Sentences with phrase «brink of adulthood»

Teenagers are on the brink of adulthood, and raising a teen can be difficult.

Figuring out who you are, you're no longer a child on the brink of adulthood, dealing with crazy emotions, sex, etc..

Guinevere is a moving portrait of a young woman on the brink of adulthood, and an affirmation of the way one person can change your destiny by teaching you to accept humanity with all its glorious flaws.

In Lady Bird, Greta Gerwig and Saoirse Ronan convincingly capture a year in the life of a young woman poised on the brink of adulthood.

It's a shame, because there's a moment where Jay is skating off a pier at sunset that has the apocalyptic feel of tottering on the brink of adulthood without a clue.

Writer / Director Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird tells the story of a idealistic teenager (the brilliant, Americanized Saoirse Ronan) on the brink of adulthood, depicting the struggles of Catholic high school, overbearing mothers and financial hardship with brutal honesty.

Made in 1973 and set over one summer night in a small town in California in 1962, American Graffiti depicts the adventures and misadventures of a group of teenagers on the brink of adulthood.

His performance as a teenager on the brink of adulthood is at times entertaining, and at other times exasperating.

I arrived in my classroom and looked through my inmates» academic records only to find that many of them, people who are on the brink of adulthood, were functionally illiterate.

Now on the brink of adulthood, Lucy experiences another loss when her friend Cheri disappears and is then found murdered, her body placed on display for all to see.

The books follow the journeys of three homeschooled girls — Patience, Natalie, and Christy — as they step out on the brink of adulthood and danger.

One can imagine them on the brink of adulthood — and of a realization.