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Namin and Jisun befriend a young man named Sunam, a striver.
And the show doesn't depict her as some sort of scheming striver.
In "Nosedive," a striver (Bryce Dallas Howard) obsesses over her social-media rating.
Might she be willing, then, to consider an alliance with another ambitious striver?
He thinks she works for CBS, and, ever the striver, wants a job there.
This, prosecutors said, is when the striver Anna Delvey became the grifter Anna Delvey.
He's 30, single, a striver; she's 37, married, the mother of a teenage son.
His performance, as a strategic striver, a jealous rival and a doting father, is magnetic.
Dani: a striver, torn between her conscience and her desire to please her wealthy dad.
His father, Victor, worked in the fields but was known in the village as a striver.
Rubio, like most Republicans, always talks about the striver, the person who wants to get ahead.
At the same time, Mischa has earned the right to be considered a most risk-taking striver.
"Part-time jobs ain't fine," trills Julie (Pauline Étienne), the determined young striver at the movie's squishy-soft center.
In "Lake Success" Barry is a striver, a titan of finance grimly determined to make it to the very top.
It's a novelty to see her, however briefly, playing a wealthy, successful character, instead of a scrabbling working-class striver.
But she's also this big striver, and I think that moment at the end—is this exactly what I wanted?
He is a savage marauder, after all, and she a ruthless striver — both claimed power through shocking acts of violence.
Mr. Prine is the wry elder statesman, Mr. Isbell the brooding young striver, and Ms. Musgraves the chipper, progressive torchbearer.
He was going from one perennial striver to another, with a chance of helping the Raptors to their first title.
Jana, the first violinist, is a Type A striver forever hustling to keep from ending up like her aspiring-actress mother.
Convergences have long been a staple of progress, from multitools to kitchen implements to every other As Seen on TV striver.
Problem-solver and unlikely striver/achiever extraordinaire, with approaches, thinking (and tragic flaws) that ~100 years on deserve a deeper look.
There's a fine line between fit and too fit, hot mom and too hot of a mom, the striver and the shrew.
Blair then has no choice other than to work at Mo's firm, and is a disappointment to Blair's striver girlfriend (Casey Wilson).
Miranda hjmself portrays Hamilton, born in the Caribbean island of Nevis, who arrives penniless in New York like many another immigrant striver.
At a time of dizzying changes, Mr. Moynihan said he was not much of a hustler or a striver regarding his career.
The baron is about to marry Sophie, the young daughter of Faninal, an ambitious striver who has made a fortune selling arms.
Its Obama was a bit cold and aloof, its Hillary Clinton a relentless striver, and its George W. Bush a malapropism-spouting manchild.
Mayu is clearly a striver, someone who has made her looks her business, but in a blunter way than, say, Seina or Shion.
Sandler himself has — not inaccurately — described Howard as selfish, but the character is also a cockeyed optimist, a dreamer, the quintessential American striver.
"Beijing Bicycle" (2001), directed by Wang Xiaoshuai, told a similar story; an upwardly mobile striver tries lifting a bike after his own goes missing.
It found dark laughs in the dialectic of striver psychology, as the Evans family flips between two equally extreme reactions to racism and poverty.
Lady Gaga plays Ally, a striver with a big voice and a gift for songwriting who Jackson sees performing at a drag bar one night.
It was not yet clear whether she was just a striver seeking selfies at the president's resort or whether she had links to Chinese intelligence.
He arrived as a Patrick Bateman-style corporate striver-as-sociopath — both took out their aggressions on homeless people, among others — but also oozed insecurity.
When West débuted as a solo artist, in 2004, he came across as an Everyman striver whose petty arrogance masked a deeper set of insecurities.
Culture shock is only the first hurdle in the complicated and confusing process of coming to terms with being a striver in an elite college.
Before there was "Pachinko," there was "Free Food," a novel about a young striver who makes money at an investment bank when she really wants to make hats.
A striver now, Mr. Peacock said he hopes his summer of sometimes 70-hour workweeks will help him gain an edge when he applies to law school after graduation.
On the reality-TV competition "Nashville Star," she was a striver; then, on her first two major label albums, she was a dissenter, upending norms with verve and backbone.
When we meet her at 30, she has willed her world into one of orderly precision and hospital corners; she's an anxious striver, a workhorse, a maker of lists.
The target voter is no longer the upwardly mobile striver but the left-behind northerner, and "get on your bike" has been replaced by "climb aboard your mobility scooter".
