Sentences with phrase «of schlub»

Dame Maggie Smith stars as Grace, a well - meaning sociopath who becomes the housekeeper in the house of schlub priest Walter (Rowan Atkinson), his frustrated wife (Kristin Scott Thomas), and his nymphomaniac daughter (Tamsin Egerton).

Broderick recently spoke to The A.V. Club about about Tolan's gambling problem, finding his roles on the page, playing a series of schlubs, and the two reasons he doesn't actively seek out indie roles.

Not exact matches

Selling your shares of a bad company doesn't affect the company; it just leaves the shares in the hands of some other schlub.

(The new moniker was an amalgam of a nonsense word Markoe and Letterman would say to each other — «melman» — coupled with a nod to one of the Watergate conspirators, Egil «Bud» Krogh Jr.) From the debut, DeForest became one of the show's leading lights of absurdity, a seemingly clueless every - schlub stumbling his way through new - product parodies («Toast on a Stick») or plugging the fictional «Melman Bus Lines.»

Jesus to the schlub (all of us),... «You don't realize that not only did I get you out of this mess, but I'll get you out of all the others too.

Before any of us regular schlubs knew who Yasiel Puig was, scouts knew.

There's a degree of superhuman confidence to a ballpark proposal that is required, whether you are a millionaire who just clinched a title or a poor schlub in the bleachers who's just hoping for your run - of - the - mill happily ever after.

Paterson is clearly counting on $ 250 mill of it coming through layoffs of civil service schlubs.

If only he didn't keep stocking the agencies and authorities with hacks... if his 10 % cut to State govt was not directed at the civil service schlubs and instead involved real consolidation and elimination of redundant bureaucracies and deadwood management political appointees, I'd be pretty satisfied.

Sounds like a lot of top - heavy «Special» positions while layoffs for Civil Service schlubs loom.

Elected last year as the successor to the iconic and bombastic Marty Markowitz, Mr. Adams is every bit the pun - loving ham that Mr. Markowitz, the ultimate cheerleader of Brooklyn's swift transformation from schlub hub into Lena Dunham's lucrative playground, always was.

Fancy footwork and evasion won't change the reality that even a «reform - minded» Governor like Andy Cuomo campaigning on promises of a «New New York» is keeping the shadow government of Commissions, Authorities and off - budget quasi-public corporations in place and running a patronage mill busily dispensing 6 - figure jobs to connected people who clearly have cabbage to burn while being incredibly penurious with civil service schlubs, secretaries and clerks.

Now that I'm about to enter the «wise» years, I say, if you feel like a schlub in an outfit, then no amount of cajoling will or compliments will unschlub it.

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.

The film is periodically enlivened by some of the supporting players, including Paul Walter Hauser as Shawn Eckhardt, the supposed mastermind of the Kerrigan assault whom the movie depicts as a world - class schlub.

For the rest, it's the usual stuff: wounded heroes having to dispatch their loved ones; schlubs learning of their secret superhero power of zombie - killing; and the revelation that the real monsters are our fellow Man.

To be fair, it also rips off, shot for shot, moments from Sam Raimi; from Reservoir Dogs in a poor, bleeding - out schlub dubbed «Dead Man» (Akie Kotabe), who fans of «The Simpsons» will recognize as Frank Grimes; and from Luc Besson, in particular (and if you're a carbon copy of Besson, the image fidelity is a field of giant pixels at this point).

Arguing William H. Macy is the last actor fit to be a hitman discredits how he makes Alex the perfect hitman — an unassuming schlub who bumps into a man, fatally bumps him off and makes a modest gesture of apology as he continues walking.

Larry (Schwartzman) is a small - town schlub who drinks his way into and out of menial jobs he can't stand.

The Margot of the title, as played to alien, frostbitten perfection by Nicole Kidman, is a NEW YORKER contributor (and Jennifer Jason Leigh, as Margot's sister Pauline, played Mrs. Parker herself once upon a time) who's ventured out to wintry Long Island to talk her sister out of marrying schlub Malcolm (Jack Black).

Showalter (also starring as CPA Elliot Sherman) plays the titular schlub, the «Baxter» being a creature of extreme nerdy social incompetence most often glimpsed in frown and tux in the retreating background of Dustin Hoffman rescuing Katharine Ross from the altar.

