Sentences with phrase «headstrong young»

Naughty Dog's epic adventure follows the grizzled Joel and his headstrong young companion Ellie as they attempt to make it across the United States in the wake of a zombie-esque viral uprising.

Bait is not crime fiction but a portrait sketch of headstrong young men whose plans are thrown into disarray, with surprising ramifications.

Some may cry foul, but the film's portrayals feel justified — the unspoken argument being that though they're being exposed to atrocious horrors most of us will never have to experience in life, these are still headstrong young twentysomethings who are as ill - equipped to process their trying encounters as anyone.

For while Regan — a headstrong young teenager played here by Millicent Simmonds, who, by one of those strange film - world coincidences, is also the star of another of the week's big releases, Wonderstruck — is completely at home in this new silent world, she's also detached from its dangers.

Carey Mulligan is Bathsheba, the headstrong young woman in late 19th - century Dorset who is to inherit a handsome farm.

Reluctant to take on a Padawan apprentice, he reconsiders when his life is saved by Ahsoka Tano, a headstrong young lady who, despite the orange skin, white face paint, and headdress, talks like a ditzy California girl.

Day - Lewis plays dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock, whose glamorous bachelor's life in 1950s London is upended after he falls for a headstrong young woman (Luxembourgian actor Vicky Krieps).

M.K. joins the ranks of a brave warrior Leafman named Ronin (Colin Farrell, allowed to use his natural brogue) and the headstrong young Nod (Josh Hutcherson), the son of Ronin's late friend whom Ronin has essentially raised.

Jack's only hope of survival lies in the legendary Trident of Poseidon, but to find it he must forge an uneasy alliance with Carina Smyth (Kaya Scodelario), a brilliant and beautiful astronomer, and Henry (Brenton Thwaites), a headstrong young sailor in the Royal Navy.

Day - Lewis plays Reynolds Woodcock, a celebrated dressmaker in 1950s London and a swinging, if strictly regimented bachelor, who keeps his lines and ladies perfectly arrayed until the day he falls for a headstrong young woman named Alma (Vicky Krieps).

A headstrong young woman (Wendy Hiller) knows exactly what she wants: she's heading to the Hebrides to marry a reclusive tycoon twice her age.

Susanne is instantly fascinated and an odd kind of courtship begins between the impressionable but headstrong young woman and the older man with an ulterior motive, one that inevitably draws her into the political intrigue of citizens fleeing the East for the West and the espionage by agents no better than mercenary thugs attempting to staunch the flow.

Jack's only hope of survival lies in the legendary Trident of Poseidon, but to find it he must forge an uneasy alliance with Carina Smyth (Kaya Scodelario), a brilliant and beautiful astronomer, and Henry (Benton Thwaites), a headstrong young sailor in the Royal Navy.

The big picture of «Brave» (Disney) is centered on the generationally - charg ed relationship between a headstrong young woman and her protective but loving mother.

Based on a Daphne Du Maurier novel and made a year before Hitchcock's Oscar - winning movie of Du Maurier's «Rebecca,» the film introduces Maureen O'Hara as Mary, a headstrong young Irish woman (is there any other kind?)

The bride is Shelby (Julia Roberts), a headstrong young beauty whose iron - willed mother, M'Lynn (Sally Field), would do anything for her.

At its center is the «bastard» of the title, Asya, a nineteen - year - old woman who loves Johnny Cash and the French Existentialists, and the four sisters of the Kazanci family who all live together in an extended household in Istanbul: Zehila, the zestful, headstrong youngest sister who runs a tattoo parlor and is Asya's mother; Banu, who has newly discovered herself as a clairvoyant; Cevriye, a widowed high school teacher; and Feride, a hypochondriac obsessed with impending disaster.

Not exact matches

Before joining Ford, Sankaran served in consultancy roles with Ernst & Young LLP and Headstrong, where he focused heavily on analytical systems.

Hirsch's McCandless never casts judgment on those who lead lives he finds empty, a remarkable job of acting for a young relatively - unknown talent and an interesting choice, as the headstrong lad was likely riding on a bit of hubris and contempt for the sham from which he was escaping.

This beautiful adventure follows headstrong Moana, the young daughter of the chief of a Polynesian tribe who sets sail in search of legendary demigod Maui to save her island's people.

Led by the headstrong boy wonder, Robin, the young superheroes head to Hollywood in search of big - screen stardom.

She really couldn't be any more convincing as the spirited, headstrong, thoroughly modern young woman — an artist in her own right — who, as the film begins has already become Einar's wife.

At first, she seems to be just the latest in a long line of impressionable young women he molds and bend to his will, but it soon becomes clear that she is different, headstrong and self - assured in a way he has never encountered before.

While Marlo isn't too excited about the prospect of having a nanny at first, especially when the young babysitter proves to be a bit too headstrong for her own good, she eventually softens on the situation.

Keats's feyness is counteracted by the headstrong candour of Fanny Brawne, the young seamstress who became his great love, played beautifully by Abbie Cornish.

Swaby (Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science — and the World, 2015) tackles a younger audience, bringing drama to these 33 tales geared to the female scientists of tomorrow.

She's young, incredibly gifted, incredibly cultured, and incredibly headstrong.

These include Steiner, a headstrong knight in service of the Princess, Eio, a young summoner who is the last remaining member of her tribe, Quina, a blue mage and wondering chef, and Vivi, a young black mage who spends most of the game trying to find the meaning of life.