But in many other ways, she's a classic political striver of the sort familiar in both parties: She went to an Ivy League school, studied law, and ran for office.
The main antagonist in the new movie, at least physically, is a striver and self-declared fan named Zero (Mark Dacascos), who's a devotee bumped up to the assassin big leagues.
Basically he just rhymes as a striver from a place where avenues of advancement are few, dropping a mean verse about a nine-to-five he had once along the way.
Such an insular character could benefit from the creative direction of a woman whose unique experience in the filmmaking industry might parallel Rey's own lonely sojourn from unseen striver to galactic savior.
Perrotta, who has seen all of his novels get at least optioned for adaptation, has been moving in this direction since "Election," in which he introduced the now-archetypal striver Tracy Flick.
For instance, in his review of Beyoncé's song, how does Jon Pareles support the statement that "Beyoncé's exhortation is not just for this lion king — it's for every righteous striver facing doubts"?
The average professional American worker is probably a concerned striver – employed, college-educated, making more than $50,000 (but less than $200,0003), married, with a kid or two at home who is under 18.
A striver who had worked hard to leave his rough beginnings behind through identification with a cultural elite, Cole found Jacksonian America: competitive, commercial and uncivil, a land of uncontrolled and destructive appetites.
The young woman I once was, seeking otherness and urbanity, a striver with class insecurities, had evolved into a stalwart mother in New Jersey, raising her kids in her hometown with their grandma.
On Divorce, being a striver means being unafraid to look for peace of mind even after the time in your life when society deems it "okay" for you to still be hunting for it.
Was Gauguin referring to himself, as Grau suggests, "as a striver who has not yet made it," or as a painter whose ambition exceeded the limits of his own lifetime, ars longa vita brevis?
Ross Douthat EVERY era gets the heroic founding father it deserves, and thanks to Lin-Manuel Miranda's celebrated musical, ours has Alexander Hamilton — the immigrant striver, the political genius, and of course, the closet monarchist.
Capitalism's central property is not integration but discrimination: competition separates the leader from the follower; the winner from the loser; the striver from the skiver: the dynamic, productive, English-speaking migrant from the benefit scrounger.
It wasn't just that her parents had spoiled her; she was an implacable social striver who hated and denied her backwoods Minnesota background as much as he loved and celebrated his own; she was unbearable.
The more skeptical reading of this places Mr. Buttigieg's bid in the context of a precocious striver who was desperate to raise his national profile by climbing whatever ladder happened to be available to him.
Those who attack her, then, are only playing into the Knope-like Clinton Democrats tried to build up — a tireless striver who suffers the slings and arrows of criticism to come out the other side, stronger.
"He was on the younger side, a little bit — considered to be a striver who was ambitious and not terribly savvy, and those are the kind of people that the Russians tend to compromise," Simpson said.
They think that a great poster dunk is supposed to be performed by a striver, someone reaching beyond the limits of themselves, and owning a dude at the rim in a way that shocks the audience.
His eventual journey from gritty preservationist to full-time resident of Sag Harbor, the East Coast's new-money epicenter, makes sense when you think of what survival meant to the young striver — getting the Mercedes back.
His unscripted live-streamed show gives a raw, unfiltered window into the life of a bipolar 20-something striver, trying to eke out a meaningful existence without the crutch of family money, or a traditional job.
Each character is given an archetype (the striver, the artist, the pretty boy), and much of the pleasure of reading The Most Dangerous Place on Earth comes from the immense specificity Johnson assigns to each one.
And in presenting himself as a self-promotional striver, he's allowed his patients to follow suit: a young woman recently garnered enough RTs to win herself a pair of breast implants from the good doctor on Twitter.
"There's enough Hamilton to go around," said Thomas Lannon, the assistant director of manuscripts, archives and rare books at the New York Public Library, whose "Alexander Hamilton: Striver, Statesman, Scoundrel" runs through the end of the year.
"Bing" as a name is meant to parody the striving, tech-obsessed upper middle classes who conflate consumer tastes with life philosophy, but no self-respecting upper-middle-class striver has any kind of reverence for Bing.
Keaton, meanwhile, plays Kroc much as he played Broadway impresario Riggan Thomson in Birdman: as a manic striver held back by all the little minds around him, and certain he deserves better things largely because he wants them.
Mr. Roth's main theme was not so much sex but the idea of the individual in America, the immigrant or striver, the kid straining against the confines of the kind of appropriate behavior elders consider linked to success.
