysomethings» loft, complete with a pants - free female roommate, a caged chicken and «everything we once threw out»).

But Sony was already shifting upward, targeting its ads at twentysomethings, licensing dance music soundtracks, sponsoring club nights.

Not exact matches

Or pick up Don't Worry, It Gets Worse: One Twentysomething's (Mostly Failed) Attempts at Adulthood by Alida Nugent.

In short, says, Edward Bell, an executive at Ogilvy & Mather in Shanghai who has studied the twentysomething Chinese in depth, «this is a generation that has to sprint just to stay even.

At an event to introduce a new line of iPods, Jobs first informed a crowd of journalists, analysts, and Apple developers that he now possessed the liver of a «twentysomething liver donor who had died in a car crash.»

He was just 18 months removed from being a twentysomething engineer at Ford.

While this reporter was waiting for his coffee at a Starbucks Wednesday morning, he stood behind a group of six twentysomething women, all of whom were wearing tights.

RELEVANT looks at the movement of twentysomethings away from volunteering and wonders how we can get back to volunteering more often — even at a smaller scale.

MSN has compiled this list of the 10 best cities for recent college grads by looking at factors like cost of rent, the job growth rate, unemployment, the number of twentysomethings living in the city and average salary for a recent grad.

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Fortunately, Liz and I should soon outgrow the epidemic, since mobility is at its peak among twentysomethings.

Line burst into existence at a propitious time; skiing had surrendered the coveted teen - twentysomething male demographic to its action - sports counterparts, and the industry was content to emphasize racing even as its appeal sagged.

And, even at 41, she still has the body of a twentysomething.

Basically, I'm looking for sandals that 1) will be nice to my legs, particularly since I walk two miles (not all at once, just overall) on my commute, 2) are more appropriate for a twentysomething who more or less likes to keep up with shoe trends....

Following a group of twentysomethings at a Los Angeles apartment complex as they seek stardom as actors, dancers, comedians and producers in this dramatic series.

This is a cosy world turned upside down, in which malcontent fortysomethings find themselves unsatisfyingly addicted to Google, Twitter and Netflix while retro - hip twentysomethings read books, listen to vinyl, bang away at typewriters and binge on 80s VHS tapes («It's like everything we threw out — except it looks good...»)

Jamie is a boorish, insensitive American twentysomething traveling in Chile, who somehow manages to create chaos at every turn.

Self - involved twentysomethings living off their parents dime in Williamsburg are easy targets for derision, and Charles Rogers and Sarah - Violet Bliss sharply aim their arrow at their bullseye throughout their debut feature Fort Tilden.

SMILF Picked up to series; 10 episodes STUDIO: ABC Signature Studios / Showtime TEAM: Frankie Shaw (w, d, p), Lee Eisenberg (ep), Gene Stupnitsky (ep), Michael London (ep) LOGLINE: A raw look at a single twentysomething in Boston whose desires for relationships, sex and a career collide with the realities of being a young single mother.

At face value KHNH does indeed have a fairly rote Hindi film set - up with three central players: Naina Catherine Kapur (Preity Zinta), a sullen twentysomething whose life and household has been in disarray since a devastating family tragedy; her best friend Rohit Patel (Saif Ali Khan), would - be slick ladies» man but all - around good guy; and Aman Mathur (Shahrukh Khan), Naina's freshly - arrived neighbor, whose upbeat and generous nature will come to affect the lives of all he encounters in his new community, not least of which Rohit and especially Naina.

Written, directed by and starring Lena Dunham, and costarring her real - life mother and sister, Tiny Furniture is a loose - limbed and pleasantly idiosyncratic independent film that takes an amusing look at romantic humiliation and twentysomething dawdling, when deep - seated ambivalence is so frequently mistaken for a lack of ambition or intelligence by adults who've forgotten the choppy waters of post-adolescence.

But while «War Dogs» occupies a similar space as Adam McKay's Oscar - winning dramedy, providing an entertaining look at how a pair of ambitious twentysomething pals became millionaires due to the U.S. government's own negligence, it doesn't really have anything important to say — or rather, the important stuff feels like an afterthought compared to the highly dramatized events at the center of the film.

They're at best beefy twentysomethings with muscle memory.

Nothing says «indie» more than a movie about the travails of twentysomethings, and at first blush, British writer - director Alex Barrett's feature debut, Life Just Is, would seem to fulfill all of the usual clichés.

At its heart is Jenny Slate's bookstore clerk - cum - comedienne Donna, a twentysomething dealing with an accidental pregnancy, a difficult career and a kinda - sorta boyfriend who is known to fart in her face (though it's nowhere near as crude as that sounds).

That film, based loosely on the novel by Irvine Welsh, was a giddily stylish picaresque about a group of twentysomething friends scoring heroin at every opportunity in Edinburgh.

Hurt by their lack of faith in her, she pursues a literary career by stalking her favorite living poet, Rat Billings (John Cusack), and takes a job at an adult video store managed by a cute, affable twentysomething male (Evan Peters) with the words «love interest» practically tattooed to his forehead.

This is the scrappy character we meet at the beginning of Tomb Raider, a prequel / reboot / franchise Hail - Mary pass that rewinds back to Ms. Croft's formative years — specifically, her twentysomething days in London practicing Muay Thai boxing and delivering packages on a 10 - speed.

For marketing - weary twentysomethings looking for a genuinely good car and annoyed with dubstep - heavy TV ads and marketers yelling about Foursquare, it's good to know that despite all that, at least one car fits their needs.

Cosmopolitan UK: 10 rules every twentysomething should break in her life — Tourlina mentioned at no. 4

Rosen was among dozens of twentysomethings who congregated at New York University this January for the second «Cleanweb Hackathon» — a weekend forum for would - be entrepreneurs to demonstrate the role that mobile apps, social networks, and Web software can play in improving how we use energy and natural resources.

Katherine, a twentysomething law student & former reporter, over at Obsidian Wings, has not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, but six posts about the Graham Amendment.

A list of «20 Things Every Twentysomething Should Know How To Do» has, among things like «parallel park» and «respond to criticism,» the ability to «write a cover letter» at number 16.

We were so mad at each other all the time, in that pouty, noncommunicative way twentysomethings have of relating, that I could not even bear the idea of sex with him.

Becoming a parent should be more intentional, and these relationship decisions should be embedded within what Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill have called the «success sequence»: completing at least a high - school education, getting a job, marrying, and then having children — in that order.50 For some twentysomethings in a good relationship, this may mean marrying earlier than today's social norms suggest.

Many twentysomethings lead inspirational lives, doing a lot at once.

I don't have the stomach for brekkie at the moment, so I've reverted to that peculiar peccadillo of my twentysomethings and slurp on increasingly antique chicken noodle soup every morning.

Even though my «kids» are twentysomethings and living away from home, I still find myself browsing the back - to - school supply aisles at Target and Office Max.

The twentysomethings were celebrating Shrove Tuesday at Pancakes On The Rocks and invited me to join them.

My second slip - up in St Augustine was to take the advice of a twentysomething waitress at a chain restaurant in Orlando about where we should dine in the town.