Sentences with phrase «with woodcock»

This story had a happy ending, with Woodcock opening her home for Uncle Willy, after a massive team effort to get him to Cairns for two - weeks of Cultural Holiday Leave.

Yet, for Alma, her sparkly new life becomes dissatisfying: She never gets a moment alone with Woodcock.

She seems like the kind of woman for whom the term «demure» was coined, though she isn't afraid, during her first evening date with Woodcock, to challenge him to a staring contest.

When you first start working, it's like work is the only thing that matters, as it is with Woodcock.

Not exact matches

Barrow Labour MP John Woodcock compared the uniformity of the SNP with more than a hint of admiration to the common purpose of his own party in Westminster in Tony Blair's heyday.

Barrow MP John Woodcock has lodged a formal complaint with Labour chief whip Rosie Winterton, who is in charge of the party's disciplinary procedures.

«We're finding a lot of disillusionment with the Lab government,» Mr Woodcock's challenger in Barrow, John Gough, said.

A recent poll showed Baldacci with a comfortable 42 percent to 24 percent edge over Woodcock.

Labour MP John Woodcock has never been flavour of the month with the left of his party.

The same words with a different accent or gender will lead to the same result, warns Labour MP John Woodcock.

Sylvester names Tessa Jowell, Liam Byrne and Alan Milburn as having agreed to contribute, along with Spads - turned - MPs Liz Kendall and John Woodcock, to a book due to be published by Progress, with Lord Sainsbury's support, ahead of the party conference.

He has been particularly critical of the new leader's stance on Trident, particularly as the submarines which are used with the weapons system are built in Woodcock's Barrow constituency.

Mr Woodcock has clashed with Mr Corbyn's supporters after launching a series of trenchant attacks on him.

Its MPs are divided on the issue, and today backbencher John Woodcock, who wants Labour to maintain its pro-Trident position, was at odds with the Shadow Defence Secretary.

The most worrisome and abundant organism Woodcock found in pillows was Aspergillus fumigatus, an asthma - aggravating bacterium that can prove deadly to people with depressed immune systems, such as leukemia and transplant patients.

Bill Woodcock, research director with the Internet infrastructure group Packet Clearing House, is cautious about assigning blame.

Woodcock has risen to the challenge admirably, helped by considerable experience in the field with many of the birds he has painted.

«We're very stretched,» Woodcock told the panel, and FDA's advisory meetings with drug developers might be one of the first functions to be cut if the agency continues to take on new congressionally mandated roles.

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With Jo Woodcock, Charlie Creed - Miles, Kaya Scodelario, Lacey Turner.

It even ends with a feeble joke where Woodcock tells Farley to do some pushups, though how it's hard to groan when you're ecstatic at seeing the end credits finally arrive.

Adding fuel to the fire, the town is also bestowing Woodcock with the teacher of the year award.

Woodcock has to appear at events and so do I. I wish being a designer was a bit less about being a public figure but spending time with my clients is important to me.

The list goes on and on and now it continues with Phantom Thread, a fussy control freak fashion designer named Reynolds Woodcock, and a model named Alma.

Woodcock: that piquant surname forms a rime riche with Hitchcock, whose great ghost story Rebecca (1940) Anderson's movie obliquely salutes.

Woodcock, played with precise detail by Daniel Day - Lewis in what the actor has said is his final movie role, is the most sought - after designer in 1950s London, with a clientele that includes European royalty and American glamour icons.

Even as Alma — soon to be installed in the Woodcock home, occupying the room right next to Reynolds's — grows ever more besotted with her debonair but impossible swain, she maintains an ineradicable core of dignity and mettle.

Into this duo enters Alma (Vicky Krieps), a clumsy girl with flushed cheeks who catches Woodcock's appreciative eye when she waits on his table in the hotel restaurant of an isolated seaside town.

Women come and go through Woodcock's life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship, until he comes across a young, strong - willed woman, Alma (Vicky Krieps), who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover.Hide

Renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Day - Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Manville) are at the centre of British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutants and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock.

