Sentences with phrase «wives tales where»

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We see this monster in Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale, where a theocratic patriarchy forbids women to read books, and we see him in the movie Kinsey, in which the future sexologist's pompous, teetotaling, Bible - wielding father (played by the massive - browed John Lithgow) cows his wife at the dinner table and disowns his son for daring to attend a different college from the one where dad teaches.

A simple I'm sorry for my part in the sordid tale can wrap this up, otherwise I have more stories... how about the one where the Edina police chaplain throws his wife across the room tearing her shoulder and her 7 year old helps her up and moves the furniture from off of her?

Julie McMahon September 16, 2014 at 8:39 pm -LSB-...] A simple I'm sorry for my part in the sordid tale can wrap this up, otherwise I have more stories... how about the one where the Edina police chaplain throws his wife across the room tearing her shoulder and her 7 year old helps her up and moves the furniture from off of her?

I was even told of an old wives» tale where women were advised to scrub the kitchen floor on their hands and knees!

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Instead, however, Daniels and his screenwriter, Danny Strong, have crafted a tale that trains its focus primarily on the experiences of African - Americans at this time, by showing us the life behind the scenes at the White House and, even more importantly, back home, where Gaines lives with his wife, Gloria (Oprah Winfrey, also fine), and their two sons.

Joel and Ethan Coen (Burn After Reading, No Country for Old Men) set their Kafkaesque morality tale in 1967 in Minnesota, where a Jewish physics professor, Larry Gopnik (Stuhlbarg, The Grey Zone), a lifelong mensch on the verge of seeing his secure life finally gain permanent ground by obtaining tenure at his school sees his life begin to unravel when his wife (Lennick) and mother of his two children announces that she's leaving him for someone else.

Set in 1937, the tale centers on businessman John Rabe (well played by the great German actor Ulrich Tukur), who for nearly 30 years has been living with his wife Dora in the capital city of China, Nanking, where he heads the Siemens branch.

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