Sentences with phrase «distraught father»

On one of his trips to the island of Haiti, a very distraught father came to the hospital carrying a newborn whose mother had died in childbirth.

I and other team members tried in vain to comfort her distraught father as he learned of her death.

With a smirk on his face, Connor drives with his sound specialist (Iris Bahr) and a cameraman to the Louis Sweetzer farm where he is greeted by a distraught father (Louis Herthum) with strong fundamentalist beliefs.

Frustrated by the police department's lack of progress in locating his missing 6 - year - old daughter, a distraught father decides to take matters into his own hands.

As ever, Hugh Jackman is committed and convincing as the distraught father who unwisely applies his aggressive, survivalist outlook to finding his daughter, turning on the only suspect in the disappearance: a young man with a low IQ played by Paul Dano.

Among them is distraught father and institution board member Paul Griffen (Ian McShane) whose son Chris (Wes Brown) was killed.

How to convince a distraught father to snap out of his funk, to get him back to the living and take him out of his melancholy routine of riding his bike, sitting in a dog park moping, and neither eating nor sleeping.

Lead Detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal), who was assigned to the case, must not only juggle the case itself and hopefully find the girls, he must also keep watch over a distraught father who thinks he can do the detective's work for him.

Fred Guttenberg, a distraught father, stood in front of the crowd to talk about his daughter, Jennifer, who was also among the 17 killed during the Valentine's Day massacre.

The heartache strains other family relationships, like the distraught father who avoids talking to his mother so he can keep his angst from overflowing or the mortified sister who inadvertently posted a FB link that upset the alienating parent and ended the little contact her brother had with his children.

Last month, a distraught father immolated himself on the steps of a courthouse in New Hampshire, after mailing a 15 - page «last statement» to the local newspaper detailing his final frustrations with the child custody legal system.

Recently, Dads of Wisconsin heard from a distraught father.