Sentences with phrase «sad sack of»

One cold December night, he gets handed a job befitting a newcomer to organized crime: go collect this measly 300 grand debt (That's in Yen, mind you... that would have been around $ 2,450 in 1988 or just shy of $ 5k today, adjusting for inflation) from this sad sack of a dude, and deliver the money to the loan shark waiting for it.

In the photo he looks like a sad sack of potatoes no one wants to buy at the grocery store, his head lolling to one side, his features a conglomeration of puffiness.

I've seen Jemaine Clement in various supporting roles over the years, but never really latched on to him as a performer (I saw not one episode of his «Flight of the Conchords «-RRB-, but he makes for a very appealing sad sack of a leading man.

This sad sack of a show plays like an East Coast, economically challenged version of his HBO hit «Entourage.»

I'm not quite sure what the problem is but hi I'm roxy and this is my sad sack of a dress.

I didn't sign up to root for this sad sack of an organization to have to sit through pennant wins.

Not exact matches

The idea that «trying» is what counts — regardless of results — is a dreary commentary and a cheap excuse foisted on the real doers and the winners by sad sacks and also - rans who just can't cut it.

Bottom line: an IPO is no longer the brass ring for anyone with a brain and a real business — it's more likely to be a bunch of sad sacks and oversold salesman walking around with tin cups.

If anything, the sad sacks I met in the few AA meetings I attended who keep affirming their powerlessness seem to have been at least headed for a bad case of «learned impotence».

What makes it a delight to watch is how Baker avoids the sad sack stereotypes that Hollywood projects lean on when depicting poor people, and finds a way to make your heart swell with joy for the resilience of the human spirit even as he's breaking it into pieces.

sack of local milled grits, for example, or finding a use for that sad little smear of pumpkin pie filling in the bottom of the can BEFORE I go on a cranberry bender.

When I got home and noticed that the hood of my ever - problematic car was smoking after a drive around the block, and that the only fresh food we had in the fridge was a sad - sack head of cauliflower, I stopped caring about the «Why not me?»

ISIAH THE LEADER The presence of Isiah Thomas («I Have Got To Do Right, «Jan. 19) on the court has given the once sad - sack Pistons the ability to challenge for the Central Division title.

The Cubs used to be the sad sacks, but now they have a championship more recently than any of the other finalists.

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Arsene has become Arsenal... It's sad, but even if we lose every game till the end of the season Arsene won't be sacked by the board...

I think Arsene might regret signing that new deal, if we're out of the title race by Christmas and even if we lose back to back games early on I think the knives will be out for him which in my opinion will be sad, I didn't want him to sign a new deal but I didn't want to see him sacked.

Wenger is an amazing manager a consistent winner most managers get to a club the club signs all theses big players for him and say please win and the manager wins if luckey on to three seasons then fired cause the players got old and the manager did hardly a thing we habe a loual great you sad sack maybe arsenal fans we beat spurs on aggregate this season again thanks to mr. Wenger and if we did nt get another poor official call would have been 1 - 0 up the sad thing is we should be 3rd or second in table but stikers have underperformed regardless of beating united as we dominated them but lossed the players fell off in 5 games swansea westbrom stoke city watford bournemouth and lets mention horrible officiating this year we have a great manager its just this year the bounces and calls havent gone our way i mean i love watching us constantly beat chelsea lets have a real assessment for once those games are the difference in the season right now and thats not wengers fault the players faild to perform from winning positions

It felt like a brutal decision to sack Claudio Ranieri, cruel in so many ways and also desperately sad in the context of everything that the Italian a -LRB-...)

Through the thriller's first six episodes, we see the sad - sack lawyer (played expertly by John Turturro) scratching his eczema - ridden skin with chopsticks, visiting a succession of not - very - sensitive doctors, and subjecting his feet to a string of seemingly suspect remedies, including slathering them with Crisco, bathing them in Clorox, and roasting them under UV lamps.

That's exactly what happens in the sad sack, wacky world of weight loss.

Surprisingly, whether «sad sacks» or «cougars» they are more often than not the subject of approaches initiated by 20 - somethings.

Mendelsohn proves once again he's a chameleon and capable of almost any performance (compare his sad sack Gerry here to his work in «Killing Them Softly» and «Animal Kingdom» to see the gamut of his talents) and brings Gerry to life in such a way, it's tough to watch his character flounder again and again over the course of the story.

And while the movie's obvious highlight comes with Roma's brutal dressing - down of Kevin Spacey's officious manager, Mamet's screenplay affords virtually all of the actors their moment in the sun - with Lemmon's sad - sack of a character ultimately standing as the film's emotional center (ie despite his exceedingly slimy actions, Levene becomes a figure worthy of the viewer's sympathy).

Game Night has a few going for it — one helluva cast (Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams, Billy Magnusson, Kyle Chandler, Sharon Horgan, Kylie Bunbury, Jesse Plemons, Danny Huston, Michael C. Hall, Chelsea Peretti, Camille Chen and more); an opening meet cute that is original and clever; the establishment of a weekly get together for a games night; the sad sack neighbor who used to be part of the group (and is also a cop with a cute dog), and, finally, the idea that what starts out as a special murder mystery game night turns out to be the real thing — but no knows it.

Some of the moments between Annie and Ted are amusing while some of the ones between Annie and Rhodes are sweet, but ultimately these scenes highlight Annie's sad sack side, which is a bit of a downer.

