To me,
good sleaze hits just the right notes between bizarre, silly, and exploitative.
Not exact matches
Ms Rudd predicted that the wave of
sleaze allegations sweeping Westminster would lead to a positive «clear - out» which would leave Parliament and the Government in
better shape.
They have betrayed England they have betrayed the poor of England and the sooner we seen the back of this
sleaze ridden Labour Government run by a Scottish Cabal that hates the English the
better.
If that bloc loses, Nigeria may
well be on to some redemption; for the state would have institutionalised punishing prebendal
sleaze, more or less a sickly norm, evidenced by Saraki's continued resent of his lawful trial for alleged
sleaze.
But Gani, famous loner often at his
best when acting solo, cut to the chase: this was humongous, nation - ruining
sleaze, not to be deodorised by any legalistic cant.
Okay, I'll admit it: I'm a sucker for a
good parody — especially one that mixes legislative politics with just the right amount of
sleaze.
Silver may
well be a thief and a
sleaze.
Hours after Media Matters for America named Sean Hannity its 2008 Misinformer of the Year for promoting and embellishing a vast array of false and misleading claims about President - elect Barack Obama and attacking members of Obama's family, as
well as Sen. Hillary Clinton and other progressives, Hannity announced during the December 17 broadcast of his radio show that Media Matters was the «winner» of «our first - ever Left - Wing Obamamania Media Propaganda
Sleaze Award.»
First of all, the casting for the series was brilliant - Greg Kinnear was as
good a JFK as you could hope for, the perfect balance of vulnerability, presence and
sleaze - and although she's received a lot of flak, mostly due to events that have nothing to do with the series - Katie Holmes, at moments, truly owns the role of Jackie Kennedy.
For instance, first the Little Miss Perfect virgin Corey (Liv Tyler, still wearing her schoolgirl outfit from the Aerosmith video «Crazy») has her plan to offer herself to
sleaze idol Rex Manning (a typecast Maxwell Caulfield) blow up in her face, then Corey's
best male friend, A.J. (Johnny Whitworth), ruins what they have by telling her he loves her, then the filmmakers decide, out of the blue and halfway through the film at this point, that Corey is addicted to diet pills.
But it comes incredibly close and may
well be one of the most intense, hyperactive and mesmerising cinematic explorations of shallowness and
sleaze.
The goofy, off - kilter riff on LA
sleaze fits within a genre highlighted by
better films like Paul Thomas Anderson's Thomas Pinchon adaptation, The Coen's The Big Lebowski or Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye (Renny Harlin's The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, too, but whether that was superior is a maybe).
Michael Kenneth Williams makes his small - scale drug captain Malik a fascinating character, who despite being
sleaze, unexpectedly releases some of the tension with some
well - timed humor.
With a lead performance that is muted to a fault, a lighting scheme set permanently on
sleaze and jarring scene shifts between depraved violence and,
well Thai karaoke, you can certainly say it is a work of singular vision.
No
sleaze, no decadence, no egomaniac posing — this might have been the most
well - behaved Oscar ceremony ever.
It is instead more concerned with Gervais» character trying to woo Jennifer Garner's vapid character who is intent on marrying a
good - looking
sleaze ball (Rob Lowe - who else?).
The
best thing about this is Billy Zane, who plays a sleazy defense attorney, with the emphasis on
sleaze.
Schumacher is
good at showing you the
sleaze, but he's not as
good at evoking a feeling of dread, or twisting the knot in your stomach.
When it comes to Cherry Darling, the gun - legged hero of Robert Rodriguez's paean to
sleaze «Planet Terror,» it's
best not to ask too many questions.
Ray Liotta's appearance as Kuklinski's ringleader boss Roy is unsurprising but appropriate — the man does criminal
sleaze so very
well.
Basically, Nisekoi is too predictable, telegraphs all its jokes way too soon, and just doesn't have the heart (or, alternately, the
sleaze) to be a
good rom - com.
And yet, as the New Labour government knows only too
well, one must be whiter than white oneself for accusations of political
sleaze not to come back to haunt you.
The office
sleaze; usually married with children (that he conveniently remembers after the fact) occasionally divorced if the little woman has had the
good sense to go through his credit card bills and get lawyered up.