Sentences with phrase «on yuppie»

DeMarco said that when he is «just cruising on the impersonal internet — you know, the current, like, Facebook, Twitter, you're barely on the open ocean of the internet anymore, it's almost always filtered through one of those things... when you see the cracks form or some x-factor image that feels like its a weird thing that you're seeing, it's cool to have a place to put it» — which is to say, on the Yuppie Dystopia channel.

Still, there are undeniably funny bits, with commentary on yuppie - dom and the state of modern business that makes it a perfect example of the materialistic thinking that was so rampant in the Eighties.

So excited to be featured on The Yuppie Files!

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We may put ourselves on a list to adopt children with disabilities in order to provide a backup for someone who is struggling with the decision, Churches tempted to aim for yuppie - friendly perfection in their church pageants and Sunday school instead may need to reconfigure the expectations of the parents they seek to attract.

With the benefit cap meaning that housing benefit will be capped at a point where for many who rely on it will have to move away, which means areas with relative affluence with sites of former counci estates, which are now being snapped up by yuppies or young professionals renting them will increase in an area — less likely to vote Labour than those who were on receipt of housing benefit.

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Just as the boomers have had an impact on society at every stage of their lives (the hippies of the «60s became the yuppies of the «80s), they continue to change the way older people see themselves.

If you are looking for a nerd, a yuppie, or a preppy keep looking I am a man and with you a i can have an intelligent conversation, a candlelit dinner or you can live on the edge with me and take a moonlit ride on my harley.

The first half concerns Brooklyn high - school student Chantel (Ariyan Johnson) as she deals with academic disagreements with her teachers (at one point getting into shouting match about the Holocaust), takes advantage of her boyfriend's wallet to go on a shopping spree, and confronts yuppies in the Upper West Side gourmet shop where she works.

If this were a show about creative passion, then maybe Ben and Cam would be a little more interesting than the glossy professional yuppies on every other channel, straining to make that promotion and bag that babe.

This mild 1984 comedy about a mermaid (Daryl Hannah) who falls in love with a New York City yuppie (Tom Hanks) isn't at all hard to take (John Candy, in a supporting role, is hilarious and original, and Hannah has a pleasant naive charm), but its appeal is based almost entirely on regression — a thematic regression to infancy (now endemic to the American cinema) and a stylistic regression to the most lulling kind of TV blandness.

Unfolding with the inevitability of a bad dream, The Killing Of A Sacred Deer is Lanthimos» darkly intense, almost biblical spin on one of those thrillers about a yuppie family terrorized by a vengeful stalker.

Almost immediately, she's honed in on by two very different types of predatory men: Her boss (Justin Bartha) is a cavalier yuppie who comes on to her in his office (which she goes along with willingly), while a neighborhood drug dealer named Blue (Brian «Sene» Marc) simultaneously teases and covets her (again, she goes along willingly).

«Nancy, Please veers from a yuppie nesting comedy into a nifty psychological thriller — as well as a dead - on depiction of doctoral - student psychosis.»

Playing on the hipster habit of prizing of all things retro, the film leaves no stone unturned in pitting the Bushwick Bohemians against the older yuppies.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS 0s & 1s (Unrated) Digital Age comedy about a yuppie (Morgan Krantz) who's so dependent on his computer that his life starts to come apart at the seams when he discovers after a night of partying that someone has stolen his laptop.

What naïve Neal doesn't know is that this calculating, clean - cut yuppie isn't just curious but seriously considering opening a competing cereal diner on the corner right across the street.

His buddy Johnny (Ralph Macchio) kills the yuppie scum, sending the two on the run into teen melodrama history.

Ten Thousand Saints / U.S.A. (Directors: Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman, Screenwriters: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini)-- Based on the acclaimed novel, Ten Thousand Saints follows three lost kids and their equally lost parents as they come of age in New York's East Village in the era of CBGB, yuppies, and the tinderbox of gentrification that exploded into the Tompkins Square Park Riot of 1988.

