Sentences with word «potshot»

In fact, Roberts makes no mention of the court's holding until he recites the procedural history, and even then he abstains from taking potshots at the court's decision.

It's a reasonably funny religious satire that takes potshots at easy targets but is quite watchable due to the participation of two Oscar winners and two Oscar nominees.

You could stay well back from the fight, taking potshots with a rifle or grenade, and build up to a level three attack without much effort.

The series quickly begins to resemble one of those fake sitcoms you'd see in a snide movie that likes to take easy potshots at low culture.

Klaatu (Keanu Reeves: Street Kings, A Scanner Darkly), the ET who gets potshot at the beginning of the film, gets it: «Your problem is not technology.

What do opposing politicians do when they return energised from their Christmas hols and face each other hungrily across the despatch box for the first time in weeks, following days of party - political potshots about extreme flooding, the cuts and our PM's hair (or, in time, scalp) stylist?

Scrolling around the cluttered screen to take a few potshots with a pistol is often more work than it's worth.

We all speak out of what's going on in our heart, so when people start making potshots at other people that are uncalled for or unfair, it really shows what's inside of them.»

On the other hand, Ontario's court system is plagued by delay (which has many causes) and it is against the public interest to allow litigants to take potshots against the province.

And, Lynch made sure to tell us, those prices are for ad - free devices that actually come with AC adapters (few opportunities for potshots at Amazon went unseized on this day).

«The Mayor spent his day talking about Dr. King, not taking political potshots from the cheap seats,» said spokesman Eric Phillips.

Cronenberg, for his part, shoots this cavalcade of random potshots as functionally as possible — this is easily his least visually distinguished film (and also, perhaps not coincidentally, the first film he's ever shot in the U.S.).

So lest you think I'm in awe of him or something... I just thought it was funny and that it was amusing as well that he would open himself up to more potshots so soon.

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Critic Consensus: Shrek the Third has pop culture potshots galore, but at the expense of the heart, charm, and wit that made the first two Shreks classics.

Critics Consensus: Shrek the Third has pop culture potshots galore, but at the expense of the heart, charm, and wit that made the first two Shreks classics.

In this film, Free Fire, almost every second sees its well - rounded ensemble ducking behind pillars and firing potshots at each other.

I'm not just aiming potshots at Petrilli for the sake of it.

In what has turned out to be an interesting event, Meizu is on a roll taking potshots on other companies.

What I will not tolerate, however, is someone needling and taking potshots who can't be bothered to engage in an adult exchange.

During the legal wrangling, the FTC revealed that over a period of years — and under a screen - name alias — Mackey had been promoting his company (and taking the occasional potshot at Wild Oats) in more than 1,000 comments on Yahoo Finance message boards.

The two have been taking thinly veiled musical potshots at each other since 2014.

They simply want to hide behind an alias and take gratuitous potshots at the Church.

Meanwhile, U.K. pundits have continued tolob potshots at MLS, arguing that Beckham won't be sharp for national - teamgames if he's toiling in «a semiretirement home» (The Guardian) or «a Mickey Mouse league» (The Independent).

Broner always relied on heavy potshots knowing that whatever might come back at him wasn't going to deter him.

Perhaps we should be testing Foster more with long - range potshots.

He's a minor player in his 10th year of UFC competition (Debut at UFC 81 — Mir / Lesnar & Sylvia / Big Nog), but I think he'll either successfully potshot Shoeface for a few rounds, or just get taken down and tapped.

He said late Thursday that his way is the lone approach that could yield anything for the GOP, shrugging aside other ideas as mostly pointless potshots.

The discussions follow potshots from the Cuomo administration about how Mayor de Blasio «can't manage the homeless crisis» and is «inept» at dealing with the issue.

Ardi has been hit with one potshot after another since she was unveiled to the world.

If you cut through Lucas» thickets of self - reflexivity, metaphysical mumbo jumbo and banal potshots at media violence, there are three ace performances here by actors who can elevate and enliven even as mediocre a piece of material as this.

Rugrats in Paris also takes friendly potshots at King Kong, Jurassic Park, Lady and the Tramp, A Few Good Men, Godzilla, The Godfather, and many other movies.

Smith took a self - deprecating potshot at his own Cop Out.

However, you posting someone else's work and taking potshot insults is rather uncalled for in my opinion.

Many use the same attacks they've been using since Metal Slug 2, such as hand - throwing rockets and alternately delivering potshots with a rifle and cowering behind cover to reload.

Jimmy Kimmel took a lot of indirect potshots at the president, too, like when he asked Meryl Streep whether her gown was from Ivanka's fashion line.

Whether taking gleeful potshots at Donald Trump and the second season of True Detective, traipsing gamely through the musical tribute to binge - watching that opened the show, or revealing his HBO Now login and password to the public (it actually worked, at least for a bit), the Brooklyn Nine - Nine star was the best Emmys host in years.

Unlike Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers, though, Van Bebber never attempts broad satirical potshots (at least until an unnecessary epilogue, which mocks the glib mentality of «Charlie Don't Surf» poseurs).

It has the same humorous tone, dirtier jokes, and uses every opportunity to take a meta potshot at pretty much anything — not even Barbra Streisand and Frozen get away unscathed this time around.

Class - war potshots distract attention from this follow - up's shaky plot, but it still resembles an exploitation film, writes Mark Kermode

«I feel like a coward taking potshots half a world away... The most dangerous thing I do is drive home on the freeway,»

As in Stiller's Zoolander (which co-starred Ferrell) and the more recent Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, stupid extremes, surprise cameos, and affectionate potshots at bygone fashions, music, and attitudes are the orders of the day.

This is a film composed exclusively of simplistic potshots and walking clichés, its humor strictly confined to the lowest - common denominator in both content and execution.