Kat splits, and Jane fruitlessly contemplates office romance fantasies featuring Ryan.
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Over the summer, I too had searched fruitlessly for Trump's Chinese factories.
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Senate Democrats are trying, fruitlessly, to hold McConnell to his own standards.
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Nadira looked, fruitlessly, and was almost glad that she couldn't find her cat.
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And she has spent the last 16 years fruitlessly trying to track her down.
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The dissent noted, however fruitlessly, that Gissler disavowed a causal link between abortion and suicide.
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They have cooperated since last year on diplomacy to end the wider war, largely fruitlessly.
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Police divers searched fruitlessly in the Titicus Reservoir across a small lane from the estate.
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The steward frowning at the controls, pulling the lever fruitlessly, fingering buttons with little confidence.
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He later searched fruitlessly for Franklin's lost expedition in the frozen waterways of Canada's Northwest Passage.
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"I don't know where to wipe my hands," wailed one Wingette, looking fruitlessly around for help.
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For 15 minutes I fed my quarter into the phone and fruitlessly pressed the same buttons.
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U.S.-North Korea nuclear negotiations have been deadlocked with working-level talks in October ending fruitlessly.
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The city had tried fruitlessly to delay the release of dash camera video of the shooting.
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Enjoy the sight of a Shiba Inu pup fruitlessly lunging at its own tail again and again.
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Sometimes watching them debated endlessly and fruitlessly makes us all feel like punching someone in the face.
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And as I wandered fruitlessly through this maze of emotions I felt my mind losing its way.
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These are the meaningful emotional stakes for which this series has fruitlessly searched for so many weeks.
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All around, television cameras pressed in, as Ms. Ocasio-Cortez's team tried fruitlessly to keep them back.
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Though fairly fruitlessly, as it turned out; the leak gained little attention on Reddit, per the company.
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Fong meets Liang Zhongtang, who fruitlessly attempted to dissuade China's leaders from adopting the policy in the 1980s.
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On terror, Trump said Clinton created ISIS and had spent the last decade fruitlessly struggling to contain it.
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Dramatic battles had raged as the Islamic State fought fruitlessly to salvage its ruthless reign; she knew that.
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But, in the meantime, it brings us delightful footage of sperm desperately, fruitlessly swimming into a fake fallopian tube.
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I've been on crutches for seven weeks, recovering from a complex surgery, and I'm trying fruitlessly to clean up.
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For now, Twitter remains the domain of the uber-partisans, fruitlessly fighting their verbal battles in 280 characters or less.
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Becoming involved in a fruitlessly divisive one will distract from the others—and risks raising expectations that cannot be satisfied.
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"Be My Lover" plays while Cunanan fruitlessly searches for Versace in a South Beach club in a fit of desperation.
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Staff tried fruitlessly to shoo them away and disperse them with the aircraft's windscreen wipers before calling the fire brigade.
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As Inpon fruitlessly mopped the porch of his waterlogged house, a young family evacuated their stilt home in the rain.
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And in 1998, some Democrats fruitlessly suggested censuring former President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky scandal instead of impeaching him.
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He patiently (and fruitlessly) argued against the emergency declaration, which he sees as usurping congressional authority to splinter Senate Republicans.
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We tried fruitlessly to distract him, both from the physical pain and the pain of not knowing what would come next.
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It allows for people to respectfully talk about controversial matters, rather than fruitlessly speculate about each other's hidden and nefarious motives.
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Footage of the bird preening and cooing as he fruitlessly courted a decoy made of concrete has been watched obsessively online.
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Max Baucus and other Democratic senators spent months fruitlessly negotiating with Republicans, who, it is obvious in retrospect, were cynically stalling.
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Johnson had fruitlessly pursued the undefeated champ James J. Jeffries prior to that, but his white rival had refused to fight him.
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In fact, the plunge into silence proved powerfully disconcerting: like a cartoon character shoved over a cliff, running fruitlessly in mid-air.
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Already, American diplomats are fruitlessly invoking U.S. and Turkish shared values, while American citizens and U.S. government employees are jailed and abused.
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Walking away meant another season of fruitlessly circling shoes in my brother's Eastbay catalog, leaving it open to the page boasting SALE!
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First Ashley, who gets gutted while fruitlessly yelling "Croatoan," just like his character, then Dave, who gets grabbed by the Chen girl.
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Mr. Manson knew the house: Terry Melcher, a well-known record producer with whom he had dealt fruitlessly, had once lived there.
