However, once you buy into the film's arch literary tone and heightened theatricality, there's much to enjoy, not least a magnetic performance from Mathieu Amalric as the family's ne'er - do -
well elder son.
Not exact matches
First and foremost, though, the
elder Kushner has tried his
best to make sure his
son avoids looking like he is profiting from his time in the White House.
He ended, «I am sure your
sons will look back upon Yale as a
better place to have lived and learned because of the controversies, including the draft resistance controversy, which so tax the patience of so many of their
elders, including their president.»
Here's a Bible teaching that is not
good for children, especially
sons, nor for their parents, is found at Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 which commands, «If a man have a stubborn and rebellious
son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the
elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; And they shall say unto the
elders of his city, This our
son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
The
elder son, however, refused to go to the party and complained that although he had worked hard all his life for his father, he had never been given a party, so the father went out to plead with him as
well.
So Jehu wrote letters, and sent them to Samaria, to the rulers of the city, to the
elders, and to the guardians of the
sons of Ahab, saying, 2 «Now then, as soon as this letter comes to you, seeing your master's
sons are with you, and there are with you chariots and horses, fortified cities also, and weapons, 3 select the
best and fittest of your master's
sons and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.»
Came a day when the
good king decided to abdicate the throne and place his
eldest son upon it.
The
elder, a
son named Francisco («Frankie»), was already
well into his teens and didn't want to leave the only country he had ever known.
One Bible teaching that is not
good for children, especially
sons, nor for their parents, is found at Deuteronomy 21:18 - 21 which commands, «If a man have a stubborn and rebellious
son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the
elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; And they shall say unto the
elders of his city, This our
son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.
Polycarp of Smyrna, who was born in or before A.D. 69, had heard John the disciple of the Lord speak in his youth, and it may
well be that this
elder John, who is perhaps the author of the Apocalypse was later confused with the
son of Zebedee.
I have a case study that we often provide to churches in which a pastor is informed one night by a congregation member that his
son has just disclosed being sexually abused by the interim youth volunteer, who happens to be a
well - known, respected
elder in the church.
While fragrant chicken curry is one of my
elder son's favorites, he's not
good with anything remotely spicy.
at
best, i can cut it up into little itsy bitsy pieces and stir it into some rice and my
eldest son with eat it.
One word of caution for families with young children — the little stream that runs round the back of the pool area is not particularly
well cordoned off — it just has a single strand of rope — and it looks positively filled with algae which can be quite dangerous and on one occasion a family we were talking to at the baby pool — their
eldest son slipped and fell in luckily he was o.k but we learnt, after the hotel staff looked overly concerned, that there are snakes in the stream (apparently they are harmless water snakes and no - one has seen them venture around the poolside!)
Once he got a little bit older to figure out how could I continue to breastfeed a very busy male child when I had another child so again baby wearing definitely helped in those situations and now that I have my third child and I'm home schooling and everything the support of my
sons father he is super supportive, he is like «ok
well while you are nursing I will talk to the children for a minute» or you know, I'll tie him on and he will nurse while I'm teaching my
elder two children so the more children I have the more complicated it becomes.
Nana Konadu, is the Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Party (NDP), her
son, has joined his father, who is the founder of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), as
well as his
eldest sister; Zenator Rawlings, who is vying for the Klottey Korle Parliamentary seat on the ticket of the NDC.
The
son of former Foreign Secretary Lord Hurd and MP for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner - who is minister for civil society in the Coalition Government - is today marrying Lady Clare Kerr, the
elder daughter of the Marquess of Lothian -
better known as former Conservative Party chairman, Michael Ancram.
Percoco also personally assured the
elder Aiello that his
son was in
good hands, according to a Nov. 6, 2014, email shown to jurors.
Siegel the
elder believes he started paving the way for his
son's research
well before he embarked on his industry career.
C.R.: As soon as my
elder son was born, I just thought, «I'm going to do the very
best as I can and I'm going to stay at home until he's at school.»
I thought I was very
good at hiding my illness, but my
eldest son (who was 6 years old at the time) started to notice and would worry when I was sick.
I can't criticise the performances either - Brad Pitt delivers his
best performance in years playing a father of three who favours tough love, and newcomer Hunter McCracken is simply spellbinding as Jack, the
eldest son (played by Sean Penn when grown up).
