Sentences with phrase «soap opera with»

Downton Abbey is basically a British period soap opera with very high production value.

Perhaps the need for regulation could be aired on a modern day soap opera with Peggy Mitchell asking a rogue will writer to «get out of my pub»!

Meanwhile, critic and artist Walter Robinson paints a scenario straight out of a pulp fiction novel or TV soap opera with his new painting Randall and The River of Time and Aura Rosenberg takes us to the river's edge with her floor installation Dialectical Porn Rocks, a collection of creek rocks covered with erotic images from old porn magazines.

«It is a soap opera with Chippendale over-promising and under - delivering,» explains McCormack.

Of the other two, I missed Andrea Arnold's American Honey but forced myself to sit through Nicole Garcia's From the Land of the Moon, a ludicrous post — Marguerite Duras soap opera with an unbearably schmaltzy score — as if Marion Cotillard's precise enactment of frustrated sexual desire needed a musical boost.

One can't help but imagine what a different filmmaker might have made of this lurid, plot - hole - riddled soap opera with a body count (including a perfect over-the-top image of bourgeois degeneracy: murder by wine corkscrew) or the character of Rachel, a bad drunk whose list of past humiliations includes an incident in which she stumbled into the Watsons» house in an apparent attempt to kidnap their infant daughter.

A sitcom - cum - soap opera with super-villain action interrupting the course of Peter's daily life.

Not much of a plot, not much conflict resolution, and not much in message, Laurel Canyon is a soap opera with a twist, a turn, and then the credits roll.

Less soap opera with love triangles and more action with great one liners.

Show had real potential till season 3 where it went from action sci fi adventure with great characters to a family soap opera with sci fi

Show had real potential till season 3 where it went from action sci fi adventure with great characters to a family soap opera with sci fi elements.

That is, expect a fast - paced, beautifully mounted and well - acted soap opera with overripe dialogue that plays fast and loose with history — just like they did in the»30s,»40s and»50s — and you won't come away disappointed.

«On top of that there is this real soap opera with a guy who worked for the other guy [as de Blasio did for Cuomo].

I'm Joyce Armistead from lovethediva.com, I grew up in Latin America watching mexican soap operas with gorgeous divas who would go to bed with flawless makeup and wake up dressing from Valentino.

Which is basically what Murphy does, make soap operas with a little genre flare.

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He wrote that «the Trump edict essentially kills any chances of this deal happening and is a major gut punch to those Qualcomm bulls hoping this soap opera could end with a bid following pressure from the shareholder meeting, which is poised to happen next month after getting delayed.»

But the possible charges shows that there's a deeply serious side to this soap opera, with a sitting CIA director possibly violating his security clearance, thus proving that the affair had the potential to endanger US national security.

What he did: After searching in vain for a publisher for Boob Tube, a satirical novel about the soap opera industry that he penned with his wife, tech entrepreneur Mark Coker, 47, took matters into his own hands.

Sting, for instance, once told London's Evening Standard newspaper that «The X Factor» was «a soap opera which has nothing to do with music,» and said Cowell had «no recognisable talent apart from self - promotion.»

«Consider the case of Nordstrom,... the swanky department store chain I like so much with a story that's reaching soap opera levels of melodrama,» Cramer said on Wednesday.

The greater Los Angeles D.M.A. has painted a picture of newspaper dysfunction, with multiple bankruptcies, slow bleeding of staff resources and the soap opera that Aaron Kushner's attempted turnaround of the Orange County Register all figuring in the tragicomedy.

There's a soap opera brewing between the investment firm, Bowen, Hanes, and a consulting firm that doesn't agree with the way they do things from an operational standpoint.

This would be like a soap opera ending in the middle of the desert, with the main protagonists stranded.

In a world where sex permeates everything and where the dominant Reichian myth, preached with demonic plausibility by every movie, sitcom, and soap opera, is that sexual activity is what constitutes true existence, the place of single, celibate Christians is set to be a significant pastoral issue.

God, for me, is not a human reflection with superhuman powers and a soap opera life.

