Sentences with phrase «drill sergeant»

We can easily sound like drill sergeants ordering our kids to finish their homework before getting out of their chairs.

Mr. Báez is the senior attorney and President of The Báez Law Firm, P.C. Prior to becoming an attorney, Mr. Báez was a Senior Drill Sergeant in the United States Army and a Critical Care Nurse.

LaBoeuf endlessly bonding with his kid; LaBoeuf avoidong the point in his l - o - o - o - ng talk session with Oldman; seen - it - all - before harassment at the hands of marine drill sergeants.

The Conference Whisperer A former drill sergeant who was the father of a student shared an idea that has stuck with me

Dead - eyed teenagers get hooked up to alien EEG machines and are berated by drill sergeants.

They are not drill sergeants, nor are they there to burry someone into the ground.

He explains his role as drill sergeant Dap, «He's a real hardass at first to Ender.

Instead of being meanie drill sergeant barking orders, try being an enthusiastic coach instead.

Children with drill sergeant parents also have pain and humiliation as their teacher.

So chat her up before signing up to make sure you don't get an order - barking drill sergeant when what you're really looking for is a supportive cheerleader.

Luckily, we have character actor J.K. Simmons (channeling cinema's toughest drill sergeant from Full Metal Jacket) in a role that was made for his sharp wit (all he's got ta do is close a door to make you laugh) and knack of going from intense to kind with a seamless flick of the switch.

Unlike helicopter parents and drill sergeant parents, who make all the decisions and direct the lives of their children, several teenagers feel empty and are not well - equipped with practical skills essential for surviving the harsh realities of life.

Don't Choose Domination While dogs need consistency and order to feel safe and loved, they don't need a marine drill sergeant for a caretaker.

This also resembles how a lot of military drill sergeants treat their troops.

Expecting the army to be dolls, doughnuts and USO dances, he instead encounters a tough drill sergeant (Christopher Walken) and a platoon of often hostile recruits...

Approaching your own beautiful self like an insult - spewing drill sergeant will only lower your confidence and up your levels of stress, increasing, again, your levels of cortisol in turn.

At the same time, however, Poore is careful never to make his criticisms personal, a lesson he learned from an overly cruel drill sergeant he met in the Army.

It was the ideal of all moustaches of drill sergeants throughout all the armies of Europe; and in that exaggerated form it became a symbol of national virility.»

However, a female drill sergeant who exhibits both personal and directive leadership over men «violates their sense of masculinity and her sense of femininity.»

He's more like your friendly neighborhood drill sergeant, pushing you through a workout that makes you feel like you're dying but in a good way, like you're seeing parts of you you're just now realizing you never really needed and cutting them away.

More than one drill sergeant fell before his fists.

It appears that Jim Harbaugh's hard ass or drill sergeant reputation has completely gone out the window.

All that glowing literature didn't adequately express how hard it is to be at the beck and call of the world's tiniest and crankiest drill sergeant.

I definitely don't want to turn mommies into sleep drill sergeants.

For each of these sequences, we played the «drill sergeant game».

Drill Sergeant Mom.

There was drill sergeant Tim Loughton MP.

Here's where you play drill sergeant to dodge temptation to fall back into old habits (10 exposures, remember?).

Lie down on your back and place your mini drill sergeant onto your tummy.

I had to go to competitions just like cheering, but it was serious and not preppy like being a cheerleader because there were drill sergeants judging your performance on how sharp and clean your routine is.

His best - remembered film roles included thick - eared ambulance driver Joe Wayland in MGM's Dr. Kildare films and blustering cop - turned - drill sergeant Mike Collins in Abbott and Costello's two Buck Privates efforts.

And while the narrative eventually details the recruits» experiences during the war, director Stanley Kubrick offers up a first half devoted to the aforementioned characters» punishing treatment at the hands of R. Lee Ermey's hard - nosed drill sergeant - with the decidedly engrossing nature of this stretch heightened by Ermey's thoroughly captivating performance.

In his inimitable style he exposes the ugly truth about war; without their monstrous drill sergeant's brutal teachings they wouldn't have lasted 5 minutes in this environment so within the context of war, cruelty is RIGHT.

With Bob and Margaret home packing, we cut back to the kennels, which have taken on the aura of Bates Motel run by a short, fat drill sergeant under the thumb of his mysteriously unseen mother.

First is Swofford's (Jake Gyllenhaal) introduction to his sugar - mouthed drill sergeant (not R. Lee Ermey), who immediately wonders aloud if Swofford is gay (it would've been funnier if it wasn't exactly like — except not as good as — Full Metal Jacket).

Vince Vaughn (The Internship, Wedding Crashers) holds his own as the tough, sarcastic drill sergeant preparing to take his men — including Doss — into battle.

Vince Vaughan is entertaining too as the aggressive drill sergeant.

Her sincere desire to be a bride of Christ is first challenged by the borderline sadism with which Blessed Rose's Reverend Mother (Melissa Leo) runs the convent — for a while, Novitiate plays like a distaff Full Metal Jacket, with nuns in training systematically humiliated and emotionally abused by what amounts to a soft - spoken drill sergeant in a habit.

Spacey excels as the monstrous Harken, who lords it over his cowering underlings with the macho swagger of a Marine drill sergeant enhanced by some imaginative sadistic twists.

Although almost three - quarters of the film moves to the sound of drums, the images in one's mind veer more towards drill sergeant movies, sports flicks and cult initiation rites.

The role of Fletcher could have easily turned into a one - dimensional drill sergeant lost in his own noise.

Ermey, in particular, deserves a lot of credit for helping craft what is arguably one of the best opening scenes in cinematic history, and it's difficult to imagine anyone else in the role, despite a different actor being originally cast to play the hard - ass drill sergeant.

None of the other characters are provided quite the same depth, but Palmer, Weaving and even Vaughn (whose drill sergeant gets his own «Full Metal Jacket» - style intro) are all good in their respective roles.

Someone must have thought, «Oh, yes, it's going to be funny to see this distinguished looking woman in her 70s, in a wheel chair, spewing non-stop drill sergeant profanity.»

Andrew flourishes under his mentor's drill sergeant methodology, and the film begins to feel like a sick parody of inspirational teacher movies.