Tess Romero stars as the young Elena, neither a queen bee nor a social outcast; she's a thoughtful kid, but unlike, say, "The Politician," this isn't about a shark-eyed striver gunning for the Oval Office since birth.
The new study illustrates that the same forces are at play at all levels of a discipline: the student, the young professional, the midcareer striver and beyond, to those old enough to wonder if their hand is played out.
Margot Robbie plays Harding as a lower-class striver whose poverty and lack of polish work against her from the start, in a field where she excels through raw talent and hard work, but still can't get an even break.
And though their paths crossed at more than one downtown art opening in the 1980s, it is safe to say that Ai Weiwei, the young Chinese striver, made little impression on Andy Warhol as he flitted through the adoring throngs.
But he presents himself, consciously or not, as a classic Asian-American striver, even if he tends to dress like a gangster on a spa retreat, and only the strictest Asian parent could fail to be proud of his success.
"Seeing Hamilton was an immigrant, he lives uptown, he's got this outer-borough-striver chip on his shoulder that Lin and I both had — like, I'm going to show these fancy people I belong — it felt so him," Mr. Hayes said.
It is hard not to wonder how this movie might have turned out if Mr. Sorkin had decided his protagonist was as much a weasel as the one he wrote for "The Social Network," another story of an American striver.
But, especially squared against robo-organism Steph Curry, those edges makes him seem defiantly human, a struggler and a striver putting together a fabulous career, of the type that makes you either an All-Star or an unfortunate snub on an annual basis.
Yet one of the most common responses to my book — sometimes meant as a compliment, sometimes a critique — is that its lead characters, a charismatic and volatile narcissist and the cripplingly anxious, morally compromised striver who becomes her confidante, are not likable.
In three special House elections held this year to replace congressmen nominated to Mr Trump's cabinet, Democrats ran candidates suited to their districts: a buttoned-down striver in Atlanta's richer suburbs, a quirky populist folk-singer in Montana and a pro-gun veteran in Kansas.
But there's another movie that comes to mind when looking at Molly in particular — Alexander Payne's Election (1999), and its dogged would-be class president Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon), another eyes-on-the-prize striver whose ambitions have kept her apart from the rest of her classmates.
It would be easy to see Naomi as a cold and ruthless striver, Erin as a scheming underling and Samantha — who lives a respectably funky, middle-class life in Park Slope with her wife and their two adorable children — as the voice of justice and decency.
Gillibrand's Mandarin can be written off as the résumé-building accomplishment of a striver, while Norwegian, which has no practical value for an American president, is taken as a sign of intellectual curiosity and authenticity — the sort of whimsical surplus achievement that often upstages workaday accomplishments.
It's clear that Logan would name her as a successor precisely because she's not a completely horrible person, but now that she thinks she might take over Waystar-Royco she's becoming the sort of striver her brothers are, which is to say one who believes morals are strictly optional, when you have the luxury of choosing.
The narrator of "I Love Dick" has a flair for social satire, and presents the letters, which are quoted in full, and transcripts of conversations between Chris, Sylvère, and Dick as "exhibits" in a case study of how the unseemly experience called "falling in love" unfolds for one feminist creative-class striver and her unfortunate husband.
It has taken the producers almost 14 months since Season 3 ended to cook up a new batch of episodes, but they reward the audience's patience by picking up where season three left off, with a major development that is seemingly hastening the descent of Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) from well-meaning, morally lax striver to sleazy, wholly corrupt drug lawyer.
"Celebrity" and "celebrity culture" are parts of modern life itself, and tracing them to a single source is silly—no celebrities could have been more popularly celebrated than the aristocrats of eighteenth-century French courts—but this particular American phenomenon, in which being a striver and becoming a star flow together in one field of action, really does seem to get started here.
Unpromising as this material might seem, Bearman uses it to suggest an endearing side of Shakespeare: the social striver, working frantically not to achieve recognition for his contributions to English theater but rather to elevate his family from a lowly position (in part a result of his father's business failure in the 1580s) to that of a gentleman, capable of living comfortably off income from investments.
She was the Tracy Flick class president to Trump's "Mad Men"-vintage assumed privilege and male id; she was the Wellesley striver bent on breaking the "glass ceiling" of the tower the likes of Mr. Trump slapped their names on in gold; she was "it takes a village" to the "I alone can fix it" of an unlikely septuagenarian exemplar of the Selfie Generation.