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The image of the lonely gay man searching fruitlessly for love, quipping through the tears or not, continues to stalk the stage.
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After a decade of fruitlessly besieging the city of Troy, the Greeks seemed to sail away for home, leaving behind a gift.
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Central banks globally have spent years fruitlessly trying to awaken long-dormant inflation, and some analysts say it's time to stop trying.
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I worry that my gainfully employed friends will think there's something wrong with me when they realize how long I've been fruitlessly searching.
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A social crisis ensued: Women-headed households below the poverty line soared; sexual violence increased; and families searched fruitlessly for their disappeared relatives.
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Elio is immediately intrigued by Oliver, and soon finds himself torturously in love, and fruitlessly trying to fight it, at least at first.
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He came of age in an era of unparalleled national fracture and sought desperately, although fruitlessly, to unite the country through his poems.
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By the tale's end, Nixon is ruthless and paranoid, an alcoholic shell of a man fighting fruitlessly to retain his illusions about himself.
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But over the years, I thought about Shydlovski a lot, googling him fruitlessly from time to time, worried about what had become of him.
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What they share is a rejection not of the "postwar international order" — as many pundits fruitlessly argue — but of the order of the 1990s.
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Lying on my back in the snow, staring fruitlessly for hours at grayscale clouds, the hunt for the northern lights felt like a farce.
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That burden leads lots of folks to fruitlessly hunt for the perfect email client in the same way I hunt for the perfect word processor.
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Breitbart, house organ of Steve Bannon's solipsistic revolution, fruitlessly dispatched two "reporters" to Alabama to sift through the women's lives for nuggets to shame them.
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After digging fruitlessly for the right story, I decided to call my dad — recording without his knowledge — to see what might come of a conversation.
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Assad knows it, Russia knows it, and de Mistura — who has been fruitlessly negotiating with Moscow and Damascus for more than a year — knows it.
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Instead of fruitlessly trying to tame lust, the theory goes, we can remoralize sexual culture by taming misogyny, extirpating toxic masculinity, and re-educating men.
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VIENNA — After years of trying fruitlessly to prop up energy markets, OPEC on Wednesday finally reached a consensus on production cuts, sending oil prices soaring.
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Most notably, the German leader fruitlessly attempted to persuade Putin of a diplomatic solution when war raged in the eastern region of Ukraine in 2014.
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We see a man, appearing three times, being walloped by a hamburger, flying fruitlessly after money, and trying to shoot the ducks hiding in his hair.
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Pardo, who has thinning hair and a beard, bears a passing resemblance to Lenin; he looked weary, having spent the day fruitlessly challenging a housing eviction.
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The hijackers tried fruitlessly to negotiate the release of dozens of Palestinians who were being held in Israeli prisons and — after killing Klinghoffer — fled the ship.
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After fruitlessly calling multiple local pharmacies to try to find the EpiPen, Thiel said she asked her pediatrician to write a prescription for the Auvi-Q.
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A biologist caught on camera a devastating glimpse of the effects of climate change: a starving polar bear scavenging fruitlessly for scraps of food on dry land.
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Most recently, it's fruitlessly tried to persuade people away from Google Fiber and even sued one city for installing fiber and then offering to sell them fiber.
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His sentence completed, he then waited in immigration detention more than a year and a half while the government fruitlessly hunted for a place to deport him.
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The Obama administration had fruitlessly asked Congress to enact a specific military force authorization for the Islamic State as well, while also saying it was legally unnecessary.
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Footage shows one officer, a cord tied around his torso, crawling on the ice toward the dog as she splashes fruitlessly on the edge of the pond.
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Isn't that always the way, that at the heart of the fire is a frozen kernel of sorrow that the fire is trying — valiantly, fruitlessly — to eradicate.
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Mr. Verma, 37, who emigrated from India, has repeatedly renewed his H-1B visa while waiting fruitlessly for permanent resident status — also known as a green card.
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It was only when Joe started applying, fruitlessly, for dozens of jobs that he understood, to his shock, how disadvantaged he was in the graduate job market.
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Seeking a solution to what was widely referred to as the "Jewish problem", Western officials fruitlessly considered places—Madagascar, British Guyana—where eastern European Jews could be resettled.
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The country's divided reality plays out in an exhausting manner day to day as people with opposing views shout fruitlessly at one another from across the political spectrum.
