Sentences with phrase «tell stories of his childhood»

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

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.

«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.

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.

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.

Award - winning author - illustrator Laura Vaccaro Seeger tells a story of childhood fears in her newest picture book, starring a young protagonist who looks life's scary things right in the eyes.

I wanted to tell the story of their childhoods like the detective novels they so loved.

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

«I got the idea of telling the story of my childhood, since this was my «brand image,» but in a new way, in a clownish way.»

Not exact matches

In one particularly compelling chapter, Gladwell tells the story of Jay Freireich, a son of Hungarian immigrants, who had a horrible, impoverished childhood.

In the coda, he speaks fondly of the joy he took in writing the book, and he reminisces about his childhood training by Methodist missionary parents, «which prepared [him] to tell the Christian Story from the inside.»

The CTS has done a competent job with Jim Gallagher's simple booklet telling the story of John Paul's life - the childhood marked by his mother's early death along with that of his brother; the deep, strong bond with his father; the grim years of the German occupation and his tough job in a stone quarry; the mysticism and prayer - life; the youth drama groups; the ordination in a Poland coming to grips with what was to be a decades - long imposition of Communism.

But as damaging and hurtful as my childhood was, these are still my stories that I tell with an odd, confusing sense of nostalgia.

Growing up, I never would have told you that I was abused but, as I recalled some childhood stories humorously to some friends as an adult, I've realized mid-story that I was telling a story of child abuse.

Remarkable stories are told of his childhood which remind one of some of the stories told of the child Jesus in the apocryphal gospels.

Oddie tells the story of the man from childhood to his life as a young adult, his marriage and emergence on to the public stage right through to the publication of Orthodoxy in 1908.

The four Gospels - Matthew, Mark, Luke and John - tell the story of Jesus» birth and early childhood then skip to his short, three - year ministry before detailing his death and resurrection.

The four Gospels — Matthew, Mark, Luke and John — tell the story of Jesus» birth and early childhood»... facepalm... Never actually read the Gospels have you?

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.

This brings back childhood memories of ownership messages written on eggs, but that's another story and not mine to tell.

Unlike the majority of football books of a similar ilk, Wilson actually has a story to tell, which takes the reader on journey from his childhood in Chesterfield to his playing days with Arsenal and beyond and his life a broadcaster and presenter.

In most courtrooms, the story of a defendant's terrible childhood — what types of abuse or neglect may have prompted him or her to commit crimes — is often told at the very end of the court process when a judge decides which sentence to impose.

But there were a few things that further told my story and as I thought deeper, I realized that many of my issues / symptoms were not only presenting in childhood, but also as a new mother.

Pull out old photo albums and share stories: I love reminiscing and telling John stories from my childhood or from growing up and I LOVE seeing pictures of him as a kid!

Director August once had a knack for telling stories of adolescent bonds, and he makes good use of one childhood flashback and a scene in which Bafana and Mandela blend into one person.

The story is about a young boy with medical problems named Shawn (David Henrie) being sent to his moms childhood house where she was told stories of small people who lived under the floor.

Synopsis: Crystal Moselle's documentary The Wolfpack tells the story of the Angulo brothers, siblings who spent their childhood never leaving their Lower East Side apartment.

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Telling the story in flashback we see David as he grows up and into a child prodigy while his father abuses him and his siblings with the memory of his childhood in Europe and the loss of his family in the concentration camps.

Flashbacks and dream sequences tell the story of Ray's childhood, her father, and the surprising way she coped with his actions.

Seth MacFarlane introduced footage from Ted, his film venture, that tells the story of a man (Mark Wahlberg) and his childhood gift, a Teddy bear, that comes to life.

The Florida Project tells a more innocent story about childhood that also manages to provide a great deal of insight into the hardships of adult life.

Presumedly, Disney World is in some way a backdrop to Baker's script, which he co-wrote with Chris Bergoch («Tangerine» and «Starlet») and tells the story of a precocious six year old and her rag - tag group of close friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility, and a sense of adventure, while their parents and the adults around them struggle with hard times.

The film tells the story of her life during her childhood and skiing career as well as her time running the game and her trial.

The long - awaited Inside Out is no different, telling a beautiful and insightful story about life's curveballs and letting go of childhood.

His story is told in a documentary titled, No Day But Today, which is broken into five - parts: Days of Inspiration (Jonathan Larson's formative years: childhood through college), Leap of Faith (Larson's move to New York City and the projects / experiences that led to the writing of Rent), Another Day (the creation of the musical Rent from conception to final dress rehearsal), Without You (an account of the show's amazing journey from success Off - Broadway to its current status as worldwide phenomenon, all in the wake of Jonathan Larson's untimely death), and Over the Moon (the making of the movie and a tribute to Jonathan Larson).

Writer - director John Maclean's Western fable has a shaky first hour, trying too hard to be quirky and precious while telling the story of a dangerously naive Scottish immigrant (played by Kodi Smit - McPhee) who goes searching for his childhood sweetheart on the frontier with the help of a good - hearted outlaw (Michael Fassbender).

Director Steven Spielberg and director J.J. Abram's nostalgic, monster - mash homage to their own movie - obsessed childhoods, «Super 8» tells the story of a gaggle of»70s kids who accidentally capture something much more unnerving — and deadly — on their Super 8 film than the homegrown zombie movie they've set out to shoot.

The film tells the story of a woman named Ronit (Weisz) who returns to the community that shunned her for her attraction to a childhood friend Esti (McAdams).

By far the greatest change is that it tells the fore - story that leads up to the main story, of Cinderella's happy childhood before the dark clouds descended, of the loving mother (Hayley Atwell) who died young and the kind father (Ben Chapin) who made the terrible mistake of remarrying wrongly before he, too, passed away, abandoning «Ella» (who had not yet received her sooty, mocking modifier) to the escalating cruelties of Tremaine and her daughters.

The Plot: In the live action / CG - animated comedy, he tells the story of John Bennett (Wahlberg), a grown man who must deal with the cherished teddy bear who came to life as the result of a childhood wish... and has refused to leave his side ever since.

Oscar - winning director Roger Ross Williams tells the remarkable story of an autistic young man, unable to speak for much of his childhood, who regained his ability to communicate through a life - long commitment to Disney animated movies.

The film's framing device, in which Clooney's Frank (whose childhood was defined by time spent in Tomorrowland) and Casey jointly tell the story, is mildly humorous but also shows signs of trouble.

More than a collection of the well - known childhood legends, Rise of the Guardians is an epic adventure that tells the story of a group of heroes - each with extraordinary abilities.

And given the sad and troubling details of Harding's life story, from a childhood scarred by abandonment and neglect and a steady diet of verbal abuse through a marriage filled with violence (which didn't stop even after the divorce), there's certainly a serious character study that could be told.

But The Squid and the Whale, Noah Baumbach's fourth film as writer - director, has inspired more conversation about the degree to which it does or does not tell the story of his own childhood — more specifically, the divorce of his parents, novelist Jonathan Baumbach and former VILLAGE VOICE film critic Georgia Brown — than about the self - reflexive canniness of the filmmaking itself.

The Florida Project by Hope Madden Full of the raucous rhythm of an unsupervised childhood, The Florida Project finds power in details and tells an unadorned but potent story.

To kill time, Yonatan tells his buddies stories about his childhood, stories that he has committed to paper in the form of cartoons.

Full of the raucous rhythm of an unsupervised childhood, The Florida Project finds power in details and tells an unadorned but potent story.