Sentences with phrase «for sad sacks»

I didn't sign up to root for this sad sack of an organization to have to sit through pennant wins.

American indie cinema has far too much time for the sad sack might've - been; I thought that Greenberg and The Squid and the Whale had stopped anyone from ever taking this sort of story seriously again, but apparently not.

Not exact matches

Bottom line: an IPO is no longer the brass ring for anyone with a brain and a real business — it's more likely to be a bunch of sad sacks and oversold salesman walking around with tin cups.

Remember when it was just about partying with your other sad sack single friends and you could forget for one night that your girlfriend left you and now you're alone and no one will ever love you?

If anything, the sad sacks I met in the few AA meetings I attended who keep affirming their powerlessness seem to have been at least headed for a bad case of «learned impotence».

What makes it a delight to watch is how Baker avoids the sad sack stereotypes that Hollywood projects lean on when depicting poor people, and finds a way to make your heart swell with joy for the resilience of the human spirit even as he's breaking it into pieces.

sack of local milled grits, for example, or finding a use for that sad little smear of pumpkin pie filling in the bottom of the can BEFORE I go on a cranberry bender.

ISIAH THE LEADER The presence of Isiah Thomas («I Have Got To Do Right, «Jan. 19) on the court has given the once sad - sack Pistons the ability to challenge for the Central Division title.

Excluding the blind delusional AKB's the sad truth for real gooners is that wenger will never leave and kroenke will never sack him.

, and two sad little goonies... rkw (who's evidently just a depressed moron and sack - Wenger whose in match comments rival Michael Owen for rank stupidity).

New Orleans isn't nearly the sad sack franchise that Sacramento has been for 10 years, but you could imagine them headed in that direction.

I think Arsene might regret signing that new deal, if we're out of the title race by Christmas and even if we lose back to back games early on I think the knives will be out for him which in my opinion will be sad, I didn't want him to sign a new deal but I didn't want to see him sacked.

Wenger is an amazing manager a consistent winner most managers get to a club the club signs all theses big players for him and say please win and the manager wins if luckey on to three seasons then fired cause the players got old and the manager did hardly a thing we habe a loual great you sad sack maybe arsenal fans we beat spurs on aggregate this season again thanks to mr. Wenger and if we did nt get another poor official call would have been 1 - 0 up the sad thing is we should be 3rd or second in table but stikers have underperformed regardless of beating united as we dominated them but lossed the players fell off in 5 games swansea westbrom stoke city watford bournemouth and lets mention horrible officiating this year we have a great manager its just this year the bounces and calls havent gone our way i mean i love watching us constantly beat chelsea lets have a real assessment for once those games are the difference in the season right now and thats not wengers fault the players faild to perform from winning positions

Totally agree.The problem at the movement we are crap but the other teams like Liverpool are worse.We would have to finish mid table for the board to sack Wenger.It is so sad that we have a talented squad but no manager who can create a team.When will this pain end?Oh what has happened to Diaby?

He's a sad sack, but being with Ferris is pretty much life affirming for him.

Game Night has a few going for it — one helluva cast (Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams, Billy Magnusson, Kyle Chandler, Sharon Horgan, Kylie Bunbury, Jesse Plemons, Danny Huston, Michael C. Hall, Chelsea Peretti, Camille Chen and more); an opening meet cute that is original and clever; the establishment of a weekly get together for a games night; the sad sack neighbor who used to be part of the group (and is also a cop with a cute dog), and, finally, the idea that what starts out as a special murder mystery game night turns out to be the real thing — but no knows it.

For a half - hour or so, «Cooties» has barbed fun with food safety (a local chicken - processing plant is responsible for the outbreak), eccentric sad - sack teachers (energetically played by Elijah Wood, Alison Pill, Rainn Wilson, writer Whannell and others) and rabid children trying to get into the school to eat their daytime tormentoFor a half - hour or so, «Cooties» has barbed fun with food safety (a local chicken - processing plant is responsible for the outbreak), eccentric sad - sack teachers (energetically played by Elijah Wood, Alison Pill, Rainn Wilson, writer Whannell and others) and rabid children trying to get into the school to eat their daytime tormentofor the outbreak), eccentric sad - sack teachers (energetically played by Elijah Wood, Alison Pill, Rainn Wilson, writer Whannell and others) and rabid children trying to get into the school to eat their daytime tormentors.

I've seen Jemaine Clement in various supporting roles over the years, but never really latched on to him as a performer (I saw not one episode of his «Flight of the Conchords «-RRB-, but he makes for a very appealing sad sack of a leading man.

The supporting cast sure doesn't want for talent, even if most of the roles are fairly forgettable and one - note; there's Tracy Morgan as a sad sack gym coach, Christina Hendricks as a sexy drama teacher, Dean Norris as a consistently baffled, pissed - off principal, and easily the best of the bunch, Jillian Bell as meth addict counselor Holly.

Now, you can see for yourself — in bite - sized trailer form, at least — whether you're as affected by Lanthimos» tale of a sad - sack divorcee (Colin Farrell) who's forced to attend a government - run resort where single people are transformed into animals by a relationship - minded bureaucracy.

