Sentences with phrase «whose life story»

The show will be focusing on new works by the 78 - year old American artist Susan Weil, a respected figure in modern art history whose life story is truly extraordinary.

And second, on a personal level, I have a mother who is 92 years old, whose life story is so rich and varied.

Lily was another character whose life story seemed to lack some development, but then, this community of disturbed people would be missing coping skills in the first place.

Although Johnny Cash told his own story on at least two occasions — in Man in Black (1975) and, with Patrick Carr, Cash: The Autobiography (1997)-- he nevertheless remains an enigmatic figure whose life story is surrounded by as much legend as truth.

Unbroken is based on Laura Hillenbrand's bestseller about Louis «Louie» Zamperini (O'Connell), whose life story, sans the brutal psychology, sounds like an old - fashioned Hollywood tearjerker.

I don't know what director Angelina Jolie thinks her movie Unbroken is, but the last thing it seems to be is the story of Louis Zamperini, the Olympian and war hero whose life story was told in Laura Hillenbrand's New York Times - bestselling book «Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption ``.

And mythological stories may be based on actual individuals whose life stories are greatly embellished over time so that they gain miraculous powers and even may become deities in time through apotheosis.

This #InternationalWomensDay I wanted to honor a few of the brave and brilliant women whose life stories and accomplishments have inspired me (and countless others) to reach higher, work harder, and dare to do the impossible.

Not exact matches

This CNBC original documentary takes viewers inside the story of Warren Buffett's extraordinary success and profiles some of the many people whose lives have been influenced, and even changed, by Buffett's investment advice and life lessons.

Or the story of someone who used the product and whose life was changed as a result.

Holly McKhann's podcast showcases stories of real estate investors whose savvy decisions made them achieve financial freedom, become «set for life» or even scale their efforts to hundreds of properties per year.

Summary: «Based on the true life story of a young Marine corporal whose unique discipline and bond with her military combat dog saved many lives during their deployment in Iraq.»

Now in its seventh season, it's the story of life after a zombie apocalypse, pitting the zombies against the survivors whose mettles are tested just to, stay alive.

D) The story of the people and coqunity, whose life have become miserable due to the corrosion of their cultural life and bombardment of coqercial information and values and outright cultural repression due to the policy and mechanism of cultural control and manipulation.

For example, a Heritage Foundation document titled «Time to Repeal Federal Death Taxes: The Nightmare of the American Dream» emphasizes stories that rarely, if ever, happen in real life: «Small - business owners, particularly minority owners, suffer anxious moments wondering whether the businesses they hope to hand down to their children will be destroyed by the death tax bill,... Women whose children are grown struggle to find ways to re-enter the work force without upsetting the family's estate tax avoidance plan.»

The story is about Israel's God — the God who lives on a mountain down south somewhere, whose subject are an enslaved people — marching onto the home field of the superpower of the day and beating up their army and their gods.

In Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis portrays the simple character of Zorba — a man who is simply complex, a man of rich experience whose life is so full of stories that his crude philosophy is full of wisdom.

He thought that it was possible to strip away the metaphysical doctrines of the church fathers and the mythological stories of the first Christians to reach a Lord whose impact would transform modern lives.

In Surprised by Joy Lewis tells his own life story as one whose underlying theme is Sehnsucht — the longing for joy.

As he thus talked on, my mind rehearsed the life stories of some of these religious folk whom he was thus berating, whose faith had been to them so comfortable and benumbing an anesthetic.

Those ubiquitous network news stories about the «common people» whose lives are destroyed by out - of - touch policy wonks inside the Beltway do not meet any reasonable criteria for the appropriate political use of emotion and narrative particularity.

Singer Matthew West, whose «The Story of Your Life» album was compiled from letters written by his fans, will close the year by performing a benefit concert for St. Jude's hospital.

Romesh Dutt, translator of the Epics in Everyman's Library says of them: «The Hindu scarcely lives, man or woman, high or low, educated or ignorant, whose earliest recollections do not cling to the story and the character of the great Epics.

An interesting story is told of Dorothy Day, a woman whose life was marked by prophetic simplicity, and yet who loved nothing so much as books, opera and the fine touch of knit wool.

David and Goliath is so compelling because the points are made through the incredible true stories of real - life underdogs and «giants»: the man whose emotionally stunted single - mindedness enabled breakthroughs in leukaemia treatment; the French painters who chose to go outside the established art system that rejected them, and ended up launching the Impressionist movement.

