Sentences with word «jobsworth»

And jobsworths who pretend to believe something when they don't are harming all of us and the church because they make it harder for anyone to speak out.

Evidently he was exasperated at petty jobsworth restrictions - an experience many of us have had.

They were welcomed but they refused to talk about Brexit, attack Mrs May's disastrous handling of the dossier, or highlight the serious economic damage that will be done to London by leaving the single market and bringing in a new immigration control bureaucracy of Home Office jobsworths to make life miserable for anyone who wants to employ EU citizens.

None the less Branagh plays the sniveling jobsworth suit to a tee with his grovelling to the Prime Minister.

TV stalwarts Hynes, Tim Healy and Anne Reid also complement the various Myspace - selected newcomers, amongst whom Craig R. Wright makes a marvellously punchable impression as Richard's jobsworth boss.

My Indiana Jones period is over — these days, I identify more with the ultimate middle - management jobsworth: Agent Smith, writes Phil Hoad

The other characters are not skimped on either, ranging from a foul - mouthed Indian mechanic who serves as Zoe's boss through the brief stint in Arcadia with a reluctant jobsworth prison officer.

The overly - serious and slightly irritable jobsworth.

The first minute or so, we've all seen before — it's the face - off between Stiller, returning as Larry Daley, the security guard who can't help but surround himself with museum exhibits that come to life, and Jonah Hill as a jobsworth guard at the famous Smithsonian.

Toni Erdmann does a remarkable job balancing comedy with sadness, telling the story of a desperate father trying to reconnect with a jobsworth daughter.