Sentences with phrase «from cockeyed»
From Cockeyed: A Memoir by Ryan Knighton, pages 22 - 35.
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It's not a good film, but viewed from a cockeyed angle, it's a great guilty pleasure, and director Bill Condon is in on the joke.
Not exact matches
Phil Mickelson is nothing if not a cockeyed optimist so it's hardly surprising that the defending champion at this week's British Open believes he can overcome some rather ugly golf over the past year and maybe even sip some more of that pricey «good stuff» from the claret jug once again.
Brad Bird, the Academy Award - winning director of such animated classics as «Ratatouille» and «The Incredibles,» has fashioned with Tomorrowland, a clever, but muddled story of a scrappy teen, Casey Newton (Britt Robertson, «The Longest Ride») and a cockeyed former boy genius, Frank Walker (George Clooney, «The Monuments Men») who join forces in an attempt to save the world from itself.
But after her first two forays into directing, «Scarlet Diva» (in which she also starred as a self - destructive starlet) and child abuse chronicle «The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things,» she has shifted gears in several ways with her third: she makes a brief, Hitchcock - level cameo but doesn't star, and most welcome, she moves from straight - up miserablism to a beguiling cockeyed whimsy.
Still, «The Last Jedi» honors the franchise's chief values of idealism, loyalty and self - sacrifice that made the original «Star Wars» so beloved, with a similarly appealing ragtag team of hotheads and cockeyed optimists to root for as they try to save their galaxy from totalitarian domination.
- Katie Crouch, bestselling author of Girls in Trucks and Abroad «At once a memoir, a cockeyed romance, a reporter's travelogue, and a clinical case study, Irritable Hearts will provide great consolation to others who suffer from PTSD - and McClelland's resilience and determination will resonate powerfully even with those who don't.»
From Murder In The Hearse Degree by Tim Cockey.
Ryan Knighton is the author of Cockeyed and C'm on Papa: Dispatches from a Dad in the Dark.