Sentences with phrase «materialistic harpy»

For a century, the wife of the mighty author of War and Peace has most often been portrayed as a nagging, materialistic harpy, but The Last Station tells the story of Leo Tolstoy's last year from a refreshing new perspective.

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Allen stacks the deck by both casting Gil's fiancé Inez (Rachel McAdams) as his materialistic - harpy opposite, and by giving her a transparent perfect match in pseudo-intellectual blowhard Paul (Michael Sheen).