Sentences with phrase «of schnooks»
He is by no means a prototypical hero, but he stands notably apart from the parade of schnooks and oddballs who typically populate their films.
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Lemmon's turn as the put - upon quotidian schnook pervaded the rest of his career.
Sex is a metaphor for every transaction, and we watch as DiCaprio repeatedly acts out his consummation of the deal in rooms full of voyeuristic traders, while some poor schnook on the other end of the line happily gets the shaft.
People can laugh openly at a Lemmon schnook without derailing him or the comedy, but Sellers thrives best in the midst of deadpan elegance on the part of his fellow players as well as the pristine set waiting to be demolished.
But in the nearly 50 years since that one - two punch, he's given us some of the most memorable turns in American movies: Watergate muckrakers and Judge Wapner - loving savants, existential detectives and enraged divorcees, psychopathic gangsters and profane stand - ups, two - bit crooks and first - rate schnooks.
Watching Mosher take Joshua apart time and time again is almost painful, like watching a heavyweight boxer beating the hell out of some poor skinny schnook.