Sentences with phrase «many unhappy families»

Her book is a strong counterargument to Tolstoy's dictum that all happy families are alike, while each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way — as if unhappy families were more interesting than happy ones.

It is not the unhappy family or the broken home that he finds most disturbing; rather, it is the family devoid of spiritual and intellectual coherence and interaction.

Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

At the end of the story, Inskee quoted Tolstoy with his own clever twist: «Happy families are all alike; unhappy families have kids under five or teenagers.»

And that creates and unhappy family.

We listen to our pediatricians, our friends and family or retreat to the way we were parented ourselves, which usually results in frustration, inconsistency and the development of dysfunctional patterns and unhappy families.

Like unhappy families, all mass extinctions are unhappy in their own way.

Finding solace at the bottom of a beer pitcher, Tommy takes a room above his favourite bar, Trees Lounge, where he takes to drinking with unhappy family man Mike (Boone Jr).

Our headline arrives with apologies to Leo Tolstoy, who famously began his novel Anna Karenina with the comment that «Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.»

This small film is a thoughtful addition to his parables about happy and unhappy families (Nobody Knows, After the Storm), studded with memorable characters and believable performances that quietly lead the viewer to reflect on societal values.

It's not for nothing that Tolstoy is a touchstone for both Chris and the movie — his dictum that «every happy family is happy in the same way; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way» remains unspoken but hangs over the movie.

Sarah Jessica Parker's nimble performance is reason alone to see this creaky fairy tale about a Manhattan executive marrying into an unhappy family.

Trust delves into the trials and triumphs of one of America's wealthiest and unhappiest families, the Gettys.

They're an unhappy family, always squabbling with one another, Emma Wishbone (Emily Watson), runs a bookshop that has fallen on hard times.

We witness, in jagged pieces that jump back and forth in time, the unthinkably brutal rupture of a dysfunctional but not entirely unhappy family.

Sanzio is bothered by the usual affliction of middle - aged male detectives — an unhappy family life — although at least he isn't a divorcee.

Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, except perhaps in the films of the Austrian writer - director Michael Haneke, where domestic misery tends to express itself as a series of repetitive, even ritualistic patterns.

As young Max's home is besieged by bloodthirsty versions of classic Christmas icons, he and his unhappy family must come together and fight if they want to live to see Boxing Day.

Even films that aren't exactly horror — Okja, for instance, or Good Time — have an unhappy family at their core.

Based on his 2008 Pulitzer Prize - winning work of the same name, August: Osage County takes Tolstoy's oft - quoted opening line of Anna Karenina — «each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way» — as its primary raison d'être and spends a vitriolic two hours (one hour less than the play) showing us just how unhappy its central characters — members of the Oklahoma Weston clan — can be.

Tracy Letts, who adapted his Pulitzer Prize — winning play for the screen, never got Tolstoy's memo about how «each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,» and as a result we're treated to a veritable banquet of American - theater tropes sensationalizing intergenerational dysfunction: banshee - like women and taciturn men in the autumn of their years, and progeny who either suffer for their familial devotion or lose their souls to escape the nuthouse.

It's the bit about happy families being all alike in their yaddayadda - blabla and how unhappy families are all unhappy in their unique blablabla.

On the other hand, if you neglect the present, you may find yourself with more money but also a career that you hate, an unhappy family life, and very few real friends.

An unhappy dog leads to an unhappy family which almost always leads to another innocent dog sitting in the shelter waiting for a new home.

They get bored and either act out to relieve the boredom or act up in order to get the families attention, either way it can lead to unhappy families with out of control dogs.

This resulted in a tense household and an unhappy family, all from her lack of confidence and overwhelming anxiety.

Winner (TIE): Blood, Sweat, and Pixels by Jason Schreier Leo Tolstoy once rather famously wrote that «happy families are all alike,» but that «every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.»

There's Michael, a middle - aged ex-con and professional thief with a broken marriage and unhappy family, Trevor, a suicidal alcoholic that has a terrible tendency to get into trouble and loves doing it, and Franklin, a repo man who's tired of his monotonous, repetitive lifestyle and wants more out of it.

All unhappy families are different in their own way.»

Leo Tolstoy opens Anna Karenina with the line, «All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.»

Hugh, reminds me of the «Karenina principle» lifted from Tolstoy's «Anna Karenina»: «Happy families are all alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way».

Within 48 hours I was dealing with one very unhappy family member whose PIN code no longer worked.

Though Anna Karenina might be one of my favorite novels about marriage, I disagree with Tolstoy that «all happy families are alike, while each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.»

Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina opens with the famous line «All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.»

«Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.»

Was each unhappy family unhappy in its own way, as Tolstoy claimed, or did the miserable marriages all share something toxic in common?

«I help children in conflict, struggling couples, unhappy families, and adults who are motivated to change.

Tolstoy was right: each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

A loving, caring family can help create confident, resilient children, while an unhappy family can lead to a range of problems for children.

Not exact matches

«Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious.

The new study, published in the Journal of Management, suggests that a bad mood caused by an oafish colleague doesn't simply go away when we get home; bad moods travel home with us, causing unhappy employees to lash out at their family members.

The Trump family is reportedly unhappy with Kelly's move, but the president didn't intervene to stop him.

Mr. Dion, who was judged to be too prickly to handle the U.S. file, was said to be unhappy with being dropped from cabinet and is pondering with his family whether to accept the diplomatic posting.

Less than 20 % of Americans said they would be unhappy if a close family member married someone from the opposite political party and only 11 % said they would be upset if that person was of a different race.

It is always best to tell the truth: «This family has some problems and we are all going to get some help in figuring them out,» or «We have all been unhappy lately and we are going to see whether we can get some help to make things better.»

All of the atheists I know are very successful people in both lives, loves and careers whilst most of the deists I know are divorced, unhappy with their families and jobs.

And just as families select artifacts that suggest past happiness in order to soften the blows inflicted by actions of family members in less happy times, congregational histories can create illusions: authors might relate in two sentences the experience of an unhappy pastorate that led to two decades of misery — and distort the whole story by dwelling on the beauty of the old sanctuary, hence suggesting general happiness.

Reality is that most families are dysfunctional, men love their wives, but they adore their mistresses and too many children suffer physically and psychologically at the hands of abusive / tired / angry / frustrated / unhappy parents.

I would almost be willing to hypothesize that, rather like the use of «family» or «values» in an organization name designating someone with no true interest in the former, and a near total lack of the later, that the inability to use bad words, and make seemingly «unhappy» comments is not so much a sign of happiness, per say, as... well..

«Be ware when all men speak well of you» — that's scripture... Thank God for Brother Billy Graham and his dear family and all their hard work for good in our world... Fuss on — unhappy Wrong folks — I pity you...