At the same time, as Lincoln is cajoling Mary into allowing her
eldest son Robert (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) to follow his own path into the military or reminding Robert himself of his father's influence — such that the
son ends up assisting Ulysses S. Grant (Jared Harris) and not on a frontline — you see as
well the sometimes unsettling intimacy with which he wangles his authority.
Real Name: Emilio Estevez Image: 80s film star turned up - and - coming director Birth Date: May 12, 1962
Best Known For: Being part of the Brat Pack Early Life: Born in New York, Emilio is the
eldest son of actor and activist Martin Sheen.
The unusually
well - defined cast of characters includes a family of thieves living in the mountains in southwest France — a widower and grandfather named Victor (Ivan Desny), his
eldest son Ivan (Didier Bezace), Ivan's wife Mireille (Fabienne Babe), and Ivan and Mireille's
son Justin (Julien Riviere)-- as
well as Ivan's kid brother Alex (Auteuil), who has rebelled against his family by becoming a cop in a Lyons suburb.
It also offers moving comment on Lincoln's relations with his strong but nervous wife, Mary (Sally Field, below), and his
sons (the
eldest played by Joseph Gordon - Levitt), as
well as throwing us into the heart of the frenzied horse trading and high - stakes talk of this critical moment in American history.
Beyond the two leads, Skyler Gisondo (Psych) is
better measured than Stebbins, playing the
elder Griswold
son, James, with a funny touch of weird awkward guy timing that creates some off - beat but welcome laughs.
Abigail Harris (Williams), a
well - bred society girl and former water polo champion, had married Gerry's third
eldest son, John Paul Getty Jr, in 1964.
The other half of the movie involves Cecil's home life, which is reduced to his wife Gloria (Oprah Winfrey) turning from a life of heavy drinking and carrying on an affair with a neighbor (Terrence Howard) to becoming a
better person, and a contrived series of subplots involving his
eldest son Louis (David Oyelowo), who sees his father as weak and wants to fight the
good fight for equality.
No one is a
better example of this than the Jacksons»
eldest son, Ronsell, who departs to fight for his country in World War II and returns to find that it doesn't matter what he did as long as the color of his skin hasn't changed.
Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor both deliver some of the
best work of their careers as the two parents stuck in a difficult situation, while newcomer Tom Holland announces himself to the world with a star - making turn as the couple's
eldest son.
Director: Adam Wingard Cast: Dan Stevens, Maika Monroe, Brendan Meyer, Lance Reddick, Sheila Kelley, Leland Orser, Tabatha Shaun Plot: A family are devastated over the death of the
eldest son in Afghanstan, when the
son's
best friend, a handsome, smooth - talking, compassionate soldier (Stevens) turns up to comfort them.
All seems to be
well among them until
eldest son Danny (Ben Mendelsohn) returns home and starts to reveal some of the darker secrets the clan has kept buried for years.
Though he's set to play Someone Secret in Star Wars: Episode VII, Gleeson is probably
best - known as Bill Weasley, the
eldest Weasley
son in the Harry Potter movies.
Making it all the
better is the inclusion of Wallace Shawn (how can you not like him) as the
elder Van Helsing intent on keeping his
son, who is romantically linked to the vamps, away from them.
Michael Gambon is the bluff, formidable George V, the imposing father who worries that his dashing
eldest son (Guy Pearce, superciliously brilliant) will toss aside the monarchy, or worse, destroy it, with his madcap affair with «that woman,» the infamous Wallis Simpson (Eve
Best, a dead ringer for the divorcee).
Christmas was no time to be defending one's reputation, he told himself, trying to attend to the family celebrations, to be a
good father and husband and to be attentive to his
eldest son, William, home from Cambridge for Christmas and for William's birthday on December 27.
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Established in 1925 by former United States Senator and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim, in memory of seventeen - year - old John Simon Guggenheim, the
elder of their two
sons, who died April 26, 1922, the Foundation has sought from its inception to «add to the educational, literary, artistic, and scientific power of this country, and also to provide for the cause of
better international understanding,» as the Senator explained in his initial Letter of Gift (March 26, 1925).
Well, I'm * finally * allowed to announce some really fun news about her
eldest son, Jonathan, today - but first, I wanted to share a little bit about why his Gift is even more extraordinary.
(Us and the Hutchersons - 2013)
Well, I'm * finally * allowed to announce some really fun news about her
eldest son, Jonathan, today - but first, I wanted to share a little bit about why his Gift is even more extraordinary.