Sentences with phrase «life figure whose»

The same would hold true of a Lead Actor bid for Boseman — though James Brown is an enormously compelling real - life figure whose life is replete with the material that wins actors awards, the Best Actor race more than any other acting category is closely tied to the Best Picture race, and Boseman will likely struggle against competitors in stronger films overall.

Not exact matches

Not only must the professor / protagonist / authority figure be cut down to size; the great John Donne, to whose work Vivian has devoted her life, must be cut down as well.

Even Chaplin's recently bestowed knighthood — however much deserved and belatedly granted — sat rather awkwardly on a figure whose greatness lay in his portrayal of a tough but tender little tramp who stood at the bottom of the social order, if not quite outside of it, and who in real life had come from the slums of London.

And it is not only exceptional figures but countless ordinary people whose lives have been deeply touched by the daily recitation of the Psalms across the whole spectrum of liturgies.

Critical thinker, You study a little science and suddenly you feel you have it figured out, Your meaning of life and the after life is based on other men's hypotheses, Yet it makes such good sense to you that you make a life choice based on it, then you stand up and criticize a person whose made a life choice based on A holy Book written 2000 years ago, When it comes down to it how are you any different, Your choices based on science which changes daily and theirs on the prophets.

There is renewed interest in religious and spiritual figures — men and women whose lives stand out because of their character and commitment — and in moral and ethical issues.

While Brock found images of redemption in Scripture, New Testament scholar Gail Paterson Corrington found hers in pre-Christian figures such as Isis and Sophia, ancient female divinities whose legacy lives on in apocryphal literature in the figure of Mary, the mother of Jesus.

(«If one would prefer not to make use of a doubter, one might choose a similar figure, an ironist, for example, whose sharp sight has discovered fundamentally the ludicrousness of existence, who by a secret understanding with the forces of life ascertains what the patient wishes.

Preachers and theologians are adept at tracing literary images: linking Old and New Testament figures whose lives reflect eternal patterns and renew the ancient message.

Bradley is, in comparison, a Janus - like figure whose thought faces in two directions at once and inhabits both the centuries which his life spanned.

Sammy lives in this crowded room with his wife and two young boys, Elvis and Samson, whose most - prized possession is a small Lego figure displayed on the room's one shelf.

The National Center for Fathering is a non-profit research and education organization whose mission is to improve the lives of children and reverse the trends of fatherlessness by inspiring and equipping fathers, grandfathers and father figures to be actively engaged in the life of every child.

Such facilities are usually a last resort for parents whose teens have been unable or unwilling to respond to outpatient efforts by the authority figures in their lives.

Updated figures will be published on Thursday and they are expected to show an increase in the number of children living in households whose incomes are less than 60 % of the UK average — the current measure of child poverty.

In the roundest figures, we now have about a billion people in the developed world whose living standard is some 15 times that of the four billion in the Third World.

Knowing that something must be wrong with his attitude towards the people whose struggle he had never felt, he figured it was time for a life - changing challenge and defined an unusual goal for himself: unhealthy weight gain.

PEOPLE confirms the actress is dating Glen Powell, whose acting credits include Hidden Figures, Ride She has been enjoying the single life after she split from her Vampire Diaries co-star Ian Somerhalder in 2013.

Pappi Corsicato's Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait unfolds with no less ambition than to enshrine its titular figure as a mortal god whose life has been so blessed and meaningful that, it would seem, he's never made a false move.

Characters often stare right into the lens in I, Tonya, a clamorous, dumb recounting of the bleak life and ignominious fall of figure skater Tonya Harding, whose career ended in 1994 after her alleged involvement in an attack on fellow ice athlete Nancy Kerrigan.

Even more important is the dazzling role of the title figure, Val (Regina Casé), a live - in domestic blessed with terrific dialogue by writer - director Anna Muylaert, whose previous contributions include «Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,» about a cigarette - addicted lower - middle - class guitar teacher is on the outs with her two sisters.

Milgram is a real - life figure, a late, influential social psychologist whose most notable (notorious) work was a Yale experiment in which subjects would administer increasingly violent electric shocks.

