Sentences with phrase «humdrum life»

When M digs for a reason, she discovers deep secrets that will change her formerly humdrum life forever... and expose her to perils she never dreamed of.

She's older, more confident - the kind of girl who can walk right out of her humdrum life, hitch to Ireland and find her mum.

It both parodies the human tendency to seek out conspiracies as an explanation for all that is off about the world and gives us a monkey - paw - like wish look at how distressing it would be for one to actually have their normal, humdrum life upended completely.

Her performance as Lady Bird in Greta Gerwig's loosely biographical (she denies it, but...) coming of age movie about a teen growing up in Sacramento in a middle class family who yearns for something more than the humdrum life in the suburbs.

The events are set in the 1930s, dealing with a recently released bank robber, Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty, Heaven Can Wait) who hooks up with a small town waitress, Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway, The Thomas Crown Affair), who is looking to get out of her humdrum life.

Ginny now realizes that this was just a fantasy and delusion, she must go back to her humdrum life in the circle (Wonder Wheel metaphor).

Hector is a quirky psychiatrist who has become increasingly tired of his humdrum life.

Wringing subtle wit and hard - won honesty from humdrum life has become something of a trademark in the work of Frank V. Ross, a perennially under - appreciated talent of American independent cinema.

But beware, this film starts really slowly, and in the first 15 minutes you wonder whether this was a good choice of movie - but the scene is being set for Wilf Ferrell's geeky / seemingly humdrum life.

The father's emotional incapacity and stubborness coupled with his fragility is finely played by Bruce Dern and Will Forte as the long suffering son whose own humdrum life is of no interest to his self - absorbed dad is also a delight.

Tired of their humdrum lives, some middle - aged friends (Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence) decide to temporarily ditch their responsibilities and take a motorcycle trip.

Set in the midst of the Great Depression, Allen shows in his film just what going to the movies means to those undergoing financial and emotional hardships, allowing them avenues of escape from their humdrum lives, even if only for the few hours that the films actually screen.

When I was in my pajamas, I raised the shade again so I could get the maximum benefit from the experience, lying straight as a mummy in my little coffin - bed of rebirth, hurtling through one town after another where people steeped like old tea bags in their humdrum lives, speeding farther away by the minute from Earl - dom and all the other bottlenecks I had narrowly squeezed through.

Not exact matches

Stripped of any belief in the kind of higher consolation that makes sense of life's inevitable injustices and humdrum frustrations, the demands that people place on the political system «become as infinite as the infinity they have lost.»

Friends of religion, in contrast, find support for their views in Berger's criticisms of the limitations of everyday reality, in his argument for the role of overarching canopies of meaning, and in his openness to the possibility of «signals of transcendence» that break through the sheltering humdrum of everyday life.

It is not the routine, humdrum marking of time in our daily lives, or the terror and dread of devastation.

She gives us pictures of how women can find a thrilling, transformative love that fits into real life, right in the middle of all the humdrum things we're perpetually pestered with, like financial worries and annoying relatives.

Carl Sagan claimed that «we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe».

Inevitably they spill some of it into the humdrum of ordinary life.

On the surface, Paterson's life appears to be regimented and humdrum.

Thus, in 1839 Richard Wagner makes a hasty escape from political intrigue, personal bankruptcy, and the humdrum of provincial life in Riga, again by sea; and it is this nautical misadventure that was to inspire his Flying Dutchman and, ironically, lay the foundations for his eventual success as a composer.

Through Christ there is a height and depth in life made available to a humdrum man or woman who has never climbed mountains nor descended into the depths.

It is perhaps an unusual place to start, though, because our everyday lives tend to be plains of humdrum daily existence rather than peaks on which the gods visibly dwell.

No man has insisted on this more vigorously than Baron von Hügel, who with all his deep faith in the fullness of our Lord's embodiment of God, was yet ever ready to maintain that in other religious traditions, and likewise in science, art, philosophy, ethics, as well as in the simple humdrum experiences of daily life, God in some way and to some degree has been found and known.

Life is much less humdrum.

We tune in to be reminded of what CSI, House, and the rest will never remind us: how easily and thoroughly any humdrum human existence can be transformed if you wrest your attention from the tawdry Technicolor scenery of life and train it instead upon the murk and gloom and the shadows that surround us.

Since 1992, HomeExchange has given thousands of people the opportunity to escape from the humdrum of everyday life and experience a new city from the comfort of a real home.

It stars Richard Gere as John Clark, a Chicago estate lawyer with a good, albeit humdrum, life.

Soyo, a humdrum teenager, has his life turned upside down when his parents kick him out of the house to fend for himself.

No one ever paid much attention to Muriel (Collette) and her humdrum small - town life, so she and her best friend, Rhonda (Griffiths), decide to leave it behind and head for the big city... where...

But when an obstacle presents itself in real life, Walter must make the ultimate decision — keep living life through his imagination and others or step out of his 9 to 5 humdrum existence and actually live for the first time.

Claire (Tina Fey) and Phil Foster (Steve Carell) are an average boring married couple from New Jersey with two young kids and a home and sex life that have become routine and humdrum.

When her news company needs new correspondents to send to Afghanistan because all the big - name talent has left to cover the newly engaged Iraq war, Kim leaps at the chance to leave her humdrum NYC life behind.

What if these experiences weren't just simply part of the humdrum of everyday life?

The film's episodic structure (split into three parts), and emphasis on character over narrative make Zero Motivation feel like an extended pilot for a TV sitcom about soldiers dealing with their humdrum day - to - day lives.

Mike Leigh's best movies bring the humdrum to rousing, resonant life.

Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries.

His blond and sensible wife had an unpredictable streak that kept the issues of life from settling into humdrum patterns.

I started reading early, and I can remember why: lack of alternative entertainment sources, and a need to escape a humdrum and boring life.

I recognize that failing to plan is planning to fail but going with the humdrum of life seems to be more interesting for most of us.

You with your promise of a humdrum happiness — provided a person doesn't ask much of life.

Orientation is filled with people very similar to ourselves and to those we encounter every day, but instead of being humdrum - as our lives can sometimes seem - these characters are captivating for their eccentricities, coping methods, compulsions, and for the spark of recognition they ignite in us.

Unfortunately, natural disasters have a way of reminding us how important some of the more humdrum aspects of our financial lives can be, like the details of property and casualty insurance coverage.

To most indoor cats, life is humdrum, monotonous.

The early riser will hear and see the bird life, settle down to a leisurely gourmet breakfast and feel the evocative atmosphere of Mount Ninderry that will remain in your memories long after you have returned to the humdrum of daily living.

Treat your eyes to the gorgeous snow clad mountain peaks visible through the hotel and give your mind a much - deserved break from the humdrums of city life.

The sandy beaches, warm clear water and vibrant marine life all add up to a wonderful travel break from the humdrum of everyday life.

Are you sick of the snow or the humdrum of life's responsibilities?

I guess life was pretty boring in the humdrum workaday world, leading me to escape to Gunung Rinjani, on a remote island called Lombok in Indonesia.

You need to submit yourself to the humdrum, day to day farm life to make progress, but it can start to feel like you're spreading yourself a little too thin, especially when you add to that the relentless friendship grinding and film noir spying the plot demands.