Sentences with phrase «characters by the nicknames»

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Wedding Crashers is a 2005 movie where Baba Ganoush is used as a nickname by Owen Wilson's character for his friend played by Vince Vaughn.

You won't believe this, but I'm writing a novel and one of my characters goes by the nickname Zee!

Before he was known as Megatron, Calvin Johnson was nicknamed Neo by his Georgia Tech teammates, who likened his gravity - defying contortions to those of Keanu Reeves's character in The Matrix.

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He died in 1994, two months before Tony Blair took over the Labour Party and Miliband joined Blair's office - nicknamed «Brains» by Alastair Campbell after the problem - solving Thunderbirds character.

The prematurely balding, intelligent, fast - talking Chase created a couple classic characters, notably Irwin M. Fletcher (aka Fletch) and Vacation's Clark Griswold, but his career is often thought of as plagued by misfires and missed opportunities, rather than touched by comic brilliance.Born on October 8, 1943, in New York City, Cornelius Crane Chase became known as «Chevy» when his grandmother nicknamed him after Chevy Chase, the wealthy Maryland community.

White Wolf isn't just a random nickname, but the name of a longstanding character in the Black Panther comic books: Hunter, orphaned as an infant when both his parents died in a plane crash near Wakanda and, despite being a white foreigner, was adopted and raised by T'Challa's father, T'Chaka.

There are so many nicknames and characters; thankfully, almost all of them are played by big names so you don't have to remember them.

Blinkered hostility is as much a mood - killer as uncritical nostalgia, and The Losers never misses an opportunity to remind you that its characters have one - note personalities defined by terse nicknames.

That is to say, as Wood puts it: «capitalism, the right to ownership; the home, the family, the monogamous couple; patriarchy...» (1) Between men, nicknaming is frequently the overt articulation of complex and fraught processes of male bonding, enabling the integration of an inexperienced male character into a group by his more experienced, and previously integrated, elders.

That character is Christine McPherson (Saoirse Ronan), nicknamed (by herself) Lady Bird, a young woman in her senior year of high school literally living on «the wrong side of the tracks» in Sacramento circa 2002.

In the books, Portman's character is known first as «the biologist» and then goes by a nickname, «Ghost Bird»; in the movie, she goes by Lena.

Slapping the nickname «Needy» on Seyfried's only - possibly - nerdy - by - movie - standards - otherwise - hotter - than - 99 % - of - my - hs - classmates best friend character (full name: Anita Lesnicki, her nickname seems designed to add superfluous character the incredibly - talented Seyfried can supply with a mere inclination of her head) is the first hint of Cody doing her thing; by the time Jennifer is mocking Needy's bf Chip (the sublime Johnny Simmons) as «lime green Jell - o» the Cody Dialogue Effect is in full force within the film.

Nicknaming Stern's character «Spider» for no real reason but to, eight years after its release and just now finding its way to DVD, connect it in a disturbing way to David Cronenberg's thirteenth film by way of arrested Freudian developmental phases and fixations on body function, Bushwhacked, as it happens, is also about as funny as Spider — not a particularly shining endorsement of something that's ostensibly a comedy.

Not only was I irritated by the nicknames of the characters, their personalities were irritating as well.

Baba Yaga In A Long, Long Time Ago... And Essentially True, one of the main characters, Beata, is constantly referred to by the nickname «Baba Yaga.»

Jack Ma also goes by his nickname Feng Quinyang, a legendary swordsman who is known for his aggressive, unpredictable and reclusive character.

«That really sold it for me,» says Lam, who, like all the campers, went by a nickname the whole time (Lam's handle was Soundwave, after a favourite Transformers character from childhood).

As a direct result of actions performed by the expedition of the player's character, an intelligent entity has awakened in the depths of the underground complex — an unstable AI nicknamed Maelstrom.

The game nevertheless retains the series» tradition of allowing the player to name the lead character, reconciling the two by having the voice acting script skip all incidences of the hero's name (e.g., the line, «Okay, [Hero], my boy...» appears onscreen, while the voice acting says, «Okay, my boy...»), and occasionally replacing the name with Yangus» nickname for the hero, «guv»» (as in «governor,» pronounced with a Cockney accent).