Sentences with phrase «heartbreaking story of his life»

Five years after losing her infant son, a mom is sharing the heartbreaking story of his life and death in the hopes of helping other parents.

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Morin teaches you how to embrace a happier outlook and arms you to emotionally deal with life's inevitable hardships, setbacks, and heartbreaks — sharing for the first time her own poignant story of tragedy, and how she summoned the mental strength to move on.

Her resulting book, «The Newcomers,» is a delicate and heartbreaking mystery story, as Thorpe slowly uncovers the secret catastrophes in the lives of young immigrants at South High School in Denver.

I know it was only a week of my life and you, my sister, endured months and months, and it was a much worse story with so many factors, so many heartbreaks, so many decisions, so much to endure.

Melissa shares heartbreaking stories of other women in her life who suffered in silence.

From his own experience coupled with over 10,000 hours of listening to and coaching women as they shared their heartbreaking stories, Jonathon found his true gift and passion in life as a Heart Champion for women.

From his early life to his journeys from New York, Cuba, and Paris, Crane's story and that of the loves that defined him is told with imaginative empathy, and with a no holds barred performance - in a film as introspective, rebellious, heartbreaking, and honest as Crane himself.

Consider, too, Canada's submission, Deepa Mehta's «Water,» the heartbreaking story of young brides, already widows, who are expected to live the remainder of their lives in solitude and involuntary labor.

Cloudburst may be furnished by women on the run from their regular lives, a road trip of hope and heartbreak, and a hunky hitchhiker, but make no mistake: this is the story of Stella and Dot, not Thelma and Louise.

Though their 2014 film, about a woman (Marion Cotillard) trying to save herself from imminent redundancy, is cut from the same careworn cloth as previous features, it's another undeniably sublime and heartbreaking work about saintly self preservation, the struggles of working class life and the fact that it's often the smallest stories which deal with the biggest and most important ideas.

Moonlight is the tender, heartbreaking story of a young man's struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.

We Can't Live Without Cosmos, a clever, heartbreaking and efficiently told story of best friends and possible lovers training to become cosmonauts, is easily the best of these silents, all clean visual and narrative lines.

Heartbreaking sacrifices in story missions are just a part of life in Harebrained Scheme's Battletech.

Return to a continent ravaged by conflict with a familiar - yet - refined tactical RPG battle system, a vibrant and evocative art style that portrays a living canvas of watercolors, and a gripping World War II - inspired story full of momentous triumphs, heartbreaking loss, and unexpected hope for the human spirit.

The details: The ever - eclectic Irish director Lenny Abrahamson follows up his quirky, heartbreaking alt - rock musical Frank with an adaptation of Emma Donoghue's Booker Prize - shortlisted novel Room, a sensitive suspense story about a child who's been held captive with his mother for his entire life.

But once the story detours into Woody's old hometown — and begins dealing with the resentment and pain he left behind years ago — «Nebraska» deepens into a heartbreaking story of one man toward the end of his life looking back at the wreckage he's left in his wake.

Stephanie Di Giusto's drama «The Dancer» remedies that by telling the story of Fuller's complex, fascinating and often - heartbreaking life and career.

It weaves multiple characters» stories together as it explores both the heartbreaking loss and the heady promise of renewed life.

The film, based on a short story by David Constantine, presents a quietly heartbreaking examination of a marriage under pressure and pairs Rampling with fellow screen legend Tom Courtenay: the duo play a retired couple whose peaceful, stable life is rocked when they receive a bit of surprising news from the past.

«Hoop Dreams» has the form of a sports documentary, but along the way it becomes a revealing and heartbreaking story about life in America.»

Little Accidents is a heartbreaking story of loss and the pressure of a society that has conformed to a poverty stricken way of life.

The acclaimed indie filmmaker Ramin Bahrani (Goodbye Solo), who regularly and bravely focuses on heartbreaking trials of life while keeping his stories rooted in humanity, turns in some of his finest work.

All too often, the life story of the struggling reader, especially the child from disadvantaged circumstances, is a heartbreaking one.

Lost and alone in Victorian London, Alyss is befriended by an aspiring author to whom she tells the violent, heartbreaking story of her young life only to see it published as the nonsensical Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

This by turns funny and heartbreaking first novel tells the story of three families and their teenage children living on either side of California, following their loves, heartaches, and friendships during a memorable moment of American history.

From Pulitzer Prize - winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty - first century's great, unequal cities.

A powerful story of friendship, loyalty and the difficulty of overcoming your past, A Little Life may be the best book you read this year — and it will almost certainly be the most heartbreaking.

It was like this treat, this big fat 500 - page densely written treat, sitting on my desk, and I tell you once I started it I was in a transfixed and highly emotional state until I was done, and goddamn if I wasn't right: in that book, in all those beautiful, heartbreaking, inspiring, illuminating stories of families figuring out how to adjust their lives to (for example) Down Syndrome or deafness or intellectual disabilities, I found exactly what it was I wanted to do next, which is write a book about the ways that parents and children navigate each other.

Based on the true history of Town Line, New York — the only town north of the Mason Dixon line to secede from the Union — readers are treated to a heartbreaking and redemptive story that captures both the ugliness and beauty of life during the Civil War.

Its story of a girl whose obsessions control her life but who may, nevertheless, find romance with a wealthy boy whose father has gone missing is at once suspenseful and heartbreaking.

I mean, do we really have to play this game, where because I'm who I am and you're who you are, we pretend that the word «fuck» doesn't exist, and while we're at it, that the action that underlies the word doesn't exist, and I just puke up a bunch of junk about how some teacher changed my life by teaching me how Shakespeare was actually the world's first rapper, or about the time I was doing community service with a bunch of homeless teenagers dying of cancer or something and felt the deep call of selfless action, or else I pull out all the stops and give you the play - by - play sob story of what happened to my dad, or some other terrible heartbreak of a thing that makes you feel so bummed out you figure, what the hell, we've got quotas after all, and this kid's gotten screwed over enough, so you give me the big old stamp of approval and a fat envelope in the mail come April?

Hà's story touches upon many themes that I like to keep an open dialogue about with my children, among them: the often heartbreaking and perilous lives and background stories of immigrants and refugees, and the effects of bullying.

The story alternates between the diary of Sara Harrison Shea, who was brutally murdered back in 1908 shortly after the heartbreaking death of her young daughter, and a present - day mystery revolving around the disappearance of Alice — who happens to live in the old Shea farmhouse.

A heartbreaking story of family and marriage, a meditation on the unseen forces of nature and desire, The Unnamed is a deeply felt, luminous novel about modern life, ancient yearnings, and the power of human connection.

Accompanied by drawings created by real - life prisoners of the Terezín concentration camp, these gripping poems tell the heartbreaking stories of multiple fictional characters.

The story was both fascinating and heartbreaking, and while being entertained, I was also learning about the life of a citrus farmer.

Yet before she can truly find peace, one heartbreaking, life - altering decision remains.Inspired by her great - grandmother's life, the author weaves a timeless story of survival and courage set against the backdrop of Mt. Clemens, Michigan and the prairi...

Stories about abandoned animals are always heartbreaking and the story of Holland, an adorable puppy with an unfortunate life, is one of tho... Read More

is the tender, heartbreaking story of a young man's struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.

Moonlight is the tender, heartbreaking story of a young man's struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.

The stories of unnecessary loss of life in the past few days and years are heartbreaking.

That's where the PSAs and the cautionary tales come in: heartbreaking stories of girls and boys who have taken their own lives -LSB-...]