Sentences with phrase «befriended by»

Children with Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) often have poor peer relationships, as evidenced by difficulties in being accepted and befriended by peers, as well as poor quality and stability in any friendships they do have.

While there, Haley was befriended by Gregory Bateson, an anthropologist.

Over the next several weeks or months, the suspect is befriended by the undercover officers... [more]

In the 1930s, he was befriended by Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko among many other artists living in New York City in the 1930s — 40s.

Born into a household of Surrealist artists in 1943, the architecture student blossomed at Cornell University as a conceptual performance artist whose fame grew with each daring escapade until he died at 35 of cancer, after he was befriended by Robert Rauschenberg and other well - known figures in New York's art world.

According to June Rose, in her biography, Moore was befriended by the older sculptor during the early 1920s and visited Epstein in his studio.

While receiving rehabilitative care at NYU's Rusk Institute Lenny was befriended by Mark di Suvero, who was himself recovering from life - threatening injuries sustained in a construction accident.

Mr. Weber became familiar with contemporary art when he was befriended by Thomas C. Colt Jr., director of the Dayton Art Institute, a short drive from Antioch.

In part to recover from her loss, in 1963 Hamilton travelled for the first time to the United States for a retrospective of the works of Marcel Duchamp at the Pasadena Art Museum, [16] where, as well as meeting other leading pop artists, he was befriended by Duchamp.

Beginning with a sojourn in Rome in 1960, where they were in contact with the «Scuola di Piazza del Popolo» and the dealer Plinio de Martiis, and in 1962 in Venice, where they were befriended by artists, critics and dealers such as Giuseppe Santomaso, Giuseppe Marchiori, Attilio Codognato, Giovanni Camuffo and Carlo Cardazzo, they formed many close Italian friendships, including Gian Enzo Sperone, Germano Celant, Achille Bonito Oliva, Giuseppe and Giovanna Panza, and the many artists whose works Ileana would exhibit, in Paris and New York.

While at the University of Alabama he was befriended by the American football quarterback Joe Namath, met visiting artist Theodoros Stamos, and primarily studied painting with Melville Price, a painter who had shown in New York City with Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning and had been a member of The Club at the Cedar Tavern.

As a result Hoyland met and was befriended by some of the Abstract Expressionist pioneers, notably Robert Motherwell.

Nathan Jurevicius has managed to carve himself a nice little empire with Scarygirl, a multimedia project about a young girl who was abandoned in a swamp only to be rescued and befriended by an octopus.

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At school, Fadi is bullied by racists but befriended by a fellow photographer, Ahn, whose Vietnamese parents also fled their home during the war.

On those terms, I was befriended by some extraordinary teachers, skilled storytellers, and sure - footed guides to the insular culture of coastal Oregon.

The story of two fractious stepsisters, Molly and Heather, who move to an isolated old home where one of them is befriended by a ghost is deliciously creepy, and contains real emotional heart.

Lost and alone in Victorian London, Alyss is befriended by an aspiring author to whom she tells the violent, heartbreaking story of her young life only to see it published as the nonsensical Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Just as brutal bully Roth coerces nobody Paul into delivering a package to a rival gang leader, Paul is befriended by his high school's outsiders.

Like Back to the Future, Star Wars inevitably resonates with adolescents regardless of their cultural background because the theme of impending adulthood is fundamental to the human condition: a young person sets out on a physical and / or spiritual journey to find himself and prove himself while being guided or befriended by a mentor figure.

Blake is on the run from bounty hunters out to bring him in, but he's befriended by a kindly bear of a Native American named Nobody, who assists Blake in his quest to return «home», although not necessarily Cleveland.

As he follows the group on the tour, he is shown a life of decadence, with drugs and sex galore, but after being befriended by the members of the band (who make the geeky kid feel cool) he struggles with conflicted feelings of whether he should shade the negative aspects of the tour to not hurt this group he loves.

In spite of owning up to his grisly line of work, Frank is befriended by his gay sponsor (Luke Wilson), a toll taker on the Golden Gate Bridge.

Seven Days in Utopia (G) Unlikely - buddies drama about a promising young golfer (Lucas Black) who's befriended by an eccentric rancher (Robert Duvall) in a tiny Texas town after making a disastrous debut on the pro tour.

Leopold is then befriended by Kate (Ryan) and Charlie (Meyer), brother and sister who are neighbors of Stuart's, and who think Leopold is speaking and dressing like a 19th Century nobleman for a role he is method acting for.

