Sentences with word «schlub»

If I wanted a bad one I could offer my book for free and let some poor schlub who doesn't read in my genre tell me how unhappy they are.

The poor schlub who doesn't have the app is circling the block while the rich dude with a smart phone and a few extra bucks to spare gets to grab the public resource.

For the first time since getting stuck in Jennifer Garner's friend zone on «Alias,» Cooper plays against his likable - asshole archetype, and he reasonably resembles John Cusack's strung - out, stringy - haired schlub from «Being John Malkovich.»

This Riggs is the kind of schlub who'd inform his Gamblers Anonymous group that «life is a gamble,» or who'd show up grinning and sweaty in a silver sauna suit, looking like a foil - wrapped baked potato on legs.

And what does this have to do with Fashion Schlub?

In David O. Russell's 2004 delightful head - scratcher of a movie, she steals the show from co-stars Jude Law and Jason Schwartzman by deteriorating from perky model to bonnet - wearing schlub with perfect precision.

There's a degree of superhuman confidence to a ballpark proposal that is required, whether you are a millionaire who just clinched a title or a poor schlub in the bleachers who's just hoping for your run - of - the - mill happily ever after.

Or will you just try to lay off civil service schlubs while you keep your patronage mill just a hummin» along?

Selling your shares of a bad company doesn't affect the company; it just leaves the shares in the hands of some other schlub.

John C. Reilly plays up the lovable schlub of Ralph perfectly, never feeling too goofy or annoying.

Before any of us regular schlubs knew who Yasiel Puig was, scouts knew.

Rudd brings color and dimension to a borderline - simpleton schlub who could have easily become a one - note cliché.

The humans are a mix of the garish, grotesque powdered aristocracy, with their tall hats, exaggerated facial hair and blushed cheeks, and the grimy downtrodden working class schlubs.

Steve Carell grounds the whole movie as the loveable schlub Andy, who pals around with his co-workers, and eventually is invited to their poker game where it's revealed that he's never had sex.

I was reminded of that episode of «The Critic» where the titular schlub declares an airless, dusty film about a tea cozy to be some sort of masterpiece.

That's left the door open for Chris Pratt, the Minnesota - born, Washington state - bred transplant three years his junior, who did his youthful television time on «Everwood» and «The O.C.» before becoming lovable schlub Andy Dwyer on «Parks and Recreation.»

It makes some sense, then, that the hero of the piece is a non-descript schlub of a man, soft, no shoulders, falling over the edge into middle - age — enough so that when he spies a naked woman in the hills behind his house through his binoculars, of course he doesn't look away (who would, right?)

It's the most archaic, antiquated, and downright oldfangled endurance test you'll likely face in a multiplex this year; a real schlub of a movie that doesn't just fly in the face of fashion, it man - spreads proudly before all preconceived notions of taste and decency.

A high - school wrestling comedy with perennial indie schlub Paul Giamatti coaching sounds like it could be an unbearable retread of recent bombs like Mr. Woodcock or Drillbit Taylor, but with a surefire ensemble cast and a tricky balance of humor and pathos more in line with Little Miss Sunshine, Win Win turns out to be one of the early sleeper surprises of 2011.

A high - school wrestling comedy with perennial indie schlub Paul Giamatti coaching sounds like it could be an unbearable retread of recent bombs like Mr. Woodcock or Drillbit Taylor, but with a surefire ensemble cast and a trick...

Autoweek: Corvettes are usually user friendly — performance cars an average schlub can drive.

But I wonder at the way this film turns suburban schlubs like me into wise - cracking, big - screen heroes with enough of the right moves to completely shut down the cool kids.

(The new moniker was an amalgam of a nonsense word Markoe and Letterman would say to each other — «melman» — coupled with a nod to one of the Watergate conspirators, Egil «Bud» Krogh Jr.) From the debut, DeForest became one of the show's leading lights of absurdity, a seemingly clueless every - schlub stumbling his way through new - product parodies («Toast on a Stick») or plugging the fictional «Melman Bus Lines.»

Sounds like a lot of top - heavy «Special» positions while layoffs for Civil Service schlubs loom.

Elected last year as the successor to the iconic and bombastic Marty Markowitz, Mr. Adams is every bit the pun - loving ham that Mr. Markowitz, the ultimate cheerleader of Brooklyn's swift transformation from schlub hub into Lena Dunham's lucrative playground, always was.

