Sentences with phrase «yarn about»

At the Conference Dinner, people will have time to yarn about the conference, while being entertained by the Col Hardy Band.

We are in this space to have conversations about early childhood and mental health and wellbeing, we were all children once and some of us are parents for children now so when we yarn about mental health and wellbeing in early childhood, it can trigger some good memories, it can trigger difficult memories.

Sara's comment towards the end of the yarn about the importance of Kim letting her know what is not appropriate, not just focusing on what is appropriate - this really stood out to me.

Sometimes it is worthwhile, even necessary, to write and record our thoughts; other times having a yarn about them is enough or possibly an even more valuable experience.

So when we yarn about early childhood and mental health it can trigger good memories; it can trigger difficult memories.

Expect that it will be hard to answer questions about identity; especially your own, but make time to yarn with others about your individual identity and then yarn about your group identity.

With all the time she saves by not washing her hair, Katherine spins this yarn about the many health benefits of knitting.

How often have we heard the yarn about wind power needing a fat pile of subsidies (filched from taxpayers and power consumers) for just that little bit longer to -LSB-...]

Fleisher / Ollman has written a yarn about life in Philadelphia for Artjaw, an ongoing oral history of art in Philadelphia.

The single - player campaign tells a surprisingly ambiguous choose - your - own - adventure yarn about recession - hit multitudes falling under the spell of an anarchic techno - terrorist.

Kevin Bruner and Dan Connors, founders of Telltale Games, sat down on the first day of PAX East to spin a yarn about where they've come from and where they're going.

The alternative is to join the family upstairs for meals — breakfast on the deck, afternoon tea on the verandah, home - cooked dinners and yarn about the day in the country.

We all know the yarn about curiosity killing the cat.

Cory Finley's debut film, a stylish, gripping yarn about two teenage girls who hatch a murder plot, wants the viewer to consider the environment around them.

It threads the story of a missing boy into a frankly terrifying yarn about a great evil awoken in a small town.

It allows Haggis to tell a bruising yarn about the trauma caused by war while serving up a tautly paced, emotional thriller.

Variety: «A raggedy but refreshing yarn about the near - terminal condition known as male adolescence.»

Michael Showalter's latest, Hello, My Name Is Doris, spins a comfy yarn about a loopy old accountant (Sally Field) who loses her mother, falls for a young creative director at work, submerges herself in Brooklyn's hipster culture, and renews her sense of self all in the space of 95 minutes of carefully telegraphed emotional revelations and well - timed crests and falls.

-LSB-...] Daniels's well - stocked cast populates a yarn about a White House butler (Forest Whitaker) who watched his father shot to death in a cotton field -LSB-...]

An ultraviolent yarn about a rage - inducing plague confined to a corporate office tower, «Mayhem» is like Office Space crossed with Bruce Lee's The Game of Death (the one with Kareem).

Coogler and his team recognized their moment and ran headlong into it, and the result is a boisterous celebration of black culture and a damn good yarn about a hero and a villain and the one mistake that divides them.

Michael Haneke's latest shot across the bow of the bourgeoisie is a suspenseful yarn about a middle - aged French couple who find themselves under surveillance by person or persons unknown — videotapes start showing up at their doorstep, some of them accompanied by crude, vaguely threatening drawings that seem to make all too much sense to the husband who quickly attempts to take matters into his own hands.

The story is as old as a Nordic longboat: a coming - of - age yarn about a boy with daddy issues.

The film featured the kind of concept that would be ruined today, a simple yarn about ulterior motives yielding unlikely romance.

In the film, McDormand's Marge is contacted out of the blue by an old school friend who spins her a yarn about how his wife has died from leukaemia.

The old man mistakenly, perhaps intentionally, sees the connection between the boy's «Lone Ranger» hat and mask and spins a yarn about the real Lone Ranger, taking the tale of an era when the Native, revealed to be cohort Tonto (Depp, Dark Shadows), was a much younger man, and one of the last of the proud Comanche tribe.

