Sentence examples for Ava from inspiring English sources

Sickeningly, there was also the sound of one hand clapping for Ava DuVernay's hugely admired civil-rights drama Selma, also snubbed.

Selma (2014) Director: Ava DuVernay Entertainment grade: B+ History grade: A In 1965, Dr Martin Luther King Jr led a campaign in Selma, Alabama, to secure voting rights for black citizens.

The "AVA" in "Savages" has been deliberately set to look like a space rocket.

Selma at least has a best picture nomination, but no best director nomination for Ava DuVernay.

His speeches remain under copyright, and his famously litigious estate has licensed the film rights exclusively to Dreamworks and Warner Bros for a biopic of King being developed by Steven Spielberg – so director Ava DuVernay could not use any of King's own words.

For some that's made the snubs that Ava DuVernay's Martin Luther King biopic Selma received (it's been nominated for best picture and best song, but there's no acting or directing nominations) even more galling.

This prohibition apparently was relaxed sometime later to permit Jews to enter Jerusalem one day a year, on a day of mourning called Tisha be-Ava.

Ved-ava, among the Mordvins, the water mother, a spirit believed to rule the waters and their bounty; she is known as Vete-ema among the Estonians and Veen emo among the Finns.

Ava Helen Pauling died of stomach cancer in 1981.

Cukor traveled to India to make Bhowani Junction (1956), with Ava Gardner and Stewart Granger.

The Bribe (1949) was Leonard's first encounter with film noir, and the film received largely positive reviews, thanks in part to a strong cast that included Ava Gardner, Robert Taylor, and Vincent Price.