Sentences with phrase «entendre not»

Not exact matches

«It's not the size that matters, it's how you use it,» said Zillow Chief Economist Stan Humphries, who is taking the stage at Austin's South by Southwest (SXSW) to explain how this double entendre applies to big data.

Like biblical Hebrew, Atwood's witty prose is thick with double entendre and allusion, including hidden puns whose meanings dawn on us only later, and outrageous jokes that don't so much dawn as «bomb» (one of the book's metaphors and an effect of Atwood's powerfully laconic style)

When the author is not sniggering over his campy double entendres, he indulges in juvenile rage against religion's alleged oppression of homosexuals.

The basic liturgy of liberalism is the Festival of Reason, which in 1793 placed a Goddess of Reason (who may or may not have been a prostitute conscripted for the occasion, in one of the mocking double entendres of Providence) on the holy altar in the Church of Our Lady in Paris.

As that double entendre suggests, many Christian artists (not to mention fans and critics) have noticed that the more separate from the world the ccm industry seeks to be, the more worldly it seems to become.

Well, he's got me proclaiming, for those who have eyes to see and ears to hear, that something is deeply amiss within; that we think we're special and you are not; that you need us more than we need you; that we don't trust you or your brain; that you are obviously going to hell without us; that we are completely out of touch with the real world; that we don't have a sweet clue about you, your kind, or your needs and desires; and that we're oblivious to innuendo and blind to double entendre.

* Please don't actually ask a teenager about double entendres in emojis because then we wind up with stuff like this on the evening news.

The Bake Off wouldn't be the same without the witty banter, puns, and double - entendres of hosts Mel and Sue.

That wasn't the case with Charlie King, a former Democratic Party executive director and ally of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who in a lengthy statement on Wednesday made a lewd double entendre that has also been deployed as a gay slur when referring to state Republican Chairman Ed Cox.

There are lines («My tears are real — you are fake») that made me laugh days after, and Vitaly mutters some kind of double entendre halfway through that I missed and wish I hadn't.

Double entendre intended, if you prick Lolita, she isn't going to bleed.

The relentless double entendres about their «relationship» leads the audience to question whether or not Sherlock is homosexual.

At the red carpet team's request, the camera went in for a tight shot of Theron's sheer gown — not a porn star outfit, like a lot of red carpet getups, but a pretty decent tightrope walk between class and naughtiness, the haute couture equivalent of a Johnny Carson double - entendre — then moved the camera from head to toe like the Big Bad Wolf ogling Red Hot Riding Hood.

Checking off a list, there are maybe three substances the human body produces that aren't exploited for cheap laughs during the course of Along Came Polly, fashioning a weird entendre out of its title and providing a little fascination at how a four - year - old's delight in excretion is poised to gross millions of dollars this weekend; ideally, only demographics incapable of buying tickets in the first place (lobotomy subjects, toddlers) will be able to brush off the screaming inadequacies of the picture.

The double entendre title represents not only the end of mankind but is also the name of the bar at the end of a pub crawl, friends — Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine and Eddie Marsan...

(One of the first things I knew about this site was that Clare appreciated the acting talent (and no, that's not a double entendre) of Chris Cooper, who was at the time horridly under - appreciated.)

It didn't help that two of the film's worst jokes were in the film's smirky, double - entendre - laden title, which could have been dreamed up by a pair of Red Bull - addled 13 - year - olds.

Universal has been promoting «Fifty Shades Freed» in recent months with the single - entendre tagline, «Don't Miss the Climax.»

(sort of a double entendre there, if not a very good one) I think that also should be taken into consideration, along with the format differences.

The double entendre associated with the word «box» also did not escape my notice.

Reid Kelley's video not only presents humor through intelligent word play and entendres («I know you care by these Marx on my Lenin»), the physical humor of language through written forms and complicated narratives — letters physically come alive to swirl, jump, and reform into new phrases and puns — but through self - reflexive references and jokes that only find completion through a full, stayed viewing.

PT: Your paintings are replete with subtle and explicit art historical and contemporary references and quotations, closely observed subject matter, complex spatial arrangements, visual and verbal double entendres, and a personal sense of color, not to mention humor, melancholy, pathos, and imagination.

I am intrigued by his exploration of different dichotomies, double entendres, and symbolic artifacts — i.e. as representations of social - political constructs, like «knowing what blackness is or isn't.»

The title, apparently not some kind of smutty euphemism or double entendre, serves to... [more]

The title, apparently not some kind of smutty euphemism or double entendre, serves to remind critics and tax avoidance beneficiaries that «the art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing».