Sentences with phrase «as the salesman who»

Frank Perdue was known nationally as the salesman who built one of the largest family businesses in the country but his greatest success might have been overcome his reluctance to even talk to people.

Although little is known about Damon and Krasinski's upcoming co-creation, several outlets are reporting that the plot will chronicle Damon as a salesman who arrives in a small town only to have his whole life called into question.

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Manlove, who says he sold over $ 10 million in cannabis product as lead salesman at Tradiv, called his roster of clients — cannabis growers, retailers, and manufacturers — and told them he was starting a new business.

He is the author of two books: BIG LIKE: CASCADE INTO AN ODYSSEY, a travel memoir of an almost regular guy who gets totally unstuck in Tokyo — a «funny as hell non-fiction book about wanderlust and traveling abroad»; and TESTOSTERONE PIT, a short, edgy, humorous novel about car salesmen, their customers, managers, and shenanigans at a large Ford dealership.

One of the best salesmen I have ever worked for told me to never sell on price, because there is always somebody out there who will pass an inferior offering as the same as your product but for a much lower price.

There are moments when Creighton, a gifted salesman who presents himself as an avuncular yet ardent self - storage evangelist, seems to be selling everything but storage.

Rumaysah who was formerly known as Siddhartha Dhar, is a former bouncy castle salesman who was open about his Islamist views before he fled to Syria.

LaVorgna is a hack who has spent his career on Wall Street preaching fairytales about the economy as a means of assisting the snakeoil salesmen at his bank in their efforts to stuff as much high - commission junk into investor accounts as possible.

Kalanick, a natural salesman who sold knives door - to - door as a high school student one summer, helped bring in investment from Michael Ovitz, cofounder of the talent agency CAA, and Ron Burkle, the supermarket magnate.

I was asked the other day by a copier salesman (who was calling the church to sell me paper), «What was it like growing up as the son of Joel Hunter»?

Indeed, just as the world is filled with selfappointed salesmen for God, it is also filled with evangelical atheists who are equally determined to convert anyone who will listen to their belief system, their faith in the non-existence of God.

In this film, we are introduced to three industrial lubricant salesman: Larry (played byKevin Spacey), a brash, but honest veteran of sales; Phil (played by Danny Devito), Larry's friend and a seasoned, yet life - weary salesman; and Bob (played by PeterFacinelli), a young evangelical Christian who, as a rookie in sales, joins the twoveterans at a trade show.

A midwest book salesman, who probably reads as many religious books as most theologians, makes a comment on evangelical churches that applies to many evangelical best sellers: «They show a steady growth, but I fear it is immature.

Guess I'll have to think of him as weird uncle Harold the snake oil salesman, who is more than happy to part the gullible from their money.

He struck me as a very outgoing, convincing salesman who prided himself on how quickly he could «close» a sale.

They embraced MITT ROMNEY, the same guy THEY said was nothing but a wishy - washy salesman who'll slit the throat of anyone in his way and say anything to get elected (and proved as much during the primary).

Wengers plan is to spend as little as possible to secure as much as he can to secure his poz in the team, thats it, he is just a salesman and con artist who is taking fans for idiots, and fans make it easy for the likes of him

In the spring of 1997, around the time that Hughes, who worked as a salesman for a video company, abused three boys at once in his office — he molested the boys one at a time while the other two watched — the mother of another victim was folding her son's underwear and putting it in a drawer when she saw, hidden among the clothes, a letter written by her son to his girlfriend.

Watson, who had various jobs, including one as a plumbing - supplies salesman, was single and lived here and there, at times in parents» garages.

This 90 - minute feature film by Oscar - winning director, Danis Tanovic, tells the true story of a former Nestlé salesman who took on the company with the help of IBFAN when he realises that babies are dying as a result of his work pressuring doctors to promote formula.

Probably the only whistleblower from inside the multinational company, who reported about his practices as baby milk salesman with doctors and hospitals in Pakistan.

«Tigers» is based on the true story of a former Nestlé baby milk salesman, Syed Aamir Raza, who took on the corporate giant after realising that babies were dying as a result of his work to pressure doctors to promote the formula to their patients.

A man who, before he recommended himself for promotion to defence secretary after the resignation of Michael Fallon late last year, was best known as the keeper of a spider in his role as chief whip, and a fireplace salesman.

Sigfredo Gonzalez, 40, a Throgsneck medical supply salesman who ran unsuccessfully three times for the 79th Assembly District, ended up wearing a wire for the feds and acting as a go - between for bribes from his shady bosses to Assemblyman Eric Stevenson, according to a federal complaint.

Visualise him not as prime minister but as a variety entertainer who's gone on too long, or as a dodgy timeshare salesman with an offer no one believes.

This speech desperately needed a mea culpa, a break with the past, a first step towards changing the public perception of the Lib Dems as shameless two - faced car salesmen who'll do anything for power.

The complaint portrays Senator Skelos as eager to use his political influence to generate income for his son, who has worked in recent years as a title insurance salesman.

My final verdict on the matter is that juice cleanses are a complete and total scam, and that anyone who partakes in the business of selling them is ignorant about their own product at best, and a slimy, unethical snake oil salesman at worst and should be publicly exposed for their BS and probably fined and / or jailed for participating in a scam that misinforms the public and can put people's health in danger while touting their products as «healthy lifestyle alternatives.»

