Sentences with phrase «of circus life»

The world of the circus had always interested Rouault through its contrast of superficial brightness with the infinite sadness of circus life.

It offers a wonderful insider's view of circus life.

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The surprising move comes after years of protests from animal welfare advocates who objected to harsh living conditions imposed on the animals by the circus.

Much of the elephants» lives were spent chained in train cars, being transported to traveling circus shows around the country.

But then Magnus himself puts on the clown's white face, and at the end, the clown rides again into the next town — with the circus of life.

Attempting to create more non-understanding monsters I see, hopefully «your boys» will grow away from your nonsensical views and adopt an understanding of how life «really works» outside of mom and pop little circus world.

«The United States may be the Capitol of Panem, and some may be treating The Hunger Games as just another circus, but that message of subversive living is being heard even if just subconsciously.

Last night, I had a horrifyingly realistic dream that began with getting arranged - marriage - promised to a stranger, followed with a multi-day wedding / traveling circus performance, and finally devolved into me trying to dissolve the marriage contract while vying for the affections of my true love (and actual, real - life husband) as a woman named Sharmula attempted to seduce him away.

Few experiences in life can equal that of a night of live theater, sports, or even the circus.

What Britain's newspaper The Guardian called a circus started at 2:09 p.m. EST on February 16, when Space.com broke what it billed as an exclusive: «NASA Researchers Claim Evidence of Present Life on Mars.»

The next target, she says, will likely be a pair of elephants living in a zoo or circus.

You don't sleep, you don't eat well - it's just an insane circus of Vogue come to life on the streets of Manhatten.

Above all, the photographer draws on his inner fantasy life to conjure the circus of marching bands, jugglers, elephants, cheerleaders, Labradors and all - American male demigods that populate his work.

Suddenly I was compelled to enter the circus that was online dating... The major drawback of Internet dating is that it's impossible to render the complex truth of a life in a small box on a screen.

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Cases include the 1970 murder of a jazz musician leading a double life, a graffiti artist's fatal overdose in 1982 and the 1971 death of a young circus performer.

The pampered plutocrats of the bronze age adore football in a bread - and - circuses sort of way, but it turns out that the stone age crew were once themselves pretty useful at the beautiful game, and a sensational pre-credit sequence tells us the extraordinary role that football played at the dawn of time in shaping life on earth.

Circus has no difficulty finding all the usual, romantically enthralling ideals contained within circus life, which unfortunately causes a lot of the series to feel predictable.

Circus offers equal treatment to performers, stage crew and management, showing how a circus operates and the conflicts that inevitably erupt when 150 people share such close quarters, living out of trailers for months at a time.

Petit takes through his life — from discovering wire walking when he snuck into a circus as a kid — the head of said circus, Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley) later becomes his mentor; to his devotion to his art leading to his being thrown out of his parents» home; to meeting a beautiful street singer named Annie (Charlotte Le Bon, The Hundred - Foot Journey); to his first illegal act of artistry — wire walking between the towers of Paris» Notre Dame cathedral.

Synopsis: In 18th - century Romania, after spending much of her life in a traveling circus, human - vampire hybrid Rayne (Kristanna Loken) escapes and plots to t...

There's a palpable thirst in Hollywood and elsewhere for, if not clarity, then at least a force of equal and opposite magnitude to the grim circus that's become our collective daily life.

(35) For Jodorowsky, the film drew upon his own childhood memories of the circus, and his «terrible» relationship with his mother, who allegedly tried to live through him and with whom he had little physical affection; characters with dominating or pseudo-incestual maternal relationships have figured into virtually all of his earlier films.

It follows the life of P.T. Barnum and the creation of the circus.

From his the period of time where he was taking risks to overcome his impoverished beginnings, to his days fighting to expand and keep his circus alive, we're asked to follow him and his team during a journey that shows some of his best and worst moments throughout this period of his life.

Also a big plus is avoiding the politically incorrect use of a lot of live circus animals in favor of limited CGI versions.

When Victor travels to the circus and witnesses a hunchback named Igor (Radcliffe) saving the life of a performer named Lorelei (Jessica Brown Findlay), he doesn't care for Igor.

When Isaac says he dreamt of being a knife thrower in the circus, Cera takes a drag of his cigarette and says, «That life is not as romantic as it seems.»

