Sentences with phrase «lonely older»

Unfortunately, some predators target lonely older people and isolate them from their families as a way to get control of their finances.

I think it is realistic for two single, probably lonely older women to reconcile after 20 years.

The court orders to house arrest pending her trial, where her days are spent without much company save for the occasional delivery boy and a lonely older man named Daly (Nelson) who makes sure the ankle bracelet Zoe wears is functional and still on her person.

There are 1.2 m chronically lonely older people in the UK, so Age UK said it's likely we all know or care about someone who feels lonely.

Some of our most enthusiastic statists are single moms and lonely old members of the AARP.

This view of aging and the place of the church aligns well with Vaillant's finding that organized religion is especially attractive for lonely old people, those with a tendency toward depressive illness and those whose childhoods were lacking in hope and love.

I know when I first envisioned a life of celibacy, I got an image of the future version of myself as a lonely old woman knitting in a cold cabin with famished cats everywhere.

They tell me to get professional help or I will end up a bitter and lonely old woman.

You don't have the time to waste on speed - dating with lonely old cat ladies.

The third major character is a seemingly cool customer, a cabdriver named Razmik (Karren Karagulian) who listens impassively to a menagerie of passengers (one lonely old babbler is played by 86 - year - old Clu Gulager), his role in the action inexplicable until he begins to circle the neighborhood where Alexandra, Sin - Dee, and their fellow workers drift.

I enjoyed exploring the lonely old manor and its stark surroundings on the shores of Loch Ness.

Sally Field gives the comic performance of the year in Hello, My Name Is Doris, playing a lonely old woman who falls for a young coworker in her Manhattan office and improbably becomes a dance club icon.

Fincher's excellent at whatever the film needs — Freeman sulking around because he's a lonely old cop and it's what lonely old cops do, Pitt doing a chase sequence, even John C. McGinley's glorified cameo as the SWAT commander has some good procedural sequences — but he doesn't actually have a real vision for it.

There are other terrific actors (playing terrific roles) in «No Country,» namely Tommy Lee Jones as Ed Tom Bell, a melancholy old sheriff watching his world disintegrate, Bell's lonely old friend (Barry Corbin), Moss's steadfast but unlucky wife (Kelly MacDonald) and a lippy, freelance loot - scavenger (Woody Harrelson).

Marking his feature film debut, We Are Still Here is a ghostly tale of vengeful spirits and dark secrets, all of which are wrapped up in a lonely old home buried under a blanket of snow.

2:15 am (8th)-- TCM — Arsenic and Old Lace In what is probably Frank Capra's zaniest, least Capra - corn-esque film, Cary Grant plays Mortimer Brewster — a perfectly normal man until he discovers that his sweet old maid aunts have accumulated several dead bodies in the basement due to poisoning lonely old men.

Whether it's a long tracking shot of a steaming dog - diarrhea trail soundtracked by Debussy's «Clair de Lune», or a surreal, gut - wrenching hallucination suffered by the lonely old widow of the final story (Ellen Burstyn)-- in which her multiple past selves visit her as a reminder of her failures and missed opportunities — these expressionistic touches, rather than dreamlike whimsy, hit deeper disappointments and realities.

There's the overaged flower children who've matured in the decades since their prime, the fun - loving and scantily clad vacationers, the underaged potential love interest, and perhaps most notable, the kind - hearted but lonely old man who sees Chris as one of his own.

For all the urgency of the posse's mission, it's a journey of days through the desert and the characters fill the time with defining personalities: the easy - going affability of Sheriff Hunt that becomes sharpened by the focus of tracking the raiding party, the garrulous way that Chicory talks, like a lonely old man trying to be useful («It's the opinion of the back - up deputy that...»), the arrogance and urbane language of the educated townsman whose character recalls the gamblers of classic westerns but whose backstory reveals different tale, the resolute determination of the cowboy husband who will not shirk his duty despite the crippling ordeal.

The Danish filmmaker latest voyeuristic look at sexual liberation follows the life of Charlotte Gainsbourg's self - diagnosed sex - addict Joe, who, after being saved from a beating, recounts her harrowing exploits to a lonely old man who came to her aid.

And it's a lonely old world.

I am aiming for early retirement as well, but it looks like I will be that lonely old man, because I simply can not buy stocks in today's blatantly manipulated HFT drone filled stock market.

Whether struggling mightily to position a calf for birthing, or comforting a lonely old man whose beloved dog and only companion has died, Herriot's heartwarming and often hilarious stories of his first years as a country vet perfectly depict the wonderful relationship between man and animal — and they intimately portray a man whose humor, compassion, and love of life are truly inspiring.

