Sentences with phrase «of curmudgeons»

When such unpleasantness does get mentioned, it invites a tsunami of curmudgeons

Though he had plenty of stories about the good ol days, it turned out that Cross wasn't one of those curmudgeons who refuse to acknowledge that anything that went down after they turned 30 could be remotely cool.

Outside of some curmudgeons in commercial mortgage lending departments, few recognized that writing 5 - year mortgages with low principal amortization rates against long - lived commercial properties was a recipe for disaster.

They won't last too long but are executed in a manner inoffensive enough to avoid the scorn of all but the most dedicated of curmudgeons.

The equal - opportunity, granddaddy longlegs of all curmudgeons, Myron Lieberman, manages in one volume to savage teachers unions, education schools, the Education Writers Association, the New York Times, the Washington Post, education research, egalitarian school - choice proponents, and conservatives Diane Ravitch, Terry Moe, Frederick Hess, and Chester E. Finn Jr..

The equal - opportunity, granddaddy longlegs of all curmudgeons, Myron Lieberman, manages in one volume to savage teachers unions, education schools, the Education Writers Association, the New York Times, the Washington Post, education research, egalitarian school - choice proponents, and conservatives Diane Ravitch, Terry Moe, -LSB-...]

He personally works on perfecting the exterior of a curmudgeon.

It's hard to be too much of a curmudgeon when Tim Raines is finally in, and he's flanked by two very worthy inductees.

I have to admit I'm sort of a curmudgeon about buying Girl Scout cookies, but those sandwich cookies look awfully yummy.

While this may seem like a case of a curmudgeon explaining why a universally enjoyed thing is bad, Nichols actually makes some good points.

I guess I'm just a bit of a curmudgeon of the screw»em if they can't take a joke kind.

You'd have to be the lousiest kind of curmudgeon to think otherwise, but there's a niggling problem inherent with...

You'd have to be the lousiest kind of curmudgeon to think otherwise, but there's a niggling problem inherent with taping a cluster of discounted games together, one that's been scratching around the backs of our skulls since they exploded into fashion: they nearly always contain a game you already own.

Toby is a bit of a curmudgeon.

In fact, Crooks says, one of the first questions he's asked by those he is working to place is about whether firm leaders consider the CMO job an important one: «They want to know how much of a curmudgeon factor there is with respect to the leadership's attitudes on business development.»

Those who know better think of a curmudgeon as one who gives it to you straight.

Maybe it's just that I'm becoming more of a curmudgeon on this and other elements in our profession.

Not exact matches

Yet, I'm also guilty of acting like a curmudgeon, someone who reacts with a twist in my jaw first and a «no» on my lips.

He's a curmudgeon with a heart of... not quite gold... but something like gold.

Now, before all the church curmudgeons jump on this with I - told - you - sos about biblical illiteracy and widespread deficiencies in systems for discipleship (which may be partly to blame for the statistic), it important to note that unfamiliarity with the term does not necessarily equal widespread ignorance of its content.

The language has a quaint and innocent ring, redolent of the countryman upset by the vices of the city and the new temptations to the young, like movies, while worrying about land use patterns and the waste of resources ¯ part seer and part curmudgeon.

His first encyclical does not signal any real change of direction, as that old curmudgeon Hans Kung correctly diagnosed.

True, Frank Wolf did not spring from the intellectual and political aristocracy of the American Founding; nor did he serve as ambassador, senator, secretary of state, and president; nor is he a crusty curmudgeon like the Adams portrayed brilliantly by Anthony Hopkins in the film Amistad.

Maybe quinoa isn't the first thing you think of when you think of a Christmas dessert, but the raspberry flavor will make it a perfect dessert for everyone — even curmudgeons who like to diet on Christmas.

We're sort of being curmudgeons this year; the hubs just had dental surgery a few days ago, so we're staying in, watching some (mildly) scary movies, and hopefully handing out candy to some little ghosts and goblins.

Our glory is in Nick Foles, Jalen Mills, Chris Long, the forgotten collective thrusting the might of a mischaracterized group of snowball throwers, mainline preppies, and South Philly curmudgeons who have been waiting for a moment to remind you why we matter.

Combine a big white grape (I think you could do this with kiwi, also), a slice of banana, a raspberry, an optional marshmallow, a stick and Dr. Seuss's Christmas curmudgeon becomes the tastiest thing in Whoville.

Yet no one seems to bat an eye when self - proclaimed «curmudgeons» loudly protest the presence of children in these places.

At the risk of sounding like a social media curmudgeon, I have a love - hate thing with social media and there are some things I just don't understand about it.

