Sentences with phrase «awful lot in common»

If we're used to seeing adolescent minded men in these types of growth resistant situations, Laggies's Megan has an awful lot in common with Melanie Lynskey's character in 2012's Hello I Must Be Going (and, to a superficial degree, Analeigh Tipton in this year's Two Night Stand), women with advanced degrees wallowing in an the in - between zone when they realize that they've lost interest in their chosen career or a flailing relationship has stunted their drive.

But what would you do if you found yourself at a dinner party honoring a man who has an awful lot in common with the hotel mogul (and some other title I can't think of right now)?

AT FIRST SIGHT, knitting and science may not appear to have an awful lot in common, but Christine Jordan of the Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories at Jodrell Bank, Cheshire, is forging the connection.

«We have an awful lot in common in our politics, especially in Europeanism... We think exactly alike on the importance of Europe, the importance of international institutions.

Not exact matches

«Reading Kabat - Zinn, I could see an awful lot of common sense in letting your feelings be,» she says.

Because in the hands of co - writer / producer Joss Whedon, creator of «Buffy The Vampire Slayer» and «Firefly» (and director of this summer's «The Avengers «-RRB-, and debut director Drew Goddard, who penned «Cloverfield,» «The Cabin In The Woods» is something very different: a neat subversion and celebration of horror that delivers a fistful of scares, along with things less common to the genre: smarts, laughs and an awful lot of surprisein the hands of co - writer / producer Joss Whedon, creator of «Buffy The Vampire Slayer» and «Firefly» (and director of this summer's «The Avengers «-RRB-, and debut director Drew Goddard, who penned «Cloverfield,» «The Cabin In The Woods» is something very different: a neat subversion and celebration of horror that delivers a fistful of scares, along with things less common to the genre: smarts, laughs and an awful lot of surpriseIn The Woods» is something very different: a neat subversion and celebration of horror that delivers a fistful of scares, along with things less common to the genre: smarts, laughs and an awful lot of surprises.

A comic - book movie, a heist movie, and a biopic about the Iran - Contra affair might not seem to have much in common, but in the new trailers for each of these movies, they're all being sold the same way: with music that sounds an awful lot like Kanye West's «Black Skinhead.»

«It's an awful lot to try to get accomplished in the short amount of time that is left,» said John Barge, Georgia's state school superintendent, referring to Common Core implementation.

There's an awful lot of common knowledge floating around in the publishing industry, most of which is not based on any reality at all.

The ancestors of our house cats, Felis Silvestris, still roam wild in Europe, and look an awful lot like many of our common tabby cats.