Sentences with phrase «through lives of»

The Unwinding journeys through the lives of several Americans, including Dean Price, the son of tobacco farmers, who becomes an evangelist for a new economy in the rural South; Tammy Thomas, a factory worker in the Rust Belt trying to survive the collapse of her city; Jeff Connaughton, a Washington insider oscillating between political idealism and the lure of organized money; and Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley billionaire who questions the Internet's significance and arrives at a radical vision of the future.

Spanning five decades, Commonwealth explores how this chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved.

The twentieth - century exodus of more than six million black Americans from the South is sensitively retold through the lives of three who left.

In this wonderfully warm, humorous, and moving novel, Patricia Gaffney paints a rich portrait of this delicate yet resilient bond through the lives of four charming.

Bonert's coming - of - age novel captures the reader because of its historical perspective, diverse characters, and narrative through the lives of immigrants.

A fascinating «you - are - there» look at World War II through the lives of Hitler, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin.

In a unique combination of innovative style and thorough scholarship, Warlords tells the story of World War II through the lives of the four great war leaders: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Franklin Roosevelt.

A fascinating «you - are - there» look at World War II through the lives of Hitler, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin, told on a day - by - day, even hour - by - hour basis, affording unparalleled insights into parallel actions.

Sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured, The Fortunes recasts American history through the lives of Chinese Americans and reimagines the multigenerational novel through the fractures of immigrant family experience.

History is told through the lives of two Peking opera stars, starting with the two characters meeting at an intense Peking opera training school as young children.

The story of Billy's life and death is revealed slowly, through the lives of the friends and families who knew him best.

Graver shows the reader a sheltered place ostensibly protected from current events - but ultimately buffeted by their effects - both directly and through the lives of the people who populate the Point year after year.

The author of Maps for Lost Lovers gives us a new novel — at once lyrical and blistering — about war in our time, told through the lives of five people who come together in post-9 / 11 Afghanistan.

A powerful, sensuously written novel that, through the lives of women, beautifully captures Africa's past and present, and the legacy that her daughters take with them wherever they live.

However, they could describe the emotions playing through the lives of families with critically and terminally ill children.

In Burning Bright, Pen / Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Serena, Ron Rash, captures the eerie beauty and stark violence of Appalachia through the lives of unforgettable characters.

A literary debut that's drawing praise from the likes of Marilynn Robinson, this book explores the black experience during the Great Migration and the decades that follow through the lives of a couple and their 12 children.

The universality of childhood experiences is shown through the lives of two cousins, one in the U.S. and one in Mexico.

Gardner, H. Creating minds: An anatomy of creativity seen through the lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhi.

Introduce your children to the world of growing plants through the lives of children in African countries.

Dawn is only in a small fraction of Solondz's typically chapter - ified story, which follows an actual dachshund through the lives of the kinds of marginal people Solondz often favors.

The other big question mark is how the members of the family are really related to one another, other than through their lives of petty crime.

At just a little less than 2 hours, Wolf Children spans nearly over a decade through the lives of these characters.

«Comanche Moon» is Larry McMurtry's fourth and (to date) final «Lonesome Dove» novel, but (chronologically speaking) it's the second story in the epic western tale of the changing face of Texas in the second half of 1800s, as experienced through the lives of best friends Gus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call.

Deeply affecting when it needs, the film's first two - thirds hold the viewer on for an emotional roller coaster through the lives of our characters.

Official Premise: Based on the beloved bestselling novel by W. Bruce Cameron, A Dog's Purpose, from director Lasse Hallström (The Cider House Rules, Dear John, The Hundred - Foot Journey), shares the soulful and surprising story of one devoted dog (voiced by Josh Gad) who finds the meaning of his own existence through the lives of the humans he teaches to laugh and love.

A satirical film, «Dear White People» takes audiences on a journey through the lives of four different - yet - similar college students as they try to discover who they are.

It digs deep into the aftermath of a horrific event and how it ripples through the lives of everyone but the perpetrator.

This created class» experience is seen through the lives of Kathy (Carey Mulligan and Isobel Meikle - Small), Tommy (Andrew Garfield and Charlie Rowe), and Ruth (Keira Knightley and Ella Purnell)-- deprived of even the identity of a full surname — as they move from an isolated boarding school in the English countryside to a boarding house where trips to town must be permitted and, ultimately, to their final fulfillment for the greater good.

Through the lives of several different characters, the film exhibits the loneliness of these middle - class Austrian citizens, often in a deranged sexual manner.

It was like a Fredrick Wiseman documentary for public TV, with ever - present cameras that would, ostensibly, get past the social pose and formal control and see what's under the surface of suburban America through the lives of the Loud family.

J.D. Salinger's life is being explored through the lives of two teenagers in «Coming Through the Rye.»

Hidden features no music whatsoever as we creep quietly through the lives of Georges, Anne and their son, and we stick so close to them that there are very few glimpses of the world around.

«Decoding Annie Parker,» starring Samantha Morton and Helen Hunt, traces the discovery of the breast cancer gene through the lives of two women — one who carries it, one who uncovers it.

Justin Simien's debut film — a big hit at this year's Sundance Film Festival — looks at the state of race relations on the campus of Winchester University through the lives of four black students.

This season is more concerned with continuing to make its way through the lives of the women who occupy Litchfield Prison, and, with a few misses here and there, is so lived - in in its narrative voice and settled in its «Backstory of the Week» format that you're quickly at peace and on board with the season's new direction and slightly more upbeat tone.

Based on the beloved bestselling novel by W. Bruce Cameron, A Dog's Purpose shares the soulful and surprising story of one devoted dog (voiced by Josh Gad) who finds the meaning of his own existence through the lives of the humans he teaches to laugh and love.

A devoted dog (voiced by Josh Gad) finds the meaning of his own existence through the lives of the humans he teaches to laugh and love.

08 September 2004 Subject: Siege of Beslan School and bomb blasts in Moscow echoed through lives of people all over the world.

The gallery is really diverse and interesting, and reading through the lives of people who have featured in paintings over the last 600 years is sure to provide a great talking point for you and your date.

The silent epidemic of sexual assault is the long term consequences of trauma and the ripple effect it has through the lives of survivors.

The final five chapters, from Eden to Cameron — 150 pages — are more of a polemic, moving very quickly through the lives of Thatcher and Major.

The former director of the Conservative Research Department and member of Thatcher's staff traces the story of the political party through the lives of its leaders, highlighting his heroes Disraeli, Salisbury and Thatcher.

And how — through the lives of historic labour figures like Bevan - we can rediscover our own identity; through the rediscovery of a sentiment around Labour.

In this community, with its scriptures, traditions and rituals, Christians find a further extension of the liberating mystery that came to light especially in Christ, and they are aware that a close relation to the community facilitates encounter with the incarnate God who is mediated through the lives of others.

Cantor recognizes this, and as he works his way through the lives of the great medievalists from the late nineteenth century through the present day, he is, like Plutarch, not afraid to distribute praise or blame to scholars and their works.

The real influence of the community of faith will not be through the power of the institution but through the lives of its members, and there will never be any easy way of evaluating this influence.

Unlike the students in the article, they no longer see themselves sailing through their lives of advancement with sunny confidence that they'll land the dream job.

Paul closes Ephesians 3 with another prayer that using the riches God has provided; God will do amazing and incredible things in the church through the lives of the believers who use these riches for God's glory.

Running through the lives of all the mediaeval mystics was this same great truth.