Sentences with phrase «city slickers into»

Volodya gave us serious animal survey training and tried to fashion a bunch of city slickers into effective field biologists in a matter of hours.

Layered in wood from floor to ceiling, this kitchen would convert even the most ardent city slicker into a lover of all things handmade and hewn.

Not exact matches

That's Perry doing a Texas two - step, dancing into the city with a personal appeal and a slick ad campaign to wrangle New York businesses into relocating to Texas.

Indeed, Campaign & Elections magazine sang Mr. Kwatra's praises because of his work with the New York Hotel Motor Trades Council: «A slick and aggressive young operative, he's widely credited for turning the small union into a power player at both the city and state levels.»

Everything is a bother for poor Kelly, who roils from the single - engine flight into town, sprays clouds of Raid in the air to kill off mosquitos, slaps the genial local sheriff (Brendan Gleeson) twice for hauling a decapitated moose head on their boat, and generally acts like an uptight city slicker.

Momentarily inattentive at the wheel, city slicker Chris Finn (Desmond Harrington) runs into Jessie's stalled SUV, stranding both parties near a lush but foreboding patch of woods.

The new film attempts to import those high spirits into the western genre, but like city slickers at a dude ranch, the filmmakers shoot themselves in the foot again and again.

A slick but surprisingly gritty look at the seedy underbelly of one of the most famous cities in the world, The Deuce took a dive into the emerging porn business as well as the mob, but succeeded largely on the strength of Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal's performances.

One day, Robert Styles (Richard Fitzpatrick)-- a rich city slicker in a limousine — attempts to visit the lodge, but instead of dropping by, he drops into a huge sinkhole on the property.

But, the squeaky - clean, lightweight comedy team of Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel (Splash, City Slickers) adapted the screenplay into a fluffy romantic comedy.

As any born - and - bred Capetonian will tell you, one of the few things we envy of the city slickers in Joburg, is their ability to hop into a car and head off to the Kruger Park (at a moment's notice) for a quick respite from the daily grind of city living.

As I read reports about the release of more than 11,000 tons of radiation - laced water into the sea from the damaged nuclear plant in Japan, I recalled reporting I did more than a decade ago on the many uses of silt barriers — essentially curtains suspended in water — to hold back everything from oil slicks to the bursts of polluted runoff flowing into coastal waters from city storm drains after heavy storms (the water can be pumped and treated once the system is not overloaded).

The Murphy family traded city slick for coastal comfort when they moved into a lovingly restored 1785 cottage in Rowayton, Connecticut.