Sentences with phrase «of sniveling»

Let's actually take a look at his first experience working with him in the excellent crime / hostage thriller The Negotiator, where Paul takes on the role of a sniveling man caught up in the crisis as one of the hostages.

Paul Dano plays another in a series of sniveling creeps, and Brad Pitt — who also co-produced the movie — plays the movie's kindest and most forward - thinking white man.

The politician, played with table - pounding brio by Miranda Richardson, has a hilarious running gag, repeatedly making mincemeat of her sniveling, obstructionist male aides.

Hampton Fancher plays one of his sniveling sons perfectly, and he and Donahue are immediate rivals.

Our once great and powerful nation has been reduced to a bunch of sniveling, scaredy - cat hysterical wussies.

Somewhere between the time that Premier Hancock stepped down and Premier Prentice ascended to the throne, the PC caucus turned into a bunch of sniveling crybabies.

Soon, he has stolen her affections from crusty economics professor Phillip Barbay (Paxton Whitehead, whose real name conjures a much stronger mental picture of a snivelling, overprivileged killjoy), leading the doctor to launch a campaign for Thornton's expulsion.

All he's offered is a bunch of snivelling excuses, but his fans all lap it up anyway.

Not exact matches

It seems that the sniveling hypocrites at S&P / McGraw Hill couldn't silence his exposé of the ratings agencies after all.

Bootyfunk, there is a world of difference between snivel rights and «persecution».

If you feel you are guilty and deserve punishment, why don't you stand up and take it rather than hiding like a snivelling weasel behind the supposed sacrifice of jeebus?

Religious persons are scared little children who are frightened of their own shadows and if they had their way we would never open the closet door of the universe and explore, we would be sitting on our hands in the corner sniveling with fear.

I'm tired of this weak, sniveling view of God that tells us we have to rise up against one another and stick up for our poor, bullied, wimpy God.

Since you're not spilling any of your blood to support this country, maybe you should STFU, pay your taxes and support your country without the incessant whining and sniveling.

John Cena, who can only be described as the John Cena of the wrestling world, has taken exception to Rollins being a sniveling twerp and not representing the world title the correct way (i.e., the John Cena way).

«Mr Speaker, I have never at any time criticised the patriotism of anyone who has been involved in the defence establishment of this country,» he snivelled, looking as he if might be about to burst into tears.

The stark and simple contrast between the agonising political imperatives of the 1960s and the seeming ease and openness of the modern world is shattered by the snivelling toad Nicholas, which leaves the audience dolefully wondering whether the political world has actually changed very much.

To govern, Mr. Paterson, means to negotiate and compromise not to send your sniveling little chief of the little remaining staff you have to say «no, no.no.»

I have been surprised by how many of the insults slung by angry people online have called those of us defending POC yoga weak, sniveling, and passive.

We've all been on a plane with a bout of food poisoning or a snivelling child, but what happens when a member of your family has an ongoing condition that seriously impacts their ability to travel?

Well, I'm def in awe, Sue, of your patience, your crafty talent, your ability not to muck up the jeans as I would have and end up a snivelling mess in the corner!

The latter is sorely needed, as Commodus, who historically was truly nuts (he proclaimed himself the reincarnation of Hercules and tried to rename Rome after himself), comes off in the original release as merely too weak and sniveling to rule the Empire effectively.

Sniveling city boy Thomas hates the country, and merely wants to clean the farm up, flip it, and use the money to open his own toy store across the street from his old employer, as some sort of revenge for their bypassing him for a promotion.

Irish actor Andrew Scott is excellent as the deceitful, snivelling scoundrel whose habit of taking advantage of the good graces of others hits its limit.

Hogwarts is now in the malevolent hands of the sinister Severus Snape (hissing, sniveling Alan Rickman), who is holding students and staff hostage as they wait for Harry to rescue them.

He gets off on the whole idea of marriage and commitment, and he makes full use of that puppy - dog face and atonal snivel.

Luke Evans returns as Bard the Bowman, as do a boatload of other actors — Orlando Bloom, Ken Stott, Hugo Weaving, Christopher Lee, and Ryan Gage, who spends his many (many) scenes as a comically sniveling human daring children to call for the death of a fictional person.

He gets strong support from both Harris and Reed, who give their strongest performances in years, and from Phoenix, whose sniveling Commodus maintains a spark of humanity while never being less than loathsome.

