Sentences with phrase «wealthy families whose»

It's a great way to start honing in on wealthy families whose gentlemen may be milling around.

Her employer is Ashwin (Vivek Gomber), a journalist from a wealthy family whose marriage was called off at the 11th hour.

The best of the Cannes films engaging with those topics is Michael Haneke's Happy End, a chilling tale of a wealthy family whose blindness to their privilege — and to the immigrants in their hometown of Calais, where one of Europe's biggest migrant crises has been going on for years — has turned them into monsters.

Directed by Roar Uthaug (The Wave), Tomb Raider stars Oscar winner Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft, a young woman from a wealthy family whose father disappeared several years ago.

Not exact matches

Looking over three centuries of Greek experience, Aristotle found a perpetual triangular sequence of democracy turning into oligarchy, whose members made themselves into a hereditary aristocracy — and then some families sought to take the demos into their own camp by sponsoring democracy, which in turn led to wealthy families replacing it with an oligarchy, and so on.

«How can the residents of our communities trust an individual who claims he is working for them when he is, in fact, taking money from Republicans whose main focus is protecting the wealthy on the backs of New York's struggling working families?

Wealthy people like to settle down with a person whose not as rich as they are because this lets them have time for looking after the family as well.

You'll discover a whole new version of the old fairytale in this Hallmark made - for - TV movie where the tall tale comes to life after an enormous skeleton is unearthed at the family estate of a wealthy businessman whose first name is Jack — of course!

Carell hooks up with New York native Bennett Miller (whose directorial CV includes 2005's Capote and 2011's Moneyball) along with the incredibly versatile Mark Ruffalo and an ever - more watchable Channing Tatum on the set of the inauspicious Liseter Hall Farm — some 200 acres of land acquired and later expanded upon by the wealthy Du Pont family, a prominent American clan built primarily upon the manufacturing of gunpowder.

Lila (Anna Paquin), the bride, comes from a wealthy WASP family on whose Long Island estate the wedding will be held.

So she sets her sights on a new substitute teacher, Scott Delacorte (Justin Timberlake), whose family got wealthy making watches.

In Joe Wright's splendid - looking adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel, Saoirse Ronan plays Briony Tallis, a 13 - year - old girl from a wealthy pre-war English family whose misinterpretation of an incident involving her elder sister and the housekeeper's son leads to an enduring tragedy.

Elon University decided it had a responsibility to help more local students whose families had no history of college attendance — and less hope of gaining acceptance and financial aid than wealthier students — pursue college.

- Helen Simonson, author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand «With a deft, sure touch, Ann Leary moves easily and confidently between comedy and pathos, painting a rich portrait of a wealthy, eccentric Connecticut family whose conflicts and loyalties are far more complex than they first appear.

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.

It's the story of Adam Raine whose life is repeatedly transformed by fate, first when his mother dies in an accident and his father moves him to a mining town in Northern England, and later when he is adopted by a wealthy family after his father's death.

Stockett is close with Susan Rebecca White — my wife, it so happens — whose first novel, Bound South, echoing The Help, gave voice to the housekeeper of a wealthy family.

Told from altering points of view through time, If I Forget You tells the story of Henry Gold, a poet whose rise from poverty embodies the American dream, and Margot Fuller, the daughter of a prominent, wealthy family, and their unlikely, star - crossed love affair, complete with the secrets they carry when they find each other for the second time.

In Lucius, you play as the titular antichrist: a little boy from a wealthy family named Lucius Wagner, whose jet black hair, sunken eyes, and generally unnerving quietness would make even the most clueless of parents have to say: «That boy ain't right.»

At the start of the second world war, Guggenheim, a member of one of New York's wealthiest families, whose sheltered childhood had been emotionally shattered when her father died on the Titanic, went on a spending spree, buying modern art from artists who were desperately planning their escapes from the Nazis.

I fear until global warming filters down to hit us personally or «inconveniently» on an experiential level, meaning something devastating and unimaginable like our children or family members die or are unrecognizably impaired, (of course I'm referring to the wealthier countries whose children aren't dying or suffering from our hubris immediately anyway), only then will we see an environmental revolution that produces less discussion and more visceral healing «action».