Sentences with phrase «kind of a joke at»

It seems to me that part time is kind of a joke at most law firms, medium to large firms anyway.

Not exact matches

Fortune journalist Carol Loomis used to joke that there were only two kinds of stories at Fortune: «Oh, the glory of it!»

«He was rolling on the floor laughing at his own jokes, and I thought, That is my kind of guy — I do the same thing,» Buffett says.

At any rate, for a bad joke to be the good news is the kind of absurdly hopeful reversal (as in Jesus» wittier parables) that we find often in this surprisingly funny book.

While the apostle Paul doesn't strike me as the kind of person who'd crack a joke or offer a sarcastic quip in a tight situation, he does share this ability to look positively at a crisis situation.

I remember when the first season of Serial was at its high point that Best Buy put out a tweet referencing something about the pay phone at Best Buy — where one of the calls was supposed to have been made — in kind of a joking way.

Kind of like taking a flag and shoving it down every other counties throat because in a nations own diluted mind they think they are the best, when on the world stage they are looked at like a joke.

To laugh at the world's absurdities implies an «acceptance of incomprehensibility,» and this acceptance is a kind of religious affirmation, Such jokes offer a way of being reconciled to the creation and the Creator even as one expresses anger or despair at God's world.

Lunch is kind of a joke when I'm at Alchemy.

At some point of time these jokes really must him in the head and think for a minute with kind of disadvantage United without champions league and Arsenal with no transfer target realistically.

«He was kind of joking but he was basically like, «Would you like to come eat with me at the dining hall?»

So with the newborn I had no clue it is just all left off my brain as to how to do a latch correctly and all that so that was a little surprising with having a second one but I kind of [inaudible] goals out the window with my second because I knew I had gone three years at that point was my first that it was just like you know I would just nurse as long as she wants to nurse and you know whatever happens, happens, I'm fine and we joked because my second was much more independent we joked that she would've wean more sooner than her older sister which almost happened because my oldest nurse for almost 5 years.

At that level, the clown joke is kind of funny.

The kind of laugh that turns people's heads in wonder at what was so funny and maybe wish that they'd heard the joke, too.

^ Well, that's the message the Western medical literature has been repeating for about 70 years, and looking at Loren Cordain fat belly, I think the «you'll be screwed for including any animal products» - pitch is spot on... okay jokes aside, the point was that there's no chance in a million year that blog is something what would be referred as «health blog», this is more like some kind of a Lierre Keith - style, anti-vegan blog which tries to be scientific.

I mean, it just really promotes self - love, LOL, and of course I'm joking in a really nice, always laugh at your jokes kind of way.

fun to be with kind of a jokester, at times but its ok I to have my friends play jokes on me too.

On this kind of evening everything has gone to plan - she laughed at all your jokes — even the bad ones — and you shared a modest, but magical, kiss goodnight.

Here are the kinds of joke that you should avoid at all cost.

This kind of joke is not funny at all.

I Feel Pretty is presenting itself as the kind of film that reveals how ugly we are for laughing at body - related stereotypes, but then why make those your jokes?

It's the kind of movie one can't really gauge by the usual standards, just by how funny you find it, and opinions will widely vary depending on the viewer's aptitude to laugh at pot humor and crude bathroom and sex jokes of the most outrageous variety.

He gave a rather rambunctious intro, joking about how he should've won the Palme last year, but later going on to say that introducing this was a kind of closure for him, because when he was 14 he saw this at the Cinema Village in NY and it made him want to be a director.

Its greatest crime isn't that its one joke is tiresome from the thirty - minute mark on, it's that at the end of the day the picture doesn't particularly convince as a romance, tickle as a comedy, or score as a satire of any kind.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

While the members of the Broken Lizard comedy group retain their likability, and there's something kind of endearing about the disjointed, throw - everything - at - the - wall, «Caddyshack» type chaos behind the comedy, there are simply too many dead spots and cheap jokes and flat gags to carry a full - length feature.

Complete with jabs at social - media marketing, this is one of the film's few extended jokes likely to go over the collective heads of very young auds, but it's the kind of absurdly exaggerated everyday detail — complete with the repurposing of familiar gadgetry — on which Aardman's comic brand is built.

