Sentences with phrase «with failed dreams»

«Although his subjects are often idealists with failed dreams, Mohaiemen is optimistic about the future» writes Sarinah Masukor in a 2018 feature on his films.

S.A.): Mexico, 1985: a bitter math genius with failed dreams of space travel gets a second chance when he is contracted by the Mexican League of Space Discovery.

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Feb 01, 2017 When you've got a great idea for a business, failing to come up with enough money to get it off the ground can bring your entrepreneurial dreams to a screeching halt.

Only those with the stamina to fail and adapt to make their dream a reality will succeed.

We will be doomed as a society when we fail to distinguish between reality and fantasy, wide awake time and dream time, when we sacrifice collective engagement to (re) solve together difficult problems for facination with rumors of conspiricy and a propensity for magical and delusional thinking.

It was too often equated with unemployment and implied frustrating hours to seek new employment, days to reflect on failed dreams, and time to worry over one's family and its future security.

I returned home after numerous rejections from publishing companies and failed writing endeavors with dreams of changing the world and impacting society in a new and different way.

With dreams of becoming a doctor, Tatiana had to rethink her degree in biomedical sciences after failing her college calculus class twice.

After a scintillating first campaign at the Theatre of Dreams, in which the former Arsenal captain sent Sir Alex Ferguson off into retirement in fairytale style, with United's 20th Premier League title, the Netherlands international failed to replicated his form in the following two seasons.

I guess the only way he could stay was if we managed to secure top 4, win the cup and failed to attract any top managers to our side — Allegri or Simeone managing the side would be a dream come true, but I'm not sure if taking the risk with somebody less experienced like Howe is worth it.

In the past, the Dream has criticized his mates and management for failing to get him enough help, and Smith, a point guard acquired in a trade with Atlanta, definitely helps.

A traditional part of every West Ham window has been to target a big name dream signing but to eventually come up short when it gets down to agreeing a fee; tweeting with an air of faux frustration that we had tried our best but failed even after checking down the back of every sofa in Sullivan Mansions for loose change.

Especially after major initiatives like the Dream Act had been brought to the Senate floor with a coalition government only to fail.

Meanwhile, Issahaku Konda who is in the team for the second time after the Black Satellites failed to qualify in 2016, says he has dreams of winning the FIFA U-20 World Cup with Ghana.

In 2014, when Republicans held power in coalition with the five - member Independent Democratic Conference, the Dream Act failed on the Senate floor, 29 - 30.

The CO2 content of the oceans decrease, pulling CO2 out of the atmosphere, depriving plants of their food source, causing agriculture to fail, and the dreams of the humanity - is - a-cancer-on-the-face-of-the-planet types comes true: the extinction of human life, and much animal life with it.

Let's destroy every last bit of these misconceptions and inspire every woman to walk into the weight room with confidence and an open mind for trying out new things, fail miserably the first few times and then build the strong, attention - grabbing body of her dreams.

I failed at my dream — what am I supposed to do now with my life?

Imagine that all your age you wanted to fall madly in love with your dream girl, yet of many attempts you failed each time either with one reason or other...

Your love and romance with your dream - woman must be free of any misunderstandings, and must mot fail in 2 - 3 years but shall last for ever.

Dunne's diligence won her a scholarship to the Chicago Musical College, but her dreams of a career with New York City's Metropolitan opera faded when she failed the audition.

Little Miss Sunshine focuses on pushing forth the idea of living the American Dream — with Richard trying hard to become a motivational speaker, but failing — ironically, since his speeches are about winning.

There's a dream sequence late in the film that reminded me of something out of a Luis Buñuel film, complete with surreal visuals and butchered meat, and it's startling and alive in a way the film overall fails to achieve, outside of a few scenes.

Still, there's something unsettling about the downbeat chronicle of a ruined California dream at the movie's core, especially if you consider how Catherine's despair over her failed motherhood and disability is juxtaposed with the lascivious display of healthy women's bodies and the elaborate mating rituals that take place at Starbody.

The film's just as sharp, funny, and creepy as I imagine it was back in the day (I always forget about the «Nazi Demons» that appear during the dream sequence, and they never fail to weird me out), and watching Werewolf in London again helped reinforce the idea that American Werewolf in Paris really is one of the all - time worst sequels ever made (right up there with Landis» own Blues Brothers 2000).

The search is a struggle for Wiggins to awake in both senses of the word, and failing wakefulness to employ «lucid dreaming» to affect his conversations with the players in his dreamscape.