In other words, when you interview for a job and you act like a grad student — which is to say, a tired, introverted schlub — your prospective employer will view you as a permanent grad student, not a potential colleague.

I really need to start getting out of the mom schlub and getting myself together to be as presentable as possible for all my clients I video conference.

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The pictures of the men range from a guy flipping the bird at the camera, to handsome bodybuilders, neckbeardy schlubs, and average Joes.

It both gets old quickly and also feels frustratingly similar to plaing a Roadrunner cartoon in which your target is the fleet - footed bird and you're the poor, starving schlub strapped to the rocket and headed straight for the cliff.

Buscemi is an old hand at stringy curmudgeons, but Del is a subtler and more complex creation than most of them, and the actor seizes the chance to muddy the waters: the character is a genuinely well - meaning mentor to Charley, as well as, professionally speaking, a treacherous schlub.

David Schwimmer directs this comedy about a down - and - out single schlub (Simon Pegg), who decides to run a marathon to win back the fianc e (Westworld's Thandie Newton) he left five years prior.

The «Magnificent Seven» star made his transformation from comedic schlub to Hollywood leading man two years ago with «Guardians of the Galaxy.»

For the rest, it's the usual stuff: wounded heroes having to dispatch their loved ones; schlubs learning of their secret superhero power of zombie - killing; and the revelation that the real monsters are our fellow Man.

Carell, playing one of his trademark schlubs, is Dodge, a guy who has decided to re-think his life.

Released: July 28 Cast: Menashe Lustig, Yoel Falkowitz, Ruben Niborski, Meyer Schwartz Director: Joshua Z Weinstein Why it's great: In this solemn stunner, a certifiable schlub struggles to keep his job as a clerk at a grocery store, be a father to his stubborn son (and remain in custody), move on from his recently deceased wife, and live up to society's high standard — Menashe isn't just another Brooklynite, he's an Orthodox Jew suffocating to death on the rules and observances.

A homoerotic redux of The Apartment, with Jack Lemmon reassuming the role of the weak - willed schlub and a black man filling in for Shirley MacLaine (although these character ascriptions prove interchangeable), The Fortune Cookie does nothing so well as make you wish you were watching The Apartment instead.

Fischer and Applegate cut such likable, composed, almost impossibly perfect figures that it's hard to believe their characters could marry such schlubs.

is more entertaining (and revealing) in a present tense, capturing Frank as an inveterate schlub septuagenarian.

To be fair, it also rips off, shot for shot, moments from Sam Raimi; from Reservoir Dogs in a poor, bleeding - out schlub dubbed «Dead Man» (Akie Kotabe), who fans of «The Simpsons» will recognize as Frank Grimes; and from Luc Besson, in particular (and if you're a carbon copy of Besson, the image fidelity is a field of giant pixels at this point).

The first version of the script for «The Wedding Ringer,» a new comedy about a friendless schlub who rents a best man for his big day, was written back in 2002 — a fact that partly accounts for the whiff of stale leftovers that hangs over the movie from start to finish.

Arguing William H. Macy is the last actor fit to be a hitman discredits how he makes Alex the perfect hitman — an unassuming schlub who bumps into a man, fatally bumps him off and makes a modest gesture of apology as he continues walking.

Larry (Schwartzman) is a small - town schlub who drinks his way into and out of menial jobs he can't stand.

This latest installment, with a very Apatow - approved schlub, includes Rogen taking on a new on - screen role as a baseball cap - wearing patriarch, albeit to an Australian wife (played by a hilarious Rose Byrne) and their young baby Stella.

There is a surprising tenderness to Miles's transformation, credit owed Clooney's inspired performance and the Coens» perpetual ability to cold - cock with compassionate digressions, but the best moment of the picture, one that recalls the Marx Brothers» choreography and sprung sensibility, involves the sort of pug - faced schlub (Irwin Keyes) Mario Todisco memorably played in Miller's Crossing.

Giamatti has mastered the role of cynical, self - absorbed, frumpy schlub and his Barney is every bit that.

• Moses as schlub, The Invention of Lying: Ricky Gervais's Sermon on the Stoop, improvising commandments off the backs of two pizza boxes...