Sentences with phrase «by surly»

My friend Google later reminded me it's about an orphaned girl who is reluctantly brought up by her surly grandfather in the mountains and wins the hearts of everyone.

LAST NIGHT»S MENU: Pizza for the kids, tapas for the grown - ups (yummy cod croquettes and patatas bravas at the first bar; revolting stuffed, crumbed and deep fried mussels in the shell serve by surly waiters at the second) all sloshed down with vino rosado.

No more «Law Offices» barked into the phone by a surly receptionist.

Christo and Jeanne - Claude are portrayed by a very proper boy and younger girl, Sol LeWitt by a bespectacled blond boy, Janine Antoni by a surly - looking teen and Dawoud Bey by a very serious African - American boy.

One day, a mysterious trunk is delivered to the facility's water tank by surly, violent security specialist Strickland (Michael Shannon), soon to be revealed as a fish - man hybrid (Doug Jones) to be studied by the military as a prisoner and test subject to hopefully uncover powerful secrets that could tip the tide of the Cold War.

Investigating what seems to be a «lightning storm in space,» the Federation starship U.S.S. Kelvin abruptly finds itself phaser - to - phaser with an immense claw - like dreadnought piloted by the surly Romulan captain Nero (Eric Bana, looking as though he just got back from an unsuccessful audition for Road Warrior!

Or, more precisely, their wine glasses were removed by surly headwaiters who then tossed the men from NFL dining halls.

Food in the sparsely stocked dining cars was often worse than at a factory workers» canteen, served on soiled tablecloths by surly waiters.

All drinks are available for diners, as well, served by the surliest and best servers in the industry.

Not exact matches

Obscure Dutch actor Frederik de Groot, previously observed head - butting surly criminals into submission on the detective series Bureau Kruislaan, rose to unlikely fame advising Canadians in clipped diction to «Save — your money» by moving their deposits to ING Direct.

In concluding his statement, the president combined words from the first and last lines of a moving poem, «High Flight,» written by a poet - pilot, John Gillespie Magee, Jr. «We will never forget them,» the president said, «nor the last time we saw them this morning as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye, «and slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God.»»

Surly arsenals luck has to change no other club has had injuries inflicted on their players by players from other clubs like us Ramsey, Eduardo diaby on a few occasions.

Who is gonna fill up the void left by him, surly he is aged n can only bit part role due to injury.

«If Labour's hopefuls are ever to make amends, it won't be by playing to imagined prejudice and falling back on the surly, inward - looking populism of the immigration debate.

«Some years ago we may have thought of [black holes] as surly loners sucking their thumb in the corner and gobbling anything that happened to come by,» Miller says.

I am intrigued by the suggestion to wear leather trousers with longer top and will surly try it myself.

The understandably surly slave is rescued, or technically bought, by Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz), once a dentist like Bob Hope's The Paleface Painless Potter and now a government - backed bounty hunter.

From the «Guardians of the Galaxy» contingent come wiseacre Peter Quill, a.k.a. Star - Lord (Chris Pratt); the green - skinned Gamora (Zoe Saldana); the empathic Mantis (Pom Klementieff); the musclebound Drax (Dave Bautista); the sardonic raccoon Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper); and Groot, the sentient tree still voiced by Vin Diesel and now a surly adolescent shrub who can't be separated from his video games.

In animated 3D, «The Nut Job» is an action - packed comedy in fictional Oakton that follows the travails of Surly (voiced by Will Arnett), a mischievous squirrel, and his rat friend Buddy, who plan a nut store heist of outrageous proportions and unwittingly find themselves embroiled in a much more com... Read On

A not - quite surly property manager (Willem Dafoe) attempts a composed calm, but amidst the perpetual tempest, his tenants lives are consistently interrupted and affected by the disarray of circumstance.

One of the nastiest, Mona Dearly (played excellently by Bette Midler), is about as mean and surly as they come.

Luke Wilson's hapless (and literal) average Joe emerges from a 500 - year hibernation to find himself the one - eyed man in the land of the unbelievably stupid: surly, hostile, smug in their self - assurance and utterly clueless about the problems created by the shitheap they're living in.

But the place turns out to be owned by ruthless bank robbers, so it's up to Surly and his furry friends...

I think you're right M I'm worried about young American actors these days, slowly but surly being out performed by those across the Atlantic!

The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature MPAA Rating: Pending In this sequel, Surly the squirrel (voice of Will Arnett) and his nutty try to stop the townsfolk from turning their parkland home into an amusement park.

Oppressed as a child by the puritanical, anti-theatrical strain of surrogate parent William Cecil (a wasted David Thewlis) and snivelling, hunchbacked foster brother Robert (Edward Hogg), the Earl of Oxford toils away at composing seditious verse in secret before uploading his cache of plays to surly Ben Jonson (Sebastian Armestom doing Orlando Bloom).

Davidson says, by way of charming voiceover narration, that she didn't want to be a whiny bitch like the rest of her generation, but she replaces that option with becoming an ungrateful, surly, mortally - broken (by her mother's suicide — fair enough) girl - woman intent on taking camels with her on a trek across some of the most unforgiving terrain on the planet.

But it does feature a few tributes to Back to the Future, namely Crispin Glover (spot on as a surly one - armed bellhop whose appendage - ectomy is anticipated all through the eighties flashback), a future birth threatened by the trampling the space - time continuum (aka the butterfly effect, which resident nerd Duke explains ad infinitum) and the dubious lesson that self - empowerment is merely a matter of beating up that bully from the past.

