Sentences with phrase «also sly»

There are also some sly similarities to Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now (1973), a film that exploits its foreign settings to the same unsettling degree.

The performance is so exuberant it almost leaves the film with nowhere to turn, but Fiennes is also sly at suggesting hidden agendas and a goading neediness as Guadagnino clouds the scene with ominous intimations of possessive, lusty jealousy.

DVD Details: Paramount has released a tenth anniversary special edition DVD in 2009, which is also a sly way to capitalize on their new Star Trek movie reboot (the disc comes with lots of Star Trek trailers).

He's also a sly storyteller, borrowing devices from other films (the back of the car camera POV just after the bank robbery is a nod to the seminal shot from Gun Crazy) and skillful edits (Margaret Hayes climbs the stairs to her bedroom, and we straight cut to Lee Marvin in a bed, tossing and turning, in another part of town entirely) to make societal commentary as skewering as 1950s subversive Douglas Sirk.

«An idiot he may be,» he opined, «but he is also sly, mendacious, and vindictive.»

Not exact matches

I also agree with the person above that noted that people on disability should be investigated periodically to be sure they're not actually working for cash on the sly.

For example, writing of Rosmini's book The Five Wounds of the Church, in which Rosmini describes the obstacles an exclusively Latin liturgy can pose for effective evangelisation, Fr Hill not only proposes his hero as an early proponent of the vernacular Mass, but goes on to add (in a rather sly footnote) that Rosmini would also have been opposed to «the deliberate use of archaic language» of which «the new vernacular translations of the Mass are an example».

«Created by Jeannette (who also happens to be a web - designer on the sly), the site features good recipes, nice photos of the food in question, and the ridiculously simple - but - amazingly - helpful - and - large recipe index.»

King also said that Al Jazeera confirmed to him that Sly worked at the clinic in 2011.

Wenger staked his hard earned reputation for all these fickle minded prima donnas and not only do they always let him down on the pitch they also tale sly digs at the man.....

And even though the manager was professional enough to thank Hleb for his contribution, he also couldn't refrain from taking a sly dig at the Belorussian:

Also nice to see Southampton stick it up to adidas (the sly dig «the stripes are back») for their clear disrespect to the Saints» heritage by removing the stripes.

He also received the March of Dimes Foundation's Colonel Harland Sanders Award for Lifetime Achievement in Genetic Research and Education in 2003, and gave the inaugural Charles R. Scriver Lectureship in 2006 and the inaugural William S. Sly Lectureship in 2009.

Wrapping up her remarks, as a sly smile crept onto her face, she told the crowd, «And as your villain, I would also say — cause a little trouble.

Sly also named baseball players Ryan Zimmerman, of the Washington Nationals, and Ryan Howard, of the Philadelphia Phillies, raising questions about whether they use the hormone supplement Delta 2.

There is also the occasional sly moment, including a very brief cameo by ABBA's Benny Andersson as well as a very funny reference to the ancient dramatic trope of the Greek Chorus.

It may lack Nick Park as one of its writers, but it has more than just some quick shots of his bunnies from «THE CURSE OF THE WEREREABBIT, it also has his sensibility that is at once sweet and sly.

That Anne's mental and physical degradation unfurls with the severity of serious horror was perhaps a sly aesthetic decision, but it also feels intensely, in fact almost perversely, overdetermined; one can never shake the feeling that by magnifying death's ugliest qualities from a «measured» emotional remove, Amour is simply following the path of least resistance to achieving its desired visceral effect.

Moments later, Beck is taking on «the entire offensive line» of an American pro-football team with little effort, and it is as though Arnie has been reincarnated on screen — except that, while Beck may be a kick - ass «retrieval expert» of bull - like proportions and astonishing resilience, he is also genuinely eager to avoid violence («I don't want to fight» being his catchphrase), phobic about gun - use (until the inevitable pump - action finale, naturally), and really just interested in opening his own restaurant — and, unlike the he - men portrayed by Arnie, Sly and other eighties right - wingers (most of whom have in fact gone on to open their own restaurants), Beck can bang articulate sentences together as well as heads.

The first to be revealed is Rioichi Cooper, Sly's ninja ancestor, who Egan describes as «not only an uber - Ninja but is also the inventor of sushi.»

He also speaks his mind with such a sly - boots sense of humor that it takes us a moment or two to notice how merciless he is.

Like its predecessor, the scene is already causing waves due to its unflinching detail and morally - questionable motivations, but at the same time does serve some thematic and story purpose, and further can also be read as a sly subversion of Bond cliches.

By 1939, he not only appeared in the career defining role of Senator Jefferson Smith in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, but also offered up his familiar shy and sly country yokel with much on the ball «persona» in his first Western, the hilarious Destry Rides Again.