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After wandering through the narrow side alleys of Ekkamai asking fruitlessly for directions, I came across a forlorn-looking plastic sign advertising lunch specials at Pyongyang Okryu Restaurant.
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The service interruptions highlighted the potential risks of a consolidated social media giant, as users flitted from one lonely social feed to the next, searching fruitlessly for updates.
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After appealing fruitlessly for help to Egypt's tourism ministry, the group has released graphic footage of abused horses and camels to drum up international support for the campaign.
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He said there were countless cars spinning their wheels, fruitlessly trying to get up modest hills, and he saw several drivers abandon their cars in search of help.
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Don and three others were never seen again, with Jane left to trawl the Himalayas fruitlessly searching for her husband, while James and Kathy looked after her mournful dog.
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The winning run scored as Harris was fruitlessly trying to catch a throw from Jason Castro, a catcher playing first base, on an infield single by SS Jose Iglesias.
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Starting in 1982, authorities in Seattle searched fruitlessly as a serial rapist and murderer killed dozens of women and buried their bodies along the Green River in Washington state.
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She also labored, fruitlessly, to understand Ms. Johnson's intricate calculations, going so far as to skip Beyoncé's May 1 concert at the Georgia Dome to do her math homework.
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Brantley then sprang to his feet and fired a dart to Gurriel, who completed the inning-ending double play as Judge fruitlessly tried to scurry back to the bag.
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Dr. Whitten said he had tried for years, fruitlessly, to determine whether environmental impact assessments had been carried out before cement companies were given permission to dynamite the karsts.
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Toying fruitlessly with themes of reincarnation and the transmigration of souls, "The Prodigy" gives the audience little to muse on except who will make it to the end credits.
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But the main diplomatic effort is being led by mediators from the African Union and Ethiopia who have worked, so far fruitlessly, to bring the protesters and generals together.
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After several months of fruitlessly working through layers of customer service representatives, he gave up on talks with the bank and filed a consumer bureau complaint on his wife's behalf.
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For days, dozens of them lined up outside in the morning, fruitlessly trying to get prescriptions from the remaining staff or at least retrieve their medical records to take elsewhere.
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After negotiating fruitlessly with U.S.A. Hockey for 15 months, the American women threatened to boycott the tournament, which is being played 30 miles west of Detroit at U.S.A. Hockey Arena.
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It is also politically imperative to terminate the SGP, since it involves the Commission excessively and fruitlessly in the core function of a democratic parliament: the approval of a national budget.
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Following Donald J. Trump's unfathomable electoral victory last week, Facebook found itself spastically and fruitlessly defending itself from claims it helped produce the outcome with its feed full of fake news.
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When it announced the druid's recruitment on Tuesday, the town said that it had exhausted all other options, after advertising extensively and fruitlessly for a doctor through classified ads and posters.
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Dano doesn't appear in his own movie, but its texture is of a piece with his courteous and careful performances, where he always seems to plead fruitlessly with an unjust world.
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And in the ensuing fortnight, America's trading allies overseas desperately — and fruitlessly — sought clarity from the Trump administration about the applicability of these tariffs, and the process for winning possible exemptions.
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After searching fruitlessly in the smoke for the other two men and nearly passing out, he testified, he got out of a window into breathable air — only to be shot at.
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Officials in Brussels appealed fruitlessly to France, Germany and the Czech Republic to lift controls on the export of protective medical gear, which they imposed to head off shortages at home.
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Terry McAuliffe argued, as he has fruitlessly through four years in office, that if the Republican-controlled General Assembly in Richmond would expand Medicaid, 400,000 low-income Virginians would be helped.
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Wendy (a spot on Ann McDonough), a former nurse and a not-so-secret on-site drinker, is married to Dev (James Murtaugh), who fruitlessly peddles the gospel of success books.
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In this scene, one plucky iguana was set upon by a swarm of snakes, only to miraculously wriggle free and scrabble up the surrounding rocks, serpents nipping fruitlessly at its heels.
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Swamping a population of disease-spreading insects with individuals that cannot reproduce can be an effective way to limit numbers; lots of the fertile wild ones breed fruitlessly with the sterile interlopers.
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Dev is never able to track down his phone, and resorts to desperately, but fruitlessly, searching the internet for women named Sara who like Under the Tuscan Sun and work in finance.
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If an employer wants an employee with a particular set of skills, she can invest in an enthusiastic-but-unqualified candidate, rather than fruitlessly searching for the "just right" Goldilocks job applicant.
