Sentences with phrase «jokel yokel»

Pawlenty's strategy was pandering to party's base on the idea that they were a bunch of angry and ignorant yokels.

Jon Huntsman ran against his own party on the idea that the GOP base was a bunch of angry and ignorant yokels.

Religious beliefs, Jewish or Christian, that are God - centered are considered beyond the pale of good taste in their eyes and are subscribed to only by «yokels» and «morons» of either faith.

A number of Christians in academia share McGrath's confidence that only yokels think science can discredit religion.

All I have to do is say «Bill Ayers» or «liberal media» or any of the usual yokel - chummer phrases, and they howl and rage and earn me lots of advertiser dollars.

It gets votes from rubes and yokels.

Well this will get the yokels all chummed up.

«The War On Christmas» was invented by republicans to get the yokels all worked up.

Fundamentalism in America is not simply an expression of backward yokels.

Sometimes it takes two dumbass yokels running onto the field with there tweety bird boxer shorts muffin topping over there beltless jeans to give your franchise the spark it needs to be a true competitor.

Just hundreds of midwest yokels blathering about their least favorite roads.

With razor - sharp intellect, he was Plato's philosophical king looming over his commune of bemused country yokels.

He was no yokel; but in his excitement, prancing and skipping, he yodelled like one.

The local yokel Dems don't seem to give a FART either — at least one of whom was trained by my mother (I apologize for my mother here, but I did not pick her as my mother, truth be told!)

Local yokels included the usual suspects, none of whom have had notable success in promoting grass - roots economic development, except for restaurants, drug stores and gas - station makeovers.

Spitzer's error was personal the rest of those upstate yokels nonsense is all political because they are so greedy for power.

He said that the country should ignore the «chinless foxhunters, straw - sucking yokels and whinging farmers».

A Tory candidate was left red - faced today after it emerged he once described the countryside as being full «chinless foxhunters, straw - sucking yokels and whinging farmers».

Tory Peter Heaton - Jones said rural constituencies were populated by «chinless foxhunters, straw - sucking yokels and whinging farmers»

And yet, despite being the best at what you do, that yokel up on the bridge with six or eight lines dropped into the water ends up with the better catch.

They are literally so on point that I felt like some kind of a yokel next to them.

After Phil, Stu, and Alan are arrested for stealing a police cruiser, Officers Franklin (Rob Riggle) and Garden (Cleo King) tell the boys that they are intimately familiar with their type, yokels who come to town all «Vegas!

, judgment, which seems to be just what the yokels ordered.

That's the uneducated yokel's problem.

By 1939, he not only appeared in the career defining role of Senator Jefferson Smith in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, but also offered up his familiar shy and sly country yokel with much on the ball «persona» in his first Western, the hilarious Destry Rides Again.

Every yokel in town is thought of as either stupid or a shady character.

Hopper's two hog - riding, inverted American dreamers are indiscriminately gunned down by passing yokels, presumably affronted by their long hair.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS The Amateurs (R for sex and expletives) Bawdy comedy about a bunch of local yokels in a small town in Middle America who come up with the bright idea of making a porno movie.

At times, the local population can skew too quirky (Sean Harris as a perpetually filthy yokel is a bit much) but the familial drama central to the story keeps things grounded thanks to the strong performances of Fassbender, Gleeson, Marshal and newcomer Smith.

Oscar Diggs (James Franco) is a womanizing carnival magician with a Bucky Beaver smile and an ego outsized for the two - bit show he and his wary assistant (Zach Braff) shill to the Kansas yokels.

Driven is also exceedingly weird, an absurd series of interchangeable events narrated by an excessive amount of dateline subtitles (that linger on the screen a beat too long, in deference to the key demographic), and a pair of sports commentators who function not so much as a Greek chorus but as a couple of backwoods yokels sitting behind you trying unsuccessfully to explain the film to each other.

The only things keeping Dawn of the Dead from soaring are a quartet of characters (the doomed dad, the slut, the slack - jawed yokel, the cross-dressing émigré) who function as distracting padding — and the sort of squeamishness in regards to hardcore gore that our culture of creeping sanctimony has made par for the course since the grand guignol of the original.

