Sentences with word «oafish»

They can't do the job they are paid to do because they are too busy doing radically rude and oafish political talking points.

The theatrical set - up detracts from their individual strengths, which otherwise would work well for Koons; the mass production of toys necessitates an oafish mark - making which helps them become symbols of brute force.

At the door they were bullied by an oafish security guard who refused to allow them in BECAUSE they had 2 packets of crisps and two can of drinks.

At one time, chubby characters - when they were represented at all - were characterized as some combination of (pick one or all) gluttonous, lazy, selfish, oafish, and / or stupid buffoons.

Her expression was oafish, but it was on the whole this quality that gave her face a certain retentive efficacy.

Rather, we come to understand the outlines of her story from the people around her — her oafish husband, her artistic brother - in - law and her sister.

Where the larger QX looks oafish and bit too serious for its own good, the JX looks like it just returned from a dip in the Lazarus Pit, appearing decidedly comfortable in its skin and with a youthful exuberance that just isn't evident in some of its rival's designs.

As expected, Eisenberg makes an effectively harried straight man to all the chaos, and McBride and Swardson work their respectively well - trodden territories of misguided machismo and oafish cluelessness, but the big stories here are Aziz Ansari, upstaging Eisenberg with his hilarious timing as his schoolteacher best friend; and a scene - stealing Michael Peña in a change - of - pace comic turn as a hitman.

It's a good - hearted game brimming with lovable characters like the oafish knight Steiner and the innocent, doomed black mage Vivi, and it stands as a final heartwarming tribute to the vintage Final Fantasy series before FFX pushed it over the edge to modernity.

Loranger's childishly oafish vulnerability plays against Palacek's more articulate compassion.

It's misogynistic, which is not really a surprise as almost all of Jackie Chan's modern - era films are virulently so, but it does what I wouldn't have suspected to be possible: it makes Chan a smarmy, oafish reptile.

Joel Edgerton (as Daisy's brutish husband, Tom) looks particularly uncomfortable and resoundingly miscast, though Isla Fisher (as the doomed Myrtle Wilson) and Jason Clarke (as her oafish mechanic husband, George) are fine.

The film feels realistic (an oafish fellow traveler calls Bettie a dog) and sometimes implausible (there are a few plot holes to be overlooked).

The oafish nature of the main character gives the story a comedic start, before giving way to scares and emotional devastation.

Schwarzenegger has an oafish charisma about him that allows him to get away with a lot of stuff simply because of his enormous size and his signature mishmash of an accent.

As it was last time around, Heffernan is a real standout in terms of sheer comic energy although the surface - level crassness of his oafish poonhound wears thin in a world where it's a lot less «transgressive» to make gay panic jokes.

While Sherman's direction is kind of oafish (though who knows how much of this is attributable to the fact that the film's comedic aspects were toned down by its financiers in post-production, leaving what must have been sizable gaps in approach), with montage simply not his forte (he bungles a chase episode involving a family taking a detour through Potter's Bluff), he derives performances from his cast that elevate wafer - thin characterizations and stages the climax brilliantly, placing an unexpected emphasis on the moving image.

At Gaston's side, Josh Gad plays a snarkier, less oafish Le Fou.

Get Out follows a young black man (Sicario's Daniel Kaluuya) to the swanky country home of his white girlfriend (Girls» Allison Williams), where the oafish racial glad - handing of a smug liberal elite gives way to a more overt threat.

The cast all do well, Gambon, Nighy, Jones, and Harrison all do their best with the sub-standard script, and did make me chuckle begrudgingly a few times, and Zeta - Jones does extremely well as the wily femme fatale, using her good looks and charm to get the information she needs from the oafish men of the town.

Why, for example, does he maintain a friendship with the oafish and abusive Wiseau, and what does Tommy want from the younger Sestero?

Stevens rejects his objectively handsome persona and becomes a Woody Allen-esque schlemiel, bumbling and oafish and constantly screwing up.

It seems the oafish lummox, Lennie, has gotten the companions into trouble again, doing something he doesn't have the faculty to know better about.

She remains steadfast in attempting to keep up appearances of happiness with her exuberantly authoritative, oafish husband but it is clear that she is also deeply unhappy.

Spliced into the show are occasional one - ep guest - stars, most notable being Seth Rogan, whose oafish asshole schtick is turned up to 11 — presumably to differentiate him from the regular characters.

Whether Sylvia will hook up again with her ex or Prudie (Emily Blunt)- an insecure high school language teacher who throws in French phrases during book discussions, to the annoyance of everyone - will rediscover what she saw in her oafish husband parallels the second - chances theme of «Persuasion.»

A reunion of sorts between Ferrell and Talladega Nights co-writer-director Adam McKay — who also teamed up for the smash web short «The Landlord,» which was probably seen by more folks than saw Semi-Pro — the movie centers on two oafish fortysomethings who live at home with their respective parents (Richard Jenkins and Mary Steenburgen) who are then forced to coexist when their folks get married.

Oafish at times but ultimately just as trapped as his wife, his understated performance moved casually from funny to poignant.

The single criticism is that the two cousins are at times made to be more oafish than they need to be, and verge on caricature.

I thought the Coens loved their two oafish heroes in spite of their foolishness, but now I wonder if I got this impression just because they cast Jeff Bridges and John Goodman in the parts.

Vic (Arthur Kennedy) is put in charge of «keeping» Dave, but Dave travels across the ranch like an oafish baby, and Vic can only keep him in line so well.

The most obvious problem is Josh Gad, who plays Braff's lazy, oafish brother.

Jen is happy to make a show of her sexuality, engaging in some PG - 13 grinding with the insecure Stan (Vincent Colombe) and the oafish Dimitri (Guillaume Bouchède) that night.

I'm an upbeat, humble, yet occasionally ridiculous guy, love to laugh and sometimes have my oafish moments.

«Traded dirty and shameful resort to mercenary agenda where nothing matters save the putrid, oafish gains of the moment.

He has been challenged subsequently to repeat this allegation and to provide firm evidence to back up his oafish accusation.

Most fans, even now are friendly and decent but the oafish few percent spoil so much for everyone.

If you really care for the future of our great club and actually want to help, you should start using your head and not react like an oafish teenager.

The mailbox was just out of reach, but my oafish, flabby legs tripped on the curb and I crashed face first into the gravel.

You make an interesting point and while I definitely want the thumbs back, there is now far less oafish and 7 year old child like comments.

Like Lincoln, Carnegie had escaped life with an «oafish, ill - educated» father; he earned success as a traveling salesman before turning himself into a homespun philosopher and bestselling author.

Kate - you are seriously the most oafish, offensive, sanctimonious prig that ever walked the earth.

she's not the most «oafish [sp], offensive, sanctimonious prig [sp] that ever walked the earth».

Continue Reading» Haiti's Devils 01.21.2010 David B. Hart The ever slightly oafish Pat Robertson (you remember him: that fine Christian gentleman who just a few years ago defended China's infanticidal one - child policy, lest he imperil his own lucrative business relations with the PRC by publically criticizing the regime) has opined that the earthquake in Haiti....

The new study, published in the Journal of Management, suggests that a bad mood caused by an oafish colleague doesn't simply go away when we get home; bad moods travel home with us, causing unhappy employees to lash out at their family members.