Sentences with phrase «tears by this story»

I was moved to tears by this story of human goodness and the courage to do what is right.

As the mother of a child with severe allergies to peanuts and tree nuts, as well as a food allergy blogger and advocate, I was moved to tears by the story of Katelyn Carlson's tragic death («7th - grader dies of food allergy at school; CPS investigating as some parents urge peanut ban,» News, Dec. 21).

We can be moved to tears by the story of an absolute stranger or even of a fictitious character.

I'm almost brought to tears by the stories she shares in this book.

I wasn't brought to tears by the story like I was in similar narrative - focused games, but I certainly felt great pangs of emotion during key moments.

sales rep John - Ross Parks spent nearly six days and nights on a downtown rooftop to raise funds for the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation after being moved to tears by the story of a young woman's untimely death.

Not exact matches

I'm also getting a lot of enjoyment listening to the breathless hyperbole by Nancy «Armageddon» Pelosi, Chuck «Fake Tears» Schumer and the gang denouncing the bill, plus the stories by their allies in the press about the «victims» of tax reform, neglecting to mention the «victims» at AT&T, Wells Fargo and all who are being given immediate raises as a result of the measure.

or perhaps, The Torn Veil by Gulshan Esther, her story.

Tolkien says it best: «It is the mark of a good fairy - story, of the higher or more complete kind, that however wild its events, however fantastic or terrible the adventures, it can give to child or man that hears it, when the «turn» comes, a catch of the breath, a beat and lifting of the heart, near to (or indeed accompanied by) tears, as keen as that given by any form of literary art... In such stories, when the sudden «turn» comes we get a piercing glimpse of joy, and heart's desire, that for a moment passes outside the frame, rends indeed the very web of story, and lets a gleam come through.»

My heart was so moved by this love story unfolding before my eyes that I had to turn my head and bury my face on Steve's chest so no one would see the tears streaming down my cheeks.

I stemmed the flood of tears and rose to my feet, believing that this could be nothing other than a divine command to open the book and read the first passage I chanced upon; for I had heard the story of how Antony had been instructed by a gospel text.

Here's a fuller synopsis of the play: The Jeweler's Shop is a meditation on marriage by the future pontiff, told with warmth and wit through the stories of three couples: a young couple torn by war, an older couple tempted by infidelity, and lastly the children of these two marriages who themselves are called to love.

They become apparent when Theo talks about his mother's «visitation» to him in dreams, when Hobie speaks affectionately of the Catholic Church and the Jesuit priest who protected him as a youth, when the otherwise cynical Boris admits to being moved to tears by Biblical stories, and again when Theo opens up to the higher purpose in life, despite all its difficulties and insanities, toward the end of the novel.

This story of extraordinary heroism by ordinary people of little means brought tears to my eyes.

And then there is the story of a young serf who accidentally hurts the paw of his master's dog and, as punishment, is stripped naked and torn to pieces by his master's wolfhounds.

If we refuse to listen to the stories of our brothers and sisters in this moment, refuse to acknowledge the ongoing reality of a country in which young men can not wear hoods on a chilly morning, we — people with and without privilege — will continue to be baffled by the next judicial verdict that will again tear open our country's tender racial wound.

We'll get back to our team - by - team offseason review series shortly, but since Mike was gone on vacation last week, he missed the story that tore Wizards fans apart as much as any morsel of news can in the dead of the offseason: John Wall's admission that he and Bradley Beal «have a tendency to dislike each other on the court.»

Sir: Having just returned from Turnberry, I read with a lump in my throat and a tear in my eye the story by Frank Deford.

The great growth of the Fellowship came in the»60s under the aegis of a controversial Texas salesman named James Jeffrey, who could reduce an audience to tears by sharing with it a soupy story about a young football substitute who has a blind father.

The latest revelation in the story has been made by Bellerin's good friend and ex-teammate Denis Suarez, who claims that the Gunners» star is torn over moving back to Barcelona.

