Sentences with phrase «as kind of a joke»

The sad thing is that most of the time it's used by my ignorant non-black friends who think that they can use that word as some kind of a joke.

And as kind of a joke I was like, «well, maybe I can cut her open and look at her womb.»

Handler initially said no, but came up with the Snicket series as a kind of joke.

It treats it as kind of a joke.

So, even if the government makes noises that they want to control systemic risk, I view it as kind of a joke.

We did it as a kind of joke...

Roberta Smith reports that «the arrangements at Greene Naftali, especially, convey the impression that the only way to take painting seriously is to treat it as some kind of joke.»

I like how his work can be serious while treating art itself as a kind of joke, which is how music can be — just for dancing and to party.

Having been lauded as some kind of joke from Samsung, people seemed to overlook the fact it actually was a pretty decent phone.

Not exact matches

At any rate, for a bad joke to be the good news is the kind of absurdly hopeful reversal (as in Jesus» wittier parables) that we find often in this surprisingly funny book.

These Jews, the bulk of those who perished in the Holocaust, were as likely to hold funds in a Swiss bank account as they were to own a suite in the Waldorf Towers; the very idea is a kind of sick joke.

While the apostle Paul doesn't strike me as the kind of person who'd crack a joke or offer a sarcastic quip in a tight situation, he does share this ability to look positively at a crisis situation.

To laugh at the world's absurdities implies an «acceptance of incomprehensibility,» and this acceptance is a kind of religious affirmation, Such jokes offer a way of being reconciled to the creation and the Creator even as one expresses anger or despair at God's world.

This joke is better insofar as it identifies something more peculiar to the Presbyterian ethos: it relies on a more specific kind of shared knowledge.

I'm just messing around, and kind of killed a joke that would have been better as a cartoon.

thanks for the sensible comment fatboy yep i know i do get that they do nt really mean it, but i just cant come to terms with that, i do nt really expect civilised culture in a sport but generally from the people in the world, yep you are right about the real world, maybe thats the reason it annoys me extremely, i mean look our world is rotten to the core, the human mindset is terrible when it faces danger or problems for himself, and maybe thats the reason i just want football to stay as just as an entertainment industry but when i see that people even here let the words flow in any kind of way just because the are frustrated, i really cant come to terms with it, i really love black humor and some akbs react angrily when some fans tell some wheelchair jokes or for example on the post from admin where one could write jokes about wenger, some were really awesome, but when people cant control their emotion after a game and abuse other people it just irritates me as hell cause i really think that thats one of the big problems in the world..

So with the newborn I had no clue it is just all left off my brain as to how to do a latch correctly and all that so that was a little surprising with having a second one but I kind of [inaudible] goals out the window with my second because I knew I had gone three years at that point was my first that it was just like you know I would just nurse as long as she wants to nurse and you know whatever happens, happens, I'm fine and we joked because my second was much more independent we joked that she would've wean more sooner than her older sister which almost happened because my oldest nurse for almost 5 years.

My younger one is a bit of an enigma, but maybe was partially due to being a bit of an introvert so loves the imaginary world of books, and maybe partially due to neglect parenting — we weren't reading to her nearly as much as her sisters, so she had to figure it out on her own (joking — kind of — we obviously don't neglect her, reading just took a backseat, but hey it all worked out in the wash so am not sweating it).

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is often treated as a joke, when it's nothing of the kind.

It's a far call from Mr Brown's image as a kind of international joke, an image he all - but nurtured for the duration of the last year.

He told the conference that it was the «kind of thing they do in France, a very good idea in my view», before shouting «joke» several times, as the delegates laughed.

Mr. Cuomo himself said as much during the news conference, joking that he was «not a pressure kind of guy,» to laughter from the crowd.

Is there any chance that the bigon is just a figment — or some kind of ridiculous April Fool's joke, as virtually all other physicists are saying?

Rennie: No Steve, once again it's time for me to go through what have to be, [as] sure any number of readers every single year [may think], which is that they will read some articles and they will say, «Was this some kind of elaborate April Fools» joke?»

^ Well, that's the message the Western medical literature has been repeating for about 70 years, and looking at Loren Cordain fat belly, I think the «you'll be screwed for including any animal products» - pitch is spot on... okay jokes aside, the point was that there's no chance in a million year that blog is something what would be referred as «health blog», this is more like some kind of a Lierre Keith - style, anti-vegan blog which tries to be scientific.

«Kind of as a joke, kind of not,» she toldKind of as a joke, kind of not,» she toldkind of not,» she told me.

