Sentences with phrase «as uppity»

Among the notables is Stephen Campbell Moore's affable physician, Samuel Anderson's intrusive Jehovah's Witness and Frances de la Tour («Hugo») and Roger Allam («The Woman in Black») as uppity residents with mounting impatience.

Idiocracy a fun film for those who laugh at, or perhaps lament, the sorry state of our society, where reading is increasingly being deemed by youth culture as passé, popular entertainment has nearly no emphasis on story (Judge portrays films of the future as nothing but shots of bare asses that occasionally fart, which the audience finds consummately entertaining), and people can't speak intelligently without being labeled as uppity snobs.

, season two became a crusade for a charter school with Anna (Katie Aselton, looking like Cameron Diaz) taking on the role as uppity - bitch with her French - inspired education idea (hey, but at least it's an idea, right?).

Each cast member sends themselves up perfectly — Rogen as the noncommittal, avoidant slacker, Baruchel as the uppity hipster actor who pretends he's «above» LA, the sanctimonious and overly - nice Hill, the earnest but buffoonish Robinson, the misanthropic McBride, and so on.

Not exact matches

This post is for those of you who, like me, typically avoid fancy - pants food that might take more than 20 minutes to make and which would've tasted just as good if all ingredients were just thrown together in a pan without the uppity presentation.

Some SWIS supporters — and there are more than 3.000 throughout the country — describe the case as a «judicial lynching» of «uppity» blacks by the white establishment.

I totally wrote off Nordstrom in the past as being this uppity, goody - two - shoes of a retailer.

Now they are forced to literally lead each other's lives, as Charlie, in his father's body, must go to work in the dog - eat - dog corporate world, while Marshall heads back to the 6th grade to be tormented by bullies and dealing with uppity teachers.

At first just awkward, the situation turns eerily malevolent when additional guests — all white — arrive, as if Peele had crossed a movie like Betrayed, a 1988 thriller about going undercover in a white supremacist hate group, with The Stepford Wives, that twice - adapted tale of one small community's drastic solution to the problem of uppity women.

Tony Hale (Veep) and Thomas Lennon (Reno 911) play uppity educators, with Jenna Fischer (The Office) and Judy Greer as the boy's moms (the perennial bff is asked to pull off perhaps the new years» worst line of dialogue, «My Lord is bigger than your statistics»).

Bale has already proven his ability to play an uppity killer in American Psycho, so it only follows that his performance as a similar, less exaggerated character would be spot - on.

As the group collects their bounty, Rocket Raccoon (Bradley Cooper) willfully angers their uppity employer (Elizabeth Debicki) and our quirky quintet is unwittingly off on a brand new life - or - death space odyssey.

It's hardly even worth complaining, then, that Anchorman uses its faux satire of the 1970s as an excuse to play out male fantasies of knocking uppity women — like aspiring anchorwoman Christina Applegate (View from the Top, The Sweetest Thing)-- back down into their proper place; as with the new Stepford Wives, Anchorman pretends to send up passé attitudes while actually expressing very contemporary fears.

After this she moved to the Minneapolis Tribune as the first woman police reporter and later as the reporter responsible for covering social change during which she wrote about «militant blacks, angry Indians, radical students, uppity women and a motley assortment of other misfits and troublemakers.»

I personally believe that Trad Pub would love to see indie sink back into the ooze whence it came, and that Amazon only gave it a real boost as a lever against Trad Pub when they were getting uppity.

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As part of the international effort, That Uppity Theater Company in St. Louis partnered with US Green Building Council - Missouri Gateway Chapter and Missouri Interfaith Power & Light to present «Playhouse Emissions: A Climate Change Theatre Action.»

With the site organized in categories such as «sleazeball attorneys» and «agonized clients,» the firm's uppity women and token males apologize in advance to readers they may offend.

The pro-father bias (or anti- «angry woman» or anti- «uppity woman» bias) may have been pre-existing; usually the judges perceived (or postured as perceiving) the mother as being more complaining and litigious (angry and / or money - wasting), and the father as being more passive or reactive.

Now, I may sometimes refer to this room as the «foyer», but you must know that while I am typing it I am actually saying it sarcastically in my mock «uppity girl» accent (think Mary Crawley from Downton Abbey).