Sentences with phrase «tale about the immigrant»

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This is a tale with traditional points about the immigrant experience which still manages to come over as fresh, expertly - crafted and important.

WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW by Senator Rev. Rubén Díaz District 32 Bronx Another Tale of NYCHA Neglect You should know that while New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio talks about helping the Syrian immigrants who are innocent victims of -LSB-...]

Ronan talks about acting for the camera like she has done it for 50 years, affecting a California accent for Lady Bird, discovering the character as she was doing it, and getting emotional when we talked of the tender immigrant tale Brooklyn which brought her her second Oscar nomination just two years ago.

One of the most talked - about movies from this year's Sundance Film Festival was Brooklyn, the»50s - set tale of a young Irish immigrant who finds herself torn between her new life in America and the one she left behind.

(Va, Vis et Deviens) DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Ethiopian Immigrant Adjusts to Israel in Coming - of - Age Tale on DVD 9 year - old Schlomo (Sirak Sabahat) ended up in Israel in 1985 as part of Operation Moses, a humanitarian airlift of about 8,000 Ethiopian Jews fleeing religious persecution.

-LSB-...] 2) BROOKLYN — An absolutely poignant tale about an Irish immigrant girl who leaves her homeland, close family and friends, and sets out for America.

This is a stand - out film, an absolutely poignant tale about an Irish immigrant girl who leaves her homeland, close family, and friends and sets out for America in the 1950's where her future seems to beckon.

- La Razón «David Trueba has devised a complex tale about our present: about old age, about lost illusions, about illness, about what it's like to be an immigrant... There's no lasting bitterness in Learning to Lose.

While I was familiar with tales of the immigrants and tenements of New York City, I hadn't a clue about Mrs. Astor, Delmonico's and the House of Worth.

In it, Rich tells a timeless tale about a Jewish immigrant who is preserved for a hundred years in a large vat of pickle juice and then reanimated.

In her acutely observant and compassionate fourth novel, Straight casts Southern California as a microcosm of injustice in an involving, often sad, ultimately affirming tale about a young illegal Mexican immigrant, her gruff but loyal white husband, and their teenage daughter, who attempts to bridge the divide between conflicting legacies.