Sentences with phrase «school acquaintance of»

A high school acquaintance of mine bought his first car with money he made from the stock market.

«Nashville» actress Connie Britton portrays the girlfriend of Driver's character Phillip, while «Neighbors» actress Rose Byrne plays a high school acquaintance of Bateman's character Judd and «Justified» actor Timothy Olyphant portrays the high school boyfriend of Fey's character, Wendy.

Out of the blue, they meet Gordo (Joel Edgerton) an old high - school acquaintance of Simon's who begins to make uninvited appearances at their house and always comes bearing gifts.

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How can the Quaker school be true to its roots when most of its students have had no prior acquaintance with the Society of Friends?

The young daughter of an acquaintance of mine spoke to the point when she told me that at her school there were no requirements of any kind and that, as a result, she «got bored stiff with having to do every day what she wanted to do.»

The first, superficial impression is not erased by more thorough acquaintance with theological schools; many instances of self - satisfied provincialism, inert traditionalism and specious modernization tend to confirm it.

I was nineteen when I met my friend Travis through mutual acquaintances in the School of Design at Arizona State University.

While most Waldorf teachers will have heard of this approach, few will have experienced this method themselves as school children, and many may have made only fleeting acquaintance with this approach during their teacher training.

I think the most difficult part of dealing with this issue isn't just the stares or questions from other parents, friends or acquaintances... For us it has been SCHOOL.

Being around children in the school cafeteria, my own nephews, and the children of friends and acquaintances, I am continually amazed at the volume of «picky» eaters.

Cosmas, the Buffalo Grove mother of two, was instrumental in getting her school district and park district together after an acquaintance, a single father, told her how much less he was paying for child care through a school - park program in a neighboring community.

As a Matter of Fact I Can't Fit into My Size 4 Jeans After Having Just Given Birth... Dear Readers, all of us mothers have certainly come across that urban myth about the friend, of the friend, of an acquaintance who went to high school with the so - and - so who used to know our sister,... Read More about As a Matter of Fact, I Can't Fit into My Size 4 Jeans After Having Just Given Birth

He realizes that the grass is always greener when he tries to pass an unknowing Gloria off as his wife to an old high school acquaintance, just to find out that his old rival was always jealous of Phil's relationship with Claire.

I am reminded of the story of one of my own acquaintances, while at Officer Candidate School (OCS) in Quantico, Virgina, where he watched his drill instructor touch the genitals on the corpse of a dead deer, laughing that it was a fellow officer candidate.

This half - life existence of graduate students can be minimized in a number of ways; pick a school and department that has a socially active graduate student body; bring a significant other with you to graduate school; attend a school in a major metropolitan area; live in a graduate dorm; find friends in more socially active departments; join a gym or go to the gym on campus; become involved in the surrounding community; suck it up and plan social events yourself for the uninitiated in your department; and finally desperately seek someone — anyone — who will halfway understand your life, i.e., make real friends rather than acquaintances.

Even though this may sound a little old school asking a friend or acquaintance for a suggestion never goes out of style.

Upset by this turn of events, the sisters attempt to ruin the house sale by throwing a wild party for their old high school friends and new acquaintances, but what they discover is their deeply felt bond to one another in this R - rated comedy that conjures its share of juvenile funny.

It depicts an American high school student who has worked hard to be invisible to of all the classic cliques by becoming an acquaintance of them all and how this all changes when he gets to know the «dying girl».

The film is an adaptation of the Jesse Andrews novel of the same name and revolves around a Criterion Collection - obsessed high school senior (Thomas Mann) who is talked into spending time with an acquaintance classmate (Olivia Cooke) who has recently been diagnosed with cancer.

The trio's time as students at Hogwarts is complete, so while their friends and acquaintances off - screen deal with the turncoat - or - is - he Severus Snape (Alan Rickman) as the school's headmaster, Harry, Hermione, and Ron are on the run in the woods, among the dales, and on the rocky cliffs of the English countryside.

