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He never quite abandons any of them.
Then the film abandons the hit-and-run to embark upon a misty exposition of two unrequited, all-suffering loves.
At first life couldn't be better for him, the dog flees and the butcher abandons his shop letting the cat walk off with a pile of meat.
The invented yarn takes "The Dirty Dozen" for a ride and sometimes abandons it to pay tribute to other movies.
I think that all too often Hollywood abandons an attempt at real quality writing to try and inject more visual drama when, with an adult themed movie such as this, the emotional type of drama is all that's really needed - and probably more believable too.
So he puts them to sleep and abandons them off the side of the road.
Thinking Alexander reached his peak, abandons him but becomes legend.
Davies abandons her slapstick friend and father for the good life, but of course learns that is not who she really is.
Here we have a rather spoiled young woman who abandons her husband to take up with a sexy ex-con.
Anna Biller,in addition to acting as the film's central female lead,Barbi,also wore several hats in the production of this campy period piece (she wrote,directed & edited the film,in addition to set design & even supervising a brief animation sequence,where Barbi is experiencing her first real orgasm, while on some kind of psychedelic drug).The plot concerns a young,suburban housewife who's loutish husband ignores,and eventually abandons her,only to leave her to experimenting with her new found sexual self,including swingers,hippies,etc.
Abysmal screen adaptation of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" which not only frequently abandons the source material but is devoid of any of its themes or meanings.
How can you start off a summary about a movie that lacks every single element of entertainment and abandons any structure of coherence?
Nebbish everyman Henry Winkler (shedding his Fonzie image) abandons Wall Street brokerage for the more quiet and subdued night shift at the city morgue, much to the aggravation of his weight worrying girlfriend.
The movie bears very little resemblance to Vern's book and destroys or abandons all the best elements of the story.
This unfunny comedy establishes a weak premise - an astronomer's lonely wife takes up astrology - then largely abandons it, turning to a variety of creaky devices that just don't work.
This woman, who abandons her young daughter and loving partner to embrace a life of political extremism, is never portrayed as a villain (this is innovative, considering how harshly "bad" mothers and wives are normally represented in movies!).
As time goes by the viewer more and more abandons that faith.
As a work of fiction, this is an unexceptional piece of melodrama with a familiar story: the heroine falls in love with a man who abandons her cruelly.
The tenant finally vanishes, but not before stealing all the fixtures and fittings (why he does so, and why, if he'd planned to do this, had he bothered to set up all the potential lawsuits he hereby abandons, no-one ever explains).
He leaves the plane before it takes off and he abandons her.
It clearly describes the simple beliefs of the contemplative life: that as one abandons one's attachments to things and the material world, one is seduced into the nirvana of religious enlightenment.
This movie tries so hard to be dark and say something sarcastic about GenX kids that it abandons all attempts to explain itself.
In practice, an inflation-targeting central bank usually abandons the target for price stability in such a case.
A Germany that abandons Kohl’s legacy would suddenly become a source of deep uncertainty, rather than a bastion of stability at the center of Europe.
If the North abandons its nuclear weapons program, many benefits can be gained.
Steve Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary, seemingly abandons the United States’ strong-dollar policy but then re-embraces it.
In The Anatomy of Fascism, Columbia University historian Robert O. Paxton writes that:“Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal constraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.”
In the fight against terrorism, the Strategy abandons the predominantly military viewpoint underlying the war against terror, and embraces a more significant role for the intelligence services.
If the last superpower abandons these virtues, the world – all of us – will have to confront the consequences.
Almost everybody complains, almost everybody aggressively defends their own narrow and short-term interests, and almost everybody abandons any pretense of looking ahead or addressing the needs of others.
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