Sentences with phrase «center of the love story»

Salvation became personal, but also universal, displacing me as the center of the love story that God was in the middle of weaving.

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Also, on a personal note, dozens of friends have shared with me countless stories of their elderly loved ones dying as a result of the lack of electricity in their homes, hospitals, and care centers.

I think the center of this story is that religion or not, it is possible to embrace what we might otherwise be inclined to reject; that people are capable of compassion and love.

A quick overview of the story of God makes it clear that the margins are at the center of his love and concern.

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This is a story of friendship, love, and loyalty centered around a football - obsessed town in Texas.

As much as I loved Inglourious Basterds, that film was a series of digressions from the main plot, but this film is actually centered on the story he lays out at the beginning.

A Royal Affair loses its steam a bit in the final act, as the political shifting behind the scenes doesn't mesh too well with the love story that takes center stage, but it's all part of the required setup that brings us to that explosive climax which is well worth any minor complaints along the way.

I can't believe how well they managed to pick up the story after the end of the first series — which I loved but which I had no idea how they could follow up with the same characters at the center of the story.

Director Karel Reisz and screenwriter Robert Getchell create a tightly woven drama with two strong main characters and a number of fine supporting roles, and the love story at the film's center is convincing.

While Frozen was centered on a story about sisterhood, this is my kind of musical animation and my family loved it.

Pompeii is the type of epic disaster movie with a story - line centered on the brief and wholly unrealistic love story of a couple who just barely meets, a type of movie that is typically expected of directer Roland Emmerich (Independence Day,

If it weren't for the fact that «Loving» is the actual last name of the real - life couple at the center of this story, it would feel too on - the - nose.

In the 1960s, the top earners that centered around a female character were: The Sound of Music (which was the highest grossing film of the decade), Dr. Zhivago, Mary Poppins, My Fair Lady, Funny Girl, Cleopatra, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (debatable), Bonnie and Clyde (debatable), Let's Make Love, West Side Story.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

But the story's main arc is of love and loss, and the couple at its center are starlet and songwriter Marla Mabrey and aspiring real - estate mogul Frank Forbes.

Hayao Miyazaki brings together the engineer Jiro Horikoshi and the author Tatsuo Hori, who lived during the time of the story of THE WIND RISES to create Jiro, a fictional character at the center of an epic tale of love, perseverance, and the challenges of living and making choices in a turbulent world

Mileage may vary for audience members, taking again into the account the story centers around a sea - creature from a far away lagoon swooning for a mute custodian and the shady government plot that inadvertently ties them together, but to del Toro's credit he has made an inspired tale of communication beyond words and love beyond boundaries that transcends what some might perceive as wholly unnatural relations.

New York today put Carol front and center in a way that no other critics group could do when the NYFCC named Todd Haynes and his masterful love story Best Picture and Director of the year.

Adapted from Colm Toibin's novel of the same name, «Brooklyn» adds a layer of emotional complexity to its otherwise familiar love story by centering it on the notion of home, both the one we make and the one we leave behind.

India's Pad Man is a decidedly unique story of love centered on a man motivated to help his wife... Read

Dan Fogelman's Life Itself centers on a couple (Oscar Isaac & Olivia Wilde) that lead a multi generational love story spanning both decades and continents, from the streets of New York to the Spanish countryside, and are all connected by a single event.

At the center of the story are Tom (Jim Broadbent) and Gerri (Ruth Sheen), a loving couple whose warmth and ease — with themselves, with each other, and with other people — makes them and their cozy home a magnet for their longtime friends, particularly Gerri's workmate Mary (Lesley Manville), a nervous wreck who tries to camouflage her crippling anxiety with torrents of chitchat.

This film treats 17 - year - old Simon Spier's quest for love and self - acceptance with the tender, timeless, Hollywood touch of John Hughes: It's a classic story of a first crush made groundbreaking by centering on a closeted gay kid.

But if the group is merely saluting the effort Scott made in excising Spacey following multiple allegations of sexual misconduct against the actor, then it came at the expense of Gerwig, an awards season front - runner for the lovely «Lady Bird,» the rare movie love story centered on a mother and daughter.

Not only did it feature plenty of fight scenes involving creatures with claws, but Twilight is obviously based around the idea of forbidden love, and apparently there is a similar love story at the center of Wolverine 2 as well.

