Sentences with word «malapropism»

Some outright display of malapropism there, and a clear case of a patient suffering from optical fragmentation.

Thankfully, the rest of the cast more than makes up for it, and Hearts R actually offers some of my favorite characters over the past few Tales entries, including an aspiring artist with a penchant for malapropisms and an overly literal party member who interprets every interaction to its logical extreme — a common occurrence on Star Trek, perhaps, but a change of pace in Tales.

However, I made a small malapropism in describing the panels, once referring to them as «blue - chip panels», being told subsequently that I had mixed in a stock market term and «blue ribbon» would be more apt.

Cover picture from Pattiboobs, Oh, you know what I mean, a hilarious compilation of verbal mishaps and malapropisms by Patti Rundall OBE, Policy Director of Baby Milk Action.

Though I'm pretty sure that was not what the author had in mind... Anyone else enjoy trying to take great malapropisms and trying to find a legitimate use for them?

One created a lush, entirely nonsatirical string accompaniment to Al Sharpton's speech at the Democratic convention; another spliced together dozens of George Bush's malapropisms over a country - and - western tune.

by Walter Chaw It's possible to try to detail the history of John Woo at the beginning of the Heroic Bloodshed movement in Hong Kong — how, with the first two A Better Tomorrows (the second of which features a genuinely astonishing amount of violence and the infamous subtitled malapropism «don't fuck on my family!»)

If there are shortcomings to the effects work when BFG is moving around his lair, they're more than compensated for whenever an almost - embarrassed smile forms at one corner of the giant's mouth, as he finds himself accepted by this little «bean» (even though she is mildly annoyed with his amusing malapropisms), or whenever we spot the sadness in the creature's eyes, as he realizes that the prospect of protecting her from harm is becoming impossible.

One of Stiller's primary comedic skills, exercised in ad - libbed flurries, is to mangle the English language with elaborate non sequiturs and grammatical malapropisms.

And special mention must go to Colm Meaney as a lecherous politician whose drunken malapropisms provide the biggest laugh, and Stephen Rea, who pops up briefly as a name - dropping cabbie unashamed to wheel out the old «I had that James Joyce in the back of my cab once» routine.

To keep things lively, Rudolph gives his eponymous heroine a speech disorder that mangles her every utterance with richly comic malapropisms («Why does everybody have to beat a dead horse to death?»)

The wildly inventive Turpin tackles complicated syntax and malapropisms with finesse and clarity and exudes youthful energy as Tip, who goes on a journey both intergalactic and emotional.

Coover nails Mark Twain's tone and voice (including the hilarious malapropisms) but, more than that, evokes the deadpan dark humor and social commentary that made Huck's Adventures infinitely superior to Tom's.

The Platonic nod in the title, while it certainly applies to the work on view — a collection of painting and objects that employ trompe l'oeil, material malapropisms, and other challenges to the paradigm between the shapes works take versus the concepts they propose — is also done on a very basic level of the exhibition itself.

If your resume contains any such Archie - like malapropisms, it's sure to be memorable, but it won't leave the lasting impression you're shooting for.

He has a very different personality though, especially as compared to the Bloombergesque Massey, with his raspy stream of malapropisms and mangled mispronunciations holding his audience.

Not to be * that * person, but there are a few misspellings / malapropisms in this post.

Pattiboobs is a hilarious compilation of verbal mishaps and malapropisms by Patti Rundall OBE, Policy Director of Baby Milk Action.

Anyone else enjoy trying to take great malapropisms and trying to find a legitimate use for them?

I don't think it is a malapropism unless cortyrone meant another word / phrase that sounds similar to «sunk cost» but has a different meaning.

I love the malapropism here, and this reminds me of the late Ghanaian actress, Araba Stamp who was popular for her malapropism, «fried rice and kitchen.»

It's not that there's malapropisms or grammatical errors or anything, it's that it just doesn't sound how people actually talk.

Trixie is dominated by the heroine's constant stream of malapropisms — she uses one just about every time she opens her mouth.

You also like the uncomfortable touching, the malapropisms, the car accidents, the gunshots, the butt cracks, the throw - up, the arrests, the getting high and the eventual friendship.

The film can't quite make up its mind about Franco's Holy Fool character, either; we're meant to laugh at his naïveté and his malapropisms at one moment, then we find out he's a resident in a group home so we can admire his can - do attitude, and later it's revealed that he has made valuable and intelligent contributions to the sales report even though he never indicates in conversation that he understands anything about the deal.

A wickedly funny, irreverent comedy, featuring a malapropism - peppered performance by Jennifer Coolidge and an impeccable cast of archetypal characters, Austenland hits all the right notes of the Regency era and our curious infatuation with it.

Clearly Cotterill is a fan of the volume of malapropisms that has come to be known as «George Bushisms.»

The translation is rather rough, with misspellings and malapropisms, but somehow she gets her point across.

(In that poetic eulogy for Harlem she also wrote, «I love you for electing Marcaronio» — a malapropism for Vito Marcantonio, the socialist who served 14 terms in the United States Congress as representative for East Harlem.)

His visual vocabulary of repeating motifs, combined with word play — running internal monologues, spiked with puns, double entendre and malapropism — is an open - ended investigation into the moral issues of the global citizen in the early 21st century.

For example, who can forget George W. Bush's malapropisms, or President Obama's teleprompter - induced mispronunciation of Navy corpsman?

They are not to be confused with other types of word error like folk etymologies, malapropisms, eggcorns, or mondegreens.

She speaks like a «Gal,» a term used to describe a young girl, and is notoriously prone to malapropisms.

One of the great baseball players back in my day, Yogi Berra, was credited with sayings called «malapropisms».