Sentences with phrase «hander about»

I had seen «Blackbird,» David Harrower's disquieting two - hander about a young woman who confronts the man who sexually abused her as a girl, at Manhattan Theatre Club in a production starring Jeff Daniels and Alison Pill.

Doug Liman returns with a war - based theatrical three - hander about an injured US soldier being tormented by an Iraqi sharpshooter.

I tell him it was in 2009, he was on stage at the Donmar Warehouse opposite Alfred Molina in the sensational two - hander about Mark Rothko's Seagram murals, and he jumps out of his seat.

The film is basically a three hander about a trio of folks in a bomb shelter.

A two - hander about a confrontation between a woman and the man who sexually abused her as a child fails to deliver on its intriguing promise

Not exact matches

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

The same kind of crap was said about left - handers centuries ago.

That appears in 95 per cent of right - handers suffering from damage in that area, but it appears in only about 61 per cent of left - handers.

But just eyeballing it, it looks like the Giants gave up about as much talent as any team in baseball, with Matt Duffy and his five years of team control going for the enigmatic Matt Moore, along with a high - profile international free agent from last year and a projectable, hard - throwing right - hander.

The 27 - year old right - hander had once been considered a top prospect, but there were growing concerns about his control and velocity.

Brendan: We thought Bubba would be the favorite here for years, with his booming drives faded between the pines via that left handers advantage we hear so much about these days.

In her latest book, «Laterality: Exploring the Enigma of Left - Handedness,» Porac writes about left - handers» advantage in sports, including fencing and tennis.

Secondly, right - handers appear just as good as southpaws, shooting down the original claim and suggesting that the skill is not going to tell us anything very interesting about how the brain works.

Goold shoots the film with a fine restraint, never coming off dull or dry in the two - hander and courtroom scenes and never going over the line into exploitative sensationalism for a story about a grisly crime.

Belfast is the setting of this low - budget thriller, though with nary a reference to the Troubles in the film's screenplay or geography, the two - hander drama could plausibly take place just about anywhere.

, COWBOYS, the directorial debut of Jacques Audiard's A Prophet and Rust and Bone co-writer Thomas Bidegain; the breathtaking ethnographic Colombian Amazon odyssey EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT; James Ponsoldt's THE END OF THE TOUR starring Jason Segel as writer David Foster Wallace and Jesse Eisenberg as Rolling Stone journalist David Lipsky in this engrossing two - hander; Writer - Director Jayro Bustamante's IXCANUL VOLCANO, the European Premiere Stevan Riley's enthralling Marlon Brando documentary LISTEN TO ME MARLON; Jia Zhangke's ambitious, astute and humane MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART; the European Premiere of Sylvia Chang's often - ethereal magic - realist drama love story, MURMUR OF THE HEARTS; the European Premiere of THE NEW CLASSMATE about a single mum in India battling to ensure her daughter's future; SEMBÈNE!

It's essentially a three - hander, with a real - estate agent thrown in, about an unhappy 57 - year - old, Mathias «Jim» Gold (Kevin Kline) whose dad had died, leaving Mathias with a house in Paris.

We talked to director Andrew Haigh about his two - hander 45 Years, which favoured long takes and strict blocking, but was just as focused on its characters» relationship to one another in space.

The Hollywood Reporter says that the movie will be «more of an ensemble piece than a two - hander,» which is the way people in the movie biz say that it will be about more than just Hemsworth and Thompson's characters (unlike the original movies, which focused just on Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones).

A two - hander, written and performed by Richard Attlee (Kenton in «The Archers») especially for schools, Stan v Bert is a novel and entertaining way to educate pupils about the theories and techniques of Stanislavski and Brecht.

This fast right - hander, which we take at about 200kph (124mph) in fourth gear, leads us on to the legendary Mulsanne straight.

It begins with a little smile during the triple - digit approach to a braking zone, gestates into giggles as you fly around a long, constant - radius right - hander fast enough to bend your neck like licorice, and finally breaks into full - on snorts as the car comes off the corner and accelerates into oblivion for about the 23rd time in the past three minutes.

This break makes fast and hollow right handers that average about 5 ft.. This place is often home to competitions for Billabong and Oakley as it is often considered one of Bali's best waves.

At the tide there was about 20 surfers riding the sand bottom and only a handful on the right hander.

Somewhat like baseball statistics — you know: «the longest game ever played during rain in the twilight pitched by a left - hander from Cleveland»; that sort of thing — stats about her are being developed.