The ladies over at Motherlode have kicked off their book club by reviewing a book called TORN: True Stories of Kids, Careers and the Conflict of Modern Motherhood which includes an essay by Dr. Karen Sibert.

For an amusing read that will leave you crying tears of laughter, pick up Have Baby, Will Date by Andrea Pasion, a story about a single mother and all the funny things we all go through as moms, from maternity clothes to breast pumps, and more!

Through Hand in Hand Parenting, I've heard so many stories from parents who have helped their baby's and children sleep better by listening to tears, play, connection, and giggles.

When Assemblyman Joseph Errigo recounted the story of a sex - trafficking victim who was burned to death by her pimp, he couldn't hold back the tears.

That being said, the Iron Lady would make an excellent double - bill with Brassed Off, the story of a mining community torn apart by Conservative policies.

ST. GEORGE — A plan to tear down St. George homes and replace them with a 68 unit, six story apartment building is being attacked by Staten Island's borough president.

By the time he finished his story, I was almost in tears because we had these cells and they had been frozen at that point for nine months.

Apparently, being pregnant also makes you a prime candidate for hearing everyone else's birth story, because by time my due date rolled around in September, I had heard about episiotomies, c - sections, epidurals gone wrong, tearing, vomiting and every other birth complication from family, friends, and random women in the grocery store and library.

Executive produced by Wim Wenders, Our Last Tango tells the life and love story of Argentina's most famous tango dancers Maria Nieves Rego and Juan Carlos Copes, who met as teenagers and danced together for nearly fifty years until a painful separation tore them apart.

Had there been fireworks between Ms. Weisz and Mr. Shannon, I might have been convinced this was a torn - apart love story along the lines of The Notebook (no one questions why Noah went on to build that huge house himself), but Mr. Shannon seems befuddled, and frankly, bored, by Ms. Weisz that rooting out her intensity for fleeing is both a difficult and an un-compelling task.

So, as a Taiwanese, I can identify with the Southerners as the Yankees change their way of life forever, but I also identify more strongly with those outsiders, who grasp at freedom, and fight for it... Our story is about the very heart of America, even as this heart was — and still so often is — torn apart by racial and other conflicts.

For whatever reason, Warner Brothers packaged Jammin'the Blues, one of the greatest short films ever made, alongside Michael Curtiz's feature length Passage to Marseille (1944), a thoroughly mediocre military melodrama so desperate to replicate the success of Curtiz's earlier masterpiece Casablanca (1942) that it reuses most of the principal cast and some of the same story beats about lovers torn apart by war and self - centered anti-heroes who come to learn the importance of self - sacrifice.

It's the story of a genius artist who is engulfed in a lifetime pool of blood and tears that gives her the foundation for her art to flourish, but here Frida is played by a proud actress ill prepared to get into such depths and who only sees Frida from the selfish standpoint of getting a juicy role.

But the execution is handled so well that the story never gets preachy and will likely bring many to tears by the end.

But in telling the story of unruly Max, who rough - houses with his dog, starts snowball fights with his big sister's friends that end with him in tears, and acts out when his mom's attention is diverted by a date, Jonze created perhaps the single best portrait of the contradictions of being a kid.

Picking up the story towards the middle of Turner's life, and after he has gained fame, fortune, and both critical and public acclaim, it delves into the contradictions of a man who is moved almost to tears by music, and who delights in publically belittling a fellow artist, whose personal life is a mix of distance and desire.

At its best, the picture is like Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye: a story of a world torn apart and reordered under the terms described by the animal logic of pissing contests.

ABOUT: Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle is the story of an unexpected encounter between the most famous video game character, Mario, and the irreverent and chaotic Rabbids as they join forces to restore the Mushroom Kingdom, which has been torn apart by a mysterious vortex.

This movie based on the true story of Barbara and Regina Leininger, who were torn from their family in 1755, by Allegheny warriors during the French - Indian War and the jostling for land rights as well as the tax disputes that sparked the dispute between the European settlers and the aboriginal peoples.