The novel starts off as a simple adventure yarn about 13 dwarves determined to kill the dragon who drove them off their mountain kingdom long ago, and gradually snowballs into important events that affect the entire world of Middle Earth.

Dewil's well - regarded script spins a Hitchcockian yarn about a tourist (Walker) who ends up getting caught in a web of deceit involving the local police - after he inadvertently picks up the wrong rental car.

Its script is flimsy and whimsical in the extreme — a yarn about a shy American bookseller (Audrey Hepburn) with a funny face turned into a supermodel in Paris.

The problem with the movie is that it ultimately becomes a fairly generic yarn about a May - December romance involving a Faded Film Star.

The fact - based film is similar to the 1983 Japanese film «Nankyoku Monogatari,» which was released in the U.S. as «Ant (more...) Thrilling adventure yarn about eight sled dogs struggling to survive when bad weather leaves them marooned at an Antarctic research post.

A nimble, long under - appreciated stylist with a knack for mixing the savage and the humane, Scotland's David Mackenzie made the unlikeliest of breakthroughs with Hell Or High Water, a terrific West Texas yarn about two bank - robbing brothers and the aging lawmen trying to catch them.

This true story seems like a potentially riveting yarn about one man trying to take on the biggest drug kingpin of our time.

by Angelo Muredda On paper, the most troubling thing about Rust & Bone is the suggestion, right from the title, that we're in for a yarn about maimed bodies that go bump in the night, grinding their way into oblivion.

Meanwhile, their economical, decidedly un-flashy direction (mimicking McCarthy's writing, and aided by longtime collaborator Roger Deakins's beautifully severe cinematography) repeatedly conveys narrative undercurrents in entrancingly subtle ways, such that the plethora of animal carcasses, instances of man - versus - beast violence, and Ed Tom's yarn about a slaughterhouse mishap coalesce into a chilling portrait of anarchic interspecies warfare.

Burning Sands is a workmanlike but unavoidably predictable yarn about the perils of college fraternity hazing.

«True Story» is a yarn about manipulation, one that may even emphasize that manipulators are easily manipulated, or to put the theme more succinctly, «It takes one to know one.»

Just as quick to back out of a fight as he is to spin a yarn about himself, Gulliver shows what a small person he really is.

In his new film Isle of Dogs, it seems that Wes Anderson has spun a similarly wistful yarn about about the strangely transcendent power of canine companionship.

Great slabs of blarney are washed down with tears and Guinness in this yarn about a struggling Irish clan, and the resulting sentiment is blatant enough to wake Ned Devine.

The Borgias, Season 2, Episode 8: Back in Rome, Juan flaunts a wounded leg and spins a yarn about his valiant conduct at his army's defeat at Forli.

By the time we walked through Amsterdam to find a spot for lunch, they already felt comfortable enough to spin a completely false yarn about the history of the canal and how it was first discovered.

To make the fringe on either end, cut pieces of yarn about 6 inches long.

That telling resonates with a later yarn about ships from the Spanish Armada, wrecked on the shores of Ireland and the Scottish Orkney Islands in 1588, Bradley says: «Good - looking, dark - haired Spaniards washed ashore» and had children with Gaelic and Orkney Islands women, creating a strain of Black Irish with dark hair, eyes, and skin.

We also brought to London the colourful US marine Colonel Matthew Bogdanos who tells a captivating yarn about his mission to track down many of the priceless treasures looted from the Baghdad Museum.

But as always he won't (and rightly so) have to spin a negative yarn about his team's performance.

Viewers who find Cinema Paradiso just another subtitled yarn about village life in wartime Italy are dangerously close to functioning without a soul.

But that still leaves about a dozen slides with which we can spin our yarn about what the world looks like now and what it will look like when we've executed our vision.

While some will spin engaging yarns about their exciting travels, there's more to it than that.

His yarns about famous and infamous pitches, success stories and burnouts, describe the end of Madison Avenue as a stuffy bastion of WASPiness and the beginning of its golden age.