Sentences with phrase «entendres of»

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

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.

«lightening» has the double - entendre of «lightning» and «enlightening».

- Joseph Kanon «The Cairo Affair is the espionage novel at its best, packed with betrayals, double - crosses, hidden agendas, moral conflicts, international relations, and even a delectable double - entendre of a title.»

[«Donelle Woolford,»... -2014] Greg Allen: A - for keeping the discourse going [2014 - ∞] Glenn Ligon: A + for Richard Pryor «Joke» painting Cocaine (Pimps), 1993 in a double entendre of «appropriation» where the non-art one is racial inequality and Joe Scanlan is all like, wow that gives me an idea...

Pot Kettle Black interrogates idiom as Gilmore shelves black paint, its overflow a metronome to her audible toil and exasperated distain.Break of Day marks time in the double entendre of a manually powered hourglass.

And again in the racist double entendre of his title for Colored sculpture (2016), which Wolfson conceived on a flight out of Basel in 2014.

Much like a surrealist trompe l'oeil, the play on the image and the double entendre of the title Night Lie gives new meaning to the romance of Paris, the city of love.

The title of the work serves as a double entendre of sorts — a headshot refers to the close - up portraits used by actors in the casting process, but here suggestively implies the unseen act of ejaculation.

The entendre of this famous song lyric is manifest in the song's original music video, in which the late gay pop star is «guilty» of performing a heterosexual public persona.

It seems they knew what they were doing (I also like the visual double - entendre of the pie - chart forming a C).

Debt overhang and ongoing deleveraging on the part of firms and households are the main culprits as well as higher structural unemployment and the stultifying double entendre of more or less permanently high taxes and excessive regulation relative to our economic competitors.

Not exact matches

A whole lot of juvenile in - jokes and single - entendres, that's what.

The size of your overhang (double entendre intended) is a measure of your ability to withstand a reduction in income.

Unilever's AXE burst out of nowhere in the US several years ago and established itself as a formidable competitor in the men's market for years with its Maxim - like dose of sexy women, strange irreverent ads and double entendres («cleaning dirty equipment»).

The wandering lusts of the married man, said Harry, must be satisfied in a hands - off manner: «the flirting, the double entendres,... enjoying the company of women in the limited way a married man can.

It's a double entendre, of course, because nothing is more chill than watching America's favorite TV painter do his thing.

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.

His words sail right over their heads in a wave of double entendre, enigma and metaphor.

A double entendre or just a poor grasp of word meanings?

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.

The double entendre, which is another way of describing juxtaposed metaphor used in relation to individual words and phrases, is an important and highly complex feature of Jesus Christ Superstar and another way, I believe, in which the parabolic mode is followed.

He is Don Rickles as he barbs a couple of Clipper teammates in attendance, Johnny Carson as he delivers a few subtle double entendres and some harmless bathroom humor.

I guess that's sort of a double entendre, yes?

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.

He proceded to post several of these, including one of the (fully clothed) congressman with his two cats that featured a double entendre headline.

This is sort of a double entendre, if you will.

I've read profiles that are just one neverending joke, full of puns, double entendres, and self - deprecation.

Does that profile have any risk of sexual innuendos or double - entendres.

Double entendres have long been a staple of dating quips.

Am I the only one who is seriously creeped out by the idea of hearing a sexy woman's voice making doubles entendres while I'm reeling in a freaking fish?

The show's finale unites a colorful assortment of singers and craftsmen, including the two surviving members of an ill - fated family act (Lily Tomlin and Meryl Streep), a cowboy duo (Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly) prone to bad jokes and winking double entendres, Lindsay Lohan's death - obsessed chanteuse / poet, and Keillor, who plays himself, a role for which he's uniquely suited.

The double entendres meant to test and tease a culture on the verge of a sexual revolution are exploded here in an era where unembarrassed vulgarity and scatological humour are the rule of the day in comedies — sexual or otherwise.

It takes more than a double entendre title to make me chuckle, and there's very little in the contents of the film that aspire any higher than that.

Rounding out the disc: a giggly film - length commentary laden with unpremeditated double - entendres that reunites cast members Trachtenberg, Panettiere, Trevor Blumas, and Kirsten Olson; pre-menu trailers for The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Valiant, My Scene Goes Hollywood: The Movie, and Halloweentown Movies; and additional, menu - based previews of The Muppets Wizard of Oz, Aliens of the Deep, ESPN Sports Figures, and RADIODisney.

Cue up winking Deadpool at the hint of a double entendre.

Her father (Dan Hedaya) has been in a coma ever since she ran away from home, leaving his returned prodigal to contend with an icy stepmom (Deborah Rush), a thuggish stepbrother (Joseph Cross) and a guy named Stew (David Pasquesi), whose job title is one of many double entendres I'd pass along if I could.

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.

Characters make deliciously ominous statements, the sort of spooky double entendres that could be driven home with a crack of thunder and a pipe organ's minor chord.

Language: The script contains numerous terms of Deity, some mild profanities and a crude term used as a double entendre for male anatomy.

This one is a serious big screen treatment, and one of the most serious of the Bond film's to date, as action, drama, and some strong violence take the forefront, while the tongue - in - cheek gags, double entendres, and wild gadgets are held to an absolute minimum.

By the time Donen made The Grass is Greener, he perfected the use of clever set pieces, split screens, and double entendres to work around the restrictions imposed by the censors.

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.

Bogart's harshness made him the best Spade and his insolence, in The Big Sleep, the most iconic Marlowe, though Lauren Bacall as Vivienne, the oldest and haughtiest of the idle - rich Sternwood sisters, and his accomplice in double - entendre wisecracking, was wiped off the screen by Martha Vickers as the thumb - chewing nympho Carmen (no matter that her lethalness was downplayed).

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...

This would seem to be pretty big talk coming from a guy who had dutifully packed his film to the point of turgidity with bluish double entendres, but Kubrick was completely right.

Drebin gets a great running narration with absolutely horrible analogies («She had a body that could melt a cheese sandwich from across the room») and double entendres are the name of the game.

(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.)