Along the way, it unlocks a heartfelt story re-connecting the memories of a long lost family, trying to help a lonely old woman reconnect with all that she has lost.

Lonely Old Slogans traces Richter's earliest, colour - intensive abstract improvisations through to his figurative works, described by the artist as a new form of history painting.

Installation view of Daniel Richter: Lonely Old Slogans at Camden Arts Centre, London, 2017.

The filmic incandescence of this work contrasts with the eponymous Lonely Old Slogan (2006) that hangs nearby, while its message is equally strong.

Under the title Lonely Old Slogans the exhibition features 45 paintings — several of them very large.

Daniel Richter: Lonely Old Slogans, published to accompany a mid-career survey exhibition, chronicles Richter's development as an artist.

Daniel Richter's exhibition Lonely Old Slogans continues at Camden Arts Centre until Sunday 17 September.

On the occasion of Daniel Richter's travelling mid-career retrospective Lonely Old Slogans, currently on show at the 21 - er Haus in Vienna, I met with the German painter, who is also a professor of «painting inside an extended space» at the Viennese Academy of Fine Arts, to talk about the presentation of his body of work.

The show Lonely Old Slogans is on at the 21 - er Haus in Vienna until June 5th, 2017 and will then be exhibited in a different constellation at the smaller interior at the Camden Arts Centre in London.

On the occasion of Daniel Richter's travelling mid-career retrospective Lonely Old Slogans, currently on show at the 21 - er Haus in Vienna, I met with the German painter, who is also a professor of «painting inside an extended space» at the...

«Daniel Richter: Lonely Old Slogans» opens at Camden Arts Centre on Sunday, July 2.

Not exact matches

How do you avoid joining the sad - lonely - old - man club of America?

A guy will swear to you that it was a friend of a friend's sister who disappeared on prom night 20 years ago and her ghost now hitchhikes along the lonely road between town and the old cemetery.

The age - old expression «It's lonely at the top» rings incredibly true.

The index, which surveyed over 20,000 U.S. adults, found that nearly half of survey respondents reported sometimes or always feeling alone (46 percent) or left out (47 percent) and younger generations feel much lonelier than older ones.

Although older people reported being less lonely than the youngest respondents, the Cigna study confirmed earlier studies that showed more than 40 % of people over 65 reported being occasionally lonely.

This may be the oldest trick in the book, but if you're prone to feeling lonely without a valentine, it's super effective.

Let's face it: We are unlikely to find a single party that truly represents a «culture of life,» and abortion will probably never be made illegal, so we'll have to go about it the old fashioned way, working through the diverse channels of the Kingdom to adopt and support responsible adoption, welcome single moms into our homes and churches, reach out to the lonely and disenfranchised, address the socioeconomic issues involved, and engage in some difficult conversations about the many factors that contribute to the abortion rate in this country, (especially birth control).

Her comments echo a new Age UK study that found almost a million older people say they feel lonelier at Christmas than at any other time.

There is an old proverb that states:» If you wish to get rid of everyoneone that you disliked, you would find yourself a lonely person and then you would disappear.».

Except in lonely outposts of faith — the crippled child Lonnie in The Moviegoer, the fierce nun Val in The Last Gentleman, the firewatching Father Smith with his remnant of faithful Catholics in Love in the Ruins — the old Christian humanist vision is dead.

It was expressed poignantly by a 76 - year - old former gardener whom Yates interviewed in his tiny Tokyo apartment, shared with another elderly man: «I don't like this new Japan — it is a lonely, cold place....

As Heisel points out, the media, especially television, provide companionship to the elderly, particularly those living alone or simply feeling lonely as a result of old age's inevitable losses.

So recently I've been bumping into a lot of old friends on what was once a lonely and frightening path away from religious certainty.

The older we get, the more we value the kind, the merciful, the compassionate, because the more we realise that most of us, almost all of us, are getting rather lonely and tired, and we need a cup of cold water and a bit of grace, and dignity, and kindness clears the air.

Pam that is a really wise decision most people rush into other relationships because they feel lonely or need a person in there lives as they feel insecure.thats our old nature.You have chosen the best path it is also the hardest.

Writing of men in an old section of the South that he knew so well Wolfe writes: «He is not a colonist, a settler, a transplanted European; during his three centuries there in the wilderness he has become native to the immense and lonely land that he inhabits; during those three centuries he has taken on the sinew and the color of that earth, he has acquired a character, a tradition, a history of his own..