Sentences with phrase «something comes of age»

You know something comes of age when people start writing its history — and parts of it start to look quaint.

Not exact matches

(Indeed, it probably reveals something important about our age's sensibilities that we have come to find unthinkably ghoulish and unpleasant the once - venerable idea of creating a death mask as a memento of the departed.)

This despair, as I have said, is the commonest, it is so common that only thereby can one explain the rather common opinion in common intercourse that despair is something belonging to youth, which appears only in youthful years, but is not to be found in the settled man who has come to the age of maturity and the years of wisdom.

God's help is something that comes by grace, not something that comes «of itself» like the change in voice which comes naturally at the age of puberty.

True, when we are in the presence of the living God and experience the power of the age to come, we don't «have» the divine reality, as if it were something that we can grasp and handle.

I think I came of age or something.

All the talk of the last few weeks has been about Arsenal strikers coming and going Blah blah, but I think I can honestly say once again that Wenger should be doing something about our ageing comical defence, who regularly make schoolboy errors and gift goals to our opponents.

«He's only 22 years of age but he will come here and give us something I don't think we have at the moment.

Forget the touchdown dances, Hall of Fame middle linebacker Mike Singletary made hitting something to smile about to a generation of NFL fans who came of age in the 1980s.

Chelsea have been repeatedly linked with Real Madrid's Alvaro Morata and Pierre - Emerick Aubamayeng in recent weeks, and a move for Higuain would come as something of a surprise given the player's age and his fee.

I think its time to do something about this, over the 2 legs, ireland were clearly the better side, that notwithstanding this particular french team is the worst i've seen in decades, and they have no bussines going to the world cup.It is time for replays to be reviewed in some cases and goaline technology to be applied in other cases, i think we human being have come of age to realise that we humans are not perfect, no matter how hard we try, so for sepp blatter to keep resisting replays and goal line technology is quite baffling to me, i can't really understand why 3 socalled officials could make a decision, a decision in which the whole world saw to be a foul, and its allowed to stand, and a nation is left, heartbroken, cheated and bitter, i am an african, but as a fan of football, i felt terrible seeing this, and i beg the question, if someone other than the team is not benefiting from this, why can't the officials be allowed to take a look at the replays in order to officiate the game better?

In my own opinion, i'll advice us to have patience and continue with our new slogan «IN ARSENE WE TRUST» but Mr wenger, the fans has started losing faith though.Let us just encourage him knowing that he himself is not happy that he didn't win trophies for six years, it's high time we won something wenger and i believe strongly that this is our year.Our young squad have been together for long time, grown stronger, come of age, there's team spirit and general belief.

«Gone but Not Unforgotten» (written with Stephen Sherrill), May 26, 1999 «As a nation, we watched as that boy — the one with three names, Jonathan Something Something, who most likely played the son of Tim Allen — came of age before our very eyes.»

I've been reading your «back posts» when I feel like I need something pertaining to my specific age group and totally paying attention to your references for older kids so I can file them all away in a part of my brain saved for «what's coming next.»

Lester's - If you have a daughter between the ages of 7 and 12 and she's dying to come home with something to remember her trip to The Big Apple by, then bring her to Lester's.

We got a bunch of requests or submissions I should say, people sharing their stories and this one comes from Ann and I think it is probably something we can all relate to because all of us on the core of parents have toddler age or even older twins.

Start»em early It's a natural, human instinct that children have when it comes to food: If they haven't been exposed to a something before the age of 3, they're not going to eat it, because they're afraid it will hurt them.

Our picks come in a range of styles, prices, and target ages, so we're confident there's something for everyone on our list.

In an age of ubiquitous surveillance, the public has come to assume that someone or something is always watching, ready to spot trouble as it is happening.

The observations came as a shock — something like finding baby pictures of your father and seeing that he sported a mustache at age 2.

I think the best way to stay young is accepting growing old as something natural and look forward to it... what people see desirable in young is a kind of energy that comes more from eagerness for life than from age.

If something more comes out of your connection, great, but you won't have the usual pressure you might feel from girls your own age.

Your age is not something to be ashamed of; remember that age comes with wisdom.

The simmering rivalry between Di and Fiamma, inflamed by the kind of glimpsed indiscretion that makes adolescent melodramas tick, explodes in a thriller ending that turns an observant coming - of - age story into something resembling «The Lord of the Flies.»

I'm always partial to sci - fi, which there's not too much of anyway, but beyond that I just love a good coming - of - age story, or something to bring out the wonder and emotions inside me, all wrapped around a great story.

All in all, Tu Dors Nicole adds up to something pleasurably off - beat, a funny take on the coming - of - age film.

