Sentences with phrase «life of the troubled»

She played one of the women in the life of the troubled writer at the center of Synecdoche, New York, and she was a war widow in Oren Moverman's The Messenger.

The sequel sees Deadpool battling Cable (Josh Brolin), an entirely too self - serious soldier from the future, to save the life of a troubled teenage mutant (Hunt for the Wilderpeople's Julian Dennison).

This look at the brief life of troubled American poet Hart Crane is a real one - man show as its star James Franco also serves as writer, director, producer, and editor.

Kevin Macdonald offers a rich and revealing glance back at the life of troubled pop sensation Whitney Houston.

Starring Joaquin Phoenix and distributed by Amazon Studios, the drama follows the life of a troubled alcoholic who journeys from rock - bottom to an oddball AA group; it also stars Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara, and Jack Black.

Based on the books by Edward St. Aubyn, written by David Nicholls and directed by Edward Berger, the Sky / Showtime series Patrick Melrose depicts a chapter in the life of the troubled central character with each episode, from his abusive childhood to his drug - addled adulthood.

This week's You Have To See is the most recent film from polarising auteur Todd Solondz, an insight into the life of a troubled so - called «nice guy» that leads to some disturbing revelations.

Instead, let it carry you away and bemuse you like the life of this troubled chameleon clearly did to his loved ones and his biographers.

Yet, the same girl who aspires to be her state's chief executive is today part of a process for finding solutions to improve the daily life of her troubled town...

Make a reoccurring monthly gift, one - time gift or a planned gift today and change the life of a troubled teen, at - risk elementary child or of someone who will benefit from one of our trained rescued dogs.

It ages, I don't,» Marcia Tucker, the exuberantly feminist, shoot - from - the - lip founding director of the New Museum declared in her posthumously published 2008 memoir, A Short Life of Trouble: Forty Years in the New York Art World.

They call the art world's opaque social rules into question, taking the life of a troubled woman and offering it back to an art market that had no interest in her while she was alive.

The world of an adolescent is now so powerfully defined by systemic forces other than home that working with the family alone is rarely powerful enough to effect change in the life of a troubled teenager.

Not exact matches

Because of this, life insurance is far and away the easiest way to prevent death from bringing financial trouble.

In the context of this study that simply meant more anxious subjects tended to feel more irrationally negative about the neutral word puzzles that accompanied stressful images, but in real life this effect could cause actual trouble.

Harkins, CEO of Convergence Corp., a 12 - person wireless - communications - technology company in Atlanta, had no trouble locating the right contacts at Intel since they all stemmed from personal relationships Harkins and his staff had made in past employment lives.

I'd love to say that was the end of my financial troubles, but life had other plans.

And there's this interesting tidbit too: One quarter of business executives surveyed said they are simply more effective communicating in their businesses than in their personal lives, which may factor into why so many have trouble communicating plans for passing on their businesses to family members.

Midway through grad school, however, he noticed his friends with PhDs were having trouble finding jobs, while his friends with programming skills were living large amid the dot - com boom of the 1990s.

If people or teams fail to live up to their creative potential, the trouble problem usually isn't a lack of ability, according to Dealstorming author Tim Sanders.

Then, there are people like Sam Ovens who find success early in life but experience their own fair share of troubles along the way.

And while various troubling social factors, including unequal access to health care and the impact of the opioid crisis, have stalled the growth of the average U.S. life expectancy in recent years, odds are that America's higher earners will live longer — maybe much longer — than they expect.

It's a white lives matter more when we actually look at how the death penalty is applied and that should be very troubling to all of us.»

Dave Ramsey helps millions of listeners fight through their money troubles with his podcast, The Dave Ramsey Show Live.

He was having trouble resurrecting his life after he came out of prison.

You realize all of the trouble you have in life doesn't compare to one of your kids bumping her head on the table and wondering what her friends will think of her.

The documentary traces Buffett's life story, from growing up the son of a U.S. Representative from Nebraska who had some trouble in school, to amassing upwards of $ 73 billion by leading Berkshire Hathaway (brk - a).

Spielberg still gives us his baseline theme that is in almost all of his movies: the main character's troubled family life.

Because of the problems people experience in life, some become conditioned to believe that the current troubles are all that life has to offer.

«When the economy gets into trouble, you see people at the low end of the earnings spectrum be the first to suffer,» he said, «and they're the last ones for whom life gets better once the economy improves.»

Not that life is suddenly easier, but a lot of major competitors in some popular retail areas are in trouble.

A failed business may simply cease operations; with the owners and investors absorbing the losses (if any); a troubled business on the brink of going under may seek to merge with another company that has the resources to keep it afloat and out of bankruptcy; or a dying business may be bought up by another, stronger company, seeking to breathe new life into it or simply to acquire its assets.

Zavala's sister Lisbia, who lives in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, told me she's not sure when her brother's troubles began.

Zachary Cruz, who like his brother had a troubled childhood living with their widowed adoptive mother, was arrested the following month on charges of trespassing on the Parkland school grounds.

«Among many surprising things about the life of Albert Einstein was the trouble he had in getting an academic job.»

But if I couldn't be bothered to going to the trouble of managing it myself then I could happily live with Vanguard's broth.

Unless we're independently wealthy, most of us face financial troubles at some point in our lives.

The cutting instrument is now what it always was, providing education and opportunity for advancement in life over the lack of both that is current in the troubled areas.

Jesus wants you to have the same kind of carefree, trouble free, guiltless, fearless, kind of life that He and the Apostles had.

If by «advantages» you mean things like children always staying out of trouble, sickness never hammering away in our lives, or financial troubles staying away, then you're right.

The trouble with the Christian cults is they just can not simply butt out of others life choices, but try L4H.

Prayer changes things Prayer draws close to the thoughts of God Prayer builds character Prayer lights the pathway to God in the troubles of life Prayer brings understanding Prayer brings healing Prayer changes things

And even more troubling, in so doing, you are ending the life of one woman for the sake of another (who 99 % of the time has actively made the choices that put her in this position) woman's convenience («I prefer this quality of life over that one»).

May I offer that pastors may have some trouble seeing (and living) the transition of the leadership of Christ from strong leader to facilitator / servant?

I am thankful for my faith — which has given me a full, joyful, peaceful life — even through times of toil, stirife and trouble.

In the New Testament this motif is most prominent in the writings of Luke, who was perhaps the most troubled by the apparent delay in the coming of the Kingdom and hence most concerned with the problems of ongoing life.

And so Berger spent the next two years listening to troubled soldiers from all walks of life and all parts of the country.

don't you see the trouble that most people are in and that they just want you for their own advantage but I swear to you we're different from all of them come join us I can tell you are lookin» for a way to live where truth is determined by consensus full of codified arbitrary directives come join us all we want to have is your small mind turn it into one of our own kind you can go through life adrift and alone desperate, desolate, on your own but we're lookin» for a few more stalwart clones come join us come join us come join us

Since the gospel of grace is opposite to the way the rest of life works, many people have great trouble accepting it.

Speaking in abstract terms about blank, amorphous «innocent lives» keeps us from confronting the reality that if most of these children are born at or near the poverty line, then the lives we are saving are more likely to be troubled ones, and if nothing changes, those lives will get caught in vicious cycles powered by poverty and systemic racism.