And since Prince was the first black pop star since Stevie Wonder and/or Michael Jackson to command widespread critical acclaim and the first since Jimi Hendrix to do so by virtue of rockist ideals (like expression, significance, etc), the temptation to play the auteur must have been pressing, and Prince played the auteur more cannily and creatively than your average arena-rock striver.
Mr. Sutherland shows up here, but he doesn't reprise his irresponsible character from the first movie; he is a supervisor to the five medical students having after-death adventures, each one a particular type (There's James Norton's playboy, Nina Dobrev's alpha, Kiersey Clemons's striver and Diego Luna's Diego Luna), saddled with guilt that haunts them despite their near-death experiences also turning them into super-geniuses.
This is part of what makes Timehop so transporting: On a good day, you can watch yourself cycle through half a lifetime of poses, from, say, worldly fan of obscure rock music (age 15), to worldly fan of obscure rock music but with a sense of humor about it (age 20), to noncareerist but definitely successful and not at all flailing post-college striver (age 23), all in a couple of swipes.
Her final race of the season was the October Oatlands Stakes, a race run over one mile, also at Newmarket. She started the seven runner race as the 5/4 favourite and duly won. Beating Striver into second place, with Chippenham third and Vivaldi fourth.
The play concerns the misadventures of the middle-class striver Jerry Frost. He is a 35-year-old "clerk for the railroad at $35,000 a year. He possesses no eyebrows, but nevertheless he constantly tries to knit them."Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The Vegetable: Or, from President to Postman.
An exhibition in Vienna about Gastarbeiter in Austria has the Serbian title gastarbajteri. A particularly avid student is called štreber (German Streber is striver). Schlag for cream is derived from the Austrian short form for Schlagobers. The Serbian word for tomatoes, Парадајз (paradajs), is influenced from the Austrian Paradeiser.
Gilby (Jeremy Brett), a smart striver is jealous of Harry, as he used to see Virginia before she rejected him. He notices the activities around the tower and reports Harry and Phil to the university authorities. The teachers are more annoyed than worried and call the fire brigade. The spectacle draws a crowd.
As a striver, he was mocked by the typing pool as Fancy-Pants Maclean.Cecil, A Divided Life (1989), pp. 50–51. Ronnie Campbell was to have a crucial impact on Maclean as well as his career. Another was Michael Wright, who was the senior First Secretary and always appreciated Maclean's drafting skills.
In 1903, Hagen wrote and published the novella Per Kjolseth, eller Manden til Marit, a comic sequel to Allan Saetre's popular Norwegian- American novella Farmerkonen Marit Kjølseths erfaringer i Chicago (Chicago, Ill.: J. Anderson Pub. Co., 1904). In both books, Marit's husband Per is represented as a striver, eager (perhaps too eager) to be Americanized.
"Turning Memory into Prophecy: Roberto Unger and Paul Ricoeur on the Human Condition Between Past and Future." The Heythrop Journal (2011):1–10. His deepening of the romantic-heroic tradition of the nineteenth century, for example, as expressed in the ideal of the "grand striver" appears in the work of thinkers from Cornelius Castoriadis to Roberto Mangabeira Unger.Rorty, Richard.
Houston was born in Washington, D.C., to a middle-class family who lived in the Striver section. His father William Le Pré Houston, the son of a former slave, had become an attorney and practiced in the capital for more than four decades. Charles' mother, Mary (née Hamilton) Houston, worked as a seamstress."Charles Hamilton Houston", Separate Is Not Equal: Brown v.
Eton, Widmerpool's presumed school At school (not identified but generally recognised as Eton)Barber 2004, p. 27 (description of wartime bomb damage tallies), Widmerpool is undistinguished academically and athletically, a "gauche striver" in the words of one literary commentator. He is the object of some ridicule, chiefly remembered for wearing the "wrong kind of overcoat" on his arrival at the school.A Question of Upbringing, p.
He was lenient on certain sins and severe to others. For him Blasphemy against God and his saints was one of the greatest sins. He remained an ardent spiritual striver until the end of life and practiced extreme forms of self-restraint with regard to food, drink, and sleep. St. Savvas became a shining example of virtue to all who came into contact with him.
The first wave of members were recent graduates of social sciences programs at Goucher College including Peace Studies, Anthropology, Education, Philosophy, Psychology, and Religion. Long standing members included: Britta Grant, Erin Reid, Lynne Price, Jenny B.N., Clarissa Gregory, Pilar Diaz, Christine Striver, Emile Sorger, Peter Redgrave, Marlys Yvonne, Laura Grossman, Melissa Talleda, Marilyn Mullens, Sierra DeSalvia, and Claire Cote - many of whom have since developed professions in the fields of dance, visual art, wellness, health, or social justice.
