Sentences with phrase «whose life ambition»

To oversee the work they tapped Jackson, chief calligrapher for the queen of England, whose life ambition was to produce a handwritten Bible.

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A man who is utterly self - contained and whose chief ambition is to be «self - existent» and hence to exist without dependence upon relationships of any sort, is a man whom we regard as an unpleasant if not vicious specimen of the race; and it is odd that deity has been regarded, and this even in Christian circles, as more like such a self - contained human being rather than as like a man who in every area of his life is open to relationships and whose very existence is rich in the possibility of endless adaptations to new circumstances.

Most likely he was one of those whose hopes and ambitions were displaced to the happenings on the Gallowgate ground, those whose childhoods were spent kicking around the little rubber balls given free with Robertson's marmalade, those whose lives were ordered like a biological clock into two parts of the week: six dreary days, and Saturday.

Cooper is to make a remarkable intervention in the lives of a dysfunctional local family, whose appallingly inadequate paterfamilias is Ansel (Thomas Haden Church), a welder of low ambition and low IQ, acrimoniously divorced from his alcoholic wife, and now living with his dubiously loyal girlfriend Sharla (Gina Gershon), who has the unfortunate habit of answering the door naked from the waist down.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

Pappi Corsicato's Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait unfolds with no less ambition than to enshrine its titular figure as a mortal god whose life has been so blessed and meaningful that, it would seem, he's never made a false move.

Both movies are about men in their 40s whose adult lives have been nonstop disappointments — unsatisfying romances, lost friendships, abandonment of career ambitions.

The film does a neat job of exploring the life and times of its subject, George W. Bush as man whose lack of drive or ambition beyond the vague «something in baseball» becomes the basis of his life's journey.

The series created by and starring Frankie Shaw is smart, sexy, frank about sexual abuse, and sharp in its depiction of a struggling single mother whose ambitions and wit try to push through the burdens, realities and confinements of her working - class Boston life.

Director Dee Rees and Virgil Williams» screenplay (based on Hillary Jordan's novel) is vast in its ambitions, featuring five major characters — living on a farm in rural Mississippi in the years before, during, and after World War II — whose lives, motives, and hopes are the central concern.

Gerwig plays the titular role in the film: a twenty - something woman living in New York whose ambition it is to become a dancer.

It also featured a character endowed with passion, ambition and street smarts, brought to life by an actress whose screen career almost ended before it began.

Ryan Gosling has made a name for himself playing characters who live on the fringes of society: his breakout role as a Nazi - sympathizing Jew in The Believer, a half - baked teacher in Half Nelson, a man in love with a blow - up doll in Lars And The Real Girl, and most recently, a fledgling musician whose temper and lack of ambition prove destructive to his family in Blue Valentine.

«At La Trobe, we are committed to making a positive difference to the world in which we live, and the Aspire program enables us to support the efforts of inspiring young people whose values and ambitions align with ours,» he said.

One of the strongest works in the show comes from Cécile B Evans, an American artist living between London and Berlin, whose immersive video installation What the Heart Wants offers a rare dose of ambition and seriousness.

For individuals whose lives were often arranged in radical opposition to normative culture, coming together in meeting halls, or around a meal, was central to their utopian ambition.

Leckey, inevitably, plays in a band, Jack Too Jack, whose members declare that «they were given life by the 20th century and its countercultural ambitions but now they find themselves walking amongst its ghosts... yet, and yet they are still alive.»

This is a girl whose highest ambition in life is to go to the Golden Globe Awards as David Duchovny's date.)