Sentences with phrase «series of wrenching»

Mother and daughter faced a series of wrenching moral questions: When does death cease being a curse and become a blessing?

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So Greider believes that global capitalism, since it not only allows but actually causes the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer, «will probably experience a series of terrible events — wrenching calamities which are economic, or social or environmental in nature — before common sense can prevail».9

NYSUT, which is backing Democrat Marc Panepinto's bid to flip the Buffalo - area seat, has launched a series of advertisements and mailers designed to throw a wrench into the primary, contending the lawmaker is too liberal for Republicans, The Buffalo News reported.

She appeared in a number of series, including the popular crime drama Cracker and such costume extravaganzas as Jane Eyre and Emma.Morton became known to an international film audience in 1997, when she won wide acclaim for her wrenching, fearless portrayal of a young woman driven to promiscuous behavior by the death of her mother in Carine Adler's Under the Skin.

Over the course of the series, as Voldemort gathered in power and corporeality, his wrenched, Medusa - like face eventually growing a body (though oddly losing its nose), the actor started to fill out the character with sharp, indelible gestures, a flick of the wrist, a twist of the mouth.

Serena isn't as compelling a protagonist as either Everlasting or UnREAL needs, but her Tracy Flick - like machinations throw a series of unprecedented wrenches into the production that, in turn, prompts crises that test the people who make the show — in particular Rachel and Quinn.

As to what happens next... let's just say that you should expect the most violent showdowns yet in the series, as well as scenes of wrenching emotion.

The two have planned a weeklong excursion to the City of Lights as a celebration for Grace, and a wrench is thrown into the works when Grace's mother and stepfather (Andie MacDowell and Brett Cullen, who end up as wholly unconcerned parental figures, considering how, due to the eventual series of complications, none of the girls are able to be contacted) decide that Grace's stepsister Meg (Leighton Meester) should accompany them.

As with the movie, which served as its inspiration, the TV series is flavored with darkly comic moments, offbeat characters and gut - wrenching moments of explosive violence.

This smart, satirical anthology series offers a slew of gut - wrenching, standalone stories exploring our ethically questionable and psychologically complex relationship with technology.

The film consists of a series of vignettes that bear the unmistakable framing of Antonioni and are, in turn, ponderous, melancholy and heart - wrenching — or jaw - droppingly pretentious, depending on your taste.

A monkey wrench is thrown in the works when the four contenders to the Papacy are kidnapped, and a series of religious clues are being left about that only well - respected Harvard religious symbologist Robert Langdon can shed some light on.

Alfa Romeo, in the form of the new 164 series of sport / luxury sedans, has tossed a huge monkey wrench into the smooth - running machinery that has propelled BMW, Mercedes - Benz, Acura and others into the hearts, minds and garages of upscale Americans.

One area that has attracted much attention in the last several years is a stratum of shale called the Marcellus, which was discovered 150 years ago and named for a small town in New York state where the layer of shale had, after a series of geological upheavals, been wrenched to the surface.

once she retrieves her father's ship, plus she has cute - guy Cole sitting second seat as navigator, but getting back «home» is a heart - wrenching series of adventures that will keep the pages turning and your head churning.

Thought - provoking, eye - opening, and profoundly moving, The Girl of His Dreams is classic Donna Leon, a spectacular, heart - wrenching addition to the series.

HP stunned markets two weeks ago, when it announced it may shed its PC business — the world's largest after the $ 25 billion acquisition of Compaq in 2002 — as part of a wrenching series of moves away from the consumer market.

On the contrary, you'll suffer through a series of dreadful, gut - wrenching months alternating with exciting, hard - charging bull markets.

Dom's heart - wrenching confusion, grief and final act of mercy are heavy going, but the raw emotion hammers home Dom's love for his wife and is a surprisingly moving story beat in a series that is mostly about making things explode and yelling about giant worms.

Huge sky - filling sci - fi storms, fringed in purple light, descending to wrench away entire districts of the floating cities where this open - world series likes to play out.

This collection of the final 13 episodes of the Legend of Korra series is truly heart - wrenching.

Using appropriation more pointedly, works from Martha Rosler's powerful Bringing the War Home: House Beautiful series (1967 - 72) juxtapose images from lifestyle magazines with found Vietnam War photography to wrench a distant, all - too - real dystopia into the living rooms of middle - class Americans.

While the show at Jack Shainman's 21st Street space presented a more conventional gathering of Weems» art, including her new series Scenes & Take, her exhibition at the 24th Street gallery on the killings of unarmed black men by police was so gut - wrenching it's hard to forget.