Telling the story through the eyes of a child is something of a genius stroke, absolutely making sense of the heightened reality in a way that some of the more recent films didn't, and the tender (but never quite precious) burgeoning romance and coming - of - age aspects are beautifully drawn.

Unspooling his semi-autobiographical, revolutionary coming - of - age tale «Something In The Air» at the New York Film Festival this month (you can read our review here), French filmmaker Olivier Assayas isn't letting the press rounds sap all of his energy.

What began as a too familiar coming - of - age story set in an all - boys Catholic school steadily morphs into something arguably as familiar but more satisfying — a triumphant sports tale.

As its 20 - something rockstars recklessly defend against machetes, shotguns, and snarling guard dogs, Green Room blossoms into a savage coming - of - age tale, an Almost Famous for John Carpenter nuts.

If I'd gone to war at the age of eighteen and come home without firing a shot, I suspect I'd have written something as vapid, grandiose, and self - conscious as Anthony Swofford's memoir Jarhead, the story of a ground war that never really materialized (and wouldn't until the son of that era's president decided to bring to climax what daddy'd coaxed to erection).

Like you say, we've seen many teen movies and many coming of age stories, but something about that dynamic in particular seemed very true to life.

Part of that was surely the fact that a movie with multiple significant roles for women age 50 or older was not something that came around very often.

I was a great fan of Olivier Assayas» last film, Something in the Air, which gracefully elided a classic coming - of - age story with the student protests of 1968.

There has always been something useful to take away from Linklater's scripts, whether it's Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy having a long conversation, or a boy's coming of age story, you gain something.

What You Need To Know: The increasingly busy schedule for Rooney Mara ultimately meant that something had to give, and the actress had to drop out of a reunion with «Tanner Hall» director Francesca Gregorini on this coming - of - age drama.

Something like the 2016 coming - of - age comedy The Edge of Seventeen, though entirely fictional, feels authentic in its nuanced, awkward, hilarious, heartbreaking portrayal of what it feels like to grow up.

Y Tu Mama Tambien is a nicely acted and directed coming - of - age road trip that does offer something more than the usual, yet is trapped by the conventions of its own genre.

Perhaps something was lost in translation as this is the first English - language picture from director Deniz Gamze Erguven, who was Oscar - nominated for the terrific 2015 French - Turkish coming - of - age movie Mustang but here seems to be in way over her head.

Olivier Assayas has written eloquently of his complicated relationship with the film, first rejecting it and then over time coming to regard the troubled Charles as «the truest portrait» of his younger self; Assayas's most autobiographical film, Cold Water, owes a debt to The Devil, Probably, as will, perhaps, his upcoming Something in the Air, a coming - of - age story in the context of»70s youth culture.

Lady Bird is something truly special: a coming - of - age comedy so funny, perceptive, and truthful that it makes most other films about adolescence look like little more than lessons in cliché.

And with a rapturous A + CinemaScore from younger - skewing audiences (55 percent of those polled were under the age of 25), the film will likely hover at or near the top of the U.S. box office charts for weeks to come — something that critics won't mind, for once, given that the film also sits at an impressive 96 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.

Time to get something off my chest; coming - of - age films can be frustrating.

SEE THIS MOVIE IF: quirkiness and caustic dialogue mixed with some humorous and familiar coming - of - age moments are what you are looking for this summer movie season OR you want to see Steve Carell play something other than a nice guy

If there's a dealbreaker for audiences or commercially minded critics, it's the fact that the narrative tends to grow unwieldy and wanders non-linearly from a coming - of - age story to something much more complex and wider (and no doubt autobiographical) about how the post-war generation's social upheaval and radical thinking damaged the children of this era (of which Potter was clearly one).

I know how ridiculous that sounds, but I was somewhat pleasantly surprised by the first film, which Sam Taylor - Johnson, Kelly Marcel, and Dakota Johnson (in a sly, genuinely funny performance) conspired to turn into a coming - of - sexual - age story in which a young woman took control over her body and her sexual desires in the face of men who would have be something other than what she is.

It's near - impossible to pick the «best» because there are just so many genre - bending classics that come from this decade - the 1980s were something of a Golden Age of Horror, one that gave us the icons we know and love today.

Park Chan - wook's English - language debut has an ostensible plot: something Gothic and overheated about incest, secrets, and its young protagonist's coming of age.

That's the basic premise of directors Chris and Paul Weitz's raunch fest American Pie, a sweet coming of age story wrapped in the same hilarious gross out comedy of There's Something About Mary.

In Lady Bird, Gerwig has taken the familiar teenage girl coming - of - age plot and turned it into something rather extraordinary and carefully observed, the kind of movie that actually reveals layers on repeated viewing.