Sentences with phrase «story as a family man»

The film is expected to continue Gerry Lane's story as a family man faced with helping the entire world recover from a devastating disaster.

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Relying on intelligence dossiers prepared meticulously by his UDR commanders, he prepared intensively, making several dry runs by following the bread delivery van in which Hackett would ultimately die; he blocked out the reality that the target might be a family man with a pregnant wife and child awaiting his return home from work; he avoided reading the papers or listening to TV reports over the next days, because the stories tend to make a real human being out of what had to be thought of only as «the target.»
Harry Ironside tells the story of a time when he was first beginning to pastor as a young man, and he went home to California to visit his family and found a man of God living nearby who was from Northern Ireland.
Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.
whether for the right or wrong reasons, our leader chose to stay on when things took a turn of sorts... a new owner arrived on the scene, plans for a new stadium emerged and Wenger became the bearer of bad news... he sold us on a new story, one that required patience on our parts... financial constraints were the order of the day, so that the enormous sums spent on the new venue could be recouped... although some would question the validity of such claims, why wouldn't they believe their faithful leader... according to those within the hierarchy, the future never looked so bright, as this new home would ensure our place among the elites for years to come... as we all know now these claims were a well constructed fabrication and so those who feel they were duped in the process are infuriated and rightly so... the fact that this club and it's manager have continually misled the fans, especially following Gazidis's claims about our financial liquidity, simply rubbed more salt in an already gaping wound... this surely isn't how you treat your «family», especially when they supported you through the supposed «lean» years... it was a dirty trick played by Kroenke but the fact is was orchestrated by Wenger himself hurt the most... as for those in the media, many of whom are former players or longtime pundits, who observed the early years firsthand, saw this as the perfect opportunity to vent the anger they felt towards this pretentious man once and for all... all in all, karma's a bitch
De Blasio described Randolph Holder as a family man who often started stories with «my grandmother taught me.»
This emotional coming - of - age story follows Owen Suskind, a young man who was unable to speak as a child until he and his family discovered that they could communicate by immersing themselves in the world of Disney animated films.
From Academy Award ® winning director Roger Ross Williams, Life, Animated is the inspirational story of Owen Suskind, a young man who was unable to speak as a child until he and his family discovered a unique way to communicate by immersing themselves in the world of classic Disney animated films.
An update of Euripides» «Iphigenia in Aulis» (and the story of Agamemnon in general) as a young man (Barry Keoghan) begins to insinuate himself into the family of a successful surgeon.
The story is based on the real - life childhood experiences of George Hamilton, who went road - tripping with his mother (Zellweger) and little brother as she tried to find a rich man to support their family.
From Academy Award ® winning director Roger Ross Williams, LIFE, ANIMATED is the inspirational story of Owen Suskind, a young man who was unable to speak as a child until he and his family discovered a unique way to communicate by immersing themselves in the world of classic Disney animated films.
Reaching back into 20th - century history, Edet Belzberg's Watchers of the Sky traverses similarly blood - drenched terrain to tell the astonishing and dismaying story of Raphael Lemkin, born in 1900, a Polish Jew who became obsessed as a young man with the mass slaughter of the Armenians by the Turks and coined the word genocide (which combines Latin and Greek roots) to describe that horrific event unaware that the same thing would soon happen to the Jews of Europe, including his entire family, under the Nazi regime.
He's been to the Cannes competition three times (winning the Grand Prix for «To Live») and this film, which reteams him with muse Gong Li will very likely make it four — it's rumored to already be a done deal.The story follows an old man, who'd been sent to a labor camp, as he eventually returns to his family, and presumably sees Zhang work in a more intimate register than some of his epic outings.
The new setting revivifies the harsh forces of class and gender at work in the story, as the sweet but inscrutable title character (Freida Pinto) falls under the spell of a wealthy young man (Riz Ahmed) and leaves her family in dusty Rajasthan for better wages in Mumbai and glamor at the margins of the film industry.
This is a story about Elvis the Man — not the Myth or Legend — and the same goes for Nixon, who's portrayed as a hardworking, insecure and devoted family mMan — not the Myth or Legend — and the same goes for Nixon, who's portrayed as a hardworking, insecure and devoted family manman.
Delivering an explosive performance as a desperate father whose every move could be his last, Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson (Fast & The Furious, G.I Joe: Retaliation) stars in Snitch — a story inspired by true events about consequences, redemption and justice, and the lengths that a man will go to in order to protect his family.
The film is very quiet, the small town atmosphere settling the nerves after an early act of violence that sets the tone for what is to come, but we are lulled into comfort as the story of this family man unfolds.