Franco had his work cut out for him in approaching this story; on paper, it's hard to identify whether it's a tragic tale of a man with a dream who failed spectacularly in trying to achieve it it, a comedy about a weirdo, or a triumphant tale of unexpected success.

This is a story of cause - and - effect, with the failings of a father reflecting the corruption of the American Dream.

Theodore (Phoenix) is a writer for BeautifulHandwrittenLettters.com, spending his days penning poetic love letters for customers» significant others and his nights playing video games and dreaming of his failed relationship with Catherine (Rooney Mara).

Terry Moe and Paul Peterson's dreams of technology - based instruction may never leave the dream stage because it may fail to comply with certain provisions of the national regime.

I have seen apathetic students change to students who are excited, enthusiastic learners; students who were failing every subject become engaged in learning and making better grades; students who, in the past, avoided talking with me about their grades, come... waving their report cards in their hands to show me their improvement; students who thought of themselves as incapable begin to think of themselves as capable learners; and students who thought that dreams were for others, begin to dare to dream about the world outside their school and community and how they can contribute.

She went on to say that the situation is «exacerbated» by the government's migrant worker cap which requires the deportation of workers who fail to reach an annual salary of # 30,000 in five years», with such salaries being but a «pipe dream for most teachers».

He is author of Why Boys Fail: Saving Our Sons from an Education System That's Leaving Them Behind (Amacom, 2010); The Bee Eater: Michelle Rhee Takes on the Nation's Worst School District (Jossey - Bass, 2011); and The Achievable Dream: College Board Lessons on Creating Great Schools with Gaston Caperton (The College Board, 2012).

Now Mr. Khurana, who had been a troubled, twitchy sleeper ever since he'd become a documentary filmmaker years ago, began to suffer from dreams that impressed him deeply, and he never failed to discuss them with his wife or his collaborators.

«In his sleep he could hear the horses stepping among the rocks and he could hear them drink from the shallow pools in the dark where the rocks lay smooth and rectilinear as the stones of ancient ruins and the water from their muzzles dripped and rang like water dripping in a well and in his sleep he dreamt of horses and the horses in his dream moved gravely among the tilted stones like horses come upon an antique site where some ordering of the world had failed and if anything had been written on the stones the weathers had taken it away again and the horses were wary and moved with great circumspection carrying in their blood as they did the recollection of this and other places where horses once had been and would be again.

If you fall in love with the dream of your own «genius» you'll fail in your goal of becoming a professional author.

Hurt by her failed marriage and dashed dreams, Cali Sinclair returns home to Windswept Bay with her heart wary and closed to the dreams of true love she so desperately wanted.

Voice Dream is potentially a life - changer for people with dyslexia and for older Americans with failing vision.

When to review your rewards game plan If you fail to put a plan in place for your rewards cards and review it regularly, you could end up losing out on a dream trip, canceling out your points with hefty annual fees or getting so fixated on rewards that you lose sight of your financial big picture.

After a failed Fig crowdfunding campaign in 2017, last month he came back swinging with a shiny new campaign, this time on Kickstarter — and, after a tense final few days, SWERY's dream game was finally funded.

Cady Noland is a sculpture artist whose work often deals with themes of the failed American Dream, the divide between fame and anonymity, violence, death, and social climbing, to name but a few.

Berkson is right about Bischoff working in a pastoral mode, but he fails to recognize that the dream - like worlds of «Figure at Window with Boat» and the later mythic paintings are obsessed.

With the potential for losing a callback or job offer, the real - world implications of failing to keep calm during an interview can even put our bad dreams to shame.

Although most students fully understand the benefits and the necessity of networking, many fail to surround themselves with true professionals who can help them in their pursuit of the career of their dreams.

The «independentiste» Boards have held a vote which failed to give the «desired result», have re-entered (half - hearted) re-negotiations starting from a dream - come - true, eat - their - cake - and - have - it - too position (and never conceding much of anything) and now are making blustery statements on abuse - of - process and historic - neglect by members from the Rest - of - CREA and are making bold pronouncements about «quitting» (again) as apart of a demagogic warm - up to a 2nd one - member - one - vote plebiscite that (with hope) will actually be the final decision.

The road to real estate sales success is littered with the shattered dreams of would - be salespeople because they fail to see these two words as the secret to success: consistency and discipline.

All kinds of flak can shoot off when some newbie wholesaler fails to buy and doing so with the song and dance of partners, or inspectors or the other guru stuff they dream up.