Sentences with phrase «twentysomethings living»

Finding Berlin is the brainchild of Sara and Marcus, two twentysomethings living in Berlin.

Self - involved twentysomethings living off their parents dime in Williamsburg are easy targets for derision, and Charles Rogers and Sarah - Violet Bliss sharply aim their arrow at their bullseye throughout their debut feature Fort Tilden.

MSN has compiled this list of the 10 best cities for recent college grads by looking at factors like cost of rent, the job growth rate, unemployment, the number of twentysomethings living in the city and average salary for a recent grad.

As a middle - class twentysomething living in a city, I breathe cynicism like it's oxygen — so mocking both candidates for superficiality comes as a thoughtless response to me.

I fully expected to walk straight into a crazy - successful twentysomething life with accolades, salaries, bonuses, a big - old - fat - book - deal, and a plethora of people who wanted to learn my secrets to success, all by 23 years old.

It still focused on three resident doctors (now, like the show, in their third year)-- protagonist and regular narrator J.D. (Zach Braff), his cocky best friend Turk (Donald Faison), and the traditionally unassertive Elliot Reid (Sarah Chalke)-- who were gradually becoming surer of their career calling while dealing with ups and downs of twentysomething life on the side.

One of the sleeper hits of the fall - festival season has been Noah Baumbach's «Frances Ha,» which in a climate of serious award - season dramas has stood out as a lighter but still thoughtful look at twentysomething life.

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All those things are worthwhile and good goals, but looking around my church at the twentysomethings who are making a lot of big life decisions, rarely do I see an example of a young millennial who has gone the traditional route of a four - year college degree to find themselves in a cubicle on the 11th floor — or at least who are happy being there.

Most twentysomethings, especially those in the the Church, want to do something meaningful with their life — and they often think that translates directly into working in full - time ministry, dedicating their life to creating art or starting their own nonprofit.

With some of the stats mentioned above, no wonder so many twentysomethings feel like they're going through a quarter - life crisis.

By pairing practical ministries of coaching, career counseling, and mentoring along with the Truth of who Jesus is, regardless of the season of life in which we find ourselves, I believe that the local church can have a real impact on the largely unreached twentysomething population.

As a twentysomething pastor who lives in Silver Lake — a very creative, diverse, and subversive neighborhood in LA — I see the need for authenticity in the hearts of my neighbors, as well as in my own heart.

As a twentysomething pastor who lives in Silver Lake — a very creative, diverse, and...

Too many twentysomethings are struggling through a quarter - life crisis all alone.

-- Help Your Twentysomething Get a Life... by Ross Campbell M.D. — 1001 Things Every College Student Needs to Know by Harry H. Harrison Jr..

When we first meet Sophia, played by Britt Robertson, she's a broke twentysomething making a living flipping vintage thrift store finds on eBay (and dumpster - diving when ends fail to meet).

Starting with a timeless premise — young people are stupid — and spinning it into a broad, crass, and relentlessly amusing mid-summer surprise, «Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates» may not be the first Apatow - era comedy about twentysomethings coming to grips with the fact that they won't live forever (and it's certainly not the deepest, as it lingers in your memory for about as long as a Snapchat), but it might just be one of the funniest.

Twentysomething women, Jewesses if you will, still trying to figure out where they ought to be or what they are doing under the social labels of professionalism and personal life is compelling enough as a notion.

Most twentysomethings think they'll live forever, but the one - night stroll through Vienna of young Celine (Julie Delpy) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke) is marked by both the filmmaker's and the characters» constant awareness that their time, both here and on earth, is limited.

Loosely based on a graphic novel, the film spans a brief but tumultuous period in Adèle's life, from her last years of high school till some time later, when she is a twentysomething adult pursuing a career as a teacher.

I visualized an improv version of Darkon (a doc that covers fantasy live - action role - playing), filming twentysomethings huddled in theater basements playing Zip - Zap - Zop, the camera pointing out the absurdity of their lives.

Writer / co-director Andrew Matthews and his directing partner, Katie Graham, have an almost jock - like relentlessness in exposing the shortcomings of Eidson's Scott Weidemeyer, an overweight twentysomething who lives with his grandmother, works as a delivery boy for a combination donut / taco «palace,» and treats any perceived slight with the defensiveness of a drunk porcupine.

At face value KHNH does indeed have a fairly rote Hindi film set - up with three central players: Naina Catherine Kapur (Preity Zinta), a sullen twentysomething whose life and household has been in disarray since a devastating family tragedy; her best friend Rohit Patel (Saif Ali Khan), would - be slick ladies» man but all - around good guy; and Aman Mathur (Shahrukh Khan), Naina's freshly - arrived neighbor, whose upbeat and generous nature will come to affect the lives of all he encounters in his new community, not least of which Rohit and especially Naina.

Happy Christmas: A breakup sends twentysomething Jenny (Anna Kendrick) into a drinking spiral that bottoms out on the doorstep of her brother (Joe Swanberg), who lives a drama - free life as a film director with his writer wife, Kelly (Melanie Lynskey), and their 2 - year - old son.

