Sentences with phrase «characters as family men»

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In «A Good Man is Hard to Find,» a character named «Misfit» shoots the family grandmother even as she is asserting his basic goodness as a human being.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER With a full 26 characters to spare, veteran Bronx City Councilmember Jimmy Vacca took to Twitter with something of a major status update: «After talking w / my friends & family I've decided to come out publicly as a gay man.

The tabloids: The appearance of all - but - nude body - painted babes in sanitized Times Square — once home to strictly family friendly characters like anti-Semitic Elmos and cop - punching Spider - Men — gave editors of the city's scandal sheets the opportunity to plaster their pages with sexy pics and indignant headlines, engaging in what one Observer contributor described as the unbeatable paper - selling combo of «simultaneous shaming and titillating.»

«As it begins, we see a series of characters and events, which eventually weave together and intersect with Liev Schreiber's character, Ray Donovan, who is a family man with a dark Boston past.»

Where the first movie, which begins with Tyler's character rejecting Speedman's proposal of marriage, subtly positions the masked strangers as a warped reflection of a nuclear family — a man in a suit, a sexualized «pinup girl,» and a cherub - faced baby doll — Prey at Night scores its first killings with Kim Wilde's «Kids in America,» the equivalent of having Bugs Bunny lean into the frame with an arrow - shaped sign reading, «Get it?»

Even ignoring the impolitic elements of character development, however — which again, Moffat really shouldn't have — the greater sin of The Last Post is that the writing is stodgy and unrealistic plot is as parched for tension and excitement as the dunes in the desert where these men and their families are stationed.

The difference here being Connery's character isn't gruff and butch as you might expect, but actually more quiet, calm, sensitive, a slightly broken man who pines for his family.

It's at his usual pick - up haunt one night - a bar as sleekly and nattily appointed as the character's wardrobe - that Jacob first espies Cal, a family man who has known better days and wants to drink away all recognition of that fact.

The character, as Ray apparently sees him, is not the charismatic hero of legend, but rather an angry young man, driven by the atrocities his family suffered during the Civil War to revenge himself on Yankees by stealing their money, first from banks, then trains.

That is to say, as Wood puts it: «capitalism, the right to ownership; the home, the family, the monogamous couple; patriarchy...» (1) Between men, nicknaming is frequently the overt articulation of complex and fraught processes of male bonding, enabling the integration of an inexperienced male character into a group by his more experienced, and previously integrated, elders.

Affleck plays the central character, Bobby Walker, a suburban family man whose $ 180,000 salary supports a plush lifestyle, and Wells follows him over the course of a year as he suffers the humiliation, rage, despair, and self - loathing of a man cast out of his workplace.

We finally saw our much - beloved character getting in touch with his berserker side (without the confines of a more family - friendly rating), as well as exploring his humanity within different relationship dynamics, which are as textured as films like LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE, CHILDREN OF MEN and SHANE.

The new setting revivifies the harsh forces of class and gender at work in the story, as the sweet but inscrutable title character (Freida Pinto) falls under the spell of a wealthy young man (Riz Ahmed) and leaves her family in dusty Rajasthan for better wages in Mumbai and glamor at the margins of the film industry.

Ryan Gosling has made a name for himself playing characters who live on the fringes of society: his breakout role as a Nazi - sympathizing Jew in The Believer, a half - baked teacher in Half Nelson, a man in love with a blow - up doll in Lars And The Real Girl, and most recently, a fledgling musician whose temper and lack of ambition prove destructive to his family in Blue Valentine.

After many years and many movies» worth of juggling characters, Furious 7 settles on the core trio of Dom, FBI - agent - turned - rogue - turned - family - man Brian O'Conner (the late Paul Walker), and Dom's girlfriend Letty (Michelle Rodriguez), who was presumed dead in 2009's Fast & Furious, then revealed as alive and amnesia - addled in Fast 6, where she served as a conflicted villain.

From a half - Shawnee Indian's bold choice to escape an abusive home only to find herself with a man who will one day try to kill her, to a brave young girl's determination to protect her younger sister as methamphetamine ravages their family, the characters in this remarkable novel have deep connections to the land, and a resilience that only the place they call home could create.

With unforgettably vivid characters, mesmerizing language and page - turning suspense, Circe is a triumph of storytelling, an intoxicating epic of family rivalry, palace intrigue, love and loss, as well as a celebration of indomitable female strength in a man's world.

There are teenagers who perfectly fit the stereotypical image that the media loves so much of comic - book fans, little kids who love anime, young boys and girls out with their confused parents, cosplaying parents out with their confused children, entire families dressed up as the cast of Firefly or as Star Wars characters,, bemused grandparents being lead around with a smile on their face that suggests while they are a little baffled by the entire thing they're having a good time, middle - aged men and women who look like they've just come straight from work and enjoy a good comic and every other type of human in - between.