The musical starred Robert Morse as the young striver J. Pierrepont Finch, Rudy Vallee as the company president J.B. Biggley, and Charles Nelson Reilly as Biggley's perpetually peeved nephew Bud Frump. The musical was a smash hit, with a Broadway run of 1,417 performances between October 1961 and March 1965. It won eight Tony Awards and the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for best drama. It was adapted into a movie, also starring Morse and Vallee with Anthony 'Scooter' Teague as Frump, in 1967.
Jinx – He was able to place a powerful jinx on the phantom driver Norris Striver, who was doomed to drive around Lewes in his morris minor. Anyone who accepted his offer of a lift was doomed to join him in eternal drive around the Lewes one-way system, and Rune's assistant Rizla had foolishly done so. Rune's jinx caused the car to suffer a puncture, and as Norris was unable to leave the car himself he was forced to allow Rizla to leave so that he might change the tire.
" She describes his image in the videos as "not the classic poor, honest hero, nor is he the educated, middle-class striver who stands up to oppression", but instead an image "of [honour] and decency as a form of class solace, consolation, and solidarity", where the honour consists of Ali's entitlement to money that he claims is owed to him by Sisi. In his 4 September video, Ali describes his political profile, stating, "I'm not a liberal, I'm not Brotherhood, I'm not a secularist. I'm a working-class guy". Arman describes Ali's conflict with Sisi as a macho competition, "Ali plays the paragon of working-class masculinity against Sisi's more simpering version of manhood.
An attempt to redeem Collier's reputation from the charge of forgery was made by Dewey Ganzel in his 1982 study Fortune and Men's Eyes.D. Ganzel, Fortune and Men's Eyes: The Career of John Payne Collier (Oxford University Press, New York 1982). He argued that Collier's accusers, led by Frederic Madden, were motivated largely by envy and class bias, and that they were upper-class dilettantes determined to put down a lower-class but ferociously hard-working and talented striver. Some of the accusations against Collier, such as the claim by American psychiatrist Samuel A. Tannenbaum that Collier had forged all the accounts of the Master of the Revels, do not stand up to critical examination.F. E. Halliday, A Shakespeare Companion 1564-1964 (Penguin, Baltimore 1964), p. 109.
Donner's breakthrough directing role came with The Caretaker (1963), a film made with a low-budget funded almost entirely by financial contributions starting at £1,000 each from such individuals as Richard Burton, Noël Coward, Peter Sellers and Elizabeth Taylor, with the stars bypassing their standard fees and taking shares of the film's revenue. The movie, based on the play of the same name by Harold Pinter, was filmed in black-and-white with cinematography by Nicolas Roeg. Donner's next film, Nothing but the Best (1964), was a satire on the British class system starring Alan Bates and Denholm Elliott, based on a screenplay by Frederic Raphael. The film tells the story of Jimmy Brewster (played by Bates) as a lower-class striver who seeks to move up in the system under the tutelage of his upper crust instructor Charlie Prince (Elliott).
Abdullah Ghaznavi was noted among his disciples for his zealous devotion to God and remembrance of Him. He was said to be Mustajab Ad-Du’a (whose prayers are answered) meaning that many of his prayers were accepted. According to one account, once, while Ghaznavi was busy in the remembrance of God in the mosque, one could hear the walls of the Mosque repeating: lā ilāha illā -llāh (there is no god but Allah)."The Ghaznawi family", Umm-Ul-Qura Publications Shams-ul-Haq Azimabadi wrote of him in his Ghayat Al-Maqsud (1/12): > He was in all conditions drowned in the remembrance of Allah (Glorified and > Sublime be He) until his meat, bones, veins, hair and all his body was > turned towards Allah the Exalted, vanished in the remembrance of Him > (Glorified and Sublime be He)."The Ghaznawi family", Umm-Ul-Qura > Publications Sayyid Abdul Hay Al-Hasani An-Nadwi Al-Hanafi wrote in his Nuzhah Al-Khawatir (vol 7 p 302-303): > The Shaykh, Imam, scholar Muhadith ‘Abdullah ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad > Shareef Al-Ghaznawi, Shaykh Muhammad A'zam (his original name) Az-Zahid Al- > Mujahid (the ascetic striver) walking in the desire of Allah, preferring His > satisfaction over his self, his family, wealth and country.

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