Sentences with phrase «loners by»

Some cats who may not have been socialized enough as kittens, or who are just loners by nature, may just not want to be petted or handled.

Though a loner by nature, Driver can't help falling in love with his beautiful neighbor Irene (Carey Mulligan), a vulnerable young mother dragged into a dangerous underworld by the return of her ex-convict husband Standard (Oscar Isaac).

«Drive» is the story of a Hollywood stunt driver by day (Gosling), a loner by nature, who moonlights as a top - notch getaway driver - for - hire in the criminal underworld.

Ryker Townsend is an isolated loner by necessity, an intellectual with a mind like a computer, and hardly described as an alpha male.

Not exact matches

Loners, by contrast, are like unguided missiles — they simply take it on themselves to push ahead, without regard for what others think.

Loners may get a lot done, but unchecked, they can take a toll on the community by creating resentment and divisiveness that ultimately slow progress.

Tyranowski certainly never entertained any ideas about advising others; by temperament and inclination he was a loner.

Highly anticipated by fans of This American Life, Serial and NPR aficionados in general, S - Town begins with an odd loner in Alabama begging NPR to investigate an alleged murder local police are covering up.

Such persons are essentially loners, who defend against anxiety by distancing.

The neo-luddite wilderness fantasy is an old theme, explored by a variety of writers and real - life loners.

By the way Luther was no loner, but cooperated with a lot of other most gifted theologians.

He quickly became a loner, living first by himself in the woods and later joined by Raph.

But Gani, famous loner often at his best when acting solo, cut to the chase: this was humongous, nation - ruining sleaze, not to be deodorised by any legalistic cant.

«More fatal attacks by far - right loners, lone wolves and lone - wolf packs occurred in the 1990s than in more recent years.

Unlike the more gregarious males, female chimpanzees tend to be loners, spending much time by themselves or with their own children.

«Some years ago we may have thought of [black holes] as surly loners sucking their thumb in the corner and gobbling anything that happened to come by,» Miller says.

I'm a bit of a loner (by choice) i have plenty of friends but i don't want everyone in my business and i don't want to solve...

Not too long ago online dating was getting a bad reputation as either not being successful or only for use by loners who don't want to leave their house.

hi my names booka atleast thats what im known as.im 22 years old i live in a small town called oberlin ohio.i play sports speciality basketball im enrolling to start college at the community college in elyria soon.i like to make music just for fun.im kind of a loner really hang by myself alot...

India About Blog A Chartered Accountant by profession... An obsessive blogger... Compulsive reader... Budding teacher... A perenial thinker... And a born loner indeed!!!

The secretive loner, with a sweet - tooth for women, goes by the name of either Jack or Edward (George Clooney), and receives his marching orders from the mysterious

Somerset is a bachelor, an erudite loner who spends his time with books (it is he who understands the significance of the quotation from Milton left by the killer at the first crime scene).

In classic fashion, the unplanned - for sequel to a movie about a chronic loner that ended by pairing him off with a woman begins by killing her off, as Morena Baccarin's Vanessa takes a stray bullet meant for Ryan Reynolds» Wade Wilson.

Haunted by family tragedy and an estranged ex-wife, Owen's brooding boozy - loner detective is a lazy bundle of stock thriller tropes.

Directed by Scotsman Tom Vaughan, from a script David Nicholls adapted from his own novel, the film follows the halting adventures of naive loner Brian Jackson (James McAvoy, currently seen as the gormless doctor in The Last King of Scotland), who has left seaside Essex and his widowed mum (Catherine Tate) for a scholarship at Bristol University.

Its story is boilerplate noir: loner (Ryan Gosling) falls for young mother (Carey Mulligan) and is forced by circumstance to protect her and her son (Kaden Leos) against all the bad men.

Shoot «Em Up (Unrated) Clive Owen stars in this high - impact adventure about a mysterious loner who teams with a proverbial hooker (Monica Bellucci) with a heart of gold and lactating mammary to protect a stranger's newborn he's just delivered from a gang of hit men led by a bloodthirsty mobster (Paul Giamatti).

We'll start off with a sure thing here — considering that we saw Lamb at last year's SXSW festival and were blown away by Ross Patridge «s tender, tense exploration of two loners coming to terms with their respective places in the world and each other's lives.

The performances by Hardy and Theron though help define these two main characters as solitary loners who are simply trying to survive the hellish world they live in.

The film plays like an Alien knockoff, where unfortunately its many heart - pounding and genuinely gory sequences are diminished by goofy moments that don't work, such as Jake Gyllenhaal (playing loner space vet and medic Dr. David Jordan) solemnly reading parts of Goodnight Moon.

