Sentences with phrase «much at the joke»

Then she laughs, not so much at the joke but at herself and that period of her life — the weeks she spent meditating alone in Rishikesh, India, the temple town along the banks of the Ganges that the Beatles once visited and made famous.

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«This election hasn't so much appealed to our better angels as it has groped our better angels, mocked their weight, and called them «sixes at best,»» Oliver joked, alluding to a handful of Trump's scandals.

At an all - staff meeting to reveal the results of attorney Eric Holder's investigation into Uber's cultural issues, TPG founding partner and Uber board member David Bonderman made a sexist joke about how women talk too much.

As much as I find myself grinning and groaning at Kerensa's humour, there are almost too many jokes shoehorned into each page at times.

Weather you believe or not (I open my eyes every day) so it's not hard to All will stand before the lord on the day of reckoning which man will no doubtedly usher in and those who don't believe or against god will try to wage war on the almighty to no avail, only to be left in ruins... the great Satan (adversary) will be all who oppose god in battle, that serpent of old is still here today, we live in the middle of a brood of vipers and this website is part of the venom aimed at distorting the faithfuls belief as well as a an agonist for those who wish to continue to disbelieve... CNN is anti god To my brothers and sisters who truly live in Christ Peace be with you and never forget your path despite the darkness that is trying to consume you, bring enough oil for your lamps to live in this darkness and bring extra in case of a delay, he will not abandon you... we will not be forgotten Amen To those who don't, I know the myth of Santa and the easterbunny really choked up your insides to find that they were not real, but childhood is over and it was a cruel human joke designed to make it that much harder for you to believe in that which visits you and you can't see, no matter you have life so is it too much to ask for a little belief?

I loooooove cookies (particularly chocolate chip oatmeal cookies), but I almost never make them at home because they contain so much sugar and I'd gobble up the whole batch by my lonesome (no joke).

She said, «I've learned so much from you about not really caring whether dinner is at 10:30 p.m.,» jokes DiPrima, who says it's completely okay to mingle with guests, go back to the kitchen, serve drinks, and continue prepping.

I just can't believe that we have become a joke we always start the season well then have a bumpy December and by the time Feb comes our form has taken a dip and we get kicked out of all competitions except for that valuable top 4 that the board loves so much... ultimately if Arsenal want to compete again we need changes from the bottom up... Kroenke and his board need to go cause clearly for them profits matter more than trophies... Wenger needs to go for his lack of tactical naus guy has been using the same fornation since I was in high school and I'm doing my honours in accounting now... our medical team must all go our players always get injured and they never come back in time (take a look at Santi) players like Coquelin Theo Mesut Gabriel Gibbs Giroud just to name a few need to go they're just not good enough seriously these players lack fight tactical Discipline and tactical awareness... at the end of the day change needs to happen things can't keep going like this for us....

Ox I feel has just joked about too much and not focused enough on his football, I wouldn't be sad to see him leave and Szcz... He has had his chance and blew it, I would be happy to see him stay and prove me wrong but at the same time I wont shed a tear if we get rid of him.

Appalling tactics, the manager has not got a clue, so many terrible performances Cech never look comfortable, kept flapping at crosses, Bellerin useless, Xhaka, a joke, How much did we pay for him?

Those 2 factors leading to Wenger holding so much power and the club depending on him at so many levels... just a joke!

joking aside we didn't really get a chance to see him much of him but when we did he wasn't bad at all.

In a report on the Arsenal website he tried to make a joke of it and also to claim that he has got way too much on his mind to think about transfers at the minute.

to om and gibbs, im not sure where your from but lets just wait for your international team to suffer such an injustice with so much at stake i take on board that mcgeady, and maybe keane, hav and do dive but to say we we whinging at diarra is a joke, the guy made a provocative and unprofessional comment designed to get a rise out of the players....

Remember last year, when the big running joke was, «Well, at least we're at the end of 2016 because it can't get much worse than this!»

A few months after starting at Whole Foods Market, I realized that my employee discount card was a joke when I looked at how much money I was spending on food that I hadn't before starting the job.

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.

It sounded like a joke at first, but Kim talked about how much she loved the meaning of the name and it's definitely grown on us over the years.

Nicholas: I joke about this at the end of the book — that there's so much going on in infancy I could easily have chosen spitting, shitting, screaming, sharing.

The duo co-hosted a reception (along with Sen. Jose Peralta) at Somos el Futuro at the Crowne Plaza in April at which there was much joking about Schneiderman, who loves to display his Spanish speaking skills at the slightest provocation, being an honorary Latino legislator.

«Although Lord Ashcroft may not be a woman, I know he's very much in touch with his feminine side», jokes Andrew Mitchell to a fringe audience earlier this afternoon at Tory Conference.

Met with much enthusiasm by the conference hall, which even managed a laugh at his weak joke about climate change deniers refusing to believe DECC exists (Ed Davey LOVED that.

