Sentences with phrase «busybody from»

It didn't really help matters that I got shouted at by some busybody from the robes company for being «improperly dressed», even though someone else from the same company had helped me with the robes and assured me that I was properly dressed.

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And may no noise - making busybody interfere to snatch me out of my carefree content as the author of a little piece, or prevent a kind and benevolent reader from examining it at his leisure, to see if it contains anything that he can use.

Battling the interference of 658 MPs, plus Peers, press and Royalty; coaxing and soothing his collaborator Pugin; fending of the mad schemes of a host of crackpot inventors, including Dr Reid and his Ventilator, and assaults from the egos of countless busybodies intent on destroying his reputation and coming in three times over budget and 17 years behind schedule, Barry eventually succeeded — after countless setbacks and rows which contributed to his death in 1860.

He saw stupidity everywhere, from the gossip of middle - class busybodies to the lectures of academics.

What I will say is that the massive supporting cast is uniformly incredible from Casey Wilson as the Dunne's busybody neighbor to Missi Pyle's vicious TV ditz Ellen Abbott.

He has long specialized in small and midsize films, from «Being John Malkovich» to «The Meddler,» an April release starring Susan Sarandon as a busybody mom.

The most ironic aspect to this movie is that even when Isabelle is acting as her own worst enemy — say, allowing herself to be talked down from her latest affair with a gentle gallery owner (Alex Descas) by a busybody clairvoyant (Gerard Depardieu!)

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.

His Punch - Drunk Love is a fabulous deconstruction of the genre, a glimpse into a world in which the tics of the romcom that we chuckle at — casual violence, henpecking from busybody relatives — are made terrifyingly real.

In Brown's telling, teachers and schools have been descended upon by an army of «little busybodies to run down the halls and chide the teachers,» he told CALmatters, dispatched from Sacramento or, worse, D.C.

When Doc goes missing in 1931, it's up to Marty to travel across time to rescue him and prevent his future from being derailed by local busybody Edna Strickland.

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.

Private standing has traditionally been viewed as the best way to operate our justice system because: it prevents mere «busybodies» from using up scarce judicial resources; it ensures contending points of view are raised by those personally invested in the case; and it preserves the proper role of courts and their relationship to the other branches of government.