Sentences with phrase «of age story which»

The First Time is the kind of movie I hope to see at Sundance each year — a coming of age story which is smart, funny, and able to touch your soul.

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The story points to Care - A-Van, a mobile clinic, which recently set up shop in a parking lot among BMWs and Teslas to battle this epidemic of advanced aging in Silicon Valley.

Long story short — she insisted we sell everything the next day (which was also a significant down day); we eventually re-entered the market; I retired at age 53 in 1995; and today, my IRA is 3.5 times greater than at retirement (in spite of zero new $ $ $, 2 more market crashes, and 2 significant RMDs).

We have been challenged to record on these pages a story of financial perspicacity which will be a bench mark of brilliance down through the ages.

I usually begin by sharing a little of my own story, and then I point to research conducted by the Barna Group in which young adults, ages 18 - 29 were asked the same question.

Hauerwas and the other essayists are on firmer ground when they write of the importance of holding on to the Christian story, which gives meaning to individual stories and provides «rich resources to make possible friendship between the elderly and, perhaps most important, becoming and remaining friends with ourselves as we age.»

It is an age which accepts a corporate sense of responsibility: the guilt (or the merit — see the story of Abraham's intercession for Sodom and Gomorrah in ch.

It is most lively and productive to think of one body of literature, the Bible, representing in any time and place the testimony of the narrative stretching from Abraham to the Apostles, which can be juxtaposed to any other age by its Psalms being sung again, its letters being read again, its stories and parables being retold.

The seemingly innocent story of Abishag, who was to warm the aged David (I Kings 1:1 - 4), is suspiciously reminiscent of widespread practices in which the ebbing virility of the old monarch was put to the test, since in his person he embodied the vital forces of the nation.

And this is the same age - old theological problem which the Yahwist so brilliantly presented to Israel in the primeval stories of Genesis 2 - 11.

God is not mentioned in the Hebrew text of Esther under any name.33 The story gives vent to a narrow patriotism (understandable enough in view of the age which produced it), a kind of patriotism transcended centuries before in Yahwism and, happily, never normative in Judaism.

And to hundreds of millions the most radiant day of all the bright and dark days in the story of mankind is that which saw his birth — no wonder an earlier and more imaginative age made it a day of weird unearthly beauty, when a strange star hung low above the city of David and a multitude of angels broke with sudden glory the silence of the dawn.

and outside your bronze age story book which is so patently flawed in so many ways, how do you know any of this about judges and rights and punishments?

Well, sadly the story is kind of blurry, but is connected to the fact that in some part of France, the year - end was celebrated around 1st of April in the Middle - Age, and the end of Lent during which meat was forbidden and fish was the alternative.

In a report from the Sun, Mikel has revealed the dramatic story of the transfer battle between Man United and Chelsea which started when the midfielder was aged just 15 - years - old.

The age of the child on whom the story centers is not specified; it could be a baby, toddler, teen or any age in between which makes this story a great fit for adoptive families.

Town of Lexington (Lexington, MA) offers two classic day camps: Discover the Fun Day Camp, a theme - based day camp program open to children entering Grades 1 - 5 as of September 2018 (June 25 - August 17, 8:30 am - 3:30 pm, extended hours until 4:30 pm, $ 230.00 / week), and the Teddy Bear Picnic Preschool Program for kids ages 3 - 6 (June 25 - August 17, 9am - 12 pm, extended hours until 1 pm, $ 110 / week), which includes singing and movement activities, story and project time, group games, and swimming.

As first reported by Advertising Age, which broke the story of the Burnett - crafted Happy Meal book program, each title incorporates characters the agency created earlier to market and promote a healthier iteration of the Happy Meal.

That's the conclusion of linguists and a geographer, who have together identified 18 Aboriginal stories — many of which were transcribed by early settlers before the tribes that told them succumbed to murderous and disease - spreading immigrants from afar — that they say accurately described geographical features that predated the last post-ice age rising of the seas.

But uranium - lead dating, in which researchers estimate the age of a rock by comparing its concentrations of radioactive uranium and the lead it decays into, tells a different story.

«When we think about quality of life for older adults, and improving quality of life, it seems like targeting the individual is only part of the story, and our findings suggests that for older adults, a larger part of individual well - being is defined by our partner's health and cognitive functioning as well,» said UA psychologist David Sbarra, a co-author of the paper, which will be published in Psychology and Aging, a journal of the American Psychological Association.

If you have been keeping abreast of the news lately, you might have come across a news story that highlighted a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), which found that salt consumption wasn't associated with an increase in systolic blood pressure in either men or women, after controlling for factors like age (1).

The film, which hits theaters February 16, is a modern twist on a romantic comedy (boy and girl meet, fall in love, but then break up, and are suddenly reunited, ending up in that awkward stage where they have to debate whether to wave hello while taking out the trash), but it's also a particularly female spin on the coming of age story, the likes of which we're only beginning to see onscreen as more women carve out a place for themselves in writer's rooms and director's chairs.

The ups and downs of your real life coming - of - age story can be unsettling and confidence - deflating, which is why it's important to feel good about yourself mentally and physically.

The average age of our UK members is 44, which not only makes us a great place to start your own over 40 dating story but also means that we're designed to serve mature members.

The average age of our US members is 44, which not only makes us a great place to start your own over 40 dating story but also means that we're designed to serve mature members.

