Sentences with phrase «soap opera while»

She lounges in bed watching a soap opera while instructing a servant.

She tunes the TV to soap operas while doing the books.

The stereotype of a woman sitting at home watching soap operas while eating bon - bons is a distant reality for the SAHM.

While a lot of people might believe that she's sitting around and catching up on soap operas while the kids nap (and good for her, if she is!)

Not exact matches

When you got this script, Paul Haggis had been trying to get it off the ground for a while, nobody wanted to do it, it had a title that seemed... Million Dollar Baby must be, you know, a soap opera or something.

While they are rarely explicitly stated, they emerge in dramatic or narrative form in almost all forms of fictional and non-fiction programming: news, sports, drama, situation comedies, advertisements, soap operas, and children's cartoons.

One can be grateful, however, that the continuing soap opera has been moved off center stage while the adults, who from the start understood the Clintons all too well, get on with business.

It will call to you from the refrigerator while you fiddle with your stir - fry for dinner; it will entice you while you recline on the couch to watch your soap opera; it will torment you as you slog through another session on the treadmill; it will whisper to you while you lie in bed and think about what to write in tomorrow's blog post.

Players interact with the simulated world by picking actions from a list of options, while the computer - controlled characters play out their own soap opera independently.

Over dinners I wanted to discuss Emerson and Dawkins, while my family wanted to discuss soap operas and game shows.

While I had been absorbed in the soap opera, people and events far from me were conspiring to change my life in completely unexpected ways.

So for starters I got back from work and poured myself a glass of wine, made a HUGE pop corn bowl and topped off with lots of parmesan cheese and garlic tabasco while watching a «bad for the kids» Brazilian soap opera and off to blog a little... feeling good baby!

Critic Consensus: While Stomp the Yard contains impressive musical and dance numbers, it loses its momentum during the intervening soap opera - style subplots.

The story, while playing like a soap opera on the surface, is chock full of wry human observations while showing great affection for its characters.

As for the supporting male characters (because this is very much a female - centric saga, and one happily free of any Which Boy Should I Choose soap opera) Cape May's Miles Teller gets all the snarky lines as Peter, while Theo James dutifully does his hunky boyfriend duties as Four.

U.S. Tv stars Natalie Zea and Travis Schuldt have tied the knot.The actors met while co-starring in soap opera Passions in 2003 and after more than a...

Upstairs, she and her two young children share their home with her soap - opera - addicted mother, Mimi (Diane Ladd), while the basement is occupied by her ex-husband and her garage - owning father, Rudy (Robert De Niro) too.

While the animals attempt to sort out some resolution to this soap opera, a couple of animal control officers appear on the scene.

While Steinfeld, who earned an Oscar nomination for her role in 2010's «True Grit,» is also an established name — even at the age of 17 — the same can't be said of those three actors reportedly in contention to play Cyclops: Hardy is best known as the latest actor to portray Peter Beale on the long - running U.K. soap opera «EastEnders»; Chalamet had recurring roles on «Royal Pains» and «Homeland,» and appears in «Interstellar»; and Rowe currently stars on the Fox series «Red Band Society.»

He had the auto motion plus thing turned on the TV while we watched Law Abiding Citizen (or some actiony movie) and he honestly could not understand what I was trying to describe with the «soap opera effect.»

Deadpool took on the comics tropes of the standard superhero origin story and superhero soap opera romance — and convincingly kicked the crap out of them while remaining absolutely faithful to them.

The material from Roth's novel feels difficult to brighten, while the performances from all involved are often wooden and soap opera - like.

While Big Love seeks the inherent soap opera in a man with many wives, in The Lonely Polygamist Brady Udall finds the slapstick.

Licking his ego - wounds after being suspended from the FBI, Finn wants no part in playing bodyguard to the sinfully sensuous soap opera diva Julia Summers while the crew of the movie River Road films in the remote Cajun crossroads.

Cats aren't interested in daytime soap operas, but video footage of bugs, birds, and fish are sure to entertain your indoor cat while you're at work.

Linzy's pieces invoke a satirical narrative inspired by soap operas and Hollywood melodramas, highlighting the artifice of popular media while drawing us into the stories.

Inspired by direct experiences and observations of her surroundings as well as the films, plays, and novels of such luminaries as Alfred Hitchcock, John Cassavetes, Roman Polanski, Jack Smith, Jorge Luis Borges, Tennessee Williams, and Samuel Beckett and mainstays of popular culture like soap operas and science fiction, her work is carefully scripted and produced while maintaining an immediate sense of spontaneity and unpredictability.

While the attention of researchers has focused on the role of formal education in reducing fertility, soap operas on radio and television can even more quickly change people's attitudes about reproductive health, gender equity, family size, and environmental protection.

While divorce is sometimes inevitable, your divorce does not need to mirror the plot of a bad soap opera.

Refresh rate (motion - smoothing): While we're of the firm opinion that motion - smoothing modes can absolutely ruin the watching of movies and television shows, (applying a ghastly «soap opera» effect that makes everything look sped up and overly animated), they can actually really benefit live sports watching.

Aggressive behavior that many of us shake our heads at in dismay while watching soap operas or talk shows like Jerry Springer occurs in every - day relationships too.

Kimberly appeared in television commercials, was the Sony Betamax girl, made a few soap opera appearances and finished her undergraduate degree while raising her young children.