Sentences with phrase «as bumbling»

He'll have to be well - briefed by lawyers and lower - level executives to learn enough that he doesn't come across as bumbling or out of touch.

So it's unsurprising that pandas are seen as bumbling animals, but in actuality, they do have one very impressive skill: their bodies neutralize cyanide.

But the real tragedy of this presentation is that it painted professional musician DJ Ravi Drums as a bumbling fool.

Edward Norton is back as a bumbling soldier, and Jude Law a surprisingly subdued writer and hotel guest.

That the «knight in shining armour» role goes to Fillion as a bumbling, nervous, ethically dubious doctor who cheats on his wife can only suggest that perhaps Shelly was trying to make some kind of point.

The returnees include Hugh Bonneville as bumbling dad, Sally Hawkins as kindly mum, Julie Walters as salty housekeeper and Peter Capaldi as the local xenophobe.

Strange starts out thoroughly humbled as the bumbling tyro among smarter, less lippy disciples; then, as so often happens in these apprenticeship myths, the dunce becomes the star pupil, the Sorcerer Supreme, no less.

The lovely Emma Thompson even pulls off a great turn as the bumbling Divinations Professor Trelawney.

Most importantly, though, the film remains high - spirited fun, thanks mostly to two fine comedic performances from Don Knotts and Tim Conway as the bumbling half - wits and a well - paced story that successfully blends elements of westerns, comedies, and the tried - and - true live action Disney formula.

Donning a pair of tights and the big red «S» might be intimidating but fortunately Brandon Routh, a relative unknown in the business, embodies both the strong, noble characteristics of the Man of Steel as well as the bumbling, awkward actions of reporter Clark Kent.

In addition to its great cast (which includes mo - cap maestro Andy Serkis as Captain Haddock and Simon Pegg and Nick Frost as the bumbling Thompson Twins), the script was written by Edgar Wright («Shaun of the Dead,» «Hot Fuzz») and Joe Cornish («Attack the Block»), and Peter Jackson even had a hand in the project.

A version of this archives appears in print on July 25, 1968, on Page 26 of the New York edition with the headline: Screen: «Inspector Clouseau» Arrives; Alan Arkin Is Starred as Bumbling Official Movie at the Trans - Lux East and West Houses.

So we get Armie Hammer as a bumbling tenderfoot of a Lone Ranger, an Eastern - educated lawyer (real name, John Reid) who returns to his dusty hometown of Colby, Texas, to bring law and order.

The movie is sort of a kind - hearted version of O'Henry's «The Ransom of Red Chief,» as the bumbling crooked duo at first decide to ransom Savannah, but soon grow to love her.

Dustin Hoffman holds forth as the bumbling, embittered old sculptor who has done the twisting; Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, and Elizabeth Marvel are the grown children, still seething and suffocating hilariously.

Jon Lovitz, Southland Tales (2006) Jon Lovitz came to America's attention as a bumbling sad - sack on Saturday Night Live, best known for running gags like the «Girl Watchers» series, where he and Tom Hanks played two atonal, self - denigrating drips who dismissed every woman they saw as «waaaaay out of our league.»

Introduced as a bumbling, excitable TSA agent, Rod later emerges as an obsessive amateur detective.

The latest is Taichi Zero, starring Yuan Xiaochao as a bumbling kung fu prodigy who moves to a remote village renowned for its special «Chen - style» technique, named for a mysterious master who by law is forbidden to teach his methods to outsiders.

Also featured in the pictures, Evans as the arrogant poseur love rival Gaston alongside Josh Gad as bumbling assistant Le Fou, plus just a few of the enchanted, servants - turned - into - objects characters that includes Cogsworth, voiced by Ian McKellen, Mrs. Potts (Emma Thompson), Ewan McGregor's Lumiere and Gugu Mbatha - Raw's Plumette.

Speaking of Home Alone, the bad guys were just as bumbling.

(I realise I've already used the term «bumbling» in this review, but any character who doesn't have a beard and biceps the size of steel beams is depicted as bumbling — a nuisance obstacle propped in front of necessary gunishment.)

Just as Pierce Brosnan retires from the role of the polished James Bond, Steve Martin stars in The Pink Panther franchise as the bumbling Frenchman, Jacques Clouseau.

