Sentences with phrase «scrappy underdog»

It's hard not to get swept up by the film's progressive zeal, but Disney doesn't allow for much grey area: Beharie and her lawyers are scrappy underdogs fighting for what is good and right, and the D.A. and his cronies are sniveling villains.

Bliss's story of «scrappy underdog asshole» who was only able to get in offense while cheating made the fight between them not so one sided, and the moments where Nia was on offense had Bliss bumping like a boss.

12 Years a Slave is the actual literal scrappy underdog that could.

And we have a few potential scrappy underdogs: Lady Bird, Get Out.

«A dodgeball movie is uncharted film territory,» says Rawson Marshall Thurber, the film's writer / director, «but at the same time it inhabits the same tradition of great underdog movies like «Stripes,» «The Bad News Bears» and «Meatballs,» which follow an archetypal comedy framework: scrappy underdogs take on the socially, financially or athletically gifted and prevail against all odds.»

Though Rocky and Rocky have become synonymous with scrappy underdog tales, the movie is upfront about the gimmickry afoot when Balboa is plucked from obscurity to fight reigning champ Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) when a more experienced boxer drops out.

This report undermined the unions» preferred narrative that they are scrappy underdogs fighting for public schools.

Its own success would seem to be the only threat to a company that has billed itself as the scrappy underdog that promised to help us «think different.»

This book taught me there is so much value in being the scrappy underdog who doesn't need to have a staff of 100 or spend a ton of money on a corner office to make things happen.

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Seeing as how we don't actually know one another and personal letters don't generate any blog traffic, I've decided to publicly air my grievances against you in a format that positions you as the powerful elite and me as the scrappy underdog willing to take you on.

In spite of all this, many Christians like to imagine themselves as the scrappy underdogs, bullied and oppressed for their faith yet bravely standing for their beliefs.

Enter the scrappy underdogs # 8 Team Shaffer..

how they morphed from a scrappy underdog to Goliath in just a few years.

Every year we play Ohio State and they're the juggernaut while we're the scrappy underdog.

Those scrappy underdogs from Austin are pulling a veritable 1995 Northwestern, getting hot in conference play after a sketchy start (NU lost to Miami (Ohio), after all).

You're about to see a manipulative film in which the scrappy underdog wins against impossible odds.

We know that there will probably be a «scrappy underdog,» and we know that the key to the Oscar race is figuring out what movie makes voters feel good, both in terms of feeling happy but also feeling like they're doing some good in the world.

The movie was one of those created on the cutting room floor and was just barely ready when it showed at Cannes — the scrappy underdog that could is an irresistible meme in the Oscar race and Silver Linings will be the threepeat for The Weinstein Co in that vein.

New Deal Used Cars, the scrappy underdog, is run by kindly but simple Luke Fuchs (Jack Warden), whose small sales staff includes Russell as corrupt Rudy Russo, Gerrit Graham as superstitious sex addict Jeff, hyper intelligent dog Toby, and clueless mechanic Jim, last seen in Spielberg's 1941.

In the first Pitch Perfect, the Bellas were the scrappy underdogs to the top dog Treblemakers.

Summary Capsule: A scrappy underdog competes in an illegal «car» race with other drivers from across the galaxy.

Hillary was the «mean old frontrunner» and Bernie and Trump got to be the «scrappy underdogs.»

But there are at least two contenders here that are more likely to walk away with the statuette than this scrappy underdog, I'd say.

We don't have a big lumbering frontrunner and a scrappy underdog.

Well, while I, Tonya has a scrappy underdog story and impressive results despite its tiny budget, Guardians simply has so much more hair and makeup — which makes it the most likely third.

It may be losing a bit of the scrappy underdog edge as it matures, but maybe that's just a part of growing up.

The Barnes & Noble Nook has always been a scrappy underdog to Amazon's Kindle line.

You're no longer the scrappy underdog, making a name for yourself and earning the right to star in star in showcase events — ridiculous, Top Gear style challenges that pit you against trains, helicopters, and other unlikely opponents.

We particularly enjoyed the scrappy underdog feeling of playing as Billie, with fewer powers than her protagonist predecessors.

The wireless carrier has positioned itself as a scrappy underdog out to right all the wrongs Verizon and AT&T subscribers have endured for years.