Sentences with phrase «boor by»

Abbruzzese, who in court was presented as a «socially deficient» boor by his own business associates, testified that being in the aura of the leader widely known as «Uncle Joe» gave him entree and a sounding board that was worth every penny he paid.

You only make yourself look foolish by asking the question, and a boor by posing it so discourteously.

Not exact matches

We see a woman of power and wealth talked - over by boorish bankers and her boorish board (Bradley Whitford is boor - in - chief).

Mozart (Tom Hulce) is an adolescent boor touched by the hand of God; Emperor Joseph's (Jeffrey Jones) court composer Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) becomes obsessed and desperately jealous of Mozart's gift, leading him to the madhouse and confessions of murder.

As written, she's a heartless boor, introduced to us as a petulant society woman rejecting flowers (hence the title) sent to her by Jack La Rue's gangster (who's got more of a pulse than Travers but is pure gangster cliché through and through), and remarked upon as frigid by her fiancé, who wants to take her out dancing to warm her up a bit.