Sentences with phrase «retreats into»

June retreats into her lively imagination and her private grieving as Greta turns unpredictable - often mean - with rare turns of beseeching for a return of June's companionship.

It's an otherworldly sound when mated to the whine of the electric motors in back and the angry growl of a four - cylinder at full - tilt — and if you let off the accelerator quickly, you're treated to the intoxicating sound of the blow - off valve as the turbo's frenetic scream retreats into the background.

So she retreats into a mythological world where she battles the titular monsters.

Summary Capsule: A young girl is committed to an asylum, and retreats into various levels of fantasy to cope.

Of all of the characterizations, Firth's feels the most ripe for lots of scenes of fiery emotion, but Lomax keeps his bottled - up demeanor throughout, which is apropos of the lifelong engineer, as he retreats into himself when trying to cope, unable to draw himself out for Patti to help him without an admonition to keep out of things that don't concern her.

Worried that no one knows who he is — aside from the bullies — Conor retreats into a fantastical world full of beasts, heroes, warriors and more.

Symbolism is everywhere as Manglehorn keeps his emotions «locked» away from his snooty yuppie son (Chris Messina) and retreats into his imaginary relationship with Clara, rather than embracing Dawn's brave come - on.

Devastated by the discovery, he retreats into a cottage he owns in France where he meets Portuguese housekeeper Aurélia and soon falls for her, despite the language barrier.

Closing the film, Baker retreats into an aesthetic those familiar with his debut film Tangerine will remember.

Gordon's wife, Carolyn (Ormond), retreats into her house and cuts off contact with the outside world when a mysterious man (Dinklage) shows up.

Matt Johnson writes, stars and directs as a young boy who retreats into the fantasy world of film, starring in the movies that run constantly in his head as a means to escape the constant torment and bullying inflicted on him by his peers.

Simultaneously the film retreats into formulaic self - defense strategy quicker than you can say «Cloris Leachman.»

Flitting about an experimental psychiatric facility in the Israeli desert of the 1960s like he's the emcee of the madhouse, loved by patients and staff alike while he makes his intermittent escapes and retreats into the bottles his hidden around the building the rest of the time.

In conjunction with our latest Adventures in Moviegoing episode, we're presenting two films by director Rebecca Miller, who transitioned from visual art to filmmaking with her 1995 directorial debut, Angela, a haunting tale of a young girl who retreats into her fantasies to cope with her emotionally volatile mother.

A woman who has recently lost her sight retreats into the safety and isolation of her apartment, alone with her husband and her thoughts.

Back in 2009, writer Joe Kelly and illustrator Ken Niimura partnered together to create the graphic novel I Kill Giants, a sprawling adventure about loner kid Barbara Thorson, who retreats into a magical world to fight evil giants that may or may not all be in her head.

Pike is especially terrific, delivering what could well be her best performance, as a woman who suffers a crippling loss and still manages to feel so much (though her character retreats into the background in the film's final third).

This tense thriller follows a lone man as he retreats into the wilderness on a quest to uncover an ancient and mysterious secret.

Peter Weir's exceptionally fine Witness finds Harrison Ford earning his first (and, so far, only) Best Actor Oscar nomination as John Book, a Philadelphia detective who retreats into the Amish community to protect a widow (Kelly McGillis) and her young son (Lukas Haas) from corrupt cops.

Sandler retreats into his baby - talking persona but relates a lovely childhood anecdote about feeling guilty for laughing at a Jerry Lewis movie that came on TV after his grandfather died.

Oldman is no stranger to big performances, but here, he retreats into stillness, silence, and small, telling gestures.

He's a broken man with severe mental - health issues who retreats into a colorful world of comic book fearlessness to achieve a valued identity.

But the dramatic exchanges in - between are where the film retreats into generic convection and often gets bogged down.

We have merged yoga courses for beginners and yoga retreats into one program.»

«As the glacier's calving front retreats into deeper regions, it loses ice — the ice in front that is holding back the flow — causing it to speed up,» Joughin clarifies.

Some changes are well - known, such as declines in polar bear populations and stresses to walruses being forced out of their shallow feeding grounds as ice retreats into deeper waters.

As chambers and corridors are added, the queen retreats into the nether nest and begins laying as many as 1,000 eggs to keep up with the construction crews.

The virus is transmitted during sex; after infection, it retreats into nerve cells that have their endings in the genital skin.

When the labyrinth spider senses vibrations, it rushes out to catch prey and then retreats into its homespun tunnel.

I usually have no patience with a nerdy approach to life that retreats into the computer, but it would be a mistake to understand Ken in that way.

Once again, she retreats into meaningless tautology or truism when confronted with a thorny issue.

On the face of it, there is a vacancy for a party of the centre, straddling the liberal wing of the Tory party and New Labour in exile — styled as a movement custom - built to deal with the challenges of the 21st century, when Corbyn and May are leading symmetrical retreats into dogmatic nostalgia of left and right.

He is dreaming his way up to the top, but failing to reach the target; he retreats into drugs, indolence and the general culture of irresponsibility.

But when his best friend is attacked, Jabari retreats into the safety of his artwork and dreams, finding surprising comfort in the words of kids from those same Civil Rights stories whose relevance he doubted.

Lukaku, meanwhile, allows his shoulders to drop and retreats into his shell.

Wenger retreats into a parallel universe ignoring the dominance of Utd and Chelsea + pretends Ferguson and Mourinho do not exist.

He retreats into proposing coercion as a solution to the crumbling of authority of society.

It is when living closely with others becomes unbearably painful that one retreats into homelessness, a life that demands almost nothing of the person.

Which Christian hasn't been in a church that retreats into tactical silence on matters such as gay marriage?

When the connection between the sales goal and what the marketing team does becomes unclear, the marketing team often retreats into areas they can control and manage.

He retreated into the jungle but still held press conferences and declared his intention to fight the government.

To not have power — to be literally and figuratively in the dark — is to leave the modern world and retreat into an older and more precarious one.

All sides want to cut premiums, yet they've retreated into partisan corners.

After retreating into political exile for a few months, the veteran political operator returned with a vengeance to lead the Wildrose election campaign that brought the party from the depths of the abyss to 21 MLAs, more than they won in 2012.

It seems every few weeks, optimism turns to pessimism and back to optimism again before retreating into a temporary information vacuum, and then resurfacing at either end of the queasiness spectrum, depending on one's industry or market segment.

Regrettably, however, most Orthodox Churches seem to be retreating into a stifling, sheltered and safe provincialism, which they explain — or excuse — as attending to internal affairs, which in turn are reckoned as more important pastorally than concerns for collaboration or collegiality.

Anyway, that father is the ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Russia and one of his points of advice is: [we need to] «educate ourselves and work hard and engage with life's difficult questions rather than retreat into religious obscurantism.»

Naturally in a postmodern world, a modest and undoubtedly temporary peace and security may obtain by everyone privatizing their stories, retreating into their enclaves.

I say that because if someone is attempting to prove a point by using a math equation that doesn't align with observable reality, then I think that qualifies as a retreat into mysticism.

At the age of 2, first our son, Zeke (now 6), and then our daughter, Anna (now 5), began regressing — that is, they started losing skills they had gained, and retreating into a teary bubble of fear and confusion.