Sentences with phrase «old duffer»

If your REI group is up for an old duffer like me crashing the dinner party send me the info.

My dad has commented that Mickey seems to want to «hang out with another old duffer.»

«Poor, sad, proud, too - tender Lear: the old man who loves to be loved; the prince embarrassed by the scope of his authority, yet jealous of royalty's perquisites; the ruler willing to give away his lawful prerogatives in order to hear — if just for a moment — that sweet gush of feminine gratitude; the vain old duffer whose need for affection makes him oblivious of its counterfeit.

The posters may have said Keep Calm and Carry On, but if the Nazis had made it over the Channel, the old duffers and dodgers of The Home Guard would have been neither use nor ornament.

It is The Old Duffers Flying Club and has around nine members, most of whom are hacks who have travelled the world and written about it, much as I have.

Not exact matches

Then we have the Dickensian old fool and arrogant duffer, Sir Chips Keswick, who thinks no fan is entitled to ask a PERTINENTquestion, as to why the club is a basket case.

Where Lowery interrogates nostalgia, with Robert Redford as an old man whose life has been fueled by the «magic» of a single encounter from his younger days, the Duffers soak in it, dropping homages like breadcrumbs and slathering on Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein's John Carpenter — biting synthesizer score.

First up was some old Sega duffer known as Sonic the Hedgehog, in a mini-game is based on the bonus stage in Sonic 2.