Sentences with phrase «as surly»

Pace contributes with Corban Walker digital self - portrait as a surly dwarf and with Michel Rovner in a variant on her video petri dishes, and James Cohan and Elizabeth Dee contribute as well.

Sure, the new characters haven't clicked just right with me yet, but I found them to be likable, and having the original crew come back as the surly supporting cast helps make it feel like the torch is being passed.

But it is the trio of young actors — J. Mallory McCree as a brainy African Muslim, Octavia Chavez - Richmond as a surly native of the Dominican Republic and Raquel Castro as an all - American - girlish over-achiever from Peru — who stand out as they provide much - needed human faces for a pressing issue that is currently consuming the headlines

The fine cast includes Liev Schreiber as Ned, a writer for a successful «Nick / Tuck» - like TV show; Helen Hunt as Jeannie, his put - upon wife; Brian Dennehy as her surly, sickly father who comes to live with them; and Carla Gugino as Ned's brazenly seductive writing partner.

Solid performances help with an especially good supporting turn by Philip Seymour Hoffman as the surly CIA op who seems to be able to always read through the lines to gather up all the big picture details that others tend to miss.

But it does feature a few tributes to Back to the Future, namely Crispin Glover (spot on as a surly one - armed bellhop whose appendage - ectomy is anticipated all through the eighties flashback), a future birth threatened by the trampling the space - time continuum (aka the butterfly effect, which resident nerd Duke explains ad infinitum) and the dubious lesson that self - empowerment is merely a matter of beating up that bully from the past.

Shaffer is excellent as the surly, eerily believable teen quietly trying to do his best in a complicated situation.

Was his character always supposed be as surly, or is that something that Greenfield himself contributed?

There's the crazy housemate (Tom Hollander, funny as a surly playwright); there's the kooky, damaged woman close to the main character (Lydia Wilson playing Tim's troubled sister, Kit Kat).

«Some years ago we may have thought of [black holes] as surly loners sucking their thumb in the corner and gobbling anything that happened to come by,» Miller says.

Most could be cast as surly outsiders, lashing out at friend and foe alike and tolerated only because they help to clear away the pests, an even worse crowd.

And when you are functioning as the surly waitress, greasy short - order chef, and dealing with a crowd of family members who tend to lose their tempers when blood sugar levels drop, you learn to simplify.

Not exact matches

It can hardly come as a great surprise that when economic growth falls short year after year and when its beneficiaries are a small subset of the population, electorates turn surly.

We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and «slipped the surly bonds...

My final say as a human to human, from brother to a brother derived from our father and mother Adam & Eve, kindly ask your American Nation to unite all races and faiths under one ceiling and not to Crash down otherwise it will go back to pieces and fragments of pieces which will surly to crash with you since we are still suffering the vibrations of 9/11 and of the Global Economy crises and we do not want those any more as much as you but nothing in hand we ordinary ones have other than we are doing now here!?

(Matthew 6:8) Prayer was not begging a reluctant deity for his best gifts, as though he were an unjust judge or a surly neighbor in bed with his children unwilling to arise and answer a call for help — although if patience in prayer could accomplish its end even in such cases, how much more with the righteous and merciful God!

In concluding his statement, the president combined words from the first and last lines of a moving poem, «High Flight,» written by a poet - pilot, John Gillespie Magee, Jr. «We will never forget them,» the president said, «nor the last time we saw them this morning as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye, «and slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God.»»

Your husband will answer to God, and you must answer to God for how you respond to your husband, even when he causes you to suffer.Just as we are to obey government in every ordinance, and servants are to obey their masters, even the ones who are abusive and surly, «likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands»... You can freely call your husband «lord» when you know that you are addressing the one who put him in charge and asked you to suffer at your husband's hands just as our Lord suffered at the hands of unjust authorities... When you endure evil and railing without returning it, you receive a blessing, not just as a martyr, but as one who worships God.»

But the lure of missing Mass was not to be resisted, and I spent the next hour plotting the crime; I would simply prepare as usual, and behave in the usual surly manner, and insist shrilly on wearing the usual shabby clothing (the bellbottom jeans!

All drinks are available for diners, as well, served by the surliest and best servers in the industry.

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But I'm not sure if I've seen a player like Griffey who was better at capturing imaginations and making surly old men feel like children again, while making children as filled with the kind of wonder that children should be filled with.

They approveof all foreigners (other than Americans) but have a surly suspicion of Britishembassies and seem to think that most ambassadors are annoying publicschoolboys (as of course a few are).

Labour politicians, especially the surly Ed Balls and Ed Miliband, are portrayed as the bad guys: tribal, belligerent, arrogant and against coalition.

In a surprise, Manhattan Federal Court Judge Kimba Wood hit Skelos» surly scion Adam with an even longer prison sentence — 6 1/2 years — as a «deterrence.»

Lead investigator Jason Hawes, founder of the Atlantic Paranormal Society, not only looks like and has the same day job as Samuel «Joe the Plumber» Wurzelbacher but carries himself with the same air of surly distrust, as if suspicious that the whole world might be encoded with hilarious bon mots at the expense of his sister.

