Sentences with phrase «of crooked»

Here's the basic plot, just in case you've been hiding under a rock and missed it, via The Guardian: «It is based on the memoirs of crooked broker Jordan Belfort who during the 1980s and 90s enjoyed unlimited amounts of sports cars, drugs and prostitutes, paid for by millions of dupes and dopes buying his fraudulently inflated stocks.»

It was the sense that, when I first walked through the door of the crooked charmer, I belonged there.

«Because of his crooked teeth, kids called him «monster mouth,»» Carlisle - Northcutt said.

There are 308 homes for sale in 30004 in the same price range as that of Crooked Creek.

There had to be a lot of crooked hands in the pot for us to be in the shape were in.

I was surprised to see the return of the crooked - mustached man with Wario Ware Gold.

You can log in and out of the Crooked Creek Alaska driving school course completing one section at a time or you can complete it in one sitting.

The location of Crooked Hill Townhomes is perfectly settled between nature and urban living.

Unashamedly left - leaning, the podcasts of Crooked Media are irreverent and entertaining in a way you probably didn't think politics could be.

Do we think that proportion of crooked lawyers is any different in Toronto, London or Barbados?

His handling of the Crooked Hillary Clinton case, and the events surrounding it, will go down as one of the worst «botch jobs» of history.

«There's only 160 years of crooked data and that's not long enough to mean anything!»

A few broader splotches of color above and a pair of crooked lines below set off the edge - to - edge texture.

The mission of the Crooked Tree Arts Center is «to inspire and enrich lives through the arts».

With the release of Modern Warfare 2 only a few weeks away, Infinity Ward must feel almost like nailing large pieces of crooked wood to the windows in the wake of all the recent rumors and speculation.

In Majora's Mask, Chuchus appear as bottom - heavy blobs of transparent jelly with large, grinning mouths full of crooked teeth and round eyes on stalks.

There are plenty of tasty things to do too, from quality restaurants to the cellar doors of the Crooked River Winery and The Siding@Gerringong in the old Gerringong Dairy Co-op.

Information reaching our news room is that sometime last week, a bulldozer was clearing land in the Blackburn area of Crooked Tree Village when the incident occurred.

The agreement is for the feasibility study and final design for the upgrading of 5.6 km of Crooked Tree Village Road and Causeway to...

There is a boat ramp and you hire a kayak and paddle on the calm waters of the Crooked River.

Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary is located 33 miles from Belize City in the village of Crooked Tree and is considered a birders paradise.

Water sports are popular in Gerroa, which is at the mouth of the Crooked River and the northern end of beautiful Seven Mile Beach.

One of the best ways to enjoy fresh, local food is by attending the Cashew Festival and Agricultural Show in the village of Crooked Tree in northern Belize.

Lamanai & Crooked Tree Sanctuary Driving northwards from Belize City our first stop is the marshy lagoons and wetlands of Crooked Tree Bird Sanctuary - a birdwatcher's paradise and habitat of the...

The island of Crooked Tree was and still is the perfect place to live.

Venture out by boat to explore the lagoons of Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary in the early morning.

The buildings are a little crumblier, a couple more dog bombs than usual and lots of crooked trees.

In addition to badly scarred skin and a mouthful of crooked teeth, Jake is faced with an untreatable, terminal cancer.

His coat is dense, wiry, and broken (that is, neither straight nor curly, but kind of crooked), and ranges in color from red to wheaten.

Her tongue hangs to the ground, she is petrified of every little thing and my vet believe she suffered blunt trauma to the head because of her crooked face.

The location of Crooked Hill Townhomes is perfectly settled between nature and urban living.

Now Milo is free - falling into another country, a land of big money and small armies of corruption, of crooked politicians and two women willing to share their lust with a private eye with a bad back.

From the back cover of CROOKED LITTLE HEART by Anne Lamont: «Rosie Ferguson, in the first bloom of young womanhood, is obsessed with tournament tennis.

The many charms of Crooked Heart include Lissa Evans» multi-layered characters, who each bring their own mix of good and bad behavior to this winning story of a family made by circumstance, not blood.

He was threatening me with half a page of crooked writing with words like inside turning up as sindie and story as otsyr.

Together, Laura and her husband, Tom McNeal, are the authors of Crooked, winner of the California Book Award for Juvenile Literature and an ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults; Zipped, winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Children's Literature; Crushed (called «compelling» by Publishers Weekly); and The Decoding of Lana Morris, a Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of the Year.

I've been flattered that many libraries have multiple copies of the book, and I hope they continue the trend and stack the shelves with a few copies of Crooked Numbers, my second book in the Raymond Donne series, published in October 2013 from St. Martin's / Minotaur Books.

We're giving away autographed copies of Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter and The Best American Noir of the Century edited by James Ellroy and Otto Penzler, which includes stories by Harlan Ellison, Dennis Lehane, Elmore Leonard... and Tom Franklin, who signed the book.

Instead of intentionally dismantling systemic and institutional oppression, black faces are placed at the helm of a crooked ship to convince us it's smooth sailing.

Dennis Hauck's rough and sweet directorial debut features a cast of crooked characters and a side of L.A. you won't find in La La Land.

Now, with Triple 9, he tackles the crime thriller genre, assembling an A-list cast (including the likes of Kate Winslet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Clifton Collins Jr., Casey Affleck, Woody Harrelson, Norman Reedus, Aaron Paul, Anthony Mackie and more) to tell a gritty, urban tale of crooked cops, bank heists, double - turns and gang violence.

An unexpected incident occurs overnight that threatens the operation when the vehicle carrying the large sum of cash ends up in the hands of a crooked local cop (Logan Marshall - Green).

999 (TRIPLE NINE) by Matt Cook A gang of crooked cops plans a major heist that requires them to shoot a fellow officer.

Guys with guns, some of them crooked cops and some from the drug trade, give chase.

Frank «Ponch» Poncherello is the alter - ego of a barely capable undercover FBI agent who has been put on a new case to uncover the identity of the crooked cop within the California Highway Patrol.

«The Infiltrator» satisfyingly builds to an improbable but ripped - from - the - headlines climax, as «Musella» brashly invites a slew of bad guys — including an array of crooked international bankers — to his phony Florida nuptials.

Full of crooked cops and rich, double - crossing ex-boyfriends, it's a dim bulb script the boys had shelved ages ago and dusted off last year only after a couple post - «There's Something About Mary» projects fell through.

-- The Characters of Crooked House,» the cast explains who's who and explains their involvement in the larger mystery.

The most interesting character in the film is Janine, the emblem of crooked momism.

His Girl Friday is a terrific movie about the newspaper business and its pursuit of crooked government officials.