Sentences with phrase «city slickers who»

This event was a thoroughly British affair with groups of city slickers who had taken time off from the world's financial markets, classic car insiders who are the movers and shakers of collecting, and elegant couples just admiring the wonderful automobiles and enjoying the glamour, dining, and retail opportunities of a new event in the social calendar.

A kindly electrician comes up against some city slickers who plan to buy up his mountain village in Kyrgyzstan.

This double - black belt bag is made for chic city slickers who love a sleek moto look with silver hardware and quilted leather.

It is precisely when we leave our normal habitat and enter a world where we are unfamiliar, directly or indirectly, with the possibilities relevant to the context that we get in trouble — the farm boy in the big city or the city slicker who visits the farm.

Gleeson's McGregor is an acutely type A city slicker who longs to immediately sell his recently inherited country estate in order to reinvest the profits in a business venture back in London.

I like to jokingly call myself a «city slicker who works in national parks.»

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The Belgian was part of a slick City midfield who devastated Chelsea with counter-attacks.

Mountain Buggy Cosmopolitan is a luxury slick modern stroller that is designed for parents who live in a city.

As one who has reported fromnearly 30 states in the last six months, I can attest that the opportunity tovisit both city slickers and hill country hicks is the only way to begin tograsp the hopes and dreams of the world's most powerful country.

Hunter - gatherers and farming villagers who live in worlds without lightbulbs or thermostats sleep slightly less at night than smartphone - toting city slickers, researchers say.

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To me, he was a city slicker with an affinity for the same cocktail, same local restaurants, and a love of celebrating anything and everything, He was definitely not someone who wanted to get dirt under his fingernails.

The DNA - date tester Ellie Halls, 28, an events organiser from Buckinghamshire, tends to go for city slickers, who dress smart and talk smart.

The Mr. Popper (Jim Carrey) in this case is a slick New York property purchaser who buys up iconic buildings around the city and demolishes them to make way for something bigger and better.

The Oscar - winning actor, who would be celebrating his birthday today if he was still with us, is typically remembered as the star of popular westerns including Shane (1953) and City Slickers (1991).

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.

Adapted from a short story by Elmore Leonard, Scott plays Pat Brennen, a lone wolf rancher who gets ambushed by a trio of highwaymen and is held for ransom along with unscrupulous city - slicker Willard Mims and his new wife, Doretta.

In addition, Tonto isn't so much a loyal sidekick as he is a grief - stricken comic - relief figure who is deeply skeptical of the abilities of the city - slicker Reid, whom he considers a «half - wit.»

* The Adventures of Pluto Nash (Warner; 95 minutes; rated PG - 13 for violence, toilet humor and strong language; priced for rental): Hard to believe that a movie with Eddie Murphy, Randy Quaid, Alec Baldwin, Joe Pantoliano, John Cleese, Burt Young, Jay Mohr, Peter Boyle and Pam Grier in it, one written by the loon who concocted Mystery Men and directed by the reliably amusing Ron Underwood — of City Slickers, Tremors and Heart and Souls — could be...

Wilde, who is engaged to Jason Sudeikis, walked the red carpet at the annual Big Slick fundraiser last summer in Kansas City while she was pregnant with the couple's second child, Daisy, who is now 8 months old.

As such, it's likely that the GLC coupe will appeal to city - slickers, empty - nesters, or families with older children who don't need to carry the accoutrements of babies and toddlers.

When a bank robbery goes bad, she has no choice but to accept the help of a city slicker... He's on a quest for revenge.Chas O'Grady came West in search of cattle rustlers and found himself on the trail of a killer — one who took everything from...

A couple of «city slickers» who had planned to buy a hobby farm or weekender and in turn bought a 40 hectare vineyard in need of a little tender loving care.

Those of us who are called country boys are wondering just what in the hell you city slickers are doing.

Of course, intermixed amongst the city - slickers are good ol' country kids from farms with horses who are well prepared to occupy those plastic saddles and who will excel on the mechanical beasts, because they enter the ride already possessing experience in that field on real horses, just as successful future professional Realtors enter the business armed with industry - related experience and education... prior to going to real estate school.