Sentences with word «motherless»

The acclaimed author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude returns with a roar with this gorgeous, searing portrayal of Manhattanites wrapped in their own delusions, desires, and lies.

Another family of motherless children meddles in their father's love life in the 1958 movie Houseboat.

With the possible exception of Motherless Brooklyn (which I loved and re-read to savor the sheer sumptuousness of its prose) Chronic City is his best yet.

Baby Chimdalu Nwite, who was in November 2013 stolen from an orphanage, Christian Compassionate Motherless Babies Home in Obosi Anambra State has been returned to his...

Heartrending and heartfelt tale of Mary Jocelyn motherless daughter of the Rector who lives her lonely unfulfilled life in a small country village.

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Now, after nearly a decade of work, Bennett has completed a mature and moving masterpiece about the indelible bond between mothers and daughters and what it means for motherless girls to grow into women.

CASA is in constant need of foster parents for motherless kittens and dogs who are being treated for medical ailments, need more training, or minor behavioral modification.

Fresh from his Oscar - nominated turn in The Florida Project, Willem Dafoe has signed on to star alongside Edward Norton in Motherless Brooklyn, Deadline is reporting.

About Photo # 4028804: Edward Norton discusses a scene with Bruce Willis on the set of the upcoming movie Motherless Brooklyn on Tuesday morning (February 6) in New York City.

Residents of Churchill, Man., say it's time to stop sending motherless young animals to southern zoos.

Every spring, Rancho Coastal Humane Society is deluged with motherless newborn kittens.

Dombey and Son tells of little Florence, left motherless after her brother's birth and utterly neglected by her father.

Do you really want her children to be left motherless when she dies in a back alley abortion?

There is, of course, an ethical quandary associated with late - life parenthood: If the average life span for women is around 75, should a 60 - year - old have a newborn who could be motherless by the time she's 15?

In 1996, the author moved from the San Francisco Bay area back to Brooklyn and began writing Motherless Brooklyn, a detective novel built around a language - obsessed protagonist suffering from Tourette's Syndrome.

You play as outcast and motherless Aloy as she searches for answers about her past and the world she and her tribe inhabit.

Jonathan Lethem, author of (most recently) Chronic City and the NBCC award - winning Motherless Brooklyn, will publish a new novel titled Dissident Gardens.

But I tell you who i did notice, is all the family members and especially fatherless and motherless chidren greeting a cold body that used to be someone warm they loved and hugged!!

But as the years went by, it became more and more obvious especially to Beth and to Tara: no matter how many children they cared for and lovingly placed into new families, there were always more motherless or abandoned children there to take their place.

Our long motherless period is coming to a close.

Her children are still motherless.

So I feel a strong sense of connection and compassion for these women who are mothering while motherless, in a way.

In the role of 11 - year - old, newly motherless Max, he is the saving grace of «Real Steel,» helping not only to bring out the humanity in Atom — Max just knows the bot has the circuitry of a champion — but sparking a flicker of life in Jackman, who's had a tough time getting his acting to outshine his muscle - flexing prowess and his model good looks (see the «X-Men» franchise for the first, celebrity fashion spreads for the rest).

The film makes much of the fact that WWII created a nation of fatherless sons, but there were fatherless daughters as well, not to mention motherless ones and a female perspective on the era is sorely missing.

Two motherless Southern sisters, stern gunslinger Augusta (Brit Marling) and moody daydreamer Louise (Hailee Steinfeld), along with their female slave Mad (Muna Otaru), must fend for themselves on their isolated farm near the end of the Civil War.

Respectively motherless and widowed, all of a sudden Kasper and Georg seem to be misfits in their hometown, so the prospect of a trip to the remote island of Ona via the nowheresvilles of rural Norway offers a timely distraction.

The last seven days marked a frenzy of career highs for the 34 - year - old Brit: the surprise Netflix release of her latest film, The Cloverfield Paradox, was the talk of the Super Bowl; she joined the cast of the Edward Norton - directed Motherless Brooklyn alongside Willem Dafoe and Bruce Willis; and she premiered her other Netflix movie, a heartbreaker of a romantic dramedy titled Irreplaceable You, in New York.

A couple of days ago it was reported that Willem Dafoe has signed on to star alongside Edward Norton in an adaptation of Jonathan Lethem's novel Motherless Brooklyn, and now The Wrap brings word of three more additions to the cast.

On the other hand, as a widowed dad, he hates the very idea of leaving behind and possibly orphaning his already motherless kids.

That's what Robinson Hart does to Alex Carter, the biggest bully in fifth grade, when he calls her a «motherless Robin bird.»

Compared to the two other motherless girls, Bilhah was neglected dreadfully.

First she returned to journalism, writing Motherless Nation, a documentary for BBC Radio about the emigration of Filipino women to other countries, so that they can earn money for their families, and the children they leave behind.

Not even my grandmother Adah, who adored little girls and gathered motherless Zilpah to her inner circle and doted upon Rachel, could warm to this strange, lonely bird, who never grew taller than a boy of ten years, and whose skin was the color of dark amber.

From the brutal attack that leaves Theo motherless and sends him first to the austere comfort of the Barbours, and then to the neglectful care of his father, and later, most importantly, into the debauched and delinquent arms of Boris (Oh, Boris, I would read a phonebook if it were about you), to the flight from Vegas that had my heart palpitating (hide the dog!)

Granma is also motherless, and in addition to that she deals with a much broader sense of loss — that of the spiritual and cultural traditions that shaped her youth, and that she has taken pains to reclaim.

In what the publisher has described as «Lethem's first genre - bending detective novel» since Motherless Brooklyn, a Brooklyn woman searches for her best friend's daughter throughout desert communities in California.

Every spring and summer, shelters around the country receive motherless, unweaned kittens, their survival dependent on weeks of intensive, round - the - clock care.

CASA tries to help save, bottle feed and wean as many motherless kittens as possible during our warmer months.

Any impounded seriously injured, seriously ill, or motherless unweaned animal with no known owner may be, at the discretion of the animal control manager, or his designee in his absence, humanely euthanized immediately to prevent further suffering by the animal.