Sentences with word «shrewish»

But she truly excels at digging deeper, such as the quieter moment when she tells John about how her long - ago engagement that failed to lead to marriage or the long - gestating outburst where she blasts her selfish brother and shrewish sister - in - law (Stephen Root and Wendi McLendon - Covey, both terrific) for taking advantage of her.

The comedy comes from a recognizable place of everyday worries and compromises — an outstanding cast led by Giamatti (playing haggard but kindly to perfection) and Amy Ryan (as Mike's tough but not shrewish wife Jackie) goes a long way in grounding the material in reality.

Margot Robbie plays his wife, Daphne, and this is neither the typical loving mother or shrewish harpy we're used to seeing in the movies.

Ray and his dad have some bad blood between them, but his brothers Bunchy (Dash Mihok) and Terry (Eddie Marsan) are more eager to reconnect, while his wife Abby (Paula Malcomson, so great on «Deadwood,» but stuck in a more thankless, shrewish role here, complaining about living in Calabasas and getting the kids into private school) can't understand why her husband wants nothing to do with his returned parent.

Actor Toni Servillo plays Andreotti as a small shrewish man with tiny shoulders (the likeness is startling).

If you don't, you are not only exhausted, but black folk think «shrewish woman» (or the corresponding expletive) and white folk think «crazy black folk» (or the corresponding expletive).

Melissa Leo's loudmouth shrewish performance is a winner as the mother from hell, who raises two boys and seven girls (who follow mom around and as a Greek chorus form a fan club for their boxer brothers).

And the rest of the cast's non-HER women are flighty, hysterical, shrewish sex - holes.

Making a valiant effort to shed her benign rom - com image, Katherine Heigl plays Mona Champagne, the sort of cartoonishly shrewish housewife who schedules sex days in advance, allowing a 15 - minute window.

But what if Helen did make the train, met a swell bloke, James (John Hannah), and got home in time to catch Gerry in bed with his former American girlfriend (shrewish Jeanne Tripplehorn)?

Moore is particularly strong, gradually revealing the tenderness that lies beneath her character's shrewish bitterness; the moment where Linda is finally able to be honest about her feelings to another and to herself is shattering.

The club is really a front for an international drug smuggling operation run by the boys» shrewish gorgon of a mother.

(Helena Bonham Carter is lazily cast as the innkeeper's shrewish wife.)

If it's feminism, then the best bet probably would have been not to portray all the non-passing women in the picture as shrewish and wheedling or ineffectual and simpering.

I have long since stopped making such inquiries, both because of a desire not to sound shrill and shrewish — what business is it of mine?

Hers is the role paid least attention — that of the believer torn between love for God and her husband — and could easily have appeared cold or shrewish.

Phil, the leader, urges focus; straight - arrow Stu worries that his shrewish girlfriend will discover he lied about going wine - tasting in Napa Valley; loose - cannon Alan can't be brought anywhere, especially Vegas.

And Kahn already shows the ability to embody her role, a shrewish harpy, from the annoying voice to her frumpy walk, to a «T.» (That same year she would explode with her performance in Blazing Saddles).

Wilson stars as an alcoholic Annapolis weatherman who helps his bipolar best friend (Galifianakis) through the squabble that ensues after the latter's father dies, leaving the ne'er - do - well son with the bulk of the inheritance and his shrewish sister (Amy Poehler) without valuable family land or their father's store.

Hen - pecked dentist Stu (Helms) has told his shrewish fiancée that the boys are heading for Napa valley for a cultured couple of days of wine tasting and fine food.

The boy's shrewish, meth - head mother (Bosworth, 21) considers it an affront to their family reputation to be publicly embarrassed, twice, and enlists the assistance of her crazy meth - dealing brother, Gator Bodine (Franco, This is the End), to put the scare in Broker for good.

Unfortunately, Hall Pass is already saddled with an annoying premise, two married guys have a week to cheat without repercussions from their shrewish wives, played by Fischer and Christina Applegate.

Recently forced to marry the shrewish glutton Rasputia, he is at wit's end.

Bobby Davis (Martin Lawrence) is an unemployed sewer cleaner / unpublished aspiring novelist and married to a shrewish sister (Tichina Arnold) who won't let him forget that, as breadwinner, she wears the pants in the family.

Stu (Ed Helms) is a henpecked dentist with a shrewish, girlfriend who cheats on him.

Are we so drained by bland love interests and shrewish wives that the absence of an insult is worthy of applause?

Max Berlinger praises the Greatest Actress of All Time — but for her turn as the shrewish, vain Madeline Ashton in Robert Zemeckis» black comedy.

The ticket ends up a winner, and Charlie's share is $ 4 million, but his shrewish, avaricious wife, Muriel (Perez, Do the Right Thing), is upset at having to share any more of their winnings than they have to.

The same goes for the dimpled Laura Linney as the shrewish mother.

Mr. Oscar Homolka, a slow, kindly, desperate Mr. Verloc, and Miss Sylvia Sidney, as his innocent wife, raise the melodrama at times to the tragic level, and Mr. William Dewhurst gives a superb performance as the Professor, a soapy old scoundrel who supports his shrewish daughter and her bastard child with a bird business, concocting his explosives in the one living - room, among the child's dolls and the mother's washing.

Fassbender is wild - eyed as the slave owner emasculated by his shrewish, controlling wife (Sarah Paulson), Cumberbatch is warm and paternal as the slightly - more - compassionate Ford, and Pauls Dano and Giamatti have a particular flair for playing despicable characters that they display here.

What we have is a shrewish grandmother, her alcoholic and largely negligent daughter, and a petulant slut granddaughter, none of whom seem to be overly concerned about anyone, including each other, until someone else comes in to do irreparable harm.

We've seen all these characters before — the nerdy dentist with the shrewish girlfriend; the inappropriate fat guy; the schoolteacher who's about as mature as his students and yet happily married; the slightly uptight groom - to - be — but we've never seen them from quite this angle before.