Sentences with phrase «straight arrow»

I was amused by Roberta Smith's rare loss of straight arrow critique in her De Keyser review several years ago.

When Kathleen Rice won the race for Nassau district attorney last year, sending the longtime straight arrow Denis Dillon into retirement, she looked like everyone's idea of a 21st - century prosecutor — all youthful zeal and professionalism, with none of the tired rigidity and old - timer thinking that had come to encrust Mr. Dillon's reputation after more than 30 years in office.

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Jane Fonda is, of course, supremely excellent in the role that won her an Oscar, that of tough - minded high - class New York prostitute Bree Daniels, playing off Donald Sutherland's straight arrow private investigator.

That team consists of straight arrow Agent Grant Ward (Brett Dalton), an expert in combat and espionage; pilot and martial artist Agent Melinda May (Ming - Na Wen); and brilliant if socially awkward scientists Agent Leo Fitz (Iain De Caestecker) and Agent Jemma Simmons (Elizabeth Henstridge).

Terrence Howard, as Col. Rhodes, is at every moment a conventional straight arrow.

He seems the sleekest of straight arrows — which in this film means look out.

He is the straightest arrow I've ever met.

Mueller his known for his service to America, for his integrity, he's a straight arrow.

Some of the targets may believe him unfair, but most Marylanders remember him as a straight arrow.

However, like a straight arrow, he was apparently prepared to answer anything.

The man you hired to replace Erickson, Butch Davis, has a reputation as a straight arrow.

«I like Carl and think he's a good person and pretty much a straight arrow,» an Assembly Democrat says.

Christian Bale's straight arrow has a tender heart — and that's just what it used to be like in the good old comic book days.

Brad Pitt, although he makes an odd haircut choice, is steady as a straight arrow family man and is as indestructible as Bruce Willis in a Die Hard movie.

While some of their «family values» are perverse and illegal, most are rooted in the same principles embraced by the straightest arrows in town.

A bit out of character, but then I think Simon Pegg is playing a rather different character here, certainly not the straight arrow he was in Hot Fuzz (the best of the Cornetto trilogy for me).

At least the Marvel universe has its straight arrow, Captain America.

Chances are, you don't really sleep till noon, plan heists and pad your bank account with other people's cash; you might even be a straight arrow with a 9 - 5 job.

Bruce co-narrates his story with his randy, «open marriage» preaching wife (Shauna Macdonald) and gets his jollies corrupting his straight arrow Masonic Lodge pal (Eddie Marson) whose wife (Shirley Henderson) Bruce treats to a never - ending supply of obscene and obscenely funny phone calls.

Snowden is envisioned here as a straight arrow with a penchant for Ayn Rand, Thoreau, and Joseph Campbell, but we watch his heroic inner liberal grow with the nurturing of a girlfriend annoyingly played by Shailene Woodley.

It's drama about a straight arrow politician with an addiction to escorts.

Rounding out the supporting cast, David Oyelowo (Selma) continues his ascent with a terrific performance as a straight arrow detective.

There are monks on skis, daring escapes, cliff - hanging climaxes, plotting pastry chefs and surly prisoners (Saoirse Ronan and Harvey Keitel), a straight arrow soldier whose allegiances are torn (Edward Norton), and a band of clandestine concierges (Bill Murray, Bob Balaban, Owen Wilson).

«Alfonso is, like, the straightest arrow you could possibly find.

Carter is a straight arrow who did good things for the US economy.

If you drew a graph to show your career path, would it be a nice, straight arrow that starts from the bottom left corner and goes consistently upward to the upper right?