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Dogs will demand their supper at the usual margin of day and dark, and their people will spend an entire hour fruitlessly trying to convince them that it isn't in fact suppertime.
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Fox News' Martha McCallum tried fruitlessly to grill a top Trump administration health official on whether the US has enough medical equipment like ventilators to treat a growing number of coronavirus patients.
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The F.B.I. agent Hannah Wells has raced through reveal after shocking reveal while President Kirkman has stumbled after her, wading through bureaucracy and banging his head fruitlessly on the nation's largest mysteries.
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Such an effort would surely exceed, in scale and futility, President Woodrow Wilson's decision to send the Army and that National Guard to the Southwest to fruitlessly chase Pancho Villa in 2400.
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After generations of minority communities fruitlessly complaining about police misconduct, video evidence seems to be leading the broader public and officials to realize that there truly is some legitimacy to those complaints.
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In sunny cities such as Naples and Valencia, the clothesline still reigned supreme; but by 1920 America's wooden-clothespin-makers were struggling, crying fruitlessly for protective tariffs against the Swedes and the Chinese.
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Macron was also subjected to rowdy student questions at the university after his speech in Ouagadougou, and was sometimes left fruitlessly hushing as he struggled to get his answers heard above the crowd.
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Staff from Air India, which operated the flight, tried fruitlessly to remove the bees, but ultimately had to call in the fire brigade, which then used a hose to blast the insects away.
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They continued, fruitlessly, to issue naturalization papers to Asian soldiers even after the Supreme Court ruled in 1925 that any veteran ineligible for citizenship by "color or race" remained ineligible, regardless of service.
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For those eager to get their hands on a system at all costs, even if it means fruitlessly placing a UK preorder with an international shipping address, this looks like a potentially viable option.
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Republicans employed the same strategy, only with much thinner evidence of wrongdoing, when, in an effort to embarrass Hillary Clinton, they repeatedly and fruitlessly investigated Islamist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, which killed four Americans.
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We're sitting outside a chain coffee shop in central London, a backwards jaunt to the big city for a small town songwriter, and he's rummaging in his pockets fruitlessly for a pre-made rollie.
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Grim as that fate may seem, Camus reframes Sisyphus as an absurdist hero, scrambling fruitlessly but nobly to make meaning for as long as he can keep the rock that is his life rolling.
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Will they spend it fruitlessly trying to lure Trump voters, or will they give uninspired black Democrats a reason to vote and offer disaffected Obama-Johnstein voters a reason to return to the fold?
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It's been almost a week since the election, and many of us have been fruitlessly searching anywhere we can for just a modicum of solace, but there's been no escaping the crushing fist of reality.
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Viewers might find horror a little less cathartic and a little more depressing if they actually liked every eviscerated victim on-screen, and were fruitlessly rooting for them, then watching them ignominiously lose their lives.
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But Borges refused, breaking a years-long streak in which the opposition ramps up pressure on the administration only to help diffuse it at the last minute by coming to the bargaining table, usually fruitlessly.
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Inspired by that hot spring, and using a heavily mortgaged drill that had been brought to Iceland to search fruitlessly for gold, the city soon tapped the underground hot water generated by Iceland's volcanic underbelly.
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He went back to his hotel room and searched fruitlessly on the internet for her—going so far as making a LinkedIn page, hoping he'd be able to track down the company she worked for.
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After fruitlessly searching far and wide for contact details, I was eventually put in touch with DiCicco by a friend of mine who'd heard from him after writing a piece about Air Bud last year.
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While Republicans in Washington have fruitlessly sought any way to exorcise Mr. Moore from the race, alarmed that he would imperil their narrow Senate majority, their nominee has all but laughed at his own party.
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For example, a 1933 cartoon assailing the Roosevelt administration's spending practices was titled "What we need is another pump" and showed a desperate Roosevelt, with billions already spent, pouring more water into a pump, fruitlessly.
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Still, this is a good sign for biohacking enthusiasts who are already interested in the tech; I have an NFC chip, for example, that I've been trying fruitlessly to use as an office keycard for years.
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David Llorente, co-founder of Narrativa, said was inspired to develop an AI-powered content generation system after he tried fruitlessly to find coverage of minor league soccer games from other countries in his native Spanish.
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Love held Bobbi aloft on her index finger and then went dashing down the path between the compound's two rows of aviaries, shouting, ''Fly, Bobbi, fly,'' giving her fruitlessly flapping charge at least the semblance of flight.