Braff is prototypical emo yuppie Michael, who, on the eve of tying the knot with lovely Jenna (Jacinda Barrett), meets a free - spirit skank (Kim (Rachel Bilson)-RRB- and almost (or successfully) ruins everything in the pursuit of fresh tail.

Then, after a social function for donors puts the lavish jewels of «rich yuppies» on display, Frank and his reluctant partner in crime begin studying the habits of the affluent Jake and his wife in anticipation of a big heist.

John Carpenter's underrated sci - fi horror movie did more than skewer yuppies — it gave us the last word on the Reagan era

For the first act, we are introduced to our main characters: a poor Latin - American mother and daughter (Carmen Ejogo and Zoe Soul, the real hearts of this film), an insufferable yuppie couple on the brink of divorce (Zach Gilford and Kiele Sanchez) from which we get the lion's share of our Crash - style white guilt narrative, and Frank Grillo as a grieving father / ex-soldier who feels the urge to Purge one particular soul on this night.

Whereas the first Purge focused on one yuppie family and their domestic squabbles in a gated community, The Purge: Anarchy creates a surprisingly smart and well - honed structure that allows for an anthology of smaller stories to be told within this larger world.

Little moments earn smiles: the parking - lot meeting between Annika and Megan; the latter's attempts to explain to her budding - yuppie friend (Ellie Kemper) that twisting the nipples of a giant, plastic Buddha is a joke about nipples, not a joke about Buddha; and the scene in which Rockwell's character, acting as a surrogate for the audience, demands answers from the stranger sleeping on the floor of his daughter's bedroom.

Ever watched on in helpless disbelief as your best friends turned into soulless materialist yuppies as the years progressed?

Brooks plays Daniel, an underachieving yuppie businessman who carelessly takes his new Mercedes for a spin, only to run head - on into a city bus.

Symbolism is everywhere as Manglehorn keeps his emotions «locked» away from his snooty yuppie son (Chris Messina) and retreats into his imaginary relationship with Clara, rather than embracing Dawn's brave come - on.

The funny lady might have made TV hay as yuppie princess Elaine Benes on «Seinfeld» and, currently, as our nation's second - in - command on the scathing political series «Veep.»

As for all that hairdresser talk, clearly the past weighs heavily on the SLK name, much the same as the bad years of sissy BMW 3 - series» relationship with yuppie stockbrokers made it difficult to turn opinion when the 3 - series got its act together.

But what really sends Porschephiles» outrage into overdrive is the thought that Porsche has turned its back on its sports - car - loving fan base to appeal to a different breed of driver: the yuppie dilettante.

However, over the decades you have seen those thriving Yuppie suburbs decline as the Yuppies moved on and the economy has radically changed and declined.

In Vostok Inc., you play as a corrupt, narcissistic yuppie, hell - bent on raking in as much money as possible in a greed - driven, twin - stick shooter without a conscience.

Switch owners can become corrupt, trigger - happy yuppies December 7th on the Nintendo Switch!

After novels like Bright Lights, Big City and Less than Zero, Longo's dance of death took on a new meaning, as emblems of yuppie nightlife.

Yuppies leaned over in thought and flailed on the dance floor as if a Tribeca lifestyle amounted to existential torture and a study in identity.

Nikki S. Lee is an artist best known for taking on the characteristics of figures within subcultures, including drag queens, yuppies, and hip - hop fans.

This is a way of saying that even a Yuppie boycott of tuna risotto in the US will have little effect on catching fish.

About a month ago I started selling off many of my «things» and wrapping up my yuppie condo lifestyle and I was planning on sending my resume» out far and wide to organizations doing ocean and paleo - climate research.

Hence, the rise of Hinge for yuppies, The League for elitists, Bumble for shy guys, The Catch for wordsmiths, Meld for black professionals, Willow for those who care about personality not looks, HeavenlySinful for those who want to get laid, Thaijoop for ladyboys (kathoey), SaladMatch for health nuts, Uniform Dating for people in the armed forces, and the list goes on.