Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Camelot (musical)" ¶ 39
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

young and pretentious
After directing episodes for the revitalized version of ' 50s /' 60s anthology horror series Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre, Burton received his next big project: Beetlejuice ( 1988 ), a supernatural comedy horror about a young couple forced to cope with life after death, and the family of pretentious yuppies who invade their treasured New England home.
In none of his plays did he ever venture into the depths of feminine psychology, and womankind is only represented by pretentious old maids and silly young ladies.
Jan Eißfeldt is also known as Eisfeldt65, Jan Delay ( his reggae and funk name ), Boba Ffett ( his Style-Liga name ) and Eizi Eiz ( originally a character – a pretentious young rapper – in a duet with D-Flame, now his current stage name ).
Other characters include Trumper's best childhood friend Couth, a still-photographer ; Merrill Overturf, an alcoholic and diabetic loon Trumper befriends in Vienna ; Ralph Packer, a pretentious documentary filmmaker who employs Trumper as a sound editor ; and Colm, Trumper's young son from his first marriage to Biggie.
In general, modern critics have not paid it much attention and consider it Chaucer's way of poking gentle fun at the young Squire's love of romance literature, frequent and somewhat pretentious digressions, and lack of narrative self-control.
The current trend among young people is to dismiss Standard Arabic as pretentious and, since it is not well-understood among those who have not been through secondary school, as a tool of control and oppression by the country's various regimes.
His co-star Haley Joel Osment was given the lead role of Cole Sear in The Sixth Sense, where, in a dramatic reversal, Morgan played Cole's nemesis, a pretentious young actor.

young and Frenchman
Asked a young mustached Frenchman.
The protective Mr. Bakewell wanted to see the young Frenchman established in a solid career before releasing his daughter to him.
From his vantage point high above the pavement, the young Frenchman was able to watch street performers at work, an experience he later cited as proving influential on his later art.
In 1979, a young Frenchman, Thierry Sabine, founded an institution when he organised the first " rallye-raid " from Paris to Dakar, in Senegal, the event now called the Dakar Rally.
Just as one of the great works of the Revolutionary period was written by a Frenchman, so too was one of the great works about America from this generation, viz., Alexis de Tocqueville's two-volume Democracy in America, which ( like the colonial explorers ) described his travels through the young country, making observations about the relations between democracy, liberty, equality, individualism and community.
In 1843 other people arrived with the intention of cultivating the island: the young Tyrolean Adolph Franz Obermüller, and after a few months, the Frenchman Charles Legrand and his girlfriend.
Upon arrival, Anger and Cocteau became friends, with the Frenchman giving the young protege his permission to make a movie of his ballet The Young Man and Death, although at the time there were no financial backers for the project.
At about this time she was instrumental in bringing to Charles ' attention a young Frenchman who proposed a solution to the longitude problem.
Soon, lone survivors are found at the Wyoming and France impact sites: a young girl and a young Frenchman.
It introduced two new comics, the eponymous Spirou drawn by the young Frenchman Rob-Vel, and Les Aventures de Tif ( later to become Tif et Tondu ) drawn by Fernand Dineur, and printed American comics such as Superman, Red Ryder and Brick Bradford.
Catherine stays faithful to François, although she meets a young Frenchman who fought for the Republicans in Spain and who turns out to be the young Patrice she had met while he was a child in the 1920s.
For 2003, McRae signed for Citroën, a team of winning pedigree due to its successes of the previous year with young Frenchman Sébastien Loeb but otherwise undertaking its first complete campaign at World Rally Championship level.
Mansell's misery was Alesi's jubilation as the young Frenchman took the lead with Senna closing.
She meets Darnay, the young Frenchman, on the voyage home with her father.
* Como Era Gostoso o meu Francês ( How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman ), a 1970 film, was based on Staden's stories ( but did not include him as a character ) and adds a subplot about the main character's love affair with a young native woman.
Set in Spain and France against the backdrop of a terrorist insurgency, the film tells the story of an aging Frenchman who falls in love with a young woman who repeatedly frustrates his romantic and sexual desires.
A dysfunctional and sometimes violent romance between Mathieu ( Fernando Rey ), a middle-aged, wealthy Frenchman, and a young, impoverished and beautiful flamenco dancer from Seville, Conchita, played by Carole Bouquet and Angela Molina.
None of the team can provide the required rare blood type, but a young Frenchman, Charles " Chips " Maury ( Gerard Blain ) can.
The Frenchman is slightly resentful of Caulder's appointment to the position of Director, feeling that he has been overlooked for the job though Helen Smith reminds him that he is, perhaps, too young to take up the position at this time.
Wenger had called the young Frenchman a " multi-functional player ", and a good addition to the squad.
In 2005, the young Frenchman made one of the biggest moves in the top 50 from the previous season, climbing 200 ranking spots.

