Sentences with phrase «of surly»

• Dynamic cast of characters: No adventure would be complete without its host of surly characters.

In the early 1980s, Conrad began to make such thematizations of power explicit in pieces like Beholden to Victory, an «army film» that implicates its audiences in the dynamics of surly officers and shiftless, insubordinate privates.

The question, in Afrikaans, had the tone of a surly boy addressing the new schoolmaster.

Official Synopsis: In animated 3D, The Nut Job is an action - packed comedy in fictional Oakton that follows the travails of Surly (voiced by Will Arnett), a mischievous squirrel, and his rat friend Buddy, who plan a nut store heist of outrageous proportions and unwittingly find themselves embroiled in a much more complicated and hilarious adventure.

But the Dardennes» Cannes dream really kicked off in 1999, when their disarmingly curt tale of a surly, poverty - stricken young girl (Emilie Dequenne) and her attempts to keep herself and her mother alive while retaining a sense of self - worth was given the top prize, beating strong competition from the likes of Pedro Almodóvar («All About My Mother»), Bruno Dumont («L'Humanite») and Raúl Ruiz («Time Regained»).

They seek refuge at the home of a surly skin - changer Boern (Mikael Persbrandt) who (unless he comes back into play in the third installment) adds absolutely nothing to the narrative.

There, he uses his kindness and good manners to win the hearts of the surly inmates and changes the entire atmosphere of the place; the dining hall is transformed from a miserable place of inedible gruel to a cute restaurant serving pastries and deserts.

We get to know the children like the animals on Noah's ark: a pair of surly almost - men, a pair of beautifully confident teenage girls; a pair of blond tykes.

«The Great Nut Heist» features Will Arnett, the voice of Surly the squirrel talking about the role.

In animated 3D, «The Nut Job» is an action - packed comedy in fictional Oakton that follows the travails of Surly (voiced by Will Arnett), a mischievous squirrel, and his rat friend Buddy, who plan a nut store heist of outrageous proportions and unwittingly find themselves embroiled in a much more com... Read On

We used to have a dry cleaner in our apartment building but the quality was so - so, the woman who manned it was kind of surly, and she only took cash.

Lead investigator Jason Hawes, founder of the Atlantic Paranormal Society, not only looks like and has the same day job as Samuel «Joe the Plumber» Wurzelbacher but carries himself with the same air of surly distrust, as if suspicious that the whole world might be encoded with hilarious bon mots at the expense of his sister.

Which worked out well, freeing me from having to serve a bunch of surly, unappreciative, selfish people.

For most of us, orchestrating all of that — while also navigating the chaos of a houseful of surly relatives — can be a challenge.

Late winter irritability can be a sign of life and hope in us, a proleptic impatience for spring, though it can also bear the bad manners of a surly youth.

Though I'm pretty sure one of those surlier photos of Harrison came shortly after some silly reporter said the words «Han Solo»...

Not exact matches

Little wonder, since both were created for the sole purpose of «slipping the surly bonds» of Earth and putting human beings and cargo onto other celestial bodies.

Escape the surly binds of technology — the world will keep spinning, I assure you.

It can hardly come as a great surprise that when economic growth falls short year after year and when its beneficiaries are a small subset of the population, electorates turn surly.

My final say as a human to human, from brother to a brother derived from our father and mother Adam & Eve, kindly ask your American Nation to unite all races and faiths under one ceiling and not to Crash down otherwise it will go back to pieces and fragments of pieces which will surly to crash with you since we are still suffering the vibrations of 9/11 and of the Global Economy crises and we do not want those any more as much as you but nothing in hand we ordinary ones have other than we are doing now here!?

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In concluding his statement, the president combined words from the first and last lines of a moving poem, «High Flight,» written by a poet - pilot, John Gillespie Magee, Jr. «We will never forget them,» the president said, «nor the last time we saw them this morning as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye, «and slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God.»»

Surly goodness and mercy shall follow Tiggy all the days of her life.

