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The narrative of the film is a retelling by people who knew him, a sexy but soon disillusioned actress, a director who once worked with Shields but then got cut off from him, and a writer played by Dick Powell.
She became increasingly disillusioned as she went off to entertain in each war.
All the while Nigel's wife (Kristin Scott-Thomas) is becoming disillusioned with Nigel's fascination with Mimi and Oscar.
My own grandparents, who had been brought to the US by their parents, who escaped Russian revolution and Bolshevik rule in 1918, had later on become enamored of the communist propaganda and disillusioned due to the Great Depression, had them selves gone back to the Soviet Russia in 1930!
But the inane editing of this mess (supposedly by Bob Dylan himself - no wonder -) leaves you completely disillusioned and unsatisfied.
I love the message this movie embodies; it sends out an inspiring message to the disillusioned and the ignorant.
Is she depressed, disillusioned?
You are reading the comments of a very disillusioned man.
Gig Young plays a disillusioned policeman vacillating between leaving and staying with his wife and quitting and keeping his job.
But Packard's magnum opus was a scream of impotent rage from just one disillusioned individual.
Brad Pitt was so-so as a disillusioned vampire, but looked so gorgeous in his fake teeth, who cares?
The more relevant social commentary is the portrayal of women, after they have lost that flush of young love, tend to become disillusioned.
An interesting and somewhat mysterious tale of a middle aged couple who grow disillusioned with their dry cleaning business and find outlet with a cross dressing brother-sister-lover couple of performers.
Awe and danger linger over nearly every scene, as the priest (Lothaire Bluteau) and his young European assistant (Aden Young) are accompanied by an increasingly disillusioned band of Huron Indians led by Chomina (August Schellenberg) whose daughter (Sandrine Holt) takes an interest in Daniel (Young) and in the process arouses strong sexual feelings in the celibate Father Laforgue(Bluteau) when he discovers them one evening making love.
Powell leaves, disillusioned.
The planet contains a population of relatively disillusioned human beings who, when not complaining or uni-bike racing, raise armies to try and control the planet.
As a result, disillusioned and disaffected voters in advanced economies are challenging established political parties to find solutions or cede power, while millions of people from poor countries, unable to envision a future at home, are risking their lives by crossing deserts and seas in search of economic opportunity.
And yet, for now, the societies depicted so acidly in Leviathan and A Touch of Sin continue to look good in the eyes of many people who are disillusioned with Europe’s economic stagnation and America’s political dysfunction.
Brazilian Democracy on the BrinkRIO DE JANEIRO – With Brazil’s presidential and state elections just days away, the country’s citizens are frustrated, disillusioned, and angry.
Faced with an entrenched status quo, many Sikhs of less privileged backgrounds became disillusioned.
People understandably become disillusioned when their government or the business community doesn’t seem to value them, especially when such treatments stems from their gender, race, religion, sexual identity, or national origin.
As Berlusconi has shown, when the population is feeling grumpy or disillusioned, as much of America is today, this approach can be highly effective – and for a very long time.
Disillusioned ANC members can be strong allies for Ramaphosa’s reform attempts; they were powerful enough to elect him over Zuma’s preferred candidate, his ex-wife and former African Union Commission chair Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.
The classic scenario is to expect too much of a new leader and then to become disillusioned when he fails to deliver quickly.
In many regions of Africa, for example, young people are disillusioned with politics, convinced that wealthy older people will always prevail and advance their own interests, often at the expense of younger generations.
As they build up their export potential and seek expanding markets, east Europeans become disillusioned with Europe's economic sclerosis.
Yet, as the security expert Sajjan M. Gohel has observed, “the displaced and disillusioned Taliban youth of today” have “found solace and purpose in an extremely radical interpretation of Islam.”
Inequality has risen sharply, spurring many populations to become increasingly disillusioned not just with the specific factors fueling it, but with openness and globalization in virtually all its forms, including immigration and free trade.
Both now face major problems with disillusioned populations.
Some experts have suggested that hardline opposition to the ban treaty could prompt a backlash from countries that have grown disillusioned with the NPT, leading to widespread withdrawal from the 1968 treaty.
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