Sentences with word «aleck»

It starts with people letting their friends and followers know they will be fasting from Facebook and Instagram and ends with the smart aleck who tweets that he will be giving up virginity for Lent.

Writer / director Danny Strong (co-creator of «Empire,» screenwriter of the «Mockingjay» films and actor in «Gilmore Girls» and «Buffy») introduces us to Salinger before all of that happened, young, ambitious, and like Catcher in the Rye «s Holden Caulfield, a smart aleck who has left or been asked to leave a number of top schools.

I tried a variation of the «toy jail» with my smart aleck kids for a bit.

He swings through them all, at times with the hokey Rat Pack smart aleck humor he loves so much but mostly just delivering standards, saloon songs and even some contemporary tunes with that inimitable Sinatra grace and gravitas.

Amy D. Shojai also appears on Animal Planet's «Cats - 101» and «Dogs - 101» and lives in North Texas with a senior citizen Siamese and a smart - aleck German shepherd fluent in doggerel.

Sarcastic and can tend to be a smart aleck at times.

The movie rests on (Adam) Butcher, and the actor proves to be a well - rounded smart aleck in the making.

Willis and Courtney have an ease with each other, sharing the same mannerisms and smart - aleck attitude.

As an author operating on quite a shoe string budget, I have been quite sceptical of smart - aleck sites promising you the moon, if only you could... Continue Reading →

To suggest he is improper because the decision tends to humiliate Mr. Duncan strikes me as ignoring the fact that an accused person is subject to many affronts to their dignity during a proceeding far worse than a few smart - aleck remarks of a judge.

Rodriguez has the chops of a smart - aleck film school brat and the imagination of a big kid, and they come together to remake the world in the image of its young audience.

It felt like something new had come along from the world of animation, smart aleck characters defacing the stories people grow up with as kids.

As the smart - aleck Maclean's writer Scott Feschuk tweeted, «Jack Layton seems to be under the impression he has power or influence in this new parliament.

Shosha is afraid of Arele's smart - aleck theology; Arele is afraid of living in a puzzling universe, vulnerable in the presence of a tyrant who demands obedience from those who do not even know his will.

There is nothing that CNN likes more than a self impressed athiest smart aleck stirring up anti-christian blog prattle.

He climbed out of the pool and rubbed his eyes, which were red with chlorine, and said in a very loud, smart - aleck voice, like I had when I was his age: «They used this chlorine on the Germans in World War I and news they're using it on us!»

See, smart aleck Devoe has already figured out that the train wreck was no accident but rather a ruse for the hijacking of nine nukes, so he rather rudely corrects her in front of a roomful of colleagues.

These references are just the outer layer of a compulsively referential screenplay that tries so hard, it sounds like a classroom smart aleck reeling off answers before the questions are finished.

Also not helping is how Derbez is clearly too old for this part and that Faris — who has better chemistry with Allison Janney on their sitcom, «Mom» — barely gets a chance to showcase her skill with smart - aleck verbal zingers.

In playing a career criminal who can't get a break, Clooney has finally found a movie role that adroitly showcases his smoldering good looks and smart - aleck demeanor.

It comes out less like a spoof than a smart - aleck remake of «Meatballs,» minus the energy of Bill Murray.

Teamed with a relentlessly cheerful producer (Andie MacDowell) and a smart - aleck cameraman (Chris Elliott), TV weatherman Phil Connors (Bill Murray) is sent to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, to cover the annual Groundhog Day festivities.

This winner of the audience award for best narrative film at the Palm Springs International Film Festival is the kind of whimsically smart - aleck British film that goes down well on this side of the Atlantic.

Wilson has been turning up in too many movies as the charming, deadpan co-star for us to be charmed anymore, while Murphy must play something other than that smart - aleck motor - mouth character if he has to be funny again.

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (Warner) is the energized sequel to Guy Ritchie's reincarnation of the world's greatest detective as a smart - aleck action movie hero played with cheeky playfulness by Robert Downey Jr..

Mr. Downey's Iron Man / Tony Stark character has ingrained in movie goers his motor - mouthed smart - aleck persona that fits very well with the lacking - a-conscience cocky defense attorney who only defends the type of white collar criminals who can afford his unmatched courtroom savvy.

Home to see his wife and son, he's dogged and killed by smart aleck Skip Homeier.

I agree with where they made cuts plot-wise, and despite my smart - aleck crack about the ending, I actually agree with where they chose to end it.

Though Alexander Skarsgård and Michael Peña make a great team as the smart - aleck cops who get their kicks from blackmailing and beating up criminals, the film itself is a bit of a mess.

Reitman was Oscar - nominated for directing two of his first three films (Juno and Up in the Air), a nearly unheard - of achievement, and largely skated by any charge of being «overrated» (Juno took some flak for its smart - aleck dialogue, but that fell at the feet of screenwriter Diablo Cody).

Lee, who was the best thing about Mallrats, brings more of his hilarious smart - aleck charm to the brash Banky.

Rudd is perfectly cast as the smart - aleck Everyman, Douglas brings legitimate weight to a character that demands respect the minute he appears on screen, and Lilly finds plenty of moments to shine in what's basically the Pepper Potts role.

Expectedly, Frost and Pegg fill their nerdy roles with zeal, having a blast playing second fiddle to a smart - aleck visual effect.

Like everyone else, I first noticed the rising young actress in Juno, where she played the spirited best friend of Ellen Page's smart - aleck main character, and though I rarely interview actors — I just don't know what questions to ask — I jumped at the chance to talk to Ms. Thirlby when she came to Seattle for the SIFF showing of The Wackness.

Stripped of all his usual nice guy / smart aleck mannerisms — stripped of any mannerisms at all, actually — Sullivan is uninterested in anyone's sympathy.

Joseph Gordon - Levitt makes up for the sin of appearing in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra by being a kick - arse action star who isn't the least bit flashy, whilst Tom Hardy regularly steals the show as the smart aleck Eames.

Aaron Eckhart plays his role as Dr. Josh Keyes with smart - aleck lines and the occasional double - take, and Stanley Tucci takes his performance as Dr. Conrad Zimsky places where only Jonathan Harris (Dr. Smith on TV's «Lost in Space») has gone before.

If the classroom smart alecks want to push the simulation to its limits — Deckelmann says his students always spend the first round of the game trying to blow up the Middle East — that's fine, too.

As my smart - aleck Jewish grandmother used to say, «sure you don't.»

The Service Manager, David Yoho and the General Manager, Mike Hostinsky are rude, nasty, smart aleck men.

Most of the time I raise up my wonderful daughters to have what I hope will be a useful blend of smart - aleck acuity and politeness, and once in a while we go down to help out the homeless shelter or dig a community vegetable garden because I want my kids to understand that compassion involves not just the heart but the hands.

He turns 51 in January, but he could still pass for a smart - aleck college kid.

Boredom prompts puppies to find interesting things to do, and what is great fun for the Einstein smart - aleck puppy probably won't thrill you or your family.

And what else can you say that everyone hasn't already said about that smart aleck little crab?

, Then it's back to Minimalism leavened with Conceptual Art, for a kind of smart - aleck dissection of the geometries of Frank Stella in shades of John Wesley blue.

I can't resist being a smart aleck sometimes.

You come across as a smart - aleck with a smug self recognition of your superior sales skills.