He told clever stories that always slotted pious Jews in the role of villain or stooge — the surly older brother of the prodigal son, the prissy Levite and priest of the good Samaritan, the murderous tenants in the parable of the vineyard.

he either does it or he fails, and He surly FAILS if at the end of time, one iota (or man) is left out to burn in an everlasting torment.

When Cain was banished, was he not afraid of the «other people» who he said would surly kill him?

Your husband will answer to God, and you must answer to God for how you respond to your husband, even when he causes you to suffer.Just as we are to obey government in every ordinance, and servants are to obey their masters, even the ones who are abusive and surly, «likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands»... You can freely call your husband «lord» when you know that you are addressing the one who put him in charge and asked you to suffer at your husband's hands just as our Lord suffered at the hands of unjust authorities... When you endure evil and railing without returning it, you receive a blessing, not just as a martyr, but as one who worships God.»

In the garden they were told if you eat of it or even touch it you will surly die.

The time of year where we celebrate the birth of our Savior, eat unreasonable amounts of dessert and... revert back to acting like surly teenagers when spending...

But the lure of missing Mass was not to be resisted, and I spent the next hour plotting the crime; I would simply prepare as usual, and behave in the usual surly manner, and insist shrilly on wearing the usual shabby clothing (the bellbottom jeans!

And when you are functioning as the surly waitress, greasy short - order chef, and dealing with a crowd of family members who tend to lose their tempers when blood sugar levels drop, you learn to simplify.

But I'm not sure if I've seen a player like Griffey who was better at capturing imaginations and making surly old men feel like children again, while making children as filled with the kind of wonder that children should be filled with.

In public Liston was often surly, hostile and uncommunicative, and so he fed one of the most disconcerting of white stereotypes, that of the ignorant, angry, morally reckless black roaming loose, with bad intentions, in white society.

They've had a good left fielder or two since then — that surly guy, with the records — but they're in something of a drought over the last decade.

Surly if we get beat Sunday and get knocked out of the Europa Cup it must be curtains for Wenger but I don't think he'll ever quit and fully expect our non footballing board to sadly stick with him,

But surly it's in Giroud's favour to go on loan to Dortmund till the end of the season.

They will surly lose several of their top defensive players over the next couple of years similar to what Seattle is doing.

When Everyman gets into the act he usually manages to streamline an activity and adapt it to the pace of the times while ignoring the surly mutterings of the traditionalists.

Two teams that will beat the hell out of each other, with two surly - ass head coaches who will provide great reactions and even better press conferences.

I was thinking to myself after the game, doesn't matter what players we bring in, we've just got to rid of this manager, Surly the hierarchy at the Emirates can see it, the question do they want to

If i had the choice of having one area of the team strengthen this season it would surly be defensively, because that's where i think we have been the most at fault, i would have preferred a defender that this new kid for france.

It seems «Copy Cat» Cuomo is coping well what else can he do but «Copy» the ideas of Republicans he surly is not going to cony the idea's of the Albany Democ» rats»

They approveof all foreigners (other than Americans) but have a surly suspicion of Britishembassies and seem to think that most ambassadors are annoying publicschoolboys (as of course a few are).

Adam Skelos» supervisor, Christopher Curcio, said the surly scion introduced himself on the first day of work, Jan. 2, 2013, saying, «You know who I am.

«If Labour's hopefuls are ever to make amends, it won't be by playing to imagined prejudice and falling back on the surly, inward - looking populism of the immigration debate.

[MetroNY] • Speaking of Law & Order: The community - board meeting on renaming a midtown intersection the Jerry Orbach Corner turned into meta - farce when Sam Waterston showed up to address the surly board.

Inside the terminal, now half built, friends and loved ones of those who paid $ 200,000 each to slip the surly bonds of Earth will relax in a plasma TV — bedecked lounge with a view of the control room and launchpad and watch in real time.

«Some years ago we may have thought of [black holes] as surly loners sucking their thumb in the corner and gobbling anything that happened to come by,» Miller says.

When you add alcohol to an occasion you up the chance of people being surly.

Even I, someone who's increasingly surly about some of Marvel's creative choices, had a great deal of fun watching the film, despite some quibbles here and there — and the audience I saw it with was into it.