Shoplifters (review here) is the story of a family, both blood and cobbled together, who scrape by with multiple jobs and supplement their survival with minor thievery that threaten to tear their family apart.

The central story of his marriage to Ruth, played with a deft touch by Attack The Block's Jodie Whittaker, is such a tragedy of circumstance that it could get a tear out of a stone.

A story of grief and revenge, Kruger leads the line as a woman whose life is torn apart by the death of her husband and son in a race - fueled terror attack, and the pain she endures seeking justice against the Neo Nazis who perpetrated the heinous act.

Just like the earlier «Young Adult,» which also was directed by Jason Reitman, written by Diablo Cody and starred Charlize Theron, this a simple story with an intensity that could wring tears from you.

August Strange Says the Angel (2017, Shalimar Preuss) From Nine to Nine (2017, Neil Bahadur)-- 5.6 + The Battle of Algiers (1966, Gillo Pontecorvo)-- 8.8 [~ same] The Wedding Banquet (1993, Ang Lee)-- 6.1 Xiao Wu (1997, Jia Zhangke)-- 7.1 Sweetgrass (2009, Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing - Taylor)-- 7.3 As Tears Go By (1988, Wong Kar - wai)-- 6.9 Meshes of the Afternoon (1943, Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid) Leviathan (2012, Lucien Castaing - Taylor & Véréna Paravel)-- 7.2 By the Dike Sluice (1962, Peter Nestler) Manakamana (2013, Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez)-- 7.9 Essays (1963, Peter Nestler) Remember My Name (1978, Alan Rudolph) 35 mm — 6.8 Rio Bravo (1959, Howard Hawks) 35 mm — 8.9 Ajantrik (1958, Ritwik Ghatak) 35 mm — 5.8 The Tall Target (1951, Anthony Mann) 35 mm — 7.1 + L'Avventura (1960, Michelangelo Antonioni) 35 mm — 7.2 [down from ~ 7.5] The Green Ray (1986, Eric Rohmer) 35 mm — 7.8 Poem of an Inland Sea (1958, Yuliya Solntseva) 35 mm — 6.3 The Story of the Flaming Years (1961, Yuliya Solntseva) 70 mm — 6.5 The Enchanted Desna (1964, Yuliya Solntseva) 70 mm — 7.0 Good Time (2017, Josh & Benny Safdie) DP — 7.3 Garrincha: Hero of the Jungle (1962, Joaquim Pedro de Andrade) 35 mm — 5.9 The Opening of Misty Beethoven (1976, Radley Metzger) 35 mm — 6.3 + Nocturama (2016, Bertrand Bonello) DP — 7.0 [same] Jackass: The Movie (2002, Jeff Tremaine)-- 6.9

Sarah's Key (PG - 13 for mature themes and disturbing images) Holocaust drama, set in present - day Paris, about an investigative journalist's (Kristin Scott Thomas) research the story of how the family of a 10 year - old girl (Melusine Mayance) was torn asunder by the roundup of Jews in occupied France during World War II.

At the heart of it, the single - player campaign tells a tragic story of one man's life torn apart by the death of his girlfriend and his fight against the darkness inside of him (quite literally!).

Telling the story of a family in 1630's New England whose lives are torn apart by the forces of witchcraft and black magic.

Adapted for the screen by acclaimed horror writer Clive Barker (Hellraiser, Nightbreed) from his short story of the same name, Rawhead Rex sees a hulking, ancient demon tearing a bloody swathe across the Irish countryside.

Love, Simon, directed by super producer Greg Berlanti and written by Elizabeth Berger and Isaac Aptaker, combines romance with a coming out story that is both clever, heartfelt, and filled with good friendships and effective story beats that will bring joy to your heart and tears to your eyes.

, directed by super producer Greg Berlanti and written by Elizabeth Berger and Isaac Aptaker, combines romance with a coming out story that is both clever, heartfelt, and filled with good friendships and effective story beats that will bring joy to your heart and tears to your eyes.