Sentences with phrase «for yokel»

Not exact matches

The local yokel Dems don't seem to give a FART either — at least one of whom was trained by my mother (I apologize for my mother here, but I did not pick her as my mother, truth be told!)

Local yokels included the usual suspects, none of whom have had notable success in promoting grass - roots economic development, except for restaurants, drug stores and gas - station makeovers.

Spitzer's error was personal the rest of those upstate yokels nonsense is all political because they are so greedy for power.

After Phil, Stu, and Alan are arrested for stealing a police cruiser, Officers Franklin (Rob Riggle) and Garden (Cleo King) tell the boys that they are intimately familiar with their type, yokels who come to town all «Vegas!

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS The Amateurs (R for sex and expletives) Bawdy comedy about a bunch of local yokels in a small town in Middle America who come up with the bright idea of making a porno movie.

Oscar Diggs (James Franco) is a womanizing carnival magician with a Bucky Beaver smile and an ego outsized for the two - bit show he and his wary assistant (Zach Braff) shill to the Kansas yokels.

The only things keeping Dawn of the Dead from soaring are a quartet of characters (the doomed dad, the slut, the slack - jawed yokel, the cross-dressing émigré) who function as distracting padding — and the sort of squeamishness in regards to hardcore gore that our culture of creeping sanctimony has made par for the course since the grand guignol of the original.

A Marine's Story (Unrated) «Don't ask - don't tell» drama based on actual events in the life of a returning Iraq War veteran (Dreya Weber) who encounters intolerance in her conservative hometown when the local yokels learn that she was forced to retire from the military for same - sex conduct unbecoming an officer.

The Last Song (PG for mature themes, violence, sensuality and mild epithets) Coming - of - age drama revolving around a rebellious, 17 year - old prodigy (Miley Cyrus) sent by her divorced mother (Kelly Preston) to spend the summer with her estranged father (Greg Kinnear) in an island resort town where she prceeds to fall in love with a local yokel (Liam Hemsworth) while mending fences and making beautiful music with her dad.

The story centers on two small - town yokels from upstate New York, tricked into opening a barbershop in the big city that a gangster could use as a front for his speakeasy.

Having spent my entire life so far in the frozen tundra of Minnesota, I'm admittedly biased when I say that Fargo is Joel and Ethan Coen's best film to date outside of, perhaps, the comparably tight and bloody No Country for Old Men — which, come to think of it, also boils down to yokels and scary mute motherfuckers chasing down a briefcase full of cash.

Luckily, they befriend another kid, Haley (Lewis, Foxfire), who helps them to gain enough money to keep them on their way, using Jimmy's prodigious skills at playing video games to hustle the local yokels for quick and easy cash.

And whether due to radiation (The Hills Have Eyes) or just good old determined inbreeding (Wrong Turn and so, so many films you're better off not knowing about), the yokel - prone in film have really enjoyed slaughtering innocent families on vacation, travelers deficient in basic map usage skills and, best of all, sexually active college students just looking for a good time.

(p. 5) Tyack & Cuban: «In the firm belief that they were the trustees of the public interest, superintendents and other policy elites of the first half of the century tended to dismiss their opponents as ignorant or self - interested... They regarded the rural foes of school consolidation as backward yokels who did not know what was good for their children.»

We've had enough with the «experts» telling us yokels what is good for us.

I confess that I had not really given this local yokel radio station much of a listen even though I have lived in this wonderful city for more than 10 years.

So I listened for a while and I realized that they were hardly local yokels.