Left by his wife of 11 years, David is taken to a hotel compound where the non-attached — played by Ben Whishaw, John C. Reilly, Ashley Jensen, and Jessica Barden, among others — can form couples or earn extensions by hunting down Loners, renegade singles who hide in the woods.

It picks up on two teenagers — Avery's son (Dane DeHaan) and a loner (Emory Cohen)-- who are indirectly connected by the past but find a present connection in their affinity for drugs.

Left for dead in the desert, Reid is rescued by Tonto (Johnny Depp), a Comanche loner with a stuffed crow on his head, which he occasionally tries to feed crumbs.

Being a city kid, he doesn't make it very far and is soon caught up by his «Uncle» Hec, a loner bushman who at first wants to return Ricky to the authorities so he can be left alone to deal with his grief.

Ted is hobbled by a labored third act and a subplot involving a demented loner played by Giovanni Ribisi that is so ragingly gratuitous, it almost feels like an homage to the famously unnecessary diamond - smuggling subplots of the»80s, but Ted is so consistently, even explosively funny and oddly good - natured throughout that it really doesn't need a plot at all, let alone an even - less - welcome chase scene.

His Batman is such a do - it - yourself loner that other superheroes shun him, as we see when he inadvertently crashes a Justice League party thrown by his rival, Superman.

(In English and Pashtu with subtitles) The Human Centipede 2 (Unrated) Howl - inducing horror sequel revolving around a mentally - disturbed loner (Laurence R. Harvey) who becomes obsessed with replicating the exploits of the diabolical doctor who created a human centipede in the original by sewing his helpless kidnap victims together, one behind the other on their knees, in mouth - to - anus fashion.

Meanwhile, Danny is the object of a crush by Amy (Gugino, Snake Eyes), but he's so fixated on Zoey, she settles for loner dropout Tim (Krause, HBO's «Six Feet Under») instead.

After collecting some celebrity testimonials on The Room from the likes of Kristen Bell, J.J. Abrams, Lizzy Caplan, and Adam Scott, the film opens in 1998 at a San Francisco acting class where Sestero (Dave Franco, the director's younger brother) meets Wiseau (James Franco), a bizarrely - fashioned, curiously - accented loner who disarms the class by writhing around on stage and shouting «Stella» in a performance inspired by Tennessee Williams» A Streetcar Named Desire.

The smart script by Aaron Guzikowski also profiles two specific types of loners — Hugh Jackman's grizzled, survivalist father and Gyellenhaal's committed detective with a complicated past, beautifully hinted at but never explained — and how they each react when the worst horrors and evils of life unexpectedly land at their doorstep.

Woody Harrelson stars as the title character, a curmudgeonly loner in a dark comedy based on a graphic novel by Daniel Clowes of Ghost World fame...

Hawke stars as Paul, a grizzled loner fleeing a mysterious past toward Mexico with his trusty steed and multitalented pooch, Abbie, by his side.

The paths of the two loners cross, not romantically but intimately, brought together by shared knowledge of the independently delivered and initially abandoned child.

His second directorial effort, The Driver (1978), couldn't be more different — a contemporary drama of cops and crooks in the modern city locked in a struggle that has become (for no explicable reason) personal, all loners with temporary alliances at best — yet we're in the same Hill universe of tough, terse professionals who define themselves by their abilities and express themselves in action.

A loner with a talent for guns in the Old West has a scheme to get a coffin full of gold by pitting warring factions of Confederate soldiers against Mexican rebels.

He has lovingly created all sorts of teen archetypes: geeky anarchists (usually played by Anthony Michael Hall), adorable princesses (Molly Ringwald's specialty), even Angst - ridden loners (Judd Nelson in «The Breakfast Club»).

Just before they die of thirst, they're rescued by Boy (River Phoenix), a loner who behaves like Huck Finn as played by Klaus Kinski.

Taking place at Barden University — populated by perfectly coifed students who apparently never study — the movie's about Beca (Anna Kendrick), a cute sort - of loner and would - be music producer who finds a home with The Bellas and with what one character scornfully refers to as «organized nerd singing.»

Working the cash register at a truck stop managed by a brassy, surrogate aunt (Christine Lahti) while living with his dying father (Jason Beghe), Charles is a loner with a deformed leg, making him a target for bullies.

I normally associate Denny's with tobacco - stained loners drinking cup after cup of coffee and ruminating on times gone by.