With her genuine smile, earthy beauty, and striking green eyes, Melina Kanakaredes staked her claim on daytime television in The Guiding Light before expanding her talents to numerous other popular series and, eventually, the silver screen.Born and raised in Akron, OH, the second - generation Greek - American was the third daughter of an insurance salesman and homemaker who began her career as an actress in a community theater production of Tom Sawyer at the age of eight.

Anderson regular Philip Seymour Hoffman plays Dean the Mattress Man, a mattress salesman moonlighting as the operator of a phone - sex scam operator who provides the film the bulk of its emotional and physical conflict.

The film stars Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc, a salesman from the Midwest who partners with Richard «Dick» and Maurice «Mac» McDonald to franchise a burger chain owned by the brothers.

Vaughn wrote the screenplay with Jared Stern, and he stars as Billy McMahon, a middle - aged watch salesman who, along with his buddy Nick (Owen Wilson), is left unemployed when his company closes.

I wrote a feature review of Sony's DVD release of Carol Reed's Our Man in Havana, starring Alec Guinness as a meek vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana who concocts fictional intelligence reports for the British Secret Service, for Turner Classic Movies.

Adjustment Bureau is a stylish picture with terrific costuming ideas that place the perhaps heavenly agents in garb associated with a 1950's insurance salesman, giving the growing menace a deliberate feel of an outdated corporation - an angelic Mad Men gathering of snappily dressed hunters who study leather - bound books of fate, imagined here as electronic subway maps of destiny.

For Maurice «Mac» (John Carroll Lynch) and Dick McDonald (Nick Offerman), fate comes in the form of a 50 - something - year - old milkshake machine salesman who sees their one - off restaurant as a potential gateway to the future.

Neeson plays an ex-cop who changed jobs ten years ago to work as an insurance salesman.

Set during the height of the Iraq War, David Packouz (Miles Teller), a struggling masseuse - cum - travelling carpet salesman, meets childhood bestie Efraim Diveroli (Jonah Hill), an Iraq arms dealer who exploits the little - known government initiative that allows small businesses to bid on private contracts on military arsenal — it's in the archival visuals of Iraq soldiers military gear paraded as visual merchandisers, that accompanies the aforementioned prologue, that has some genuinely startling financial statistics.

David, who has suffered a recent romantic break - up and is none too satisfied with his dead - end employment as a stereo salesman, finally decides to accede to his father's wishes and take him to Nebraska.

Here we meet Freddie, Bruce and Snork, each playing standard roles of 1970's inert youth — apart from Freddie, who has been employed recently as a life insurance salesman.

The two play recently laid - off salesmen who decide to apply to Google as interns, despite being in their 40s and clueless to technology.

The film sees the likeable duo as recently laid off salesman who decide to comfront technology for the first time by conning there way into working at internet giant Google.

As previously announced, James Franco will play a fast - talking oil salesman who flees a traveling circus in a hot air balloon and winds up in Oz, where three sisters are battling for control.

Asghar Farhadi, who won a Best - Foreign - Language - Film Oscar in 2012 for A Separation, his delicate examination of a divorcing couple in Tehran, is nominated once more, for The Salesman, an equally remarkable film that again takes a fraying marriage as its focus.

Smith stars as Christopher Gardner, a struggling salesman in San Francisco during the early 1980s who sells luxury medical equipment that most doctors and hospitals have deemed unnecessary.

Catherine Keener co-stars as the mom who finds love with the very shy, very polite, and very much a virgin, electronics salesman.

In addition to the family interviews and archival material, the film does include new interviews with two luminaries — playwright Tony Kushner and the late director Mike Nichols (who staged the somewhat controversial 2012 revival of Salesman starring Philip Seymour Hoffman as Willy Loman).

The film stars Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc, a salesman from the Midwest who partners with Richard «Dick» and Maurice «Mac» McDonald to franchise a burger chain...

Duets is the first feature about karaoke I've seen, and Byrum uses it as a suggestive metaphor for the dreams of three sets of characters who've lost their way in terms of their personal and family identities: a karaoke hustler (Huey Lewis) who meets his daughter — a Vegas showgirl played by Paltrow — for the first time at the funeral of her mother; a traveling salesman (Paul Giamatti) who flips his lid after flying to Houston instead of Orlando and then going home to an indifferent wife and kids, and who eventually splits and hooks up with an ex-con (Andre Braugher); and a young cabdriver (Scott Speedman) who reluctantly agrees to drive a waitress and part - time hooker (Maria Bello) out west.

But he can't do it alone, so he rounds up the rest of «The Five Musketeers,» as he calls them, all of whom are in varying states of reluctance to join him: fastidious real estate agent Oliver (Freeman); wealthy architect Steven (Considine); meek car salesman Peter (Marsan); and the toughest get of all, his former best friend Andy (Frost), a corporate lawyer who hasn't spoken to him or had a drink in 16 years.

Terrence Howard shines as a Charlie Parker - like sax player and Steve Buscemi as a straight - acting salesmen who pays for sex with Dean.