Sentences with phrase «hard scrabble»

Super Bowl week is always a hard scrabble for movie players, but it doesn't have to be a complete dead zone.

After following the personal life of one transgender sex worker in Hollywood, California, Sean Baker will set his sights next on exploring the hard scrabble life of the average American citizen living in the greater state of Florida.

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It was a hard - scrabble frontier existence into which, on February 12, 1809, was born the figure who is at the center of the ninth reflection in this millennium series.

• In the hard - scrabble coal country of Pennsylvania, employment is hard to come by.

Where Protestantism still boomed was on the dry, scrubby ridges above town, in hard - scrabble aldeas that clustered around government schools and Church of God chapels.

Cannon Mt., N.H.: Cannon, Ravine, Hard - scrabble, Taft, Turnpike open.

C - level on the vaunted «eye test», never touted as a blue - chipper, turned pro at 15, total hard - scrabble career.

The enormous rift between Gonzalo's comfortable household and Pedro's hard - scrabble life a few miles away in an illegal shantytown ultimately becomes impossible to bridge, once the bloody military coup of September 11, 1973 erupts.

Gillespie, working from a script by Steven Rogers, does an effective job of painting a somewhat less - than - flattering portrayal of the protagonist's hard - scrabble existence, with the strength of the film's opening stretch standing in sharp contrast to a middling midsection that grows less and less interesting as time progresses.

Tonya Harding (Margot Robbie) comes from a hard - scrabble background under abusive mother LaVona (Allison Janney).

From a simple story of personal struggle, Zhao coaxes forth a stirring ode to a little - seen, hard - scrabble way of life and a sobering portrait of masculinity in crisis.

The main location was an actual house from the 1890s that had been built into the side of a hill, providing the perfect setting for a story in which the hard - scrabble pioneer lifestyle is central to character motivations.

Two young men, the white Jamie (Garret Hedlund) and the black Ronsel (Jason Mitchell), go off to World War II and return to the same hard - scrabble patch of Mississippi farmland forever changed.

The part feels too easy for him and he brings an insouciance that doesn't sit with the character's hard - scrabble story.

But, this is no dire look at the hard - scrabble life of poor people.

Have a Nice Day Liu Jian's Chinese animated noir about a bag of stolen money and the lowlifes drawn into its orbit is visually interesting in its depiction of a small industrialized town and its hard - scrabble citizens, but it's slow moving with a paper - thin screenplay.

As she did on «Mad Men,» Hendricks does a fine job of quietly showing how much the men around her character disappoint her, and how difficult it has been to keep any kind of optimism in her hard - scrabble life.

The Docks of New York (1928), the simplest, most delicately visualized and most perfect film of the set, is the turn - of - the - century bowery answer to Sunrise, with a romantic idealism fighting its way out of hard - scrabble lives and resigned characters of the waterfront culture.

A swirling camera and symphonic music are the director's instruments, which can elevate even the hard - scrabble existence of a young Liverpudlian to heights of poetry, and here they transfigure the space of the Dickinson estate into a expanse of wallpaper and candlelight, and most importantly, they give remarkable sonorousness to an otherwise hushed life.

Mind you, the sensations you feel driving this car hard are only magnified with the top down — the air whooshing past, the engine wailing behind your ears, the squeaks and squeals of the nearby tires scrabbling for grip as your rocket into and out of turns.

Accelerate hard out of a corner and the tyres scrabble for traction as the car washes wide.

Shutting off traction control was important, as its engagement turned hard acceleration into a series of shutdowns as the tires scrabbled to get the GTI up to speed.

Cowboys like P.I. Garnet dream of competing and winning the big money stakes at the annual National Rodeo Finals but most endure a hard - scrabble, impoverished lifestyle and limited career options.

In this sequel to his 2009 novel, Rain Gods, Burke returns to the hard - scrabble Texas town on the Mexican border, and its contemplative sheriff Hackberry Holland.

Though we know the outcome of this story going in — Dubus III eventually writes House of Sand and Fog — you'll read with the same anticipation you might feel while watching a hard - scrabble sports movie (think The Fighter).

A moving and deftly told portrait of the hard - scrabble life.

Setting: Cocke County, TN, beautiful but hard - scrabble hill country in East Tennessee, where anyone driving a car with an out - of - county license tag is considered fair game — and where hunting season opens at sundown.

Publishers Weekly said, «The natural cadences of Hyde's prose; her clever, realistic dialogue; her sharp descriptions of hard - scrabble country; and her warm humor raise the novel... to the level of a complex tale of one man's struggle to make sense of life.

The fight - or - flight response evolved thousands of years ago and helped our ancient ancestors survive in the hard - scrabble landscape of large predators such as saber - toothed tigers.

Through his art, Bradley attempts to find the perfect balance inside a triangle of Twombly - like scrabble, kitschy iconography and hard - edge geometric abstraction inspired by the old avant - garde movements.

Raised on a black cotton farm among eleven siblings, Binion's minimalist painting practice is deeply steeped in the hard - scrabble life and the racial injustices of the Deep South.

In your book, you juxtapose the hard - scrabble, proxy - fighting Skadden with the white - shoe, WASP - y Cravath, and you talked to partners at both.

When it comes to hard - scrabble downtowns, Kennebunk, Maine, doesn't seem to fit the bill.