He appeared in «Midnight Run,» a 1988 action comedy with Oscar - winner De Niro; «Cocktail,» a romantic - comedy starring Cruise as a bartender with flashy, acrobatic drink - making skills; and «Naked Gun,» the goofball police comedy with Leslie Nielsen as a bumbling detective, Priscilla Presley as Nielsen's love interest and O.J. as an accident - prone cop.

The show starred the late Don Adams as the bumbling Maxwell Smart, aka Agent 86, and Barbara Feldon as his sultry sidekick, 99.

The Pink Panther 2 (PG for suggestive humor, action and mild epithets) Steve Martin reprises the title role as the bumbling Jacques Clouseau for a comic crime caper which has the hapless inspector traversing the globe in search of the international jewel thief who has purloined the priceless Pink Panther diamond.

In the latest spinoff of the real estate defence genre, «Cowards vs. Zombies», play as a bumbling green - capped mansioneer, and try to escape the wrath of undead sports trainers who want to get you fit into a coffin!

As enjoyable as this yakker is, it's also quite one - sided: Producer Andrew Bonime and screenwriter Parnell Hall are portrayed as bumbling villains but aren't given the opportunity to defend themselves.

-- featuring Charlie Chaplin as a bumbling stagehand and Edna Purviance as a starlet — and a «Newsreel» that is the very opposite of informative: a compilation of clips from Madam Satan preceded by a shot of Chaplin with Marion Davies.

A heartbreaking coda is earned through sterling character work throughout, with some top comic assists care of Sally Hawkins as the inquisitive Mrs Brown, and Hugh Bonneville as bumbling oaf Mr Brown.

While there are moments of humor in this film, audiences never get the same endearing antics we saw in Christopher Reeves» portrayal of the alien visitor disguised as a bumbling reporter.

Admittedly, Martin's turn as the bumbling French detective wasn't as bad as Roberto Benigni in Son Of The Pink Panther, but the idea of him taking another stab at the dodgy Gallic accent fills us with dread.

His talented supporting cast includes Simon Pegg who offers comic relief, periodically, as his bumbling, new sidekick, Benji Dunn.

Nicholas Cage appears as a bumbling convenience - store robber who falls in love with his prison officer (Edwina Hunter).

Leading the foray is of course Robert Carlyle, who offers nothing less than a rich intuitive performance as our bumbling lead, Thomson.

It presented men dressed in uniforms not as heroes but as bumbling fools.

He had already brightened up the dull proceedings of Candy (1968) and The Magic Christian (1970); after the Beatles» split, he was seen to good advantage as the Pope in Ken Russell's Lisztomania (1975), as one of Mae West's bewildered amours in Sextette (1978) and as a bumbling Cro - Magnon in Caveman (1979), in which he co-starred with his second wife, Barbara Bach.

I also think it brings satisfaction and laughs to Americans when they see terrorists being depicted as bumbling idiots rather than ruthless killers.

The session ended with few major achievements, and Mr. Cuomo all but admitted last week that he had given anonymous quotes to the press that dismissed Mr. de Blasio as bumbling and inept.

As a father I am offended by people, stories, etc. that portray fathers / men as bumbling idiots that can only take out the trash and drink beer.

With a handsome sidekick setting him up, Danny Basavich, a.k.a. Kid Delicious, posed as a bumbling slob and won a small fortune in a four - year pool - hustling odyssey.

And what of the trend in children's programming in which adults and parents come off as bumbling boobs, while children are portrayed as capable and cunning?

Comedian Aziz Ansari mocked Republican Presidential candidate Gov. Bobby Jindal during a skit on Wednesday's «The Tonight Show,» depicting the former Rhodes Scholar and Ivy League honors graduate as bumbling and anti-science.

You're just the last generation of spiritually dead heads walking and squawking as you bumble through life among the rest of us that respect, appreciate and are in awe of His truth.

As the bumble - bees were flower - naïve, they had to be trained to visit Salvia flowers in a flight cage.

Capitalizing on the Baywatch craze of the 90's, the plot loosely follows a lifeguard around as he bumbles through coming of age scenarios.

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