Sentences with phrase «something of a family man»

We don't know much about the protagonist of Blue Ruin, except that he's let himself go, learned a few survival skills in the process, and is something of a family man — as you have to be if you undertake to avenge the killing of your parents.

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Judging by my Twitter feed, most foreign observers simply can not understand why a man serving his country in one of its highest and most sensitive positions should step down over something that happened in his private life - something that directly affects only those involved and their families.

The truth about marriage, for example — the lifelong union of one man and one woman, open to new life and the foundation of a family — is not something that will go away simply because the government of a nation, or institutions that it funds and promotes, want it to do so.

Why don't you devote your time and godliness on something worthwhile instead of telling men and women what they can do within their family.

There is a common impression that something must have gone wrong in the mother - child relationship if a young man or a young woman is not «normal» according to the criteria of «the family pew.»

This man is doing families grieving something out of the goodness of his heart, what have you done?

But something rotten happened between the Clintonian «passing of the torch» and the swearing - in of model family man Barack Obama: the Bush GOP revealed that apparently the forces of cultural libertarianism could only be held at bay in an avalanche of bad government.

But for the man who built the white crosses, each just over 3 feet tall, the crosses are something more: symbols of his own survival since tragedy struck his family 16 years ago.

I will never condone personally attacking a player and his family for something as trivial, in the big scheme of things, as a professional futbal fixture BUT these are grown men (most if them @ least) who have voluntarily chosen this vocation in life.

Look for odd jobs to pay something — the man who does whatever is necessary to take care of his family is a man in its truest sense.

If your young man loves games, especially those that involve a little luck and a lot of strategy, Catan is something that just might help keep Family Game Night alive.

Many men identify fathering as something which is active, challenging, creative, irreplaceable, hard work and a central part of their life, regardless of their family situation.

It is now recognised that many men identify fathering as something which is active, challenging, creative, irreplaceable, hard work and a central part of their life, regardless of their family situation.

As well as a family man, Farron is also something of a rarity among centre - left politicians as a committed Christian.

He used to be something of a rabble rouser (though never a rogue CIA agent), now he's a suburban family man.

Alan Clark was a complex personality with something of Toad of Toad Hall about him: conformist and rebel; aristo and arriviste; family man and philanderer; man of action and would - be philosopher, backbench rebel and minister.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER With a full 26 characters to spare, veteran Bronx City Councilmember Jimmy Vacca took to Twitter with something of a major status update: «After talking w / my friends & family I've decided to come out publicly as a gay man.

My joy was that a newspaper has done something great to our nation by identifying a truly deserving awardee and putting smiles on the faces of his family members and the man himself (if the dead do know what is happening after their departure).

Most men could use a new pair of pj pants and a nice pullover, something to wear to family gatherings or date night.

Introducing a man to your friends and family essentially sends a big signal that you expect and want this person to become a greater part of your life and that you expect him to stick around for something approximating «the long haul.»

The friends and family oriented picture: At the end of the day, showcasing that you are a kind and caring friend or family member is something all men are attracted to.

am a very straight kind of person looking looking for a very serious relationship that can end up to something very good and lets build family i want a honest kind and truthful type of man only no game player

She wants her soulmate to be a man belonging to different culture and nation because according to her point of view the international family is something very exciting and refreshing.

instead of exploring the toll something like this would take on a family man.

You will see most of them coming — subtlety isn't the game's strong point — but just because you expect something bad to happen to anybody who says they are «getting out of the game and becoming a family man» doesn't make it any less devastating when it happens.

Here is a movie that invites the viewer to bare witness to something of a moral dilemma: watching a man caught between dragging his family through financial ruin and an opportunity to make money (lots of it) by physically, psychologically and emotionally ruining himself.

Pictures of them in combat ready attire as well as personal photos of their families left behind showed that these men had lives but were prepared to give up their comforts for something more in the name of freedom and honor and the man next to them.

The family dramedy stars Ben Stiller as a middle - aged man working for a non-profit who suffers something of a mid-life crisis as his musical prodigy son (Austin Abrams) begins applying to colleges to start his own life.

The film is dated to modern eyes, and the struggles each of the men deal with are certainly subdued and edited for family viewing (and therefore, not very realistic), but the simple fact that a film focused on these problems before any other film had done so is something quite extraordinary.

Something of an exciting / offensive miscellany ---- this is the man who gave us Basic Instinct (1992) and Showgirls (1995) after all ---- Elle's ingredients include; eccentric extended - family comedy of manners; sophisticated thriller; mesmerizing psychosexual drama; with inescapable ideas of noxious misogyny as well as being a complicated psychological snapshot of a fiercely independent woman.

In the film, the «sons of Ipswich» are the four young men that represent the bloodlines of their respective families that have carried something over generations known as «The Power».

Based on a comic and with a script co-credited to Hayao Miyazaki, one of the most important men in the history of animation, «From Up on Poppy Hill» tells the story of Umi Matsuzaki (Sarah Bolger), a gentle girl forced into something of a maternal role in her family.

Its story is familiar (and, in fact, quite close to that of the equally good «The Skeleton Twins» last year): A 30 - something man named Jake (Nick Kroll), after an embarrassing failure in his professional life, returns to his hometown to live — in his childhood home, no less — with his semi-estranged sister Justine (Rose Byrne) and her family.

The film is a bit problematic in its design, favoring artistic license that eschews the complexities of Barnum the man in order to make something easily digestible and family - friendly.

He cast old pal Paddy Considine, who had been gripping as a volatile loner in «A Room for Romeo Brass», and went for the jugular with this tale of a man who seeks and dishes out violence in revenge for something terrible that happened in his family's past.

The film lets us truly get to know this wonderful man, see him with his family, experience the depth of his feeling for children, and share his intuitive sense that something is wrong with his schools.

In a 2006 article titled «The Manwagon», The Wall Street Journal linked the V70R to a trend «to lure speed - crazy guys with kids,» saying «car makers are trying to transform the dowdy old family hauler into something new,» [152] and that «consumer research had unearthed a surprising number of family men who thought wagons could be cool, if only they had more guts.»

Evidently, Mercedes was so impressed with sales of its new convertible SL models, priced between $ 60,000 and $ 80,000, that it brought out something for the family man and woman.

With no money, no family, no job or security, she hopes to salvage something of her former life and the lives of the hired men and their families who depend on her.

And Frank took those basic aspects of family - man Crosby's singing approach and then turned crooning into something sultry.

ON LAW AND LIFE JUSTICE ELEANORE A. CRONK: One of the reasons I went into law was not just because of the father who wanted to be a trial lawyer, it was because of the mother who was very accomplished in her own right, but believed strongly in women being autonomous, having an independent source of money, not being dependent on the men in their lives for their financial security, for having something that would give them a sense of self - worth that was very personal, and that was encouraged in the family environment that I lived in and grew up in.

This is not because there is something wrong with «men,» or heterosexual reproduction, but because we live in a society which still has feudalistic ideas of «family.»»

But there actually is a subset of families around the world who do have something in common with the men and women who serve our country and they are called super commuter couples.

Something happened in that diamond instant of witnessing my â $ ˜ol man filled with compassion... hearing him speak on the suffering of families in our own neighborhood.