Sentences with phrase «high school years convinced»

I spent my middle and high school years convinced that I just didn't have the gift for math.

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But the last months of his high school years brought many events which convinced us this was all beyond our control.

Saoirse Ronan was raised in Ireland and is now in her early 20s, but her performance as a 17 - year - old American high school student is entirely convincing.

A large part of Say Anything's success also rests with John Cusack's incredibly funny and sweet performance as Lloyd Dobler, a misfit 19 - year - old who makes it his mission to go out with 17 - year - old Diane Court (Skye, The Rachel Papers), the high school's valedictorian and beauty, and to his surprise he convinces her to say yes.

31 years old during filming, Turner isn't convincing as either a middle - aged mother or a high school student.

Margaret (R for profanity, sexuality, drug use and disturbing images) Serendipitous drama about a 17 year - old high school student (Anna Paquin) who convinces herself that she inadvertently played a role in a woman's death after witnessing a horrific bus accident in Manhattan.

Here, Carrey plays Mark Kendall, a high - school student who's spent six years with the same girl — Robin, played by Karen Kopkins — but has yet to convince her to go all the way.

In light of abundant data on low academic achievement and effort among high school students, Wagner's goal sounds impossible, but years of experience plus 150 interviews he conducted for the book convince him otherwise.

In Lee County Schools system in rural Alabama, for example, which had years earlier convinced a federal court that it had eliminated the effects of segregation, one of the four public high schools served more than 90 percent black students — even though the district student population was only 23 percentSchools system in rural Alabama, for example, which had years earlier convinced a federal court that it had eliminated the effects of segregation, one of the four public high schools served more than 90 percent black students — even though the district student population was only 23 percentschools served more than 90 percent black students — even though the district student population was only 23 percent black.

«A lot of people here are convinced Uncle Rulon is going to live forever,» says DeLoy Bateman, a forty - eight - year - old science teacher at Colorado City High School.

I said she might not be quite so enthusiastic about dressing up as a leprechaun when she was a cool high schooler next year, but she was dead set convinced it would still be a goer.