Sentences with phrase «of bumpkin»

From the reports of the bumpkin Clingman and the blackguard Reynolds, he had been able to ascertain much of what the investigators knew and which incriminating documents they had obtained.

What kind of bumpkin are you that doesn't even know what a comparative religion class is?

«What a pair of bumpkins,» CO2 thinks, as he greets them and they order beer on tap, but their appearance matters not for his purpose.

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We have always had the sense that she looks down on us and thinks we are country bumpkins, out of touch with the real world.

Cowards hoping that just saying the word «lawyer» will scare people, based on the highly narcissistic assumption that Tony and Cronies are the only sophisticates in the room and the rest of us are country bumpkins who don't know nothin» from lawyerin».

Sure there's a few uneducated bumpkins who still cling to their religious security blanket and an occasional presidential candidate who attempts to capitalize on their ignorance but for the overwhelming most part, in all educated parts of western society, religion is a non-factor.

Though derided by some as an «Essex bumpkin» for his countrified ways and lack of university training, Spurgeon's congregation soon numbered in the thousands.

I used to be a normal guy, owner of the Snoozing Pines Trailer Park and the kinda country bumpkin who knew that there are exactly seven weenies in those little tin cans of Viennas.

This Bumpkins diaper bag is made out of recycled fabric and features a very on - trend geometric pattern which makes it an awesome gender neutral option.

The subject — a disastrous honeymoon on the Dorset coast in 1962 — can only be explained by digging into the backgrounds of Florence (Saoirse Ronan), a bright, rebellious violinist from upper - middle - class parents (Samuel West, Emily Watson), and Edward (Billy Howle), an earnest history graduate snootily regarded by his in - laws as a country bumpkin.

Yet she finds herself in the arms of a soulful country bumpkin on the dance floor.

They're all beautifully - realized, beautifully - scripted performances: Ed holding court before a gathering of cronies in a bumpkin watering hole; Kate pulling up her skirt to show a long - dead admirer what he could have had if he'd stopped talking about meat once in a while.

Tom at the Farm (Unrated) Out - of - the - closet drama about a grieving cosmopolitan's (Xavier Dolan) announcing his late lover's sexual preference to country bumpkin next of kin attending the funeral.

One of the dead bumpkins has a plucky wife, Emma (Haley Bennett), who promptly enlists the services of bounty hunter Chisolm (Washington).

Once policemen and bumpkins are introduced in a series of repetitive «I don't believe your story — hey, why did the lights go out» scenarios, however, Jeepers Creepers, while retaining Salva's indisputably cinematic eye, becomes something a good deal more predictable and consequently safer.

McBrayer comes of as an innocent country bumpkin just like he portrays on NBC's 30 Rock.

And he doesn't get much help from the rest of the ensemble, as Wiig looks bored, Owen Wilson is still just Owen Wilson, and Jason Sudeikis and Kate McKinnon lay two distinctly rotten eggs — the former playing the world's worst hitman and the latter David's psychotic country bumpkin fiancée.

The standout scene of the brothers» semi-affectionate riff on 1950s Hollywood throws the brunt of their combined talent for writing and deadpan timing into a two - man vaudeville routine of words and manners, in which a sophisticated director (Ralph Fiennes) and a bumpkin - ish actor (Alden Ehrenreich) struggle to get through a single line of dialogue: «Would that it were so simple.»

The film falls into the subgenre Folk Horror, a largely British off - shoot of the horror genre exploring the urban inhabitant's unease about the countryside, where spiteful and superstitious bumpkins are still in the thrall of demonic forces.

(In French with subtitles) The Song of Sparrows (PG for brief adult language) Loss of innocence drama, set in Iran, about a recently - fired ostrich farmer (Mohammad Amir Naji) whose family becomes upset about how the naïve country bumpkin has begun to compromise his values in order to make it as a taxi driver in the city of Teheran.

The funeral is overstuffed with bushels of red roses, odd foreigners, bumpkins in fur hats, and even forbidden Orthodox bishops coming out of the woodwork.

Pumpkinhead distinguishes itself early on in covering the typical set - up of privileged kids venturing into the wilderness for a weekend's debauch from the point - of - view of the imposed - upon bumpkins.

Yet it» a rousingly entertaining caprice, styled as a redneck caper set in Trump country, and whether it's saluting or condescending to the home - grown bumpkins at its center — Channing Tatum as a downsized laborer, Daniel Craig as a snaky varmint of a demolitions expert — is kind of a moot point.

But reality comes crashing down hard for this bumpkin, and soon she finds herself with only a couple of dollars and a lot of unwanted demo tapes to her name.

But Peck is elegance personified in every single frame of To Kill a Mockingbird while Stewart always comes across the country bumpkin in It's a Wonderful Life.

It's not some huge scam investment where some poor, uneducated bumpkin who couldn't hack it in traditional publishing gets taken in and has their collection of grocery lists published.

Instead, the voice he heard sounded nasally and pinched and, worse, not very well educated, as if he were a bumpkin who had been called, perhaps even in mockery, to testify about holy things, as if not the testimony but the fumbling through it were the reason for his presence in front of some dire, heavenly senate.

She wasn't fresh off the boat from China, but she was new to town, of that I was certain — a country bumpkin in her tatty storebought dress.

Innocence Lost — Again Hailing originally from the Midwest as I do, I have more than once been accused of being a country bumpkin.

I realized that I might be a bit of a country bumpkin, because the amenities in my new place seem really fancy, and they are, but especially since I've been renting a small, humble basement apartment for over a year.

The New Far Cry game will be a country bumpkin shooter of sorts.

Bureaucrats don't care about country bumpkins in most places of the world, and especially in developing nations like China or Pakistan.

«Lots of folks in Portland in their BMWs and fine dining restaurants are OK knowing those country bumpkins are getting those wonderful wind turbines so we can have a clean, green conscience,» O'Neil said.

Despite the fact that America has long been the source of many of the world's most significant technological innovations, Reuters implies that it's home to anti-scientific bumpkins who fail to show academics sufficient respect:

In common with my own organisation, it is unlikely that the senders of these letters do see you as a «lackwit bumpkin» or, come to that, a «sodding charity».