Sentences with phrase «for yuppies»

Hence, the rise of Hinge for yuppies, The League for elitists, Bumble for shy guys, The Catch for wordsmiths, Meld for black professionals, Willow for those who care about personality not looks, HeavenlySinful for those who want to get laid, Thaijoop for ladyboys (kathoey), SaladMatch for health nuts, Uniform Dating for people in the armed forces, and the list goes on.

But they aren't just buzzwords for yuppies with yoga mats — rigorous scientific studies have shown meditation has lasting health benefits.

Just in case the classics fail to carry enough charm for yuppies, Kilimnik's dancers also include Diana Rigg at her tightly clad, karate - chopping best.

It was the ultimate car for yuppies.

«Food philosophy» is for yuppies: most of us eat to fuel ourselves against the daily grind... This book (and its ilk) are definitely not for me!

We may put ourselves on a list to adopt children with disabilities in order to provide a backup for someone who is struggling with the decision, Churches tempted to aim for yuppie - friendly perfection in their church pageants and Sunday school instead may need to reconfigure the expectations of the parents they seek to attract.

«It's also perceived that we're designing for the yuppie youngins, not folks who've been around for a long time.

Not exact matches

The topics were old standards: The pro-business, yuppie - ish, Clintonian Dems and the more economically lefty, antiwar types are in a fight for the party's soul; the Bush White House is manipulating the media; the «pageant - size fantasy» of certain starry - eyed Dems is of a last - minute Hillary run.

This particular YMCA included, «a great mix of high - end yuppie fitness facility, a wonderful community resource for families, and an old - school residence for disenfranchised men,» so Fey shares a host of funny stories about working the front desk.

The term for them in the «80s was Yuppies.

The question for the future is not whether Hollywood will again support the status quo or support authority but whether its offerings will continue to reflect and advance the moral shallowness — indeed the emptiness — of yuppie liberalism.

White supremacists and trendy yuppie conformists are often NOT people who have earnest ignorance, but often have * willful * ignorance, people who intentionally gloss over the LACK of foundation for the notions and lifestlye which they espouse.

Juno, speechless for the first time, is stuck by the realization that she is not giving her baby to a yuppie professional but to a real mother.

Living in a cute yuppie neighborhood where you can walk for most of your errands?

In fact, Houston yuppies are all in line for some big insurance payouts, not to mention all the opportunites ambulance - chasing lawyers will exploit out to this to line your pockets.

The incredible response has affirmed Dorf's vision for a downtown concert hall, which he believes will fill a niche for «graying yuppies.»

With the benefit cap meaning that housing benefit will be capped at a point where for many who rely on it will have to move away, which means areas with relative affluence with sites of former counci estates, which are now being snapped up by yuppies or young professionals renting them will increase in an area — less likely to vote Labour than those who were on receipt of housing benefit.

Yuppie vegans at one end of the spectrum pay premium prices for health - destroying soy foods.

Alexander Wang's collection also went for a slightly more contemporary yuppie and also touched down in the 90s with the Matrix feeling.

More Indian Yuppies Eschewing Arranged Marriage For Online Dating — In an attempt to explain the shifting romantic climate for women in India, Mumbai businesswoman Shyra Mogul — who escaped an abusive arranged marriage in her 20s and is now single again — tells NPR that her generation grew upFor Online Dating — In an attempt to explain the shifting romantic climate for women in India, Mumbai businesswoman Shyra Mogul — who escaped an abusive arranged marriage in her 20s and is now single again — tells NPR that her generation grew upfor women in India, Mumbai businesswoman Shyra Mogul — who escaped an abusive arranged marriage in her 20s and is now single again — tells NPR that her generation grew up...

If you are looking for a nerd, a yuppie, or a preppy keep looking I am a man and with you a i can have an intelligent conversation, a candlelit dinner or you can live on the edge with me and take a moonlit ride on my harley.

Bars can also be defined by their level of prestige — for example, a dive bar is considered informal, low class, and disreputable, while a «fern» bar is considered upscale and pandering towards preppy or yuppie clientele.

Though passed up for the lead in the former film, Leto made an impression in a supporting role as an arrogant yuppie doomed to be the first victim of vapid serial killer Patrick Bateman.

And in Singapore, discover how pragmatism works for time - starved yuppies, juggling careers and kids.

While waiting for it to get repaired they go through some exploits that help to open Reinhold's yuppie eyes to the real world.

The plot is set into motion when Maura and Kate come home to Orlando for a visit, where they're shocked to find out that their parents (James Brolin and Dianne Wiest) have sold their family home and want them to clean our their rooms as soon as possible so a pair of stereotypical Manhattan yuppies can move in.

Ashton Kutcher (The Butterfly Effect, My Boss's Daughter) stars as Simon Green, a yuppie white guy who has just quit his cushy job for personal reasons, just before he is to meet the parents of his Black girlfriend, Theresa (Zoe Saldana, The Terminal).

