Sentences with phrase «high drama at»

The promise of high drama at last night's Republican State Committee (RSC) meeting contributed to its late start due to the standing - room - only crowd.

He is due back in Bolivia in the next few days, seemingly willing to step into all the high drama at high altitude.

Not exact matches

The couple first met when Brigitte taught Emmanuel, then 15, drama at the Jésuites de la Providence lycée high school in Amiens.

A source familiar with the international 11th - hour scramble to stop the tariffs likened it to a high - stakes reality - show content, with a drama - courting U.S. president at the centre of the production: «(It's a) last - episode - of - «The - Apprentice» kind of thing.»

Ludwig Hantson, once the head honcho over at Baxter spinoff Baxalta, has a new gig: CEO of Alexion Pharmaceuticals, which is still grappling with the aftermath of some high - profile C - suite shakeup drama.

When Lonny is not working to make a positive impact in his community, he hangs out at home with his wife, dogs, and 3 children including his daughter who is a freshman in the drama department at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Miguel's daughter, Andrea, is a sophomore at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and the Treasurer of the Douglas Drama Club.

Neil's daughter, Jessica, is a junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, and an active member in the Drama Club.

Many from both sides had significant roots in the drama department at Stoneman Douglas High school.

It's a lively volume with contributions by Terry Teachout (drama critic for the Wall Street Journal), Carol Iannone (editor of Academic Questions), and Asia himself (a distinguished composer and professor of composition at U of A), among others, and they all get to the heart of the problem of high culture at the present time in America.

Nascar races are renowned for high intensity and ridiculous levels of drama (and chaos) and that's exactly what we saw during Friday night's Truck Series season - opener at Daytona.

It was a hard decision to make, but it was better to make it in high school than to stretch out the drama, up the ante on the tension, or in the worst case scenario: to burn out and to lose my passion for learning at a school where I really didn't belong.

I had to laugh at your high chair dramas!

The night was marked by high drama, with reports of the prime minister jabbing his finger at Tory rebel leader Jesse Norman, who was then forced to leave the parliamentary estate following threats from his own party whips.

In contrast to the high political drama unfolding behind closed doors, the streets of the capital remained calm, with people going about their daily business, albeit under the watch of soldiers on armored vehicles at strategic locations.

There was a mild drama at the Ondo state High Court on Thursday as an Akure based lawyer and right activist, Femi Emmanuel - Emodamori accused Justice Aderemi...

Debates on the floor of the House of Commons do not generally win a mass audience, even at moments of high drama — the knife - edge vote that settles great affairs of state.

«This entire drama is aimed at helping the Rivers APC at the Election Tribunal as the Police High Command did during the Rivers State Governorship Election Tribunal at Abuja.

«The drama at the Press Conference convened by the IGP Investigative Panel and the IGP reveals the script being acted by the Police High Command, which is now obviously an arm of the Ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

It was a day of high drama Wednesday at City Hall, as the City Council voted to anoint Melissa Mark - Viverito its next speaker.

At the same time the programme's makers, who had a ball with the MPs» expenses, should recognise that there is enough dark comedy and high drama in politics at the moment without the need for them to contrive dangerous controversAt the same time the programme's makers, who had a ball with the MPs» expenses, should recognise that there is enough dark comedy and high drama in politics at the moment without the need for them to contrive dangerous controversat the moment without the need for them to contrive dangerous controversy.

But with billions of dollars at stake, elite university combatants, and high - profile scientists fighting over inventorship, the CRISPR battle has turned into a drama - filled epic, and this hearing was the first time lawyers for the University of California (UC) public faced down their opponents representing the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

I once asked my high school drama teacher if I could buy some of the ultra-thick stage makeup from her... she looked at me a little strange, since I wasn't even on the cast of the current musical and was working backstage / tech.

I'm 5» 3 ″, used to be 115 lbs in highschool, but at the time with all the high school drama and bullying, I always thought I was chubby.

Lesbian relationships already can be full of drama, and looking at a woman who is accentuating all things feminine can ignite a fear that the drama would be as high as those 8 - inch stilettos you're teetering around on.

When Emmanuel Macron's parents found out that he had fallen in love with his drama teacher in 1994, they were desperate to avoid scandal and packed him A police officer name withheld has allegedly murdered his girlfriend Vida Bonsu, a female teacher of Kumasi Girls Senior High School at Konongo, Asante

The Bloomfield, MI, native worked a series of odd jobs before graduating from high school and enrolling in Oakland University — eventually realizing that her only hope for escaping the Midwest and accomplishing her goal of becoming an actress was convincing her parents to let her study drama at Juilliard.

After high school, the aspiring thespian attended the Nepean Drama School on the Kingswood Campus at the University of Western Sydney, graduating in 1994.

At the age of 12, Robbins joined the Theater for the New City, remaining a member for the next seven years; he also joined his high - school drama club, an experience which afforded him his first opportunities to direct for the stage.

