Sentences with phrase «ripped out of the headlines»

The story of Don Jon could have been ripped out of the headlines, well, the headlines of MTV's Jersey Shore.

Topical stories have the quality of being current, ripped out of the headlines, a take on what is happening right now.

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Why bother to nattily plot out the film's visual vocabulary when the story itself is treated as little more than ripped - from - the - headlines sensationalism, devoid of nuance and empathy?

But for all its ripped - from - the - headlines urgency, Polisse plays out as something close to a histrionic farce, with endless scenes of the detectives themselves verbally and / or physically abusing suspects and colleagues, railing against Sarkozy, and holding forth about their personal lives in the company of a photojournalist (played by the director) assigned to document the unit for a government - sponsored book.