Even if only a few of them are legit that still means there are people out there who think these kinds of photos will work (or there are people creating profiles as a joke).

This will also develop an instant sort of camaraderie between the two of you as it will give you a kind of inside joke or shared activity.

Is Wiseau, who seems to appreciate «The Room» only as a way to make more money, really in on the same joke as the audiences who have adopted him as a kind of aging - hipster mascot?

I Feel Pretty is presenting itself as the kind of film that reveals how ugly we are for laughing at body - related stereotypes, but then why make those your jokes?

One Mississippi is the most subtle version of that new post-Louie comedy we've been given so far, in that Tig rarely goes for deliberate jokes, and instead lets her dry sense of humor act as a kind of shield against the pervasive sense of melancholy that permeates almost every scene of this show; it's a fascinating choice.

... Okay, so it's kind of lame to forcibly cite this film as nerdy to the point of getting a star with a surname that sounds kind of like «Edison», but the filmmakers had to have some corny joke somewhere in the casting, for it's not like Edison has been earning enough attention from, well, anyone to get a gig even this low in profile.

Shockingly, the kind of cringe - inducing material upon which Mr. Mazer has built a career as a writer for Sacha Baron Cohen («Bruno,» «Borat,» «Da Ali G Show») doesn't work when rendered by types who could have been cast in «Notting Hill» (someone even makes a Hugh Grant joke).

Herzfeld, whose career somehow lived to fight another day after his 1983 debut feature, «Two of a Kind» — a spectacular Hollywood turkey that imagined John Travolta and Olivia Newton - John as a failed inventor and bank teller chosen by the angels to restore God's faith in mankind — is a master of unintentional kitsch, and most of his latest plays out like a Mel Brooks or Zucker Brothers parody movie minus the actual jokes.

When the film focuses on Gore's personal touch — cracking jokes with an unlikely Republican ally, or showing off photos in his large, empty Tennessee home — it works as a kind of oblique profile in sacrifice.

And it stuffs most of those jokes into the mouth of Peter himself, re-imagined here as a kind of organic - produce - munching stand - up artist possessed by the insufferably ingratiating late - night stylings of James Corden.

Not only did the film make all kinds of»80s jokes and references, but John Cusack's character existed as something of a throwback to the many famous roles he had in that aforementioned decade (Better Off Dead, One Crazy Summer, Say Anything, et cetera).

Its greatest crime isn't that its one joke is tiresome from the thirty - minute mark on, it's that at the end of the day the picture doesn't particularly convince as a romance, tickle as a comedy, or score as a satire of any kind.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

«Old Dogs» is the kind of movie where the jokes are set up like dominoes, knocked down in the same scene, and rebuilt as the next sequence starts.

But the astronomical flashback isn't without a measure of wit as well; the sheer scope of it is a kind of joke on the impossibility of storytelling.

Both films cradle the richest poetry of a longing glance or a well - told joke, with the camera itself acting as a kind of spiritual guide, closing in around the characters and placing them in new and revealing positions.

But it couldn't be farther from a joke at the expense of two people in love, as it sensitively captures the unique dynamics of a romance between people who might have to do different kinds of work to stay connected.

The Vanessa thing you kind of have to take as a joke otherwise the rest of the movie makes no sense.

There are a lot of far - out jokes in Seven Chances, the kind of situations that you can't unravel with words — described point by point, they wouldn't sound as funny and strange as they are.

Frost is the kind of guy Nixon probably hated as a younger man — the guy who gets the pretty girls, tells the funny jokes and isn't burdened by the weight of the world's problems.

Robots abounds with fart, elimination, sex, and a number of other lower jokes that can elicit a laugh or two but that seem more to pander to the easiest kinds of laughs, just as many horror movies rely on jump - scares to make their movies scary.

In «Toni Erdmann,» a very good and peculiar comedy from Germany's Maren Ade, a father subjects his high - strung adult daughter to a kind of unexpected — and clearly unwanted — shock therapy, using joke - shop fake teeth, a fright wig and a freakish sense of humor as tools of enlightenment.

Crank 2: High Voltage I am confident will cement Statham as the Humphrey Bogart of this generation (joking, of course, kind of).

His earlier films, funny as they are, are hampered by unevenness and overemphasis, and by the kind of selfcongratulatory distrust of the audience that makes Brooks hold his shots too long, zoom in insistently on his sight gags, use the same joke again and again under the misapprehension that that makes it a running gag, or — when in doubt — have an unlikely person say «bullshit» or burst into Cole Porter.