Sentences with word «poolroom»

56 year old fit man that has avoided being set on fire and beaten out with a pick axe,, likes dogs, friendly people,, quiet mountain streams and smokey poolrooms.

In fact, in the look and feel of its marshes and dingy poolrooms, The Departed resembles the even more recent Mystic River — beyond similar accents, you can feel and smell the stickiness of the weeks - old spilled bourbon clinging to the wood in the bar scenes.

The first such sequence occurs early in the film, when the recently - released ex-con Petey and his fiery, devoted girlfriend, Vernell (Taraji P. Henson), meet Dewey Hughes (Chiwetel Ejiofor), the program director of the R&B music station WOL, at a local poolroom.

Zadie Smith's dazzling first novel plays out its bounding, vibrant course in a Jamaican hair salon in North London, an Indian restaurant in Leicester Square, an Irish poolroom turned immigrant café, a liberal public school, a sleek science institute.

Both the first - and second - class poolrooms are haunted by two women and children that drowned aboard, and cries can sometimes be heard coming from the once third - class children's playroom where an infant died.

«Manuel went to parks and poolrooms, wherever the teenagers were, «Klinman said.

Up until the poolroom meeting, Petey has been portrayed as a charismatic, funny hustler and Dewey as a stick - up - the - ass assimilationist, a brother who's carved out a niche in The Man's world and doesn't dare risk losing it by betting on the likes of Petey.

The first title was a matter - of - fact name of the painting; the second title was a phony, pedantic title; and the third title was a poolroom title, a filthy title written by a cretin — an idiot sizing up the picture, say.

She plays a girl out for a night of fun at a poolroom.