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You know, that movie where he plays ornery elder to assorted subordinates, each insult or physical assault a sign of his arrogance and superiority, even as he's waiting to be revealed as a decent guy who only needs to be appreciated.
Mary was the elder sister, not the young one.
Admittedly, my exposure to him came late in his career, mostly through his television specials in the 1970's which the elder members of my family insisted on watching.
It's a campfire tale not meant for roasting marshmallows; a homespun creation myth rendered by the elder which coincides with the sudden departure of the grandfather as the scene's focal point, when the camera tilts down, then passes slowly across an expanse of fire and grassland.
The actual nice things in the movie are small details like the secret eating of the walnut by the elder sister,like the scene of epilepsy attack of Deli Omer...- In the beginning of the movie,there was a scene o a cat moving around a man crying which is shot totally incidentally,is making you feel good ,happy but not...and immediately after the dead man comes alive and you feel peculiar...
Like Der blaue Engel from 1930, Der Untertan is made after a famous novel by Heinrich Mann, the elder and politically more interested of the two German writer brothers.
Why can't we love and lust after our elder aunt?
Janet Leigh played young June Forsyte and Harry Davenport the elder Jolyon Forsyte.
After a suicide attempt and being released from the hospital, his elder brother pays a Christian Rehabilitation House for two months of his stay.
Robin wright (Penn) is excellent as Cathleen Flannery and Ed Harris is great as the elder Flannery.
Today he should be making intelligent independent movies, elder statesmanly flourishes of wit and humanity, inspiring a younger generation.
Frequently visiting their home from then on to have tea or breakfast, Recep starts liking the elder daughter, Nihal.
When Sharpe and Harper pretend to be deserters themselves in order to join the Rajah's army, Sharpe will also encounter the beautiful and deadly Madhuvanthi (Padma Lakshmi), regent and elder sister of the Rajah.
The elder son does eventually break free; it comes at a point where he is mature enough to discern that Sante's endless scheming guarantees that a productive life is impossible for anyone connected with her.
The elder Abedi returned to Libya six years ago to fight alongside a new Western-backed Islamist militia known as the Tripoli Brigade.
Only three hostages and one Israeli commando – Yonatan Netanyahu, the elder brother of current Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu – were killed in the operation.
On July 3, Karma’s elder brother, Rinchen Samdrup, 46, was tried on charges of “endangering state security.”
The elder Bhutto disregarded some of the provisions in the constitution that sought to limit his power.
The elder statesman of this generation of pragmatists died last week.
On June 10, 1994, at the peak of the first North Korean nuclear crisis, China informed Kim’s father, Kim Jong-il, that it would no longer veto UN sanctions on North Korea, driving the elder Kim to adopt a less antagonistic position.
The elder Batlle was revered in his lifetime and beyond.
Paradoxically, today's Left benefits from a nostalgia for those Colorado times, when Uruguay's wealth made the elder Batlle's populism possible.
Yet the elder Bush turned out to have had the better foreign policy.
Hu Jintao may have made a genuflection to his more liberal mentor, but in the two decades since the elder Hu’s fall from power, even as private space has expanded, China has become a politically far less open society.
But Africa’s elder boom will be a disaster if living longer means living sicker because of inadequate health care.
Significant improvement is needed in mentoring, parental leave, childcare, and elder care, as well as more gender-equal retirement and pension schemes.
The elder Assad’s images were ubiquitous; among the first landmarks to greet me upon my release was a huge statue of the president.
The elder brother, Tamerlan, who died in a gun battle with the police, appears to fit perfectly the profile of what the German writer Hans Magnus Enzensberger calls “the radical loser.”
In that elder generation, many had pursued military careers, and many of their aides and collaborators were engineers and civil servants.
As the only son of liberal party elder Xi Zhongxun, Xi is also a ranking CCP “Princeling.”
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