Sentences with phrase «quips flying»

Its characteristics are unmistakable: rapid - fire dialogue with quips flying as often as bullets, a cadre of contemporary character actors playing gangster, and a deep well of edgy cynicism on which to hang these affectations.

The quips fly as fast as the bullets do, landing with about the same frequency — which is to say, semi-regularly.

The quips fly as fast as the bullets, and the tense stretch right before or after a high - stakes heist is sometimes punctured by some inspired comic relief — say, a lunkheaded criminal confusing fictional Hollywood...

Not exact matches

«I buy tickets now, because I'm retired,» he quipped to the mostly free flying crowd.

Free Fire devotes itself to a whole hour of flying stuff — bullets, barbs, quips, broken glass and other detritus, some of it human.

For all the money and resources the studio dumps into its whiz - bang showdowns, these are still superhero extravaganzas that put more stock in quips than spectacle; «cool enough» is about the highest praise one can usually lavish upon their elaborate climaxes, even when they feature a rampaging rage - monster, dueling deities, or a fleet of flying battle drones.

All the elements for a breezy (or bloody) French window farce are in place, but once the tired quips start flying and the hitherto - unspoken truths start piling up, it's clear that the script has nothing to say and a very awkward way of saying it.

Under Jenkins» direction, «Wonder Woman» offers the requisite rousing fight sequences, clever quips and even the rare comic - book movie romance that actually gets sparks flying.

And while the film is made for children, the quips during the adventure — many of the British upper - class twit variety — come fast and furious and will mostly fly way over their heads.

The curses and quips will be flying fast and furious.

Forty years have passed since CUPE v New Brunswick Liquor [16] and we are still looking for the true jurisdictional question despite the truth lurking behind Professor MacLauchlan's incisive quip: «once you start thinking about jurisdiction it is like extracting oneself from fly - paper; it is virtually impossible to break free.»