Sentences with phrase «straight as an arrow»

«He's straight as an arrow and I've never once seen this guy drink.

Rather than following the gentle curve to deeper waters, some set course straight as an arrow to the horizon.

Morally they are straight as an arrow.

Stats arnt always as straight as an arrow they can be decieving!

He continues straight as an arrow until he can no longer breathe, then tosses himself sideways into the snow.

For comedian Tiff Stevenson the volatile atmosphere surrounding politics, as an unrepentant left clashes with an insurgent right, is fast tracking her journey through to a straight as an arrow centrist.

Your body should be as straight as an arrow from your head to your toes.

Straight as an arrow.

You know, the funny thing is, on the outside I was an honest man, straight as an arrow.

This doesn't seem to be an alignment problem, as the car drives straight as an arrow for a good 5 - 10 seconds without any outside interaction on a regular road.

I'd argue that the PCCB ceramic brakes are even more impressive than the explosive acceleration, hauling the 1.6 - tonne missile from autobahn speed to pedestrian speed for turns one and two with real authority, straight as an arrow.

Straight as an arrow.

There's the «ride straight as an arrow» wooden bridge section.

The image of horizontal comes from traveling West on Interstate 80 in Eastern Colorado and the unending ribbon of highway, straight as an arrow, with mile markers as the only guide to progress.

Not exact matches

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

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

What's funny is that while my hair is straight (as an arrow) I do kind of wish it was a little curly sometimes, and I wish it was easier to texturize!

As part of the MTA's $ 20 million plan to repair the nearly century - old transit system, it's now installing directional floor mats, which have arrows that point left, right and straight ahead, guiding passengers where to move into the train.

She is Nancy Watkins, a Florida - CPA with a reputation as a straight - arrow fixer for Republican campaigns with a history of sloppy — or worse — bookkeeping.

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.

One hilarious mix - up follows another as straight - arrow Frankie (Scotti), a pizza maker from the Bronx, comes to terms with Greenwich Village gay culture — and his new roomie, actor / choreographer Warren (Barrile), comes to terms with Frankie.

Day - Lewis inhabits the character fully, in his distinctive gait and posture (his back sometimes bending into a question - mark), his reedy voice (given the painstaking amount of historical research that went into the rest of the movie, it must be based in fact) and the more honest - feeling portrayal of his moral righteousness, which wasn't as arrow - straight as most like to think it was.

Director Nima Nourizadeh, the evil soul behind 2012 film maudit, Project X, plays larkish, comic book material as straight as a poisoned, flaming arrow.

Damon is of course perfect for this role, beefed up as the straight - arrow good guy who finds it impossible to believe that his leaders could be lying.

After making his name playing straight - arrow good guy — from Elliott Ness to Robin Hood to a certain pee - drinking man - fish — Kevin Costner has taken to playing against type in recent years, as he does here in Criminal, where he plays a remorseless, unfeeling killer.

And by not stating with any volume what It is about, the film works beautifully as a straight - arrow genre piece, and a portrait of young people taking command of their own destiny.

Accompanying them is a Texas ranger named LaBoeuf (Matt Damon) who is as straight - arrow as Rooster is screw - loose.

Damon plays Steve as a straight - arrow, a nice guy who genuinely believes that the process is safe.

Here, John Boyega — cannily cast as the son of the character Idris Elba played in Pacific Rim — proves that he can pull off the same trick, playing off straight - arrow foil Scott Eastwood or spunky kid robot - fan Cailee Spaeny with a mix of knowing cliché and inspired mock vanity.

Based on the novel Carmen by Prosper Merimee, with Nero as the loyal, straight - arrow soldier José demoted after he's tricked by gypsy hellion Carmen (Tina Aumont), it's the rare spaghetti western that is actually set in Spain, where it was shot.

Though straight - arrow Dick can be counted as an unequivocal success story, he's also an unavoidable reminder of where Batman went wrong with Jason.

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

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.

Through the storm that buffets his plane and the failure of his operating system, Whip is cool as a razor and sharp on the attack as his straight - arrow co-pilot quivers in panic.

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

As the straight - arrow Erwin, who's clearly interested in Nadine but has no idea how to snap her out of her various reveries, Szeto is a delight, as well as a refreshing choice for a romantic lead in a genre that usually relegates Asian performers to sidekick roleAs the straight - arrow Erwin, who's clearly interested in Nadine but has no idea how to snap her out of her various reveries, Szeto is a delight, as well as a refreshing choice for a romantic lead in a genre that usually relegates Asian performers to sidekick roleas well as a refreshing choice for a romantic lead in a genre that usually relegates Asian performers to sidekick roleas a refreshing choice for a romantic lead in a genre that usually relegates Asian performers to sidekick roles.

Joaquin Phoenix gives a raucous lead performance as a PI trying to work through his stoner haze to actually do some good in the world while Josh Brolin turns in a solid and hilarious supporting turn as his straight - arrow, LAPD nemesis.

The Stratos HF caused a sensation when it debuted in 1970, and with a rakish arrow - straight profile that would make a door stopper blush, it isn't hard to see why, While the production Lancia Stratos wasn't nearly as polarizing, the lineage is clear.

After the tragic death of his child and the dissolution of his marriage, Garrett — regarded as an honest, straight - arrow officer — left the SDPD to become an ethics investigator, looking into the activities of his former colleagues.

In her début novel, In Leah's Wake, Terri Giuliano Long takes the reader through a family's emotional trauma as one of the daughters, a high school athletic star, suddenly abandons her straight - arrow, team captain ideals for a drug - dealing boyfriend's party lifestyle.

Now and then a kingfisher spots a fish and dives straight and fast as an arrow into the water.

Turkey vultures, Pelicans and Magnificent Frigate Birds are overhead as you carry on down the arrow - straight Burdon Canal, built in the 1920s to help farmers further south get their crops to market without risking life and limb on the open sea.

It fires arrows straight and true, as if beams of light.»

There's a «suggested moves» AI as well, a yellow flashing arrow you can turn off if you decide, that offers you a «best» option, but straight out following that, the game might as well play itself.

Establishing a style only to dismantle it seems to be part of Hickam's personality — he describes himself as someone who could've been a straight arrow and gone to West Point but decided to break the rules and risk everything on an art career.

By all means make improvements for the future as a second stage of the presentation, with these improvements entirely based on peer reviewed work, but, given the historical importance of AR4 in shaping worldwide policy, a arrow - straight comparison with it was primary and essential.