Sentences with phrase «piece about a period»

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Luckey's departure follows a lengthy period of absence from public view brought about by a Daily Beast piece revealing his involvement and funding of a pro-Trump troll group called Nimble America.

What I said earlier about Maritain is true to a lesser extent of Pacelli: Some of these speeches read like period pieces, more so than the work of earlier and later popes.

We'd spoken about and gone through the counter-attack from a set - piece, because they're very strong and have scored goals over a period of time from those situations.

Maria from A Piece of my Mind said when she has to leave her son for an extended period of time, «I talk to my son about my leaving, how long I will be gone, if he will visit, what I am doing, etc..

When the petition organizer had a piece in our local paper about the fifteen - minute lunch period, the article drew dozens of comments, and they were virtually unanimous that fifteen minutes was too short.

Fossils from terrestrial species from this region and time period are relatively rare, thus the find helps paleontologists fill in important missing pieces about what prehistoric life was like on North American's East Coast.

Kooteninchela deppi is helping researchers to piece together more information about life on Earth during the Cambrian period when nearly all modern animal types emerged.

To learn about the protein cycle of Bornean orangutans, Vogel and her team followed the primates for five years — both during and after a masting period — and recorded each piece of food the animals ate.

Really a good piece of writing about fitness can be possible in any age.Fitness don't have the selected period of time.To be fit we have to exercise regularly.No matter in what age you start to exercise.Just hold your patience to achieve the goal.

I love that there is a timeless and classic feel to all the pieces, so you don't have to worry about investing in a piece of clothing then only being able to wear it for a short period of time.

Do you happen to know about how old this piece was, and what style or period it would fall into?

The article about dating Royal Copenhagen pieces in the 1935 - 2014 period.

No, people, this type of film is quite a ways away from being something like «Rock of Ages», but the idea of a period piece about a prominent rock music club is close enough to make the handful of people who know about «CBGB» get the «heebie - jeebies».

If it's a period piece about royal battles for domination of land and sea, then heads must roll.

There's something extra-cool about haunted houses as period pieces: the finer the china and the linens, the more fun it'll be when some zombie spirit trashes the place.

Despite the film not seeming to be a period piece, the merits of Xbox's Kinect are spoken about early on and the Nintendo Wii is offered as an alternative.

We get a lot of horror movies and a lot of period pieces, but how about a horror period piece?

Jackman has previously said that he and Gracey were very adamant about making sure that The Greatest Showman does not feel a period piece and Pasek and Paul's songs definitely give them the atmosphere that they were aiming for.

Junge, detained in Russia for a period at the end of World War II before finding work as a magazine editor, treats the unseen Heller like a priest; one might say that her regret drives the piece, resulting in not a lurid film about Hitler (which has disappointed those critics out for something pulpier), but a deathbed confession.

There's much discussion about how the film is supposedly a game changer, how it's more in tune with the current zeitgeist as opposed to the traditional narrative strengths and linearity of a period piece like The King's Speech.

17th Century period piece about a Spanish officer stuck in the outskirts of colonial South America, feverishly awaiting transfer to Buenos Aires.

Suggesting a period piece version of a film noir saga as envisioned by Stanley Kubrick, this twisted feminist drama is rooted in contentious racial - and gender - warfare issues, employing a meticulous formalism to recount its cutthroat story about Katherine's at - any - cost attempts to attain liberation.

Barring possible awards attention for Carey Mulligan, this looks to be about the end of the line for this feminist British period piece (a hit in the UK), which got a wide rollout but never quite lived up to expectations on this side of the pond.

It's a sweeping period piece about romance and World War II.

Keira Knightley is best known for playing dynamic females in period pieces, it shall be interesting to see her take on playing a perpetual adolescent who lies to her fiancee about going on a retreat and instead spends the time hanging out with her friends instead.

There were some notable moments — another great speech from Viola Davis, Diego Luna choosing to speak in Spanish while presenting — but before Streep's speech, it looked as though the night would belong to La La Land and The Crown, a comforting period piece about the nobility of the hereditarily privileged.