At least two Labour MPs have called for him to resign, saying that in the wake of his affair with his secretary, Tracey Temple, he had become too much of a joke to remain.

Brachman said he spent so much time at Bornstein's house — rehearsing with the band, hanging out in a backyard clubhouse, or reenacting professional wrestling matches — that Bornstein's mother joked he grew up there.

I loooooove cookies (particularly chocolate chip oatmeal cookies), but I almost never make them at home because they contain so much sugar and I'd gobble up the whole batch by my lonesome (no joke).

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The women were much friendlier, joking that they'd been teasing him about my existence as he'd been talking about me without me joining them for drinks at any point.

At times when I have so much on my plate and I can't remember anything, I joke that when I was asked if I wanted brains, I thought they said nuts...

I love those people you can joke around with and have so much fun with and then have a deep conversation with and it's not weird at all.

If you joke around too much in your profile or leave out vital pieces of information, don't be surprised if you attract the wrong type of people or not many suitors at all.

Poking fun at a girl online may work, but she will respond much better when you joke about the OTHER girls on the dating site, not her.

Though a little too much joking around occurs, the commentary usually provides a pretty good look at the flick.

If you can get past the «ha ha ha look at me I'm so funny making jokes about goats in my review» one things shines through - it's mediocre sandbox with not much to do at all and no reason to do it.

And in a short break from the Tidy Bowl swirl of jokes, the film uses pretty much every high school cliché when Shrek arrives at WA.

The new episodes don't represent another radical leap forward in style or quality the way season two was, but whatever's lost from the shock of the new (nothing here is quite as weird or surprising as the cavewoman prologue or «International Assassin,» though a joke in the second episode and a party sequence in the fifth come close) is gained in how much more we know all the characters at this point, and how aware they are of their proximity to their story's end.

Sure, there's a few reveals and even a joke that hints at stuff to come, but I love that Ragnarok is mostly doing its own thing and not worrying about much else.

At one point, Nick jokes about movies that are made about people who don't do much, a meta - reference to the film itself, but even urban ennui and marital apathy have been captured with more do - nothing honesty than Perry achieves here.

Like much of what passes for mainstream American comedy nowadays, the movie (which Gluck wrote with Rob Lieber) seems to anticipate a mirthless reception by laughing long and hard at its own jokes.

The fact that the plot is, effectively, window dressing for joke runs and life lessons doesn't help alleviate the sense that its two halves are or maybe can not successfully be sealed with blood; even at his most dreamlike or sincere, Leitch has too much work to overcome with a character who takes nothing seriously, and he fails to navigate that razor's edge to balance — or amplify — both extremes.

This gives us an opportunity for a chase scene on a mountain road that turns out to be, like so much in the film, foreplay, plus some not at all tense would - be thriller moments and one pretty funny joke.

Too much of the kids arguing, too much jokes that didn't land, and let's face it, if you're not married / have kids / and or 40, alot of what might be subtle humor just will fly over your head, but at the fault of not directing the humor in a way that us minority might understand it.

There are more than a few stretches when nothing much happens save for getting one group of people to the next backdrop for a sex joke or sight gag (frequently at the expense of a freewheeling couple played by Gina Gershon and Gary Cole).

The problem is that it employs the worn - out tactics of pretty much every lame juvenile laffer from the last four years: bad jokes are told, then let out in the air to die — and everyone stares at each other for longer than is deemed socially acceptable.

In addition to the imaginative fantasy sequences (which impressively entail so much time and effort for so brief a joke), the exchange of dialogue often moves at a rapid clip and the show is slickly - edited with a mix of long takes on a moving camera and quick cuts.

Instead of the touching, subtly humorous look at a conflicted and changing community during an incredibly tumultuous time in American history that this movie could have been, The Help is an over the top, joke of a movie that manages to be both boring and have too much going on.

The jokes are oversold, the actors are often doing too little or way, way too much, and even the lighting (from cinematographer James Laxton, «For a Good Time, Call...») feels, at best, improvised.

How this is very much removed from Ron Jeremy being a porn star is beyond me: both play on this fantasy that women like Kunis are available to men like Segel and, therefore, to every schlub sitting in the dark chucking blunt elbows into each other's rib cages at every failed joke and rattle of humiliating slapstick.

Carey has a terrific cast at her disposal (including familiar TV stars Bill Hader, Scott Porter, Rachel Bilson, Andy Samberg, Alia Shawkat, Clark Gregg and Connie Britton), but the heroine is too much of a cliché — the naive nerd — and the jokes are too obvious.

Going into Wang Bing's latest documentary, Mrs. Fang, I was too busy cracking jokes about how much shorter it is than his previous works (his breakthrough film, Tie xi qu: West of the Tracks, clocks in at nine hours; his recent masterpiece»Til Madness Do Us Part comes in at close to four) and had somehow failed to realize I'd be watching almost an hour and a half of a woman lying on her deathbed.

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.