Sentences with phrase «guffaws in»

Dialogue has always been Stillman's strong suit and he delivers quips, one liners, high brow jokes and (less successfully) low brow guffaws in spades.

«Me, doing that right there with the cameras is going to haunt me someday when I don't have a good round,» a smiling Spieth said to loud guffaws in the media center at Augusta National.

And there's Green, in manic Mommie Dearest mode, vamping it up in skimpy attire for her daughter's boyfriend, then leaning back to release a condescending guffaw in her husband's face.

Not exact matches

The centurion «witnesses Jesus» miserable death and guffaws, «Yeah, right, this guy was the Son of God,»» writes Brian K. Blount of Princeton Seminary in the book published in memory of Juel.

His reply drew a few guffaws from the gallery, but in Minnesota, home of the salt truck, the world's largest open - pit iron mine and the only governor to have mastered the sleeper hold, that sort of repartee would have had»em rolling in the snowbanks.

The soccer player finds himself applying parlor - game doublethink to opposing players hundreds of times in a single match, while thousands of eyes study the battle of wits, and their owners prepare to unloose a massive guffaw on the loser.

«They'd put»em in jail for tearing up, and then they'd tear up the jail,» Fleming recalls with a guffaw.

Before I had a chance to utter a syllable, the doctor in charge guffawed.

Were there no 15 - year - olds in the audience to at least guffaw at this?

Way too many straight, cisgender men have said this to me, in that elbow - to - ribs guffaw kind of voice people normally whip out at bachelor parties and trips to Hooters, when they'd see my son reach for my breasts when he was a slightly older baby.

Efforts to replace the Human Rights Act with a British bill of rights just resulted in a few guffaws from Clarke and Nick Clegg.

The commissioner drew guffaws and some heckles from the crowd when, in response to Councilman Corey Johnson's questions, he said chokeholds are not illegal and would not support legislation to make them illegal.

He harrumphed, guffawed, and a couple of times turned a full 90 degrees to give Faso a look of blazing blue - eyed decimation that must reduce folks in the attorney general's office to little puddles of fear.

Victoria Ayling, Ukip's parliamentary candidate for Great Grimsby in Lincolnshire, posed the rhetorical question during a Question Time - style debate in Cleethorpes this week, prompting «guffawing» from the audience, according to a local newspaper report.

A report in today's Times said Ball's team are known as the «pirates» due to the guffaws which can be heard coming from their office.

The move was greeted with skeptical guffaws from some members of New York's institutional left, who charge Cuomo has been absent from efforts to bring Democrats to control in the state Senate, and from the National Republican Congressional Committee.

Meanwhile, Gallo, who hardly broke a smile during the entire 90 - minute convention, shrugged off the outcome, charging «cronyism and nepotism» (the Nobles), something he says (to guffaws) that doesn't happen in his administration.

During an early screening of Roland Emmerich's latest disaster flick 2012, which opens today, laughter erupted in the audience near the end of the film thanks to corny dialogue and maudlin scenes (among the biggest guffaw getters: a father tries to reconnect with his estranged son on the telephone, only to have the son's house destroyed just before he could say anything).

If being creative and funny is valuable in courtship, then making others guffaw should be a priority for guys.

We even did some laughing yoga and their eyes shined bright as they threw their arms in the air, bounced around in a circle and guffawed with glee.

Every school has one; that perfectly coiffed dreamboat, yawning in maths lessons, loitering outside the school gates with a casual cigarette, coming up with fabulously dry excuses for forgetting their homework that have the whole class guffawing — did you ever actually have an extended conversation with that person?

Here, as in Apatow's TV series Freaks and Geeks (he executive produced creator Paul Feig's one - season wonder), a one - note title evolves into a 3 - D landscape of guffaws and awws.

Though there are a few chuckles to be had - mostly thanks to Vaughn's hilariously over-the-top performance - the film is curiously lacking in the guffaws department.

(Bradshaw's on - screen spouse, Kathy Bates, got guffaws - and groans - when she bared all in About Schmidt.

It's a nice break from our everyday ranting about Bush and Cheney, and get to guffaw over the absurdities of the war we are in, and the idiots that are running it.

territory, complete with the (occasional hard - guffaw) comedic touches we all hoped New Zealand director Taika Waititi («What We Do in the Shadows») would bring to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Marvel Studios had already beaten the odds by introducing the character in the impressively guffaw - free Thor and then integrating him into the broader Marvel - verse in The Avengers.

The casting of Van Sprang also generates guffaws, with his soldier recalling Ben Stiller in Tropic Thunder.

