Sentences with phrase «surly manner»

Anderson has a squirelly, surly manner that fits his loathsome character.

But the lure of missing Mass was not to be resisted, and I spent the next hour plotting the crime; I would simply prepare as usual, and behave in the usual surly manner, and insist shrilly on wearing the usual shabby clothing (the bellbottom jeans!

Their bad hair, Boston accents, and surly manners are too convincing not to be based in some degree of reality, with several of them hailing from the area.

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Late winter irritability can be a sign of life and hope in us, a proleptic impatience for spring, though it can also bear the bad manners of a surly youth.

There, he uses his kindness and good manners to win the hearts of the surly inmates and changes the entire atmosphere of the place; the dining hall is transformed from a miserable place of inedible gruel to a cute restaurant serving pastries and deserts.

Paddington's imprisonment serves a key, thematic role too: Paddington's unquestioned, untested faith in the goodness of others runs headlong into a Wes Anderson - inspired prison filled with all manner of incorrigible criminals, including Knuckles McGinty (Brendan Gleeson), the perpetually surly, go - it - alone prison cook who reluctantly takes Paddington under his wing.

Full of bright primary colors, punny chapter breaks, all manner of meta - winks and other strenuous bits of Godardian business, the movie draws an unambiguous parallel between the disintegration of their relationship and the loss of Godard's filmmaking mojo as he is swallowed whole by his own surly, disagreeable post -»60s obscurantism.