Sentences with phrase «terrible stories of families»

Everyone has heard terrible stories of families being left with thousands of dollars in debt after their loved ones passed away.

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Director Amat Escalante uses artful long takes, nonprofessional actors, and moments of abject miserableness — in one terrible - to - watch scene, a character has his genitals lit on fire — to sketch the story of a decent Mexican family churned up by their country's corrupt police force.

I realize I am probably a terrible human being for not liking this formulaic, feel - good family tale, based on the true story of unlikely British ski jumper Michael «Eddie» Edwards.

In Motherland, Maria Hummel, author of several novels and a former Stegner Fellow in poetry, enters relatively unfamiliar literary territory to tell the story of one so - called Mitläufer family: German citizens who would never have personally countenanced the terrible abuses that Jews suffered, but nonetheless went along with the Nazi regime.

She skillfully manages multiple points of view to tell the story, among them Claire Burwell, jury member and widow of a wealthy investment banker killed on 9/11; Sean Gallagher, the brother of a firefighter victim, who becomes an angry spokesman for survivor families; and Asma Anwar, a Bangladeshi immigrant, widowed herself on that terrible day, whose dignified appearance at a climactic public hearing provides the story's moral anchor.

The author writes in beautiful, descriptive language and, at the same time, keeps socking the reader between the eyes with the revelations that unfold in this terrible story of a brutal family murder in an outback country town - a town that seeps with anger, bitterness, violence, oppressive heat and blow - flies.

In other paired stories, an Imperial policeman who is forced to leave the continent after rumors spread of his homosexuality reappears as a doorman in New York City who brings solace to a young betrayed woman; a young girl held hostage in a brothel plots a brutal revenge against the madam who keeps her, and then the madam reappears as a wizened midwife who delivers a baby to a Hindu woman forced to make a terrible choice about the child; a Muslim boy who escapes a train raided by a murderous mob reemerges as a grandfather who has moved to London to be with his family and whose granddaughter struggles to save her marriage after the death of their child; a young cartographer alters a small section of the Radcliffe Line with terrible consequences, and then his boss reappears as a senile old man who sets off in search of a prostitute he often hires.

Alternating between the past and present, Meredith and Nina will finally hear the singular, harrowing story of their mother's life, and what they learn is a secret so terrible and terrifying that it will shake the very foundation of their family and change who they believe they are.

In this coming - of - age story, Ling narrates the terrible changes suffered by her family and neighborhood during the Cultural Revolution in China.

That rare coming - of - age story able to blend the dark with the uplifting, Irma Voth follows a young Mennonite woman, vulnerable yet wise beyond her years, who carries a terrible family secret with her on a remarkable journey to survival and redemption.

There were finally, the two peasant boys whose story is related in Gunther Weisenborn's Der lautlose Aufstand (1953), who were drafted into the S.S. at the end of the war and refused to sign; they were sentenced to death, and on the day of their execution they wrote in their last letter to their families: «We two would rather die than burden our conscience with such terrible things.

In his decision, Muir accepted Schuller's version of the events had a «ring of truth about it» and was critical of Parlee's changing story as well as his attempts to portray Schuller and her family as «terrible tenants.»