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Chris Murphy's epic 15-hour filibuster last week represented a resounding tactical victory for Democrats who won the right to stage Senate floor votes on two gun control ideas the party had been pushing fruitlessly for months.
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That email corroborated two things that feminist writers have been insisting, fruitlessly, for years: One, that the abuse we endure daily on social media isn't just a byproduct of the internet but a politically motivated silencing campaign.
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After fruitlessly trying to determine Cruz's identity, the agent sought to close the case on October 11, 2017, and it was officially closed after a second review suggested that the matter was not a national security threat.
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These legitimate questions quickly gave way to a partisan witch hunt, in which Republicans in Congress repeatedly and fruitlessly attempted to pin the blame for Stevens's death on President Obama and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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" So many of the characters, worn down by a life of disappointments, feel as Luke does when, after fruitlessly digging in his garden for ancient coins, he tells Pepper: "In the end you have to let it go.
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They shut off the lights and huddled in the blackness, some praying, some crying, most of them trying fruitlessly to get a cell signal to reach their parents, as shot after shot echoed from just outside the door.
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The network has during the past year and a half fruitlessly pushed for comprehensive health care and immigration reform, and like other leading conservative groups, the network has been powerless to persuade the President to rethink policies they oppose.
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Argentina's government is "trying to stop burning through reserves fruitlessly" amid a collapse in rollover rates for its short-term debt, Fiona Mackie, regional director for Latin America at the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), said via Twitter on Thursday.
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But for a fair bit of the film, they send other people (an archivist, an archeologist, and so forth) out in their place, to express ideas that circle fruitlessly around the idea of the stuff we all accumulate in our lives.
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Do we not get our chance to remember that we were once capable of burning the seat of power of the mighty United States, if only quickly, fruitlessly and (if I remember "The Star-Spangled Banner" correctly) mostly at night?
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After years of fruitlessly making that same argument, a more worthwhile observation might be this: The process used to choose which turkey might be pardoned is far more rational, efficient and effective than the one used to evaluate clemency for humans.
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Like Prince Naz, he's wasted a good amount of time between fights, always fruitlessly chasing the super box office draws like Floyd Mayweather or Manny Pacquiao for months, even if they had given no public inclination of wanting to face him.
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The response of most movement conservatives was, unsurprisingly, shock and horror, the "how could this happen" approach you've seen play out in mainstream op-eds and magazine articles; National Review fruitlessly devoted an entire issue to stopping Trump during the primary campaign.
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LONDON — In 3133, Sama Danesh, a former computer engineer in London with long-held dreams of setting up a luxury swimwear line, finally found her ideal manufacturing partner after searching fruitlessly from Italy to Portugal, Morocco to France: a factory in Istanbul.
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Shelby Vittek, a 27-year-old writer in New Jersey, fruitlessly called dozens of drugstores in New Jersey and Pennsylvania in an attempt to locate the medication after her pharmacist told her the drug was on back-order with no end in sight.
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The typical economist answer to the problem of regional inequality is that we should care about people rather than places, and that money that could be spent trying fruitlessly to rejuvenate dying economies might be better spent in the form of simple cash transfers.
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The network has during the past year and a half fruitlessly pushed for comprehensive health care and immigration reform; and like other leading conservative groups, the network has been powerless to persuade the President to rethink his strategy on trade generally and tariffs specifically.
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Ida Rae Zapanta, 36, a restaurant consultant who lives in Manhattan with her Parisian husband, Pierre Bornot, 29, the bar manager at Jolie Cantina in Brooklyn, had been fruitlessly searching the internet for a chateau or castle in France for her wedding on June 28.
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The best version of a B-game would try to work within those constraints (Vampyr, published by the same company putting Call of Cthulhu out, is another game with similar issues), but the nature of a B-game often involves a game fruitlessly fighting against those constraints.
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Her manager calls it "rocket brain," and it's clear how apt the moniker is after only a few minutes speaking with her: She talks a mile a minute, like someone trying near-fruitlessly to match the speed of her words with the speed of her thoughts.
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THE STORY Ostensibly the tale of Don Diego de Zama (played by Daniel Giménez Cacho), an 18th-century Spanish bureaucrat hoping, fruitlessly so far, for a transfer from a Paraguayan outpost, this is really an allegory about colonialism and power relations from the director Lucrecia Martel.
