Sentences with phrase «whose life career»

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Whether a co-worker, customer, mentor, or someone who's helped you make valuable connections, these are the contacts whose presence in your life is clearly valuable to your career.

And in my book on morality and getting these people to grow up I again bring up the example of 19th century industrialists who were incredibly rich and often rather cruel in their business lives who reinvented themselves, so a Carnegie whose business career certainly wasn't exemplary in any moral sense.

Here was a «tortured» singer / songwriter whose career was just starting to catch fire when he took his own life...

But all will agree in recognizing that early in the first century in Palestine there lived a man «mighty in word and deed» whose brief career, for the most part hidden from us, was an event of incalculable magnitude, not only because of its effects but because of what it was.

Dillard's seeing career, which is both receptive and highly conscious, is to be considered part of the tradition of seers whose mode of life she evokes:

A minister whose career is suffused with a perception of the «great church,» whose thinking bears the imprint of his or her acquaintance with living members of many church traditions, will be a minister who understands and knows how to welcome people searching for a new church home, those who have married into a new denomination, and those who feel that they must turn away from some aspect of their own history.

Pittinger, whose career and life were ended by Bright's disease in 1909, might not be so happy.

It would have been difficult to find an individual more qualified for such a task, given the Ambassador's highly successful four decade long career in the foreign service and considering that he is a man whose (deceptively, given his mental acuity) long life has been spent both in the study of international affairs and in the pursuit of the US's interests and values within the world.

I would like to write a book about the singer Leonard Cohen, whose life has been remarkable and whose career is still going strong at the age of 76.

There are 16,113 active political committees statewide — but it's unclear how many belong to people whose careers or lives are over.

Frank Sinatra Jr., who carried on his famous father's legacy with his own music career and whose kidnapping as a young man added a bizarre chapter to his father's legendary life, died yesterday.

Throughout my career, I could see the people whose lives I was affecting, see their smiles, hear about their struggles and know my colleagues and I were improving their wages and working conditions.

We can pause for a moment to savour the irony of Lord Mandelson, whose first cabinet career was destroyed by Mr Brown and his acolytes, turning into the prime minister's life - support machine.

In Broken Genius (Macmillan, $ 27.95), Pulitzer Prize — winning journalist Joel N. Shurkin describes a life of science gone sour, a scientist whose feelings of superiority drove the creation of his own legend and the collapse of his career.

Lundberg once published an anonymous letter whose author, a citizen of a dictatorial country, «was risking his life» by speaking out, but Lundberg also believes that risk of career damage, not just a death threat, can justify anonymity.

It makes me feel so humble to think about all of those who put their professional lives on the line and whose careers were destroyed.

«You know I lived through those [cycles]; I know what they were like,» says cancer biologist Dr. Harold Varmus, whose long research career includes a Nobel Prize.

Testosterone according to Michael Baker whose one of my gurus who's made the hormones his whole entire life career, he's a scientist at the University of California, testosterone is the stabilizing hormone.

As someone whose life previously lead her into the career of a hairstylist, I've had my share of different hairstyles, hair colours, dreadlocks, weaves / extensions, and other chemical treatments, that anything I've tried out in the past doesn't really come to a surprise.

Perfect for: Gwen, whose hard work and determination helped her leave a career in service for life as a secretary.

Eventually, over a period of time, they become ready to move forward with a new life that addresses what has been missing from their marriage — whether that is a second career, a passion for a hobby or personal pursuit, or a relationship with someone whose interests may be more closely aligned with their own.»

Author whose career is... stagnant... but an optimistic, happy - go - lucky, inspired individual who gets bored doing the same old thing and hearing the same old conversations, touching the same old skin... I love good company, can show anyone a good time due to a wide variety of life experiences.

Funnyman Will Ferrell lends his voice to the title character a blue - skinned green - eyed alien whose mammoth hairless cranium has over the course of his career as a supervillain given life to an endless array of exotic inventions and elaborate schemes all in the service of his lifelong dream of conquering his adopted hometown of Metro City.

Feature length documentary examining the troubled life and tragic death of college football standout and talented NFL running back Lawrence Phillips, whose scars of childhood abuse and abandonment haunted him throughout his career.

There comes the moment in the career of many directors when they are compelled to tell the story of a great man in whose life they seem to see a glimmer of their own image.

Richard Schickel, whose celebrated and prolific career spans 50 years, has been the film critic for Time and Life magazines, has written more than 20 books and has produced, written and directed numerous...

The bravery is often embodied by Marlo, who holds on to her sense of humor when life gives her reason not to — her «career» is now a job she holds for health insurance, she's bunking with a husband (Ron Livingston) who prefers Call of Duty to the call of the wild, a son whose on - the - spectrum tantrums (kicking the seat and screaming while she puts her hand over her ears) sometimes leave Marlo on the side of the road, in tears.

