Sentences with phrase «dysfunctional home life»

Its tragic back story — it was published eleven years after the author committed suicide — reinforces the lesson hidden in its pages: Within the awkward body of an overweight slacker with lousy hygiene and a dysfunctional home life may beat the heart of a brilliant artist in need of a teacher's faith.

While ODD can develop in children from loving and stable families, it's not uncommon for these children to have had a dysfunctional home life and / or exposure to violence.

Not exact matches

Although my family was considered «saved» my home life was really dysfunctional & there were also times of abuse within the church, and outside of that too... There are really bad people everywhere.

Angelique Cabral spends her days playing Colleen in the comedy Life in Pieces, which follows one big happy (and sometimes dysfunctional family), but at home, she is spending time with her own family....

He has severely attacked black members of the school board but he has also worked hard at the school board to make changes he believes will help students including struggling black students living in dysfunctional homes.

Singapore About Blog mrbrown's blog containing his popular and satirical musings on the dysfunctional side of Singapore life, and Home of the National Conversation since 1997.

The story follows the women of a family whose lives have splintered in many directions until a crisis bring them back to their childhood home and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.

Some entries in the largely undistinguished dysfunctional - family - holiday - film subgenre — The Family Stone (also with Keaton) and Jodie Foster's Home for the Holidays, to name two — are watchable despite their forced zaniness and predictable emotional beats; the spectacle of attractive stars packed into the frame to act out universal problems (meddling parents, sibling rivalries, unfulfilled romantic and professional lives) has its charms and comforts.

Hank's mother is dead, and he's back for the funeral, reuniting briefly with his two brothers, one (Vincent D'Onofrio) who bears a grudge and another (Jeremy Strong) whose childlike mental state means he still lives at home, the innocent ingredient in a dysfunctional domestic stew.

Cyrus (R for profanity and sexuality) Dysfunctional family comedy about a divorced guy (John C. Reilly) who thinks he's met the woman of his dreams (Marisa Tomei) until he has to deal with her 21 year - old son (Jonah Hill) still living at home.

Our Little Sister (PG for mature themes and brief mild epithets) Dysfunctional family dramedy about three sisters (Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa and Kaho) living in their late grandmother's home who invite a half - sibling (Suzu Hirose) they meet at their father's funeral to move in with them.

«August: Osage County» in 2008, which explores the lives of several members of a dysfunctional family, the Westons, who travel to their childhood home headed by patriarch Beverly Weston (Shepard, Out of the Furnace) and his wife Violet (Streep, It's Complicated), who is afflicted with cancer of the mouth (both literally and figuratively) that causes her to seek a variety of prescription medications that, while alleviating the pain, also makes her exceedingly ornery to others.

In my mind, what is truly distinctive about these schools is how deeply invested they are in fostering the social development of their students, many of whom are reared in homes and communities that are dysfunctional and unsupportive in ways that undermine the youngsters» ability to function well in school, much less in life.

Once I left home, learned a bit about my contemporary's family lives, and saw some really dysfunctional mother / daughter relationships I realized I was pretty lucky in the Mom Lottery.

A child who suffers living in a dysfunctional family may try to run away from home and land from the frying pan, into the fire.

Singapore About Blog mrbrown's blog containing his popular and satirical musings on the dysfunctional side of Singapore life, and Home of the National Conversation since 1997.

Singapore About Blog mrbrown's blog containing his popular and satirical musings on the dysfunctional side of Singapore life, and Home of the National Conversation since 1997.

This year also saw the IF Comp entries The Unofficial Sea - Monkey Simulation (a melancholy reflection on life in a dysfunctional home where the only thing you can affect is your sea monkeys» care and feeding) and Transient Skies (another space exploration game, this one interspersed with bits of character - defining flashback).

The Archway Community was based in large part on the theories of the late, radical psychiatrist R.D. Laing, including his belief that the hierarchical structure of the usual doctor - patient relationship could be broken down by communal living — an effort to break the cycle of people being fruitlessly shuttled between mental hospitals and their often dysfunctional homes.

Richard Billingham, the photographer who has made art out of images of his dysfunctional family, in their tower block home which his alcoholic father Ray rarely lives, is also nominated for his recent startling change of direction to deserted urban streetscapes under blazing blue skies.

Singapore About Blog mrbrown's blog containing his popular and satirical musings on the dysfunctional side of Singapore life, and Home of the National Conversation since 1997.