Sentences with phrase «aleck devoe»

Please forgive me for being a smart - aleck.

The kids begin to imitate the smart aleck - y, sassy YouTube personalities they see online, much to parents» annoyance.

Not to be a smart aleck — which I totally am — but I like both equally.

Thanks to the Internet, it seems as though your firm's hard - earned reputation is in the hands of people who can hurt you with just one smart - aleck comment or a harsh online review.

(Informal) Smart - Ass, windbag, braggart, saucebox, smart aleck, smarty, smarty - pants, wisenheimer.

And its visual correlative — stark black enamel stripes arranged in a predetermined symmetrical pattern — is the work of a precocious smart aleck (whose youthful callowness is also on display in the title of the 1958 Black Painting, «Arbeit Macht Frei») demonstrating the true condition of the art form.

Oh, and someone is a smart aleck who can't read timestamps.

There's also a smart aleck comment somewhere about checking out her guns, but she won't appreciate it.

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.

Amy Shojai also appears on Animal Planet's «Cats - 101» and «Dogs - 101,» and lives in North Texas with a senior citizen Siamese who routinely hurls cat curses at a smart - aleck German shepherd.

In addition to being a certified animal behavior consultant, Amy Shojai also appears on Animal Planet's «Cats - 101» and «Dogs - 101,» and lives in North Texas with a senior citizen Siamese and smart - aleck German shepherd who routinely attacks stuffed toys.

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.

If you like a fast - paced, action - murder - adventure, with a bit of smart - aleck humor, this book is for you.

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 →

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

A smart aleck at the back of the room says, «Underwear,» making everyone snicker, but Singer just responds with a serious tone, «That's brilliant, very creative, good.»

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

This year, that movie was Deadpool, the Ryan Reynolds - starring film about the X-Men-adjacent, smart - aleck, foul - mouthed superhero whose film was a defiant middle finger to the era of the superhero movie.

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.

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

Page's Vanessa is a snappy sarcastic smart aleck 17 - year - old.

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.

There is some actual meat to the scenes between the two, as, from his professor, the egotistical, young «smart aleck» learns about the balance of the author's voice with an actual story, the humility of rejection, and that being a writer means a devotion that doesn't always result in success.

That man is Los Angeles youth - oriented social worker and finder of lost children Chandler Jarrell (Murphy), whose demeanor isn't the stuff of great prophecy — he's a potty - mouthed smart aleck.

You know the story: A smart - aleck city teen named Ren (Wormald) moves to a tiny rural town where dancing has been banned, falls for the defiant daughter (Julianne Hough) of a local preacher / city council member (Dennis Quaid), and, with the support of hayseed sidekick Willard (Miles Teller), ultimately pushes the town's moral needle by using Bible verses to recast his bumping and grinding as a holy act.

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.

Neither smart aleck nor neurotically brilliant, she's a workaday detective with a tendency to get too personally involved, and this case gets to her.

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.

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.

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

If you could put a face to the term «smart aleck,» it would likely resemble that of That»70s Show star Danny Masterson.

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

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.

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.

As a smart - aleck kid, I insisted all of that could be explained by mathematics.

If it stinks, it's chemistry — that's one memory trick some smart - aleck high - school students might recommend to identify the core sciences.

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

Exactly a ST isn't a priority when you have aleck and Walcott who can score 20 + goals.

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!»

«In Australia we have two words for a chap like him: smart aleck.»

It was definitely a slip - up on his part because from most of the comments I've read, people think the Rays did this when in fact it was just a smart (aleck) that handed it to him.»

③ The Smarties Jones: Smarty Jones was a horse who apparently got his name from being a smart aleck, or whatever the horse equivalent of that is.