Sentences with phrase «pass as a boy»

Loosely based on Shakespeare's «Twelfth Night,» this comedy geared to the tweener set cleverly weaves in many of the Bard's characters and keeps the play's central conceit of a girl attempting to pass as a boy.

Nordberg stunningly uncovers the history and reality of the enduring Afghani custom of the bacha posh, girls who dress and pass as boys.

Not exact matches

Still, the president might be wary of passing on the chance to nominate the first female Fed chair — and Summers, in particular, has a bit of a reputation as a member of the old boys club.

Even the rare incidents involving young boys get passed over because headlines about Lutheran pastors aren't nearly as invitingly lurid as «pedophile priests.»

I don't remember much of what he said, but I remember my OB laughed so hard I worried she'd drop the scissors as she passed them to Dan to cut the cord, and I remember being the happiest I've ever been when that little boy's body was placed on my chest, all startled and slimy and mine.

Having thought carefully and well, Christians today must emulate their Lord in standing up for the frail dignity of humanity, whether the unborn child, the victim of religious persecution, or the homecoming king» the boy who in his death, as in his final touchdown run, passed alone into his rest, uncaught, with no foe left to pursue.

Like the defence employed by Trump to the outside world when he justified his own lewd comments as «locker room talk», the boys passed off their remarks (too crude to print) as mere jokes and banter.

Ohhh... I hope your boys feel better soon, I know it is so hard with 2 kids it is so hard as they keep passing the infection to each other... Take good care my dear, These gnocchi look really delicious, I love them and now I am so craving them after seeing yours... Yum... Sending you loads of GreenLove...

We have fresh eggs from the chooks, my favourite Kransky sausages from the deli, fresh herbs from the garden, orange juice squeezed by the boys, a pot of strong tea and a lot of giggles and kookiness around the table as we recount moments from the week that has passed.

They also pass well as «game day» fare, which is important around this time of year when you live with the quarterback of the senior boys school football team and there are fantasy football leagues and suicide pools you're trying to keep track of each week.

From then on it was men against boys, though, as Bayern completely controlled the game, cutting through us with ease while we could hardly string two passes together.

Walking around and creating 0 chances, making 0 tackles, having 0 interceptions, scoring 0 goals, making 0 key passes and being an absolute passanger until your subbed does nt = played well as the wilshere fan boys seem to believe.

James Emtman remembers taking his nine - year - old son to a Punt, Pass and Kick competition in Seattle, where Steve was, as he is now, a man among boys.

While the college boys have been the best P.R. men for the pass, of late a bunch of guys have come to the fore in the NBA who, while perhaps less publicized than Magic and Bird, are their equals as deft passers.

A little unfair maybe as the boys there can only pass on what's being claimed and fed to them at the time.

Am reading all over the net and hear as well that people are blaming the players fabianski for not getting his angles right, he had an ok game but a top class keeper would not be beaten at his near post, song who out of nowhere has become an attacking midfielder, chamaka for missing two easy headers, diaby for taking too long on the ball, Squillaci, Koscielny i know they new but they are making some mistakes that school boys would not basic mistakes rosciky for blasting a penalty over the bar when a cool head was needed, deneilson your team leading 1 nill late in a game and you shoot rather than take or pass the ball to the corner i can go on almunia whose technique is horrible and you say this team has improved.

However, Come next season, the likes of Rotherham United and Brentford could be their midweek visitors as the boys in claret and blue look to stem the toxic tide that passes through the club as they are relegated for the first time in their history.

Thankfully, we had a Petr Cech to save us from the horrendous and miss - timed passes of Calum Chambers, and boy, did he live up to his status as one of the best goalies in the Premier League.

As the boys charged off the field, I could tell by the fact there was no gap between the lightning and the ensuing clap of thunder that the storm was, at that moment, passing right over the field!

Somehow or other, the boys found the chocolate eggs we were going to pass off as the Easter Bunny's handiwork.

My little boy at the time loved i, as he could sit very comfortably and just look at the world passing by.

They never once complained about the boys getting too much attention and were quick to offer help, even if it was as simple as passing a burp cloth.

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As we were slowly driving up the pass, one boy suddenly started pointing toward the cliff, shouting, «a snow leopard!»

I passed them off as regular brownies to our boy scout troop.

As days pass and they get to know their interests, likes and dislikes and one fine day that girl or that boy proposes each other and that's how they start dating online as they are in relationship with each other and it's basically the electric relationship they keep between each other via phone and computeAs days pass and they get to know their interests, likes and dislikes and one fine day that girl or that boy proposes each other and that's how they start dating online as they are in relationship with each other and it's basically the electric relationship they keep between each other via phone and computeas they are in relationship with each other and it's basically the electric relationship they keep between each other via phone and computer.