young and from
It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.
Thorpe came to Louisiana from the East as a young man prepared to find in the new country the setting of romantic adventure and idealized beauty.
She was pious, too, once kneeling through the night from Holy Thursday to Good Friday, despite the protest of the nuns that this was too much for a young girl.
I remember one day when Mr. Hearst ( and I never knew why he liked me, either ) sent the Hetman a telegram: `` Please find some more reporters like that young man from Denver ''.
At that moment, up walked a tall young man with glasses who announced himself as a world citizen from Basel, Switzerland.
In `` My Song's Young Virgin Date '', for example, Thompson wrote: `` Yea, she that had my song's young virgin date Not now, alas, that noble singular she, I nobler hold, though marred from her once state, Than others in their best integrity.
This was taken after I came to live in Springfield, and it was made under the guidance of the Reverend Raymond Beardslee, a young preacher who came to the Congregational Church there at about the same time that I moved from New York.
While Aristotle censors literature only for the young, Plato would banish all poets from his ideal state.
But, here again, comparative benchmarks are lacking, and we do not know, in any case, what measure of profoundity and intensity to expect from healthy, young, secure and relatively inexperienced persons ; ;
Affirmatively Baker worked on the premise that `` young men spontaneously prefer to be decent, and that opportunities for wholesome recreation are the best possible cure for irregularities in conduct which arise from idleness and the baser temptations ''.
The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.
And so the young minister resigned, to go and study and pray, having never passed a day, he told his parishioners, when `` I did not gain from you far more than I ever gave to you ''.
`` We have just returned from Roswell, N.M., where we were defeated, 34 to 9 '', the young man noted.
between performances, enthusiastic young men from the audience will take the floor to demonstrate their own amateur graces.
The letters took their source from a stream of my imagination in which I was transformed into a young man not unlike my bunkmate Eliot Sands -- he of the porch steps anecdotes -- who smoked cigarettes, performed the tango, wore fifty dollar suits, and sneaked off into the dark with girls to do unimaginable things with them.
This has saved us from constant requests seven days a week and made us feel less brutal to the young `` less fortunate '' than ours.
Lawrence E. Griffin gives measurements of nineteen young anacondas, presumably members of a brood, from `` South America '' ; ;
William Beebe reports 26 inches and 2.4 ounces ( this snake must have been emaciated ) for the length and the weight of a young anaconda from British Guiana.
In contrast, Ditmars recorded the average length of seventy-two young of a 19-foot female as 38 inches, and four young were born in London at a length of 35 or 36 inches and a weight of from 14 to 16 ounces.
Alphonse R. Hoge's measurements of several very young specimens from Brazil suggest that at birth the female is slightly larger than the male.
It ranged from a freshman woman, just married, through the various academic growth stages, including one senior-graduate student, to a young faculty member recently married to a senior man who also attended.
In there aren't many young people in the neighborhood the modifier young takes dominant stress away from its head people: the fact that the young creatures of interest are people seems rather obvious.

0.188 seconds.