Sentences with phrase «eccentric men who»

Truth is this strange machine, this bizarre fish from the bottom of the sea with a 556 - hp V - 8 and a six - speed manual transmission, will likely live out its life bouncing around Craigslist, going for a fraction of its current $ 73,190 as - tested price, putting smiles on the faces of eccentric men who want a slightly more practical but far less desirable Corvette.

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In order to carry out my mission to increase and multiply the lab animal population of the armed forces of the United States, I was placed under the direction of an eccentric old man (also named George), a civilian employee who....

Is there a reader even slightly familiar with the writings of Kurzweil and Leibowitz who would not recognize «ill - tempered,» «eccentric,» and «overzealous» as suitable descriptive terms for these men?

Part of the focus of the book is on the interaction, on an uncharted Mississippi River island, between two uprooted young men and their eccentric old hosts, who in their odd way seem to have some stability the young men seek — until one of the old men is killed in a bizarre fishing accident.

In order to carry out my mission to increase and multiply the lab animal population of the armed forces of the United States, I was placed under the direction of an eccentric old man (also named George), a civilian employee who had spent over a decade helping monkeys reproduce in that laboratory colony.

He met an eccentric man down the road who raised chickens and ducks.

A recent study concluded that men who took around 4.000 milligrams of taurine for two weeks before performing eccentric elbow flexor exercises experienced less fatigue and a greater increase in muscle strength and endurance.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

Summary: Highly entertaining documentary about the life of eccentric underground artist Robert Crumb, who created famous cartoon characters such as «Fritz the Cat» and the «Keep on Truckin» Man».

In theaters October 11, «Danny Trejo returns as ex-Federale agent Machete, who is recruited by the President of the United States (Charlie Sheen) for a mission which would be impossible for any mortal man — he must take down a madman revolutionary and an eccentric billionaire arms dealer (Mel Gibson) who has hatched a plan to spread war and anarchy across the planet.»

That's how he meets the eccentric Teddy Perkins, a rich and terrifying older man who may or may not be Glover in white face.

«In Machete Kills, Danny Trejo returns as ex-Federale agent Machete, who is recruited by the President of the United States for a mission which would be impossible for any mortal man — he must take down a madman revolutionary and an eccentric billionaire arms dealer (Mel Gibson) who has hatched a plan to spread war and anarchy across the planet.

Kristen Stewart stars as Joan Jett, Dakota Fanning is Cherie Currie, and Michael Shannon stars as the √ ºber - eccentric Kim Fowley — the man who put The Runaways together.

This 1980s - set Los Angeles comedy series stars Alison Brie (Mad Men, Community) as Ruth Wilder, an out - of - work actress who finds herself with the unexpected role of a lifetime after being invited to audition with a group of eccentric women for the first - ever women's wrestling TV show — GLOW.

The people of the city aren't all that dismayed at seeing them rid the city of crime, while the cops who are on their trail, headed by eccentric FBI agent Smecker (Dafoe, Spider - Man), are conflicted in wanting to nab the vigilantes or to side with them.

Nightcrawler tells the story of Lou Bloom, an eccentric young man who stumbles across the career of freelance photography in Los Angeles.

Hitch creates some of his most expressionist images (the ceiling dissolves to a man pacing above, the fog that swirls about the mysterious lodger) and introduces his murky world of guilt and innocence in the story of an eccentric figure who may be Jack the Ripper.

There, he gets kidnapped by Lexie's husband, a willowy - maned reclusive and eccentric billionaire, Simon Kestral (Sam Elliott), who has self - funded plans to conduct an underground semiconductor experiment to locate «the god particle.»

Johnny's main contacts are his lover Kathleen (Kathleen Ryan), also loved by the stern police inspector (Denis O'Dea) on Johnny's trail; the elderly, frail, art fancier Father Tom (W. G. Fay); and an opportunistic little man named Shell (F. J. McCormick), who lives in an attic with two fellow eccentrics — Robert Newton as the alcoholic painter Lukey, and Elwyn Brooke - Jones as the failed medical student Tober.

It tells the idiosyncratic love story of a rich, eccentric young man named Colin (Romain Duris) who loses his fortune after marrying Chloe (Audrey Tautou), a woman suffering from a strange and expensive illness that requires her to be surrounded by bouquets of fresh flowers at all times.

As fate would have it, he witnesses a man trying to drown himself who happens to be the keyboard player of an underground eccentric pop band Jon admires.

Something of an exciting / offensive miscellany ---- this is the man who gave us Basic Instinct (1992) and Showgirls (1995) after all ---- Elle's ingredients include; eccentric extended - family comedy of manners; sophisticated thriller; mesmerizing psychosexual drama; with inescapable ideas of noxious misogyny as well as being a complicated psychological snapshot of a fiercely independent woman.