Indeed, both Queirós, whose film There Was Once Brasilia won special mention in the festival's Signs of Life section, and the Brazilian directing team Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra, whose socially driven horror movie Good Manners took home the Special Jury Prize, referenced Andrade as an ever - vital figure for today's Brazilian political cinema.

The Gift Director: Joel Edgerton Running time: 108 minutes Certificate: R Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall star as a couple whose idyllic life is threatened by the arrival of a figure from the past with a sinister agenda.

A nation with more than 2,000 years of history, Japan was firmly rooted in a tradition of honor and obedience that held the emperor as a figure chosen by heaven, at whose command young warriors would gladly sacrifice their lives.

Answering our call was Annette Bening, who plays former Hollywood leading lady Gloria Grahame romantically linked to a much younger man in her final years in «Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool»; Jessica Chastain, who plays real - life poker entrepreneur Molly Bloom targeted by the FBI in «Molly's Game»; Diane Kruger, who won the Cannes film festival's top acting prize for her portrayal of a woman whose husband and child have been killed by terrorists in «In the Fade»; Margot Robbie, who stars as disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding in the quirky «I, Tonya»; Saoirse Ronan, as a Sacramento teen looking for her place in the world in «Lady Bird»; and Kate Winslet, who stars in Woody Allen's 1950s Coney Island drama «Wonder Wheel.»

Mobster and hit man Jimmy Conlon has one night to figure out where his loyalties lie: with his estranged son, Mike, whose life is in danger, or his longtime best friend, mob boss Shawn Maguire, who wants Mike to pay for the death of his own son.

Inspired by Amanda Foreman's biography Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire, a popular and a critical success, this serviceable costume drama covers 20 years in the life of a woman many today refer to as the «It Girl» of Georgian England, an 18th - century fashion - plate and influential public figure whose celebrity couldn't entirely disguise her unhappy marriage... read more

The central figure of 20th Century Women is 55 year - old Dorothea (Bening), a single mother to her son Jamie (Zumann), whose father left when he was 8 and lives in a boarding home with his mother, roommate Abbie (Gerwig) and mustached handyman William (Crudup).

The Wolverine (PG - 13 for sexuality, profanity and intense violence) Sixth installment in Marvel Comics» X-Men franchise, set in Japan, finds Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) stripped of his invincibility and locked in a life or death battle with a mysterious figure from his past (Hiroyuki Sanada) whose daughter (Tao Okamoto) is his current love interest.

He's become one of history's «great men,» a figure who looms larger than life and whose many flaws are often shuffled to the background to preserve a more inspiring image.

Again, whose idea was it to make a whole movie about an old woman figuring out what he entire life has been about?

We get a boilerplate psychoanalysis of the toll his reticence takes on his life through a parade of treacherous father figures (a gay, Red teacher (Michael Gambon), an FBI man (Alec Baldwin), a military muckety - muck (De Niro)-RRB-, women wronged (Jolie, a luminous Tammy Blanchard, Martina Gedeck), and finally a boy of his own (Eddie Redmayne in the film's best performance), whose pillow talk might undermine daddy's most important mission.

These figures show the loss of interest in the health sector of Spanish cooperation, a worrying fact considering that this is a sector whose cuts have consequences in the loss of human lives and in increased suffering.

Vanessa Woods, an Australian chimp aficionado, had never heard of bonobos until she fell for Brian Hare, an American scientist whose dream is to compare the behavior of chimps and bonobos living in Congolese sanctuaries and figure out what the differences reveal about human evolution.

Although Johnny Cash told his own story on at least two occasions — in Man in Black (1975) and, with Patrick Carr, Cash: The Autobiography (1997)-- he nevertheless remains an enigmatic figure whose life story is surrounded by as much legend as truth.