Meanwhile, at the HQ of the Very Evil Company that developed CRISPR, the scheming mannish sister Claire (Malin Akerman) and sniveling brother Brett (Jack Lacy) confer.

It's Got: Michael Wincott, as the Cardinal's snivelling henchman Rochefort, reprising his previous stint as Guy of Gisborne in all but name.

Oppressed as a child by the puritanical, anti-theatrical strain of surrogate parent William Cecil (a wasted David Thewlis) and snivelling, hunchbacked foster brother Robert (Edward Hogg), the Earl of Oxford toils away at composing seditious verse in secret before uploading his cache of plays to surly Ben Jonson (Sebastian Armestom doing Orlando Bloom).

If you've seen even a handful of Tommy - gun movies, however, everything that happens here will feel preordained, right down to the sniveling local sheriff who's helpless in the face of both our criminal anti-heroes and the psychopathic lawman in from Chicago.

«Game of Thrones»» Alfie Allen plays the sniveling son of the Russian boss with the perfect amount of attitude, as well, but it's Michael Nyqvist as that Russian boss who appears to be having an absolute blast portraying a main villain with an insane character volume.

David (Andy Serkis) and his snivelling brother Peter (Reece Shearsmith) have kidnapped Tracy (Jennifer Ellison), the daughter of David's mob boss employer, with the aid of her dimwitted stepbrother (Steven O'Donnell)-- a plan that predictably goes awry before everyone runs afoul of «The Farmer» (David Legeno), a mutilated Leatherface - lite with the familiar bloody secrets hiding in his basement.

The descendents of Edmund Blackadder are a sharper, smarter bunch all around and Atkinson leaves behind the sniveling of the first generation for the razor wit of a cultured, cunning man surrounded by incompetents.

Martin Freeman's snivelling shmuck - turned - killer and Billy Bob Thornton's agent of chaos lead this vicious black comedy

There's Danny Glover as the President of the United States, a Russian billionaire with a Paris Hiltonesque girlfriend, Tom McCarthy playing Jackson's domestic rival, kids with urinary incontinence problems, Oliver Platt as the snivelling government stooge, improbable cell phone reception, car - fu, airplane gymnastics, bad Arnold Schwarzenegger vocal imitators, and surveillance cameras with unlikely range.

Unmercifully, he's replaced by a snivelling «man of faith» Oram (Billy Crudup).

That's partly down to the plight of Nygaard, the beta - male who stands up for himself, gets everything he ever wanted, but becomes an unlikable, snivelling weasel in the process.

Rami Malek, fresh off his Mr. Robot Emmy win, and Matt Smith, a sniveling thing of beauty in The Crown, also feel like safe bets.

The other major finding had come during an earlier demonstration lap, when we sat comfortably in back and listened to the sniveling of the rear - mounted power inverter.

Hank proceeds to harangue Doc every time that Doc shoots up; whining, begging, insulting, sniveling, and cajoling, Hank wields even more power over Doc dead than alive, and his poltergeist - like sensibilities provide comic relief as well as highlight Doc's own sense of regret for his role in Hank's fatal overdose.

All through that night into the gray light of dawn and on until the shadows disappeared in the midday sun, the three of them hunkered down in the living room, the old man sniveling and stuttering and saying things like Jesus, I wish I still had my gun, I ought to just go ahead and kill myself, and Mike — who would not even got into the garage, who point - blank refused — trying to force the reality of the situation into some less horrible shape.

Man up, and check out our Sunday Seven Survival Tips to leave behind your days as a snivelling recruit and be reborn as a feared harbinger of doom.

In my glorious «Kaos Doom Challenge,» sniveling Portal Masters like you can feebly battle through increasingly difficult waves of my personal minions using your ridiculous army of Skylanders.

No matter how many stories seek to distract you with the shiny objects of prurient dialogue between sniveling, petulant and nasty global warming alarmists, that isn't the story.

Did some sniveling cowards trash the paper in review out of fear of future reprisals from the people Spencer sarcastically calls «The Keepers of All Climate Knowledge» (p. xxi)?

The snivelling whine of a troll who has been butted off the bridge so many times that he sits in the stream below complaining instead of actually doing anything.

He hasn't revealed much, doesn't discuss what the AGW movement is directly linked to as an agenda and speaks in the same sniveling terms of the events at hand.

UPDATE: John Laumer called this one in July Seth Godin called this one 9 months ago in our interview: Much of America identifies Prius drivers with Leonardo, Susan Sarandon and sniveling leftie treehuggers.