Lou Gehrig ( Cooper ) is a young Columbia University student whose old-fashioned mother ( Elsa Janssen ) wants him to study hard and become an engineer.

By the 1970s, characters were written with more depth, fitting into archetypes consisting of the young-and-vulnerable romantic heroine, the old-fashioned villain, the rival, the suffering antagonist, Mr. Right, the former playboy, the meddlesome and villainous mother / grandmother, the benevolent mother / grandmother, and the career woman.

According to letters written by Michael from Rome to his mother back in Sweden, she had raised him and his sister in an old-fashioned way and in the spirit of Christianity.

In 1996 she said in the Keith Joseph memorial lecture: " The kind of Conservatism which he and I ... favoured would be best described as " liberal ", in the old-fashioned sense.

Nava said: " We were filming in Mexico during the end of the López Portillo presidency, one of the last of the old-fashioned caciques to rule Mexico.

The ancient Jewish sage Hillel the Elder is said to have wrapped meat from the Paschal lamb and bitter herbs between two pieces of old-fashioned soft matzah, flat, unleavened bread, during Passover in the manner of a modern sandwich wrap made with flatbread.

I note with much pleasure what you said about German neodadaists — but I think even the Americans should not use the term " neodadaism " because neo means nothing and-ism is old-fashioned.

About their Beethoven recordings, Stereo Review said, " What these peerless players give us is a heady blend of old-fashioned warmth and communicativeness, with exemplary demonstrations of modern standards of both taste and technique.

" In 1893, Lady Stanley, wife of Governor General the Lord Stanley of Preston, said " you will find the furniture in the rooms very old-fashioned & not very pretty ...

Leo Amery said he looked like “ the old-fashioned family butler ”.

On 12 May 2008, Geert Wilders ( PVV ), who previously saw the reunification of Netherlands as " a Nazi and old-fashioned policy ", said in De Telegraaf that he was interested in the possibility of a merger between the Netherlands and Flanders.

The San Jiao is also said to be a metabolism mechanism similar to an old-fashioned water wheel that is turned by incoming water and creates energy for accomplishing a task, such as grinding grain in the case of the water wheel, or for metabolising and digesting food in the case of the San Jiao.

This brings him into conflict with not just Islam but also, sometimes, with old-fashioned Buddhism ..." Yet several well-known Vajrayana Buddhist lamas were married: Marpa the translator is said to have had nine wives ; others had romantic relationships, including the 6th Dalai Lama, and the teacher who brought Buddhism to Tibet, Padmasambhava, who had five Tantric consorts who were also his students.

“ He ran the committee the old-fashioned way, with loyalty, trust, and his word ” said former congressman Mike Andrews of Texas.

Wang knew the man was English, he said, by the old-fashioned clothing, rotted and disintegrating at the touch, and poked his finger into his cheek to indicate an injury.

He said it wasn't about being old-fashioned, but only about the need: " If there is need for a narrator, then one uses one.

To close, Reyes said he wanted to end the meeting as an old-fashioned church revival meeting.

In a letter to his eldest son, Frank Joslyn Baum, he said it was " nearer to the ' old-fashioned ' fairy tale than anything I have yet accomplished ," and in many respects, it adheres more closely to the fairy tale structure than the Oz books.

Elfman said of his score, " Again old-fashioned and melodramatic, but in a way that I'm crazy about.

McCartney said he wrote it as a production number for the movie Magical Mystery Tour, supporting an old-fashioned dance segment that starts with the Beatles coming down a grand staircase in white tuxedoes.

Allen said it was his opinion that if policemen were " equipped with a good old-fashioned hair brush, which could be applied to some of these kids ," there might be a lessening of juvenile crime.

The owner said no one was interested in the painting because it was considered too old-fashioned for the time.

The name kagami (" mirror ") is said to have originated from its resemblance to an old-fashioned kind of round copper mirror, which also had a religious significance.

Nancy and her stepfather got along very well ; she would later write that he was " a man of great integrity who exemplified old-fashioned values ".

Concerning her deliberately old-fashioned style, Blixen mentioned in several interviews that she wanted to express a spirit that no longer existed in modern times, that of destiny and courage.

The novel deals with its theme of self-reflection also on the level of narratology in that its main topic of mindreading is presented by an omniscient narrator ; a minor ironic twist consists of the novel-within-a-novel motif with the fictitious novelist Helen Reed pondering about the old-fashioned genre of the epistolary novel while her thoughts are presented the very form of letters / emails.

Although she was an orthodox old-fashioned lady, she never considered herself guilty of impiety by treating these ‘ untouchables ’ as her own children.

" The author of the article went on to state, " It is perfectly true that sometimes she works at her stories in a large old-fashioned bath, eating apples and depositing the cores on the wide mahogany surround.

She is often seen trying to teach her old-fashioned values to her daughter Honi, though Honi never truly " gets " it.

Throughout the run of the show, Vance's character of Ethel Mertz was dressed in old-fashioned and frumpier clothing to tone down her attractiveness and make her look older than she actually was.

The film was released to a mixed critical reaction, but her performance received rave reviews ; Anand Singh of Hindustan Times wrote, " Karnik is merely interested in wringing tears the old-fashioned way, and not in starting a debate.

Some Indian critics have labelled her authorial detachment as a sign of old-fashioned Western attitudes toward India.

Although an equal in her marriage to Cathy's Dad, Mom held many old-fashioned ideas.

Although she appears modest, conservative, and old-fashioned, David later discovers that she has a habit of getting involved with men who become obsessed with her, later abandoning them.

Crosby described her hymn-writing process: ' It may seem a little old-fashioned, always to begin one's work with prayer, but I never undertake a hymn without first asking the good Lord to be my inspiration.

Paparizou admitted that Greek music had been something of an acquired taste for her, and that the name " Antique " was probably a reflection of her childhood impression of it being something rather distant and old-fashioned ; something that she only really associated with her summer holidays in Greece.

Carter depicted Diane as an intellectual, old-fashioned, and snobbish, while he considered Rebecca the " lovable loser " business manager, who was unlucky in her career and relationships.

Even his younger daughter Hisako ( Miyuki Kuwano ) is on the side of her sister, finding her father too old-fashioned.

He is in love with Gertrude Butterwick but her father, named J. G. Butterwick in this novel ( it'll evolve ), feeling that his daughter should not marry some kind of a waster, requires Monty to hold down a job for a full year, and Gertrude, being an old-fashioned sort of girl of solid middle-class stock, refuses to elope with Monty.

She wears an old-fashioned peasant dress and possesses a staff, through which she generates her magic.

Christie records that her daughter protested against her decision to dramatize the book, and the instinct was probably right: most of the interest here, unusually, is internal, and difficult to present via Christie's rather old-fashioned stage techniques.