Sentences with phrase «by sad sacks»

The idea that «trying» is what counts — regardless of results — is a dreary commentary and a cheap excuse foisted on the real doers and the winners by sad sacks and also - rans who just can't cut it.

Not exact matches

Target will revitalize sad - sack shopping plazas characterized by peeling paint and potholes in the empty parking lots.

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Arsene has become Arsenal... It's sad, but even if we lose every game till the end of the season Arsene won't be sacked by the board...

I think Arsene might regret signing that new deal, if we're out of the title race by Christmas and even if we lose back to back games early on I think the knives will be out for him which in my opinion will be sad, I didn't want him to sign a new deal but I didn't want to see him sacked.

Through the thriller's first six episodes, we see the sad - sack lawyer (played expertly by John Turturro) scratching his eczema - ridden skin with chopsticks, visiting a succession of not - very - sensitive doctors, and subjecting his feet to a string of seemingly suspect remedies, including slathering them with Crisco, bathing them in Clorox, and roasting them under UV lamps.

Surprisingly, whether «sad sacks» or «cougars» they are more often than not the subject of approaches initiated by 20 - somethings.

As portrayed by Luke Wilson, Mitch is a sad sack à la the Ben Stiller character in There's Something About Mary.

Though, that this smart, compassionate, beautiful woman wound up with, and sticks by, a sad - sack schmo like Aidan strains credibility.

The opening 40 minutes or so, as Hoffman's slumped sad - sack is abandoned by his wife (Catherine Keener) and fumbles with a box - office worker (Samantha Morton), are promising despite the militant moroseness that plagues even the film's most whimsical flights of fancy.

For a half - hour or so, «Cooties» has barbed fun with food safety (a local chicken - processing plant is responsible for the outbreak), eccentric sad - sack teachers (energetically played by Elijah Wood, Alison Pill, Rainn Wilson, writer Whannell and others) and rabid children trying to get into the school to eat their daytime tormentors.

After he is blackmailed about his sexuality by a smart - alecky but sad - sack classmate (Logan Miller) who reads the private emails Simon has written to his mystery love, Simon will do anything to maintain the status quo in his life, his escalating cover - up lies unintentionally pitting his friends against each other and creating confusion and resentment among the group and, finally, toward him.

When our sad - sack hero and his daughter are invited to a party by the pregnant starlet (Rose Byrne) who wants to work with him, they happen to see a bald, goateed old man standing by her picture window.

Set in 2003, Last Flag Flying opens with sad sack Larry «Doc» Shepherd (Steve Carell) paying a visit to the bar owned and run by his old friend and fellow Marine, Salvatore Nealon (Bryan Cranston).

Colin Farrell leads The Lobster as sad - sack David, who's just been left by his wife.

Now, you can see for yourself — in bite - sized trailer form, at least — whether you're as affected by Lanthimos» tale of a sad - sack divorcee (Colin Farrell) who's forced to attend a government - run resort where single people are transformed into animals by a relationship - minded bureaucracy.

Willis, who we usually see on screen as supremely confident and adept cop characters, as Sharp he is a lonely, sad - sack policeman for whom life seems to have past by.

Her, Spike Jonze's latest window into his brilliant, hyperactive imagination, follows a sad - sack writer named Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) as he begins to fall for an operating system named Samantha (voiced by Scarlett Johansson), something like a super-advanced version of «Siri» tailored to be Theodore's perfect companion.

In the previous movies, Clark was a likable sad sack cursed by Murphy's Law.

Produced by brother Jay and Mark Duplass, «Take Me» is not what it initially seems to be — a character study of a sad - sack creep.

COM, AUG. 5, 2015 By Steve Newton If you thought Jason Bateman could only play affable sad - sacks, prepare for a nice surprise with The Gift.

Which is basically half the fun of his self - starring scatological comedy the gross tale of a sad - sack TV repairman who gets bullied into smuggling a kilo of Bangkok heroin in his bowels only to be arrested by police and sweated out over a toilet bowl for the seven excruciating days they re allowed to detain him.

A man searching for his kidnapped wife, a couple of white - supremacist meth heads, and a sad - sack Elvis impersonator, plus more desperate characters come to life in the action - packed and hilarious story written by Adam Minarovich and from the director of «The Cooler» and «Running Scared», Wayne Kramer.

Hope Davis is actually quite adorable as the wife and mother, at least after she wakes up with amnesia (caused by a mishap during an affair with the neighbor), reverting back to a time before she became jaded, judgmental and utterly miserable and pulled her sad - sack husband (Dermot Mulroney) down with her.

«Hey now» was the contrived on - air catchphrase of Hank Kingsley, the sad sack sidekick portrayed so vividly by Jeffrey Tambor on HBO's The Larry Sanders Show.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: DVD Features Dysfunctional Family Dramedy John (John C. Reilly) is a sad sack who has been hoping to reconcile with his wife ever since she dumped him a half - dozen years ago.

Written and directed by Thomas McCarthy (The Station Agent), it stars Sandler as Max Simkin, a sad - sack New York City shoe repairman who discovers a magical stitching machine, allowing him to transform into anyone whose footwear he resoles (or re-souls?)

In its hero and actor Paul Giamatti, Payne and co-writer Jim Taylor have found the middle - aged Everyman, a sad - sack, depressed - but - medicated middle - school English teacher who has written a huge novel about his life and awaits its acceptance or rejection by a publisher.