Sentences with phrase «young heroine»

In language dazzling, energetic and pure, it introduces us to a heartbreaking young heroine and an incredibly assured and outstanding new voice in fiction.

Fast - paced, lots of historical detail, and starring a resourceful young heroine.

Filly Brown plays out like a caricature of every stereotypical Sundance drama about plucky young heroines who overcome great adversity just by sticking to their guns and never abandoning their dreams.

Filly Brown plays out like a caricature of every stereotypical Sundance drama about plucky young heroines who overcome great adversity just by sticking to their guns and never abandoning their...

As previously reported, the weekend of March 9 marked the first time in recent memory, and possibly ever, that films by African - American directors have claimed the No. 1 and No. 2 spots on the same weekend, with Coogler's «Black Panther» again topping the box office, while Ava DuVernay's adaptation «A Wrinkle in Time,» which boasts a black female protagonist in Storm Reid as young heroine Meg Murry, opened in the second - place spot.

Fans of the resilient and spirited young heroine in Katherine Hannigan's 2004 debut Ida B will welcome the...

Fans of the resilient and spirited young heroine in Katherine Hannigan's 2004 debut Ida B will welcome the equally irrepressible and unforgettable Delaware «Delly» Pattison in Hannigan's new novel, True -LRB-... sort of).

Dobrev, repped by Innovative Artists and Noble Caplan Abrams Agency in Canada, plays young heroine Elena Gilbert in «Diaries.»

Sweeping and sultry literary fiction, featuring a memorable young heroine and engaging characters whose intimate dramas interconnect with hers.

Many of King's most popular novels are filled with young heroines driven by faith.

It's action - packed in the extreme, as Young Heroine Tris (Shailene Woodely) and «Dauntless» hunk Four (Theo James) run from the armed, motorized thugs that the smug Erudite elitists send after them, with barely time for a betrayal, a moment of weakness and a break for Shailene Woodley to pile on more makeup and lip gloss.

And they're not the only new additions, as David Adamthwaite, Daniel Bacon, Chris Gibbs, Adam Godley, Jonathan Holmes, Paul Moniz de Sa and Olafur Olafsson have all been hired to join Mark Rylance's titular character, Ruby Barnhill as young heroine Sophie and Bill Hader, who is playing one of the less charming giants.

Sexualized young heroines that look like they've jumped out of a Pussycat Dolls video?

The Breadwinner is a visually striking feature with a relatable young heroine; it is as fresh and relevant as any movie of 2017.

From the celebrated twenty - nine - year - old author of the everywhere - heralded short - story collection St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves comes a blazingly original debut novel that takes us back to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine.

This sequel to The Hunger Games is obviously drawing many adult readers, including several in our office who rave about this fast - paced read and its appealing young heroine, Katniss Everdeen.

YA / General Interest: Great for teens, with a strong young heroine and a fast - moving story.

- Anne - Marie Slaughter, author of Why Women Still Can't Have It All, is the Bert G. Kerstetter»66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and the former Director of Policy Planning, United States Department of State «With assured prose, a compulsively readable plot, and insider savvy, Buying In offers a front - row seat to the downfall of Wall Street, with a terrific young heroine who outmans the men without sacrificing her soul.»

Thrilling, suspenseful and spectacularly imaginative, The Bees gives us a dazzling young heroine and will change forever the way you look at the world outside your window.

Starring a bookish young heroine who gets drawn into a Gothic mystery involving a reclusive female writer, this dark horse debut took bestseller lists by storm upon publication and has been a perennial hit with book clubs ever since.

In this dazzling sequel, Erika Johansen brings back favorite characters, including the Mace and the Red Queen, and introduces unforgettable new players, adding exciting layers to her multidimensional tale of magic, mystery, and a fierce young heroine.

Strong, plucky young heroine Kiki (voiced by Kirsten Dunst in the English language version) has turned thirteen, the age when witches leave the nest for a year of solo training.

