Sentences with phrase «prickly relationships»

People either loved or hated season one of Aaron Sorkin's The Newroom — for exactly the same things (Sorkin's use of the past to sermonize; prickly relationships; the detail of the show; the accuracies / inaccuracies of the behind - the scenes / workplace stuff, etc.).

Culling from his own experiences working in a similar facility, Cretton captures a kaleidoscope of unpredictability among the handful of foregrounded teens whose often prickly relationships with the staff elucidates the impossibly delicate nature of the job.

Gooch traces O'Connor's Southern Catholic pedigree and upbringing: her conception «in the shadow of the cathedral» of Savannah, Georgia, her over-nurturing at the hands of her socially - ambitious mother Regina, her prickly relationship with the nuns at her convent school, her now - famous attempts to «dirty the feathers» of her guardian angel.

The Frenchman has aimed the same sort of rebuke the other way in the past and they certainly seem to have a prickly relationship at best.

The two men have had a prickly relationship.

The organization, of which Schneiderman had been a member before his resignation, has had a prickly relationship with Cuomo over the governor's 2015 executive order that gave Schneiderman the authority to intervene as a special prosecutor in cases involving fatal encounters between police and unarmed civilians.

And last week, Vallone, who seems to have an increasingly prickly relationship with Quinn, and the speaker clashed over a bill on homeless animals.

It's a prickly relationship that works because Rod keeps surprising Jerry, and us.

This prickly relationship is the movie's center, and Lady Bird finds a quick, perfect, hilarious way to immediately encapsulate their can't - be-in-the-same-room polarity: Fed up with her mom, Lady Bird unbuckles her safety belt, opens the passenger - side door, and rolls out of the moving vehicle.

Eagle, The by Matt Wedge — February 12, 2011 — In a better movie, the prickly relationship between Marcus and Esca would have been the focus of the story.

Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevick, a Czechoslovakian always more concerned with the wider world than with exam results.

The author portrays perfectly the prickly relationship between mother and daughter, especially Ida's need to protect May.

Ted, whose brain runs on its own unique operating system, and his older sister, Kat, overcome their prickly relationship to become sleuthing partners.

The significance of reading is personified by two eighth - graders, functionally illiterate Travis and feisty, starved - for - affection Velveeta, who come together in a tenuous, prickly relationship.

Not exact matches

Perhaps due to the prickly nature of the Canada - China relationship, Harper's visit has a heavy focus on trade and economics, with the prime minister leading a Canadian business delegation to the industrial city of Hangzhou on Friday and Saturday before heading to the capital, Beijing, for two more days of meetings.

The two men later met privately, but when de Blasio was asked about his relationship with the governor, de Blasio was a little prickly.

His relationship with the New Labour establishment - most of whom backed David for the leadership - has been prickly at times, although Tony Blair buried the hatchet by giving a supportive speech during the general election campaign.

And Toni Erdmann (Grade: A --RRB- is about as great as you've heard, though people claiming that it's some broad crowd - pleaser are perhaps reaching — it's much more Ozu, in its prickly father - daughter relationship, than Sandler.

That all said, the most important relationship still crackles, and that's the ever - amusing, playfully prickly pair of Holmes and Watson; that Downey - Law chemistry, along with Ritchie's reliably flashy visual style (amped back up to his more trademark levels, in keeping with the «bigger, louder» sequel mantra) and rough - and - tumble action beats, still makes this a game worth playing.

But writer / director Greta Gerwig also nails the prickly dynamics of a mother - daughter relationship, and how easy it is for the life in front of you to seem frustrating and small until you can see it from the outside.

At the center of Saving Mr. Banks, the fascinating back - story of how Disney's beloved classic Mary Poppins made its way to the big screen, is the relationship between the book's prickly author, P.L. Travers and Walt Disney himself.

Rebecca and her sister Mary (Amanda Peet) are invited to Alex and Kate's for a dinner in honor of Andra's 90th birthday, a show of good - neighbor politics by the couple, whose passing - in - the - hall relationships with Andra and Rebecca have left both sides feeling prickly about the other.

Lady Bird is equally about her rigid but devoted mom, Marion McPherson (Laurie Metcalf), and their alternatingly prickly, sweet relationship.

Indeed, the relationship between the big law departments and big firms is often bedeviled by prickly issues relating to power, money, culture, and, ultimately, the foundational question of who controls the corporation's legal matters.

These prickly, blended family realities include things such as tenuous stepparent - stepchild relationships, an antagonizing ex-spouse, leftover debt that preceded the marriage, the memory of a wonderful marriage that ended in death, and even an ex-mother-in-law.

can lend itself to robust healing and repair for our patients, especially when those prickly (and plentiful) moments arise in the therapy relationship.