Sentences with phrase «story about a woman living»

Ever since she was first asked to audition for the play «The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs» in 1982, which brought her to George Moore's short story about a woman living as a male waiter in male - dominated -LSB-...]

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More broadly, her story has kindled a national conversation about whether women can truly «have it all» in terms of work - life balance.

Life: A story Oct. 12 about allegations of sexual harassment and abuse against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein mischaracterized the nature of discussions around Louis C.K.'s behavior toward women.

So I thought that a book in which some of these women told their own stories about Jesus would not only bring the Gospels to life in our minds, but it would also bring Jesus alive in our hearts.

In fact, Piper can read about some of them in his Bible in the stories of women like Hagar, Tamar, Lot's daughters, and Bathsheba, all of whom lived in highly patriarchal cultures.

A Woman Called: Piecing Together the Ministry Puzzle by Sara Gaston Barton — With a writer's eye and a teacher's heart, Sara Barton weaves together stories from Michigan to Uganda, Texas to ancient Israel, to bring the conversation about women and ministry to life.

I used to think it was the old European women from three or four generations back that had religion and superst.ition fed to them in equal amounts — even some as recent as my mother's generation with the nuns» stories about lying before communion and having their tongue fall out of their mouths, or having the stone lions in front of the protestant church come to life and eat them or having the earth open up and swallow them because they didn't go to confession.

The Gospel of Luke shows the greatest interest in women in the life and ministry of Jesus, including numerous accounts and stories about women unique to its presentation.

Lauren, a mom of 2 and TV news producer is the woman behind Working Mom Magic, a wonderful blog about parenting, fitness, recipes and personal stories from her life and family.

This book not only highlights important issues for those who have or plan to adopt a child of a different race and / or culture but it also offers a compelling story about a young woman who spends most of her life searching for answers about her past, her identity, and where she belongs.

Recently I had a chance to find out more about her story, including what's it like to live so close to your child's adoptive parents and about what advice she has for women who are facing an unplanned pregnancy and looking at adoption as an option.

Such a beautiful, touching story about the life of this amazing woman.

At a recent event at Columbia University, hosted by the organization Women in Science at Columbia, I told my story and passed along lessons I've learned about how people — especially women — can make the most of their lives and carWomen in Science at Columbia, I told my story and passed along lessons I've learned about how people — especially women — can make the most of their lives and carwomen — can make the most of their lives and careers.

Her stories «I Never Worried About Skin Cancer — Until I Got It,» featured in the May 2015 issue of Dr. Oz The Good Life, and «Sun Mistakes You're Probably Making,» featured in the June 2014 issue of Women's Health, were finalists for the annual Skin Cancer Foundation Media Award, recognizing outstanding skin cancer editorial coverage.

(Read one woman's story about how running saved her life.)

Hi just wanted to share my story with other women, I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia a few years ago, after trying every tablet under the sun I started taking magnesium symptoms, within a matter of a few days I went from in so much agony that all I could do is lie down and cry and barely move to being about 85 % improvement in symptoms I can now exercise and be happy and live a fairly normal life, magnesium has really changed my life, I no longer take any prescription medication and I no longer cry and go to bed early.

For the April Fool's Day, here are 50 funny stories we found online about love, dating, marriage, women, and the meaning of life.

Why American women are loosing their eligible men to Russian women - True - life story about Kevin and Elena.

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20/20, The New York Times, Good Morning America, CNN and other major media outlets have all done exclusive stories on, you guessed it, SeekingArrangement.com - and in this economy, when people hear about women getting allowances upwards of $ 250,000 a year from men who live to spoil women, what results is nothing short of a sugar baby stampede.

With the internet and media in every corner of life, it is easy to hear stories and gossip, the Western world has posted propaganda about Russia for many years and in a way it has also effected how people view Russian women, however most of this is all untrue.

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I wanted to know your worst online dating tales... Brautigan came to mind — the coda to a story about a woman who wreaked romantic havoc in the lives of many of his friends.

If nobody had been so adamant about making this film «about» Diane Arbus, it would be a perfect story about how an uncommon woman, living in the lap of luxury and perfection, discovers her own capability to see beyond the shape of things and boredom that privilege means.

