Sentences with phrase «brash young»

A brash young man, confident in his instincts, Morgenstern opted to skip the notoriously critical «Zuck Review.»

Incidentally, one of my other pleasures is to razz brash young pups.

The finished piece is the sound of a brash young artist who grew into an influential painter at peace with his place in the art world.

«The survivors lived to feel themselves unjustly superseded by brash young newcomers taking what seemed easy advantage of the gains they had so dearly won.»

The gaming community liked seeing a few brash young men take on stodgy video game makers to try to make a viable virtual reality headset where so many others have failed.

Then one day she runs into a brash young blind man, Yamazaki.

Each work expanded the expressive range of the medium, from the Pietà Michelangelo carved as a brash young man, to the apocalyptic Last Judgment, the work of an old man tested by personal trials.

The United States in the 1870s and»80s was deep in turmoil — a brash young nation torn by a great depression, mired in scandal and corruption, rocked by crises in government, violently conflicted over science and race, and fired up by spiritual and sexual upheavals.

If you've never read the Musketeers story, here's a quick rundown: brash young D'Artagnan (Logan Lerman) leaves his home in the French countryside in order to be a King's Musketeer like his father.

Through flashbacks, we see a young Philomena (Sophie Kennedy Clark) at a carnival meeting a brash young man.

But things go another way, and so Frank covertly launches a bitter and complicated revenge scenario, aided by his chief of staff (Michael Kelly), his ice - queen wife (Robin Wright), a party - boy congressman from Pennsylvania (Corey Stoll), and, naturally, a brash young reporter, Zoe Barnes (Kate Mara), who works at a Washington Post-like newspaper and who would do anything to cover «what's behind the veil» of power in the Capitol hallways and get herself off what she erroneously calls the «Fairfax County Council» beat.

Reese Witherspoon was the queen of the small screen this year with «Big Little Lies,» but her cinematic outing in the directorial debut of Hallie Meyers - Shyer (whose only apparent qualification for the gig was being the offspring of two filmmakers) left her stranded in a cutesy and deadly dull tale of a newly separated mom falling for a brash young would - be director.

Grant's world is turned upside down when a brash young reporter (Shia LaBeouf) exposes his true identity as a former 1970s antiwar radical fugitive wanted for murder.

Under Imperial fire, brash young Han (Alden Ehrenreich, right) and his right - hand Wookiee, Chewbacca (Joonas Suotamo), make another daring escape in «Solo: A Star Wars Story.»

Watch an exclusive clip from a new film starring Michael Cera as a brash young American keen to try mescaline distilled from a cactus

The defining masterpieces of brash young artists get remixed by older artists with a new perspective: Fritz Lang's M and While the City Sleeps, Jean Renoir's The Grand Illusion and The Elusive Corporal, Howard Hawks» Rio Bravo and Rio Lobo... and then there's Orson Welles» Citizen Kane and Mr. Arkadin.

Morgan Freeman (Now You See Me 2, Ben - Hur) plays Ripley, a jewel thief who takes brash young thief Gabriel (Antonio Banderas — Haywire, Machete Kills) under his wing to help him steal a couple of mythical Faberge eggs nestled in the high - security vault of Romanov's.

One of the characters, Brianna, is a brash young woman attending university during a turbulent period of time.

NASA, then a brash young agency, had refused to do so.

Everyone knows about the perfect love that exists between craggy old Stengel and brash young Martin.

So Ward sat down and created a colorful cast of baseball losers — a washed - up cad of a catcher named Jake Taylor, a brash young fireballer nicknamed Wild Thing, a voodoo - worshipping cleanup hitter named Pedro Cerrano.

But this succumbs to storyline: Manziel is the brash young gun who has made the bitter mistake of acting like a 20 - year - old, McCarron is the focused championship machine sportswriters fawn over.

Still, as 1970 ski racing moves toward its competitive pinnacle — the FIS World Alpine championships next week at Val Gardena in northern Italy — there are signs that the season is about to produce one of sport's classic battles: the challenge of the crafty old kings of the mountain by brash young hotshots.

He would be overjoyed on hearing brash young scientific talents declare and repeat: «The universe could be the last free lunch.»

One young man mentioned was Gabriel Cardona, «the ringleader of the American cell of assassins, a savvy, brash young man who orchestrated at least five murders in Laredo of people connected to the Sinaloa Cartel.»

Pat Swisher was a brash young franchise titan until a stretch in federal prison changed the way he thought about business.

Today, at 75, he speaks with some bemusement about his reputation for consultation - room charisma, as if fondly recalling a brash younger brother who had yet to learn some of life's later lessons.

Not exact matches

Brash new maestro Rodrigo (Gael Garcia Bernal) is stirring things up, and young oboist Hailey (Lola Kirke) hopes for her big chance.»

He's not particularly young or brash or handsome, and he can come off as kind of a jerk.

