Sentences with phrase «reunion is in the offing»

Abby's high school reunion is in the offing anyway, so she leaves her recalcitrant scriptwriter boyfriend behind and returns to her childhood home in Minnesota.

Not exact matches

There lies the center of the long perspective; there lies the focus — in the heavenly places, and in the future — like a dramatic scene whose center is off - stage, as in the Agamemnon of Aeschylus; like a symphony whose climax is still to come; (A view which I have tried to set forth in an article, «Eschatology and Reunion,» Religion in Life, 10:83 - 91.)

That strange woman was not pleased to suddenly be in a big Facebook message group with a bunch of strangers trying to plan a 20 - year reunion for a Catholic middle school, and she was just like, «Take me off this list.»

Decide what you want to do, whether it's chiseling an amazing body, burning off fat or getting yourself in shape for next month's class reunion or beach vacation.

I had my class reunion this weekend and now we are headed off to stay at the beach in Destin, FL in Watercolor for a week and I couldn't be more excited.

It doesn't hurt that in addition to being a short month that features pancakes heavily, I also had a week off work on annual leave, had a reunion with a friend I hadn't seen in approximately a trillion ages, and got to enjoy Galentine's as per tradition with my best friend.

There's little doubt that American Reunion has been designed to echo the original in both its execution and spirit, as the movie, for the most part, comes off as a companion piece that effectively bookends the entire series - with the novelty of the premise going a long way towards initially capturing one's interest.

Meanwhile, her reunion with her other son, Ethan (Pierce Gagnon, a revelation as Cid in Looper), an android created by John «to seek human connection,» has been strained, which may or may not be related to the seriously creepy vibes that Ethan gives off.

A dream - sequence reunion between Erik and his slain father (Sterling K. Brown) might count as the most affecting moment in MCU history — if not all of superhero cinema — were it not for Killmonger's final lines: «Throw me in the ocean with my ancestors that jumped off the slave ships,» he says, «because they knew death was better than bondage.»

It's easy to forgive the cast of «American Reunion» for having some hesitations about returning for another installment of the comedy franchise (especially after that terrible line of direct - to - video spin - offs didn't do much for its reputation), but credit to co - writers / directors Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg for not only getting everyone on board, but delivering one of the better films in the series.

The human side of the family comes off as dysfunctional, and sometimes unlikable, but we still root for a reunion because we like the animals enough to want them to achieve a happiness in the end, even if it is with petulant doofuses (kidding!).

Reunion's strength over that film, other than a writing team that work their damn hardest to send American Pie off in style properly, is that a sensible amount of time had passed.

There's a lot, yet still too little, made of a fake breast that Robert De Niro's character has fashioned from his daughter's breast so that he can approximate breastfeeding (though the film balks at actually paying off the sight gag with the sight of him doing it) and a bit of unkindness towards southern policemen (Tim Blake Nelson, deserving better), and a good eighty - percent of the alleged humour of this stillbirth is invested in «Focker» sounding a lot like «Fucker» and people at a Focker family reunion having names like «Dom» which sounds like «Dumb,» «Randy» which sounds like «Randy,» and «Horny» which sounds like someone's already run out of ideas for how to stretch a one - word punchline into a feature - length film.

Nobody remembers this now, but back then, the trades were counting on the reunion of Silverado collaborators Lawrence Kasdan and Kevin Costner to deliver the sleeper hit of the summer; although back then everybody involved in the production tried to pawn off the film's failure on the growing cult of Tombstone, the fact is that Wyatt Earp is, if not the most boring movie ever made, perhaps the second-most.

Freeform announced on Thursday (April 7) that there is a reunion in the works for their hit show Greek, which went off the air in 2011.

In preparation for the 2017 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, BMW revealed it's dusting off two vintage race cars for use in the popular evenIn preparation for the 2017 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, BMW revealed it's dusting off two vintage race cars for use in the popular evenin the popular event.

Joining in on the off - track fun at this year's Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca is three - time Formula 1 World Champion and racing legend Sir Jackie Stewart.

In addition, Audi is going to show off the R8 LMS GT3, the RS 3 LMS and the R8 LMS GT4 at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion.

In The Red Book, her touching, provocative, whip - smart romp of a novel where The Big Chill meets Mary McCarthy's The Group, Kogan begins with the Red Book entries for a group of roommates from the class of 1989 who are all headed for their 20th reunion weekend just as the financial and professional walls are crumbling around them: a self - made, childless securities broker, recently pink - slipped, eager to conceive a baby before her fertility window closes; a blue - blood «artist» and former lesbian, married to a writer's - blocked male novelist, living disingenuously and beyond their means off a no - longer - viable trust fund; a former actress, the star of every school production, who has become the stay - at - home wife to a famous Hollywood director; the adopted war orphan, now a foreign correspondent clinging to her dying industry, whose war journalist husband has recently been killed.

I set 4 financial goals for 2009: pay off my car loan, visit my brother in France, go to Dragon * Con (which is more of an annual family reunion), and create an emergency savings fund of at least $ 3K.

In one week I'd already met dozens of aunts and uncles and cousins and there hadn't been a day yet when we weren't setting off to another relative's house for a reunion.

We rarely get to be in the same place so it couldn't have been a better time to pull off a reunion.

In a long - term relationship, Dr. Gottman says that having a «stress - reducing conversation» is a great way to kick off a couple's reunion time together.