Hola Arepa and Tilia come to mind as topnotch options, but if you're in the mood for a drink, you can't go wrong with Surly Brewing Co..

As the years begin to pass, and I have become much more style savoy, I have made this a continuous goal to replaces those items slowly but surly.

But while his stature might be lacking, his wrath is outsize, and as we listen in, he rants about the wayward media in a surly, anxious rasp.

She hires surly backwoods drunkard Paul Grogan (Bradford Dillman) to serve as her guide.

One of the nastiest, Mona Dearly (played excellently by Bette Midler), is about as mean and surly as they come.

His best - known screen assignment was as Henry Fonda's surly step - grandson in the 1981 crowd - pleaser On Golden Pond.

This it the brutal, surly brother to Bridge of Spies» clean - cut kid, a spy thriller in which characters are divested of their nationalities as a way to mete out actions which can not be seen to be linked to any one country for fear of reprimands.

Oppressed as a child by the puritanical, anti-theatrical strain of surrogate parent William Cecil (a wasted David Thewlis) and snivelling, hunchbacked foster brother Robert (Edward Hogg), the Earl of Oxford toils away at composing seditious verse in secret before uploading his cache of plays to surly Ben Jonson (Sebastian Armestom doing Orlando Bloom).

Noah Baumbach might as well have named his latest feature «The (Harold) Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected, But Also Mostly About Harold),» because no matter how many stories unspool in the filmmaker's latest tale of familial disaffection (and, occasionally, actual affection), each one spins firmly around Dustin Hoffman's surly patriarch.

Wainwright excels as the film's more surly second - in - command, providing the right amount of menace to the prison scenes required to justify putting life and limb on the line.

Apatow's superb cast of supporting players strikes an uncertain chord: Leslie Mann as George's confused ex-girlfriend; unfaithful Eric Bana (never this deft); surly Eminem as himself; even soft - rocker James Taylor, who, saddled with Apatow's crudest, most bromantic line, turns it into a resigned code of resilience.

Investigating what seems to be a «lightning storm in space,» the Federation starship U.S.S. Kelvin abruptly finds itself phaser - to - phaser with an immense claw - like dreadnought piloted by the surly Romulan captain Nero (Eric Bana, looking as though he just got back from an unsuccessful audition for Road Warrior!

Given the demands placed on the actors, it would have been surprising if at least some of them hadn't been in as much a state of revolt as Fitzgerald, the surly and psychotic fur trapper played here by Tom Hardy.

Unsurprisingly, veteran English stage and screen talent Lesley Manville hits all the right notes as Reynolds» surly sister, Cyril.

Sometimes the two types of performances exist side by side: It's easy to sneer at Sandler getting in drag to play the braying, Bronx - born Jill in Jack And Jill, but there's visible effort (and sometimes startling, sweaty detail) in that character, as opposed to the surly, condescending version of a straight man that the Jack character lazily embodies.

One day, a mysterious trunk is delivered to the facility's water tank by surly, violent security specialist Strickland (Michael Shannon), soon to be revealed as a fish - man hybrid (Doug Jones) to be studied by the military as a prisoner and test subject to hopefully uncover powerful secrets that could tip the tide of the Cold War.

This deliberate and intelligent chamber piece details the procedure of a dark spiritual ritual, diving into the nitty gritty semantics of crossing over as a grieving woman hires a a surly medium to connect with her lost child.

The aforementioned stereotypes, and Andie's role as a female who is helpless to do anything without Surly's approval, may be reason enough to say, «nuts to this» and find something better to watch.

Full of bright primary colors, punny chapter breaks, all manner of meta - winks and other strenuous bits of Godardian business, the movie draws an unambiguous parallel between the disintegration of their relationship and the loss of Godard's filmmaking mojo as he is swallowed whole by his own surly, disagreeable post -»60s obscurantism.

She's designated as the subservient voice of reason for the protagonist, Surly (voice of Will Arnett), a purple squirrel (apparently there really is one of these) who has led most of the park's rodent population to embrace the easy pickings in an abandoned nut shop across the street from their urban forest.

The surly and usually drunk Haymitch (a wonderfully cast Woody Harrelson) serves as mentor to Katniss and fellow tribute Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), since he was the last victor from District 12.

The fab all - star cast includes Edward Norton as a «difficult» but talented stage actor, Emma Stone as Keaton's surly, drug - recovered daughter, Zach Galifianakis as a hyperkinetic theater manager, Naomi Watts as an actress making her broadway debut, and the endless tracking shot that literally makes all the world a stage.

Going back to the kids, those sugar - stuffed Ritalinites are sure to just eat this up as the partially CGI, partially stop - motion visual style is mind - boggling enough to make even a surly old man's jaw drop much less a wide - eyed youngster.

JUSTICE LEAGUE KEY PLAYERS: Ben Affleck, charged with lightening up after his surly spin as Batman in Dawn of Justice; Zack Snyder, charged with lightening up after his surly spin as director of Dawn of Justice; DC Comics, who are counting on the film to kickstart Aquaman, The Flash and Cyborg franchises.