Sentences with phrase «bit crook»

So I stopped... well, as much as I ever stop... and had a four - day break from blogging and work over Easter... and, of course, the usual dramas unfolded... including — though it ended up being the least of my problems — getting a bit crook... which is what always happens when I stop.

So I stopped... well, as much as I ever stop... and had a four - day break from blogging and work over Easter... and, of course, the usual dramas unfolded... including — though it ended up being the least of my problems — getting a bit crook... which is what always happens -LSB-...]

Here he is on a two - bit crook: «Hair like steel wool grew far back on his head and gave him a great deal of domed brown forehead that might at a careless glance have seemed a dwelling place for brains.»

There's a part for Peter Sarsgaard as the sort of jittery, disposable two - bit crook these movies always cough up.

Yet there's just enough oomph from the screenplay to make this an absorbing (if flawed) look into the seedy underworld of two - bit crooks.

But Soderbergh takes his time with each of these two - bit crooks, so we get to know them as people instead of white - trash stereotypes.

But in the nearly 50 years since that one - two punch, he's given us some of the most memorable turns in American movies: Watergate muckrakers and Judge Wapner - loving savants, existential detectives and enraged divorcees, psychopathic gangsters and profane stand - ups, two - bit crooks and first - rate schnooks.

Not exact matches

It seems a bit more than a coincidence that Crooks has just gone with the two players that scored against Huddersfield, but it was a vital win for the Eagles in the battle at the bottom of the Premier League table and so perhaps it can't be argued too much.

«This lad looked a bit special the moment he walked into Old Trafford last summer,» Crooks told BBC Sport.

With just one win from six games and facing the prospect of going nine points behind Crooks with another loss, we can perhaps sympathise with Redknapp for going a bit safe this week.

I wanted to cuddle him for just a little bit longer, to hold onto and stretch out the moment of his childhood when he could sleep so peacefully in the crook of my arm.

«Over the Cliff» by Crooks and Liars bloggers John Amato and David Neiwert is, so far, a bit of a slog — it's rehashing a lot of what I know in a dry and judgmental way.

«It requires a little bit more work,» said Steve Crooks, climate change services director at the ecosystem consulting firm ESA PWA, who also sits as a member of two international blue carbon working groups.

For the rest of his movie career, Ring would be confined to microscopic bit parts and extra roles, with the occasional supporting parts in 2 - reel comedies (he's the fugitive crook who demands a shave from W.C. Fields in 1933's The Barber Shop).

Director Gore Verbinski takes the minor delights that worked well in the first film — such as the Laurel and Hardy - like sidekicks played by Mackenzie Crook and Lee Arenberg — and expands them to the size of subplots, so that no small bits remain.

In The Drop, Tom Hardy offers a subdued performance as a bartender in a two - bit dive that gets held up by crooks who apparently don't realize that they're stealing mob money.

The second season of Fargo (which, as every summary of the show must mention, is not a remake of the Coen brothers movie) is a «70s period piece that's every bit the equal of its fantastic (and unrelated) first season, with actors like Jesse Plemons, Ted Danson, Patrick Wilson and Jean Smart doing some of their best dark comedy work as small - town Midwestern crooks and cops.

The efforts to portray skeptic climate scientists as crooks don't look the least bit solid.

Since you have to pay off the mortgage and also work with Nook to help play it off, the character has gotten a reputation for being a bit of a crook.