Sentences with phrase «little sideshow»

There is far more relevant science than webbly's silly little sideshow — but anything not consistent with the groupthink memes is cognitively dissonant.

«This is sort of a silly little sideshow in what should be a much larger and more important discussion» of how to fix California's most troubled schools, he said.

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As a rule, they had a bad night: BNP leader Nick Griffin actually managed to decrease his party's share of the vote in Barking, while Esther Rantzen proved little more than a sideshow in the Luton South Labour - Tory struggle.

Tony Lloyd, who chairs the parliamentary Labour party, insisted there was «very little support» for the move, which he dismissed as a «sideshow».

De Blasio allies believe Mr. Cuomo is trying to create a sideshow by offering praise for a potential reform to 421a that has little chance of becoming law and is opposed by developers, many of whom support the governor.

There are three for Michael Humphrey and Hannah Hall (little Forrest and Little Jenny), each running around half a minute; two (approx. 2 minutes apiece) with Robin Wright playing against Tom Hanks playing it straight — and demonstrating in the process that the film mighta been a helluva lot less offensive were retardation not transmogrified into sacred sideshow; and finally two with Haley Joel Osment, again playing off Hanks playing it strlittle Forrest and Little Jenny), each running around half a minute; two (approx. 2 minutes apiece) with Robin Wright playing against Tom Hanks playing it straight — and demonstrating in the process that the film mighta been a helluva lot less offensive were retardation not transmogrified into sacred sideshow; and finally two with Haley Joel Osment, again playing off Hanks playing it strLittle Jenny), each running around half a minute; two (approx. 2 minutes apiece) with Robin Wright playing against Tom Hanks playing it straight — and demonstrating in the process that the film mighta been a helluva lot less offensive were retardation not transmogrified into sacred sideshow; and finally two with Haley Joel Osment, again playing off Hanks playing it straight.

Admittedly, my Maysles experience is severely limited: I've yet to see Salesman, which frequent readers of this site will know is held in high regard by my co-editor; Gim me Shelter made little impression in the moment, and has since been colored by the disapproving insights of several friends and colleagues; and I've only seen snippets of Grey Gardens, though enough that I feel a severe discomfort at what appears to be a prod - on - the - freaks sideshow.

As it starts, we find him playing the part of «The Noble Savage» in a 1933 carnival sideshow (and wearing impressive age makeup reminiscent of that worn by Dustin Hoffman at the beginning of 1970's «Little Big Man»).

Add in Willem Dafoe's stern but loving motel manager, torn between his desire to protect the children and keeping even a little sense of authority and propriety in the sideshow circus that is the transient motel living population, and you've got a movie with a vital and exposed beating heart.

It's all in service of a tall tale being told by an ancient Indian (Johnny Depp) who may or may not be Tonto, a sideshow attraction who spins this yarn to a little boy (Mason Cook) wearing a Lone Ranger get - up in a fair in 1930s San Francisco.

The puffed - up back and forth between Cogburn and LeBoeuf, with Mattie as witness and sometime commentator, recalls a bumbling Shakespearean sideshow (à la Twelfth Night), and the routine (and reaction shots) gets a little old.

Little is known about the famous conjoined brothers, Chang and Eng, from Thailand, who came to the U.S. as exploited sideshow celebrities.

Following a little tease last week, Sideshow Collectibles has debuted its new Joker statue, the first in a collection based on the hit 2009 video game Batman: Arkham Asylum.

Nathan Kernan, Thornton Willis, and James Little at Sideshow, «Art in America», October 2005, p. 178, also see, Mario Naves, A Shared Aesthetic and Goal, Raising the Bar at the Sideshow, «New York Observer», April 18, 2005, p. 18

In 2005, Willis teamed up with fellow painter, James Little [13] for a two - person show in Williamsburg, Brooklyn at the Sideshow Gallery working with owner - painter, Richard Timperio.

In showing Little's and Willis's work side by side, gallerist Richard Timperio humbly gives the art world not a sideshow but a main attraction.

If one addresses such questions to kim, all one gets back is obscuritanism and doggerel; one fairs little better with the WUWTites and Sky Dragon Slayers, and other proponents of their own pet theories about thermodynamics or snow or the Sun's iron heart or the zodiac whatever it is Myrrh or stephanthedenier think about, generally no more lucid or pertinent than Sideshow Bob.

To the suits sneaking past the first nations» drummers protesting a new oil sands pipeline at Enbridge Inc.'s shareholder meeting in Calgary this week, it was easy to dismiss the demonstration as little more than a sideshow.