Sentences with word «sadsack»

After a less than enticing date with a Tinder prospect who mimics her vernacular («totes preesh»), her best friend, Tasha (Noël Wells) sets her up with Boone (Chris O'Dowd), a shuffling sadsack of a divorcé who initially seems like sexual Kryptonite.

The Hispanic - loathing subtext of Napoleon Dynamite finds full flower in Nacho Libre, naturally, as Nacho (Black), the cookie at a monastery that harbours sadsack orphans, dreams of the riches and women that come with being a top - flight luchador on the Mexican wrestling circuit.

Bill Murray, who has only had limited success in the past with dramatic roles, slips effortlessly into the part of a laconic sadsack.

McGregor's wide - grinned optimist, Bremner's deceptively dim sadsack, Miller's coked - out paranoiac, and even Carlyle's psychotic nutcase feel more authentic now than they did then.

After her misbegotten turn last summer as a down - on - her - luck sadsack in «Tammy» left even the most fervent «Mike & Molly» fans worried that the actress had lost her mouthy mojo (although her supporting part in «St. Vincent» provided some solace), it is gratifying to see her back in the arms of her best collaborator — director Paul Feig.

For one, there's his casting of action cinema's favorite intense sadsack, Jean - Claude Van Damme, as Hong's seen - only - in - flashback mentor (Hyams, by the way, is the son of Timecop and Sudden Death director Peter Hyams, making him a second - generation Van Damme wrangler).

There's a lovely moment where Willis, who gets the usual Murray role of the wistful sadsack, communes with a dispirited Sam over his own losses: Better for a smart kid to pursue love with reckless abandon, he agrees, but, «Even smart kids stick their finger in an electrical socket sometimes.»

He effortlessly embodies Ansel as both long - suffering sadsack and trusted authority figure, and he holds his own opposite Winstead («Smashed,» «Scott Pilgrim vs. the World»), giving yet another fragile, commanding performance as a young woman caught between oppressive parents, a well - meaning captor and her own brainwashed persona.

When he, too, relinquished his increasingly tenuous grip on life, Truly and Serena Jane are separated — Serena Jane to live a life of privilege as the future May Queen and Truly to live on the outskirts of town on the farm of the town sadsack, the subject of constant abuse and humiliation at the hands of her peers.

Hah, I just got into a discussion about this a couple of weeks ago with some sadsack AAer who tried to explain to me over and over that we are powerless and have to give up to God.

I suspect you were not truly listening, or your sadsack AAer was unable to explain in a way that made sense to you.

Looking in the mirror I felt great (except for a precipitous cup - size loss, down to DD), but the second I'm forced to compare myself to a dressmaker's dummy I'm indistinguishable from a SADsack.

So, «Trees Lounge» is all about the drinking life, but, with the Good Humor truck, and the suburban hijinks, it's not exactly the sadsack scene of «Barflies» or «Leaving Las Vegas».

Clive Owen stands out in his film and among these nominees as a sadsack doctor whose demons are right below the surface, ready to strike.

And keeping up with characters and their motivations can get convoluted; who exactly is the sadsack Scotty (Macon Blair, co-writer of the screenplay and writer - director of the much better recent Netflix thriller «I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore»), and what's his relationship to Joe?

Instead of being the cheerleader for a sadsack, he is a sidekick / wing man for an equally deadly, equally slick Owen Wilson.