The Greatest Showman This musical about the life of P.T. Barnum (played by Hugh Jackman) will have you singing, dancing and cheering for the underdogs in this circus spectacular.

After freeing the young man from the circus and curing him of his back problem, Frankenstein offers the lost soul a chance at greatness: to be his partner and create life.

The loginess commences with a framing device that finds Depp's elderly Tonto as «The Noble Savage» in a circus - tent exhibit in 1930s San Francisco, relaying the story of his life to a little boy who fancies himself a masked bandit.

Based on a true story, the plot follows Solomon Northup (Ejiofor), a free black man tricked into slavery by a pair of men posing as circus promoters, then transported south to Louisiana, where he's forced to live out his predicament alongside a plantation owner (Fassbender).

The plot follows Solomon Northup (Ejiofor), a free black man tricked into slavery by a pair of men posing as circus promoters, then transported south to Louisiana, where he's forced to live out his predicament alongside a plantation owner (Fassbender).

This majestically asinine film elides or ignores much of the circus founder's life, and turns what's left to such hash that calling the film a biography seems rather generous — but then, I doubt that director Michael Gracey and his collaborators would expect anybody to call it that, so maybe it's bad faith to criticize the movie entirely on those grounds.

Gone is the gaudy, colourful circus of Capitol life.

An incident during one of the circus» shows leads to a encounter between the young clown and an eccentric medical student named Victor Frankenstein (James McAvoy), who quickly recognizes a kindred spirit in the brilliant, but abused, nameless clown and soon after rescues him from his old life.

Darren sacrifices his humanity and his safe, predictable life as he knows it to save Steve from a deadly spider bite, faking his death to join the circus as the half - vampire servant of full vampire Larten Crepsley (John C. Reilly).

«The Greatest Showman» tells a story based on the real life of the great circus showman PT Barnum.

The story tells of a journalist selling his soul and an actual human life for a good story, and in the process creating a nightmarish media circus.

Add in Willem Dafoe's stern but loving motel manager, torn between his desire to protect the children and keeping even a little sense of authority and propriety in the sideshow circus that is the transient motel living population, and you've got a movie with a vital and exposed beating heart.

Here is one of the most noir of all Bergman's films (along with «Hour of the Wolf» and «The Serpent's Egg»): a German Expressionist - style nightmare of a film about life at a circus, in three rings of adultery, jealousy and torment.

It was fun, and when it was over it was kind of like the circus had left town and everybody kind of went back to their own lives.

The free and colorful spirit of the circus comes to life through spectacular musical numbers that conveniently gloss over the cruelty towards people and animals that circuses often exhibit.

«A Bug's Life» on Blu - ray: Beautiful high - def transfer of the lively 1995 Pixar computer - animated tale of a free - thinking ant (voiced by Dave Foley) who leaves the colony and — in a kind of homage to «The Magnificent Seven» — recruits a ragtag troupe of circus bugs to help battle predatory grasshoppers; has many new extras.

In fact, real life is bad in The Greatest Showman universe: It's full of snobs and killjoys and realists, who are lined up alongside bigots who protest the circus because it is «an abomination» and critics who sniff at what goes on in the ring because it «isn't art.»

Jackman stars as P. T. Barnum, a man so desperate to improve his station in life that he puts together a group of outcasts and «curiosities» and creates a circus.

In spite of its brief 75 - minute runtime, Circo, a documentary portrait of the Circo Mexico circus troupe, is too sprawling to be the comprehensive look at circus life that its...

As they walk and talk into the Manhattan night, both flash back to defining life moments, riff on fame, roots, and identity, and get dangerously close — all while he juggles the pressure of an impending media circus marriage to his reality TV - star fiancée (Gabrielle Union).

Upping the action's aural ante, the Immortan's cacophonous road circus is hilariously accompanied by its own live band, including a gentleman with a double - necked, flame - throwing guitar perched atop a wall of speakers who channels Junkie XL's ear - blasting score (unexpectedly evocative, in its own hyper - charged way, of Brian May's music for the original Mad Max).

A highly glamorised version of the life story of PT Barnum — the man who made the circus a lucrative business in America and had a unique flair for marketing — Jackman's pet project deserves to become a Christmas classic.