Sentences with phrase «schlub in»

2012 has both scientist and schlub in Ejiofor and Cusack.

Now that I'm about to enter the «wise» years, I say, if you feel like a schlub in an outfit, then no amount of cajoling will or compliments will unschlub it.

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.

Not exact matches

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

Women who couldn't capture their men and control everything they do end up throwing him out (and doing him a favor) so that they can either try again with some other schlub or to denounce all men for their failure to be a dominant in their own relationship.

Fancy footwork and evasion won't change the reality that even a «reform - minded» Governor like Andy Cuomo campaigning on promises of a «New New York» is keeping the shadow government of Commissions, Authorities and off - budget quasi-public corporations in place and running a patronage mill busily dispensing 6 - figure jobs to connected people who clearly have cabbage to burn while being incredibly penurious with civil service schlubs, secretaries and clerks.

So we start off with some pics from 2017 — the top nine pictures from my two Instagram accounts — the first is Fashion Schlub, the second is Bettye Rainwater Photography, in case you were interested in following.

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.

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 observanceIn 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 observancein 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.

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).

It's Galifianakis» show and though his star has waned since his scene - stealing breakout in The Hangover, he remains an appealing comic premise, a schlub who stays likeable even when he's being stupid or breaking bad.

Showalter (also starring as CPA Elliot Sherman) plays the titular schlub, the «Baxter» being a creature of extreme nerdy social incompetence most often glimpsed in frown and tux in the retreating background of Dustin Hoffman rescuing Katharine Ross from the altar.

How this is very much removed from Ron Jeremy being a porn star is beyond me: both play on this fantasy that women like Kunis are available to men like Segel and, therefore, to every schlub sitting in the dark chucking blunt elbows into each other's rib cages at every failed joke and rattle of humiliating slapstick.

In this one, schlub Richard (Michael C. Hall) shoots a home invader who happens to be the son of real bad man Russell (Sam Shepard), someone who, fresh from the pokey, arrives in Richard's small Texas town for his pound of flesIn this one, schlub Richard (Michael C. Hall) shoots a home invader who happens to be the son of real bad man Russell (Sam Shepard), someone who, fresh from the pokey, arrives in Richard's small Texas town for his pound of flesin Richard's small Texas town for his pound of flesh.

Dame Maggie Smith stars as Grace, a well - meaning sociopath who becomes the housekeeper in the house of schlub priest Walter (Rowan Atkinson), his frustrated wife (Kristin Scott Thomas), and his nymphomaniac daughter (Tamsin Egerton).

Every - schlub Zack (Seth Rogen) and his platonic roommate Miri (Elizabeth Banks) are congenital fuck - ups who, upon discovering at a high - school reunion that Most Likely To Succeed (Brandon Routh) is dating a gay porn star (Justin Long), decide in a roundabout way to pay the bills by shooting a porno.

Frank is a whining, pathetic oddball with extreme prejudice — and Wilson, in a fearless performance, leaves us uncertain whether to sympathise with, or be repulsed by, this ridiculous schlub who bludgeons not just a queue jumper but also his understandably protesting girlfriend; who acts on prophetic visions that he sees in his own vomit; and who ignores pleas for mercy from a (literally) unarmed man.

But just wait until you feast your eyes on «You Were Never Really Here» (in theaters April 6), a bruising Cannes sensation in which she manages to turn a mutteringly schlub - tastic Joaquin Phoenix into the most exciting hardcore action hero since Jason Bourne.

Romance, Amer - indie style: nothing gets close to Hong's barb than perhaps the Duplass brothers» Cyrus, in which a schlub's implausibly requited love by a single mother is undermined, nay utterly thwarted, by the schemings of her 21 - year - old son Cyrus, an oversized manchild with a keyboard fetish and a considerable gift for co-dependent-some-more behavior.

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.»

Then there's the sarcastic gym teacher, Russell Gettis (Jason Segal), who's smitten with gold - digging Elizabeth, who spurns him until the final reel when the schlub gets the slut — in what passes for a happy ending.

Tukel plays a neurotic schlub named Erik who lives somewhere in either Greenpoint or Williamsburg, eats at cool outdoor restaurants and dates impossibly attractive women who seem a bit out of reach for his short, chubby, hairy, dickish persona (the movie's title has been abbreviated as «S.O.B.» on posters for good reason).

Ostensibly a hybrid of an Adam Sandler lovable schlub vehicle with a kids» picture nostalgia piece, «Pixels» imagines that an alien invasion takes place in the form of vintage video game characters attacking major metropolises around the world.

Hoffman is small - time schlub Mickey Scarpato: loser, scraper, driver of a refrigerated meat truck, and sometime - participant in petty larcenies with his buddy Bird Capezio (John Turturro).

Yet Barney, portrayed in a smartly nuanced, Golden Globe - winning performance by Giamatti, is genuine and disarmingly sweet — a schlub, likable in spite of himself, who usually gets the girl even when neither he nor she really understands why.

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.

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.

In your reply to «Average Schlub» you mention the numbers «-14.04 %» and divide «204 by 365».

I am tired of reading how a «conventional life» is inferior and you should quit your boring life and «travel like me» implying their path in life is better than that of «all the poor schlubs» as you put it that live vicariously through their blogs.

Instead of «look to your left, look to your right; one of you won't be here at graduation,» it's «look to your left, look to your right; starting networking with the poor schlubs you'll be sitting next to at your swearing - in ceremony.»

She gets to go to trial and do document reviews, while the poor Megafirm schlub, shown here covered in Post-It notes, only gets to do document reviews.