Sentence examples for studious son from inspiring English sources
His son Biff, Willy asserts, will inevitably rise in the world, despite the moral failings they both swat away like pesky gnats, because he is "well liked," not merely "liked," as is Charley's studious son Bernard.
The story splits its time between northern Germany, where a prostitute (Nursel Köse) enters the lives of a lecherous widower (Tuncel Kurtiz) and his sombre, studious son (Baki Davrak), and Istanbul, where the prostitute's daughter (Nurgül Yesilçay) is living a threatened existence.
In the Broadway staging of "Death of a Salesman," directed by Elia Kazan, Mr. Keefer played Bernard, the studious son of Willy's neighbor Charley, in a cast that included Lee J. Cobb (as Willy), Mildred Dunnock (Linda, Arthur Kennedy Biff and Cameron Mitchellell (Happy).
After A Prophet, he played two out-and-out Arab heroes – a black-marketeer turned French resistance fighter in the wartime drama Free Men, and in Black Gold, set in a fictional Gulf state that suddenly strikes oil, the studious son of a sheikh who becomes a glamorous desert warrior.
To the chagrin of his hyperdisciplined, religious daughter and the delight of his less-than-studious son, Aidan takes matters into his own imaginative hands, rather than sticking to the boring old traditional curriculum.
Norman is the studious boy, the good son, and Paul, played by Brad Pitt, the renegade.
Some speculate that he plans to hand the reins of power one day to his studious, British-educated son, Hun Manet.In the meantime, foreign governments moan about his government's corruption, ineptitude and abuses, but he knows they are itching to spend their aid budgets and they lack the guts to turn their tough words into action.
I remarked to the owner's son, a tall, studious lad, that Eupen seemed more German than Belgian.
Manish and Rakhi Aggarwal later described their son as a studious middle-schooler, excelling in math, science, Spanish, violin and piano — and now cubing.
How many of us read of Doug Crossan's shock when he discovered that his "studious, polite and sensible" teenage son had managed to spend £3,700 on chests of gold for iPad games, and doubted either his parenting or, even worse, technological skills?
He was the quiet, studious one, Dave; the undisputed favourite son of my academic father.