Willis, who we usually see on screen as supremely confident and adept cop characters, as Sharp he is a lonely, sad - sack policeman for whom life seems to have past by.

The film's first half deals with the boot camp experience, where Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (Ermey, Scenes of the Crime) has to take a sad sack unit and turn them into killers, emotionally hardened and physically ready for battle.

Piovani gives this buddy chef comedy a wistful, sad - sack jazz approach that is more about slow - burn exasperation that racing for head of state, with a fuzz guitar only adding to Reno's exasperation at the new kid of the butcher block.

Her, Spike Jonze's latest window into his brilliant, hyperactive imagination, follows a sad - sack writer named Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) as he begins to fall for an operating system named Samantha (voiced by Scarlett Johansson), something like a super-advanced version of «Siri» tailored to be Theodore's perfect companion.

Leto's Rayon in Dallas Buyers Club met with hostility not just because it embodied so many stereotypes («a sad - sack, clothes - obsessed, constantly flirting... drug - addict prostitute» as Steve Friess wrote in Time) but also because no trans consultants were enlisted, and because Leto used his speech on winning the Golden Globe for best supporting actor to talk about how that «tiny little Brazilian bubble butt was all mine» rather than anything he had learned about the realities of trans living.

COM, AUG. 5, 2015 By Steve Newton If you thought Jason Bateman could only play affable sad - sacks, prepare for a nice surprise with The Gift.

Jon Lovitz, Southland Tales (2006) Jon Lovitz came to America's attention as a bumbling sad - sack on Saturday Night Live, best known for running gags like the «Girl Watchers» series, where he and Tom Hanks played two atonal, self - denigrating drips who dismissed every woman they saw as «waaaaay out of our league.»

He'll never stop looking too much like Matt Damon for me to avoid distraction, but he underplays his sad sack character wonderfully and creates hilarity in all his scenes.

Which is basically half the fun of his self - starring scatological comedy the gross tale of a sad - sack TV repairman who gets bullied into smuggling a kilo of Bangkok heroin in his bowels only to be arrested by police and sweated out over a toilet bowl for the seven excruciating days they re allowed to detain him.

A man searching for his kidnapped wife, a couple of white - supremacist meth heads, and a sad - sack Elvis impersonator, plus more desperate characters come to life in the action - packed and hilarious story written by Adam Minarovich and from the director of «The Cooler» and «Running Scared», Wayne Kramer.

Sad sack dog catcher Gilly (Chris Klein), who has been living on his own for as long as he could remember, finally finds someone to be with when he meets Jo (Heather Graham), a hairdresser.

For me that role proved Blair's mettle, injecting a sad sack humainity to the role of a middle - management Nazi struggling with his orders.

For a gag, the girls answer a «missed connection» ad in the paper and end up meeting the sad - sack Seymour (Steve Buscemi), a reclusive record collector who prefers the darkness and nostalgia of his room to real life.

In Bad Fever, Dustin Guy Defa's sad - sack indie drama about loneliness and urban ennui, a stand - up routine becomes an outlet for personal pain, the stage a place to unload baggage.

Times Square becomes a monochromatic monstrosity full of harsh lights, sad - sack lunch counters and nonstop noise; the luxe interiors of 21 and the Elysian Room double nicely for Dante's ninth circle of Hell.

He needs no droning narration for us to know he's a sad sack: Unambiguously from the start, he's an artificial creation.

Paul Rudd is Ant Man; Richard Linklater on «Before Midnight's» fight scene; why stars we dig often work with stars we despise; «G.B.F.» was rated R for being gay; «Her» and the sad - sack sensitive man.

Dodge +14 % Winners Durango +43 % Charger, Challenger +19 % Dart +230 % (last year was only a partial for the Dart, but it also handily beat Dodge's previous compact entry, the sad - sack Caliber) Loser Grand Caravan -12 %

The thirty - something sad - sack actor / waiter / suspect / witness, the stout, balding Irish cop with a miserable family life, his tough Latina partner with a heart of gold, the gun - toting teens in baggy jeans — all fail to take more than vague, generic shapes, as if waiting for actors to step in and take over.

According to MoneySense's data manager Phil Froats, the big reasons why Bay Roberts, Williams Lake, B.C., Port Alberni, B.C. and the rest of the sad sack lot are at the bottom is because of high unemployment, low average household income, negative population growth rates, a dismal culture industry and, for the most part, high crime.

One cold December night, he gets handed a job befitting a newcomer to organized crime: go collect this measly 300 grand debt (That's in Yen, mind you... that would have been around $ 2,450 in 1988 or just shy of $ 5k today, adjusting for inflation) from this sad sack of a dude, and deliver the money to the loan shark waiting for it.

Trapped in their personal prisons amongst the ranks of crazed, Hollowed Undead, the tired souls and sad sacks mocked the player for fighting against an unbeatable fate.

Initially renowned for his gallery - based murals featuring a cast of sad - sack, hangdog figures on red grounds, he banished these trademark wall paintings in 2003 and switched to all - over op - art pattern painting as his signature backdrop.

Some of my favorite examples: A Moon for the Misbegotten With just those 5 words — simply the title of a play — Eugene O'Neill makes me think about sad - sack misfortunates reaching for a dream.