Upon its release in 1974 this low - budget work, the only film in Peckinpah's long career over which he was allowed final cut, tanked at the box office — and merely invoking its title has since become a kind of joke, whether in Michael Ritchie's 1985 film Fletch or BBC Radio's «I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue».

The movie is such a massive decline that it must be some kind of joke on the part of any combination of director Paul Weitz (perhaps a subversive plan to kill a franchise he was not a fan of with his first (and let us hope only) entry), writers John Hamburg and Larry Stuckey (the former, maybe, enjoying steady work with the series after the success of the first movie; the latter possibly assuming he could coast on the coattails of his partner), and / or the cast (if we go with the hypothetical assault on the audience's sense of dignity, no doubt laughing themselves silly at the sight of the paycheck).

That really was the kind of joke Leno was doing at 11:30 so Dave was politically accurate down to the media.

Mistress America, however, lacks the emotional pull of While We're Young; it's a looser but more disposable entertainment, and while Gerwig and Baumbach remain masters at penning hilarious bon mots, they've failed to supply their joke - machine narrative with the kind of prickly, complicated characters that occupy the director's best work.

The two actors have had pretty much the same kind of film career, and while I know that I still believe that Johnson actually has a career in front of him I think it's a nice little joke that's worth laughing at.

But it couldn't be farther from a joke at the expense of two people in love, as it sensitively captures the unique dynamics of a romance between people who might have to do different kinds of work to stay connected.

And as kind of a joke I was like, «well, maybe I can cut her open and look at her womb.»

Even now I still don't comprehend what kind of social disorder she had, but she was usually at the center of jokes.

Soon he'll be back in A Mighty Wind, in which he plays another idiot who laughs uproariously at his own jokes so that his silent listeners will know they're funny, and who spouts quotable eager - beaver nonsense like «it's the kind of infectious that's good to spread around.»

Reynolds getting pegged by Baccarin is exactly the kind of joke that lets everyone laugh at Deadpool.

Well, Lenny's wife Roxanne (Salma Hayek), who even Lenny admits in the movie's single and genuinely clever joke is too beautiful for him, is over-emotional (the movie's opinion of her) because she wants to have another kid, so it does aim one sexist stereotype at one of its few major female characters (Speaking of sexism, can we talk about the MPAA ratings board's glaring double standard in pointing out that a movie's nudity is of the «male rear» variety, directly implying that there's something different — worse, more offensive — about the same of the female kind?).

Having a feature event at 11:15 am on Sunday is kind of a joke, given that MRLS is at least 90 minutes from most of the Bay Area's population.

At its best flash fiction shouldn't stop time in a way that makes you wish you were dead, which the joke and punch - line story makes one feel; it stops time by providing a different kind of time altogether.

The rest of the yokai are just used for slapstick humor or one - shot jokes, and while I understand the key audience and what they are looking for in this kind of manga, I would have been much more impressed if the jokes were less «LOL LOOK AT THIS WEIRD GUY» and something a little more substantial.

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I mean, let's face it, this man is not the kind of person who tells the jokes at the Parties: D Kitanos idea is hilarious enough to laugh about Abe in an Ultraman, Pikachu or Godzilla costume, although this picture exist only in my imagination.

At the end of the video there is kind of a joke, that only original PlayStation users will get.

At least the game's visuals do a good job of keeping you interested in the world and, if anything, I think the 3DS version kind of stands out a bit more than the Wii U game, and no that is not a 3D joke.

Torque Burnout feels like the kind of game you joke about existing in the kebab queue at Summernats — which, for the rest of the world, is basically an annual burnout festival held in the capital city of Australia — made for real.

The house would have a two - level basement, closed to the public, conceived as an underground studio where he would make his art — a secret lair and such a natural extension of his overall artistic project that it seems like some kind of joke (it is tempting to think of it as a real - life «Fortress of Solitude,» Superman's hideout, which Kelley constructed in three - dimensional form and used as the central image in his final solo exhibition last September at the Gagosian Gallery in London).

Roberta Smith reports that «the arrangements at Greene Naftali, especially, convey the impression that the only way to take painting seriously is to treat it as some kind of joke.»

Artists Assemble at the Museum of Latin American Art Words by Chris Greenspon, Features Writer, Bermudez Projects «There's a certain Mexican way of telling a joke, a really dramatic kind of irony,» said Felipe Flores, founder of Trabajo Press.

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