Sentences with phrase «outcast whose»

The chess machine is secretly operated from inside by the Italian dwarf Tibor, a God - fearing social outcast whose chess - playing abilities and diminutive size make him the perfect accomplice in this grand hoax.

As mentioned, The Raven follows the final days of Edgar Allan Poe's life — presenting the tortured author as a self - absorbed and desperate social outcast whose work was still, at the time, mostly under - appreciated.

It offers up the story of a teenage outcast whose classmates cruelly prank him online by posing as a girl interested in him.

On the other end of the spectrum is Marcus (Nicholas Hoult), a twelve - year - old social outcast whose mother Fiona (Toni Collette) raises him on her own.

And Jones lives up to that praise in the highly charged epic adventure of Ash March and Raif Sevrance, two outcasts whose fates are entwined by fate and by need, in the cold, dark world that threatens to be torn asunder by a war to end all wars.

Not exact matches

He belongs to the tribals: the cultural group below the Dalits, whose members are literally outcasts from India's caste system (and often called «thumb signers» because of how they vote).

This is especially true of his practice of table fellowship with sinners and social outcasts, a habit for which he was severely criticized by those whose religious heroism was implicitly put in question by such inclusive praxis.

And finally, the Christian ethic is one whose focus is on solidarity with the poor and the outcast.

Claire Trevor was the best known star in the cast at the time, and she plays Dallas, the good - hearted woman whose past / profession causes her to be treated as an outcast by most in the group.

Justin Long («Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story») stars as Wallace, a self - assured, mustached podcast host whose show — dedicated to mocking outcasts and ne'er - do - wells — has become increasingly mean - spirited.

Poe is portrayed as a mildly eccentric (he is given a pet raccoon) and sanctimonious outcast, whose creations have largely been forgotten and seem unlikely to be eclipsed by him.

Director Sean Baker, whose last film was Tangerine, a remarkable movie about transgender prostitutes in West Hollywood, brings his humanist eye to another community of social outcasts: a group of children spending their summer making mischief at the low - cost motels on the strip leading up to Disney World in Kissimmee, Florida.

Thoroughbreds was also a big - buzz movie at Sundance, where Taylor - Joy won praise for her performance as a wealthy prep schoolgirl whose friendship with a troubled outcast (Olivia Cooke) leads to a sinister symbiosis — there are echoes of Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures, but the movie has an icy tone all its own, and themes related to class (suggested by the title) and technology that make the movie unique.

The title character (Menashe Lustig) is a widower in Brooklyn whose refusal to quickly remarry has made him an outcast of sorts in the Hasidic Jewish community in Brooklyn, causing him to fight for custody of his son (Ruben Niborski) from his smarmy brother - in - law (Yoel Weisshaus).

Little Nothing unfolds across a lifetime of unimaginable, magical transformation in and out of human form, as an outcast girl becomes a hunted woman whose ultimate survival depends on the most startling transfiguration of them all.

Q: Some of the characters in Private Life are based in part on members of your own family — your main character Margaret Mayfield on your great aunt, Frances See and Andrew Early on her infamous scientist husband Thomas Jefferson Jackson See, a naval astronomer whose increasingly implausible theories made him an outcast in the scientific community.

And when Tom triumphantly arrives in Deadwood, tyrannizing both Huck and the town, the gentle - hearted Huck must choose between his old friend, whose lies justify his nihilistic whims, and new friend Eeteh, a Lakota outcast and kindred spirit whose stories of Coyote and Snake speak to timeless truths.