Sentences with phrase «of uppity»

This will undoubtedly vary from the accounts of uppity film critics who will discount the basic plot and obvious laughs (which is the whole point).

At first just awkward, the situation turns eerily malevolent when additional guests — all white — arrive, as if Peele had crossed a movie like Betrayed, a 1988 thriller about going undercover in a white supremacist hate group, with The Stepford Wives, that twice - adapted tale of one small community's drastic solution to the problem of uppity women.

Summary Capsule: Fish - man breaks his code of uppity - ness to help a naked woman and a tattooed kiddo find dirt.

The moral of the story is being yourself in the face of uppity Europeans and a father who wants to hide you away is the epitome of patriotis.

I first read a number of articles there which I thought were pretty reasonable and interesting, and then I discovered a blog post which was kind of uppity / snippy about Stefani's article here, and I thought that particular post was unnecessarily dismissive and narrow - minded.

When I ope4ned his gift to me for Christmas it was a total insult about the last 15 years of a box of dog excrement, Him and his friends set up a wagon wheel in his fathers yard complete with rawhide tie down straps, A whip hanging on the tree and a sign that said the community was free to come participate in the whippen of the uppity slave that day.

Not exact matches

Acquiring other brands from food companies under pressure from uppity shareholders could be one way of boosting returns.

Since non-black ladies already know the domestic violence and crime statistics, the community of colour had little to worry about black men running off wit dem uppity white women... but now that da black man is startin to get a taste for the DARK OAK... the community is getting hit hard... the ONLY way to presevere and keep the dark ladies from dyin» virgins is to condemn to hel l any black man who dares to dream (realistically of course) of coming home to anything but Thunder Thighs.

Not to be outdone by those uppity Piedmontese in Turin, a priest of Genoa, Fr.

It scrambles up and onward always by spiralling round whatever stands in its path — drainpipe, porch pillar, / lawn chair — but then, once anchored, corkscrews round itself, amassing braided cables of self - hugging self - satisfaction, the conquering hero's doublejointed pat on his own back, the unbridled ego trip impelled by the uppity sap from deepest root to farthest outflung tip, ecstatically, imperially quivering toward its vegetal entelechy.

Dr. Patrick Deneen has gotten all uppity and wants some kind of showdown at one of his people's corrals between the Postmodern Conservatives and the «Front Porch Republicans» (none of whom would be caught dead doing something REALLY conservative like voting REPUBLICAN).

Furthermore, she never does the irritating «feisty» or «sassy» or «uppity» shtick that endeared the all - female Ghostbusters reboot of 2016 to feminist film critics but to no one else.

The original article that provoked all of this was a racist article from an uppity black woman telling whites we shouldn't have our white santa.

This post is for those of you who, like me, typically avoid fancy - pants food that might take more than 20 minutes to make and which would've tasted just as good if all ingredients were just thrown together in a pan without the uppity presentation.

Some SWIS supporters — and there are more than 3.000 throughout the country — describe the case as a «judicial lynching» of «uppity» blacks by the white establishment.

Kahr agrees with the physical attributes — the superb coordination, the instinct for gliding, the quick reflexes — but he also cites a couple of less tangible characteristics: «I can say that the ideal downhiller must be a little uppity, a little arrogant,» Downhill Charlie says.

His mother and father had worse waiting A 2000 dollart cleanup of the outside of their house and a large antique wagon wheel set up in the front yard with Rawhide wrist straps A bull whip and a sign that told the community to come witness the uppity nigger get his whipen meaning him.

wow, what an uppity load of bull.

It seemed his lordship needed some help taking on the uppity government in the Ashcroft protectorate of Belize.

This slouchy, menswear - inspired ensemble provides a prime example of Markle's plan to be a different sort of duchess — the effortlessly cool Serena van der Woodsen to Kate Middleton's uppity Blair Waldorf.

I totally wrote off Nordstrom in the past as being this uppity, goody - two - shoes of a retailer.

-LCB- gasp -RCB- Before we get all uppity, keep in mind that I'm 32, I've already invested in a Rolex, and now I'm kind of looking for a relatively inexpensive way to change it up every so often.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder plays a working - class gay man hoodwinked by his uppity bourgeois lover in this unsparing portrait of queer culture in 1970s West Germany.