The part was allegedly written for Tom Hanks, but it's impossible to imagine anyone except Cruise; his yuppie charisma is perfect for the role from the start, keeping Maguire from feeling like too much of a dick, and you buy every second of his moral awakening.

Page is a star, no question (the only reason you don't walk is because she patches a lot of holes), but Juno is best at revealing the limitations of folks like Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner, the perfect yuppie couple to whom Juno decides to bequeath her spawn — the one tasked with wearing Soundgarden T - shirts and pining for his days opening for The Melvins, the other asked mainly to be the hysterical, barren woman, ovulating like a chicken and resembling that Mo Collins character from «MADtv» who, in lieu of children, collects Precious Moments figurines.

There's a devilish joy in his face when he first meets Beau Bridges» yuppie land developer and readily admits to shooting up his housing development, but that's complicated as he learns of Rose's true feelings for him.

Rooting for them in a romantic sense was like being asked to cheer Todd and Margo's joyless yuppie relationship in «National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.»

It's new territory for Stillman, although his skill for skewering yuppies and the upper class in his earlier works makes the prospect of him tackling an elegant period piece all the more appealing.

aims low for Animal House humor and manages to do that by channeling his tale to yuppies.

Director Ted Kotcheff («Billy Two Hats» / «Fun With Dick and Jane» / «North Dallas Forty») aims low for Animal House humor and manages to do that by channeling his tale to yuppies.

Then, after a social function for donors puts the lavish jewels of «rich yuppies» on display, Frank and his reluctant partner in crime begin studying the habits of the affluent Jake and his wife in anticipation of a big heist.

Sterritt ** Deciding not to spend Christmas alone, a spoiled yuppie pays a fortune to a family for pretending to be his own loving relatives during the yuletide season.

For the first act, we are introduced to our main characters: a poor Latin - American mother and daughter (Carmen Ejogo and Zoe Soul, the real hearts of this film), an insufferable yuppie couple on the brink of divorce (Zach Gilford and Kiele Sanchez) from which we get the lion's share of our Crash - style white guilt narrative, and Frank Grillo as a grieving father / ex-soldier who feels the urge to Purge one particular soul on this night.

Whereas the first Purge focused on one yuppie family and their domestic squabbles in a gated community, The Purge: Anarchy creates a surprisingly smart and well - honed structure that allows for an anthology of smaller stories to be told within this larger world.

Little moments earn smiles: the parking - lot meeting between Annika and Megan; the latter's attempts to explain to her budding - yuppie friend (Ellie Kemper) that twisting the nipples of a giant, plastic Buddha is a joke about nipples, not a joke about Buddha; and the scene in which Rockwell's character, acting as a surrogate for the audience, demands answers from the stranger sleeping on the floor of his daughter's bedroom.

Brooks plays Daniel, an underachieving yuppie businessman who carelessly takes his new Mercedes for a spin, only to run head - on into a city bus.

Anyone who saw the three - hour My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument (1997) when it showed at the Film Center last year knows that, for better and for worse, writer - director Arnaud Desplechin, born in 1960, has a generational voice, speaking for and about French yuppies in their late 20s and early 30s.

Ellen Page is impetuous and funny as the smart - mouthed high school goofball who finds herself pregnant after the experimental seduction of her hopelessly smitten best friend Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera), then finds an adoptive yuppie couple for her baby in the Penny Saver: tightly wound professional Jennifer Garner and easygoing musician Jason Bateman.

As for all that hairdresser talk, clearly the past weighs heavily on the SLK name, much the same as the bad years of sissy BMW 3 - series» relationship with yuppie stockbrokers made it difficult to turn opinion when the 3 - series got its act together.

Throughout the 1980s, BMW became the unofficial poster car of yuppies, as the brand ostensibly signified one's financial success as well as a passion for driving.

With 300bhp in race trim, and close to 200bhp for the road - going homologation version, the BMW E30 M3 arrived just in time for the 1980s yuppie generation to idolise and aspire to.

It has become a status symbol for the upwardly mobile middle - management set, just as the original GTI came to represent the cash - rich «yuppie» over 30 years ago, and continues to thrive in spite of the charge of cars such as the Audi A3 and BMW 1 Series.

It curls around the western shore of a small lake just outside Algonquin Bay, Ontario, providing a pine - scented refuge for affluent families with young children, yuppies fond of canoes and kayaks, and an artful population of chipmunks chased by galumphing dogs.

Think the big grocery store or the yuppie farmer's market is the only place to trade your hard - earned cash for some apples?

After schools close off their campuses for the term break, and pilgrims have culminated their respective Lenten sojourns, coeds with no summer classes, as well as yuppies who...

This country is so self entitled and privileged when these arrogant yuppies demand nothing but AAA titles for free.