Sentences with phrase «rather tongue in cheek»

Yes, that's rather tongue in cheek, because I'm very aware that there is often more to the problem than a couple running out of hours in the day.

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In a rather tongue - in - cheek manner, Drogba seems to have taken a pot - shot at Fernando Torres and Liverpool FC in his autobiography, saying that he sympathised with the # 50 million - priced striker who might have felt like a big fish taken out of his small ponIn a rather tongue - in - cheek manner, Drogba seems to have taken a pot - shot at Fernando Torres and Liverpool FC in his autobiography, saying that he sympathised with the # 50 million - priced striker who might have felt like a big fish taken out of his small ponin - cheek manner, Drogba seems to have taken a pot - shot at Fernando Torres and Liverpool FC in his autobiography, saying that he sympathised with the # 50 million - priced striker who might have felt like a big fish taken out of his small ponin his autobiography, saying that he sympathised with the # 50 million - priced striker who might have felt like a big fish taken out of his small pond.

Rather than wise men kneeling beside Jesus» crib, the banner includes a tongue - in - cheek depiction of America's Founding Fathers standing around a crib that contains the Bill of Rights.

I decided to make mine rather more tongue in cheek than some of the others did, but they were all hugely entertaining...

At a Labour focused conference earlier this year, where Labour Humanists was exhibiting, I had a rather unpleasant encounter with a rising star in the Labour party, who had seen our rather tongue - in - cheek leaflets proclaiming «Still not doing God!»

Anyone following 30 Dates on Twitter @ 30Dates will have seen I wore a rather tongue - in - cheek outfit for the evening (NOT a dress I would ever consider wearing on a first date!).

Also, the way in which the film goes from serious tones to tongue in cheek moments is not really handled well either — from the knife wielding belly dancer to one of Samuel L. Jackson's trademark monologue, it feels rather forced at times.

Like this summer's other slapstick cause célèbre, «Pineapple Express,» it's a comedy with as high or higher a body count as the movies it purports to be parodying, and the problem isn't the violence per se but rather the fact that neither movie ever finds a satisfactory balance between tongue - in - cheek and guts - in - hand.

Speaking of which: in the series's latest bit of tongue - in - cheek revisionist history, it is disclosed that John F. Kennedy fast - tracked the moon landing not to beat the Soviet Union in the space race, but rather to secure a site where a giant Autobot vessel had crash - landed after a big war on Cybertron.

But Lussier (working from a script co-written with Todd Farmer) sells sex and violence with such tongue - in - cheek extremeness that the overall effect is of a rather straightforward supernatural - heroism tale straining oh - so - very - hard to be indecent.

Though it gets listed as a drama, there is a campy, tongue - in - cheek nature to the movie that suggests that we take what we see mostly as a fun genre exercise, and certainly the winking nature of the performances keeps the tone fairly light, despite some rather dark and dreary thematic material.

Rather than the serious tone that the first film took, this new Punisher is pure tongue - in - cheek silly violence.

Since the tease was rather vague, and quite a bit tongue - in - cheek, DualShockers asked Tabata - san to clarify whether a port is actually coming or not during an interview today at PAX West.

In which case, if I'm right, the statement was always tongue - in - cheek, intended to represent the world - view of people caught in their own «private sub-systems of authority», rather than an actual description of the real worlIn which case, if I'm right, the statement was always tongue - in - cheek, intended to represent the world - view of people caught in their own «private sub-systems of authority», rather than an actual description of the real worlin - cheek, intended to represent the world - view of people caught in their own «private sub-systems of authority», rather than an actual description of the real worlin their own «private sub-systems of authority», rather than an actual description of the real world.

He said, tongue in cheek, that the status of the court was so diminished that it could more aptly be described as a «twig» rather than a «branch.»