Sentences with phrase «bored of rural life»

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As a result, communities like Kingston and Wawarsing, which have a high proportion of residents living under the poverty line, end up bearing the lion's share of Safety Net costs while wealthier or more rural towns like Woodstock and Marbletown see minimal impact.

Born on November 2, 1885, in Nashville, Missouri, in the rural mid-west of the United States, Shapley was deflected to study astronomy almost by accident (from professional journalism), though he remained a successful writer for the rest of his life.

Born, raised, and have lived in the country near a rural community all of my days.

She plays Eilis, bored by rural Ireland yet apprehensive about the promise of a new life in New York, where a kindly a kindly priest (Jim Broadbent) has found her a job in a department store.

If kids from all walks of life — wealthy, poor, white, black, Hispanic, Asian, gay, straight, immigrant, native born, Native American, with and without special needs, bilingual, monolingual, rural, suburban, urban — even if kids from all of these groups got equally high test scores, would that satisfy us that we could stop waging this civil rights struggle?

Among the examples it uses to refute those myths are that in 1990, white women had more than half of all the babies born to unmarried women; that in 1992, 56 percent of all poor children lived in suburbs or rural areas; and that families on welfare have on average...

Inspired by the true story of his own great - aunt, he explores the life of Miss Jane Chisolm, born in rural, early - twentieth - century Mississippi with a genital birth defect that would stand in the way of the central «uses» for a woman in that time and place - namely, sex and marriage.

We never knew anything about his background, where he was born, whether he ever took part in the field trials in the rural areas of Ohio, or whether he was ever loved in his former life.

Owners who live in rural areas and city - dwellers who attempt to confine their pets are too often surprised with an unplanned litter born to a pet that slipped out the door, jumped the fence or wandered great distances in search of a mate.

We learn later, as our character becomes fed up with his own gray and boring cubicle world, that the gift is the inheritance of your grandfather's farm, a welcome return to a rural and «simple» farm life for the protagonist of this story.

You've got the huge skylines, golden beaches, rural green lands, and even some tourist attractions including a theme park and LEGO City's very own «Statue of Liberty» — you'd be a fool to think you'll just be exploring a boring concrete jungle because LEGO City is absolutely oozing with life and character, with surprises seemingly hidden around each and every corner.

BOOK > «Draw What You See: The Life and Art of Benny Andrews» a children's book about Benny Andrews, the rural Georgia - born artist who spent his career in New York painting and standing up for the rights of artists of color, is published on Jan. 6.

The man Rockwell, who spent the majority of his life living in rural and small town New England, was born on February 3, 1894 in New York City, a descendant of John Rockwell (1588 - 1662) who immigrated to America from Somerset, England around 1635.

She was born and raised in Connecticut, but has spent much of her life in mid-coast Maine, a rural setting that has greatly influenced her work.

The painting is presented in the context of his life: He was born into slavery in rural Alabama in 1853.

Born in 1879 to a Polish family who had fled to Kiev after the failed uprising against the Tsarist army, Malevich spent his childhood living in rural villages across Ukraine where he found a love of peasant art and embroidery.

A major painting by Williams, a masterful blend of color and geometry, is mounted at the entrance of the visual art galleries of the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C. Born in rural Cross Creek, N.C., Williams was raised in New York, where he still lives and works, splitting his time between the city and Connecticut.

Utilizing the abandoned evidence of quotidian human existence as raw material, Marianne Vitale (American, born 1973) transforms decaying elements of rural life into rugged visual poems alluding to a larger universal and celestial cosmology.

Larry Jens Anderson was born and lived his first eighteen years in the rural community of Randall, Kansas, population seventy - five.

Cubism, Expressionism, Dada and Surrealism were the most important of these movements, and attracted a number of indigenous American artists, including: the New Jersey Cubist / Expressionist John Marin (1870 - 1953); the vigorous modernist Marsden Hartley (1877 - 1943); the expressionist Russian - American Max Weber (1881 - 1961); the New York - born Bauhaus pioneer Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956); the unfortunate Patrick Henry Bruce (1881 - 1937), noted for his semi-abstract impastoed pictures; Stanton Macdonald - Wright (1890 - 1973) and Morgan Russell (1883 - 1953), two Americans living in Paris who invented a colourful abstract style known as Synchromism; Arthur Garfield Dove (1880 - 1946) noted for his small scale abstracts, collages and assemblages; the Mondrian and De Stijl - inspired Burgoyne Diller (1906 - 65); the influential American Cubist Stuart Davis (1894 - 1964); the calligraphic abstract painter Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976); the surrealist Man Ray (1890 - 1976); the Russian - American mixed - media artist Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988); the Indiana metal sculptor David Smith (1906 - 1965); Joseph Cornell (1903 - 72) noted for his installations; the Iowa - raised Grant Wood (1892 - 1942) noted for his masterpiece American Gothic (1930), and the Missouri - born Thomas Hart Benton (1889 - 1975), both of whom were champions of rural and small - town Regionalism - part of the wider realist idiom of American Scene Painting; and Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000) the famous African - American artist.

Well babies, I live in the rural West, all four of my grandparents were born in the rural West, and right here and right now I'm telling you that not everybody goes running around «dominating».

Hill's work has focused on birth weight and other measures of the condition of babies born to women living close to gas wells in rural Pennsylvania and is summarized so far in a «working paper» titled «Unconventional Natural Gas Development and Infant Health: Evidence from Pennsylvania.»

She was born in Utah but has spent most of her life in rural North Carolina.

The survey of more than 1,500 people (born since 1977) found that 66 percent of millennials want to live in the suburbs; 24 percent want to live in rural areas; and only 10 percent prefer to live in a city center.