Sentences with phrase «on twentysomethings»

While both have the same amount of depth and introspection on twentysomethings wandering aimlessly through their adulthood, Frances Ha is both less acidic and more empathetic toward the struggles of cutting off your ties from entitlement to make a truly honest living.

On this particular morning, Tisch is focusing his disgust on a twentysomething entrepreneur with a bold plan (aren't they all?)

«Lights Out» (the feature) centers on twentysomething Rebecca (Teresa Palmer) and her pre-adolescent brother Martin (Gabriel Bateman), whose mother, Sophie (Maria Bello), suffers from a disassociative mental illness that has her talking to a friend no one else sees.

Not exact matches

Shannon Lee Simmons, Founder of The New School of Finance, on how to talk to twentysomethings about investing

Their weekly podcast, which drops on Tuesdays, is filled with refreshing conversations that convince student - loan - burdened twentysomethings — or anyone for that matter — that saving money isn't so far - fetched.

What's going on in the province is a fight by twentysomethings to be heard by governments that seem to have little interest in them.

All those things are worthwhile and good goals, but looking around my church at the twentysomethings who are making a lot of big life decisions, rarely do I see an example of a young millennial who has gone the traditional route of a four - year college degree to find themselves in a cubicle on the 11th floor — or at least who are happy being there.

By pairing practical ministries of coaching, career counseling, and mentoring along with the Truth of who Jesus is, regardless of the season of life in which we find ourselves, I believe that the local church can have a real impact on the largely unreached twentysomething population.

I don't have any answers, but I know as a twentysomething myself, I re-found Christianity on my own terms.

There may be some twentysomethings that find success early on, but for most people, achieving big goals takes time.

First things first, most twentysomethings are too hard on themselves.

Already, better than 85 percent of twentysomethings make purchasing decisions — and decide their willingness to recommend a brand — based on the social good a company is doing, according to Entrepreneur.

I first asked this question in 11 Questions Every Twentysomething Should Ask, and I think it boils down to this: Is their love based on you or is their love based on them?

Watching Sandy Cohen (father, public defender, loving husband) schmear cream cheese on a bagel and talk to the Cohen boys in the kitchen is a reminder to every teenager (and twentysomething) that parents» sole purpose is not to torment and embarrass their teenage spawn.

Twentysomethings are so dependent on digital interaction that they've forgotten how to actually interact in person.

Unless twentysomethings see an opportunity for romance or job networking, most will move on, searching for an anchor in the storm.

I plan on making this for my 4 twentysomethings.

The idea that he would have players who actively dwelled on water polo would've been a laughable concept to Agostino when he took over the program as a very young twentysomething in the mid-90s.

Recent findings do suggest that healthy younger adults can improve their smarts as well: The ability of twentysomethings to solve patterning problems improved after practicing on unrelated memory tests, one University of Michigan study found.

This year's team — mostly twentysomethings dressed in dinosaur T - shirts or sporting dino tattoos — has set up camp on a private ranch about an hour outside the town of Jordan (population 364).

Basically, I'm looking for sandals that 1) will be nice to my legs, particularly since I walk two miles (not all at once, just overall) on my commute, 2) are more appropriate for a twentysomething who more or less likes to keep up with shoe trends....

When we first meet Sophia, played by Britt Robertson, she's a broke twentysomething making a living flipping vintage thrift store finds on eBay (and dumpster - diving when ends fail to meet).

According to a BuzzFeed News poll, about 40 % of twentysomethings refuse to put their relationship status on Facebook.

But i've now come to realize that even though all of the press around tinder focuses on its popularity with twentysomethings, it's actually the perfect app for someone in their thirties, or older, to find love.

Tonight's new NBC sitcom from the producers of HBO's «Dream On» hands us still one more batch of self - consciously quirky, single, more - or-less charming twentysomething characters and lets them hang for a half - hour reading faux Woody Allen lines.

Buckley is on phosphorescent form as flame - haired islander Moll, a twentysomething misfit who is still firmly under the thumb of her domineering mother.

Critic Consensus: Delivering a quirky spin on familiar twentysomething tropes — with a cannily - placed soundtrack — Garden State has enough charm to mark a winning debut for first - time director Zach Braff.

Less dazed and confused than mumbling and mundane, this drama focuses on social awkwardness and twentysomething blues.

Critics Consensus: Delivering a quirky spin on familiar twentysomething tropes — with a cannily - placed soundtrack — Garden State has enough charm to mark a winning debut for first - time director Zach Braff.

With the hot duo of Angarano and Larson in the lead roles, the project looked good on paper: Stoller described it to Vulture as being about «four twentysomethings who work in advertising in New York all sleeping with each other,» and said that «the pilot actually turned out really well and I'm excited about how it came out.»