The perfect judge would have to apply an infinitely complex law, so that each person under the law would be held to a standard that is individually tailored to his situation: «Anyone who was born on May 23 at 2:53 p.m. at 1128 Main St. and whose first sight was of a quite pretty nurse named Amy whose hands were slightly cold...» and so on, telling the exact story of your life in literally every detail, ``... any such person ought to have been able to control his temper upon discovering that the morning newspaper was wet from the rain, but could not be expected to remember to buy a card for his sister's sixteenth birthday.»

It is not surprising that the man who wrote a pseudo-review about a nonexistent book, a man who spent three years writing a biweekly on foreign books and authors, should write «Pierre Menard,» a story (composed in the form of an obituary) whose narrator is the reviewer of a nonexistent author's life works.

At #Zaatari refugee camp in #Jordan today, hearing stories of incredible courage from people whose lives have been turned upside down.

I had considered Russell Banks's Continental Drift, the story of a frustrated, priapic New Hampshire boiler repairman whose life disintegrates when he uproots his family to chase the American dream to Florida.

Harry Emerson Fosdick: Preacher, Pastor, Prophet (Oxford University Press, 608 pp., $ 38.50) is the story of a «protean man» whose public talents needed no advertisement or apology and whose private life resembled «the rose without the thorn.»

In fact, he retells his story as an adult living in Toronto, in a house whose décor» a portrait of Our Lady of Guadalupe rests beside a photo of Kaaba; a brass statue of Shiva stands beneath paintings of Christ; a prayer rug lies near a bedside Bible» inadvertently displays our protagonist's eclectically tacky approach to religion.

Starring Kevin Bacon, it is the true story of Lt. Col. Michael Strobl who volunteers to escort home to Wyoming the remains of Private Chance Phelps whose life was taken during the war in Iraq.

A rescue mission is currently underway to save the lives of two window washers whose scaffold cable snapped around the fiftieth story of the One World Trade Center.

Any history of Premier Christianity must first begin with the story of Buzz magazine, whose life spanned almost half of the 50 years we celebrate in this edition of the magazine.

A narrative form of analogy frequently found in religious teachings is the parable, a short fictional story whose characters are taken from everyday life.

Clifton (Pop) Herring, whose life has been a struggle since then, tells a different story

Whenever there are articles in major publications about how more people are choosing to be childfree, from Time's 2013 cover story dedicated to exploring the childfree life to last year's New York Times» article about the childfree, there's a flurry of commentary debating whose choice is more selfish.

A mom and her real - life daughters bring us a children's book with the story of two girls whose mom is dating a woman.

Three complete novels that, taken together, tell a single epic story, about an author whose life is shattered when violence and tragedy consume the people closest to him.

Our kids love thumbing through the square catalog that comes in the mail, reading the stories about families whose lives have been changed by gifts of agriculture that provide a sustainable source of income from milk, eggs, honey and other products that can be sold or bartered for items they need.

The story of three twenty - somethings whose lives derailed by the T until they discover a secret map that will let them overthrow the inadequate system, the show includes songs such as «The Shuttle Bus Song (We Can't Handle It).»

A major one went live late last week, and my NWLC colleagues and I have been busy promoting it since: check out the new Faces of Title IX, which tells nine stories of women and girls whose lives have been changed because of the law that guarantees equal access to educational opportunities.

As U.S. Rep. John Katko testified before a House subcommittee Wednesday, he shared the stories of young central New Yorkers whose lives were cut short due to opioid or synthetic drug overdoses.

Gove revealed a bit about his personal story and childhood to the audience, whose most avid followers are so far accustomed only to getting snippets about the education secretary's private life from his wife Sarah Vine's columns in the weekend papers.

As Rep. John Katko testified before a House subcommittee today, he shared the stories of young central New Yorkers whose lives were cut short due to opioid or synthetic drug overdoses.

These results suggest that the challenge is not just to Lord Leveson to propose a better system of press regulation, but to newspaper editors to persuade their readers that, in their choice of stories, their own moral framework deserves more respect than that of the celebrities whose lives they expose.

This booklet, created by Science in partnership with the L'Oréal Corporate Foundation, brings to the reader a collection of truly inspirational stories from women in all walks of life whose common passion is science.

The 8 July cover story features a nickel - sized artificial string - ray whose swimming is guided by light and powered by heart muscle cells: a «living» robot hailed as a technical tour de force.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Skloot gained unprecedented access to the family and life story of Lacks, whose namesake HeLa cells became a standard tool of biomedical reseaLife of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Skloot gained unprecedented access to the family and life story of Lacks, whose namesake HeLa cells became a standard tool of biomedical resealife story of Lacks, whose namesake HeLa cells became a standard tool of biomedical research.

The story begins in the Soviet Union with the legendary scientist Nikolai Vavilov, whose life's work was collecting wild and cultivated seeds from across the world.