Highlights include Rachel Dratch, who's always great playing a sad sack, and here is no exception; Kate McKinnon as the crazy - eyed half of a flannel - clad lesbian power couple; and Maya Rudolph as Kate's high - school enemy, whose life is as sad as everyone hopes their teenage nemesis» life will be.

The middle - aged dramedy about a bunch of sad sacks who form a synchronized swim team has a real murderer's row of bankable local talent, including arthouse leading man Mathieu Amalric («Ismael's Ghosts,» «The Diving Bell and the Butterfly»), comic star Virginie Efira («Elle») and heartthrob Guillaume Canet (who, alongside wife Marion Cotillard, makes up the country's biggest celebrity couple)... and you'd better believe that all of them showed up.

The opening 40 minutes or so, as Hoffman's slumped sad - sack is abandoned by his wife (Catherine Keener) and fumbles with a box - office worker (Samantha Morton), are promising despite the militant moroseness that plagues even the film's most whimsical flights of fancy.

It opens to blowing papers that remind instantly of the chits around the feet of Wall Street traders (who were themselves brutalized in this year's Dark Knight Rises), then focuses in on sad - sack criminals and the sad - sack organized - crime bureaucrats enlisting the sad - sack assassins to kill them.

Paul Giamatti stars as Cleveland Heep, the sad - sack superintendent of an apartment complex that's home to a whole host of unusually offbeat characters.

Lonesome Jim, his third feature film, is a portrait of a sad - sack loser and calls to mind his first film Trees Lounge, in which he also played the chief loser.

The entire cast of the film (all of whom are both a lot more successful and a lot older) is back, with Showalter again donning the short - shorts and even - tighter than before T - shirts as Coop, Camp Firewood's resident romantic sad sack.

Since his return to low - budget filmmaking after a fallow decade, the writer - director (and actor) has made vérité - style profiles of an unrepentant convicted perv (RSO: Registered Sex Offender, 08) and a sad - sack troubadour who'll chew your ear off over his last break - up (Harmony and Me, 09).

The supporting cast sure doesn't want for talent, even if most of the roles are fairly forgettable and one - note; there's Tracy Morgan as a sad sack gym coach, Christina Hendricks as a sexy drama teacher, Dean Norris as a consistently baffled, pissed - off principal, and easily the best of the bunch, Jillian Bell as meth addict counselor Holly.

Now, you can see for yourself — in bite - sized trailer form, at least — whether you're as affected by Lanthimos» tale of a sad - sack divorcee (Colin Farrell) who's forced to attend a government - run resort where single people are transformed into animals by a relationship - minded bureaucracy.

Kirke holds up the square end of this bargain, believably portraying Tracy's sad - sack ennui.

Melanie Lynskey has a conjurer's ability to mine the vulnerability of characters without sinking into sad - sack caricature.

A runner - up is the sad - sack Laurent scion Pierre (Franz Rogowski), who shows up drunk at a ritzy wedding with several bewildered African refugees in tow (the film is set in Calais, which has a large population of displaced people who are stranded there en route to Britain).

The film's first half deals with the boot camp experience, where Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (Ermey, Scenes of the Crime) has to take a sad sack unit and turn them into killers, emotionally hardened and physically ready for battle.

Piovani gives this buddy chef comedy a wistful, sad - sack jazz approach that is more about slow - burn exasperation that racing for head of state, with a fuzz guitar only adding to Reno's exasperation at the new kid of the butcher block.

Set in 1970s suburban Detroit, the film introduces us to what we hope will be a cast of edgy, funny characters but who, thanks to a crummy script from writer / director Daniel Schechter, turn out to be a bunch of insipid sad sacks.

Her, Spike Jonze's latest window into his brilliant, hyperactive imagination, follows a sad - sack writer named Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) as he begins to fall for an operating system named Samantha (voiced by Scarlett Johansson), something like a super-advanced version of «Siri» tailored to be Theodore's perfect companion.

Craig is a bit of a sad sack who can't catch a break in life while Vince sort of expects hand outs since he feels life has dealt him a crappy hand.

Leto's Rayon in Dallas Buyers Club met with hostility not just because it embodied so many stereotypes («a sad - sack, clothes - obsessed, constantly flirting... drug - addict prostitute» as Steve Friess wrote in Time) but also because no trans consultants were enlisted, and because Leto used his speech on winning the Golden Globe for best supporting actor to talk about how that «tiny little Brazilian bubble butt was all mine» rather than anything he had learned about the realities of trans living.

Produced by brother Jay and Mark Duplass, «Take Me» is not what it initially seems to be — a character study of a sad - sack creep.

It's a persona upon which Sandler's built his entire career, so it's not terribly surprising that the character of sad - sack salesman Barry Egan fits Sandler so comfortably.

Jon Lovitz, Southland Tales (2006) Jon Lovitz came to America's attention as a bumbling sad - sack on Saturday Night Live, best known for running gags like the «Girl Watchers» series, where he and Tom Hanks played two atonal, self - denigrating drips who dismissed every woman they saw as «waaaaay out of our league.»

Paul Walter Hauser is a scene - stealing comedic force as Shawn Eckhardt, the burly, sad - sack, delusional «bodyguard» to Tonya who fancied himself as some sort of internationally connected black ops expert, even though he lived with his parents and his stories were laughably easy to fact - check and debunk.

Violet doesn't think much of Lilly's interest in exotic older grad student Xavier (Hugo Becker), preferring on principle the company of borderline illiterate «sad - sacks» like frat - boy boyfriend Frank (Ryan Metcalfe), whose lack of good looks and basic sense strikes her as an opportunity.