The plot by the writer (who also wrote the similarly scattershot The Judge) makes no sense, particularly in its final third, where it drops not one, not two, but three insanely illogical twists — one of which had the audience I saw the film with guffawing at the outrageousness of it all.

Also on the border between shock and guffaw were Aubrey Plaza and Jemaine Clement in An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn, the second film from the twisted brain of British absurdist Jim Hosking (The Greasy Strangler).

You may have marvelled at «George Washington», swooned at «All the Real Girls», guffawed at «Pineapple Express» and chuckled guiltily at «Your Highness», but only the most ardent of David Gordon Green apologists will find much to love in «The Sitter».

For all the talk of eccentricity, Day - Lewis didn't strike me as odd: just cheerfully, thoughtfully confident and a touch dandyish, turning up in biker leathers and guffawing about an affable beef he was having with director Stephen Frears (who launched him in 1985's My Beautiful Laundrette).

The action sequences are entertaining in the same guffaw - inducing vein as the Crank movies» over-the-top antics.

You probably shouldn't laugh but the inevitable reaction to some of the more pretentious dialogue in Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is a guffaw.

He shoulders the lion's share of responsibility (Burgundy is on - screen in almost every shot), and produces reams of guffaws just through the timbre of his voice or a cockeyed stare.

Gore and guffaws attend this very dark horror comedy in roughly equal measure.

While a scene in which Mark gets laxatives slipped into his drink draws out the sure guffaws for those who titter at bathroom humor, that scene is also the last laugh to be had for most of the viewing audience, who will likely grow impatient for the next 30 minutes wondering when the next big gag is going to come into play.

As it is, it is merely a good little comedy, filled with tee - hee moments, and no guffaws (save for a few Willard moments), but it could have also been an effective dramady in the vein of Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters.

In theory, this is a comedy, although the lack of guffaws, chuckles, or even simple smiles tells a completely different story.

Dan Stevens is a dream in the eponymous role, guiding us through Adam Wingard «s hallucinatory and unapologetically violent landscape with the cold - hard gusto of a seasoned pro, forcing smiles, guffaws, sneers and drop jaws in equal, calculated doses.

In others, as when he and Grahame catch an afternoon matinee of Ridley Scott's Alien, she takes the reins, loudly guffawing at all the stomach - bursting gore while Turner and the rest of the audience cower in frighIn others, as when he and Grahame catch an afternoon matinee of Ridley Scott's Alien, she takes the reins, loudly guffawing at all the stomach - bursting gore while Turner and the rest of the audience cower in frighin fright.

After the kidnappers have sex with bimbo prostitutes on twin beds in a roadhouse, all four of them are seen watching the Tonight Show together, which merits a sizable guffaw; then we cut to Marge beside her sleeping husband in their bedroom watching a nature documentary about insects, which produces only a titter.

Given the most common underlying factors for in - class funny business, a good guffaw is possibly the best first step to reaching an understanding with the clown.

Ten years ago, if someone told us a four - cylinder engine could haul around a well - equipped 1 / 2 - ton pickup, we'd have laughed in their face (or at least politely suppressed a guffaw).

Seamlessly integrating classic Wonder Woman lore with her own updated take, Bardugo fleshes out Diana's backstory and the mythology of Themyscira, adds in sly commentary on feminism and equality, and leavens the package with wry comedy — Diana's dour obliviousness to contemporary culture will make readers guffaw.

Maybe we should start by acknowledging that human beings are the only animal that laughs (though anthropomorphized animal characters in literature, like Freddy the Pig — you saw that coming — have been known to guffaw a time or two).

«Very good business,» she told me in her broken English with a guffaw.

When sculptor and art patron Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney chose to leave her Fifth Avenue mansion to work in a former 19th - century stable in 1907, much of the nation's high society guffawed; the Topeka Daily Capital even wrote, «Daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt Will Live in Dingy New York Alley.»

It's casting its stone a long way out, I feel, and the potential gains of this sort of endeavour, to deny the plane in abstract painting, is something that could and has been guffawed at, but I think is a really interesting and worthwhile thing to attempt.

I realize the AGW enthusiasts are probably guffawing at such a paltry contribution for mans evil over the last half century but I find the logic inescapable until the AGW crowd can explain these variations it seems to me to be the most plausible argument that it is 1/4 of the contribution in the latter half of the 20th century meaning of course that the total change expected this century would be possibly another 0.4 C change from CO2 even if we continue on the course we are on today and double CO2 by 2100.