A Marine's Story (Unrated) «Don't ask - don't tell» drama based on actual events in the life of a returning Iraq War veteran (Dreya Weber) who encounters intolerance in her conservative hometown when the local yokels learn that she was forced to retire from the military for same - sex conduct unbecoming an officer.

The Last Song (PG for mature themes, violence, sensuality and mild epithets) Coming - of - age drama revolving around a rebellious, 17 year - old prodigy (Miley Cyrus) sent by her divorced mother (Kelly Preston) to spend the summer with her estranged father (Greg Kinnear) in an island resort town where she prceeds to fall in love with a local yokel (Liam Hemsworth) while mending fences and making beautiful music with her dad.

The story centers on two small - town yokels from upstate New York, tricked into opening a barbershop in the big city that a gangster could use as a front for his speakeasy.

But by the time the third local yokel makes the same crack, it becomes the canary in the coalmine of a tonally incoherent dark - comedy - drama that doesn't have a clue how to manage its weighty themes and discordant plot.

Bubba, a mentally challenged man in a small town, befriends a little girl named Marylee, and when she's attacked by a dog, four yokels who've apparently read Of Mice and Men one too many times assume Bubba is to blame.

As it stands, it is a fairly enjoyable romp with a bunch of yokels, complete with their inevitable screw ups and misunderstandings.

Burton and screenwriter Jonathan Gems (White Mischief, The Treat) also send up, quite broadly, Washington DC, military brass, Vegas lounges acts, local yokels, and various news sources, but do so in ways that are either too obvious or too over-spoofed to stand out on their own.

Having spent my entire life so far in the frozen tundra of Minnesota, I'm admittedly biased when I say that Fargo is Joel and Ethan Coen's best film to date outside of, perhaps, the comparably tight and bloody No Country for Old Men — which, come to think of it, also boils down to yokels and scary mute motherfuckers chasing down a briefcase full of cash.

Sully's a good ol' boy, and he seems to regard the members of his tiny community, love»em or not, as extended family: the one - legged lawyer he plays poker with (Gene Saks), the slow - witted yokel who's his best friend (Pruitt Taylor Vince), the boss» unappreciated wife who flirts with him (Melanie Griffith), even the too - prim ex - wife (Elizabeth Wilson) he abandoned so long ago.

Luckily, they befriend another kid, Haley (Lewis, Foxfire), who helps them to gain enough money to keep them on their way, using Jimmy's prodigious skills at playing video games to hustle the local yokels for quick and easy cash.

His unhappy but devoted trophy wife (Elizabeth Banks) tries to help, and the local yokel sheriff (Nathan Fillion) snaps into action.

And whether due to radiation (The Hills Have Eyes) or just good old determined inbreeding (Wrong Turn and so, so many films you're better off not knowing about), the yokel - prone in film have really enjoyed slaughtering innocent families on vacation, travelers deficient in basic map usage skills and, best of all, sexually active college students just looking for a good time.

I always associate Walton Goggins with yokel henchmen types, so I didn't quite buy him as a villain.

As with most shows dealing with the expansive drug trade, there is of course a «bad cop» (Agent Roy Petty, who I still can't decide if he's a sociopath or just extremely damaged), the omnipresent cartel boss (played by Esai Morales, who can challenge Jason Bateman in a «why doesn't he ever age» contest), mysterious and helpful locals with unknown motives, and a family of slow - talking, brutally violent yokels who traffic heroin.

(p. 5) Tyack & Cuban: «In the firm belief that they were the trustees of the public interest, superintendents and other policy elites of the first half of the century tended to dismiss their opponents as ignorant or self - interested... They regarded the rural foes of school consolidation as backward yokels who did not know what was good for their children.»

We've had enough with the «experts» telling us yokels what is good for us.

I spent last winter hauling yokels out of ditches with my F - 950, brute strength, and bare American hands!

After all, any yokel who happens to be sitting on a pile of cash — thanks to a trust fund or windfall inheritance — can throw it at a house.