Sentence examples for mattie from inspiring English sources

Mattie Faint has been a professional clown since he was 17 when, as a theatre student up from Plymouth, he got a gig as a grease-painted human signpost for a puppet show in London.

Jeff Bridges is the US marshal hired by Hailee Steinfeld's 14-year-old Mattie Ross to hunt down the man who killed her father.

And it had a happy ending, in which Rooster visits Mattie at her family ranch.

Mattie had worked for Mr. Kirk for several years and practically raised his motherless boy.

The Coens follow the classical filmmaking technique they used in "No Country for Old Men," and they keep sentiment to a minimum: Mattie doesn't fall in love with La Boeuf this time (even though Matt Damon looks good with long blond hair and a flowing mustache), and Jeff Bridges is neither as roguish nor as incurably lovable as John Wayne.

We're in Arkansas in the eighteen-seventies, and the fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross Hailee Steinfeldd), a brilliant girl in pigtails, hires the tough, alcoholic, one-eyed marshall Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) to assist her in finding the man (Josh Brolin) who robbed and killed her father.

At its core was the precise, precocious, hyper-articulate and very Christian young girl, Mattie Ross, who always gets her way and successfully browbeats the drunken, one-eyed lawman, Rooster Cogburn.

Steinfeld's Mattie Ross is pigtailed and sweetly determined, and wholly Back Then; you know pretty much all about her in the first minute or two she's on the screen, and the pleasure is in the confirming.

It turns out that Mattie-Lou, a young girl, is pregnant — and her father is the father.

The glittery sets were by Carol Bailey, the gaudy costumes by Mattie Ullrich.

Additionally, in what was a pleasant surprise, some of the lines that the Coens added, most notably Mattie Ross's pitch-perfect lament, "He has abandoned me to a congress of louts," are welcome supplements to Portis's fine field of linguistic pleasure.