Sentences with phrase «schlub who»

He's waaaay up the food chain from the schlub who reads the book.

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.

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.

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

Among its four subjects, the one Djordjevic is most likely to adapt into a narrative feature is the schlub who enters the porn industry as an indirect way of tracking down the starlet who used to be his girlfriend.

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.

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

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.

As a pair of dumpy suburban England schlubs who decide to go camping, Lowe and Oram become these characters, people who are probably together because no one else would have anything to do with them.

Saulnier's films are litanies of horrible, unimaginable calamities befalling generally well - meaning schlubs who are altogether unequipped to deal with them.

Not exact matches

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

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.

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.

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.

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 Margot of the title, as played to alien, frostbitten perfection by Nicole Kidman, is a NEW YORKER contributor (and Jennifer Jason Leigh, as Margot's sister Pauline, played Mrs. Parker herself once upon a time) who's ventured out to wintry Long Island to talk her sister out of marrying schlub Malcolm (Jack Black).

Rogen will play the schlub, obviously, «an unemployed journalist» who is «battered by his own misfortune and self - destructive ways.»

He plays a schlub actor who loses his job and juggles a pair of women, Sarah Silverman and Bonnie Hunt while living with his mom.

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.

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 flesh.

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.»

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.

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.

No other movie — not even the P.C. - crowd — baiting battle rap midnight movie Bodied — attracted more controversy or generated more chatter than Louis C.K.'s comedy about a successful showbiz schlub (guess who?)

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).

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.