The Lord's problems had tended to come from a black-sheep brother who meddled and politicked for the pleasure of causing discord.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fire In His Hands]

Paquin is also given a black-sheep brother played by Elijah Wood, who assays the role as though he expected there to be more bad behavior for him to enact.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: The Romantics] Reference

Karen Hilquist and the aristocratic black-sheep who called himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mercenaries] Reference

Sans and other black-sheep fonts might actually be better for memory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Yorker] Reference

Hungary battles black-sheep status in Europe with rise of extreme-right party Disclaimer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

Topping the list is 2007's "Fred Claus," in which Santa's black-sheep brother, Fred Claus.    From Wordnik.com.  [StreetInsider.com News Articles] Reference

He was regarded much in the light of a "black-sheep" and "undesirable relation" by all of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mystic Christianity] Reference

But no matter ---- There'd be intellectual conversation for the benefit of black-sheep new chums.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children of the Bush] Reference

Hou had been the self-described "black-sheep" economics major in a family of engineers and doctors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Merrill Lynch Stars Take A Leap Of Faith To A New Office -- And Independence. - RIABiz - - Forbes] Reference

Maguire stars as a military man, Portman is his wife and Gyllenhaal plays his younger, black-sheep, brother.    From Wordnik.com.  [JAM! Showbiz] Reference

A brother is sent to fight in Afghanistan while his black-sheep brother becomes caretaker to his wife and child.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference

But Zeman and others are fighting to change their black-sheep status by taking the bold step of ordaining themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [GetReligion] Reference

I could sense a certain relief in my mother's face, she was happy her black-sheep was marrying a Sinhala Kella, finally!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kottu] Reference

Topping the most popular list is 2007's "Fred Claus," in which Santa's black-sheep brother Fred (Vince Vaughn) gets a much-needed shot at redemption.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Island Life] Reference

Sam's black-sheep brother (Jake Gyllenhaal, right, with Maguire) steps up in his absence, but after his brother's return, he's in an impossible position.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

Brothers: When Marine and solid family man Tobey Maguire is presumed dead in Afghanistan, his black-sheep brother (Jake Gyllenhaal) steps in to look after his wife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest stories] Reference

Cold Comfort: Sam's black-sheep brother (Jake Gyllenhaal, right, with Maguire) steps up in his absence, but after his brother's return, he's in an impossible position.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

The other brother is the middle one, Roscoe; he's the one that owns the new house across the street, where that young black-sheep of the Lamhorns, Robert, goes so often.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Turmoil] Reference

The doctor laughed -- a characteristically abrupt, dry little laugh, which struck Theron at once as bearing a sort of black-sheep relationship to the priest's habitual chuckle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Damnation of Theron Ware] Reference

His black-sheep younger brother (Jake Gyllenhaal) cares for his wife (Natalie Portman) and children at home-with consequences that will shake the foundation of the entire family.    From Wordnik.com.  [ComingSoon.net - 30 most recent stories] Reference

As they travel from Pennsylvania to April's Lower East Side neighborhood, we learn more about the unique, strained dynamic between black-sheep April shares with her whole family.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

He was so decidedly of the black-sheep type that the people who assumed management of the affair considered it only fair to Sylvia (and to Harboro) to keep him in the background.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children of the Desert] Reference

"Brothers" Drama R. Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal as an upstanding Marine and his black-sheep brother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

But what’s missing from that equation is the father-daughter attachment, a sort of black-sheep bond that is rarely acknowledged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tessie and Pearlie] Reference

"black-sheep donor," a wayward relative who shows up to offer an organ as an act of redemption, hoping to reposition himself in the family's good graces.    From Wordnik.com.  [AMERICAN.COM -- A Magazine of Ideas, Online] Reference

Anne Consigny) and black-sheep middle child Henri (.    From Wordnik.com.  [Movie City News] Reference

His black-sheep younger.    From Wordnik.com.  [ShowHype - Top Entertainment News, Videos, and Blogs] Reference

"Bah-bah black-sheep!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jimgrim]