The overt sexualisation of society has proceeded with dramatic pace aided greatly by television soap operas, advertising, film entertainment etc..

The Diocese of Durham said the event was in partnership with Footprints Theatre Company which gave the show a «soap opera» feel.

When the Assemblies of God did break into the news in 1987, it was as the setting for a soap opera featuring PTL's Jim Bakker, who lost his AG ministerial credentials when news of his tryst with Jessica Hahn became public.

And through careful attention to stereotypes and formula situations, from its soap operas to its dramas, television provides us with scenarios which we can «put on» and use in dealing with real situations in everyday life.

In medical care, for example, it is being found that prescribed treatment given by a doctor is often not acted upon by patients because the doctor's diagnosis conflicts with the patient's self - diagnosis which is frequently influenced by media sources including talk shows and even soap - operas.

I haven't posted on here for years because it's like a bad soap opera, same people same theme with the same trolls... so I did something about it but guess what it won't change like you said and you are part of the problem so keep posting and prove me right.

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 was part soap opera, part Al Capp's Dogpatch, and, with Mrs. Clinton, a generous slice of Macbeth.

We have become used to dismissing matters of religion («Oh, it's all rubbish»; «Causes more trouble than it's worth» etc) and we find it easier to sludge along with our culture soaked in TV soap operas and rising crime figures and drunken teenagers hanging around bleak shopping centres shouting at one another on Saturday nights.

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.

As well as Nara, Icardi brings some baggage, not least the soap - opera story of how he ended up with his current partner.

With astar - studded field that included Phil Mickelson (right), Ernie Els, Adam Scott, Vijay Singh and K.J. Choi, and a story line spiced with off - the - purse cash, tragedy, catfights, food poisoning and, in the end, a great champion, the Asiantour event turned out to be the week's most entertaining soap opWith astar - studded field that included Phil Mickelson (right), Ernie Els, Adam Scott, Vijay Singh and K.J. Choi, and a story line spiced with off - the - purse cash, tragedy, catfights, food poisoning and, in the end, a great champion, the Asiantour event turned out to be the week's most entertaining soap opwith off - the - purse cash, tragedy, catfights, food poisoning and, in the end, a great champion, the Asiantour event turned out to be the week's most entertaining soap opera.

In the wake of the Buccaneers soap opera this week, reports are now coming out that Greg Schiano's approach with players is out of control.

One of the greatest soap opera returns to television screens on Friday and it will provide us fans with the characters that will love and the ones we love to hate.

Obviously, I wish the board and the team as a whole would get its act together and provide some stability, but the truth is that we are a soap opera and until it is addressed the next manager needs to be able to deal with that.

In cultural terms, soap operas and TV generally show bottle - rather than breastfeeding as part of daily life with a new baby.

I love watching latina shows but not as much as I used to watch «novelas» (Mexican Soap Operas) with my mother but now «novelas» are from the past and Reality Shows is the new thing for me!

Although that scenario is common in soap operas, fewer than one in 1,000 women end up with an unplanned home birth.

[NYS] • In Episode 4,387 of the McGreevey soap opera, the ex-gov filed new papers with a New Jersey family court — to dismiss Dina Matos's charge that his coming - out had traumatized their daughter.

Charting what he terms the «soap - opera» years of the Labour government, his book continues to ruffle feathers with an updated preface bringing the story up to the tempestuous present.

And with Adams crying racism, I'm munching the popcorn with interest in what else is going to take place during this real - life TV soap opera.

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.

Perhaps the longest - running soap opera in academic science ended early Saturday morning when PRO / UAW, the union representing the more than 5000 postdocs on the University of California's 10 campuses, reached a tentative agreement on a first contract with the University of California.

Of course, that means that other scientists will also have to come up with some funky, species - specific soap operas to test them on.

Perhaps the longest - running soap opera in academic science ended early Saturday morning when PRO / UAW, the union representing the more than 5000 postdocs on the University of California's ten campuses, reached a tentative agreement on a first contract with the University of California.