Giamatti has mastered the role of cynical, self - absorbed, frumpy schlub and his Barney is every bit that.

He plays a schlub actor who loses his job and juggles a pair of women, Sarah Silverman and Bonnie Hunt while living with his mom.

• Moses as schlub, The Invention of Lying: Ricky Gervais's Sermon on the Stoop, improvising commandments off the backs of two pizza boxes...

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.

In this one, schlub Richard (Michael C. Hall) shoots a home invader who happens to be the son of real bad man Russell (Sam Shepard), someone who, fresh from the pokey, arrives in Richard's small Texas town for his pound of flesh.

I'm sick and tired of these «unconventional» (read as: crass, schlub, drunk, meta, etc.) super hero movies being hailed as amazing as if they're the first to do it or «we have never seen anything like this».

I was reminded of that episode of «The Critic» where the titular schlub declares an airless, dusty film about a tea cozy to be some sort of masterpiece.

Among its four subjects, the one Djordjevic is most likely to adapt into a narrative feature is the schlub who enters the porn industry as an indirect way of tracking down the starlet who used to be his girlfriend.

John C. Reilly plays up the lovable schlub of Ralph perfectly, never feeling too goofy or annoying.

As a pair of dumpy suburban England schlubs who decide to go camping, Lowe and Oram become these characters, people who are probably together because no one else would have anything to do with them.

The humans are a mix of the garish, grotesque powdered aristocracy, with their tall hats, exaggerated facial hair and blushed cheeks, and the grimy downtrodden working class schlubs.

But I wonder at the way this film turns suburban schlubs like me into wise - cracking, big - screen heroes with enough of the right moves to completely shut down the cool kids.

Romance, Amer - indie style: nothing gets close to Hong's barb than perhaps the Duplass brothers» Cyrus, in which a schlub's implausibly requited love by a single mother is undermined, nay utterly thwarted, by the schemings of her 21 - year - old son Cyrus, an oversized manchild with a keyboard fetish and a considerable gift for co-dependent-some-more behavior.

Saulnier's films are litanies of horrible, unimaginable calamities befalling generally well - meaning schlubs who are altogether unequipped to deal with them.

The (almost always male) protagonists of these films can be separated into two categories: the scientist and the schlub.

When we last reported on «El Presidente,» the high - concept buddy movie about a clean cut Secret Service agent and the disheveled, alcoholic schlub of an ex-president he's assigned to protect, Tom Cruise was loosely attached, as was «Recount» director Jay Roach, with Robert Downey, Jr. being eyed for the pivotal role of the ex-prez.

Tukel plays a neurotic schlub named Erik who lives somewhere in either Greenpoint or Williamsburg, eats at cool outdoor restaurants and dates impossibly attractive women who seem a bit out of reach for his short, chubby, hairy, dickish persona (the movie's title has been abbreviated as «S.O.B.» on posters for good reason).

Ostensibly a hybrid of an Adam Sandler lovable schlub vehicle with a kids» picture nostalgia piece, «Pixels» imagines that an alien invasion takes place in the form of vintage video game characters attacking major metropolises around the world.

Hoffman is small - time schlub Mickey Scarpato: loser, scraper, driver of a refrigerated meat truck, and sometime - participant in petty larcenies with his buddy Bird Capezio (John Turturro).

Yet Barney, portrayed in a smartly nuanced, Golden Globe - winning performance by Giamatti, is genuine and disarmingly sweet — a schlub, likable in spite of himself, who usually gets the girl even when neither he nor she really understands why.

A high - school wrestling comedy with perennial indie schlub Paul Giamatti coaching sounds like it could be an unbearable retread of recent bombs like Mr. Woodcock or Drillbit Taylor, but with a surefire ensemble cast and a tricky balance of humor and pathos more in line with Little Miss Sunshine, Win Win turns out to be one of the early sleeper surprises of 2011.

I am tired of reading how a «conventional life» is inferior and you should quit your boring life and «travel like me» implying their path in life is better than that of «all the poor schlubs» as you put it that live vicariously through their blogs.

Following everyday schlub Wayne on his quest to defeat Gibby, King of the Moon, it is a game that thrives on confusion.

Instead of «look to your left, look to your right; one of you won't be here at graduation,» it's «look to your left, look to your right; starting networking with the poor schlubs you'll be sitting next to at your swearing - in ceremony.»