Sentences with phrase «killjoy who»

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.

Let them eat till they're sick or be a killjoy who runs around confiscating a child's Reese's Cups?

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On Being Awesome contains useful advice for dealing with people who suck - people who are wack, lame, killjoys, blowhards, braggarts, or thunder stealers, among other things.»

Entrepreneurs who are trying to build a startup should actively talk with a killjoy or two to sharpen their thinking writes W.P. Carey's Kerri Susan Smith.

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.

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.

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.

In fact, real life is bad in The Greatest Showman universe: It's full of snobs and killjoys and realists, who are lined up alongside bigots who protest the circus because it is «an abomination» and critics who sniff at what goes on in the ring because it «isn't art.»

As Bobby, Willem Dafoe underplays this character not as a killjoy but a decent, ordinary man who employs a set of guidelines and expectations for running his business.

«The few embittered voices who will try to deny these youngsters their success will clearly be seen for the politically motivated killjoys they are.

Could the same idea apply to the killjoys at Amazon who so cruelly made the $ 199 Amazon Kindle Fire HD less of an e-book machine and more of a billboard and cash register?