The picture, directed and co-written by Rick Alverson, whose «New Jerusalem» is about a man returning from Afghanistan who is befriended by an evangelical who promises to redeem his fragile persona, is likewise about a fellow with a similar existential problem.

Ronsel is befriended by Jamie McAllan, brother of the farm owner, who has also just come back from the war.

While there she is befriended by three other temps in her unit, and they hang out with each other after work.

The Good Dinosaur (PG for peril, action and mature themes) Animated adventure about an anthropomorphic apatosaurus (Raymond Ochoa) that is befriended by a caveboy (Jack Bright) after falling into a river and being swept far away from home.

Exposed (R for profanity, violence and rape) Supernatural thriller about an attractive Latina (Ana de Armas) who witnesses a miracle before being befriended by a cop (Keanu Reeves) investigating his partner's mysterious death.

The most impressive new face is that of Tony Revolori, who plays the teenage Lobby Boy in - training... a role that turns vital when he is befriended by Gustave, and is invaluable in the telling of the story.

But the quiet wallflower finds things changing when he is befriended by two other teens (Emma Watson, Ezra Miller).

He is also befriended by his mysterious and nosy new neighbor W.F. (Jeff Bridges, all mouth movements and glasses - fiddling mannerisms), who provides sage one - on - one counsel — and occasional narration — in a hammy way that briefly raises the question of whether he's a figment of Thomas's imagination.

DIGGING TO CHINA Kevin Bacon plays a developmentally disabled man befriended by a lonely little girl (charmingly played by first - timer Evan Rachel Wood).

After a crash landing and a few injuries, the twelve - year - old is befriended by a pack of five alpha males (voices of Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Bob Balaban, Bill Murray and Jeff Goldblum).

Jim and his friend, Walter Lowrie (Jack Carson) are befriended by Vicki Ware (Alexis Smith), whose father, Buck Ware (Minor Watson) runs the elegant Olympic Boxing Club.

Meanwhile, Liesel is befriended by Rudy (Nico Liersch), a sweet, lemon - haired boy who lives next door.

Transfer student Lilly (Analeigh Tipton), our initial audience surrogate, is immediately befriended by aforementioned soap - aesthete Violet (Greta Gerwig) and prim subordinates Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke) and Heather (Carrie MacLemore).

Drinking together in a bar, they're befriended by Colin and Violet, who initially pit them against each other in simple, innocuous contests ($ 50 for whoever downs a shot first), then take them to their house and gradually up the ante in increasingly sick ways.

There they are befriended by a young couple (Neil Patrick Harris and Jayma Mays).

Meanwhile, young Nemo is welcomed into the ranks of the dentist's aquarium, befriended by an assortment of species, including the wounded moorish idol Gill (Willem Dafoe), pufferfish Bloat (Brad Garrett), and starfish Peach (Allison Janney).

But he absolutely dotes on his Lolita - ish daughter China (Chloe Grace Moretz), who is 17 going on 18 and for whom no desire is too beyond — except for when she's befriended by Malkovich's randy filmmaker, 50 years her senior.

While stuck in the trenches, Robert and Stubby are befriended by a grizzled French vet (Gerard Depardieu) who shares his survival tips and some home - cooked cuisine.

Kemp, befriended by staff photog Sala (Michael Rispoli), sees himself as a crusading reporter, exposing poverty and corruption fueled by U.S. greed.

Peter Dinklage moves into a train depot to indulge his love for trains and stay away from people, only to find himself befriended by a loquacious Cuban hot - dog stand keeper and an emotionally delicate Patricia Clarkson.

She's befriended by Lady Eastlake (Thompson), who knows a thing or two about cold marriages and helps her make a plan.

A free black man in 1840's Saratoga, New York, Solomon is befriended by a pair of gentlemen who quickly turn around and sell him into slavery, a fate that consumes him quickly when he is unable to immediately produce any proof of his freedom.

In the heart of New York City, Oliver, a mischievous orphaned kitten, is befriended by Dodger, a carefree pooch and his ragtag family of misfit mutts.

Dutifully arriving at a Black Sabbath concert, Willie heads backstage before the music starts and gets turned away by a bouncer; he's then befriended by Penny Lane, who's waiting for the arrival of Russell (Billy Crudup)-- lead guitar for Stillwater, the opening band — and who eventually sneaks Willie in with her own teenybopper entourage.