Sentence examples for straightforward boy from inspiring English sources
The story is straightforward: boy builds snowman; snowman comes to life; charming high-jinks ensue; snowman melts.
As an extra treat, there are also 14 minutes of newly recovered footage from "A Straightforward Boy," with Aoki as a child who exhausts the patience of a kidnapper played by Saito.
The children — in particular Aoki, who was a big star in Japan at the time thanks to his appearance in Ozu's "Straightforward Boy" — are equally adept at using broad pantomime to unlock the complexities of group relations and individual psychology.
In the fragment of "A Straightforward Boy," the title alone suggests that the kid will be something of a solvent — as in a remarkable scene in which, seated with his abductor on a park bench in close proximity to a policeman on the beat, he plays annoyingly with him and provokes an ire that has to be kept in check.
If any further incentive were needed to head over to see this graceful, many-layered comedy on the big screen, IFC provides one: showing along with it will be the surviving fourteen-minute fragment of "A Straightforward Boy," a medium-length silent comedy by Ozu from 1929.
Unless they're straightforward, boy band names rarely make sense.
It is elaborately layered metatheater and straightforward boy-meets-girl narrative.
By the time I got to Oxford, I wanted nothing more than to meet kind, decent, straightforward boys my own age, no matter if they were gauche or virgins.
The story is straightforward: the boy lives in the valley with his flighty, immature elder sister (Léa Seydoux), struggling to make ends meet.
It's a straightforward "teenage boy has to find out who he really is" kind of a plot.
Such a straightforward-looking boy was perfect for a con.
