Sentences with phrase «kind of a joking way»

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.

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«It turns up being a joke, and that's what the CFPB really has been, in a sick, sad kind of way, because you've got an institution that has tremendous authority over what you all do for a living.»

That's kind of a joke and it does not even need to be that way.

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.

thanks for the sensible comment fatboy yep i know i do get that they do nt really mean it, but i just cant come to terms with that, i do nt really expect civilised culture in a sport but generally from the people in the world, yep you are right about the real world, maybe thats the reason it annoys me extremely, i mean look our world is rotten to the core, the human mindset is terrible when it faces danger or problems for himself, and maybe thats the reason i just want football to stay as just as an entertainment industry but when i see that people even here let the words flow in any kind of way just because the are frustrated, i really cant come to terms with it, i really love black humor and some akbs react angrily when some fans tell some wheelchair jokes or for example on the post from admin where one could write jokes about wenger, some were really awesome, but when people cant control their emotion after a game and abuse other people it just irritates me as hell cause i really think that thats one of the big problems in the world..

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.

Even the writers know that their jokes stink, but rather than coming up with a funnier one, they stick with the bad joke and add the trumpet in a self - deprecating, see - we're - in - on - the - joke kind of way.

Is Wiseau, who seems to appreciate «The Room» only as a way to make more money, really in on the same joke as the audiences who have adopted him as a kind of aging - hipster mascot?

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.

This is anachronism the other way — not the kind that, in scene after scene of Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, made an ultimately tiresome contemporary joke out of an originally promising genre parody.

By the way, To watch all kinds of videos and movies on ipad, we should thanks be to God, ahaa, just a joke.

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.

Really, how many more ways can I tell you this is one shitty joke of a deal... Hmm, judging by the metrics, maybe management thinks they're buying some kind of mediocre Midwestern supermarket chain?!

So he will stick in a bunch of recognizable icons and a bunch of obvious in - joke references and will call back on the older movies semi incessantly, but he does not really get why or how those things functioned the way they did in their original contexts, and he kind of flails when it comes to improvising something new.

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.

Still, I believe that Realtors still poll just above used car salespeople in terms of trust and industry knowledge, aka as professionalism, and they (the used - car crowd) use all kinds of learned scripts, jokes and the usual run - of - the - mill rapport - establishing psychological tricks every step of the way, and all kinds of folks buy their used cars.