Published, presumably, by a gang of dour curmudgeons who hate everything, JNRBM openly welcomes the data that other journals won't touch because it doesn't fit the unspoken rule that all articles must end on a cheery note of promise.

Not to be a curmudgeon, but I walked out of that movie... the nudity and sex scenes were even more gratuitous and tedious than HBO, also compounded by the French prerequisite of nudity and sex whether it helps the plot or not.

The film does all right showing the misery of future living through Heston and Robinson (they live together and are adorable, curmudgeon roommates) and their daily life.

Buscemi is an old hand at stringy curmudgeons, but Del is a subtler and more complex creation than most of them, and the actor seizes the chance to muddy the waters: the character is a genuinely well - meaning mentor to Charley, as well as, professionally speaking, a treacherous schlub.

UNFINISHED SONG is the funny and uplifting story of Arthur (Terence Stamp), a curmudgeon old soul perfectly content with sticking to his dull daily routine until his beloved wife (Vanessa Redgrave) introduces him to a spirited local singing group led by the youthful and charming Elizabeth (Gemma Arterton).

For four years, he and Cosby in their scenes together comprised one of the funniest comedy double acts seen on television, his innocent yet conniving Griffin Vesey making the perfect foil to Cosby's ill - tempered curmudgeon Hilton Lucas; another highlight of his portrayal (and a clever «in» joke referring back to his work in Cool Runnings) were Griffin's occasional attempts to impress women by passing himself off as a West Indian, affecting a Jamaican accent.

As far as reviewers being «idiotic, boorish, curmudgeon»... If you're so certain we're all like this, then why are you reading any of us?

Even Baumbach, the most caustic of the three, ends «The Squid and the Whale» with Jesse Eisenberg's Walt Berkman realizing that his father's toxic worldview isn't something worth aspiring to, while «Greenberg» gives some hope that Ben Stiller's titular curmudgeon might stop being such a jerk.

Her life is governed by English papers and interminable Latin translations as well as by her strict curmudgeon of a father (Alfred Molina).

Though the dramatic shifts didn't sit well with some of the devoted audiences — why would Luke Skywalker, the Jedi with truncated training who let his sister's son slip to the Dark Side, be a PTSD - crippled curmudgeon instead of his ebullient former self??

It's a story we've seen many times before: curmudgeon (of not the lovable variety) succeeds in business while keeping himself in self - exile through a cloak of bitterness until a kid or a woman (sometimes both, as in this case) come into his life, break down his walls and reveal the wonderful person underneath.

Jack of course must find a method of flushing Tuck out of his system and re-enlarging him before Tuck runs out of oxygen and before the aforementioned villains (led by the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers» Kevin McCarthy, a one - of - a-kind curmudgeon) catch up to Jack and Tuck's on - again / off - again girlfriend (Meg Ryan), a reporter for whom Jack develops affection as her surrogate lover.

¬ † Supposedly there is an LA Times curmudgeon who is also known for breaking scandalous stories and keeping moguls nervous — Patrick Goldstein, self - appointed hater of all Oscar bloggers, among other things.

Curb Your Enthusiasm, Season 9 (HBO, Oct. 1st) Just when the people of Earth need him most, curmudgeon king Larry David has returned to us to spread truth, justice and skin - crawling social impropriety.

Christophe Honoré's comic drama about two brothers co-existing in a Paris apartment with their gentle curmudgeon of a father (Guy Marchand) is a tribute to the freewheeling energy and youth of the French New Wave.

However, he is unlucky in that her dad (Jack Black) is a curmudgeon who pops out from windows and in between the slats of fences to warn Zach to stay away or else something bad will happen.

WHY: On paper, «St. Vincent» is a pretty standard coming - of - age flick about a wide - eyed youngster who learns important life lessons, albeit by rather unconventional means, from the crusty curmudgeon that lives next door, all while helping the self - anointed babysitter to become a better person in the process.

Hatsune Miku was created to shatter the cynical will of the world's hardest curmudgeon.

The titular guardians of an orphaned baby this time around are a trio of homeless souls: troubled teenage girl Miyuki (Aya Okamoto), transvestite Hana (Yoshiaku Umegaki), and curmudgeon Gin (Toru Emori) find that shepherding the infant across the desert of inner - city Tokyo proves to be a catalyst for reconciliation in their own lives over a magical holiday season.

Curmudgeons usually have some sort of charm which mitigates their irascibility (think Andy Rooney).

We have seen these types of comedies before where the main character is this deplorable human or some old curmudgeon.