Sentences with phrase «close childhood friends»

Coming of age in Birmingham, Alabama during the social ferment of the civil rights era, the murder of two close childhood friends in the 1963 Sunday School bombing crystallized within Fania a passionate commitment to social transformation.

Andrew McCarthy (Mannequin, Pretty in Pink) stars as Clay, the only one of three close childhood friends who leaves Beverly Hills in order to go to college.

Given that my network was rather thin in Boston, I recruited two close childhood friends as co-founders.

I wasn't sure about what people would say or think, but I recently spoke to a close childhood friend, Dr. Seuss, who reminded me, «Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.»

Her closest childhood friend was her grandmother (Susan Sarandon) who struggled with the same low self esteem by finding gratification from men, alcohol and pills.

Dr. Alan McMichael (Charlie Hunnam) is one of her closest childhood friends that has always taken a liking to Edith, but she always shrugs it off and doesn't want to be part of his extravagant life.

There's also Montana's closest childhood friend whose name is William Right.

Dad had bought The Summit with his closest childhood friend, a real estate developer who urged Dad and his older brother, Jack, to branch out of the butterand - egg business they'd taken over when their father had died.

However, the release of Final Fantasy 15 seems to have sparked a new trend across the internet: A «ship» — an imagined romantic pairing — called «Promptis,» the coupling of Noctis (the prince of Eos and the game's main character) and Prompto (his closest childhood friend).

Not exact matches

We don't have to remind anyone — from close companions to childhood friends we haven't spoken to in 15 years — that it's someone's birthday.

He put his close ally Wang Qishan in charge of it, a friend since childhood and former colleague.

We see Mahamadou Niakate, another of Evra's gang of scallywags who stayed a close knit group of friends throughout their childhood.

My close friend from childhood, Julie Fogliano, has written two children's books: And Then It's Spring and If You Want to See a Whale.

The bond that's shared by twins is unlike anything else, hence I'd go as far to say that 99.9 % of twins grow up being incredibly close, the best of friends, the greatest of buddies, from childhood through to adulthood.

Stricoff, a childhood friend and close ally of Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone, was chief executive officer of the Babylon IDA from 2002 until Sept. 12, 2014, when he resigned after his appointment as executive director of the Suffolk County IDA.

«Pete and I have been very close friends since childhood.

The five childhood experiences people cite most often (from a list of 11) are the death or serious illness of a family member or close friend (18 %), a serious physical injury or accident (13 %), growing up in a low - income household (11 %), parents divorcing or separating (11 %), and a parent or other close family member losing a job (10 %).

While at the Urban Lights exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, my dear Mystery Man, and close friend, David, entertained me as I relived my childhood fantasy of being a dancer for a few minutes =)

I have several friends on facebook that I have become real close to, as if we were friends from childhood.

By contrast, Diederik (Jeroen Perceval), Jacky's childhood friend who witnessed the beating and is now working as a police informant, is a lame caricature of a closeted homosexual, clumsily smooching every man who gets too close to him, present only for the sake of counter-example.

«Truth or Dare» is elevated in part due to a great performance by Hale, and by exploring the relationship between Olivia and Markie, childhood best friends who have become even closer following the suicide of Markie's father.

Presumedly, Disney World is in some way a backdrop to Baker's script, which he co-wrote with Chris Bergoch («Tangerine» and «Starlet») and tells the story of a precocious six year old and her rag - tag group of close friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility, and a sense of adventure, while their parents and the adults around them struggle with hard times.

You will learn more about their childhood and how both became close friends however this is mostly done through narrative exposition in the form of Chloe's journal that you can access at any point in the game.

Coming from radically different childhoods and backgrounds (Truffaut came from an unhappy working class home and stints in juvenile detention, Godard from an affluent, educated, supportive family), the directors were close friends and colleagues, sharing many of the same cinematic fathers (Rossellini, Bergman, Renoir), celebrating neglected directors of the past (Truffaut interviewed Hitchcock in a celebrated book, Godard interviewed Fritz Lang in a documentary and cast him in Contempt) and preaching the gospel of a cinema dedicated to presenting the real, the honest and the authentic, first in the pages of film magazines and then on the screen.

Arriving on Amazon Prime Video just one week after its DVD release, Sean Baker's warm, stunning and heartbreaking drama tells the story of a precocious six - year - old and her rag - tag group of close friends, whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure, while their parents and the adults around them struggle with hard times.

Joe has lived on the island all of his life, and is still close to his childhood friend, Helen (Crystal Bernard), who runs the lunch counter in the airport.

Kathy reflects back on her life so far: her childhood at Hailsham School, a transitional period at The Cottages with her closest friends from Hailsham, and her working life caring for donors.

Christina Villegas is Dr. Shane Truman Todd's cousin and one of his closest friends since childhood.

On a closing spread, Carle shares a childhood photo of a friend, now lost to him, but on the dust jacket, we read that his wife, Bobbie, was inspiration for the book as well.

I shared my «news» with only close family, two childhood friends, and two writer - friends who have maintained close contact with me.

Over the years I've still used some sign language, including with a close friend who although she can hear, is unable to speak due to a childhood illness (she signs to me and I speak since she can hear).

My childhood experience with the original was pretty limited because I didn't own it, but some close friends did and had already unlocked or discovered elsewhere the code for 100 % completion.

Realizing the same mad scientist who tricked him is also responsible for his childhood friend's death and many others close to him, he sets out on a journey alone to exact revenge on the man who ruined his life...

As a result, Thompson and his sisters spent much of their childhood without close friends.

Most of McGinley's subjects are themselves artists, many of them highly recognizable: his childhood friend, the painter Dan Colen; Kunle Martins, better known by his graffiti moniker Earsnot; the late photographer and multi-media collagist Dash Snow, a close compatriot and frequent subject.

During his childhood in Nutley, New Jersey, Goodrich was a close friend of Reginald Marsh, who would later become an important painter.

Architect I.M. Pei, a close friend and author of a great catalogue essay on his work, had a similar childhood.

However, there is also at least some evidence to suggest that socially - withdrawn, anxious and depressive children can also particularly benefit from positive peer relationships.29, 32,33,34 For example, Laursen and colleagues35 reported that having at least one close friend attenuated links between social isolation and the development of internalizing problems in early childhood.