Queen of the Underworld is sweeping and sultry literary fiction, featuring a memorable young heroine and engaging characters whose intimate dramas interconnect with hers.

The story's spirited young heroine, an African - American girl who dreams of becoming a ballet dancer, lives with her mother in Harlem.

In a way, my debate isn't so different from that of Bess (Emily Watson)-- the innocent and high strung (or unstrung) young heroine who lives on the northwest coast of Scotland in the early 70s and for much of the film carries on a furious internal debate with «God,» speaking her own part in a squeaky high voice and God's in a patriarchal low one.

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It's a major theme in my latest novel Not That Easy where the young heroine, Ellie Kolstakis, tries out a number of dating apps...

the young heroine, Ellie Kolstakis, tries out a number of dating apps and sites to.

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7:00 am — IFC — Pan's Labyrinth One of my absolute favorite films of the past decade (or ever, really), an absolutely beautiful and terrifying fantasy that juxtaposes the gruesome horrors of the Spanish Civil War with an equally horrifying fantasy world that provides, if not escape, at least some measure of importance and control to the film's young heroine.

The fantastical world of Coraline is filled with eccentric characters, frightening scenes and moments of peril for the young heroine.

This is how Roald Dahl describes his young heroine's discovery of her surprising telekinetic abilities in the novel that inspired 1996's Matilda.

Both films are deeply pleasurable works of pure cinema featuring a young heroine who undergoes a transformation of sorts, while gaining a newfound awareness of her body and its — shall we say — insatiable needs.

The action picks up when R (played by Nicholas Hoult, of About a Boy, the UK «Skins» and X-Men: First Class fame) and best friend M (Rob Corddry) come across a band of young human refugees led by Julia (our young heroine, played by Teresa Palmer of, well, nothing remarkable), Nora (Analeigh Tipton, Crazy Stupid Love) and Perry (Dave Franco, of looking uncannily like his brother James, and also 21 Jump Street).

But it also has the acknowledgement that its young heroine, Meg Murry (Storm Reid), doesn't always like herself very much.

And after the young heroine (Matilda Lutz) begins her fightback, targeting her assailant and his two cronies amid garish desert landscapes, the sheer flamboyance of the whole thing guarantees the viewer's surrender.

Luckily, the script also depicts a strong, young heroine and other engaging characters that use the power of the written word to combat the evil intentions of others and ink their own happy ending to the story of their lives.

The camera surveys them at a pace more akin to art - house than blockbuster filmmaking all the better to channel the fire that rises up in the young heroine who decides that she will indeed be the «mockingjay».

What «Eloise» shares with «The Florida Project,» Sean Baker's risky and revelatory new film, is the ability to tell its young heroine's story from two perspectives at once.

8:00 pm — Sundance — Pan's Labyrinth One of my absolute favorite films of the past decade (or ever, really), an absolutely beautiful and terrifying fantasy that juxtaposes the gruesome horrors of the Spanish Civil War with an equally horrifying fantasy world that provides, if not escape, at least some measure of importance and control to the film's young heroine.

The young heroine of the novel rejects her arranged marriage and chooses her own path at the risk of her own peril.

Released to celebrate Father's Day, here's a new clip focusing on the relationship between the young heroine Merida and her father the king, who are voiced by Boardwalk Empire's Kelly MacDonald and well - known Scottish comedian Billy Connolly, respectively.

When she finishes, the teacher asks the other Annie in the class (our young heroine, played by «Beasts of the Southern Wild» Oscar nominee Quvenzhane Wallis) to come to the front of the room for her presentation.

Set in a rural community, the film is driven by the young heroine Chris and her intense passion for life, for the unsettling Ewan and for the unforgiving land.»

- The continuing story of Lewis Carroll's young heroine.

About the only people who will be disappointed with Moana are those expecting a love interest for the young heroine or a typical Disney princess tale.