There's not much about the cruelty, the exploitativeness, and the destructive folie à deux of Reynolds Woodcock and Alma Elson's bad romance that Anderson doesn't lay right out there on the screen, with a psychological acuity worthy of Hitchcock and a cinematographic fluidity reminiscent of Max Ophüls.

A little later, Woodcock consults with his sister Cyril, a clipped and forceful woman, about how this household figure is to be disposed of.

Really, though, it would be a huge upset to see any other film run away with this award, which was practically built for Reynolds Woodcock — though if anybody has the power to snatch the prize away, it's Luis Sequeira and his perfectly tailored Shape of Water silhouettes.

In Phantom Thread, something of the same mystery surrounds the work of Reynolds Woodcock, but the film never ridicules the preciousness of his world, but rather, takes it deadly seriously, attends it with all due respect.

According to Phantom Thread's brand - new synopsis, Day - Lewis plays the character Reynolds Woodcock, a renowned dressmaker who, along with his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) «are at the center of British fashion,» dressing 1950s, post-war London's royalty and socialites «with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock.»

Day - Lewis suggested Manville, best known for her films with Mike Leigh, including «Another Year» and «Mr. Turner,» for the role of Woodcock's watchful, considered sister Cyril, who manages his business and keeps his temperament at an even keel.

(In a sign of their close collaboration, Anderson credits Day - Lewis with coming up with the name Reynolds Woodcock.)

Although he mostly shows it with snippy dialogue and rigidly controlled schedules, Daniel Day - Lewis» Reynolds Woodcock is a fussy little dude, something made especially clear in a deleted scene that Anderson recently released to promote the film's upcoming home release, showing the Woodcock siblings descend from prodding at each other into a full - on food fight.

«Set in the glamour of 1950's post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Day - Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Manville) are at the center of British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutants and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock.

The waitress, Alma, played by actress Vicky Krieps, is a strong - willed young woman who becomes Woodcock's love interest and muse when he unexpectedly falls for her, in spite of — or perhaps because of — her own very specific taste, which sometimes clashes with his own.

The first trailer for Phantom Thread, which debuted Monday, offers a first look at Day - Lewis as Reynolds Woodcock, an English couturier designing for society ladies («dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutantes and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock,» reads the film's synopsis) in the middle of the 20th century.

Women come and go through Woodcock's life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship, until he comes across a young, strong - willed woman who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover.

SURPRISE: Lesley Manville for «Phantom Thread»: Daniel Day Lewis got much of the press for «Phantom Thread,» but Manville has earned some attention for her performance as Reynolds Woodcock's devoted sister and business partner, who spends the whole film putting up with Reynolds obsessive nonsense.

Day - Lewis plays Reynolds Woodcock as an obsessive cousin of his Daniel Plainview in «There Will Be Blood,» with a clenched jaw, bulging forehead veins and intense unbroken gaze, filtered through a haughty upper - class lens and with a slight reserve of lanky screwball comedy.

In what the great actor has said will be his final performance, Daniel Day - Lewis reteams here with his «There Will Be Blood» director to play the designer Reynolds Woodcock, designer of the wardrobes of the rich and famous in 1950s England.

After making his debut with «Lars and the Real Girl,» episodic television work ensued, followed by a contretemps over the comedy «Mr. Woodcock,» starring Seann William Scott, Susan Sarandon and Billy Bob Thornton that saw him removed from the project.

Lesley Manville, who plays the fictional Woodcock's co-dependent sister, said the movie's driving theme is «the human condition, and how we all respond to and deal with love and the lack of love.»

ShockYa: I'd be interested in that element of embraced fear you talk about, especially coming off of an experience like «Mr. Woodcock» (a film Gillespie left during production, with David Dobkin stepping in to direct) where there were disagreements about the final tone of the movie, where you couldn't bridge that gap [between what you and the studio wanted].

In a career littered with great performances, it's not hard to see why Daniel Day - Lewis would choose Phantom Thread's Reynolds Woodcock to be his final performance (for now).

Triple Oscar winner Day - Lewis plays fastidious 1950s London fashion designer Reynolds Woodcock whose self - centered life is disrupted when his latest muse, Alma (played by newcomer Vicky Krieps), falls in love with him and matters take an unexpected and sinister twist.