The Little Foxes, set in Alabama in 1900, is a story of family, greed and revenge as «Regina Giddens» (Laura Linney / Cynthia Nixon) struggles to gain equal ground amongst men.
As ever, «Mr. Turner» balances out a refreshing sense of humor (here, mostly in the form of the bellowing Spall and his many variations on the grunt) with an affecting story of a deeply troubled soul; a man whose relationship with his father, his colleagues, and his different kinds of families all suffered due to his inability to fully express himself.
It is also a coming - of - age story as a young man separated from his family tries desperately to rejoin them, the obstacles he encounters are many (Florence K).
Set in the 1960s and 1970s, it tells the story of Jonah Kirk, growing up as part of a close family in a nameless city and dreaming of becoming a «piano man
In Revolutionary, Alex Myers draws from his own family history to tell the story of an ancestor who masqueraded as a man in order to fight alongside her fellow colonists for liberty.
In other paired stories, an Imperial policeman who is forced to leave the continent after rumors spread of his homosexuality reappears as a doorman in New York City who brings solace to a young betrayed woman; a young girl held hostage in a brothel plots a brutal revenge against the madam who keeps her, and then the madam reappears as a wizened midwife who delivers a baby to a Hindu woman forced to make a terrible choice about the child; a Muslim boy who escapes a train raided by a murderous mob reemerges as a grandfather who has moved to London to be with his family and whose granddaughter struggles to save her marriage after the death of their child; a young cartographer alters a small section of the Radcliffe Line with terrible consequences, and then his boss reappears as a senile old man who sets off in search of a prostitute he often hires.
«As I kept reading works by this famous man, who so valued suffering in silence, I began to see my family's pain as belonging in a story,» the teenager sayAs I kept reading works by this famous man, who so valued suffering in silence, I began to see my family's pain as belonging in a story,» the teenager sayas belonging in a story,» the teenager says.
Found on the doorstep of a Levite family as an infant, this is the story of Moses, a man of mysterious origins, engulfed by his inner conflict between humanity and the divine.
On the surface, a story by ABC 7's Karen Jordan on Wednesday, December 19 about a young man whose family has been through an unspeakable tragedy receiving a puppy as a gift from Petland seems to be intended as a feel - good piece.
And it's the main narrative that drives Mafia II, the story of Vito as he initially tries to repay family debts to becoming a made man is a fascinating story to behold.
Ezio is a man on a mission of revenge and as the story unfolds, many things are revealed to him about his family.
As the seventh full entry in the series, you'd think Tekken 7's story would have progressed further than a family spat between three generations of Mishima men, but here we are: Heihachi and Kazuya have pretty much decimated half the globe with their rival mega-corporations, and Jin is the walking equivalent of a WMD.
His solo exhibition «Fantasmagoria» features UK premieres for three new film works, «fantasmagoria» (2017) and «fishstory» (2017) are related works based on a family story about Sawa's grandfather, who suffered a stroke as a young man.
After becoming embroiled in a vengeful feud with a vicious motorcycle gang, protagonist Max Rockatansky's origin story unfolds as the once - family man transforms into a desolate «road warrior.»
The idea of returning home tells the various stories during the Apartheid struggle of men who had left their family homes in search of labor, migrating to the mines or cities, or even political exiles who had taken a pact to leave the shores of South Africa as a means to take up arms against a brutalist regime.
the theory of semiotics, text and image as political tools in the work of Jacob Riis, the FSA, «Have you Seen Their Faces», and «Let Us Now Praise Famous Men», captions and photographs in the picture magazine and weekly tabloid, Pat Ward Williams's handwritten retellings, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan's photo essay parody, Bill Owen, Gay Block, and Clarissa Sligh's stories of suburbia and family, photographs that counter the voice of authority, posters by the Guerrilla Girls, installations by Carrie Mae Weems and Glenn Ligon, instructional text in the work of Erwin Wurm, Gillian Wearing, Tony Oursler, and the spoken word, pictures of words, appropriation and photomontage, Adbusters, The Billboard Liberation Front and cultural jamming, and more...
Examples of healing processes might include women - specific and men - specific groups; story - telling circles; cultural activities; (150) understanding the impacts of issues such as racism, colonisation and identity on Indigenous well - being; the use of mentors and / or elders to provide support to individuals; and retreats or residential - style components where participants spend a period of time going through the healing process, usually on a spiritually significant site, away from their families and communities.
Below, Clinton reflects on Darren's story, the issues he has faced personally, and discusses the impact that family violence has on men, drawn from his experience as a psychologist.
Suggestions for family support included monthly coordinated meetings for carers, the involvement of fathers and men in discussions about FASD, the need for respite care and activities such as family camps, and carers sharing their expertise and knowledge through story telling.
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