Sentences with phrase «busybodies who»

A ubiquitous fixture on the US legal media scene, White and his team have had to fend off an onslaught from harassed law firm marketing directors creaking under the weight of a growing pile of surveys, as well as bar association busybodies who took umbrage at the company's methodology.

Acknowledge up front that you understand that most teachers are not looking for omnipresent busybodies who must constantly be handed volunteer tasks that involve construction paper and scissors.

The busybodies who go out of their way to tell you that breastfeeding your toddler just isn't the right way to parent will often tout that the benefits accompanying breastfeeding an infant disappear once the child has transitioned into toddlerhood.

Why should not the choice be made by the person most directly concerned rather than by the self - righteous busybodies who torment unhappy women at abortion clinics?

Crusaders are busybodies who are mixing their devout religious beliefs in a matter that is a psychological condition and that these unlicensed people are trying to provide therapy whilst pushing their anti-port crusade is unconscionable.

Perhaps you're just a nosy busybody who wants to mine my connections for marketing purposes.

Swedish author Backman, 35, came to the USA in May to promote his most recent book, Britt - Marie Was Here, about a busybody who walks out on her cheating husband.

He's a clownish busybody who makes anyone smile.

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This will help show the people who are curious that everything is going great for you, will help show the children that breastfeeding is nothing weird, and the confidence it will give you will help deter any busybodies.

Justice Olatoregun held, «It appears to me that the interested party (Union Bank) is a busybody, who is crying more than the bereaved, having transferred all its rights on the property, the subject matter of this suit.

The judge, who noted that Ogungbeje was not a party in the suit filed by the EFCC, described the lawyer as a meddlesome interloper and a busybody, adding that his application was strange to law.

Tony Blair, who has an irrepressible busybody instinct, keeps himself busy in foreign climes.

Poor Horton has an uphill battle on his hands to prove the Whos» existence to his busybody neighbors — and that's if he can do so before both clover and dust speck are lost, discarded or otherwise obliterated.

But more importantly, Sarandon shines as her busybody character who's trying to be everyone's mom.

There are some nicely played laughs at the story's outset, as Wilson's Henry moves into a new house and tries to fend off busybodies: his over-eager real estate agent (Cheryl Hines) and his enthusiastically intrusive next - door neighbor Esperanza Martinez (Adriana Barraza of Babel), who arrives with homemade tamales and a lot of questions.

Peter Capaldi is brilliantly rude as the neighborhood's busybody, who tries every way to remove Paddington from the place that needs him the most.

She's sinfully funny as Betty, the kind of busybodied, perpetually boozy neighbor who talks everyone's ear off and never thinks it's too early to have a cocktail.

The only other significant character to complicate the mix is a sour old busybody (Camryn Manheim) who passes the stolen car on the road and has the bad luck to intervene just as the fun turns violent — as the carefree lark evolves into a more high - stakes action movie.

(This is, after all, an author who, in his 1997 novel Mason and Dixon, managed to compose a genuinely profound hymn to the historical «arts of the quidnunc» — i.e., of the busybody — that doubled as an elaborate, ironic parody of a long - defunct literary style's attempts at profundity.)

Standing in his way, however, is the dictating busybody Kangaroo (Carol Burnett), who feels Horton's ramblings could upset the balance of the jungle and lead to anarchy.