Sentences with word «codger»
The word "codger" refers to an older person, typically a man, who is seen as eccentric, set in their ways, and sometimes grumpy. Full definition
Yeah, the old codgers who wrote this stuff didn't even know that the southern hemisphere or most of the western hemisphere of the Earth existed.
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I had empathy for the old codgers who grumbled when the 911 went...
Conventional wisdom says that globular star clusters are the stodgy old codgers of the universe, but it turns out that many of these clusters are young
I guess there's something grizzled old codgers like Clint can teach those young hotshots after all.
Brennan was fitted for a set of false teeth that worked fine, and wearing them allowed him to play lean, lanky, virile supporting roles; but when he took them out, and the reedy, leathery voice kicked in with the altered look, Brennan became the old codger with which he would be identified in a significant number of his parts in the coming decades.
And the charm of a young girl changes a crusty codger in The Magic of Belle Isle.
Adrienne Shelly's lasting legacy is this exquisite, engaging film about slices of life, Keri Russell's luminosity, an unhurried narrative, Andy Griffith's codger delighting in schadenfreude and even Jeremy Sisto making his abhorrent character relatable.
Duvall does his crusty codger bit, Vincent D'Onofrio and Vera Farmiga have standout cameos, and Downey gives an intense, tightly - wound performance that is better than this movie deserves.
In comparison with your average modern blockbuster, in which the story grinds to a halt every 15 minutes to make room for another eye - scorching set piece, there's very little action in the first Star Wars movie: an extended chase through the Death Star corridors, a perfunctory sword fight between two knightly codgers and a pair of space dogfights, and that's pretty much it.
DiCaprio is an effectively detestable brute, until he starts his boyish DiCaprio yelling anyway, and Jackson, made - up and hobbling, is clearly having fun with the crusty old codger written for him.
I'm much younger than a lot of the old codgers on here but I would be.
So it is a strange twist of desperation that turns the old codger into Oliver's babysitter.
It's a well - told adventure spoof with a delinquent kid played by newcomer Julian Dennison and a gruff codger played by veteran Sam Neill, on the run from the cops.
Already playing old codgers by the mid-1910s, McKee delivered one of the funniest and most improbable moments in B - Western history, when, disguised as a bedraggled señorita, he sprang Ken Maynard from prison in Range Law (1931).
But for every grumbling codger who departs this mortal coil there's a new baby born who seems to know how to do a two - finger swipe on an iPhone touch screen right out of the womb.
Meantime, in Britain CVD has moved from killing lots of men in middle age and early old age, to mainly killing codgers.
We are creating the DH Old Codger Index Portfolio to compete against this new ETF to see how «old school» stocks do in comparison.
Will sign off with an Old Codger stat of my own.
That had some of those same codgers scoffing at its U.S. Open worth.
The term anecdotes, continues Weil, is trivializing: «It suggests some old codger sitting on a porch telling a story.»
Now I am subjecting myself to a test that might reveal me to be prematurely transforming into mental codger - hood.
Of course, there is nothing stopping you from being an unpleasant old codger if you wish.
There's little indication, beyond the endlessly unfunny school humiliations and fogey - dom signposts (ha ha, he uses Old Spice), that the notion of a preteen codger is worth our sympathies.
Neither these nor any other performances in the film depend on self - conscious histrionics; Jones in particular portrays a crafty codger with some secret hiding places in his heart.
The sorry spectacle of the ranting codger never effaces the image of the boy concentrating his entire being over a chessboard.
Loved the TV show and, to be fair, this ensemble cast of venerated codgers treated their characters with great respect.
I'm not going to lie, a traditionally animated Tintin would have been perfectly fine with this ancient codger, but as my first ever 3 - D movie experience, it was hard to find fault with how the movie looked.
A nice touch is added with the brief inclusion of Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy as Mortimer and Randolph, the swindling old codgers given their just desserts in «Trading Places», Murphy's previous project with director John Landis.
Albert Finney does a good job as a likable old southern - fried codger, and Ewan McGregor is obviously enjoying himself as the over-the-top younger him.
It seems that the cranky codger is still grieving the death of his wife who passed away ages ago in Stalinist Russia during the purge.
No, this isn't Going In Style, Last Vegas, or The Bucket List, but a (technically) different entry in the decade - long cycle of old - codger comedies that star Morgan Freeman and a rotating assortment of non-Morgan Freemans.
He's the grumpy old man, the naughty codger from hell — the hilarious over-the-hill a — hole who is always played by someone like, you know, Alan Arkin.
Sally Rogers as Wade's tough - talking wife Alice and Bronwyn James as his «mopey» daughter fight back against the male cabal, which is really more pathetic than oppressive — Tony Hirst's hapless alcoholic, Simon Rouse's semi-deaf codger, Craig Parkinson's mordant policeman, and Andy Nyman's former assistant hangman, defined by one ill - judged comment about a criminal's abnormally large privates.
Her crude bluntness lends a more overt sense of humor to the movie; she's the crazy codger that screenwriter Bob Nelson refuses to let Woody become.
His new «Nebraska» begins like a companion piece to David Lynch's «The Straight Story»: Old codger Woody Grant thinks he just won a million dollars in some junk - mail subscription sweepstakes.
Robert Duvall dominates «Get Low» from the off, easing into the part of crusty codger Felix Bush like an old shoe and spiriting the film away from under the noses of several other very fine actors.
Crusty old codger Tommy Lee Jones makes the mad scientist more plausible than logic dictates while Englishman Gary Oldman shows up as an American, even though most of the movie is set in Oldman's own home town of London.
Veteran actor Harry Dean Stanton, who died at 91 on Sept. 15, stars in the new release «Lucky,» playing an elderly codger.
It's hard to imagine a better send - off for the gaunt - faced performer than «Lucky,» in which he portrays a Stantonesque codger living in a tiny desert town who must come to terms with his mortality.
His debut Old Goats (SIFF» 11) and his new Burkholder both concern a group of of elderly, sometimes cantankerous codgers facing their retirement years on Bainbridge Island, where the director grew up.
The old codger Max Rafferty, an outspoken state superintendent of education in Califor - nia, once denounced the progressive school Summerhill, saying:
I quite amused myself then at how simple I made it sound because it's not even close to being a simple case of hunt the old codger down and permanently put him in a morgue.
Another fun site is Camera Trap Codger, maintained by a retired Smithsonian Institution biologist.