Sentences with phrase «shattered family life»

Developed by actor Jamie Bell, Violet is a shy teenager living in the Isle of Wight who dreams of pop stardom as an escape from her small town and shattered family life.

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Homelessness breaks the spirit, shatters hope and creates a living nightmare for children and their families.

But neither do we have the reign of God for the redemption of society when Christians are unconcerned about the plight of their fellow men, or when such giant evils as war, race discrimination, alcoholism, economic injustice, hunger and homelessness, and the shattering of family life go unchallenged.

It has provided a convenient excuse for childish atheism and shattered many aspects of human community and family life.

Out of the bubble that is American life, we sat with dying men and women, held newly orphaned babies in our arms, and cried with shattered family members.

Consider the various laws named after children who were abducted and murdered, championed by parents who wanted to make sure that no other family's life would be shattered by crushing grief.

«Something as serious as rape has an enormous and life - shattering impact on so many lives, from the victim to their friends, family and co-workers.

As Martin begins insinuating himself into the family's life in ever - more unsettling displays, the full scope of his intent becomes menacingly clear when he confronts Steven with a long - forgotten transgression that will shatter the Murphy family's domestic bliss.

A family's life in small - town Maine is shattered by the evil unleashed from an ancient American Indian burial ground.

In a relentless effort to discover the truth behind her daughter's disappearance, Beth Holloway captured the nation's attention by working tirelessly to solve the mystery that shattered her family's life.

Structured around the fracturing of two family units, one irreparably shattered, one holding firm despite intense pressure, it imagines life as a steady succession of denials, duty waging a futile struggle against desire.

WHAT: Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) is a dedicated family man and successful construction foreman, but on the eve of the biggest job of his career, he receives a phone call triggering a series of events that threaten to shatter his seemingly perfect life.

1/2 The dumb rap against the gifted Wes Anderson is that his comedies (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic) all hit on similar themes of broken dreams and shattered families.

But her image of her perfect family is shattered when she discovers long - buried secrets that threaten to destroy the very foundation of her life.

The film is a shattering experience — for actors and audience — as we are dragged into the abyss of slavery through the documented real life experience of a free black man in upstate NY who was kidnapped from his family in the middle of his life, and enslaved in the south.

Several decades after the Sexual Revolution swept across the United States (and around the world) during the late 1960s, it's all too easy to gloss over just how earth - shattering a change the movement for greater feminine freedom made in the lives of so many women and their families, and to women's roles in society.

As Martin begins insinuating himself into the family's life in ever - more unsettling displays, the full scope of his intent becomes menacingly clear when he confronts Steven with a long forgotten transgression that will shatter the Murphy family's domestic bliss.

His family shattered, Leo eventually finds his place with a tightly knit group of high school friends, and the novel follows the intersections and complications of their lives through adulthood.

Emma gives birth to a son, Dean, but the family's life is shattered by a hobo's bullet at the railroad station; the boy grows up early, becoming a remote man with fierce and unpredictable loyalties.

While Yasodhara is learning a new way of life across the ocean, Saraswathi, a Tamil girl of similar age, remains in Sri Lanka with her family, only to see her dreams shattered and end up fighting a battle she had long tried to avoid.

But, as Wylie falls in love with April and they begin to imagine a life away from the violence that has shattered his family, history threatens to repeat itself and destroy them both.

It doesn't put back together the shattered life of your family.

The novel is ford's attempt to negotiate the ways family and community heal and to consider the ways death shatters and shapes the folks left to make do with memory and makeshift memorials, absolution and absence, life and love.

The problem with an accident is that it usually shatters a life and leaves an otherwise happy family in a lurch.

Family members of the victims of last month's shooting spree at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School came face to face for the first time on Wednesday with the gunman who shattered their lives.

They each share their perspective of restoration after a single moment in time seemingly shatters their life, family, and careers.

The integrity of the family is shattered, roles must be restructured and reassigned and the rules of daily living adapted to ever - changing circumstances.