Later in life, Thompson redeemed himself by teaming up with the small gaggle of fleet - footed twentysomethings who won the 2008 NPR Relay Race, a triumph he documents in a hard - hitting essay for the book This Is NPR: The First Forty Years (Chronicle).

Accordingly, his first three films feature twentysomethings marooned in their post-college years, realizing that converting their youthful potential into an actual career, a family life, or a long - term relationship may not be so easy after all.

While both have the same amount of depth and introspection on twentysomethings wandering aimlessly through their adulthood, Frances Ha is both less acidic and more empathetic toward the struggles of cutting off your ties from entitlement to make a truly honest living.

Thanks to all of that, plus the most memorable score of the year, it seems to indicate the birth of a major filmmaking talent, one not content to make something autobiographical about the love lives of twentysomethings for his debut, and that's something to be excited about.

Raimi's familiar ingredients are all present: the five early twentysomethings and the remote cabin; the infernal tome and demon's - eye rush through the forest; the Dutch - angle camerawork and dark humor; the priapic foliage and living burial; the shotgun and the chainsaw; the slicings, burnings, dismemberments, and other sundry castigations of the flesh.

Written, directed by and starring Lena Dunham, and costarring her real - life mother and sister, Tiny Furniture is a loose - limbed and pleasantly idiosyncratic independent film that takes an amusing look at romantic humiliation and twentysomething dawdling, when deep - seated ambivalence is so frequently mistaken for a lack of ambition or intelligence by adults who've forgotten the choppy waters of post-adolescence.

One of the cured is twentysomething Senan (Sam Keeley, «Megan Leavey»), who is sent to live with the only family he has left: his journalist sister - in - law, Abbie (Ellen Page), and her young son.

Yet another variation on the kind of bobos - adrift - in - L.A. narratives that have cluttered screens both big and small over the last several years, Duck Butter opens on Naima (Shawkat), a twentysomething working actress who lives in one of those improbably spacious SoCal - movie homes.

Nothing says «indie» more than a movie about the travails of twentysomethings, and at first blush, British writer - director Alex Barrett's feature debut, Life Just Is, would seem to fulfill all of the usual clichés.

We're introduced to Frances (Gerwig, brimming with her usual slightly dazed charm), a twentysomething woman sort of living in New York (though without an apartment to call her own) and sort of training to be a dancer (though she's not an official member of the dance company she works with).

But when a handsome, charming 24 - year old American doctoral student named Oliver (Armie Hammer) moves into the house as an intern for Elio's professor father (Michael Stuhlbarg), his fascination with the twentysomething man leads him to a personal discovery that will change his life forever.

SIFF held its opening night in Benaroya Hall (for the first time) with a typically SIFF opening night film: The Extra Man, with Paul Dano as twentysomething literature teacher Louis Ives, a shy young man mired in sexual confusion, a fantasy life born of F. Scott Fitzgerald novels and the eccentrics in his Manhattan apartment building, notably his roommate.

Both follow the misadventures of an educated, and privileged New York City twentysomething gal learning life's harsh lessons like holding a steady day job and not contracting STDs.

Hurt by their lack of faith in her, she pursues a literary career by stalking her favorite living poet, Rat Billings (John Cusack), and takes a job at an adult video store managed by a cute, affable twentysomething male (Evan Peters) with the words «love interest» practically tattooed to his forehead.

Life is Sweet begins as fuzzy family sitcom, with Jim Broadbent's Andy and Alison Steadman's Wendy coping with twentysomething twin daughters.

Some may cry foul, but the film's portrayals feel justified — the unspoken argument being that though they're being exposed to atrocious horrors most of us will never have to experience in life, these are still headstrong young twentysomethings who are as ill - equipped to process their trying encounters as anyone.

Taylor Kitsch (John Carter) and Aaron Taylor - Johnson (Kick - Ass) star as Chon and Ben, two young drug dealers whose life in the Californian sun is completed by Blake Lively's (The Town) free - wheeling O, a girl who's never too far away from a bikini and whose open relationship with the pot - growing surfer bros makes for the most curious of sun - kissed twentysomething existences.

Having come up through the American independent film movement of the early - mid» 00s commonly known as «mumblecore», Greta Gerwig began her career as an actor in a number of low budget films that would typically revolve around the complicated love lives of self - involved, twentysomething hipsters living in New York City.

I was living in Paris, alone by choice, a twentysomething year old, who had stepped out from a searing PR job in London before becoming a burnt - out statistic.

Cosmopolitan UK: 10 rules every twentysomething should break in her life — Tourlina mentioned at no. 4

I'm a twentysomething and I do creative stuff — I aspire for life to be like that and sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't.

The Uniform Project isn't merely a study in narcissism, however, even though it owes kinship to the fashion «diaries» of lithe twentysomethings vamping it up for the Web; it's also a year - long fundraiser for the Akanksha Foundation's School Project, which pays for uniforms and other educational expenses for children living in India's slums.

However, the recession seems to be having a noticeable impact on a growing number of twentysomethings exploring more innovative ways of making a living.

As twentysomethings, we sometimes feel like the job search is getting in the way of our lives.

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