Sentences with phrase «life of violence»

Thistle Farms - Founded in 1997 by Becca Stevens, an Episcopal priest on Vanderbilt's campus, Magdalene is a residential program for women who have survived lives of violence, prostitution and addiction.

He may have lived a life of violence, but the circumstances that turned him into who he is make him a sympathetic figure.

Can the weary assassin leave the life of violence behind and regain his humanity through love and redemption — or is it simply too late for this sinner to be saved?

An indigenous people are turned from a life of violence to a more gentle and forgiving nature in this adventure drama based on a true story.

He wants to leave behind his life of violence and drifting — «I'm out,» he says at one point, in case we were wondering — and to find the kind of human connection that his temperament and his job have denied him up to now.

A surprise visit from Frank Barnes threatens to sink Mickey back into a life of violence.

For his first film since directing the final three Hunger Games instalments, Lawrence has once again recruited Jennifer Lawrence (no relation) to play a young woman forced into a life of violence by society.

Up in the flak - filled clouds, Louis (English actor Jack O'Connell) flashes back to his childhood in the 1920s, as a scrappy immigrant kid (played by C. J. Valleroy) in Torrance, Calif., heading for a life of violence and petty crime.

Barry, HBO's dramedy about a hitman who wants to be an actor but can't escape his life of violence, ended its first season in a very dark place.

The minor variation this time is that is that his mercenary character — the estranged brother of Edgerton's swaggering CEO, because sure — has renounced his life of violence and dedicated himself to humanitarian relief work.

(In Hindi and English with subtitles) Shaolin (R for violence) Martial arts action flick about a Chinese warlord (Andy Lau) who temporarily becomes a monk to atone for his sins before returning to a life of violence to avenge the murder of his entire family by a rival gang.

Now he carouses with the best of them, introducing John to a life of violence, ruin, stifling stagnation treated by cathartic macho bonding, and the horrifying specter of a kangaroo hunt by spotlight.

It's not even new to movies, really — Coming to America being a prominent, humorous riff on black Americans» imaginative curiosity about Africa and Africans, and Hype Williams's Belly, which features a character played by Nas expresses a desire to leave behind a life of violence to go to Africa and find his roots.

(IIf referencing the 2011 Libyan coup, see Moammar Gadhafi: A Life of Violence for a timeline that can help guide student discussion.)

Animal lovers were thrilled that these dogs would be saved from a life of violence and terror.

Andy was too young to fight, so he escaped a life of violence, but he had -LSB-...]

Trevor, the maniacal rampage killer whom we discover to be in all of us when we play a Rockstar game; Franklin, the classic rags - to - riches character with street smarts and the ability to pull off a bandana; and Michael, the troubled criminal with a dysfunctional family and a beer gut to show for his life of violence.

While pursuing a life of violence or a more benign path doesn't much impact the story, the choice is reflected both in the game's epilogue and the fact that leaving a trail of corpses can increase the swarms of bloodflies.

I promise you that it's not a sign your child is heading for a life of violence, or being outcast from society!