Sentences with phrase «desperate little show»

Cliff smiled tightly and shrugged, a desperate little show of nonchalance.

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Their results corroborate findings that older adults are active in online dating and call into question stereotyped views — shown in Donn and Sherman to be rather prevalent among younger adults (at least those with little or no involvement in online dating)-- which cast online daters as lonely and desperate (Anderson, 2005; Wildermuth, 2001).

But Stiller also keeps the character a little distant, as if it's such a cool, actorly thing to play a desperate junkie that there's no need to show warmth.

Instead, with Vince and Craig both desperate for the money, the price their asking gets lower and lower to show how desperate they are for money and it really showcases the chemistry between these three actors and demonstrates how little these characters value their own well - being.

At the same time, Willard is a little desperate to establish itself as respectful of the cheese of»70s ecological horror, indulging in a little cat and boss cruelty but showing its true colours in a quailing cop - out involving the sacred cow of a pet dog.

Giving nothing for the audience to grasp onto or connect with is always a risky strategy especially in a film with such a simple narrative and although our protagonist has one redeemable quality, being a loving family man, it is only when Kuklinski's world starts to collapse around him that we are shown little pieces of reason, logic and humanity as he becomes emotional, desperate, abusive, and even panicky.

Metcalfe panders shamelessly to fans of Desperate Housewives, the TV show which made his name, by wearing as little as possible, including a brief spell in a thong.

I don't know, they seem to be working on desperate given how much they've shown and how little investment the audience has on the world and characters.

«The fact that guy called me a Stalinist shows that he's a little desperate,» Oreskes said.