Sentences with word «moonstruck»

Marriage's dark nights are rarely depicted on the big screen in quite this way, with Hollywood instead giving audiences what they most want — the swoon of love at first sight, falling in moonstruck love, the big wedding, the honeymoon phase, and happily ever after.

But the latter abound so that we can afford to overlook the innumerable failures and self - deceptions that are mixed in with them (for in everything human failure is a matter of course), and we can also overlook the verbiage of a good deal of the mind - cure literature, some of which is so moonstruck with optimism and so vaguely expressed that an academically trained intellect finds it almost impossible to read it at all.

New Scientist is utterly moonstruck in the run - up to Apollo 11's fortieth anniversary.

Stroll by a screen where snippets of stockbroker Blanchett barking about futurism might sit next to a working - class hero Blanchett muttering «we are no longer moonstruck wanderers» as dawn breaks, and maybe you muse about the connection between chin - strokes.

Unhappy in her marriage, Sally develops a crush on her handsome art gallery owner boss, Greg (Antonio Banderas), while Roy, a novelist nervously awaiting the response to his latest manuscript, becomes moonstruck over Dia (Freida Pinto), a mystery woman who catches his gaze through a nearby window.

A breakfast the morning after the sort of moonstruck spectacle that most of us remember from that one night from our lost youth stands as the highlight of the piece: terse and hopeless but at the same time melancholic, breathless, and sweet.

«This delightfully moonstruck feature boasts Brendan Gleeson «s comedian muscles and Taylor Kitsch «s shtick (which, yes, is an anagram of Kitsch) for being the likable bad boy (Dr. Bad Boy here.)

Only in Hollywood can mental illness be cured by moonstruck fantasy.

Whatever the mechanism, inconsistent sleep around the full moon could be partially responsible for the origin of the word lunatic, which derives from the Latin for «moonstruck.»

I like the ablaze blazer and the moonstruck sweater.Thank you so much for a chance to win.

Andy's wooing of Trish is a fairy - tale courtship, but Carell and Keener fuse their contrasting skittishness into a moonstruck neurotic connection, and when Andy does finally act to confront his problem, it's a glorious release indeed: a nerd's love - in.

As Dixon, a racist cop who's a loser, a momma's boy, and a violent flake, he gives a high - wire performance, daring to make himself gnarly and dislikable, only to undergo a transformation that the actor, mining his moonstruck ability to win laughs in even the most disturbing situations, makes spiritually convincing.

So when the night sky's inky embrace drops endless dots that invite flights of fancy, each blip unknown to personal experience, your moonstruck brain and your skookum heart gleefully howl for your attention.