Appearing as the cover story of the USA Today Weekend edition, Jayson wrote about a recent study conducted by online dating sites JDate and Christian Mingle in which 1500 singles aged 21 - 50 shared their thoughts on how mobile phone technology and texting when it comes to matters of the heart.

Most notable were his roles in The Bay Boy — a 1930s coming - of - age story set in Nova Scotia — for which he won a Genie Award in 1984, and the Rob Reiner drama Stand by Me (1986) in which he played a scene - stealing bully.

The story takes place in a world called «Ivalice,» in an age when magic was commonplace and airships plied the skies - the Archadian Empire, seeking to strengthen its base of power, had been invading and subjugating its neighboring lands one by one - a fate which befell the small Kingdom of

It plays like a response to the age of fan theories and puzzle box fiction, in which stories are set up to be pieced together, with every element eventually snapping into place.

First pitched to Disney in 1997, the story, which has nothing to do with the TV series about the bloke with the watch that makes him invisible, follows an aging hitman who is trying to get out of the business and retire to a more peaceful life.

Other film front - runners include the coming - of - age story «Boyhood» and World War II code - cracking drama «The Imitation Game,» which have five nominations each, including best picture (drama).

I'm always partial to sci - fi, which there's not too much of anyway, but beyond that I just love a good coming - of - age story, or something to bring out the wonder and emotions inside me, all wrapped around a great story.

At the film festival: Bruce LaBruce's subversive masterpiece, Gerontophilia, a lovely rom - com in which everybody fucks one another across all age and gender borders — desire shall bind us together; Juno Mak's Rigor Mortis, a touching albeit grim look at loss and damnation in the form of a Chinese hopping - vampire movie, with many a nod to the subgenre's clichés and conventions; Jealousy, Philippe Garrel's latest tale of love ground down by the mill of daily life, raw and naked even by his ascetic standards; Hayao Miyazaki's troublesome The Wind Rises, which frames the story of a fighter - plane designer as a grand romance of struggle and failure, with animation's supreme living master contemplating the price mankind can sometimes pay in the name of one dreamer's self - fulfillment, and the willful blindness and egocentricity it takes to realize one's vision; and finally to Yorgos Lanthimos's Necktie and Athina Rachel Tsangari's 24 Frames Per Century, their contributions to the Venice 70: Future Reloaded omnibus, not to mention the untitled pieces by Jean - Marie Straub, Monte Hellman, Amit Dutta, and Haile Gerima.

Sundance hints that «Joshua comes of age on screen as he rallies tens of thousands to civil disobedience» which means this is as much of a story about him as it is about the movement.

For all the film's techno sophistication, which mixes motion capture, live action, and computer animation, «Ready Player One» at its heart resembles a dewy, coming - of - age love story.

Yes, I've seen some happy films this year, some of which were incredible, but films like Toy Story 2 was ground into a form that could be accessible to all ages (for the record, I actually do think that Toy Story 2 is the superior film), and The Straight Story was too serene to ever be thought of as having much zeal.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

Cone lays down each scene of this calming coming - of - age story like he's building a matchstick house, instilling Miranda's Chicago intelligentsia existence with bucolic calmness, and making Cyd's journey — which entangles her with barista name Katie — a bold, photographic statement that's simply a pleasure to witness.

Showalter isn't the kind of person you'd expect to see handling such a female - focused story as this, and yet he gives Field the kind of showcase that women her age rarely get these days, which the actress bites into with absolute commitment and glee.

Tying with «American Sniper» was «Boyhood,» a coming - of - age story shot over a 12 - year period which has been this season's front - runner, receiving the lion's share of critics» honors and the Golden Globe for best picture Sunday night.

The shorter pieces, which take on various aspects of the film, the story, production and special effects details (like the use of miniatures, which has become a rarity in the CGI age), range from under two minutes to just over twelve minutes.

Also performing well was Greta Gerwig's acclaimed coming - of - age story Lady Bird, which picked up three nominations, for Saoirse Ronan (best female actor), Laurie Metcalf (female supporting actor) and best ensemble.

Xiu Xiu, which is rather broadly accessible for a coming - of - age drama about a teenage girl who is relocated to remotest China as part of a Communist initiative, was seen as a Miramax telling of its story.

And film projects hardly get more ambitious than this independently funded, $ 100 million project, which tells six discrete stories in six timelines, using a cast of stars who shuttle between genders, races, and ages.

Iconic: The film, which has been tipped for Oscars success is set in 2002, and tells the story of an artistically inclined seventeen - year - old girl, who comes of age in Sacramento, California

I was a great fan of Olivier Assayas» last film, Something in the Air, which gracefully elided a classic coming - of - age story with the student protests of 1968.

It's a pretty classic coming - of - age story in which a vagabond entrances a clique of cobalt - cool chicks — one being Margaret «Legs» Sadovsky, played by Jolie.

THE CHI (formerly Untitled Lena Waithe / Common) Picked up to series STUDIO: Fox 21 TV Studios / Kapital Entertainment TEAM: Lena Waithe (w, ep, sr), Elwood Reed (ep, sr), Common (ep), Aaron Kaplan (ep), Rick Famuyiwa (d, ep), Adam Glass (co-ep) LOGLINE: Set in Chicago, it's the coming - of - age story of a young African - American male in which growing up can be a matter of life and death.

Saoirse has been nominated for a string of awards for her role in coming - of - age drama, which tells the story of a strong - willed 17 - year - old girl (Saoirse) who maintains a turbulent bond with her mother Marion (Laurie Metcalf).