Sentences with phrase «friends by proxy»
In response, he threatened to kill me, bullied women such as Tilda into silence, and used his friends by proxy to further intimidate and shut women down who spoke out.
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Of course, Lester joins the group, under the pseudonym of his best friend Vince (Jacott) who, in perhaps the Woody Allen - est twist of all, feeds Lester his real angst so that he also gets free therapy - by - proxy.
Ronan is a fitting Gerwig proxy, whether she's downing Communion wafers like Triscuits with her best friend (Beanie Feldstein), pushing her way into the school play, or exploring young lust with sweet drama geek Danny (Manchester by the Sea's Lucas Hedges) and clove - smoking bad boy Kyle (Timothée Chalamet).
Christian faith notwithstanding, Gray was too much of an empiricist to accept Agassiz's metaphysical biology, and so even as he realized somewhat bitterly in recent years how far he and Darwin were from agreeing on the subject of intelligent design in nature, he stood staunchly by him as Darwin's man in the New World, his first friend, collaborator, proxy, and shield.