Sentences with phrase «on uppity»

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

Anxiety over further losses to the AfD, especially at next year's state elections in Bavaria, has stopped Merkel imposing her more liberal world view on her uppity junior partners.

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Anyway, if we didn't have to put up with religion, it would undoubtedly be much nicer because it would be one less difference that humans would have to focus on and get all uppity about.

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.

they are going to be all uppity with a new manager and new lease on baseball life... I was hoping morale would stay low so we could walk away with another 3 wins.

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.

I remember the days when Nordstorm seemed like this uppity distant luxury retailer for the rich and famous; I would scoff at how crazy everyone was who spent too - much on «the same» tops and bottoms I was finding at discounted retailers elsewhere.

Each cast member sends themselves up perfectly — Rogen as the noncommittal, avoidant slacker, Baruchel as the uppity hipster actor who pretends he's «above» LA, the sanctimonious and overly - nice Hill, the earnest but buffoonish Robinson, the misanthropic McBride, and so on.

, season two became a crusade for a charter school with Anna (Katie Aselton, looking like Cameron Diaz) taking on the role as uppity - bitch with her French - inspired education idea (hey, but at least it's an idea, right?).

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.

Bale has already proven his ability to play an uppity killer in American Psycho, so it only follows that his performance as a similar, less exaggerated character would be spot - on.

As the group collects their bounty, Rocket Raccoon (Bradley Cooper) willfully angers their uppity employer (Elizabeth Debicki) and our quirky quintet is unwittingly off on a brand new life - or - death space odyssey.

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?

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Despite the constant negative attitude you create in other webforums regarding this topic and despite your uppity, demeaning attitude constantly being called out, you still seem to not get it, nor do I expect you to hence having you on ignore since last year.