Sentences with phrase «neurotic man»

When: July 17th Why: Emma Strong is one of the most charming and entertaining actresses working today, but after the disaster of «Magic in the Moonlight,» does anyone really want to watch another Woody Allen film where she plays the beautiful young woman who helps an older, slightly neurotic man snap out of his midlife funk?

Mannix is a neurotic man who acts tough, but is soft in a rough industry.

Jason Bateman, so strong right now on Netflix's «Ozark», plays another neurotic man - child; Rachel McAdams, as his wife, is a fine dramatic performer with the comic timing of a lead door.

Despite their memorable settings — a medieval Belgian tourist town, the Southern California desert — his earlier movies had a theatrical quality, the locations serving mainly as a scenic backdrop for tense encounters among chatty, neurotic men.

Not exact matches

Women tend to be more neurotic than men, but contrary to hoary old stereotypes of moody women, it's actually openness to new experiences that most dents the productivity of female workers.

Newton was responsible for some of the largest breakthroughs in the scientific revolution, and yet on a personal level, the man could be a neurotic mess.

From Uber's toxic workplace, to reports of venture capitalists harassing female entrepreneurs, to that Google bro who posted that manifesto saying women tend to be more neurotic than men even as the company undergoes a federal investigation into whether it pays women less than men... none of this is good.

Maybe if wives weren't so damn neurotic and stupid, men would stop cheating and hurting everyone around them.

Twenty centuries witness to the effectiveness of such worship in changing men's lives for the better, in bringing release from guilt and freedom from fear, in giving direction and purpose to their striving, and in lifting them out of neurotic self - concern into healthful and creative relationships to their fellows.

A man is oppressed by its weight on his back only when his back also bears a heavy burden of neurotic anxiety.

Gradually the man's neurotic defenses were relaxed and, consequently, his objectionable behavior diminished.

«It would, in effect, place within the Godhead a neurotic element that can never serve as a solid presupposition for the salvation of man.

«Risk of distracted driving predicted by age, gender, personality and driving frequency: Young men, people who drive more often, and extraverted or neurotic people are more likely to be distracted while driving.»

Again it is the Jewish male, rather than female, that serves as the prototype for the neurotic Jew, a notion which Gilman discusses in terms of degrees of exclusion — women being the «included Other» while the Jewish man is the «excluded Other».

In return I will provide the neurotic stimulation women desire and the fun exotic stamina you look for in younger men.

Women suffer more from anxiety disorders than men do, and studies show that excessively anxious (or highly neurotic) women report less satisfaction with

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This nadir of equal - opportunity raunch forces viewers to spend time with a needy yeast - infested adult who doesn't know how to go on a date with a man; her grating, neurotic monster of a best friend; and a third, random younger chick, who's crazy - upset about some tedious thing that happened with her boyfriend.

In Stone's view, this is a highly neurotic young man whose emotions, far from being repressed or disciplined as one would expect of a great soldier of the 4th century B.C., are worn on his sleeve, except, of course, that he doesn't have sleeves, the shirt still being two millennia down the road.

From The Graduate to Kramer vs Kramer via Midnight Cowboy and All the President's Men, Hoffman specialised in delivering neurotic, agitated performances.

This is easily one of the best performances of Arkin's career, earning a majority of the laughs as the neurotic straight man to Falk's volatile wise guy.

The men in this summer's slate of indie films are far from ordinary: Colin Farrell stars as a neurotic in the wonderfully weird romantic comedy «The Lobster» and Daniel Radcliffe is a dead guy in «Swiss Army Man.»

They both dwell deeply in Roth land — beautiful women, neurotic / borderline hostile men but one is really about the repression that sets the stage for what American Pastoral is about, the 1960s / 1970s.

Separating the man from the art is always difficult when it comes to the legendary New York neurotic of American moviemaking, whose personal life remains...

He plays a «lonely, neurotic and hilariously honest middle - aged man reunites with his estranged wife and meets his teenage daughter for the first time.»

Ben Stiller stars as neurotic Mel Coplin, a grown man who hits the road with his wife (Arquette, Holy Matrimony), infant son, and an adoption counselor (Leoni), in hopes of finding his biological parents.

Now well into his seventies, Allen opted to stay behind the camera here, relying on Javier Bardem to fill his familiar role as the highly - neurotic leading man in the midst of a relationship crisis.

Providing a terrific foil to Atkinson's slapstick antics is Peter MacNicol as the curator of the Los Angeles gallery; his harried and neurotic straight man makes a perfect Cousin Larry to Atkinson's twisted and demented (to the extreme) Balki.

That antiquated alpha masculinity that plays as hilariously sexist in today's climate is captured in Guy Pearce's bottle - blond, moustachioed man - child Keith, Julian McMahon's gaudily wealthy leer Rick and Jeremy Sims» loud - but - decent third wheel Bob; their respective spouses are Kylie Minogue's neurotic souse Kaye, Radha Mitchell's sexed - up swinger Jo and Asher Keddie's tightly - wound, image - conscious Gale.

Dev Patel plays Saroo as a young man, and his commanding performance will be a surprise to those audiences who have become used to his neurotic persona in the «Best Exotic Marigold Hotel» movies.

«Wilson» Release Date: March 24 Director: Craig Johnson Starring: Woody Harrelson, Judy Greer, Laura Dern and Margo Martindale Synopsis: A lonely, neurotic and hilariously honest middle - aged man reunites with his estranged wife and meets his teenage daughter for the first time.

I love that her three best friends are a neurotic girl, a gay man and a girl who swears like a sailor.

Suffice to say that the man was a lot busier than he ever wanted to be, and despite a calm demeanor and confident sense of humor, he was often a neurotic mess inside his own head — and the movie never tries to make Kenney out as a hero or a villain.

A riveting tragedy of neurotic self - destruction, it fixes its gaze on Scarlett O'Hara, the firebrand Dixie princess, as she ricochets with blind abandon between her Southern - belle fantasies and her ruthless heart, between her abstract crush on Ashley Wilkes and her hunka burnin» lust for Rhett Butler (the man she hates herself for loving because he's as big a scoundrel as she is).

Henry, you understand, is a very odd man with a lot of problems, which seem less like a consistent syndrome than a collection of random neurotic tics.

Kate Winslet is every over-educated under - achieving heterosexual man's wet dream (particularly if you have a penchant for neurotic booze hounds with bad dye jobs... * ahem *) and Carrey is at his least irritating, offering by far his best performance.

This was followed from the leaked memo where Damore stated that women are more «neurotic» and argued that psychological gender differences could explain why 80 % of Google's engineers, and most of the company's leaders, are men.

Yet as a man who married one of America's most famous and famously neurotic women, he never spoke of her in public or in print.

Most men stay in a relationship for years without popping the question, sometimes driving some partners to become borderline neurotic.

«Neurotic» is a rather over-used term to describe women these days, which is ironic considering the person who really defines it is a man — Woody Allen.