Sentences with phrase «playing ordinary women»

Macon Blair's «I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore,» in which Melanie Lynskey plays an ordinary woman who becomes empowered as a detective - avenger after she is robbed, won the U.S. grand jury prize in the dramatic category.

Janet Leigh is the mother of Jamie Lee Curtis, whose first movie role was playing another ordinary woman confronted by a serial killer: Laurie Strode from Halloween.

Here, she gets to play an ordinary woman who's forced to do some intelligent, daring, and sometimes violent things in order to save her children from a quartet of burglars.

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Moreover, whatever we make of Wilson's discussion of the well - known facts, Lewis's relation with the two women who (after his mother) played important roles in his personal life was, by ordinary standards, quite unusual.

Besides the conditions of society itself, under which family and friends had primary responsibility for the care of the dying and the dead, memento mon were spread throughout culture: in the church's art, in morality plays like Everyman, in drinking songs, in the ordinary artifacts of everyday life (e.g., in Austria a towel hanger portraying a human form split down the middle: one half a beautiful young woman, the other a skeleton) To be sure, the specter of death (and judgment) has been used as a form of social control.

The feud could have passed as child's play and considered as such had it not been involved with not just any ordinary person than a prominent legislator who among other things serves as the mouthpiece of a whole constituency including women.

Turn the River is a finely observed portrait of a desperate working - class woman who refuses to play by ordinary rules.

Ayaka (played by renowned cult / action actress Asami, of «The Machine Girl» and «Gun Woman» fame) is a bored housewife, stuck in a very ordinary and loveless marriage.

Dowd, who's mostly played stock wives and mothers for the past 25 years (Kim Kelly's mom on Freaks And Geeks; Bettie Page's mom in The Notorious Bettie Page, etc.), takes full advantage of this nearly impossible role, depicting the manager not as a terminally gullible hick, but as a perfectly ordinary woman whose first instinct, in common with most of us, is to assume that others are trustworthy until they demonstrate otherwise.

Michelle Pfeiffer or Meryl Streep would play a «beautiful woman who puts him in touch with ordinary people.»

Swedish actress Noomi Rapace plays an «ordinary woman» and mother of a boy who is randomly abducted on a highway.

As previously reported, Jenkins has already confirmed that Kristen Wiig will be playing the sequel's baddie, Cheetah, a were - cheetah who typically looks like an ordinary woman but has the ability to morph into a human - cheetah hybrid, with increased speed, strength and agility, in «Wonder Woman 2.&rwoman but has the ability to morph into a human - cheetah hybrid, with increased speed, strength and agility, in «Wonder Woman 2.&rWoman 2.»

You might want to include several images of Jewish life before the war (from Lesson 5) to help students remember that before they were persecuted by the Nazis, Holocaust victims were ordinary children, women, and men who enjoyed family dinners and playing with friends.

Nafisi's book reminds us not to get too caught up in the religious trappings of women's rights issues in Iran, but to pay close attention to the powers at play and how ordinary people are affected by the social constraints used by totalitarian regimes and other less vicious looking conventional mores.