This craziness extended to the cutscenes as well; any costume you dress Frank in appears on him during the story, so you could be confronting a seriously scary psychopath in a woman's dress or kid's overalls, and they look about as side - splitting on an overweight grown man as they would in real life.

Early on in the story, Wate begins dreaming about a mysterious woman coming into his life.

This drama about the man behind Wonder Woman lacks the kink and complexity of the real - life story, with the most tasteful three - way sex scene in history

While there are artificial elements to the story, there is a genuineness to the characterizations that allows the film to take hold and emerge as a winning comedic drama about women finding the strength to cope with tragedy and move on with their lives, even well into adulthood.

Based on stories by Maile Meloy, the film is about how «the lives of three women intersect in small - town America, where each is imperfectly blazing a trail.»

ABOUT «AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY» AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY tells the dark, hilarious and deeply touching story of the strong - willed women of the Weston family, whose lives have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.

Casting Director Deborah Aquila talks about finding actors to bring to life the moving story of Maria Altmann in «Woman in Gold,» and shares why paying attention to the details of the role can make all the difference in casting.

With a surplus of characters (including Amy Adams as Lois Lane - aka Superman bait, and Gal Gadot bringing Wonder Woman to glorious life), the story is ultimately about just a few things:

Other titles in this section include: Naomi Kawase's sweet, light and leisurely AN; Tom Geens» COUPLE IN A HOLE, about a couple living in an underground forest dwelling to be left alone to deal with their mysterious grief; DEPARTURE, Andrew Steggall's delicate first feature about longing, loneliness and nostalgia for a sense of family that may have never existed; Jacques Audiard's Palme d'Or - winner about a makeshift family trying to cement their bonds, DHEEPAN; the World Premiere of Biyi Bandele's FIFTY, a riveting exploration of love and lust, power and rivalry and seduction and infidelity in Lagos; the European Premiere of Maya Newell's documentary GAYBY BABY, following the lives of four Australian children whose parents all happen to be gay; Mark Cousins returns to LFF with his metaphysical essay film I AM BELFAST, Stig Björkman's documentary INGRID BERGMAN — IN HER OWN WORDS, a treasure trove of Bergman's never - before - seen home movies, personal letters and diary extracts alongside archive footage; Hirokazu Kore - eda's beautiful OUR LITTLE SISTER, focusing on the lives of four young women related through their late father in provincial Japan; the European Premiere of Mabel Cheung's sweeping Chinese epic based on the true story of Jackie Chan's parents A TALE OF THREE CITIES and Guillaume Nicloux's VALLEY OF LOVE starring Isabelle Huppert and Gérard Depardieu in a tale of love, loss, memory and the mystical.

It tells the story of a lonely college freshman who falls under the spell of her future stepsister (their parents are about to be married), a 30 - year - old woman who lives in Times Square.

Even more satisfying is del Toro's use of a female lead, Mia Wasikowska, and his comment that he wants a story about a woman that shows their life beyond getting the man, that there is more to a female then her love interests.

Though their 2014 film, about a woman (Marion Cotillard) trying to save herself from imminent redundancy, is cut from the same careworn cloth as previous features, it's another undeniably sublime and heartbreaking work about saintly self preservation, the struggles of working class life and the fact that it's often the smallest stories which deal with the biggest and most important ideas.

I can mostly understand wanting to tell a story about a sexually repressed woman who still lives with her mother, but director Haneke doesn't seem to care about why Walter would become such a monster, nor why Erika would purposefully destroy her top student by dumping broken glass into her coat pocket.

At a roundtable interview, DeWitt discussed her research for the role, how playing a real - life person informed her approach to the character, what it was like meeting the real Sue Webb, what she enjoyed most about working with Renner, what she learned about journalists and their determination to get to the truth of their story, her new film «Men, Women & Children» directed by Jason Reitman, and her upcoming projects: Joe Swanberg's «Digging for Fire,» Sam Raimi's remake of «Poltergeist» with Sam Rockwell, and a small part in the TV mini-series «Olive Kitteridge.»

To that end, Women In Trouble tends to sputter to life whenever the stories get racy: Palicki makes the strongest impression as an accident - prone ditz, and her monologue about the source of her performance anxiety is a ripe bit of pulp trash.