Idiocracy a fun film for those who laugh at, or perhaps lament, the sorry state of our society, where reading is increasingly being deemed by youth culture as passé, popular entertainment has nearly no emphasis on story (Judge portrays films of the future as nothing but shots of bare asses that occasionally fart, which the audience finds consummately entertaining), and people can't speak intelligently without being labeled as uppity snobs.

And probably the very primary reason for that is young Maisie Williams, an actress so brilliantly suited to this, her first role, that it's almost too much of a wrench to imagine her playing anyone but the scrappy, uppity, doggedly loyal but ferociously prickly pint - sized Lady of Winterfell.

Tony Hale (Veep) and Thomas Lennon (Reno 911) play uppity educators, with Jenna Fischer (The Office) and Judy Greer as the boy's moms (the perennial bff is asked to pull off perhaps the new years» worst line of dialogue, «My Lord is bigger than your statistics»).

Having a small of custom AI warriors at your disposal is quite nice, especially when your nephew gets uppity with his skills.

Ever been to an «emergency» three - hour PTA meeting wherein the uppity dictator of a PTA president demands that all parents provide homemade, gluten - free, nut - free, preservative - free, yet tasty and nutritious baked goods for the school bake sale?

So this is the big question, then: Are so many American men so oppressed by the «horrors» of modern life — high cholesterol, uppity wives, smartass children, cell phones, boring jobs, the general dead - eyed awfulness of suburbia — that they need a stupid movie like this one to tell them that if they don't like their lives they should do something about it?

Much like the uppity couples, they have their own set of rules that have extreme punishments.

It's hardly even worth complaining, then, that Anchorman uses its faux satire of the 1970s as an excuse to play out male fantasies of knocking uppity women — like aspiring anchorwoman Christina Applegate (View from the Top, The Sweetest Thing)-- back down into their proper place; as with the new Stepford Wives, Anchorman pretends to send up passé attitudes while actually expressing very contemporary fears.

We went to a store in laurel a few hours after my mother calling into that store and for the lady that she talked to to hold a particular car, we get there and it had been sold not very long before hand, this lady then was seriously snotty and sarcastic, so I walk outside and pace a bit to cool off, when I come back in she is all pissy and trying to sell us something else and saying that she wasn't supposed to, willing to or did mother ask her to hold a car, and that when it gets busy etc...., so we leave and go to leave, I get pissed and we turn around, come back into that store, I walk up to talk to a manager, she comes over, over talks me, tells only her side of the «truth», I try to talk to the manager and tell him what we were after, he tries to sell me a 2010, I try to tell him that it was too new, he tells me to hold on that it will be ok, so I try to tell him that we were after X and that the lady from earlier in this post did x y and z and that I find / found her to be dippy, he gets uppity and pissy, tells me that I can't talk to a woman like that, I tell him that yes I can» equality» you know?

After this she moved to the Minneapolis Tribune as the first woman police reporter and later as the reporter responsible for covering social change during which she wrote about «militant blacks, angry Indians, radical students, uppity women and a motley assortment of other misfits and troublemakers.»

That «village» is the city of York, England in the 17th Century; home to an uppity woman by the name of Lady Bridget Hodgson.

How that uppity tart cousin of theirs looked at the fireman's ball last night?

By the early summer of 2016, those uppity gremlins had grown louder.

As part of the international effort, That Uppity Theater Company in St. Louis partnered with US Green Building Council - Missouri Gateway Chapter and Missouri Interfaith Power & Light to present «Playhouse Emissions: A Climate Change Theatre Action.»

Meanwhile, Texas generates the most wind power of any state in the country by a long shot, underscoring that renewables growth isn't driven by those uppity coastal elitists strapping solar panels to their Teslas to save the climate.

He attempts to sell his discomfort with uppity feminists and misguided social engineers by blaming them for the sad state of educational quality.

Events of currently unpredictable potential will tend to happen when the little people seriously become uppity upstarts in the minds / hallowed halls of the CREAcrats.