Sentences with phrase «best yuppie»

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Taking the advice and working closely with Gekko, Fox soon finds himself swept into a world of «yuppies», shady business deals, the «good life», fast money, and fast women; something which is at odds with his family including his estranged father and the blue - collared way Fox was brought up.

A recognisable tribe of yuppies that dressed in a manner that was well - bred, slightly above mainstream fashion, and a wee bit posh.

The «bachelor party gone wrong» is a well - established comedy sub-genre and the prospect of yet another bunch of shit - faced yuppies getting into scrapes with hookers is hardly one to savour.

We know this because her best friend, her mum and her colleagues talk about * nothing * but the problems of attracting and holding onto those yuppie college boys in their bright uniforms, all with exciting careers ahead of them.

«Nancy, Please veers from a yuppie nesting comedy into a nifty psychological thriller — as well as a dead - on depiction of doctoral - student psychosis.»

Romantically she jumps back and forth between yuppie Ben Stiller and slacker Ethan Hawke, while her best friends Janeane Garofalo and Steve Zahn provide comic relief and go through their own crises — including a brush with HIV.

Page is a star, no question (the only reason you don't walk is because she patches a lot of holes), but Juno is best at revealing the limitations of folks like Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner, the perfect yuppie couple to whom Juno decides to bequeath her spawn — the one tasked with wearing Soundgarden T - shirts and pining for his days opening for The Melvins, the other asked mainly to be the hysterical, barren woman, ovulating like a chicken and resembling that Mo Collins character from «MADtv» who, in lieu of children, collects Precious Moments figurines.

Whereas the first Purge focused on one yuppie family and their domestic squabbles in a gated community, The Purge: Anarchy creates a surprisingly smart and well - honed structure that allows for an anthology of smaller stories to be told within this larger world.

Ever watched on in helpless disbelief as your best friends turned into soulless materialist yuppies as the years progressed?

Anyone who saw the three - hour My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument (1997) when it showed at the Film Center last year knows that, for better and for worse, writer - director Arnaud Desplechin, born in 1960, has a generational voice, speaking for and about French yuppies in their late 20s and early 30s.

Ellen Page is impetuous and funny as the smart - mouthed high school goofball who finds herself pregnant after the experimental seduction of her hopelessly smitten best friend Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera), then finds an adoptive yuppie couple for her baby in the Penny Saver: tightly wound professional Jennifer Garner and easygoing musician Jason Bateman.

Reuniting with her well - to - do older sister Lucy (Sarah Paulson), whom she has not spoken to in over two years, and Lucy's yuppie husband Ted (Hugh Dancy), Martha struggles to adapt to life with regular people.

Of course a big building will have to be built and staffed somewhere in the Washington / Boston Yuppie Good Idea Zone.

And it's surprising, since the GT500 appears just as we were thinking Ford had gone all yuppie with the Boss 302 — the impressively multidimensional Mustang that's so well - rounded it could conceivably find its way into the garage of a BMW owner.

Note that we are doing our best not to mention the mewling yuppies in Lincoln's ads.

Throughout the 1980s, BMW became the unofficial poster car of yuppies, as the brand ostensibly signified one's financial success as well as a passion for driving.

(Yuppie fern bars, I knew you well, back when that's where people held parties.)

After schools close off their campuses for the term break, and pilgrims have culminated their respective Lenten sojourns, coeds with no summer classes, as well as yuppies who...

Just in case the classics fail to carry enough charm for yuppies, Kilimnik's dancers also include Diana Rigg at her tightly clad, karate - chopping best.

«With me or against me» is mocked when it comes from Dubya, but rewarded in all its shapes otherwise, especially when it's draped with yuppie babble about better world and patriotism.

Nikki S. Lee is an artist best known for taking on the characteristics of figures within subcultures, including drag queens, yuppies, and hip - hop fans.

That's a good deal if you like Sling TV's content, which includes sports (ESPN, ESPN and a $ 5 upgrade with more channels), kids (such as ABC Family and Disney Channel, with a $ 5 upgrade option), or yuppie couples (including HGTV, Food Network and Travel Channel).