Hailed as the next Gone Girl, the book tells the story of Rachel (played in the movie by Emily Blunt), a woman who takes the same train to work and imagines stories about the lives of the people she sees on her journey to work.

The Book of Life is a film based on the images and stories about the Day of the Dead, and features a man, recently deceased, who hopes to journey back to the land of the living to be with the woman he loves.

Then you think about all of these women who've lived with this so many years and just finally getting to tell their story.

Director Michael Sucsy seems to gravitate to stories about women who find their romantic lives upended by an out - of - the - blue event.

Other notable films that will screen at TIFF include Tom Ford «s «Nocturnal Animals,» with Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams; «Whiplash» director Damien Chazelle «s musical «La La Land,» with Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone; Peter Berg «s «Deepwater Horizon,» a true - life drama about the oil spill, starring Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell; Werner Herzog «s «Salt and Fire,» a drama in which Michael Shannon and Gael Garcia Bernal face ecological disaster in South America; Ewan McGregor «s Philip Roth adaptation «American Pastoral,» the actor's directorial debut; Denis Villeneuve «s sci - fi drama «Arrival,» formerly titled «Story of Your Life,» with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner; Juan Antonio Bayona «s «A Monster Calls»; «Denial,» Mick Jackson's drama starring Rachel Weisz as a historian sued by a Holocaust denier; Irish director Jim Sheridan «s «The Secret Scripture,» with Vanessa Redgrave and Rooney Mara playing two different ages of a woman who keeps a diary of her time in a mental hospital; and «Mascots,» Christopher Guest «s comedy about the world of sports masclife drama about the oil spill, starring Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell; Werner Herzog «s «Salt and Fire,» a drama in which Michael Shannon and Gael Garcia Bernal face ecological disaster in South America; Ewan McGregor «s Philip Roth adaptation «American Pastoral,» the actor's directorial debut; Denis Villeneuve «s sci - fi drama «Arrival,» formerly titled «Story of Your Life,» with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner; Juan Antonio Bayona «s «A Monster Calls»; «Denial,» Mick Jackson's drama starring Rachel Weisz as a historian sued by a Holocaust denier; Irish director Jim Sheridan «s «The Secret Scripture,» with Vanessa Redgrave and Rooney Mara playing two different ages of a woman who keeps a diary of her time in a mental hospital; and «Mascots,» Christopher Guest «s comedy about the world of sports mascLife,» with Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner; Juan Antonio Bayona «s «A Monster Calls»; «Denial,» Mick Jackson's drama starring Rachel Weisz as a historian sued by a Holocaust denier; Irish director Jim Sheridan «s «The Secret Scripture,» with Vanessa Redgrave and Rooney Mara playing two different ages of a woman who keeps a diary of her time in a mental hospital; and «Mascots,» Christopher Guest «s comedy about the world of sports mascots.

More New Releases: «In the Fade,» starring Diane Kruger as a woman seeking vengeance for the death of her husband and son after a bomb attack; «Nostalgia,» a mosaic of stories about love and loss, exploring our relationship to the objects, artifacts, and memories that shape our lives, starring Jon Hamm, Catherine Keener, John Ortiz, Nick Offerman, James Le Gros, and Bruce Dern; and «Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell,» with Michael Gross once again returning as Burt Gummer and combating Graboids and Ass - Blasters.

Little Pink House Catherine Keener stars in this real - life story about the events leading up to a major court case involving eminent domain, with Keener as a woman who finds that her dream house and her neighborhood are threatened when Pfizer decides to build their plant in her town.

The story about a sex addict living in New York City would strike most writers as the chance to dive into a raunchy comedy that parades half - dressed women around (the word «half» defined loosely), while several awkward but hilarious scenarios litter the script.

The story is about a woman named Joe, a self - diagnosed nymphomaniac, who recounts the story of her life (and her erotic adventure from birth to age 50) to a charming bachelor, Seligman (played by Stellan Skarsgard).

Set against the backdrop of the rise of Nazi's invading Poland in 1939, The Zookeeper's Wife is a real - life story about one woman, Antonina Żabińska, (Chastain) and her husband, Dr. Jan Żabiński (Johan Heldenbergh from The Broken Circle Breakdown).