Hollywood loves a redemption story, which might explain why two people at the center of last year's Best Picture debacle at the Oscars are getting a second chance.

Other films that we admire, but didn't quite make the cut included Alison Mclean «s «Jesus» Son» featuring awesome performances by Billy Crudup and Samatha Morton as drug - addict adult - lescents in the 1970s, Stephen Daldry «s celebratory boyhood - meets - ballet drama, «Billy Elliot,» Lars Von Trier's comedic docu - like dogme film «Idioterne» («The Idiots,» made in 1998 but only released in the U.S. in 2000), Steven Soderbergh «s economic and no - nonsense «Erin Brockovich,» Stephen Frears «manchild, record store - centered love story, «High Fidelity,» Terence Davies ««The House of Mirth» featuring an excellent Gillian Anderson turn, and perhaps Neil LaBute «s best film, tellingly one he didn't write, the dreamy and odd, «Nurse Betty.»

Other than that, «Bulletproof» is your standard vulgar, mindless, action - buddy flick, albeit with a love story at its center — something that might have marked the movie as a landmark among the kind of fictional relationships that date back to «Huckleberry Finn,» if it weren't trying so hard to deny its identity.

At its center is Saoirse Ronan, delivering one of the year's best performances in a vivid story of leaving home, growing up, and falling in love.

Robert Getchell create a tightly woven drama with two strong main characters and a number of fine supporting roles, and the love story at the film's center is convincing.

The true - life story of Richard and Mildred Loving, who were the center of the landmark Supreme Court case that struck down laws again interracial marriage.

At the center is the love story of wealthy socialite Carol Aird (Cate Blanchett) and young department store clerk Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara).

More than anything else, though, I would never have guessed before seeing The Fly that Goldblum, a magnificent jester, would be at the center of one of the most moving love stories ever filmed, as ardent as any lover in cinema history.

Another example of the «great trailer, disappointing film» syndrome, Gaspar Noe «s surprisingly soft - centered «Love» may have featured 3D ejaculations and plenty of clearly un-simulated sex, but its story was sadly lacking in any real edge or insight.

«There could be a desperate love story at the center of this.

Daddy issues aren't at the center of a «How I Met Your Mother» spinoff so much as a need for a love story repository.

It's a Busby Berkeley musical crossed with the raucous adrenaline - fueled carnage of a John Frankenheimer car chase, a rather sensitively chaste love story sitting at the center of all the intensely choreographed chaos.

Most Americans know the story well, as the plane never met its intended destination, while the passengers on board were able to contact their loved ones as the flight was en route, informed that three other planes had been used as weapons of mass suicide, two of them hitting the twin towers of the World Trade Center, and a third striking the Pentagon.

The film centers on a couple (Oscar Isaac and Olivia Wilde) that lead a multi generational love story spanning both decades and continents, from the streets of New York to the Spanish...

In this episode, award - winning writer / director Jeff Nichols talks about bringing a highly charged true story to the screen and finding the personal connection to Richard and Mildred Loving — apolitical people at the center of the landmark 1967 civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate laws prohibiting interracial marriage.

For those of you who haven't watched (and cried through) the classic movie, Love Story, this is a film from the 1970s that centers around a Harvard hockey player and a Radcliffe intellectual who have absolutely nothing in common other than their deep love for each otLove Story, this is a film from the 1970s that centers around a Harvard hockey player and a Radcliffe intellectual who have absolutely nothing in common other than their deep love for each otlove for each other.

They loved the vaguely scatological cartoons, the boy - centered story of middle - school humiliation, and the chance to hang out together.

A love story develops in the center of all the events.

- Kirkus Reviews» [A] lthough «a measure of tragedy is stitched into everything,» at its center it is really a story of the profound if not permanent bonds of friendship and love that underpin a tumultuous existence.»

That's the backdrop for the love story which is at the center of this novel - the politics of a very volatile era.

Why do you think readers are so drawn to domestic thrillers that are centered on a marriage, and what do you love most about these types of stories?

Love stories inspired by classic lit take center stage in these two new comedic coming - of - age teen romances.

Part dysfunctional love story, part poignant exploration of the mother / daughter relationship, Jonathan Evison has crafted a bighearted novel with an endearing heroine at its center.

Touches of romance, sure, but at least in the opening book, the story can't center on a central love story and hold for the rest.»