Sentences with phrase «of the zaniest of»

One of the zaniest of all 1930s zany comedies — that said, it can be a little on the shrill side.

2:00 am (10th)-- TCM — Kind Hearts and Coronets In one of the zaniest of the zany comedies that Alec Guinness was best known for in his early career, he plays eight, count»em, eight characters — all relatives in line to receive a duke's massive fortune upon his death.

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Then, in 2010, it launched an impressive rebranding campaign featuring a series of zany, nonsensical viral video advertisements meant specifically to appeal to younger audiences.

For instance, the average Netflix subscriber might never guess that its dark superhero drama «Jessica Jones» might strike similar chords as the zany hijinks of «Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.»

Hsieh discussed his unorthodox approach to building Zappos — widely praised in corporate circles as a playful, innovative, and zany company with a fiercely loyal customer base — during a talk as part of a business school MBA elective course.

Her rhetorical style is decidedly not up to Trump's zany standard, but on this day it matched the U.S. president's manner of threat - making that is as ominous as it is vague, and subject to change according to the political whims, or winds.

Set during the week of July 4, 1983 — at the apocalyptic edge of Orwell's predicted end of the modern experiment — the novel seemed a piece of zany hyperbole when it was published in 1971.

But, with the help of the ever - handy Blue Letter Bible, we can debunk that notion quicker than the zany guys from Mythbusters.

Not the zany kind you get in some churches where the goal is to put the Psychic Hotline out of business, but the biblical kind.

She has more obvious parallels to the kind of character Michael Scott proved to be, with his unfiltered mouth and zany workplace stunts, but Sykes also brings as much sweetness as Carell did.

Sherwood Schwartz writes and produces a number of popular television series, including «Gilligan «s Island,» a comedy originated in the l960s in which a zany group of castaways manage to survive not only shipwreck, but each other.

In this mood he writes like a bemused spectator, watching the zany antics of an adult world.

And unlike you start your post, the prophets of old were probably zany like ones you might find in a charismatic church.

Speaking about the film recently in Los Angeles, Cera — who in this film, takes some refreshingly bold steps away from his usual one - note nerd persona — and co - writer / director Edgar Wright (who also did the zany cult classics Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz) discussed the meaning of the film, the stretching Cera had to go through for the role, and the way in which the film's hyperkinetic action sequences are really just the same as the dance scenes in Grease or a Gene Kelly movie.

He is bright - eyed, brave, kind and courteous, to say nothing of zany.

After one of the zaniest opening months ever, Washington emerged, then lost at No. 14 USC.

Afterward, sitting in the shade of a patio umbrella, Hamilton tries to drum up zany proposition bets.

Of course, what people mostly ask about is Rader's far - different public persona: Doug Rader, the zany, flaky Houston Astro third baseman who sat on a birthday cake in the clubhouse; Doug Rader, the madman in Jim Bouton's book Ball Four who advised kids to eat baseball cards to ingest all the information printed on them; Doug Rader, the raging tyrant - manager of the Texas Rangers who was fired after ferocious confrontations with players and writerOf course, what people mostly ask about is Rader's far - different public persona: Doug Rader, the zany, flaky Houston Astro third baseman who sat on a birthday cake in the clubhouse; Doug Rader, the madman in Jim Bouton's book Ball Four who advised kids to eat baseball cards to ingest all the information printed on them; Doug Rader, the raging tyrant - manager of the Texas Rangers who was fired after ferocious confrontations with players and writerof the Texas Rangers who was fired after ferocious confrontations with players and writers.

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Zany Zoo (ages 1 - 3) is a large wooden cube that captivates with five surfaces of engaging activities.

Aptly named Heelarious, the shoes can not support any weight and are not intended to be anything other than comfortable, but zany, baby shoes in a range of trendy designs.

He was scathing about the acolytes of New Labour where eyes were fixed, as he once put it, on the small picture, but is himself zany about the wickedness of hunting or of planting leylandii.

