Sentences with phrase «drop references to people»

The screenplay is better when it withholds — throughout The Post, characters walk and talk (the other credited writer, Josh Singer, who also co-wrote Spotlight, is a West Wing alum), and drop references to people or events that would have been familiar knowledge to those at the time.

And as he talks about the pressure that was on him from Trump, he pointedly dropped a reference to another person he once sparred with over an investigation: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat.

Not exact matches

A woman drops her robe, but we only briefly see her back and shoulders; a man is seen naked on a bed with a pillow covering his private parts (check the movie's trailer if you want to preview this) and a short reference is made about a person being conceived during a cult ceremony (it is vaguely implied that the mother may have been raped).

If your expectations start bordering on unrealistic (such as free returns even though you dropped your Kindle) or you try to game the system (like the person who would buy 10 reference books and then return 9 after trying them all out) then you might very well be disappointed.

And when I drop in for a chat with Jamian Juliano - Villani, 29, I manage to fill pages of my notebook just listing all the strange and wonderful references she has placed in her dense paintings as freely as if they were clip art: Jean - Michel Basquiat; Lamb Chop; «Frank Sinatra's art book»; Asterix; The Art of the Puppet, by Bil Baird; «bread people»; Will Eisner; «that John Cleese commercial»; and so on.

Anytime I've run across such associations, I routinely dropped the names into the search feature at Gelbspan's Facebook Friends page or at Passacantando's, first to see if there was any kind of association with Gelbspan lately, and then to see if I could spot some kind of current web site reference to these people.