The Playlist has the most enthusiasm for this «fresh, funny and moving look at the ups and downs of friendship and family in high school,» believing it «successfully plumbs some very dark thematic developments, and navigates its way through humor and drama with ease.»

Whereas across earlier films Haneke's predilection for deceit served a high - minded, if still somewhat suspect, intellectual purpose (an interrogation of privilege and meaning in Caché, the deconstruction of genre in both versions of Funny Games, and so on), here his disingenuous approach is not only unwarranted, but is actually at odds with the tone and tenor of the drama.

The 1968 Rachel, Rachel was the outcome of Woodward's exile; she and Newman admitted it was carefully designed as a vehicle to resuscitate her career, and the ploy worked brilliantly — he directed, she starred, and together they led the film to four Oscar nominations, including Best Actress and Best Picture.The following year Woodward and Newman reunited onscreen for the auto - racing drama Winning, and again starred together in 1970s politically charged W.U.S.A., a reflection of the couple's high - profile support of liberal causes; when 1971's They Might Be Giants proved unsuccessful, Newman directed Woodward to Best Actress honors at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival for The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man - in - the - Moon Marigolds.

Jennifer was a drama student at New York's High School of the Performing Arts, a school that was also attended by actor Al Pacino.

Continuing our coverage of images from films that will be featured at January's Sundance Film Festival, we bring you images from two of the higher profile dramas that will be screened in - competition at the festival: The Ledge and Like Crazy.

I was the president of the drama club in high school and I studied at the Los Angeles Theater Academy and got my degree from UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television I like to think I know actors.

Wile I'd like to see another few episodes to make sure, there's something comfortably gooey right away about This Is Us, reminding us once more that amid all the high - functioning detectives, emergency - rescue personnel and secret - agent superheroes covered in cryptic tattoos, there are very few network dramas aimed at viewers who are simply interested in everyday people and how they feel.

This violent drama debuted at last year's Cannes Film Festival and earned high praise from those who caught it, and it's easy to see why: this movie looks like it rules.

Stephen Frears» directorial debut Gumshoe, a cockeyed detective film starring Albert Finney as a small - time bingo caller who plays at being a private detective for fun and ends up in the middle of a real mystery, and Arch Oboler's 1951 end - of - the - world drama Five, a low budget, high concept film he produced independently, also arrive under the «Martini Movies» imprint.

Stage Fright (R for profanity, sexual references and graphic violence) High body - count horror flick set at a snobby drama camp terrorized by a bloodthirsty slasher who hates musical theater.

1998-05-20 04:00:00 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — The 22nd San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival opens June 18 with the premiere of Lisa Cholodenko's «High Art,» an urban drama about Syd (Radha Mitchell), a photo magazine editor, and Lucy (Ally Sheedy), a renowned art photographer who retired at the age of 40.

Deviating from the usual Marvel formula, Spider - Man: Homecoming filtered the story of your friendly neighborhood Spider - Man through the lens of a high school drama, imbuing the Wallcrawler with the kind of adolescent struggles that everyone can relate to at one time or another.

Farrell has been hard at work on a number of high - profile projects as of late, including a crime drama titled Widows, starring Viola Davis, Liam Neeson and Daniel Kaluuya; and a live action Dumbo, directed by Tim Burton and starring Michael Keaton and Danny DeVito.

(In English and Gaelic with subtitles) Footnote (PG for mature themes, smoking, mild epithets and brief nudity) Israeli drama about a father (Shlomo Bar - Aba) and son (Lior Ashkenazi), both Talmudic scholars at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, whose healthy rivalry turns ugly when the elder wins the nation's highest prize for scholarship.

When the first series of this sexy, druggy teen drama hit TV in 2007 it perfectly captured the hedonistic mood of British high - schoolers at peak nu - rave.

One Week and a Day: This Israeli drama looks at how a man who has lost his son ends up getting high and finding out that life still has good things going for it.

Film - geek auteur projects, psychotronic fanboy - friendly blockbusters, over-the-top midnight movies, under - the - radar indie dramas and more music documentaries than you can shake a D.A. Pennebraker - approved stick at — the annual SXSW Film Festival (kicking off on March 10th) has always specialized in a sort of eclectic, lo - fi - meets - high - art - for - a-Shiner-Bock vibe when it comes to their programming.

Dark domestic dramas led the fine slate of high - style movies at the 47th Chicago International Film Festival, which boasted a lineup of nearly 200 titles.

Kwedar's preternatural ability to blend high drama with explosive pressure cooking won him and his film the Audience Award for Narrative Competition at this year's SXSW Film Festival and, arguably more importantly, near universal praise.

The winners of the 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards were announced last night at Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California with The Revenant pulling off a sweep of top three categories including best drama film, and The Martian hilariously picking up best comedy, while Amazon's «Mozart in the Jungle» and USA's «Mr. Robot» overcame intense competition to nab the highest television honors.

Croupier (Hen's Tooth, Blu - ray, DVD), the 1998 film that helped elevate the career of Clive Owen, is a low - key drama with Owen as a would - be writer and a gambling addict in denial who takes a high paying job at a casino.