Sentences with phrase «whose irrepressible»

In prose that leaps from the page, Jamison probes the neurochemistry of exuberance, an emotion that bonds young animals together and that fueled the work of such folk as President Theodore Roosevelt, whose irrepressible love of nature led him to found many of America's national parks.

«Jo Cox was a voice of compassion whose irrepressible spirit and boundless energy lit up the lives of all who knew her and saved the lives of many she never met,» said Cameron.

Not exact matches

Based on true events, Decoding Annie Parker tells the life affirming story of two remarkable women; the irrepressible Annie Parker, a three time cancer survivor and the geneticist Mary - Claire King whose discovery of the breast cancer BRCA gene mutation is considered one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century.

Also nominated: Cate Blanchett, ethereal in her role of a teacher having an affair with her young student; Abigail Breslin as a smart, irrepressible offspring of a dysfunctional family in «Little Miss Sunshine» (she has her emotional hooks into everybody); Rinko Kikuchi, as a deaf grieving teenager in «Babel» whose life becomes a target in her world, and Adriana Barraza as the Mexican maid who becomes the victim of a border guard while returning from her son's wedding in «Babel.»

Nine years on from Mike Leigh's Happy - Go - Lucky, in which she was Poppy, the irrepressible schoolteacher whose approach to life is not so much «glass half full» as «milkshakes all round», the 41 - year - old has reached an enviable stage in her career.

In Jean Renoir's satire of the bourgeoisie, Michel Simon gives one of the most memorable performances in screen history as Boudu, a Parisian tramp who takes a suicidal plunge into the Seine and is rescued by a well - to - do bookseller, whose family decides to take in the irrepressible bum.

Mr. Cuarón, whose most recent film was the moving and irrepressible teenage sex comedy «Y Tu Mamá También,» may be the perfect man for the job, though parents worried about an unrated, sexually explicit «Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban» should remember that Mr. Cuarón also directed a superb adaptation of «The Little Princess.»

Little is known about Lady Bird, but Gerwig has gathered three of the finest actors of a rising generation: Manchester by the Sea's Lucas Hedges, Miss Stevens's Timothée Chalamet and the irrepressible Saoirse Ronan, whose performance in Brooklyn will one day be remembered as the mightiest turn of the decade.

At the heart of these stories is the irrepressible, irresistible Yunior, a young hardhead whose longing fo

A woman whose function it once was to read books aloud to Marie - Antoinette is haunted by the memory of her last days at the French court of Versailles, when Louis XVI's magnificent palace succumbed to the irrepressible forces of revolution.