Sentences with phrase «curmudgeon with»

Curmudgeon he was, but at least a curmudgeon with some integrity.)

Upon starting the game, we're introduced to our «protagonist,» Henry B. Knight, a 19th century curmudgeon with a serious case of separation anxiety.

A curmudgeon with wit is an asshole by any other name.

He's a curmudgeon with a heart of... not quite gold... but something like gold.

Not exact matches

Yet, I'm also guilty of acting like a curmudgeon, someone who reacts with a twist in my jaw first and a «no» on my lips.

Now, before all the church curmudgeons jump on this with I - told - you - sos about biblical illiteracy and widespread deficiencies in systems for discipleship (which may be partly to blame for the statistic), it important to note that unfamiliarity with the term does not necessarily equal widespread ignorance of its content.

Kentucky's famous curmudgeon, Adolph Rupp, is all smiles (on the inside) as he comes up with a team that surprises even him

And I was starting to wonder if I was the jerk, the curmudgeon, against a player that I didn't watch closely with my own eyes.

Combine a big white grape (I think you could do this with kiwi, also), a slice of banana, a raspberry, an optional marshmallow, a stick and Dr. Seuss's Christmas curmudgeon becomes the tastiest thing in Whoville.

At the risk of sounding like a social media curmudgeon, I have a love - hate thing with social media and there are some things I just don't understand about it.

The temptation to swear off dating gets stronger with every Ashley Madison hack, celebrity breakup, and creep exposed on Tinder - but according to new research from eHarmony, Americans are far from ready to throw in the towel and become cynical single curmudgeons.

UNFINISHED SONG is the funny and uplifting story of Arthur (Terence Stamp), a curmudgeon old soul perfectly content with sticking to his dull daily routine until his beloved wife (Vanessa Redgrave) introduces him to a spirited local singing group led by the youthful and charming Elizabeth (Gemma Arterton).

Even Baumbach, the most caustic of the three, ends «The Squid and the Whale» with Jesse Eisenberg's Walt Berkman realizing that his father's toxic worldview isn't something worth aspiring to, while «Greenberg» gives some hope that Ben Stiller's titular curmudgeon might stop being such a jerk.

Though the dramatic shifts didn't sit well with some of the devoted audiences — why would Luke Skywalker, the Jedi with truncated training who let his sister's son slip to the Dark Side, be a PTSD - crippled curmudgeon instead of his ebullient former self??

He plays curmudgeon Vincent MacKenna, a Vietnam veteran with seemingly no redeeming features, adrift in a world that he's lost connection to.

Christophe Honoré's comic drama about two brothers co-existing in a Paris apartment with their gentle curmudgeon of a father (Guy Marchand) is a tribute to the freewheeling energy and youth of the French New Wave.

In addition to her life in the spotlight, Harding's tumultuous upbringing is also explored in I, Tonya, with Allison Janney playing her grizzled, booze - guzzling curmudgeon of a mother, LaVonda Golden.

Brian Cox returns as the curmudgeon police captain who seems to be having a good time once again cutting up with the Broken Lizard gang.

Also new: comedy Wilson (2017, R) with Woody Harrelson as a neurotic curmudgeon who discovers he has a grown daughter and thriller Unforgettable (2017, R) with Katherine Heigl going psycho on Rosario Dawson.

It recalls both Terms of Endearment, in which a put - upon daughter (Debra Winger) struggled with an eccentric parent (Shirley Maclaine); and, As Good As It Gets, which posited a churlish curmudgeon (Jack Nicholson) in a car with mismatched travel buddies (Greg Kinnear, Helen Hunt).

Although Payne described Dern as a talkative man off - screen, he said the actor «understood the laconic nature of Woody, [who] can be an ornery [curmudgeon], but with a real sweetness underneath.

DuVall, like in his last few films, plays a curmudgeon old man with salty language and a strong moral compass.

And Richard Linklater, who seems content now to alternate nice little Rohmer - inspired talk - pieces with higher - profile formula flicks starring unknown kid - actors and manic curmudgeons.

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Roger Greenberg's life is a one act play: the not - quite Jew, the bundle of neuroses who refuses to be identified with his stint in a mental hospital, who breaks even the Larry David / Woody Allen mold of comedic curmudgeon, as someone not quite of either coastal city, but of both and back, and of course, my favorite, the lone pedestrian in a city of cars.

Fiat originally planned to sell Lussos only with the automatic option (it's the only transmission on the limited, 124 - unit, $ 35,995 Prima Edizione Lusso), but certain curmudgeons from outside the company complained.

Alex Hoffman starts off with an essay on The House of Five Leaves, and David Welsh adds links to some posts he has written on Ono at The Manga Curmudgeon.

The reading world is in love with curmudgeons — perhaps because we all feel unbearably awkward at times — and Eleanor Oliphant, the lonely heroine of Gail Honeyman's debut novel, is the latest hit.

Kurt was a curmudgeon, and I say that with ultimate fondness.

All Fall Down By Jennifer Weiner Washington Square • $ 16 • ISBN 9781451617795 Jennifer Weiner, who is ever - popular with readers (and the target of continuing wrath from literary curmudgeon Jonathan Franzen) delivers a timely and heartbreaking tale about a suburban mom who appears to have it all but is secretly struggling with an addiction to prescription painkillers.

-- O: The Oprah Magazine «With courting curmudgeons, wayward sons, religion, race, and real estate in a petty and picturesque English village, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand is surprisingly, wonderfully romantic and fresh... the best first novel I've read in a long, long time.»

Outside of some curmudgeons in commercial mortgage lending departments, few recognized that writing 5 - year mortgages with low principal amortization rates against long - lived commercial properties was a recipe for disaster.

Only curmudgeons and illiterates, we think, and Simon Parkin was kind enough to sit down with Platypus creator Anthony Flack and the Tuna Technologies folks, who are doing things right by building Cletus Clay for Xbox Live Arcade and PC.]

You'd have to be the lousiest kind of curmudgeon to think otherwise, but there's a niggling problem inherent with...

You'd have to be the lousiest kind of curmudgeon to think otherwise, but there's a niggling problem inherent with taping a cluster of discounted games together, one that's been scratching around the backs of our skulls since they exploded into fashion: they nearly always contain a game you already own.

Jonathan Blow's masterpiece first appears to be a simple pastiche of Super Mario Bros, with a middle - aged curmudgeon replacing the titular plumber but still seeking to rescue a princess.

Call me a curmudgeon, but I'm a firm believer in strictly limiting the amount and kind of content that my kids are exposed to, whether it's a library book, a video, music, an app, or game, and no amount of hearing «Well, I watched (or played with, read, or owned) XYZ when I was a kid, and I turned out just fine.»

Any firm that wants summers to make an intelligent decision should have them work with a curmudgeon or two, not just the stunt Perfect Partner called up from central casting.

PS: This blog post is really about appreciating nice curmudgeons, not dealing with difficult contrarians, genuinely disrespectful coworkers or abusive bullies who cause workplace issues worthy of a completely separate post.

Because the Portable Curmudgeon has not been updated to include the Internet I'll leave you with one for that other great invention of the past 100 years, the TV, but also applicable to the Internet: «Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want.

In fact, Crooks says, one of the first questions he's asked by those he is working to place is about whether firm leaders consider the CMO job an important one: «They want to know how much of a curmudgeon factor there is with respect to the leadership's attitudes on business development.»

By the time I made it to college, binders had been replaced with laptops, and professors who banned laptops from their classrooms seemed like curmudgeons who had been paid off by the paper industry.