In a lively and engaging narrative, Ellis recounts the sometimes collaborative, sometimes archly antagonistic interactions between these men, and shows us the private characters behind the public personas: Adams, the ever - combative iconoclast, whose closest political collaborator was his wife, Abigail; Burr, crafty, smooth, and one of the most despised public figures of his time; Hamilton, whose audacious manner and deep economic savvy masked his humble origins; Jefferson, renowned for his eloquence, but so reclusive and taciturn that he rarely spoke more than a few sentences in public; Madison, small, sickly, and paralyzingly shy, yet one of the most effective debaters of his generation; and the stiffly formal Washington, the ultimate realist, larger - than - life, and America's only truly indispensable figure.

First - time graphic - novelist Weing has produced a beautiful gem here, with minimal dialogue, one jolting battle scene, and each small page owned by a single panel filled with art whose figures have a comfortable roundness dredged up from the cartoon landscapes of our childhood unconscious, even as the intensely crosshatched shadings suggest the darkness that sometimes traces the edges of our lives.

A Prisoner in Malta is populated with lots of personages whose names and reputations have been bequeathed to the annals of British history (The novel contains a helpful appendix of thumbnail biographical sketches of some of the more infamous real - life characters who figure prominently in the story).

Told in the brilliantly rendered voice of Aristotle — keenly intelligent, often darkly funny — The Golden Mean brings ancient Greece to vivid life via the story of this remarkable friendship between two towering figures, innovator and conqueror, whose views of the world still resonate today.

Chappell's diverse range of clients include: historical novelist Golden Keyes Parsons, whose novels are published by Thomas Nelson; «Survivor: Panama - Exile Island» cast member, Austin Carty, whose book High Points and Lows: Life, Love and Figuring it All Out is published by Penguin / Plume; Boston - based infectious disease expert, John Ross, M.D., whose book Shakespeare's Tremor on the mysterious medical maladies of great writers is forthcoming from St. Martins; University of Virginia professors / psychologists Peter Sheras, Ph.D., and Phyllis Koch - Sheras, Ph.D.; and Atlanta - based relationship expert Dr. Janet Page, author of Get Married This Year: 365 Days to «I Do.»

In this sweeping book, Joe Jackson provides the definitive biographical account of a figure whose dramatic life converged with some of the most momentous events in the history of the American West.

The retired Hamilton couple (whose names we've changed) have figured out how to travel widely in the area, see lots of sights, and live well for a little over $ 5,000 per trip.

Combining households and making a life together with your partner is about more than just figuring out whose stuff goes where.

Most likely, as noted by Maria Reiche, a German who devoted his life to studying the lines, it is a monumental astronomical calendar whose figures marked different solar periods or phases.

Boucher introduces Lotto as «an outlier in Italian Renaissance art, a portrait painter capable of capturing the soul on canvas, a man whose religious art struck a note of sincerity in an age bound by ritual and dogma, a figure overshadowed in life by Titian and Raphael and condemned to poverty and relative failure in his own day.»

One of the most puzzling minor sidelights of Courbet's composition is the significance of the little boy scribbling a picture, a later insertion whose presence has been accounted for both as a mere space filler - to balance the still - life objects on the left - hand side — and as a personification of the newly awakened interest in the art of children associated with the Swiss artist Rodolphe Topffer.15 Yet here again a Fourierist interpretation best accounts for this figure.

Libby McInnis» Beans and Rice is made up of larger - than - life jointed cardboard figures whose mechanics will remind viewers of childrens pop - up books.

The Painted World includes paintings by important historical figures such as Paul Feeley (1910 - 1966), Yayoi Kusama, and Myron Stout (1908 - 1987); Moira Dryer (1957 - 1992) and Steven Parrino (1958 - 2005), two influential artists whose lives were cut short; and younger artists who are seriously pursuing abstraction, such as Mark Grotjahn and Ann Pibal.

This well - documented work brings to life a «collector of souls» whose passion for painting the human figure at a time when abstraction was the rage resulted in years of financial hardship and obscurity.

Portraiture is also the focus of Californian artist Henry Taylor, whose crude though ravenously observed paintings are populated by African - American subjects, from historical figures like Eldridge Cleaver to people living in his Los Angeles neighborhood.