Sentences with phrase «idyllic families»

Teachers do not just teach emotionally well - adjusted children from idyllic families and communities.

Winter holidays are one of those times when people's hopes for idyllic family reunions often meets the reality of your uncle who drinks too much, your siblings who reliably don't show up or your mother who thinks you married «down.»

Not a very good beginning to what I had hoped would be a lifetime of idyllic family travel.

The idyllic family life of Sara and Brian is torn apart when their young daughter falls ill and needs a compatible bone - marrow donor.

Before Krampus» arrival in the film, director Michael Dougherty presents Max's idyllic family home, where he is surrounded by kind - hearted parents named Tom (Adam Scott) and Sarah (Toni Collette) and a now - preoccupied sister named Beth (Stefania LaVie Owen), and his quiet but kind - hearted grandmother, Omi (Krista Stadler).

Book this luxury haven on Koh Samui for an idyllic family reunion, corporate event, wellness retreat or even an intimate destination wedding.

Just returned from an idyllic family vacation with my twenty - something sons and friends, largely made possible by the great lay - out and set up of this beautiful home.

Our villa provides everything you need for a truly idyllic family holiday.

Breeze Inn Guesthouse is an idyllic family holiday destination, within easy sight, sound and reach of the beach.

Each generated brilliantly playful effects: Bremer's floating orbs advance and recede over idyllic family photos; while McGinness's female forms overlap in riotous fashion, even spilling out of the picture plane.

Idyllic family holidays in Cornwall and Devon inspired the owners when they started looking for a holiday home for all the family

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Although it proved a harrowing experience - she fled with her family, she says, once the cult began advocating child - adult sexual relations - as the setting at first «was really idyllic,» remembers the actress, 38, who rose to fame on TV's Charmed and now stars in Conan the Barbarian 3D.

Born into a well - to - do military family (on the Feast of the Assumption, 15 August 1930), presented at court and married to an army officer, Chiara Hatton - Hall set up a riding school, in the idyllic Kentish countryside, for the international social elite.

The Brazil Family then planted their roots on this idyllic land, flanked by beautiful Laguna Lake.

Situated only four miles from downtown Carmel, Hyatt Carmel Highlands Overlooking Big Sur Coast's idyllic setting and personalized service has attracted families, weddings, honeymooners and privileged travelers for nearly a century.

Nonetheless, as Hall stepsout onto the porch of Eagle Pond Farm — the idyllic, inspirational homestead inrural New Hampshire that his family has owned since the Civil War — he gazes upat the sky with a look that seems both unsatisfied and uneasy.

This idyllic beach in Evanston has been a family favorite for years and is a great place for a quiet picnic on the grassy areas on the same level as the parking lot.

It allowed each of us to have a part of that idyllic, perhaps overly romanticized, suburban family home and neighborhood, while it also gave each parent a time and space to not be a parent for short periods of time.

Then the idyllic fantasies of harmonious family fun are interrupted by bickering, and impatience.

Hopefully their memories of family vacations will be as idyllic as you hope your trip will be!

After reluctantly agreeing to spend the holidays in a small town and perform in the local holiday Christmas concert, he's mortified at the prospect of staying in the home of an idyllic, close - knit family but soon realizes the true value in what they have - love, caring and a memorable holiday spirit.

The couple marries and has a young son, but before long, their idyllic world is threatened by Nazi soldiers who force the family into a concentration camp.

He moves his family to a millhouse deep in the idyllic countryside of Ireland.

It takes place in the aftermath of a nuclear war, when Ann (Margot Robbie) lives on her family's farm in an idyllic valley that's sheltered from toxic radiation.

When his wife barely survives brain cancer, Sorjonen decides to take his family to an idyllic small town near the border of Russia, to live a quiet peaceful life.

A great storm divides the family and demolishes their idyllic home in the trees.

Set decades before the first Annabelle, Annabelle: Creation opens on the idyllic Mullins family — a doll - maker (Anthony LaPaglia), his wife (Miranda Otto) and their young daughter Bee (Samara Lee)-- who are living peacefully in the countryside.

There's a very offbeat humor about Steven and his family's idyllic life.

