Sentences with phrase «on sad sacks»

Within the chronological story, there are chapters on medics, nurses, and doctors; on the quartermasters; on replacements; on what it was like to spend a night on the front lines; on sad sacks, cowards, and criminals; on Christmas 1944; on weapons of all kinds.

«One day, he was really going to town on his sad sacks, below his Banana Republic boxer briefs.

«One day on set he was really going to town on his sad sack,» Kroll remembered.

Not exact matches

The idea that «trying» is what counts — regardless of results — is a dreary commentary and a cheap excuse foisted on the real doers and the winners by sad sacks and also - rans who just can't cut it.

What makes it a delight to watch is how Baker avoids the sad sack stereotypes that Hollywood projects lean on when depicting poor people, and finds a way to make your heart swell with joy for the resilience of the human spirit even as he's breaking it into pieces.

sack of local milled grits, for example, or finding a use for that sad little smear of pumpkin pie filling in the bottom of the can BEFORE I go on a cranberry bender.

ISIAH THE LEADER The presence of Isiah Thomas («I Have Got To Do Right, «Jan. 19) on the court has given the once sad - sack Pistons the ability to challenge for the Central Division title.

I think Arsene might regret signing that new deal, if we're out of the title race by Christmas and even if we lose back to back games early on I think the knives will be out for him which in my opinion will be sad, I didn't want him to sign a new deal but I didn't want to see him sacked.

Wenger is an amazing manager a consistent winner most managers get to a club the club signs all theses big players for him and say please win and the manager wins if luckey on to three seasons then fired cause the players got old and the manager did hardly a thing we habe a loual great you sad sack maybe arsenal fans we beat spurs on aggregate this season again thanks to mr. Wenger and if we did nt get another poor official call would have been 1 - 0 up the sad thing is we should be 3rd or second in table but stikers have underperformed regardless of beating united as we dominated them but lossed the players fell off in 5 games swansea westbrom stoke city watford bournemouth and lets mention horrible officiating this year we have a great manager its just this year the bounces and calls havent gone our way i mean i love watching us constantly beat chelsea lets have a real assessment for once those games are the difference in the season right now and thats not wengers fault the players faild to perform from winning positions

Appearing on the Today programme this morning, Hunt admitted that Green was sacked, saying he had «lied on a particular incident» and called it a «sad moment».

Such was my sad sack discovery yesterday while trying this skirt on.

In Richard Ayoade's sharp debut film, Oliver Tate is a precocious 15 - year - old Welsh virgin who has a crush on a tough girl, Johanna, and a mother who might just be cheating on his sad - sack dad.

A cameo as Drew Barrymore's sad sack boyfriend Chad in the blockbuster Charlie's Angels (2000) paid off personally when Green and Barrymore became an offscreen item; after much hedging and a faux jilting at the altar on Saturday Night Live in November 2000, the two married quietly in 2001.

It opens to blowing papers that remind instantly of the chits around the feet of Wall Street traders (who were themselves brutalized in this year's Dark Knight Rises), then focuses in on sad - sack criminals and the sad - sack organized - crime bureaucrats enlisting the sad - sack assassins to kill them.

I've seen Jemaine Clement in various supporting roles over the years, but never really latched on to him as a performer (I saw not one episode of his «Flight of the Conchords «-RRB-, but he makes for a very appealing sad sack of a leading man.

The Farrellys have taken the bowl - cut ringleader Moe (Chris Diamantopoulos), the Bozo - haired sad sack Larry (Sean Hayes), and the light - on - his - toes oaf Curly (Will Sasso) and plunked them down in 21st - century America, where a babe (Sofia Vergara) and her boyfriend (Craig Bierko) lure them into a plot to murder the babe's husband (Kirby Heyborne).

This emphasis on complexity and a disinterest in reducing a heroine to a sad - sack victim extends to Lelio's hyper - vivid aesthetic, which drapes the film in surreal dream sequences, beautiful colors and left - field soundtrack choices like «Time» during a pivotal emotional scene.

Stiller is cannily cast here, offering a calmer sad - sack spin on his trademark obnoxiousness — when he glumly observes that «Life is wasted on... people,» it almost plays as a real - world Zoolanderism.

Willis, who we usually see on screen as supremely confident and adept cop characters, as Sharp he is a lonely, sad - sack policeman for whom life seems to have past by.

Writer - star Jason Segel pours himself body and soul (but mostly body, as a full - frontal nude scene attests) into this sad - sack breakup comedy, filled with dopey characters on Hawaii time.

Leto's Rayon in Dallas Buyers Club met with hostility not just because it embodied so many stereotypes («a sad - sack, clothes - obsessed, constantly flirting... drug - addict prostitute» as Steve Friess wrote in Time) but also because no trans consultants were enlisted, and because Leto used his speech on winning the Golden Globe for best supporting actor to talk about how that «tiny little Brazilian bubble butt was all mine» rather than anything he had learned about the realities of trans living.

Jon Lovitz, Southland Tales (2006) Jon Lovitz came to America's attention as a bumbling sad - sack on Saturday Night Live, best known for running gags like the «Girl Watchers» series, where he and Tom Hanks played two atonal, self - denigrating drips who dismissed every woman they saw as «waaaaay out of our league.»

Violet doesn't think much of Lilly's interest in exotic older grad student Xavier (Hugo Becker), preferring on principle the company of borderline illiterate «sad - sacks» like frat - boy boyfriend Frank (Ryan Metcalfe), whose lack of good looks and basic sense strikes her as an opportunity.

(Please go see him as sad - sack painter in Sunday in the Park with George on Broadway if you can — he's terrific.)

Sad sack dog catcher Gilly (Chris Klein), who has been living on his own for as long as he could remember, finally finds someone to be with when he meets Jo (Heather Graham), a hairdresser.

«Hey now» was the contrived on - air catchphrase of Hank Kingsley, the sad sack sidekick portrayed so vividly by Jeffrey Tambor on HBO's The Larry Sanders Show.

Paul Rudd is Ant Man; Richard Linklater on «Before Midnight's» fight scene; why stars we dig often work with stars we despise; «G.B.F.» was rated R for being gay; «Her» and the sad - sack sensitive man.

Thursday: A sad - sack dinner at my desk or on the train, or maybe just 3 KIND bars because I hate the Amtrak dining car and it hates me back.

Initially renowned for his gallery - based murals featuring a cast of sad - sack, hangdog figures on red grounds, he banished these trademark wall paintings in 2003 and switched to all - over op - art pattern painting as his signature backdrop.