Sentence examples for as the shrink from inspiring English sources

As the shrink had evidently made clear, none of it had anything to do with Christie herself.

Back in the Vatican, Mr. Moretti, as the shrink, nearly hijacks the film with comic bits before Mr. Moretti, as the director, lowers the final boom.

But relieved of having to play the heart-throb, Law really is convincing as the shrink who has got himself in a panic, not merely accused of medical malpractice but suspected by his wife (Vinessa Shaw) of extramarital diddling: the look she gives Emily when the latter throws herself on her husband's mercy is a great "women beware women" moment.

Faithfully adapted from the German filmmaker Sandra Nettelbeck's 2001 feature "Mostly Martha," the movie provides these stock elements and many others, including a wisecracking preteenage girl (Abigail Breslin of "Little Miss Sunshine"), lyrical montages and too-cute therapy scenes (with Bob Balaban as the shrink) that play like unsubtle attempts to fill in the taciturn heroine's past.

But even the magnificent Samantha Bond, as the shrink's sexually inordinate wife, is forced into overplaying her hand.

When some clarification finally arrives, it's about as illuminating as the shrink's yammering about why Norman Bates done it in "Psycho," which is the point.

And as the shrinking polar ice caps make areas easier to access, the rivalry over Arctic resources will be intense.

The newspaper — whose name means "freedom of the press" — is a victim of poor management, John Henley writes, as well as the shrinking economy there.

John Kao: There's this question about what I might refer to as the shrinking American future.

"Keeping the infrastructure in the desert alive will probably be too costly, as the shrinking former resort towns alongside the nearly abandoned Salton Sea exemplify".

But the technical difficulties become ever more daunting as the wavelengths shrink.