Sentences with phrase «streets as a young girl»

He never forgot his initial poverty — The Little Match Girl was inspired by how his mother was forced to go begging in the streets as a young girl.

Skeletal dogs roamed the streets as a young girl, who could barely speak or see, tried to sell me tissues for a mere Egyptian pound.

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«The young girl, who is a street hawker, told us that some of the men took advantage of her while selling porridge popularly known as «Kunu», by giving her extra money and others by making unfulfilled promises,» he said.

In the ad, fans stop the nanoscience pioneer in the street to take selfies, a young girl receives a Dresselhaus doll as a birthday gift and a student sends a Millie emoji after acing a physics exam.

Marion Cotillard portrays Piaf, the superstar once raised as a young girl by her grandmother in a Normandy bordello, then discovered on a French street corner — as a complete unknown — by cabaret proprietor Louis Leplée (Gérard Depardieu).

The film segues breezily between various episodes from Piaf's life — such as her lover, French boxer Marcel Cerdan's (Jean - Pierre Martins) championship bout in mid -»40s New York; her period in Hollywood during the»50s; Piaf's abandonment as a young girl by her contortionist father (and earlier by her mother, a street singer); her brushes with the law as an adult; and her 1951 car accident and subsequent morphine addiction that caused her to age well beyond her years and left her barely mobile; and, through it all, her ability (like Billie Holiday) to funnel personal tragedy and emotional struggles into her vocalizations — dazzling audiences in the process.

An uncommonly tedious effort, House at the End of the Street follows Jennifer Lawrence's Elissa as she and her mother (Elisabeth Shue's Sarah) move to a small town where a young girl murdered her parents years earlier - with the film eventually detailing the mystery surrounding said young girl's only surviving relative (Max Thieriot's Ryan).

Jennifer Jason Leigh gives an incredible performance as Stacy, the young girl learning about sex the hard way, Brian Backer nails his role as Mark «Rat» Ratner, the nerdy kid who falls for Stacy, and Robert Romanus brings life to Mike Damone, the street - smart ticket scalper who doles out much - needed dating advice to poor Rat.

As a young girl, Boucher was placed in a foster home, then later lived on the streets of San Francisco.

To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, which killed four young girls, the Chicago - based artist photographed black children in Alabama, who are the same age as the victims were.

Dubbed an «art world it girl» last week by the Wall Street Journal and adopted as a style icon in Vogue, Elle, and Vanity Fair, Camille Henrot blazed into view at the 2013 Venice Biennale, when she won the Silver Lion for a promising young artist for her video Grosse Fatigue, an utterly fresh tour de force that melded images of tribal objects, incantatory voice - over retellings of creation myths, and the cut - and - paste visuality of the Internet era.

One street photo, captioned the «Last Hug» by Douma Revolution -LRB--RRB- showed a young girl in bright red, affectionately holding on to her older brother as they both died.

Sadly, the accident happened right in front of the girl's older sister and mother, as the mother was waiting across the street for the young girls.