Sentences with phrase «when woodcock»

Anderson touches on class issues when Woodcock detests Alma's noisy eating habits and the hostess of a swanky party makes veiled, possibly anti-Jewish comments.

The only effective moment of human vulnerability is used for comic relief, when Woodcock and Alma mercilessly undress a corpulent, middle - aged drunk who disgraces his green Margo Channing gown.

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-- Marie Woodcock «We started talking to our daughter about what would happen when school started weeks before her first day and just keep reminding her every morning that Mommy will be there to pick her up at the end of the day.

Earlier this week Woodcock was involved in angry exchanges in the Commons when he attacked his own party leader.

Pro-Trident Labour MP John Woodcock told PoliticsHome: «Aside from being another sign that the «open minded» review of defence policy is nothing of the sort, Jeremy's choice to speak at the CND rally just ensures another weekend of public focus on Labour's divisions over a policy that can't change when we should be holding the Government to account and making the case to remain in the European Union.»

But when Norbert Schörghofer, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, stumbled across Woodcock's papers decades later, he was baffled.

Woodcock says the agency was evaluating the information when Nissen published his analysis in the New England Journal of Medicine last May.

He must eat his own words when he finds his mother (Sarandon, Irresistable) is now the main squeeze of none other than Mr. Woodcock himself.

It even ends with a feeble joke where Woodcock tells Farley to do some pushups, though how it's hard to groan when you're ecstatic at seeing the end credits finally arrive.

When you first start working, it's like work is the only thing that matters, as it is with Woodcock.

Into this duo enters Alma (Vicky Krieps), a clumsy girl with flushed cheeks who catches Woodcock's appreciative eye when she waits on his table in the hotel restaurant of an isolated seaside town.

Reynolds Woodcock has a tendency to look inward or downward, and when he does look at others, it's usually a withering stare over the top of his glasses, a dismissive expression communicating that whatever or whoever he's looking at is beneath him (something further underlined by his lilting, regal voice).

We see the salon shows, as models glide haughtily in front of clients, icily holding up numbers; and the armies of seamstresses who hurry up the Woodcock staircase every morning and line up in their white coats to greet the various aristocratic clients who visit (a wonderful scene has Alma, herself in white, disappearing into the crowd, then asserting her territorial rights when a beautiful princess drops in: «Je m» appelle Alma.

The waitress, Alma, played by actress Vicky Krieps, is a strong - willed young woman who becomes Woodcock's love interest and muse when he unexpectedly falls for her, in spite of — or perhaps because of — her own very specific taste, which sometimes clashes with his own.

It stars Daniel Day - Lewis as the eccentric and obsessive Reynolds Woodcock, whose world is turned upside down when he falls for Eastern European waitress Alma (Vicky Krieps).

Triple Oscar winner Day - Lewis plays fastidious 1950s London fashion designer Reynolds Woodcock whose self - centered life is disrupted when his latest muse, Alma (played by newcomer Vicky Krieps), falls in love with him and matters take an unexpected and sinister twist.

It's Cyril who corrals the seamstresses, keeps the trains running on time, and dismisses Woodcock's muses and mistresses when they're no longer of any use to him.

So when she begins to flex her will, it's properly startling to everyone — especially Woodcock, who is horrified to discover that she isn't just cheeky, but actually has a mind of her own.

Although Woodcock has disposed of his latest romantic liaison as «Phantom Thread» opens, his next conquest presents herself when he stops for a meal in the country and orders a ploughman's breakfast from a bright - eyed waitress named Alma (Vicky Krieps).

Woodcock is also a man so tightly wound that he's about to burst, something we sense when he gets behind the wheel of his luxury car and the landscape flies by in a fast - motion blur.

He plays the almost - genius, an elite London - based dressmaker named Reynolds Woodcock whose work gets thrown off its axis when a woman he meets, Alma, complicates his life with her love.

Reynolds Woodcock (Day - Lewis) runs a tight ship when it comes to his dressmaking business.

She seems to be literally haunting the place — Woodcock sees a vision of her while in a delirious state, yes, but note also the door that opens of its own accord early on in his townhouse when he suggests her spirit is near — and Alma may or may not be her reincarnation.

When his latest muse starts interrupting too much during breakfast time, she's dismissed, and Woodcock goes on the hunt.

At first, the inner sanctum that is The House of Woodcock, where the designer and his sister, officious, sexless Cyril (Lesley Manville), run their empire, recalls all those fancy - dressed fashion movies of the 1950s when Dior and Avedon were the rage.

Not three weeks earlier, I had stood in the hallway upstairs, fingering the spines on the shelves my father had crudely installed years ago, pulling out a collection of Sylvia Plath, with «Emmy Woodcock» written in blue ink on the first page — my mother's maiden name, the name old friends called her when we'd go back to Maine.

The Woodcock Johnson Test of Student Achievement, the Peabody Individual Achievement Test and the KeyMath 3 Diagnostic Assessment are a few of the tests designed to be administered in individual sessions, and provide grade equivalent, standardized and age equivalent scores as well as diagnostic information that is helpful when preparing to design an IEP and an educational program.

«All puppy mill dogs are scared, but the most frightened are from Amish and Mennonite breeders,» Woodcock says, «and when Wallace had the Amish working for him, his dogs were terrified, too.»

When not working, Dr. Woodcock can be found playing with his step - kids, watching movies with his wife, or cleaning up after his 5 cats, 2 dogs, and bearded dragon.

Closer to home, when we lived on a dirt road in the Hudson Valley (we now live in a village), my son, wife and I experienced the value of silence and sound as a male woodcock chose our back field and the sky overhead for its dusk mating flight, a ritual that includes a spiraling descent to the ground and mating call.