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.

It's a sequel with Cate Blanchett reprising the royal role that won her instant stardom and an Oscar nomination and Geoffrey Rush back as her trusty counselor, both once again directed to perfection by Shekhar Kapur, whose career between «Elizabeths» has not lived up to its early promise.

Herzfeld, whose career somehow lived to fight another day after his 1983 debut feature, «Two of a Kind» — a spectacular Hollywood turkey that imagined John Travolta and Olivia Newton - John as a failed inventor and bank teller chosen by the angels to restore God's faith in mankind — is a master of unintentional kitsch, and most of his latest plays out like a Mel Brooks or Zucker Brothers parody movie minus the actual jokes.

Written and directed by Mark Abraham, and based on the book «Hank Williams: The Biography,» the films traces the life and career of Williams, whose quick climb to fame led to his untimely death at age 29.

Irish actor Robert Sheehan delivers a nicely nuanced performance as Picasso's friend, Carles Casagemas, a young artist who could never gain a foothold in his career and whose life spiraled downward in a haze of alcoholism, opium addiction and unrequited love for a young prostitute named Germaine (Emma Appleton).

But before all that, Chuck Wepner (Liev Schreiber) was a liquor salesman and father with a modest prizefighting career whose life changed overnight when, in 1975, he was chosen to take on The Greatest in a highly publicized title match.

Characters often stare right into the lens in I, Tonya, a clamorous, dumb recounting of the bleak life and ignominious fall of figure skater Tonya Harding, whose career ended in 1994 after her alleged involvement in an attack on fellow ice athlete Nancy Kerrigan.

Morgan Freeman's mollycoddled and on meds, suffering the indignity of being infantlised by an idiot son, Kevin Kline's got a great wife but a boring life and is subsequently sexually dysfunctional and depressed, Robert De Niro's a widower whose only human contact is a soup making neighbour, while Michael Douglas, in a set up that must have presented the actor with the greatest challenge of his career, plays a rich old pervert who's eschewed commitment most of his adult life but is now about to settle for a woman less than half his age.

Benedict Cumberbatch (The Imitation Game) stars as the eponymous Doctor Strange, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon whose career is derailed but gets a new lease of life when a sorcerer (Tilda Swinton) takes him under his wing and trains him to defend the world against evil.

For much of his long, illustrious directing career, there have been two Steven Spielbergs: the playful adventurer whose commercial track record is unrivaled and the serious filmmaker who commits to bringing historical drama to life in rich detail.

If it is indeed his final work, it's a fitting one that's in keeping with the actor's career of telling stories of grand, often larger - than - life men whose self - identity clashes with, and often destroys, their relationships.

Rampart (R for violence, sexuality and pervasive profanity) Woody Harrelson stars in this cop drama, set in 1999, as an LA police officer whose career and private life take a downward spiral after he is videotaped beating a suspected perpetrator.

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

Janicza Bravo's obscure comedy follows middle - aged Isaac Lachmann (Brett Gelman) whose acting career and love life are at a standstill.

Apparently Emily doesn't have enough direction in her life as opposed to the boyfriend whose career in a rock band is taking off.

«Trumbo,» directed by Jay Roach with a script by John McNamara, is based on the life of 1940s Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, whose career hit a roadblock when he was blacklisted for being a suspected Communist.

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But Marvel / Netflix only described her as a community leader in Harlem, whose «personal life and professional career are thrown into turmoil by both Harlem's newest hero Luke Cage as well as her cousin Cottonmouth's nefarious acts.»

Nina Geld (Winstead) is a bracingly funny and blisteringly provocative stand - up comedian whose career is taking off, but whose personal life is a near - complete disaster.

Jeremy Lovering («In Fear») If you went to Sundance looking for the next Christopher Nolan or Rupert Wyatt (who both had films premiere at the festival early in their careers), you'd be hard pressed to find a better candidate than Jeremy Lovering, whose feature film debut «In Fear» has been scaring the living shit out of people in the Midnight strand of the festival.

It is not difficult to see his fascination for Robert Mitchum, whose life and career he remembers by heart; but then he can also recount to you in the same breathe how Gary Cooper, supine on a mountain ledge, dozed off and started snoring while Richard Widmark was still talking to him as the two awaited the cameras to be set for the shooting of Henry Hathaway's 1954 western The Garden of Evil.

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.

Written, directed by, and starring Chris Rock, Top Five tells the story of New York City comedian - turned - film star Andre Allen, whose unexpected encounter with a journalist forces him to confront both the career that made him famous and the life he left behind.