The word
"killjoy" refers to a person who ruins the fun or joy of others by being negative or discouraging.
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Such killjoys could include anti-trust or other negative government action, stockholder disapproval, withholding of tax rulings, etc... However, the predictability coupled with a short holding period produces quite decent annual rates of return.
But she got this really sad look on her face and I realized that I was being a
real killjoy.
Much of the fun comes from «Star Wars's» new cowboy pilot, Oscar Isaacs's Poe Dameron, and his tussles
with killjoy rebel leaders Leia and a vice admiral played by Laura Dern, who should be in every movie.
The only thing standing between thirsty New Yorkers and a Sunday morning bloody mary or mimosa is an upstate
killjoy who is making a last - ditch effort to stop a bill allowing Sunday alcohol sales before noon.
In this new series by Shaun Simon, co-writer (with Gerard Way) of The True Lives of the
Fabulous Killjoys, and legendary artist Michael Allred (iZOMBIE), art not only imitates life,...
It keeps it cool and concealed
from killjoys, and saves you from lugging around a bag of ice.
Pennsylvania isn't the only
killjoy on the list, though.
In the comics, Ghost, who began as an Iron Man villain (Ghost really doesn't like corporations and grasping tycoons) has been male, but Ant - Man and the Wasp cast
Killjoys actress Hannah John - Kamen in the role.
In this week's episode, the Feminist
Frequency Killjoys (call us, Marvel) unleash a torrent of opinions about Netflix's Jessica Jones, from its complicated wrestling with trauma to the ways in which people of color are often used as narrative tools in the service of white women's healing.
Philips got rather huffy when Feedback, in typical
killjoy fashion, counted the bits on the two pages and found that the numbers were not just a little out, but completely and utterly wrong.
Lynskey is a luminous counterpoint to Phillips's energetic earthiness, but they can't lift a story with so
much killjoy ballast.
Hutton gives Kragen more depth than the standard antagonist
killjoy so the film doesn't get bogged down with him trying to uncover Georgia's secret.
Frankly, with McDonald's chasing an older demographic than in the past (thanks, clown -
hating killjoys), McDonald's would be wise to make a deal with a tomato sauce manufacturer who still calls it «catsup,» something the old - timers who drink coffee at McDonald's will love.
Yet there persists a widespread belief that etiquette arose from the desire of
Victorian killjoys to ruin private pleasures, to quash the freedoms achieved during the Enlightenment, and to enhance the power of rich snobs over the proletariat.
There are the stereotypes:
shrill killjoys, man - haters, angry nasty women, and rabid abortion - pushers, terrifying some of us on cable news programs, deriding motherhood and homemaking.
God isn't a
cosmic killjoy orchestrating a wide variety of near - misses with the love of your life.
When we think of the New England Puritans who gave to us Thanksgiving, we tend to run to predictable nouns,
including killjoy and prude.
Rightly or wrongly, the news will fuel the public perception of evangelical Christians as narrow - minded,
homophobic killjoys.
Yeah, I'm an
old killjoy curmudgeon, but this whole thing just seems off to me.
For example, Sara Shettleworth, a psychologist at the University of Toronto in Canada, argued in a widely cited 2010 article entitled, «Clever animals and
killjoy explanations in comparative psychology,» that the zookeepers and researchers who observed Santino's stone - throwing over the course of a decade had not seen him gathering the stones, and thus could not know why he originally starting doing so.
Far from being close -
minded killjoys, most scientists in the «never aliens» camp desperately want to be convinced otherwise.
She is a
regular killjoy about fashion trends, but even she might think you look great in that blue jacket.
Swingtown is far from a great show, but until it feels obligated to
give killjoy lip service to the downside of sexual freedom — note the transformation on Molly Parker's postcoital face at the end of the pilot — here's hoping it has its chance to be rompish and fun and a pain in the side of standards and practices.
I was excited to
see Killjoys actress Hannah John - Kamen on the cast list, and I hope that what little we do see of her is good and Bechdel - Wallace Test worthy.
Particularly given the years she spent playing Britta on Community (who was often written as a no -
fun killjoy), it's great to see her back in college, this time with friends who actually like her.
Universal Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is
releasing Killjoys: Season 1 — available on Digital now and on Blu - ray and DVD...
Ferris Bueller's Day Off Year: 1986 Director: John Hughes John Hughes» zeitgeist - y, fourth wall - busting ode to rich, entitled suburban youth
vs. killjoy authority announced Matthew Broderick as a bona fide star, and gave us a chillingly prescient glimpse at Charlie Sheen's future in an admittedly funny bit role.
Killjoys star Hannah John - Kamen will be joining Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly for Marvel Entertainment's Ant - Man and the Wasp when it's released on July 6, 2018.
Soon, he has stolen her affections from crusty economics professor Phillip Barbay (Paxton Whitehead, whose real name conjures a much stronger mental picture of a snivelling,
overprivileged killjoy), leading the doctor to launch a campaign for Thornton's expulsion.
Jimmy's old rival, Father Sheridan (Jim Norton), is presented as a
crotchety killjoy, determined to squash the spirit of these unruly rebels, who are in truth very, very wholesome.
One can either come off like a Mr. Skin - subscribing pervert or a repressed,
prudish killjoy.
There's still promise, even if casting Hawn as a
homebody killjoy is no one's real idea of fun.
Research shows that the
more killjoy thoughts people have in response to a personal achievement, the less they tend to enjoy it and the sooner their enjoyment fades.
«The few embittered voices who will try to deny these youngsters their success will clearly be seen for the politically
motivated killjoys they are.
The engine responds instantly to the gas pedal — much appreciated, considering that too many performance cars
incur killjoy accelerator lag — and the pedals sit close enough for easy rev matching.
This is great news and of course
then killjoys have to try to kill my buzz.
Quitting matches in League Play is punished harshly, by the way, as Treyarch doesn't want highly
skilled killjoys to be able to drop down to the lower leagues and mess up anyone else's experience.
Killjoy Collective — in a special collaboration with curator Julia Greenway and Disjecta Contemporary Art Center — are proud to present Safety in Numbers, a performance and installation by Jono Vaughan.