Heading into its third weekend, IFC Films added 154 locations for The Man Who Knew Infinity, starring Dev Patel as the Indian - born self - taught mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan who began an unlikely friendship with an eccentric professor (played by Jeremy Irons) at Cambridge University in 19Who Knew Infinity, starring Dev Patel as the Indian - born self - taught mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan who began an unlikely friendship with an eccentric professor (played by Jeremy Irons) at Cambridge University in 19who began an unlikely friendship with an eccentric professor (played by Jeremy Irons) at Cambridge University in 1913.

In MACHETE KILLS, Danny Trejo returns as ex-Federale agent MACHETE, who is recruited by the President of the United States for a mission which would be impossible for any mortal man — he must take down a madman revolutionary and an eccentric billionaire arms dealer who has hatched a plan to spread war and anarchy across the planet.

When Jon gets an impromptu opportunity to tag a long with an eccentric budding band called Soronprfbs — yeah, good luck with that one — he decides to take a chance and give it a go so hops in a van with a borderline mute drummer (Carla Azar), a French speaking guitarist (François Civil), a hotheaded theremin player (Maggie Gyllenhaal) and the band's main man, Frank (Michael Fassbender), a lead singer who dons a giant fake head on stage, off stage, in the shower and quite literally everywhere else.

From the directors of American Splendor and The Nanny Diaries and based on a novel by Bored to Death creator Jonathan Ames, The Extra Man stars Kevin Kline as a poor, eccentric playwright who takes a young writer, played by Paul Dano, under his wing.

The two older men are an eccentric duo, wary of the relatives who have come trying to schmooze them out of some cash or a share in the will, but they soon take a liking to young Walter all the same.

In Sunshine Cleaning, Adams must carry much of the load as Rose, a single mother to a gifted young boy, big sister to troubled Norah (Emily Blunt) and daughter to a man who at best could be called eccentric (Alan Arkin).

Without saying too much, let's just say that Segel clearly has a problem with popular European men, as this is another eccentric chum with an accent who «challenges» Segel's likable character.

Danny Trejo returns as ex-Federale agent MACHETE, who is recruited by the President of the United States for a mission which would be impossible for any mortal man — he must take down a madman revolutionary and an eccentric billionaire arms dealer who has hatched a plan to spread war and anarchy across the planet.

More reliant on mood than traditional storytelling, this deliberately paced oddity follows a gay man (Pascal Cervo) who abandons his lover (Arthur Igual) one morning in favor of an odyssey across the French countryside — prompted by social media — during which he meets various eccentrics.

This is a hilarious story of two men who are the epitome of «eccentric» yet find each other in the big city.

A famous author receives a mysterious letter from a man who is a struggling writer but also turns out to be a taxidermist, an eccentric and fascinating character who does not kill animals but preserves them as they lived, with skill and dedication — among them a howler monkey named Virgil and a donkey named Beatrice.

For generations, privileged young men have attended St. Oswald's Grammar School for Boys, groomed for success by the likes of Roy Straitley, the eccentric Classics teacher who has been a fixture there for more than thirty years.

With the help of an eccentric and somewhat flamboyant psychic stepbrother Jags, the Wolfe Brothers together hunt for a killer, a man who has sought vengeance against the Wolfe family for two decades.WAIT!If you haven't read the first book in this series, you need to.

Onboard, among the odd passengers and eccentric crew, there is a strange group of men in bowler - hats who call themselves The Brotherhood of Clowns.

Gathering together extensive documentation and rare archive material on the numerous exhibitions they organized together from 1995 on, the book is introduced by art theorist and friend of the artist Max Wechsler, who followed West's work closely for many years, and whose illuminating foreword begins: «Without doubt, he was an odd bird, a gifted idler, a Vienna man sui generis and eccentric par excellence.»

She imagines Turner the man: a lonely and eccentric painter who was disappointed with the world and carried out a long affair with his seaside landlady Mrs Booth.

Reappraising Lowry not as an eccentric loner but as an artist who drew as much from 19th - century French art as from his daily grind as a rent collector: goodbye matchstick men, hello social commentator painting the mad and the miserable.

The list of prominent bicyclists in film history includes misfit teens (Napoleon Dynamite), eccentric Einstein - like scientists (the license-less Jeff Goldblum character in Independence Day, in which the bike is, admittedly, shown as a pretty decent way to escape Manhattan), vaguely countercultural types (Mark Wahlberg's character in I Heart Huckabees, or Carl Bernstein in All the President's Men) perpetual man - children (Pee - Wee's Big Adventure), and people who otherwise refuse to grow up or are out of touch with real life and the working world.

Had I been writing a column then, you would have read about the banker who never met a cocktail he didn't like; the barber who dealt drugs and pimped his wife; the lawyer who took on the government and won, then took on his wife and lost; the millionaire coupon and empty bottle thief; the eccentric former glamour girl who shopped while wearing a fur coat and silk nightie; and the banker who left his wife for another man.