His Amazon.com has revolutionized online shopping and made him an icon for brash, young Internet entrepreneurs.

In this film, we are introduced to three industrial lubricant salesman: Larry (played byKevin Spacey), a brash, but honest veteran of sales; Phil (played by Danny Devito), Larry's friend and a seasoned, yet life - weary salesman; and Bob (played by PeterFacinelli), a young evangelical Christian who, as a rookie in sales, joins the twoveterans at a trade show.

The older, wiser people head to first service while the younger, brasher people head to the second and everyone suffers the death of segregation.

We know this because when he was a young man he was brash and impatient.

says driver Darrell Waltrip, who seemed to think that he could when he exploded onto the NASCAR scene in the 1970s, young, articulate, brash and talented.

As a young minor leaguer in the Yankee system in the early»40s, Leo Righetti, known as Pinky, was brash, talented and crazy about baseball.

The Frenchman made eight changes to his starting XI from the team which comprehensively beat Blackburn Rovers 4 - 1 last weekend, including the likes of Ashley Young, Stewart Downing, Marc Albrighton and Darren Bent, a bold decision which didn't go down at all well with the supporters, who are growing tiresome of Houllier's brash and abrasive decision - making.

But Chris Edwards, vice president of the New York Young Republic Club, said that Manhattan Republicans are energized, regardless of whether or not they've been turned off by the brash Buffalo developer, whose campaign has been marred by anti-gay comments and other gaffes.

Kemp launched into print modeling as well, appearing in a widely seen campaign for The Gap, then segued into acting with parts in Stephen Sommers» Victorian - era supernatural thriller Van Helsing (2004) and Renny Harlin's lurid psychological thriller Mindhunters (2005), opposite Val Kilmer and LL Cool J. Kemp deftly merged his ballroom finesse and his dramatic evocations with prominent billing in Jon M. Chu's dance - themed urban drama Step Up 2 the Streets (2008); he played Blake Collins, the proprietor of a dance school who finds his chief proclivity — an utter contempt for street dancing — upstaged by the arrival of a brash and talented young newcomer at his school.

It's arguable that Nyoni is stretching a thin premise, but this film is one of the obvious breakouts of the year: exactly the kind of young work - brash, committed, and narratively unpredictable - that film festivals are supposed to champion.

The girl is stenographer Dot Duncan (Lucille Ball); the guy is her boss, stuffy young shipping magnate Stephen Herrick (Edmond O'Brien); and the gob is a brash sailor known as Coffee Cup (George Murphy).

This breed of brash, irresponsible young man had been around in cinema long before Anderson arrived on the scene.

Arthur Penn may not be a household name among young cinephiles, but his iconic 1967 film «Bonnie and Clyde» was a brash boundary - pusher that opened the New American Cinema of the 1970s to extreme sex, violence, and a European sensibility.

Young and brash, Karlson described his job as «washing toilets and dishes and whatever the hell they gave me» 4 and talked his way into a number of short - lived assignments as an assistant to directors Arthur Lubin, Henry Koster, Tay Garnett, William Wyler, Stuart Walker and John Ford, and successfully pitched a story idea to Will Rogers, who unfortunately died in a plane crash before the film could be made.

Woody's younger son David (Will Forte, in an understated performance that serves as the film's sympathetic core) arrives at his parents» house to hear from his mother Kate (June Squibb, stealing scenes left and right with her brash commentary) how miserable it is to live with Woody, who maybe has a year or two tops, she suspects, before he succumbs to some form of dementia.

Jackie makes her move from Cleveland Coliseum secretary to ballsy wheeler - dealer by way of rough - around - the - edges but gifted fighter Luther Shaw (Omar Epps), thus setting up two parallel underdog stories: the traditional genre one of a gutsy young athlete moving his way up the ranks, and one in the Erin Brockovich mold, with a skanky dresser with a brash attitude to match making waves with her moxie.

As Vox points out, even when a young turk named Steven Spielberg revolutionized the summer event movie in 1975 with Jaws, the Academy acknowledged his achievement with a Best Picture nomination — but snubbed the brash filmmaker.

Weirdly angled close - ups — a male armpit here, a flat young belly there — are intercut with the pale oval of Lila's fine - featured face as she tries to replicate the brash theatrics of the only role models she has.

In this dark, agile, sinewy cinema tale of the world of pool halls, pool hustlers and the gamblers who exploit them, Paul Newman plays the brash, cocky young pool shark Fast Eddie Felson.

An aging and broke bad - boy rocker from the 1990s gets another shot at fame 25 years later as a songwriter for a brash and talented young singer who's a big fan of his early work.

He is, however, still warring with the social repression instilled in him his whole life of valuing studies over all else, and when a brash and alluring young woman named Olivia (Sarah Gadon) catches his eye and shows an interest in him far exceeding the levels of decorum to which he is accustomed, his life is thrown into further turmoil.