Sentences with phrase «troubled upbringing»

Dale's fourth solo show in London will see the artist unleash some of his personal demons, which are expressed in the metaphoric form of his violent father and the troubled upbringing Dale and his family experienced throughout his childhood.

We see her troubled upbringing, the physical abuse she suffered and what transpired during her time as a competing figure skater.

Putting a fresh twist on familiar genre concepts, this coming - of - age thriller follows Anna (Bel Powley), an orphaned teenager who escapes her troubled upbringing at the hands of an abusive caretaker (Brad Dourif) who cements her fear of a child - eating monster known as the Wildling.

Lewis plays her character as a somewhat vapid and squeaky shell of a woman, but instead of settling for cheap laughs, her Karen feels wretchedly wrecked, another victim of her surely troubled upbringing now saddled with a distorted concept of love.

We're all amateur psychologists now, so we appreciate that the bandit is a product of a troubled upbringing; the cowboy's trigger - happy tendencies might result from a previous tragedy where he couldn't save his pard» ner.

Not exact matches

The movie follows the group of school friends from their peculiar upbringing to their troubled adulthood blighted by an unrequited love affair and the prospect of an early death as involuntary organ donors.

At first, Thelma seems like a normal university freshman coming from a sheltered upbringing into the big city — her parents call her too often, she has trouble making friends, and she's questioning everything about her upbringing — but when she begins to have seizures that seem tied to extraordinary events, things get weird.

These include: • Trust issues • Infidelity • Hurt feelings • Triggering old wounds • Power struggles • Differences in upbringing • Conflict over child rearing • Communication problems • Blaming each other • Nitpicking • Insecurity and neediness • Competition between partners • Keeping secrets • Financial difficulties • Trouble with in - laws, friends and family • Keeping romance alive • Sexual dysfunction • Neglect and disconnection • Emotional or physical abuse • Feeling disrespected or taken for granted