Sentences with phrase «by drawling»

Not exact matches

Some believe that it's called chess pie owing to a transformation / translation of «Just Pie» by Southerners» drawls.

The station executives, led by program director Cynthia Topping (Ellen DeGeneres, tossing off her usual brittle - as - plaster sarcasms), have chosen Ed, a San Francisco video - store clerk who still speaks in his native Texas drawl, precisely for his unguarded simplicity.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan is a smirking, drawling hoot as a special agent drafted in by the government to clean up the mess.

Lucy's being held by the Black Hat, a most menacing vampire played by Karl Urban («Star Trek») in a modified Dr. McCoy drawl and Clint Eastwood's Man with No Name duds.

Its relentless antagonist was perfectly encapsulated by the hulking Austrian, his distinctive drawl only enhancing its menace.

Ruth, a blowhard and bully (who reprises the John Wayne drawl Russell brought to Tarantino's «Death Proof» in Grindhouse), is escorting the murderous termagent Daisy Domergue (Leigh, provocatively used as a comic punchbag by Tarantino) to her hanging in Red Rock.

And the vilified Chief Willoughby, played with that familiar Southern twinkle and drawl by Woody Harrelson, turns out to be a decent man trying his best, sympathetic to his new enemy's anger, and even to her uncompromising tactics.

McGrath intercuts much of the action with staged interviews of Capote's social and literary contemporaries, including his early friend Harper Lee, played with an awkward drawl and not else by Sandra Bullock.

And Chief Willoughby, played with that familiar Southern twinkle and drawl by Woody Harrelson, turns out to be a decent man trying his best — and he also happens to be dying of cancer, which is just one way that McDonagh complicates the audience's rooting interest, its points of identification.

It's edited as an extended monologue, delivered by the film director (and, it transpires, ace raconteur) Brian De Palma in his semi high - pitched, lightly nasal drawl.

Drive raises the stakes by employing the services of the drawling, smarmy, admittedly well - built Ryan Gosling, as an expressionless getaway driver whose day job is movie stuntwork.

The three of them are named: Butch - a tough T - Rex voiced by Sam Elliott, who has «the perfect voice for a T - Rex»; Ramsey - Butch's daughter, voiced by Anna Paquin, described as a firecracker; Nash - Butch's son, voiced by AJ Buckley with a «charming drawl.»

Starting off as a survival tale and chase film with shades of Jeremiah Johnson, Man in the Wilderness and Death Hunt, Seraphim Falls follows Gideon (Brosnan) as he is chased through the frozen, wooded mountains of New Mexico by Carver (Neeson, utilizing his old Next of Kin drawl) and his cadre of bounty hunters (including Michael Wincott and Ed Lauter).

And leave you with a short piece by Chabrol not on any compilation we know of: a commercial for Winston cigarettes directed as an American detective noir, in English, with a Bogie drawl and French subtitles.

Having forgotten his time as a soldier and spy, he has reverted to his childhood dream of studying butterflies, leading the Statesmen to refer to him as «the lepidopterist,» a word that is relished by Tatum's exaggerated drawl, a bit like the actor's bouncing delivery of «Charlotte Motor Speedway» in the recent Logan Lucky.

Much of the story of Ain't Them Bodies Saints is inferred from Bradford Young's well composed cinematography rather than the script, as much of the dialogue's intelligibility is rendered moot by Affleck's mumbling drawl, not uncommon in films set in Texas.

At least, he thinks it's an accident, but Jerry hasn't been taking his meds lately, which is why he's starting to hear voices — namely his loyal dog Bosco, who speaks in a Southern drawl, and his sociopathic cat Mr. Whiskers, who speaks in a Scottish brogue (both voiced by Reynolds)-- urging him to kill again.

With a weird and magnetic drawl that could only come from the Tom Hardy School of Accents and a shifty set of eyes that look liable to stab you in the chest just by looking at him the wrong way, Hardy's Fitzgerald manages to keep The Revenant engaging even as it thoroughly overstays its welcome with its bloated running time.

«Although the word «governor» is punctuated by a slow, faux, Southern drawl, the recording isn't a prank.

Lila is charmed by the people of Auburn, from the blue - eyed lawyer with the southern drawl to the little old lady who unceasingly tries to set Lila up with her grandson.

In fact, listening to his monotonous drawl and catching glimpses of him sitting in his ostentatious gold and purple throne surrounded by female dancers may have actually given me an edge in combat.

Working in the Creative Growth studio since 1980, Cedric is easily spotted in the mass — first by his characteristic red beanie and second by the sweet drawl of his ever - carrying voice.

I've read her books and reread them by audio in my car and love the southern drawl of the narrator.