Sentences with phrase «who chain smoked»

A few years after the incident with my sister, my mother married a great guy, a hard working construction worker who chain smoked and watched far too much television.

Instead, he meets Rosie Jarman, a beautiful bartender who chain smokes and never seems to arrive anywhere on time.

Not exact matches

Before his conversion to Christianity, Colson was described as an aggressive political mastermind who drank heavily, chain smoked, and smeared opponents.

Sean's father, Vineyard founder John Wimber was a selfdescribed former «beer - guzzling, drug abusing pop musician, who was converted at the age of 29 while chain - smoking his way through a Quaker - led Bible Study».

When I first heard Markram speak at a conference, I also encountered the chain - smoking and charming Alex Thomson, another prominent neuroscientist, who lectured about synapses with bubbling enthusiasm.

The dental hygienist who chain - smoked.

Allison Janney almost pinches the entire film with her award - winning performance as LaVona, Tonya's chain - smoking mom - slash - personal manager who believes in the motivational power of abuse.

As a cocktail of grief, fury and regret, she's a remarkably original protagonist — a chain - smoking, tattooed mother who, in her trauma, is always a breath away from drowning.

On the other hand, you might end up wishing for less of Delevingne, who winds up croaking like a chain - smoking granny.

We look mostly through Francis» eyes, as the boys and two friends weave a fantasy world out of a comic book they collaborate on, called The Atomic Trinity, with characters like Captain Asskicker and easily recognized caricatures of Sister Assumpta and Father Casey (Vincent D'Onofrio), the distracted, chain - smoking pastor and soccer coach who seems too moony to be a priest.

Ryan Gosling (who was the male lead in Blue Valentine) stars as Luke, a chain - smoking motorcycle stunt driver who works at a traveling carnival riding his bike inside a big steel ball with two other daredevils, whizzing around each other at life - threatening speeds.

, which is tells the story of Setsuko Kawashima (Shinobu Terajima), a lonely, chain - smoking office lady in Tokyo who is past her prime.

Then there's Allison Janney who does a complete 180 from her Emmy - winning turn on CBS» Mom and steals the show playing a different kind of mom as Tonya's chain - smoking, abusive, hysterically outspoken, fur - wearing matriarch LaVona.

Playing an ageing, chain - smoking and reclusive old man who is musing on death and dying, Lucky is not exactly a stretch for Stanton and yet he still looses himself in the part with his distinctive understated charm.

In «The Replacements,» Hackman and Reeves are the heroes, and most of the other characters provide low comedy, including a Welsh placekicker (Rhys Ifans) who chain - smokes, even while actually on the playing field, and other recruits including a sumo wrestler, a mad dog who attacks anything that is red, and a deaf lineman («Look at it this way: He'll never be called offsides on an audible»).

One of the most relatable aspects of the film — for women who are attracted to men, at least — is Lady Bird's fascination with (and subsequent disappointment by) her chain - smoking, leather - jacket wearing boyfriend Kyle, played to small - town snob perfection by Timothée Chalamet.

On A Clear Day is a film adaptation of the popular Alan Jay Lerner musical of the same name (currently enjoying a highly successful revival in the West End) and is the story of a chain - smoking clairvoyant collegiate Daisy Gamble (Barbra Streisand) who, desperate to kick her smoking habit, seeks the help of respected French psychiatrist Marc Chabot (Yves Montand) who is teaching a class on campus.

Annette Bening stars as Dorothea, a chain - smoking single mother in her mid-50's who seems to have surrendered to her own sadness and loneliness, while simultaneously trying to make sense of a changing world.

This one is written and directed by State alumni and renowned script doctors Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant, who both show up doing their best Father Guido Sarducci impressions as two chain - smoking, Satan - fighting priests.

Paul Bettany is a chain - smoking exec who takes home just under $ 3 million a year - and who breaks down his expenses for an awestruck junior analyst: $ 300,000 for the mortgage, $ 125,000 for the car, $ 75,000 for the hookers, etc..

Raised but hardly nurtured by a chain - smoking waitress (Allison Janney, a viper in Tootsie glasses and a mushroom - cap haircut), Tonya steadily clawed her way up the junior ranks, thanks mostly to pure willpower and the proxy parenting of a coach (Julianne Nicholson) who tried her best to steer her wild - card charge.

Her performance as Tonya's chain smoking, negligent mother — who is utterly devoid of warmth even in a film where the ice is a central character — might be cartoonish, but it's compelling in its unpleasantness.

Her mother (an excellent Julianne Nicholson) is a foul - mouthed, chain - smoking agnostic who embraced the responsibility of raising Cathleen, even after the father stormed out of their lives.

Wearing a newsboy's cap, funky, oversized clothes and a self - righteous smirk, Taylor is Valerie Solanas, the chain - smoking radical feminist who formed SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men), wrote an infamous manifesto proposing the elimination of men and on June 3, 1968, shot Andy Warhol with a.32 - caliber automatic.

Set in 1979, writer / director Mike Mills weaves an intriguing tale about Dorothea Fields (Annette Bening), a chain - smoking, single mom who enlists the help of family and friends in nurturing her rebellious 15 year - old son, Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann), as he struggles to find his identity while growing into manhood.

It didn't take more than a pair of open gull - wing doors and an impromptu V - 10 concerto to draw a very mixed crowd of scantily dressed ladies and chain - smoking scarfaces who probably never remove their sunglasses or their shiny jewelry.

From the book jacket: Meet Smithson «Smithy» Ide, an overweight, friendless, chain - smoking, forty - three - year - old drunk who works as a quality control inspector at a toy action - figure factory in Rhode Island.

By Julia MacDonnell Picador • $ 16 • ISBN 9781250063779 The first novel from MacDonnell in 20 years features an unlikely protagonist: a chain - smoking, 68 - year - old divorcée who lives in a modest apartment in Quincy, Massachusetts.

Meet Smithson «Smithy» Ide, an overweight, friendless, chain - smoking, forty - three - year - old drunk who works as a quality control inspector at a toy action - figure factory in Rhode Island.

Every year when he got the job to build the sets for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus there, we would go after school and zip around on the dollies, crashing into the legs of the chain - smoking union carpenters and scenic artists who were busy with band saws and canvas and paint.

This is, after all, a chain smoker who thinks the evidence linking secondhand smoke to lung cancer is iffy.

If you're a 70 - year - old chain - smoking gator wrestler with high cholesterol, there's a greater chance you're going to die during the term of your policy than a perfectly healthy 28 - year - old who looks both ways before she crosses the street.

On the issue of tobacco regulation, Russia has banned smoking in restaurants and bars, and the American Medical Association has upped its pressure on retailers who sell health products to follow the lead of the CVS chain and halt the sale of cigarettes.