What: This movie just screams Oscars: Directed by three - time Academy Award winner Steven Spielberg, starring three - time Academy Award winner Streep and two - time winner Hanks, it's a based - on - a-true-story period piece about one newspaper's role in exposing the Pentagon Papers cover - up.

Tone - deaf opera lover Florence Foster Jenkins — subject of an upcoming biopic starring Meryl Streep — is also the inspiration for this lavish French period piece about a rich French aristo labouring under a pathetic self - delusion: that she has the voice of an angel, rather than that of a strangled cat.

Knight hasn't yet picked his next directorial project, but he's keeping busy: Bradley Cooper is starring in his long - gestating chef - related project, due for release next year, «Peaky Blinders» got a third season, and he's reteaming with Hardy for TV show «Taboo,» a period piece about the East India Company.

Critics described the movie as campy, fun, and delightful — adjectives rarely heard about period pieces.

Instead, all we get is a lavish period piece about a snotty asshole, who scribbled a bunch of words in a notebook about another jerk named «Holden».

I recently spoke to cinematographer Roger Deakins, production designer Kristi Zea, costume designer Albert Wolsky and film editor Tariq Anwar about their work on the film, a 1950s period piece featuring the on - screen reunion of Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.

But the tide began to turn in late January when «The King's Speech,» the British period piece about George VI's struggle to overcome his stutter before being crowned king of England, began to pick up steam, winning the Producers Guild of America Award, the Directors Guild of America Award for Tom Hooper, the top Screen Actors Guild Award and the BAFTA for best film.

This wasn't a stiff period piece about Ladies and Lords, but a goofy, sweet story about a group of friends, another key element of Curtis's success.

Fargo TV series creator Noah Hawley shares a small detail about season 4, suggesting the series will once again tell its story as a period piece.

Noel's Take: The biggest problem with Sally Potter's «60s period piece Ginger & Rosa is that it's really not about Rosa at all.

But there are better movies about the obfuscating evils of peeping and misunderstandings and injustices, not to mention better literary adaptations, better romances, and better period pieces.

As that film continues its run across the country, Davies spoke with novelist Steve Erickson about the film, how he creates the textures of a period piece, and his nostalgia for his childhood for an interview just published at the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Starring Leonardo DiCaprio (two more words that guarantee Oscar scrutiny), the film is a period piece about a stockbroker who descends into a life of drugs and fraud.

Beautifully directed and brilliantly acted, A Nightingale Falling is a moving, authentic piece of cinema about a turbulent period in Irish history where loyalty and trust were for many the only means of protection.

Gandolfini narrates and stars as Detective Charles Hilderbrandt in this indie period piece about the famous 1940s Lonely Hearts killers, who met their victims through Lonely Hearts newspaper ads.

The movie is a romantic drama / period piece about Eilis (Ronan), an Irish girl planning to immigrate to America.

Blake Rayne is the»50s rocker followed into his Elvis - on - the - toilet dotage in this period piece about rock, then and now.

It wouldn't be all that difficult for a talented director and a sharp screenwriter to make a breezy and darkly funny period - piece sports comedy about 1990s ice skater Tonya Harding, and the rivalry with Nancy Kerrigan that resulted in that famous attack on Ms. Kerrigan — and Harding becoming one of the most hated individuals on the planet.

JKS: Well, it's another period piece, and... well, it's interesting, because it's hard to really say what it was about.

Exquisitely performed, well - crafted period piece about an original, daring woman which somehow fails to be either original or daring.

A poignant period piece about a pair of practically - saintly role models well - deserving of their iconic status in the annals of American jurisprudence.

From Danish director Thomas Vinterberg, who gave us the 1998 Dogme film The Celebration and the 2012 Best Foreign Language nominee The Hunt, Far from the Madding Crowd — the fourth cinematic adaptation of Hardy's novel (the most famous of which is the 1967 John Schlesinger version)-- is a gorgeously photographed period piece, and one of the fastest - paced films about the 19th century that I have ever seen.

Jason Connery (son of James Bond great, Sean Connery) makes the shot with this period piece about the birth of pro golf

Penny Marshall, the artist formerly known as Laverne, hits a solid line drive in this pop - feminist period piece about a WWII - era women's baseball team.