Sentences with phrase «smart aleck»

The movie rests on (Adam) Butcher, and the actor proves to be a well - rounded smart aleck in the making.

These references are just the outer layer of a compulsively referential screenplay that tries so hard, it sounds like a classroom smart aleck reeling off answers before the questions are finished.

Everyone just loves a sharp tongued smart aleck.

There is nothing that CNN likes more than a self impressed athiest smart aleck stirring up anti-christian blog prattle.

See, smart aleck Devoe has already figured out that the train wreck was no accident but rather a ruse for the hijacking of nine nukes, so he rather rudely corrects her in front of a roomful of colleagues.

It felt like something new had come along from the world of animation, smart aleck characters defacing the stories people grow up with as kids.

That man is Los Angeles youth - oriented social worker and finder of lost children Chandler Jarrell (Murphy), whose demeanor isn't the stuff of great prophecy — he's a potty - mouthed smart aleck.

Page's Vanessa is a snappy sarcastic smart aleck 17 - year - old.

Home to see his wife and son, he's dogged and killed by smart aleck Skip Homeier.

He swings through them all, at times with the hokey Rat Pack smart aleck humor he loves so much but mostly just delivering standards, saloon songs and even some contemporary tunes with that inimitable Sinatra grace and gravitas.

Stripped of all his usual nice guy / smart aleck mannerisms — stripped of any mannerisms at all, actually — Sullivan is uninterested in anyone's sympathy.

If the classroom smart alecks want to push the simulation to its limits — Deckelmann says his students always spend the first round of the game trying to blow up the Middle East — that's fine, too.

The Service Manager, David Yoho and the General Manager, Mike Hostinsky are rude, nasty, smart aleck men.

Alongside each piece he has added his signature touch: a trompe l'oeil painting of a hand - written note that details the process, budget and reasoning behind each work, with plenty of smart aleck - y remarks stuffed in between.

And its visual correlative — stark black enamel stripes arranged in a predetermined symmetrical pattern — is the work of a precocious smart aleck (whose youthful callowness is also on display in the title of the 1958 Black Painting, «Arbeit Macht Frei») demonstrating the true condition of the art form.

It starts with people letting their friends and followers know they will be fasting from Facebook and Instagram and ends with the smart aleck who tweets that he will be giving up virginity for Lent.

Their favorite theme was that of the immediate return of the Lord Jesus Christ, who would burst the skies asunder in his glorious appearance and shock all the «smart aleck» professors and liberals.

Not being smart aleck, btw.

I'm not trying to be a smart aleck or anything when I say this, but I really want to know what problem I'm a part of, and how you came to that opinion.

Are they smart alecks?

③ The Smarties Jones: Smarty Jones was a horse who apparently got his name from being a smart aleck, or whatever the horse equivalent of that is.

«In Australia we have two words for a chap like him: smart aleck.»

I tried a variation of the «toy jail» with my smart aleck kids for a bit.

Sarcastic and can tend to be a smart aleck at times.

If you could put a face to the term «smart aleck,» it would likely resemble that of That»70s Show star Danny Masterson.

Neither smart aleck nor neurotically brilliant, she's a workaday detective with a tendency to get too personally involved, and this case gets to her.

«Breaking In» far too quickly devolves into unintentional laughs provided by the henchmen, complete with long stretches of near silence, affording the smart alecks in the audience the chance to half - shout, «She's gonna ELECTROCUTE him,» or «There's ONE IN THE CHAMBER» and «Shoot SHOOT» at the screen.

It's there that young Salinger meets Story magazine editor Whit Burnett (Kevin Spacey) who spars with the smart aleck and helps draw out his abilities in the dashing, patches - on - elbows inspiring manner of every creative writing teacher ever seen on film, usually with artlessly direct dialogue.

But soon after he picks up the smart aleck kid, it becomes quite clear that this computer hacker has enemies who will stop at nothing to prevent him from reaching the Bureau's headquarters.

There is some actual meat to the scenes between the two, as, from his professor, the egotistical, young «smart aleck» learns about the balance of the author's voice with an actual story, the humility of rejection, and that being a writer means a devotion that doesn't always result in success.

Writer / director Danny Strong (co-creator of «Empire,» screenwriter of the «Mockingjay» films and actor in «Gilmore Girls» and «Buffy») introduces us to Salinger before all of that happened, young, ambitious, and like Catcher in the Rye «s Holden Caulfield, a smart aleck who has left or been asked to leave a number of top schools.

Joseph Gordon - Levitt makes up for the sin of appearing in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra by being a kick - arse action star who isn't the least bit flashy, whilst Tom Hardy regularly steals the show as the smart aleck Eames.

A smart aleck at the back of the room says, «Underwear,» making everyone snicker, but Singer just responds with a serious tone, «That's brilliant, very creative, good.»

@Moab Yeah, yeah, smart aleck...:) Hindsight is 20/20.

We might try to be smart alecks and say that the most radical things on the new Highlander are its mid-dash tray with the unique pass - through for a smartphone cable, and the PA system that lets the driver yell at the unruly mob in the back seats without turning around, but that would be ignoring the dozens (hundreds?)

Simmons is a smart aleck, but he's also doggedly thorough with his facts and writes with authority — and that includes his almost scholarly insistence on footnotes, which is where a lot of his wit is embedded.

«I got bullied a lot, in no small part because I was a smart aleck.

Not to come across as a smart aleck, but if your aim is to pay too much for everything you buy and needlessly double your household expenses, there's an easy way to do it: Buy everything with a credit card, and make only the minimum monthly payment.

At this point, some smart aleck will say, «This is stupid.

There's also a smart aleck comment somewhere about checking out her guns, but she won't appreciate it.

Oh, and someone is a smart aleck who can't read timestamps.

And what else can you say that everyone hasn't already said about that smart aleck little crab?

I can't resist being a smart aleck sometimes.

(Informal) Smart - Ass, windbag, braggart, saucebox, smart aleck, smarty, smarty - pants, wisenheimer.

Not to be a smart aleck — which I totally am — but I like both equally.

The kids begin to imitate the smart aleck - y, sassy YouTube personalities they see online, much to parents» annoyance.