Having, in his own words, too much fun, Reeves's mop - topped high - school senior Chris plays bad guitar in a bad band with his best friend, David (Alan Boyce), a type - A overachiever who succumbs to the pressures of pretending to like Gilbert & Sullivan, getting accepted into a great school, having a hot wooden girlfriend (Pamela Gidley), and being sainted by every acquaintance.

Thomas Mann (also seen in The Stanford Prison Experiment) leads this tale of unlikely friendship as Greg Gaines, an awkward acquaintance of everyone in high school who keeps everyone at the perfect calculated distance so as to avoid any conflict and drama, making it easy to coasting through his adolescence.

Dear graduates of 2010, deans, administrators, faculty, staff, parents, friends, other students, acquaintances, and that guy in the back who mistook this for a free food event, I asked my middle school history teacher what I should say today.

A PLN may consist of current or past colleagues, acquaintances from other schools in a similar role to you, or people you have connected with online.

In the mid-1960s, an acquaintance of mine was a young, timid teacher beginning her career in a virtually all - black high school on the South Side of Chicago.

«While we hope and pray for the safe return of the pupils in question, we also think of their friends and acquaintances at the school who will no doubt struggle to come to terms with the events of recent days.»

A neurological phenomenon that causes a person to associate colors with everything from letters to days of the week and even people and emotions, graphemeàcolor synesthesia doesn't have many practical uses in my own life, unless you count the time I filled awkward silences at my spouse's company Christmas party by entertaining acquaintances with the colors my brain links to two particularly unpopular high school foreign language teachers with whom everyone in the group happened to share an F - filled history.

To maximize the impact of your book launch, invite friends, family, business colleagues, acquaintances from church, school, community organizations and everyone in the writing community.

Your new acquaintance may have the same name as the lead singer of your favorite band in high school, or a similar name to your mother - in - law, or a name that rhymes with your sister's.

After making a few new acquaintances at the local high school, the city's state of rural normalcy is upended by a series of grisly murders.

He sought out avant garde painters, not only making the acquaintance of key artists of the New York School, but also visiting their studios and interviewing them for a research paper.

In the same period, Rauschenberg immersed himself in all aspects of the New York art world, attending lectures by major critics and artists at the Club, the legendary space where artists associated with the New York School gathered for debate beginning in 1948, and frequently viewing recent work by Willem de Kooning (1904 — 1997), Jackson Pollock (1912 — 1956), Franz Kline (1910 — 1962), Philip Guston (1913 — 1980), and Barnett Newman (1905 — 1970), among others, all of whom were acquaintances of varying familiarity.

Freilicher's performances in Burckhardt's films are some of the few pieces of direct evidence that attest to her remarkable presence in the circles of friendship and acquaintance that have been given the entirely too - formal name of the New York School.

While prices for Knoebel works sometimes hit six - figure sums — small fry compared to the stratospheric amounts commanded by his acquaintance Gerhard Richter (also of the Dusseldorf school)-- he remains largely indifferent to an art market he feels has got out of control.

During periods spent in New York City, he frequented the haunts of the artists who would become known as the New York School and made the acquaintance of the group's artists and critics, including Willem de Kooning and Thomas Hess.

There he either met or renewed acquaintances with prominent members of the New York School including Barnett Newman and Helen Frankenthaler as well as the formidable critic Clement Greenberg, and several of the painters he championed as post painterly abstractionists — Kenneth Noland, Paul Feeley and Jules Olitski.

However, little known are his sketches of male nudes — studio models from the School of Visual Arts, where Button taught, as well as personal acquaintances.

If you do not want to see the random musings of every business acquaintance and elementary school buddy that you have become «friends» with, hide their status posts from your Facebook «wall» by right - clicking next to their next post that dares to grace your wall.

Although basic techniques on driving may be learned from parents for teenagers, from friends or other acquaintances but it would still be better to settle in a school for driving since laws of the road and regulation will be taught.

That's a helpful feature if you're trying to find your old high school acquaintance Jane Smith, and don't want to comb through the hundreds or thousands of Jane Smiths on Facebook to find the right person.