A young American woman comes to stay with family friends in an idyllic converted farmhouse, subtly upsets the balance of forces in the social group, learns about herself.

Sirk dug beneath the surface of idyllic American small - town life in the 1950s, and the surface has never been more beautiful than in this Technicolor nightmare of conformity and the repressive nature of community and family life.

Based on the Pulitzer Prize - winning Philip Roth novel, AMERICAN PASTORAL follows an all American family across several decades, as their idyllic existence is shattered by social and political turmoil that will change the fabric of American culture forever.

HOME (Originally developed at Fox in 2013 - 14) Not going forward STUDIO: Jerry Bruckheimer TV / Warner Horizon TEAM: Aron Eli Coleite (w, ep), Brad Anderson (d, ep), Jerry Bruckheimer (ep), Jonathan Littman (ep), KristieAnne Reed (co-ep) LOGLINE: Thriller that delves into the secrets lingering behind the façade of a seemingly idyllic suburban family.

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«Suburbicon» is a peaceful, idyllic suburban community with affordable homes and manicured lawns... the perfect place to raise a family, and in the summer of 1959, the Lodge family is doing just that.

Soon after moving into their seemingly idyllic new home, a family learns of a brutal crime committed against former residents of the dwelling.

The official synopsis reads, Suburbicon is a peaceful, idyllic suburban community with affordable homes and manicured lawns... the perfect place to raise a family, and in the...

The other family, like dark doppelgängers (and foreigners to boot) quickly lay waste to the idyllic nuclear family, dispatching Dad and leaving Mom and the children to fend for themselves in the harsh world.

Based on two autobiographies by Le Ly Hayslip, the young Vietnamese girl (Hiep Thi Le) lives, what is depicted, as an idyllic childhood, working the wheat fields with her family.

I could've easily spent an extra hour in that idyllic countryside house with this family.

A struggling family that's determined to make a better life for themselves in one of America's most idyllic cities is learning the hard way that the affluent community isn't as glamorous as they initially believed.

Free from their parents» rules, their idyllic summer quickly becomes a test of friendship as each boy learns to appreciate the fact that family — whether it is the one you're born into or the one you create — is something you can't run away from.

Based on the book by Ira Levin, the mind behind Rosemary's Baby as well, the film and novel deal with the idyllic town of Stepford, in which all of the wives are unusually dedicated to their husbands and families.

Also as in that film, she shoots those characters early on at a beatific backyard barbecue, pushing in for idyllic close - ups of wholesome sights like ribs being basted and kids on rope swings to establish a family in the context of its community — a lively congregation led by the friendly, funny, and wise Pastor Scott (John Carroll Lynch).

Everything in his world is sex, from the idyllic Italian summer that sets the film to the ripe peaches and apricots that bloom on his family

Everything in his world is sex, from the idyllic Italian summer that sets the film to the ripe peaches and apricots that bloom on his family's estate.

While that is all true, the life experience of the majority of the students and their families in our system is less than idyllic.

Straub's second novel follows a family on a visit to the idyllic island of Mallorca, off the coast of Spain.

Blood, Bones & Butter follows an unconventional journey through the many kitchens Hamilton has inhabited through the years: the rural kitchen of her childhood, where her adored mother stood over the six - burner with an oily wooden spoon in hand; the kitchens of France, Greece, and Turkey, where she was often fed by complete strangers and learned the essence of hospitality; the soulless catering factories that helped pay the rent; Hamilton's own kitchen at Prune, with its many unexpected challenges; and the kitchen of her Italian mother - in - law, who serves as the link between Hamilton's idyllic past and her own future family - the result of a difficult and prickly marriage that nonetheless yields rich and lasting dividends.

You would never guess that behind the closed doors of her family's idyllic Long Island house hid teetering stacks of aging newspaper, broken computers, and boxes upon boxes of unused junk festering in every room - the product of her father's painful and unending struggle with hoarding.

Her funny, moving memoir, told with clear - eyed unsentimental affection, is about an idyllic childhood and a family's enthusiasm for each other and the world around them, with the essence of Africa - both beautiful and challenging - infusing every page.