Given the demands placed on the actors, it would have been surprising if at least some of them hadn't been in as much a state of revolt as Fitzgerald, the surly and psychotic fur trapper played here by Tom Hardy.

Solid performances help with an especially good supporting turn by Philip Seymour Hoffman as the surly CIA op who seems to be able to always read through the lines to gather up all the big picture details that others tend to miss.

Sometimes the two types of performances exist side by side: It's easy to sneer at Sandler getting in drag to play the braying, Bronx - born Jill in Jack And Jill, but there's visible effort (and sometimes startling, sweaty detail) in that character, as opposed to the surly, condescending version of a straight man that the Jack character lazily embodies.

Arnaud, though capable and well meaning, becomes diverted by Madeline (Adèle Haenel), a surly, pessimistic young woman he meets in a self - defense demonstration.

Nadine is thrown into a particular tizzy when Krista starts dating Darian, and has only the surly but soft - centred Mr Bruner (a lovely turn by Woody Harrelson) during school lunchbreaks.

But the place turns out to be owned by ruthless bank robbers, so it's up to Surly and his furry friends to stop the nearby bank heist and save the town.

Cast a surly, bad - ass, toss - out - the - rule - book LA cop, his character is so obsessed with nailing the criminal mastermind behind a recent spate of bank robberies (played by Pablo Schreiber), he stalks him in restaurants, sleeps with his stripper girlfriend and, in one of the more bizarre scenes, indulges in a shooting competition with him at a firing range.

Full of bright primary colors, punny chapter breaks, all manner of meta - winks and other strenuous bits of Godardian business, the movie draws an unambiguous parallel between the disintegration of their relationship and the loss of Godard's filmmaking mojo as he is swallowed whole by his own surly, disagreeable post -»60s obscurantism.

When the base is overrun by a sickening attack — one that puts the carnage in The Walking Dead to shame — Melanie is smuggled out by a tense, bickering trio: her dangerously affectionate teacher (Gemma Arterton), a surly sergeant (Paddy Considine) and the all - business scientist nearing a vaccine (Glenn Close, completing the most formidable horror cast in years).

Professor Plummer was killed over a piece of software named G.H.O.S.T. (though not in the pantry with a candlestick) now believed to have been stashed somewhere in his home; when the snot - nosed kids — vain Zoe (Brittany Snow), surly Seth (Max Thieriot), precocious Lulu (Morgan York, also one of the Cheaper by the Dozen brats), and reaction - shot fodder Peter (Keegan & Logan Hoover) and Baby Tyler (Bo & Luke Vink (and with «The Dukes of Hazzard»'s impending renaissance, boy are those two in for a rude awakening at the start of school)-RRB--- grease the stairwell to take out Shane, they end up driving away their German nanny (a typically misused Carol Kane) instead, forcing Shane into a more maternal role and leaving him little time to search for the computer program.

Open Road Films has debuted a new trailer for The Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature, the upcoming sequel to the 2014 animated comedy; check it out below after the official synopsis... Surly Squirrel (Will Arnett) and the gang are back.

Official Synopsis: In animated 3D, The Nut Job is an action - packed comedy in fictional Oakton that follows the travails of Surly (voiced by Will Arnett), a mischievous squirrel, and his rat friend Buddy, who plan a nut store heist of outrageous proportions and unwittingly find themselves embroiled in a much more complicated and hilarious adventure.

Surly and scowling and yet decent and right, he is played by the ideal actor to embody those qualities, Tommy Lee Jones.

Once in the big city, however, the diminutive Judy is overshadowed by her towering fellow cops — rhinos, elephants, hippos and so on — and summarily dismissed by Police Chief Bogo (Idris Elba), a surly cape buffalo who assigns Judy meter - maid duty instead of allowing her to assist in the investigation of a rash of missing mammals.

The novel explores the bond between a caring father and his children, one affected by his own thorny relationship with his surly father, and the connection he has with his sweet son is thicker than blood, going to the place where dreams are conceived and realized.

And nobody's more resistant to new ideas, or investment, than your average small business owner... their offering hasn't changed in decades: Erratically stocked & priced tobacco, alcohol, lottery tickets / scratch cards, soda, snacks, candy, newspapers / magazines, etc. served in a tired & dirty shop, by unengaged & surly staff.

The same dog that was playing in the morning can then become surly by the afternoon, just wanting peace and some comfort.

There's plenty of action as Timothy (Jamie Mains) comes out from behind his surly exterior to express his rather juvenile and fumbly love for Jason's mother, Margerie, played by Janie Dee, followed by a gratuitous and cringeworthy scene in which they have violent sex, something Tim then brags about.

When a game is described by the developers as containing «surly gelatinous characters, brutal mêlée fight sequences, and absurdly hazardous environments» with the action taking place in a fictional place known as Beef City, you know it's going to be fun.

New hero Noctis and his fellow troupe of boy band beautiful best friends might look a little too gothed up to be joining the FF canon, but they're as instantly recognisable by their classic templates (Gladiolus the big surly one, Ignis the intelligent quiet one, and Prompto the quirky child - like one) that you could imagine every one of them fitting into any of your favourite RPG parties over the years.

Her black women may look surly, but also bruised, battered, and small — dwarfed by the space of a room and a sofa.

Old Man Mountain, Surly, and Tubus make by far the best racks.