Sentences with phrase «play uppity»

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.

Tony Hale (Veep) and Thomas Lennon (Reno 911) play uppity educators, with Jenna Fischer (The Office) and Judy Greer as the boy's moms (the perennial bff is asked to pull off perhaps the new years» worst line of dialogue, «My Lord is bigger than your statistics»).

Not exact matches

Rainer Werner Fassbinder plays a working - class gay man hoodwinked by his uppity bourgeois lover in this unsparing portrait of queer culture in 1970s West Germany.

And probably the very primary reason for that is young Maisie Williams, an actress so brilliantly suited to this, her first role, that it's almost too much of a wrench to imagine her playing anyone but the scrappy, uppity, doggedly loyal but ferociously prickly pint - sized Lady of Winterfell.

It's hardly even worth complaining, then, that Anchorman uses its faux satire of the 1970s as an excuse to play out male fantasies of knocking uppity women — like aspiring anchorwoman Christina Applegate (View from the Top, The Sweetest Thing)-- back down into their proper place; as with the new Stepford Wives, Anchorman pretends to send up passé attitudes while actually expressing very contemporary fears.

Uppity Negress addresses the layered roles gender and race have played historically in black women's ability to navigate their position in urban space.