Sentences with phrase «same punch line»

Anything more than 95 minutes is asking for quite a bit, and given that the movie only begrudgingly has a plot at all, what we have is a collection of skit - like scenes of two characters doing idiotic things, which does tend to grow tedious after a bit since every joke has the same punch line — these guys are unfathomably dumb.

It's about creating the memories to share with family and friends around a table, with the same story and the same punch line, for years to come.

Not exact matches

His parables frequently end with a «punch line» that presents a challenge to conventional expectation: the scorned Samaritan is the «good» one who proves neighbor to the victim on the Jericho Road; those who come to work late at the harvest are provided the same reward as those who toiled all day; the wayward prodigal son is the one who is feasted; the prayer of a repentant sinner is more acceptable to God than that of a righteous Pharisee.9 Shorter sayings make the same point: A camel could pass through a needle's eye more easily than a person of great wealth can enter into God's inbreaking realm (Mt 19:24).

The punch - line is that he will expect the players to see it that way as well; but players» and managers» opinions are rarely the same.

Make sure hand comes back to body at same angle you throw it out; good boxers throw punches in a straight line.

The jokes are basically all the same, the spark has more or less disappeared and you can see the punch - lines coming a mile off.

But the best of it provides a perspective, and a punch, transcending the same old punch lines.

Pollack fails to mention the punch line, though: in the same piece, a notorious essay called «Trash, Art, and the Movies,» Kael exalts Pollack's own The Scalphunters!