Sentences with word «cockeyed»
And, in the time - honored tradition of cockeyed optimists, their plan (which they feel should be painfully obvious) is to make up the unit losses on the soon - to - be-realized, just around the corner, and miraculously scalable volume.
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About the author: Richard Hawke is a pseudonym of Tim Cockey, also author of the humorous mystery series featuring undertaker Hitchcock Sewell which starts with The Hearse You Came In On.
We are not such cockeyed optimists to believe that!
The delightfully delirious results play like some lost E.C. comic, brought to life with Raimi's trademark cockeyed angles, loony montage and voluminous bag of photographic tricks.
From Cockeyed: A Memoir by Ryan Knighton, pages 22 - 35.
Living well in Metairie over the recent years has required a steely will and more than a bit of cockeyed optimism.
Rob at Cockeyed and Wendell at Evil Mad Scientist have come up with the perfect compromise - the Kindling.
Sales are down, inventories are up, and real estate professionals are struggling to survive in what Adam Cockey of Chase Fitzgerald & Co. in Baltimore calls a «devastating» time for some practitioners.
We even pointed out that several of the septic tank pipes seemed cockeyed coming out of the ground, but he told us not to worry.
As Congressman Porter Hardy Jr., a Virginia Democrat heading the subcommittee, commented succinctly at one germane point: «It seems to me the whole thing is a little bit cockeyed.»
Australian director John Curran achieves a rare interweaving of the darkly poetical and raspy, cockeyed comedy in «Praise,» an oddly engaging film based on Andrew McGahan's novel.
But when the authors shift to using the IFS framework to understand our politics, the Trump phenomenon in particular, the results strike me as completely cockeyed.
Meanwhile, the matching bull remained, its base cockeyed, as if someone had tried to nab it too.
The gravitational wave signature thus can tell scientists how cockeyed the detonation was and how fast the star was spinning.
To some people this will appear particularly cockeyed in the run - up to the Earth Summit in Rio when, among other things, the international community will be attempting to hammer out a climate treaty.
For all its modest charm, Dave is a true throwback to the Capra days, a political comedy just cockeyed enough to triumph over cynicism.
The story is also known as Three Cockeyed Sailors.
In The Lavender Hill Mob (1951), Guinness is a meek bank clerk with a grand plan to steal a fortune in gold bullion with the help of neighbor Stanley Holloway and a pair of Cockey crooks they enlist in a most unusual «help wanted» ad.
Both Jacobs and Rudolph have a more cockeyed attitude, to the point where it's almost as if they're each in different, better, sharper movies.
Wong's desire and propensity to work without a script supplied Chungking Express with some sublimely cockeyed cadences and idiosyncrasies.
All of this goes into Vaughn's cockeyed pop - culture Cuisinart (much as henchmen go into Poppy's meat grinder).
It's also a father - son bondathon and a wistful, cockeyed tribute to a rural homespun sensibility that, for present - day urbanites at least, can seem as emotionally remote as science fiction.
ParaNorman loses steam in the predictably extended climactic swirl of CGI phantasmagoria and preachy peacemaking, but for the most part, its winningly cockeyed grasp of the macabre makes it ideal scare - fare for families.Hide
But after her first two forays into directing, «Scarlet Diva» (in which she also starred as a self - destructive starlet) and child abuse chronicle «The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things,» she has shifted gears in several ways with her third: she makes a brief, Hitchcock - level cameo but doesn't star, and most welcome, she moves from straight - up miserablism to a beguiling cockeyed whimsy.
This week you might notice that I have discovered a new writing blog crush, Matt Bird's Cockeyed Caravan.
Tim Cockey grew up in and around Baltimore, Maryland.
This photograph, though, is spectacular (if a trifle cockeyed).
But now comes one cockeyed movement that pushes the concept to extremes.
Cockey chairs NAR's Real Estate Services Committee and sat on the association's RESPA presidential advisory group.
The shades always seemed to get cockeyed.
Copyright 2003 by Tim Cockey.
In Sam Israel, Lawson has found the antihero of the moment — arrogant and credulous, cockeyed with greed, and stumbling headlong into calamity.
Still, «The Last Jedi» honors the franchise's chief values of idealism, loyalty and self - sacrifice that made the original «Star Wars» so beloved, with a similarly appealing ragtag team of hotheads and cockeyed optimists to root for as they try to save their galaxy from totalitarian domination.
2,391) logging village with a set of luggage, a bag of golf clubs and a case of cockeyed optimism, bound for Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas.
To date, much of the video content includes short trendy videos with industry stakeholders and leaders in North America — such as an interview with Adam Cockey, chairman of the MRIS Board, the largest MLS organization in North America, on the downfall of the United States real estate market and why he thinks greed was reason for the debacle.
My prior comments got kind of cockeyed.
Against his conscious intention he «winds up cockeyed.»
Just when you think you know your chips — the potato, taro, tortilla, corn, Doritos — along comes a cockeyed story from a cousin about making chips from kale.
«Little carrot top did the backward flop And the cabbage shook and shimmied til she couldn't stop... Little red beet stopped and shook his feet While the watermelon died of the cockeyed heat...»
Phil Mickelson is nothing if not a cockeyed optimist so it's hardly surprising that the defending champion at this week's British Open believes he can overcome some rather ugly golf over the past year and maybe even sip some more of that pricey «good stuff» from the claret jug once again.
Then there was Pataki who used to make snide and sarcastic comments while staring at the Dems while wearing a cockeyed smirk.
«In a Lame Duck Session after the election, will the conservative republicans try to force through every cockeyed piece of legislation they were too disorganized / distracted to push through during the past 6 years?»
That may be why the axis of Earth's magnetic field is cockeyed, leaning these days to the east, while a few geologic eyeblinks ago it tilted to the west.
Its cockeyed posture probably made it difficult for Philae to reliably get in touch...