Like Bob Hoskins in The Long Good Friday, Richie courts investors for his legitimate interests; like Boardwalk Empire's Nucky Thompson, he's finding out that you can't be half a gangster; and like The Godfather's Vito Corleone, he accommodates sons who have only a fraction of his ability.
Finally, when Mary and Annie, on a conveyor belt, are speeded past the famous statue, Mary pities the Virgin, "her lap, as wide as it might have been in childbirth," accommodating her son once more.
"I accommodate every son of a bitch that gets to me," Merle told me some time later.
Children were effortlessly accommodated: my son's octopus and chips was not on the menu, but was rustled up with a smile.
Mr. Drummond said: "Sometimes we have to decline a gig or rearrange rehearsals to accommodate our son, Dylan's, schedule and needs, but that's life".
What if Adam doesn't get his hand function?" They have discussed how the family will have to remodel the doors of the home and the bathroom and drive a different vehicle to accommodate their son.
With a major uptick in kid-related commitments, we're also realizing how much nicer it would be if we had smaller booster seats — and more of them — to accommodate our sons' friends.
Diane Sherrell, a substitute teacher in North Carolina who retired on disability, traded up to a bigger house four years ago to accommodate an adopted son.
Last fall, he and his wife, Sarah Berger, moved from a one-bedroom apartment in the Garment District to a somewhat larger one-bedroom in Boerum Hill, in order to accommodate their new son, Noah.
That virtuoso unbroken paragraph shows how his Republican-voting father dug himself out of a violent childhood in the south by paying his way through law school, "purchasing my life", as the narrator thinks, with a bitterness perceptible only in retrospect: the American dream – or at least his father's version of it – couldn't accommodate a gay son.
