Sentences with phrase «who chafed»

Womanhouse enlisted earnest art students who chafed at the limitations that domesticity and motherhood bode for them, and were intent on rejecting them.

Those who complained about shaky cam in The Hunger Games will find the camera more steady, and those who chafed at the obvious budgetary limits will find that Francis Lawrence had more money to work with.

As relations between Mr. Bruno and Mr. Pataki soured, Mr. Skelos positioned himself as a vociferous defender of the Senate as an institution, helping him win over a coterie of senior senators from upstate who chafed at Mr. Pataki's expectation that the Senate would do as he said.

I wouldn't try it with a kid who really didn't want to use the potty, though, or a kid who chafed at a lot of structure or was having any stress or changes going on in his or her life.

Jesse Plemons gets laughs as an alarmingly stoic next - door neighbor who chafes at being excluded from game night, resentment that plays a role in later scenes.

Donahue also shoehorns in some sizzling resistance by DGA president Taylor Hackford, who chafes at the idea of a new Oscar category.

The story, which spans 25 years over the four parts, focuses on Olive, a middle - school math teacher, and her relationships with Henry, the good - hearted town pharmacist, their son Christopher, who chafes at his mother's parenting style, and other denizens of their community.

Marnie Minervini (Susan Sarandon) is a well - off New Jersey widow who's moved to Los Angeles to be near her 30 - something daughter, Lori (Rose Byrne), an unmarried screenwriter who chafes at her mother's constant advice.

You're made to be aware of the movie's literary source — stylized voice - overs by multiple narrators, starting with Laura (Carey Mulligan), a woman who sidesteps spinsterhood by marrying a stolid farmer Henry (Jason Clarke), who chafes under the criticism of his hateful father (Jonathan Banks), and lives in the shadow of his more popular brother Jamie (Garrett Hedlund).

That will seem naïve and bizarre to many who chafe at inequities and who think the first step is to throw a few bankers into prison.

The prospect of an expanded voucher program is not a welcome one among the District's elected officials, who chafe as Congress — where the District has no vote — passes laws that shape the landscape of city education.

You're a wild and disobedient girl with violence impulses who chafes at authority and your thin veneer of polished civility has all the transparency of a whore's nightgown.

It turns out that while the Kobo Glo isn't enough to make Amazon Kindle Paperwhite owners switch, it's just about as good, and therefore a solid option for anyone who chafes at Amazon's lack of ePub compatibility or expandable storage.

John Baldessari, who chafes at the «Conceptualist» label, has been a fan of Social Realist / Abstract Expressionist Philip Guston since high school, when he would tear images of early works from his parents» Life magazines.

I'm the type of person who chafes at exaggeration and inconsistency.

There will be those who chafe — loudly or otherwise — at the idea of firm funds being spent in support of a cause, party or politician they don't favour.

For those who chafe a bit at wearing metal, each Pebble Steel also ships with a black leather watch strap option.

Not exact matches

For a while, McCarthy, who is now an executive adviser at venture capital firm Technology Crossover Ventures, chafed that Hastings refused to expand his responsibilities, sources said.

For many years Ursula Niebuhr and Sifton chafed at interpreters who didn't capture the Reinhold Niebuhr they knew or who sometimes got him quite wrong.

John was a young man with but a year or two of college — very different from the dozens of highly educated, articulate white volunteers working under him, who often chafed at his direction.

The 57 - year - old Mazzone also butted heads with some of his younger pitchers, like Erik Bedard, who grumbled about the throwing program and chafed at Mazzone's direct personal approach.

Desitin is recommended for newborns and babies who need fast relief from chafing, soreness, or diaper rash discomfort.

(From personal experience, I would say this stage is really hard to predict — as you might have a lot of nipple pain, chafing, etc. so who knows what kind of bra you will want, or even if you'll want one at all?)

Outgoing Ekiti State Commissioner of Police who retired on Friday, Abdullahi Chafe has also given an antidote to avoid crisis.

This is just as the police have restored normalcy to the place and also enforced a dusk to dawn curfew imposed on the community by the state governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, who visited there with the Commissioner of Police, Mr Abdullahi Chafe, in the wake of the crisis on Friday night.

