Sentences with phrase «tidy bows»

It's often suggested that happy endings are simply pandering: tidy bows we put on narratives for reassurance.

In Philadelphia, soft pretzels are the shape of a fat figure 8 smushed in at the sides; in the rest of the country, they're shaped like tidy bows.

I find comfort that in Scripture, we don't see the typical Christian - bookstore version of redemption and justice with tidy bows and fairy tale endings.

Bridges upped his production, fashioning tidy bow ties from his grandmother's vintage fabrics in an array of floral and African prints, and even scraps of old taffeta dresses.

The assortment of lace dresses and hair accessories were complimented by soft bridal looks, tying up the boho chic vibe with a perfectly tidy bow.

Hollywood films give you zilch to believe in, tying up their narratives with a tidy bow so you won't leave confused and angry.

Memento is highly recommended for anyone who likes to be thrown for a loop while watching a mystery and not have everything wrapped up in a tidy bow by the end of the film, a la Jacob's Lader and its brethren.

But allow me to put a tidy bow on the year here and keep forging ahead...

In «I, Tonya,» Allison Janney plays a tough - as - nails woman whose love for her daughter (Margot Robbie's Tonya Harding) can't be tied up in a tidy bow.

Though the story's happy ending is predictable, not all is wrapped in a tidy bow.

I don't know that we can really wrap that up in a tidy bow, but I suppose one thing to say is if you are a lawyer, you should spend the day in housing court or on a regular civil calendar call.

You're excited and nervous all wrapped up with a tidy bow.

Not exact matches

The pro-child care people had better take up a collection and hire some savvy lobbyists if they want to have their message packaged in such a tidy, woman - friendly bow.

«Whatever love is, it's not something we're going to be able to put in a little box with a bow on it and give it a tidy definition, and any attempt to do that would misrepresent the phenomenon, which is messy,» she says.

Fitting that a film about a play with a problematic ending would itself fix all of its characters» follies and foibles in the end and wrap it up in one tidy, crowd - pleasing bow.

A simple film, a dumb film, a useless film is one that wraps everything up in a tidy little bow with a neat little moral at the end.