Sentences with phrase «story of one's childhood»

I learned to listen long enough to let him speak, and I listened long enough to hear stories of his childhood and see him gain strength from those memories.

Finally, Bourgeois had a gripping back story of childhood trauma that you weren't allowed to forget.

Lynch tells the very complete and unabridged story of her childhood in the housing projects of South Boston and her rise as a top chef in the city, capturing some of the most delightful and truly terrible things that can happen in life.

Many tell stories of his childhood and what it was like growing up in East Africa.

With stories of childhood obesity never far from the headlines, it's easy to believe that each generation of children is lazier than the last.

Details of Newport mansions, Worth gowns and a transatlantic ocean voyage infuse this gently sensual and sparkling story of childhood friends becoming so much more.

Critics Consensus: Machuca is a touchingly bittersweet story of childhood friendship and a demonstration of how the political affects the personal.

Inspiring without sinking into sentimentality or cliche, Hearts of Atlantis is intelligent, heartfelt and genuine, a rare story of childhood for adults.

Critic Consensus: Machuca is a touchingly bittersweet story of childhood friendship and a demonstration of how the political affects the personal.

Intelligent, heartfelt and genuine, this is a rare story of childhood for adults.

For a decade author JT LeRoy captivated the literary world with his sordid stories of his childhood.

European and Israeli publishers, too, have offered more dramatic testimony of the world's Anne Franks» for me, for example, Inge Deutschkron's Ich trug den Gelben Stern («I Wore the Yellow Star») will always be the most memorable story of childhood underground in Berlin.

I really loved Emma's story of childhood bread and chocolate by the sea — that has to be the best setting for breakfast.

How Ancient Wisdom Teachings Unmask Modern Uber Parent Mythology And Point The Way To A New Story Of Childhood, Parenthood And The Human Family.

In this book, you will read stories of childhood friendship, relationships between sisters, mothers, and daughters, grown - up friendships — both real life and online — friendships during motherhood, and stories of friendship break - ups and losses.

Following on from the first trailer [which you can see here], the BBC has released an extended clip from its upcoming adaptation of Roald Dahl's Esio Trot, which sees Dustin Hoffman's Mr Hoppy and Judi Dench's Mrs Silver sharing stories of their childhood memories.

British writer - director John Boorman has been making films since the 1960s, and has said that Queen and Country — a sequel to his autobiographical World War II - era story of childhood, Hope and Glory (1987)-- which opened on Friday, will be his last.

Shreve's memoir is both a fascinating historical record of that time and an intensely felt story of childhood.

A close - knit family and a visionary father are at the heart of Thornton's inspiring story of her childhood and the father who cajoled, encouraged, and bullied his five daughters into escaping poverty.

While never losing the insistent beat of the dance, Doña Carlota mesmerizes her students with the complexly embroidered story of her childhood growing up among the cave - dwelling Gypsies of Andalusia.

This could be attributed to the fact that, for many people, the series represents the seminal stories of their childhood in the same way that The Lord of The Rings was for the children of the 1960 «s. I played Final Fantasy VII when I was ten, Final Fantasy VIII when I was twelve, Final Fantasy IX when I was thirteen, and Final Fantasy X when I was fourteen.

The spectacular German artist Jonathan Meese here tells the incredible story of his childhood, how he invented his own language as a teenager, and how he discovered his artistic talent on his 22nd birthday.

Before sensationally revealing the traumatic story of her childhood in her project Child Abuse in Artforum in 1982, few if anyone knew the secret of Louise Bourgeois» father's affair with their teenage English governess.

Two years before her death in 2010, at the age of 98, the film talks about the artist's extraordinary oeuvre and the intriguing story of her childhood, which influenced much of her artwork.

In 1983 — 84 she created La Grande Vallée, a suite of 21 paintings inspired by her sister's death and by a friend's story of a childhood paradise.

In Between Two Worlds, she weaves the findings of that study together with powerful, unsentimental stories of the childhoods of young people from divorced families.

He regaled me with stories of his childhood that I had never heard before, moments from my own childhood that I had...

We sipped the tea, and my grandmother would share stories of her childhood with me.

They tell the story of my childhood faith, my life as a young Christian apologist in Dayton, Tennessee (home of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925), and those first few questions about Christianity that slowly unraveled everything I thought I believed.

What works on the show is that the stories of the main characters and the stories of their childhood happen simultaneously.

Had she herself lived longer she might have added a corollary: the writer who survives middle age will invariably want to tell the story of that childhood directly, in autobiography.

The stories of his childhood appeal to the maternal instinct and in many villages women worship the divine child.

The president of Compassion International tells his story of childhood abuse and deliverance in a West Africa boarding school.

At a turning point in my life in 2007, I realized that I needed to allow God to redeem the story of my childhood.

She often recounts the stories of her childhood.

The result is a movie that blurs the lines between fact and fiction, documentary and feature film, telling the story of childhood elation and adult struggle, in a motel where this happens every day and featuring dozens of extras who live within miles of the set.

For good measure, Freud destroyed the story of childhood innocence, tried to prove that Moses was not a Jew, and argued that our belief in deities was a childish and neurotic illusion.

«I used the name of a child in an afterschool program I used to volunteer in,» one mom tells us, and another says, «An elderly coworker used to tell me stories of her childhood friend.

Marjane Satrapi's graphic memoirs, «Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood» and «Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return» — released, respectively, in 2003 and 2004 — fit that description.

It is, in the best Disney tradition, a story of childhood's end, of leaving the family and accepting adult responsibilities.

IRAN»S PAINFUL HISTORY THROUGH THE EARS & EYES OF A TEENAGER IN PERSEPOLIS Persepolis is a coming - of - age biopic based on a four - volume graphic book (subtitled The Story of a Childhood) that is portrayed on the screen through animation.

First - time director Maya Forbes tells the story of her childhood with a manic - depressive father, casting her own daughter, Imogene Wolodarsky, as her on - screen proxy.

The stories of his childhood were written by his father AA Milne, and went on to bring the family fame and fortune.

At once a story of childhood and discovery, this film achieves universal appeal though its caustic wit, deft editing, and commitment to thematic elements.

Starring Wes Bentley, Brit Marling, Diane Kruger and Jason Clarke, and directed by Malick protégé and collaborator A.J. Edwards, this one will tell the story of the childhood years of Abraham Lincoln.

On hand are some seriously funny people (Hader, Clement) and the always - welcomed presence of Oscar - winner Rylance to help deliver the story of childhood outcasts and strange friendships that helped cement Spielberg's reputation back in the Amblin days of the»80s.

Like its obvious antecedents (François Truffaut's Small Change or Louis Malle's Zazie dans le Métro), Moonrise Kingdom is a story of childhood viewed from a wizened vantage point.

Nidali narrates the story of her childhood in Kuwait, her teenage years in Egypt, and her family's last flight to Texas, offering a humorous, sharp but loving portrait of an eccentric middle - class family.

Nidali, the rebellious daughter of an Egyptian - Greek mother and a Palestinian father, narrates the story of her childhood in Kuwait, her teenage years in Egypt (to where she and her family fled the 1990 Iraqi invasion), and her family's last flight to Texas.