Still, some council members chafed at her role: The councilwoman who led the fight against Mayor Michael Bloomberg's bid to build a West Side Stadium in 2005, one argued, had suddenly become the most visible advocate for a new Manhattan arena.

Promising to ensure the safety of lives and property ahead of the July 14 gubernatorial election, Chafe, who addressed newsmen through his Deputy Commissioner of Police, (DCP), Dasuki Digalanji, said his men were ready to take on anyone who wants to disrupt the peace the state is currently enjoying ahead of the poll.

Just a day after she «chafed at the decision by California Republican Party Chair Jim Brulte to target Democratic Assemblyman Adam Gray of Merced,» Assembly GOP leader Kristin Olsen turned her fire on the caucus staff who helped her...

But reports that James had locked up the vote had chafed Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, who had insisted the process for replacing Schendierman would be open and transparent.

The accused were arraigned on a remand order request filed by Ekiti Commissioner of Police, Mr Ibrahim Chafe, who was also present at the court's proceedings.

Just a day after she «chafed at the decision by California Republican Party Chair Jim Brulte to target Democratic Assemblyman Adam Gray of Merced,» Assembly GOP leader Kristin Olsen turned her fire on the caucus staff who helped her pick up three seats on election night.

Assembly Republicans, who have chafed under Silver's direction of the chamber since 1994, quickly saw their leader demand that Silver get out.

Still, various normal brain states do sound different, says Chafe, who is also a composer and improvisational musician.

«They may not look like a big deal from the outside, but if you listen in to the brain of a patient having one of these seizures, you can hear that the brain is in seizure,» says Josef Parvizi, a Stanford neuroscientist and epilepsy specialist who developed the brain stethoscope with colleague Chris Chafe, a music researcher at Stanford.

Philip Page, an organic chemist at the University of East Anglia who also challenged EPSRC's original policy, still chafes at the modified policy, but he will now continue to peer - review grant proposals for the council.

It was simple request, but it chafed some of the people who had done the original testing at the then - FAA labs.

They come in a lot of colors, and are made for those who wear shorter skirts, and for athletes who are trying to avoid chafing.

Max, played by Bateman with a more addled version of his usual genial dyspepsia, has spent his life chafing under the shadow of his older brother, Brooks (Kyle Chandler), a venture capitalist who drives a 1976 Corvette Stingray (Max's boyhood dream car).

Now Tom, who has been slowly going crazy because he hasn't found any work on the same level of prestige he had in San Fran (though the movie gives us no indication beyond Tom's chafing that the job he did land isn't fun and interesting and cool), begins to rebel.

Her father went to prison for insider trading, and her mother is implied to be a woman subsequently in search of a man who can provide for her in a fashion that recalls the best years of her first marriage — a dependency with which Rebecca pointedly chafes.

The movie is undeniably strong in its sense of a bright light burned out too soon, and the often undignified fate of those who dare to chafe at society's established norms.

McGuire pairs form with function in this spare story of two sisters who yearn for love, recognition, and belonging in ways that readers will readily identify with — chafing against rules as they long to break free of the expectations of others.

Padding is added to most quality dog collars, this soft lining prevents damage or chafing to the dog's skin and this is especially important for dogs who pull or have sensitive skin.

According to the New York Times, «Mr. Ortman, who was deeply influenced by Surrealism, came of age in the heyday of American abstraction but chafed at the limitations of the flat canvas.

Conversely, a huge majority of the lawyers who are in private practice much prefer to be there, as they would chafe under a bureaucratic structure.

In her words, «One must question whether members of the Bar, who occupy positions of special trust and confidence, should chafe too strongly against rules designed to ensure that the line between lawyers and others trading on their own account does not become blurred» (para. 88).

Additionally, the draft contained a broad governmental executive information privilege (almost identical to the one in your proposed Code) and this really irritated the Congressmen, who were at that time chafing under President Nixon's excessive claims of executive privilege.

Long - time iPhone users, who've likely chafed at having to keep Apple's preinstalled apps on their phones, can probably appreciate the sentiment.

This is an all - too common predicament for local government leaders in Florida these days: chafing at state limits on how they govern the voters who elected them.

I'd venture a guess that this blog post might upset some of the leading search firms out there who might chafe at my noting that the leadership of most firms is white and male.