Sentences with word «harridan»

The word "harridan" refers to a fierce, bossy, or unpleasant woman, typically someone who is aggressive or nagging. Full definition
He sets off on foot, defiant in the face of harridan wife Kate (June Squibb, brilliant) and worried sons David (Will Forte) and Ross (Bob Odenkirk), until finally David, a home sound - system salesman, agrees to drive Woody from Billings to deep in the heart of Huskerville.
Minerva Urecal was active up until the early»60s, when she enjoyed some of the most sizeable roles of her career, notably the easily offended Swedish cook in Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962) and the town harridan who is turned to stone in Seven Faces of Dr. Lao (1964).
Nobody in the sleepy town of Verplanck, New York, mourns when the town harridan, Mona Dearly (Midler), drives her Yugo into the Hudson and drowns.
His son, Dave (Will Forte), a stereo salesman whose girlfriend has just walked out on him, is exasperated with the old man but, unlike Woody's harridan wife, Kate (June Squibb), he's also sympathetic.
He also has good chemistry both with the impressive young Mckenna Grace and with old hand Duncan, who can play this sort of superior harridan in her sleep (this is slightly reminiscent of her scintillatingly chilly turn in Birdman).
I've always been a firm believer that you get out of these apps what you put into them, so I had a good... myth that women become shriveled harridans after 30 couldn't be further from the truth.
She should have been a comic harridan, rather than an average, pleasant - looking lady, and we see her affections cruelly manipulated.
Women are either cruel harridans (who, of course, get a nasty comeuppance in the third act), desperately clingy harpies, single - minded eating machines used for a gross - out joke (fat women only), or trophies for the male protagonist once he learns his lesson.
Every blowsy harridan who ever beset W.C. Fields; character actresses like Gale Sondergaard or Minna Gombell, who could always be counted on to make big trouble in»30s films; even Lucile LaVerne, the moustached hag who made the Gish sisters» lives hell in Orphans of the Storm and served as the model for the witch in Disney's Snow White - none of these is an evil patch on Midler here.
In the far too few scenes in which we see her play a shrill, nasty, zaftig, white trash harridan, she steals the show — and it's no stretch at all to imagine why anyone (or everyone) would want to kill her — which brings me to the second point.
The story begins on the wedding day of Kate (Eva Longoria Parker) and her affianced, Henry (Paul Rudd) with the would - be bride in full - bore harridan mode, turning the caterers» day into wedding bell hell.
He uses feminism as a plot device, depicting the women as braying harridans and broad caricatures rather than exploring feminism itself.
Mind you, the reader has been inculcated by Scott to believe that Envy is an insufferable harridan.
The immiserated bride (played by an unknown Frances McDormand in the original) is now a sneering harridan (Yan Yi); her once - taciturn lover, a mincing clown (Xiao Shenyang).
Dating the same smirky harridan for the past six years, veterinarian Grace (Maura Tierney), Handy doesn't know that Grace is desperate to be married to his remarkably irritating self, and so when ex-President Monroe Cole (Gene Hackman) starts making the moves, Grace accepts.
Why reproduction would appeal to either Jason or Julie is unclear, given that their once fun - loving friends have all been turned into either bitter drunks or frumpy harridans by the experience of parenthood.
I feel like a lumbering harridan in comparison.
Whilst a problem shared is a problem halved, she clearly wasn't overjoyed at the prospect of sharing hers with a bleeding, screeching harridan.
Even if you are extremely reclusive you still have your mother, or possibly the old harridan down the street that is thrilled every time you kick the neighbor's yappy poodle.
(Her parents help here — her mother vacillates wildly between sweet adoring wife and jealous harridan, and it's noted Morita got her reticence from her upbringing.)
«Strong - minded» women were widely caricatured as carping harridans.
Are they, almost without exception, sad fat old men with incipient heart disease, borderline alcoholism, harridan ex-spouses and much younger partners only interested in them for the bank account?
The third act gets a little too flag - wavy for this viewer, but there's no denying that Gyllenhaal and Maslany are superb in their roles; Miranda Richardson has a tougher job playing Bauman's harridan mother, a tough - minded barfly determined to protect her son, but she pulls it off.
The supporting cast is a thing of wonder — there are familiar faces like Dickens, Fugit, and Perry all pushed to greatness, with Missi Pyle perfect as the film's version of harridan - for - justice Nancy Grace, Neil Patrick Harris elegantly worrisome as on old suitor of Amy's, and Carrie Coon («The Leftovers») a revelation as Nick's loving, tough sister Margot.
It is a jarring shock to discover Elizabeth is portrayed as a high maintenance, loud - mouthed, harridan who made life hell for all around her.
Michael Howard was nothing like the sinister, uncaring figure of media lore, while I have always found Harriet Harman funnier and more worldly than her harridan image allows.
The script, by Baker and Chris Bergoch, is essentially an old - fashioned stage farce — complete with a harridan mother - in - law and a big ending commotion — spread out over several miles of city and transposed into a social stratum that's somewhere below the bottom.
But it is Janney who steals every scene she's in, as LaVona, a harridan whose noodging goes well beyond tough love.
Now Gail (Sex in the City's Cynthia Nixon in her patented pragmatist role) is a bit of a harridan, a pal more than a lover.
The only other women in the picture are idiot passengers and their harridan mothers, or single moms and their squalling infants, or Anna Gunn's NTSB wonk, who is almost as hateful as Mike O'Malley's NTSB wonk.
The praise was largely glowing for Janney's turn as Tonya Harding's mother, LaVona Golden, a harridan with a sharp tongue and, at times, a parakeet on her shoulder.
I caught up with Geoffrey Rush, one of my favorite actors, promoting his new film, The Eye of the Storm, where he plays a hammy Australian performer who decamped years before to London's West End to escape his harridan mother, played by Charlotte Rampling.
And Nebraska does itself few favors with tired shticks, like deadpan gags around local yokels, and the characterization of Woody's wife Kate (June Squibb of About Schmidt) as a harridan who, at one point, «shocks» the audience by talking dirty.
The son of a lawyer (Brett Rice, channelling Ned Beatty) and a harridan (Clara Jones), Bobby, because he was sickly, irritatingly fey, and dangerously over-protected as a child, becomes a great golfer, and, taking a moment to marry Nurse Grimace (Claire Forlani) while at Georgia Tech, continues onwards in his quest to become the first man in history to win the PGA's four major tournaments in one calendar year «Grand Slam.»
Gwendolyn is painted as such a harridan that she even intimidates some of the male authority figures at school, including a wimpy soccer coach (J.J. Watt) and an indifferent principal (Wendell Pierce).
I doubt I'd even do this except my harridan of a sister is making it so - and I'm sort of at my wits»...» She shakes her head sourly.
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