But to their credit, the Conservatives came up with a particularly zany way of banning these gatherings, which was to outlaw «sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats» played above a certain volume to a certain number of people.

For something a little more soap opera / melodramatic try BLACKBERRY DAZE at the Robeson, for zany comedy try the Kavinoky's THE FOREIGNER, and for a swirl of graceful aerial charm, try STELLALUNA at Theatre of Youth.

It's a zany, nonsensical world of fantasy trade arrangements.

The more serious material takes aim at dictatorships and authoritarian government, like a zany pop culture representation of Orwell's prediction of a «boot stamping on a human face — forever».

Whole libraries could be filled with accounts of the zany ways people have tried to overcome the eye - contact conundrum.

What stands out in this sensitive portrait of her is just how many of her characteristic traits — an intense drive, an impulse to create art, a zany sense of fun — have survived.

His zany artistic interpretations have gotten him kicked out of countless schools and cited for a municipal trash - dumping violation.

The other winners of this year's Ig Nobel Prizes were equally zany and creative, from a measurement of the friction between a shoe and a banana peel to the modulation of the pain caused by a burning laser while people viewed good or bad art.

For the rest of us, the same zany phenomenon can apply in a milder form.

I got ta agree with you, some of these bloopers were every bit «zany».

Oh, yes, there were florals, too, which anchored the zanier motifs with a hint of romance.

You're probably already shopping here because of the great variety of zany pieces, basics, and flattering dresses.

DoingSomething have a reputation for staging some of the zaniest dating events in London town, and last weekend was no exception.

There surely are a lot of desperate, crazy, zany, fun folk out there in the internet dating world.

I have a zany sense of humour and an independent nature.

A little bit zany but sane... A sense of humor and loves a bit of conversation, and a good story.

Use descriptive words that illustrate your passions and personality such as, accomplished, articulate, artistic, distinguished, energetic, enthusiastic, scintillating, impish sense of humor, zany and so on.

I have a zany sense of humour and often see outside the square.

Built on crazy special effects work and even zanier antics, Waititi and screenwriters Eric Pearson, Craig Kyle, and Christopher Yost avoid these lulls, perpetually pushing forward lots of in - jokes for MCU fans, and plenty of spoof - tinged moments to draw you into the peculiar world of comedy contained within a relatively basic plot structure.

Unlike many recent «hard R» comedies, which tend to operate at one speed (zany), «Bosses» is careful to balance the outrageous with a healthy dose of subtlety.

To an entire generation of viewers, actress Dawn Wells will forever be associated with her recurring portrayal of Mary Ann Summers, the sugar - sweet and open - faced country lass shipwrecked on a desert isle with one of the zaniest television ensembles of the»60s, on the sitcom Gilligan's Island (1964 - 1967).

Zany mediation antics, an impromptu makeover in a frat house bathroom, a creepily introverted roommate, a strangely smitten hunk, and frequent partying break up the monotony of dwelling on the virtually absent realism of infidelity and financial strains, as every situation can be laughed off with the same ease in which McCarthy can fall into bouts of giggles.

Elijah Wood goes all in to the zany, Jared Hess-esque antics of rat - tailed metal - head martial - artist Tony, but never disappears into the role in a way that would make for an astute send - up.

For those interested in zany experimentalism, Black Dice's latest is a welcome addition to a long line of solid releases, but for those who have never been awed by this brand of cacophony, Mr. Impossible offers little besides noise.

Fairchild's TV - movie and miniseries credits include Honey Boy (1982), North and South, Book 2 (1986), and a return to comedy in The Zany Adventures of Robin Hood (1985).

The characters are zany and find themselves in all sorts of predicaments.

Death Road to Canada attempts to offset the normally dark themes of the zombie genre with zany characters, a charming pixel art style, and poppy music, but the lack of depth to its combat and randomly generated content will quickly leave you feeling frustrated and unsatisfied.

Exactly like their reboot of VACATION, directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein return with a wonderfully zany flick that gives us hope when it comes to the crumbling state of the comedy movie.