Like Jack Nicholson in About Schmidt (another Payne peepshow into disappointed and disappointing middle Americans), Dern plays
a deer caught in the headlights of his own insignificance.
Not exact matches
The traffic was completely one way as Atletico Madrid looked like a
deer caught in headlights in front
of their opponents incessant offensive forays.
Watching the TV pictures
of the players
in the tunnel before the game and they looked petrified, like a
deer caught in headlights, and when the game started it looked no different.
But recreated on film, his stasis makes little sense; he comes off as the worst sort
of amateur, a
deer caught in the
headlights put through manufactured fictional paces that he, perversely enough, lived for real.
The thought
of these people getting rejection letter after rejection letter left me stunned like a
deer caught in the
headlight.
Most
of them come to us shy, scared and have that «
deer caught in the
headlight» look.
Regina is one tough chick (a poster girl for the fictitious «EuroAsia»
of videogame and anime lore), but doesn't have the «
deer caught in the
headlight» charm
of Claire Redfield or Jill Valentine.
Other major democracies (ones with stricter limits on taking campaign money from special interests; and ones
in which the price
of gas has been well over $ 5 / gallon for years) don't seem to have this problem
of science blindness and
deer -
caught -
in - the -
headlights inaction.
The video interviews were the brainchild
of the folks at the Legal Talk Network, who did all the filming and production and also did their best to keep me from looking like a
deer caught in the
headlights.
For at least the first 10 minutes it was like being addressed by
deer,
caught in the
headlights of my rampant femininity.
Instead
of getting
caught off guard and staring like a
deer in headlights, you need to have the perfect elevator pitch ready to go.
Most
of his important bits and pieces were covered by the fan thank goodness, but as we all stood there
in shock for a few seconds, he looked like a
deer caught in the
headlights.
I suggest the BoC is like a
deer caught in the
headlights: uncertain
of which way to jump, frozen by fear.