Sentences with phrase «city of loners»

Plus, it's essentially a city of loners: 57 % of households are «nonfamily,» according to the Census Bureau, a much higher rate than the 33 % of the households across the country that are categorized this way.

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As a result of this imbalance, too many inner - city loners, lacking an even half - decent workplace, the proper tools of their trade and any kind of help, quickly lost heart and drifted into evil ways, while their customers and their friendly neighbourhood hospitals carried the can.

Veteran filmmaker Barak Goodman persuasively replies to that query in his somber, thorough «Oklahoma City,» a chilling documentary that firmly positions McVeigh not as some delusional loner but rather as a product of a far - right subculture that looked on the U.S. federal government as one of the most dangerous forces on the face of the Earth.

An American loner (Anton Yelchin) and a French student (Lucie Lucas) experience a night of carefree intimacy in the ancient Portuguese city of Porto.

Martin Scorsese's classic neo-noir thriller tells the story of Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), a disturbed loner of a veteran working as a nighttime cabbie in New York City.

His second directorial effort, The Driver (1978), couldn't be more different — a contemporary drama of cops and crooks in the modern city locked in a struggle that has become (for no explicable reason) personal, all loners with temporary alliances at best — yet we're in the same Hill universe of tough, terse professionals who define themselves by their abilities and express themselves in action.

Dragon Eyes stars MMA fighter Cung Le as Hong, a familiar kind of principled genre - movie loner: new to a lawless town (the fictional city of St. Jude), ready to take down a corrupt lawman (Peter Weller) and the rival gangs who pay him for protection.

Elsewhere in the city is Ben (Jonah Bobo), a teenage loner without any friends who finds comfort in composing music in the privacy of his bedroom.

Rosina races through the streets of Prescott, an eternal loner, the only brown girl in town who doesn't hang out with the other brown girls, as if she's trying to stand out on purpose, her spiky black hair snaking through the air, earbuds in her ears, listening to those wild women that made music in towns and cities so close to here but practically a whole generation ago, those brave girls with boots and electric guitars, singing with voices made out of moss and rocks and rainstorms.

When an anthropomorphic rabbit / mayoral candidate from the future named BunnyLord needs a murderous loner to clean up the city during the election, Steve heroically offers up his dubious skills with a gun and lack of self - preservation instinct to this mysterious stranger from beyond.