► Several teenagers confront three other teens in a train car and fistfights erupt with punching, kicking, choking and slamming of bodies onto walls and floors: a teen girl punches a young man for leering at her (we see a few scrapes on teen girls and teen boys), a teen boy pulls a knife and another boy takes it from him and stabs him multiple times below the frame while a young man holds a teen girl's head out the boxcar door, choking her (she gags) and trying to toss her out, but another young man pulls him away; during one fistfight the arm of a young man catches against a pole outside the boxcar as the train passes and the young man screams (it is implied that he lost his arm, but we do not see this).

Of course, she has to pretend she's a boy in order to pass as a soldier.

He doesn't so much have supporting players in the film as he does an extended family of cherished guests who he invites to stay for a while, relax and soak up the ambience: French it girl Léa Seydoux has a part as a maid which may as well be non-speaking; Owen Wilson plays one of M Gustave's concierge brethren and gets a line (if not a laugh); even Tilda Swinton makes a flying visit to Wesworld, caked in gristly prosthetics as an ageing dowager who drops dead after her first and only scene, her passing acting as deus ex machina for an elaborate art heist involving the whereabouts of the apocryphal, priceless chef d'oeuvre, «Boy With Apple».

Had it simply told the story of Frédéric Bourdin — a French criminal who somehow managed to pass himself off as a missing American teenager, fooling the boy's own family even though he looked nothing like him and spoke with a thick French accent — it would still have been compulsively watchable.

When his children are eventually taken away, Muhammed takes Lee with him back to the U.S. to Tacoma, Washington, where he passes the young boy off as his son and they drift through the evergreen city.

Hilary Swank won her first Oscar for her performance as a young woman who passed herself off as a man in Boys Don't Cry and only two years ago Jared Leto won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor as a transgender woman in Dallas Buyers Club.

The boys aren't bad either, and, in addition to Phoenix, it's exhilarating to recognise, in various disguises, hairdos and toupees, actors that have shaped both American independent cinema, Hollywood and / or cable television (The Sopranos, The Wire, Boardwalk Empire) for the last twenty years: Owen Wilson offers an understated performance as a former saxophone player who has to fake his death; the always impeccable Martin Donovan is a lawyer for the Golden Fang (he's also, by the way, Japonica's father, which serves him right); Benicio del Toro shines as the man passing as «Doc's lawyer»; Josh Brolin drew a lot of kudos for his performance as Doc's nemesis, an LAPD detective nicknamed Bigfoot with the bad habit of kicking people's door and dreams of making it to the big screen; Martin Short; Eric Roberts, Michael Kenneth Williams etc...

As she enters high school at the age of 15, Hit - Girl finds that despite her warrior skills and physical strength growing gloriously in training with every passing day, she is under pressure to abandon everything and be a normal, simpering teenager interested only in clothes and boys.

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Davis steps in as a friend of the teen boy's mother who becomes somewhat of a second mother to him when his passes away.

First, she encourages the boy's writing while passing his work off as her own.

Frank Langella («The Americans») is strong as always as LBJ mentor Sen. Richard Russell, a good ol' boy who parted ways with the President on the key issue of the day and warned of the Democratic Party losing the South for generations if civil rights legislation passed.

The schoolchildren take their choir seriously, but they also pass the time as many boys do, with mischief and rivalries.

Brian's increasing mental instability causing The Beach Boys to withdraw from the headlining spot at the Monterey Pop Festival at the last moment, in a flash the musical scene passed the band by, relegating them to oldies collections and weird retrospectives, as well as a 1976 Lorne Michaels - produced television documentary that shows a morbidly obese and rambling Brian Wilson in bed and shirtless for the duration.

There are moments of personal magic (the boy «talks» with his sailor father as he passes their Cliffside home using signal lamps), natural magic (schools of fish become literal waves curling upon the shore in the search for the missing Ponyo) and imaginative magic (Ponyo turns a toy boat into a watercraft sized just right for a couple of kids), but the film's real magic is in the generosity and love on display from humans and spirits alike.

Clark soon hires his neighbor Sarah «Rose» O'Reilly (Aniston), whom he despises but secretly loves, as well as runaway teenage girl Casey Mathis (Roberts) and virgin teen boy Kenny Rossmore (Poulter) to pose as the «Millers» to pass through customs without suspicion.

Needless to say, his failure on the Common Core tests shattered him as failure was the catalyst that led the boy to cite, «If I don't pass the test, I will feel miserable and never come out of my room.»

It still evokes the same creepy, Big Brother feeling it had when I passed the eerie fortress as a young boy.

Fathered, through circuitous circumstances, by an Englishman, Pran Nath Razdan, the boy who will become the Impressionist, was passed off by his Indian mother as the child of her husband, a wealthy man of high caste.

Able to pass as either boy or dog, Romochka develops his own moral code.

That struck me as very old — their willingness to give a grown man a pass, but force a 16 year old boy out of town.

Kipling's Kim is a figure that haunts The Impressionist very much - the white boy who can pass as Indian among the bazaars of India and see a side of this exotic location that the English can't.

Boy and dog rolled to the side by the curb as the truck swept passed, finally coming to a full stop.

Gently stroking him as I cradled this wonderful boy, with my lips kissing the back of his head, he passed away without any pain.