Sentences with phrase «figure of fun»

Though the two subjects have decidedly different origins and audiences — Harding being part of a national and tabloid - friendly scandal, Wiseau having accumulated more of a grassroots notoriety — both movies are clearly aware of the novelty status that comes with taking a closer look at real people who have become figures of fun.

And despite the latter's comedic style, none of these shows paint church leaders as one - dimensional figures of fun.

Tottenham are the Gunners traditional figure of fun, but the Blues are more of a hate figure since Roman Abramovich took over and brought in that Portugese Bus Conductor to spend his money.

The full - backs were Giacinto Facchetti and Berti Vogts, who apparently used to be a footballer before he became a Scottish figure of fun.

There was a time, not too long ago, when Mark Hughes: Football Manager wasn't a general figure of fun.

Wengers long journey from club hero and saviour to a hate and figure of fun man is desperately sad.

Morgan might have made for an easily pokeable figure of fun last term, but the Jamaica international has stood tall above the rest this season to block, grunt and grind his team to the Premier League title — lest we forget, straight after back - to - back summer international tournaments in the Gold Cup and Copa America.

In the first place, writer - director Xavier Giannoli bases his story on a very different American figure of fun: Florence Foster Jenkins, whose inherited wealth allowed her to hold concerts and make recordings despite an aberrant sense of pitch and rhythm.

The only figure of fun is Tommy, who is also eventually treated as an eccentric (if frequently inappropriate and tone - deaf) dreamer.

I just wish he hadn't hung on so long and was made to look a figure of fun on the pitch...

The midfielder laughed when the video of the ex-Granada manager's training «dance» was mentioned, but says Adams is far from a figure of fun.

Margaret Thatcher once said of Andreotti: «He seemed to have a positive aversion to principle, even a conviction that a man of principle was doomed to be a figure of fun».

Macmillan left office a figure of fun, an Edwardian music hall joke, and yet in his old age had Margaret Thatcher literally sitting at his feet.

Alan Clark, the politician and diarist, had an ambivalent attitude towards his father, «K», or as Private Eye called him «Lord Clark of Civilisation», a figure of fun to a younger generation in his final years.

Excluded from all decision - making, he became a figure of fun in sophisticated Washington circles, often derided, sometimes to his face, as «Old Cornpone».

One of the main concerns is that Mr Prescott, always a figure of fun, has become too much of a joke following his affair with his diary secretary to continue to hold such an important office as deputy prime minister.

Normally a figure of fun for them, he argued that making constituencies more equal in size should not override ancient, organic local identities.

Will this be Corbyn's «Donkey Jacket Moment» - the moment at which his credibility disappears and he's regarded by the commentariat not as a serious politician but as a figure of fun?

Former minister Kate Hoey said the deputy prime minister had become a «figure of fun» in the eyes of the public and should consider his position.

There is nothing more dangerous in politics than descending into a figure of fun.

It's all hilarious to watch, and James Franco knows Wiseau is a figure of fun for the film while Sestero, played with well - meaning sweetness by his brother Dave, is the audience surrogate.

Although he appears to be a figure of fun, a freak accident turns him into a psychopath...

A superhero with very similar powers, DC's Plastic Man, is generally a figure of fun and not an Olympic - grade brooder like Reed Richards here.

«When was the last time a gynecologist was in a movie, even as a figure of fun?

But his unconventionally visionary, cloudy canvases are making him a marginal figure in the artistic establishment and a figure of fun for the general public.

Hawn began her acting career playing the ditz on TV comedies like Good Morning World and Laugh - In, but by the end of the»60s, her bubble - headed persona became less a figure of fun and more a love - generation ideal.

Like Gonzalez, Wallace casts a sardonic eye on the past, the frigid geometry of the skyscraper, here turned into a figure of fun.