«Singles» is about a post-collegiate world of twentysomethings — it's the perfect movie for someone on the cusp of adulthood.

This is a cosy world turned upside down, in which malcontent fortysomethings find themselves unsatisfyingly addicted to Google, Twitter and Netflix while retro - hip twentysomethings read books, listen to vinyl, bang away at typewriters and binge on 80s VHS tapes («It's like everything we threw out — except it looks good...»)

has a particularly fool - proof formula: twentysomething surfer dudes and their lady friends, clad in skimpy bathing suits, dancing around on a Greek island singing ABBA songs, all in service of a suitably inane rom - com plot.

Lawrence has a poem titled «Love on the Farm», which could work as an alternative title for Lee's film — except that love is as far from the mind of its main character, twentysomething Johnny Saxby (played by Josh O'Connor), when we first encounter him as anything could be.

CLOSE ENOUGH (animated) Ordered straight to series; 13 episodes STUDIO: Cartoon Network Studios / Studio T TEAM: J.G. Quintel (w, ep) LOGLINE: A surreal take on transitioning from twentysomething to thirtysomething, the show revolves around a married couple juggling such everyday challenges as parenthood, friendship, ham theft, stripper clowns and choosing the right day care.

It still focused on three resident doctors (now, like the show, in their third year)-- protagonist and regular narrator J.D. (Zach Braff), his cocky best friend Turk (Donald Faison), and the traditionally unassertive Elliot Reid (Sarah Chalke)-- who were gradually becoming surer of their career calling while dealing with ups and downs of twentysomething life on the side.

Most twentysomethings think they'll live forever, but the one - night stroll through Vienna of young Celine (Julie Delpy) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke) is marked by both the filmmaker's and the characters» constant awareness that their time, both here and on earth, is limited.

The dark comedy, created by Sarah - Violet Bliss, Charles Rogers, and Michael Showalter, centers on a group of self - absorbed twentysomethings who, despite having very...

Happy to reconnect, the two twentysomething former classmates are soon going into business with one another, as Ephraim gives David a crash course on the process of the United States military handing out lucrative weapon contracts to the highest bidders on an active and public website.

Loosely based on a graphic novel, the film spans a brief but tumultuous period in Adèle's life, from her last years of high school till some time later, when she is a twentysomething adult pursuing a career as a teacher.

Lena Dunham has made a name for herself portraying this phenomenon almost exclusively, with her 2010 feature «Tiny Furniture» and on television with HBO's «Girls,» which is about a quartet of college - educated twentysomethings, but is notably not titled «Women.»

The good news for cinemas is that today's teens and twentysomethings watch horror on the big screen as well as on streams or downloads.

Happy Christmas: A breakup sends twentysomething Jenny (Anna Kendrick) into a drinking spiral that bottoms out on the doorstep of her brother (Joe Swanberg), who lives a drama - free life as a film director with his writer wife, Kelly (Melanie Lynskey), and their 2 - year - old son.

The two actors, Parker Sawyers and Tika Sumpter, are impeccably cast: They nail the mannerisms of these very famous people without ever lapsing into imitation; it really feels as though we're seeing the Obamas as twentysomethings, still growing into the leaders we regularly watch on our televisions.

It is easy to assume that a hit like this would have been a launching pad for its twentysomething actors and actresses, but in fact almost none of them went on to meaningful film careers.

Yet another variation on the kind of bobos - adrift - in - L.A. narratives that have cluttered screens both big and small over the last several years, Duck Butter opens on Naima (Shawkat), a twentysomething working actress who lives in one of those improbably spacious SoCal - movie homes.

With its frank discussion of female bodily functions and a balanced commentary on the shackles of modern twentysomething womanhood (neuroses, immaturity and all), the film is so much more than its third act abortion - themed twist.

Unpretentious, well - observed and genuinely, joyously sweet - natured, the film is centred on Stevie (Ian Bonar), a geeky twentysomething from London's artist - infested Hackney borough who just happens to head up a pretty nifty guitar band («The Yummy Fur meets The Velvet Underground»), while holding down a dire desk job with his best friend and drummer Neil.

That film, based loosely on the novel by Irvine Welsh, was a giddily stylish picaresque about a group of twentysomething friends scoring heroin at every opportunity in Edinburgh.

This is the scrappy character we meet at the beginning of Tomb Raider, a prequel / reboot / franchise Hail - Mary pass that rewinds back to Ms. Croft's formative years — specifically, her twentysomething days in London practicing Muay Thai boxing and delivering packages on a 10 - speed.