Sentences with phrase «with seamy»

Dark storyline, with seamy plot twists linked to each of the ten kids lost in their nightmares.

His version of America is touched with the seamy splendor of the dropout, the misfit: failed inventors, boozy dreamers, hapless fathers, wayward sons.

Girl 27 is similarly immersed in show business» past, but it's more concerned with the seamy, dispiriting, midnight - dark underbelly than the glamour.

But now the students must wonder how they will cope with the seamier side of medical practice, the blood and gore and uncertainty and frustration.

Not exact matches

An obituary of a former Ontario cabinet minister, Sid Handleman, identified Kinsella with the «seamy side» of politics.

His open feuds with fellow GOP board members have exposed the seamier workings of town government.

Court papers in the two cases suggest that testimony in Federal District Court will expose in granular detail what watchdog groups say is a seamy world where big money and politics have long intersected with government.

The Silver trial, along with the corruption trial of the former State Senate majority leader, Dean G. Skelos, and his son, Adam, exposed Albany's seamy culture of secrecy and influence peddling.

But it is politically embarrassing, and anything law enforcement comes up with, whether actionable or not, will keep the issue in the headlines and remind voters for months of a seamy arrangement that looks suspiciously like an end run around legislative pay raises for a chosen few.

Chartreuse's last major moment was its association with the British Aesthetic movement and the intellectual - yet - seamy side of the late Victorian period (1870 - 1900).

Years later, as she enters medical school, she will need to call upon the skills her father taught her as she struggles with the rigorous medical training, mounting financial pressures and the seamier side of medicine.

True Blood is wildly entertaining, what with its peek into the seamy underbelly of vampire politics, the integration of several supernatural species, and small town life / afterlife.

With a spirit of genuine curiosity and generous fun, director Sean Baker dives into a certain subculture - transgender sex workers, the men who troll for them, the dealers and pimps trying to control everything - cruising around the seamier stretches of Hollywood on the day (and night) before Christmas.

With its sharp writing, superior cast, evocative locations, seductively seamy subject matter and delicious performances, Top of the Lake is decidedly back in a major way.

This is certainly an enticing start: a dive into Stockholm's seamy underworld with three lead characters and no heroes, it follows an escaped con, a sparky finance student and a Serbian mafioso as they variously pursue a king - making coke deal.

She can be compelling simply reading a seamy novel in Nocturnal Animals or, as in the wonderful Arrival, puzzling over how to decode an alien language while struggling with her own perception of memory and time.

Thor Erikson (R.G. Armstrong, pumped into grotesque parody of his God - fearing roles as proponent of retributive justice in Peckinpah films), after sniffing a horse's portion of cocaine and raping the girl (Sally Field) who works for him in his seamy health spa, tries to exterminate Craig Blake (Jeff Bridges) with weightlifting bars and metal pikes that he tears from the bodybuilding machines in his gym.

Desperate to get to the bottom of what must be either a cruel joke or a lead to the best reunion he could have ever imagined, Alex begins to follow clues which have him interacting with a criminal element on the seamy side of Paris.

Many of the incidents and characters are based on real - life events that occurred in Los Angeles during the same period, including «goon squad» police tactics, brothels that catered to clients looking to make it with movie stars, and the feeding of information to entertainment sources looking to make a buck off of the town's seamy side.

The idea is, evidently, to mix characters who are vaguely memorable from the first movie with newer personalities, but in the seamy criminal world created by Miller, everyone talks the same, and after a short while the people fade into the background.

It's a shaky pairing, but together they follow clues and thump on potential witnesses, not always successfully, as they peek into the seamy underbelly of Los Angeles, with Holland's precocious thirteen - year - old daughter Holly (Rice, Walking with Dinosaurs) finding herself in the middle of the action more often than not.

The premise is an invitation to inevitable sight gags and director Craig Gillespie isn't one to turn down an easy laugh, but they are all good natured and Gosling plays Lars with such wide - eyed innocence that the seamier possibilities are put to rest.

«It is a pleasure for a reader to settle in to one of Donna Leon's Commissario Guido Brunetti mysteries, once again to have one of those glorious Italian lunches with his wife, Paola, and their children, Raffi and Chiara, and to learn, as we do in Beastly Things, which part of the seamy underside of Venetian life Brunetti will now uncover....

Each rescued kid will give Billy a new power that will help him survive that nightmare world; also, the other kids lost in their nightmares will add their own stories to the storyline, with a glympse of the seamy reasons why they're trapped there.

With the garish, steamy, seamy, and unsettling Black Acid Co-op covering its three levels, Justin Lowe and Jonah Freeman could have been targeting Deitch himself.