Sentences with phrase «as a punchline»

Overbearing, stifling, oppressive; loving, supportive, empathetic — while William's mother's manners and behaviours are often used as a punchline in the movie, Crowe's script and McDormand's wonderful portrayal never let her devolve into a cartoon.

Fishburne, playing someone who has tried to paper over the worst memories in his life, probably acquits himself best of the three, but Mueller is also afforded the least character work, with his transformation from one - time hellion to stately man of God mostly used as a punchline for Sal's gags.

It's momentarily difficult in situations where Nick Moorcoft and Meg Leonard's writing lapses by using minority characters as a punchline for its jokes.

They still use self - publishing as a punchline of what most definitely NOT to do.

There's a long tradition of films treating scrappy and lively older characters as a punchline, as if it's inherently hilarious to see anyone above 65 swear, drink, fight, acknowledge sex with positivity or enthusiasm, or otherwise indicate they're still alive below the neck.

It blows empathy in all directions, even toward characters who seem to exist as punchlines or villains.

After years as a punchline, they may be the most entertaining team in January — and the best reason to watch the playoffs.

But, after the briefest moment as the punchline sunk in, reality struck home.

The first secretary of state entertained the press gallery with a series of jokes — many of which had a fellow Tory as the punchline.

And all at the hands of the man who just a few years ago was regarded by many as the punchline to a particularly bad joke.

To be dwarfed by an even larger adversary served as a punchline to the sight gag of a group of hyper - masculine men.

Their tooth - clicking glee at pursuing new victims is a sure laugh, but the movie rarely becomes a «Mow them down» video game — slaughter as a punchline.

Even when Redford delivers one of Bryson's bon mots, it comes out so polished and practiced that it fails to register as a punchline.

The Interview is laugh out loud funny all the way through, and once again proves that Rogen and Goldberg will do anything, no matter how dark, for a big laugh, and that character is just as important as punchlines in their work.

I, Tonya gets a lot of credit for not shying away from the uglier aspects of her life, but is it ever okay to treat trauma as a punchline?

Franco gives an impressive and accurate portrayal of Wiseau, but dismissing his eccentricities as punchlines, as well as forcing the story into a linear three - act structure, doesn't serve such a unique man or his movie well.

When the police capture him (without encountering any resistance) and he's taken away by a large official escort, the exaggerated security they place around him works as a punchline.

He's among the finest explanations we've had thus far of why the Left can't seem to muster a compelling resistance: in the face of all this outrage and insult, under the weight of almost four decades of poisoned passion, the voices of our best intentions find themselves tongue - tied and thunderstruck, sick on smack with their heads against a toilet — as slow in coming to our defense as the punchline that serves as this picture's surprisingly understated grace note.

If you were alive and at least somewhat cognizant of the news in the «90s, you probably remember Lorena Bobbitt as a punchline.

One minute, Miles» desire to reunite with his family, or Louis» growing interest in showbiz, or Rick's desire to prove he can do more than make straight - to - video exploitation schlock, will be taken absolutely seriously, and the next, someone will get shot in the head as the punchline to a scene.

Mr. Letts and Ms. Metcalf aren't TV sitcom parents carefully positioned as punchlines for clever kids, like what we typically see.

The dry delivery of the DJ amuses, always backed up with a killer tune as the punchline.

Car crashes as punchlines went out with The Blues Brothers.

Pete declares as the punchline to one of them, content to be himself for a moment, happy to be his mother's son.

The core idea is like Lord of the Flies with knowledge instead of blood as the punchline.

Hairballs are often thought of as the punchline cat jokes.

As such, Duke Nukem Forever has long since become more enjoyable as a punchline than it is anticipated by persons like myself, and I personally have no real need to play it.

What I find most interesting about The Daily Show using Mortal Kombat clips as a punchline is that last July when the show reported on the Supreme Court decision that extended free speech protection to video games, the show used clips of this same Mortal Kombat game to argue that based on its gory and unsettling content, games should not enjoy such protection.

Within the exhibition, the drawings of Raymond Pettibon and the collages of Werner Büttner encapsulate the conventional format of «the funnies» in which the short and direct narrative contained within the picture is often augmented by an amusing caption acting as a punchline.

Sometimes it's as simple as the punchline.

By then, the cliches such as «fill out many applications as you can» and «send your resume everywhere» are heard in movies as a punchline, not as viable advice.

Even characters who seem to exist as punchlines or villains, like Sam Rockwell's lumbering idiot brute of an officer or the abusive ex-husband played by John Hawkes, are afforded a measure of humanity.

Gaby of Girl From The Machine looked at «Queerness in Metal Gear Solid» series and the problematic ways it presents its queer characters as punchlines or vessels of villainy.

Malice is so generic and mediocre that its release only serves to spoil what little status it had as the punchline of a joke.

A: It's easy to tell on the first page if a film is taking its characters seriously, rather than as punchlines in and of themselves.

Just like breastfeeding mothers on TV are often used as punchlines or morality tales, so are breastfeeding children and regardless of the fact that studies have shown prolonged breastfeeding has no psychological effects.

Even though hurricanes had slammed into two Republican National Conventions in a row, no one seemed to notice, and Romney's only mention of climate changes was as a punchline.

She says it with a laugh, but, really, she doesn't see it as a punchline.

Most of the humor entails jokes of masturbation, castration, and the occasional «motherf * cker» as the punchline, but that all goes without saying.

The strangeness deepens when examining the real - world gendered treatment that allow Tonya Harding and Tommy Wiseau to both wind up as punchlines in the first place, and how that echoes through their biopic treatments.

WB embraces Green Lantern's role (as a punchline) in Deadpool 2 star Ryan Reynolds» career with a new tweet.

The only «surprising» thing revealed — as the punchline — by the second of three episodes of Climate Wars is that Stewart was ignorant of the debate he was reporting on.