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He has swooped up thousands of dollars worth of elvers in an hour, he said, but only after countless hours fruitlessly searching locations at various times and tides, along with his uncle, Jonathan Smith, who owns a smoke shop on the reservation that Mr. Silva manages.
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Mr. Kaine has spent years trying to push for Congress to reassert its role in war powers, fruitlessly pressing to sunset the authorizations of military force passed in 2001 and just before the invasion of Iraq, and require presidents to seek new resolutions for new conflicts.
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If that is the case, Mr. Trump may find little success in borrowing from the playbook of the four presidents before him, who fruitlessly tried, with differing mixes of negotiations, sanctions, sabotage and threats of unilateral strikes, to force the North to give up its program.
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It comes down to this: If you're the kind of person who can religiously attend yoga classes and not get annoyed at the teacher's "getting in touch with your inner self" talk in a dream-like lilt while reach fruitlessly for your toes, apps like eMindful are for you.
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" In Lippmann's view, Bryan and his people were fruitlessly at war with "the economic conditions which had upset the old life of the prairies, made new demands on democracy, introduced specialization and science, had destroyed village loyalties, frustrated private ambitions, and created the impersonal relationships of the modern world.
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After fruitlessly paying al Qaeda $243,000 for her husband's release over four years, Elaine Weinstein, 68, said she pleaded with Secretary of State John KerryJohn Forbes KerryTrump's winning weapon: Time The Memo: O'Rourke looks to hit reset button #FreeAustinTice trending on anniversary of kidnapping in Syria MORE to act on her behalf.
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Anjum Rahman, in an article for Radio New Zealand, wrote that her organization, the Islamic Women's Council of New Zealand, had in recent years repeatedly and fruitlessly lobbied the country's intelligence services and government agencies to act on what she said is a rising tide of vitriol aimed at Muslims, both online and in person.
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I had to see that roman numeral for myself, which meant that I had to rummage around for a single, eye it meticulously and fruitlessly, and finally get online to have someone else "show me" where in the heck the number actually appears on the money — at the base of the pyramid, and it's tiny.
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There's always more to do: an exotic weapon you've put off trying to obtain for months; a level cap you haven't yet reached on one of your three characters; a rare cosmetic item you've spent hours fruitlessly yearning for and yet failed time and again to receive with each successive lever pull of the slot machine.
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Regardless of who is responsible for Trump's policy roadblocks, one thing is clear: As the president hunkered down at the White House and Mar-a-Lago, trying fruitlessly to bend the government to his will, grassroots organizers were busy building a political network that mirrors the rise of the anti-Obama "Tea Party" movement in 2009.
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There, we discovered cases of faculty who continue to teach with impunity despite complaints having been lodged against them; cases of victims who've spent years knocking fruitlessly on the doors of university administrators to demand attention and justice; and accounts of enormous but inefficient bureaucracies that, despite an abundance of rules, haven't managed to contain the problem.
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President Donald Trump's top choice for the next US ambassador to Russia is someone he'd be moving from one tough diplomatic assignment to another: Stephen Biegun, the man who has spent the last year (fruitlessly) trying to strike a nuclear deal with North Korea, is Trump's likely choice, according to two people familiar with internal White House discussions.
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Mr. Singh, the diplomat, recalled landing in the Bahamas and struggling fruitlessly to get an appointment with the prime minister there, only to get an unexpected call from a chuckling Chandraswamy — who, Mr. Singh said, had not been told of his travel plans — informing him that he had arranged a meeting between the men for the next day.
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All the more odd, then, that a full 10 years after Bent superseded Defoe in the Spurs ranks, the former can be found toiling away semi-fruitlessly in England's second tier while Defoe, a year his senior, is in the most emphatically prolific form of his life, his unremitting flow of goals having single-handedly kept Sunderland's head above water for two years and counting.
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It brings back a little of the Scooby camaraderie that made the early seasons so fun: There's Willow and Xander sweetly teasing Buffy about how Principal Wood is way too young to be her type, and Anya struggling fruitlessly for someone to talk to about how jealous she is of Xander's date with Special Guest Star Ashanti — who, as stunt-casted celebrities goes, does not embarrass herself.
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It follows a small-town lawyer (Laura Dern) trying fruitlessly to convince a man injured on a contracting job that making a claim against his former employer would be hopeless; an unhappily married couple (Michelle Williams plays the wife) in the midst of harvesting sandstone for a weekend house; and a recent law-school graduate (Kristen Stewart) who becomes the object of fixation for a reclusive female ranch hand.
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