Sentences with word «grift»

The Mark Inside by Amy Reading takes us inside the world of grifting and one of the slickest scams in history outside of Wall Street.

In order to separate from her unfaithful husband, Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne takes her children across the continental U.S. and the Atlantic to study art in Europe.

This historical romance follows the unlikely love affair of the author Robert Louis Stevenson and the strong - willed American Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne.

Klei, the makers of the brutal yet endlessly addictive Don't Starve and Don't Starve Together, has just unveiled its long - teased new IP, a sci - fi RPG called Grift Lands.

This is the exact kind of easy grift scared people would fall prey to on a massive scale, and it doubles as an appealing gameplay facet.

It's not my fault they're too dumb to beware of geeks bearing grifts.

The release also comes with a limited edition booklet that includes: «Jim Thompson, Noir, and the Popular Front», an essay by David Cochran, and «Elmer Bernstein: Grit not Grift», a review of the legendary composer's career by Charlie Brigden.

Those guys in the lower leagues are seasoned hard grifting professionals as well.

Brady's insistence in recent years that he'll play into his 40s stems from his relationship with Guerrero, his various training and lifestyle methods, and, as our own Matt Ufford called it, the «pseudoscientific grift» that Brady and Guerrero have built into a lifestyle business.

Miss the big grift?

Tom Wolf stopped short of saying that he would veto this, which raises the question of whether some polluter grift got horse - traded for Republican budget votes.

Even if we're not actively grifting, many of us have our own experience with trying to dress for a different role.

Lesmills grift.

Phil Wenneck (Bradley Cooper) is totally disenchanted with marriage and fatherhood, spends his days grifting cash out of the prep school boys he teaches, and generally whines on and on about how his life sucks.

A masterfully smooth grift that's built on golden - age savvy but never feels like a rose - tinted throwback.

Meanwhile, Javert and Valjean play cat and mouse and Cosette's unsavory former guardians conspicuously attempt to grift everyone within spitting distance.

Addie isn't as dumb and innocent as you'd think of a girl her age though and it soon becomes clear that she can teach Moses a thing or two about grifting.

And she shares some of her own backstory, about how her dad parked her at a school while he went off grifting on his own — and then yanked her out of school right before a dance that she was looking forward to (ScreenRant).

The film is perfectly willing to revel in its lead's pathetic tendencies, concentrating on the process of his various grifts.

Director Stephen Frears» bleak but very stylish neo-noir about a family that grifts together and sticks together is a far cry from all that holiday / togetherness stuff, which can sometimes be a tad saccharine for our tastes.

Happy with small - time grifts, he finds himself stuck in - between his girlfriend (Annette Bening), who wants him to go big time, and his mother (Anjelica Huston) who wants him to get out.

However, this post isn't intended to be an exegesis on the professional responsibility rules and whether this standard is appropriate or whether Ogden was just expressing a hyperbolic opinion or stating that the judge was grifting from the estate.

Ms Grift estimated up to 30,000 students had accessed the site, after it launched its free trial mid last year.

Kids News editor Karina Grift said the site came about due to a reported need among primary teachers for a sale online resource that explained the news in an age - appropriate way.

Get a load of that Apple-esque packaging, which grifts the iPhone's retail appearance down to the font.

Nagle is big on titles — not just «Lotta Wattage» but «Centaur Of Attention,» «Skin Grift,» «Lamb Shank Redemption.»

Climate Change grifting snake oil you're drinking and selling: «Climate Change: The Facts» Edited by Alan Moran.

There's the possibility of so much grifting, as people figure out how to game the system by enrolling shadow students and collecting federal aid.

If you're wondering whether there's room for grift if these transactions move further from the blockchain, so were we.

But Facebook recently banned all cryptocurrency ads for frequently being associated with financial grifts, and numerous high - profile scams have scared many newcomers away from the space.

With a unique art style that's part The Banner Saga, part comic series Saga, Grift Lands looks to contain a galaxy - crossing story with side - on team - based and turn - based combat.

This is the story of Robert Louis Stevenson's courtship and subsequent life with Fanny van de Grift Osbourne.

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«Geeks bearing grifts,» huh?

No golden plates, no chariots and steel and horses in ancient America, and the Temple in Salt Lake City is the center of the grift universe!»

This is an important position because somebody has got the grift those foreigners for the billions that are needed to keep the Kushner & Trump real estate empire above water.

Deborah Van de Grift, CPC, PCC - iPEC Coaching, Owner / VP

But that can't be said about his breakout film, in which he plays a gay con artist lying and grifting his way into the lives of Donald Sutherland and Stockard Channing's upper - crust New Yorkers.

With some help from his grifting girlfriend Jezebel (Roselyn Sanchez), Hudson sets a plan into motion that will draw Cue Ball Carl and crooked cop Timothy Mortensen into a dangerous confrontation, but if the plan doesn't go just as planned Hudson might not live long enough to call his next shot.

Like those films, Nine Queens runs its themes deeper than just the grift to focus on such issues as trust, family and moral bankruptcy, which are the main struggles a person in the game confronts himself with on a daily basis.

The script is all over the place trying to make commentary on the morals of what this grift does to the participants... both those on the inside and the targets themselves.

Its central characters are shysters; they live on the wrong side of the law, fleece the innocent and, like addicts, remain locked in a cycle of risk and repeat, trapped by the thrill of the grift.

He isn't looking for any new recruits, until young Jess (Margot Robbie) impresses him with her grifting skills and her eagerness to move into the big leagues.

Despite the fact that they have to barely scrape by to live, with the mother turning all sorts of tricks and grifts to make ends meet, the innocence of a day in the life of a little girl is marvelous to behold.

Also: Milla Jovovich is a grifting single mother in «Bringing Up Bobby»; it's time to go medieval on some folks in the epic «Solomon Kane»; and Mira Sorvino battles global child exploitation in «Trade of Innocents.»

A veteran of slight - of - hand, Nicky (Will Smith) makes the classic mistake of falling for his protégé Jess (Margot Robbie), unfortunately for Nicky, dropping the ball in the midst of a grift can get you killed.

Recommended for lovers of neo-noir, Mamet, and those who can't get enough of the grift.