An eerie and sometimes harrowing story of disgraced Catholic priests confined to a seaside home, the movie overtly references the pedophilia scandals that have rocked the Church internationally, but the story also serves as a sly metaphor for the dictatorial Pinochet regime of the 1970s, which Larraín's parents supported.

But Entebbe manages to fudge the whole business, depriving us of old - fashioned action movie excitement, while implying that the politics are there to be contested by the variously sly or careworn Israeli politicians and the anguished German revolutionaries, with the Palestinians treated as also - rans.

Given that the plot motor is Thanos's worry that the universe is overpopulated, sly self - awareness is shown as the filmmakers embrace drastic solutions to the problems of braiding multiple franchises into one — though some jiggery - pokery with Dr Strange's time - juggling amulet (and Cumberbatch's knowing line readings) suggest any shocking plot developments can be rolled back later, especially with sequels in development for characters who seem to be permanently written out in a tragic finale that's also an old - fashioned cliffhanger.

Kurt Russell confirmed for Quill's father playing Ego, Sly Stallone also confirmed as spotted in the footage.

Part of the reason for the improvement is not only the higher budget, but also in replacing Stallone with Shane West (The Mechanic, Tomb Raider) as director, who isn't as interested in being as viscerally gory as Sly, but widens the scope of the impressively mounted battle sequences to look like a real war zone.

(This charming subplot also offers a sly cultural corrective to «Sixteen Candles»; if Steinfeld is the movie's Molly Ringwald, then Erwin is pretty much the anti-Long Duk Dong.)

But he also tells his stories with a sly wit and keen personal observance, making them entirely universal.

(That latter point also shows how the recurring sight of billboards for the Broadway musical Rent — whose tagline, «no day but today,» is not only fairly synonymous with this film's title, but whose plot also centers around life - changing interpersonal bonds forged in the isolating environment of NYC — to be another sly, savvy detail.)

While my gut feeling is that Chuck Traynor was more than likely a lowlife, he also likely possessed some kind of skulking magnetism or sly charm.

Terence Stamp has the ability to play a hard - edge mo - fo like any of the best of cockney slanged gangsters, but he also brings a goofiness, a loose charm, and sly wit to his performances that make for a unique performances.

Without resorting to impersonation, Langella captures Nixon's sly intelligence and iconic mannerisms, but also digs beneath the image to convey a tortured soul.

It also has humour, both laugh out loud bits, and some sly, embarrassing observational jokes.

There are some also some convincing performances, especially from Maisie Sly as Libby, the girl whose only wish is to be both understood and listened to.

The film also has a tremendously sly sense of humor.

She also had a sly dig at the fact her own acclaimed documentary, «Tig,» wasn't nominated for Best Feature even though the category was allowed to expand to six films this years («Not honored to not be nominated»).

Leo's right - hand man, Tom Reagan (Gabriel Byrne), is also seeing Verna on the sly, and when he's found out is obliged to switch sides, going to work for the Italian mob amidst a dramatically escalating gang war over liquor distribution.

As Whip pours his booze down the drain in one scene and orders another drink in the next, we are pulling for his recovery — and for much of the film it's easy to also root for his acquittal in the National Transportation Safety Board's crash investigation, where Whip is represented by his union steward (Bruce Greenwood) and a sly attorney (Don Cheadle).

It's a delightful throwback to the early days of the franchise, which features six core Rocky films written by Sly, who also directed four of them.

It also a comedy of manners, a Hitchcockian suspense film, and a sly parody of everything that is dull about modern French middlebrow films.

But beneath the surface, it also serves as a sly, horribly relevant indictment of the realities of loan sharking, and perhaps even the wider world of financial elites and the ordinary folk whose lives and livelihoods hang on their whims.

Transposing the milieu from glitz to grits, Steven Soderbergh's LOGAN LUCKY does more set an intricate heist flick in the backroads of Appalachia, it also makes a sly statement about class, culture, and our preconceived notions about those two things.

Both take sly aim at traditional romantic ideals (love at first sight, long - lasting companionate marriage) while also being, in their own ways, deeply romantic.

Joined onstage by the director, Chris Overton, also her fiancé, Shenton said she promised their 6 - year - old lead actress Maisie Sly that she'd do it.

- TQR Stories (UK) «Sly wit also characterizes The Rabbit Back Literature Society, a genre - defying Finnish novel.»

Often compared to David Sedaris, not least of all because his name was also David, Rakoff's work is just as funny as Sedaris» but also darker and slyer and imbued with the wisdom of someone who was born internally middle - aged.

Also known as Sly syndrome, Hunter syndrome usually is evident in puppies by the time they reach the age of 1 month.

Zindage Games - PSN exclusive content for Velocity X2 Sanzaru Games - They just launched Sly on Vita and PS3, But are also confirmed working on PS4, its an exclusive game for certain.