Sentences with word «palooka»

If it were, the Tigers could just field a team of palookas.

During boxing's bare - knuckle era, when palookas spat out their mouthguards and cursed the very idea of protective cups, gloves were for milquetoasts.

Zaza is a fine banging palooka, Javale has his streak energy, David has his late inning tough guy taking command energy.

Mickey Rourke stars as boozy washed - up palooka Johnny Walker, who dreams of winning the middleweight boxing title and is given one last shot at it.

This year, he goes the opposite route, packing on pounds and pounds of muscle to play a retiring palooka forced to crawl back into the ring after tragedy costs him his wife (Rachel McAdams) and young daughter.

A hipster dystopia to Jasmine, her new digs are home to estranged sister Ginger (Sally Hawkins), a manic grocery clerk perpetually settling for palooka types like current beau Chili (Bobby Cannavale) and ex-husband Augie (Andrew Dice Clay), who understandably never forgave his in - laws for persuading him to invest his 200 - grand lottery win into Hal's sinking business.

On one such job — investigating an armored - car mishap that left millions of dollars blowing in the breeze — the ailing palooka spies a young kid sneaking around with a suspicious backpack.

Jason Gore went from palooka to prince to palooka again, all in four days.

He went from palooka to prince to palooka again, all in four days.

they aren't the white knights of mma... the fkn Yakuza operated in a more decent fashion than these palookas lol

Back at the office, the dentist locks his daughter in her room to prevent her from eloping with the iceman, and takes out all his frustrations on his patients (whom he refers to as «buzzards» and «palookas»).

Lost in all of this was a little film called Rocky (1976), closer in spirit to the palooka redemption quests of On the Waterfront and Raging Bull, and filled with the kind of street poetry that mainstream audiences used to have plenty of patience for.

The movie tells three intersecting tales: the nervous lovebirds (Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer) knocking off a greasy spoon; the bumbling hit men (Samuel Jackson and John Travolta) analyzing the downside of hitting on the boss» wife; and the palooka (Bruce Willis) on the run after not taking a dive.

But, with hindsight, Brando-wise, Mann's more like Lee J Cobb in On The Warmerfront: a palooka like Mike Hulme don't know that when they come around asking whether you know anything about Johnny Tree - Rings and his hockey stick, a smart guy plays d - & - d, right?