Sentences with phrase «loners who»

Generation X, associates aged 27 to 41, are loners who question authority, can be cynical, pessimistic, think in short time horizons and have a «prove it to me» attitude, according to author and consultant Cam Marston, of Marston Communications in Charlotte, N.C. Add Generation Y to the mix, aged 26 or younger, who are «adultolescent» individuals who have never known hardship, yet stressed, at a young age, and may have huge goals but are clueless on execution.

The amount of times I hear people say that gamers are loners who don't have friends or don't know how to get into a relationship is frustrating!

Are cats aloof loners who don't miss you?

┬ ╗ Nine Signs of Grief in Cats For a long time, people believed that cats were loners who didn't need any other creatures in their lives.

Newcomers Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward are adorable together as Sam and Suzy, 12 - year - old loners who find each other, pack up their treasured belongings and run away together at the end of summer 1965.

On one level, both guy - friendly bloodbaths are about charismatic loners who kill small nation's worths of bad guys, many professional killers, in legitimately cool ways.

Everyday you have an opportunity to hunt loners who have runaway into the forest.

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.

Dramatizing the two boys» respective insecurities and strengths, Gondry has crafted a pair of loners who complement each other but aren't so outrageously different that their companionship feels forced.

Sad, tender, wise and beautiful film... It's a profound tribute to lives lived on the fringes of society — to the introspective loners who are the most observant chroniclers of our times.

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.

Sure, we allow technologically gifted loners who launch companies in garages to have any personality they please, but they are the exceptions, not the rule, and our tolerance extends mainly to those who get fabulously wealthy or hold the promise of doing so.

Thanks to movies like «Jaws,» we tend to think of sharks as loners who prefer to do their own thing.

Affleck plays a rich loner who pays the family living in his childhood home to pretend they're all related for the holidays.

Think of the high - school geek, forever seeking vindication; the loner who masters the art of the cold call.

The turnaround artist is a... fiery, flamboyant loner who isn't afraid to make sweeping changes and brutal decisions.

Madoff was a loner who was true to his own vision.

But suddenly, Alan Leavitt — a 42 - year - old loner who detests taking a middle - of - the - road position on anything because «all you find there are dead opossums, dead skunks and a yellow line» — has swung out of the traffic and is up there among the movers and shakers in harness racing.

He was a loner who loved the company of other researchers.

Wilhelm Weinberg was a loner who devoted much of his time to caring for the poor, including delivering 3,500 babies during a 40 - year career.

I am that loner who usually kept to oneself but now I need to find another loner to become a pack to cause trouble for those around us.

Easy going, intermittantly active, quiet, but can be drawn out, enjoy humor and seriousness, outdoorsy, but like to stay warm and dry, a loner who misses company.

Joe is such a looper, a favorite of The Boss (Jeff Daniels), a loner who hoards the silver ingots that future crooks use to pay him (strapped o the victim's body), who is addicted to the latest drug — administered through eyedrops — and a little too fond of a stripper / hooker (Piper Perabo).

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).

While April negotiates a dangerous affair with Mr. B., and Teddy performs community service for a DUI — secretly carrying a torch for April, who may or may not share his affection — Fred seduces Emily (Zoe Levin), a promiscuous loner who seeks validation through sexual encounters.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

An off - kilter and slyly funny character study about Derek, a thirty - something loner who tries to keep the world at arm's length.

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).

Brendan Frye (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) is a tough talking loner who takes in the rest of high school at a distance.

In Reed Morano's gorgeous post-apocalyptic movie, Peter Dinklage plays a grumpy loner who gets to live out a «Twilight Zone» - like fantasy of having all the time in the world to read in his empty town's library.

Donald «Tramp» (Gleeson) is a loner who lives in his surprisingly homely shack on the edge of the Heath, near an old hospital.

This ripcord - tight suspense thriller, about a meek loner who engages in an ill - advised attempt at revenge, debuted at Cannes, and after seeing it at TIFF, stuck in my head all throughout fall and winter.

Daniel Plainview in Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood (pictured above) is another thick - moustached, American force of nature, a pathological loner who wants to make enough money «so I can get away from everyone», building an oil empire as he tears down his life.

It's 1962 and Elisa (Sally Hawkins, delivering a flow of enraptured expressions) is a mute loner who works — somewhat improbably — in a secret government facility in Baltimore.

In it, Ben (Jonah Bobo) is a high school loner who sees two of his fellow students commit a crime at a local store.

While the casting of Crispin Glover as a disassociated loner who discovers he has the power to talk to rats is sort of inspired, «X Files» expat writer Glen Morgan's Willard suffers (and yes, I feel silly for saying this) from a lack of character development, a forced psychoanalytic structure, and a sort of inbred Comic Book Guy fondness for self - reference (i.e., the majority of the bit characters have animal names — a sort of thing used best in Landis's An American Werewolf in London and Dante's The Howling: Mrs. Leach, Mr. Garter, Janice Mantis, George Boxer, and so on) that grates.

Like Batman, Constantine is a cunning, often cynical loner who is the best at his chosen profession — but quickly realizes the sinister forces plaguing the planet will require help from other supernatural alliances.

As for the so - self - indulgent - it - makes - your - teeth - ache «Hesher,» starring Joseph Gordon - Levitt as a stoner loner who insinuates himself into a dysfunctional — what else?

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.

Gyllenhaal turns in a career - best performance here as a sociopathic loner who finds his calling in the murky world of freelance crime scene camera work.

The catalyst for change in her stagnant life is the appearance of Pascal (Johnny Flynn), a rough, mysterious loner who Moll finds herself drawn to despite the distain of her family and the wider community.

When we meet Megan, she's a bit of a misunderstood loner who's struggling to find her identity after the death of her childhood best friend.

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.

Wachs («The Last Hurrah») plays Paul, an elusive loner who one...

Cassavetes presents him as a cynical loner who's essentially beyond salvation.

A predecessor to the likes of the noted 1980s American film Red Dawn, Neill plays an unassuming loner who gets sucked into a violent divide between guerilla rebels and an encroaching Fascist political system which seems to be mirroring the Nazi takeover in Germany.

Decked out in a goofy rustic wardrobe, with matted hair and an ill - tended mustache, Gosling digs deep into his Method bag of tricks to play an emotionally stunted loner who's retreated back into his shell.

It's here that Gillespie's talents are best - deployed: He made the winsome, strange indie dramedy Lars and the Real Girl in 2007, and sometimes Bernie doesn't feel too far off from Ryan Gosling's character in that film, a sweet loner who falls in love with a sex doll.

But as it becomes increasingly clear, Haneke is showing us the various familial influences that contribute to the alienation felt by troubled 13 - year - old Eve Laurent (Fantine Harduin), a despondent loner who's forced to live with her estranged father, Thomas (Mathieu Kassovitz), after she poisons her biological mother.

2), Man On Fire stars Denzel Washington as John Creasy, an alcoholic loner who needs a job.