Sentences with phrase «throwaway lines»

Even throwaway lines like, «I'm sorry,» or «I didn't see the other driver,» can be misconstrued to suggest responsibility for the accident.

At any rate, I've previously noted that the settled science has taken five years to catch up with one of my throwaway lines.

Assuming that it was, I think it's quite odd to say that his explanation of the whole reason why he wrote the paper can be dismissed as «throwaway lines».

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ERIK DEN BREEJEN Throwaway Lines Often Ring True PROJECT SPACE: RUSSELL NACHMAN Deep in the Forest May 16 — June 14, 2008 Reception: Friday, May 16, 6 — 8 pm In Erik den Breejen's first solo exhibition at Freight + Volume, his love affair with music and lyrics manifests itself by way of brightly colored, abstract, text - based paintings.

For Throwaway Lines Often Ring True, he offers another take on this text - the centerpiece for the exhibit - a monumental 9 by 7 foot canvas, featuring all 2,300 words from the 26 songs in the album.

Rockstar have always been excellent at incorporating satire into their games, particularly when it comes to GTA, with billboards, radio chatter and conversational throwaway lines all designed to make us chuckle.

But Throwaway Lines has a staff of exactly two, and my editor has a day job.

As an author whose book was published by micro-press Throwaway Lines, I'm fascinated by her topic, the self - publishing process.

But these are throwaway lines, completely at odds with the clear, overall thrust of their arguments.

But if the pilot was just a series of throwaway lines, it's one thing.

He's at his funniest when spouting throwaway lines and asides that don't sound scripted.

In the first of our features looking back at the best acting on film in 2017, we celebrate creative line deliveries that tell you everything you need to know about a character, render potential throwaway lines quotable, and leave you thinking about their precise intonation days later.

The script by Ted Elliott and Terry Russio has some nice throwaway lines.

It's his way to get easy laughs with throwaway lines.

Every set up is properly payed off later in the film as well as lots of funny throwaway lines.

Some cute and effective throwaway lines include one by Burt to his groupies who must sign a pledge in his bedroom that they are over 18 and a release form to disallow lawsuits.

who becomes the victim of a female con - artist who lives in Florida, «the worst place in America» (one of the film's few and funny throwaway lines).

Which is saying something, because it's only developed in one elliptic flashback and a few throwaway lines here and there.

between Jim, Maggie, and Don (and Lisa); the goosebump - raising way that the show used on - screen text to reveal the BP spill and the Giffords shooting; the structural flourishes of the 2010 election episode and the season finale; that great scene where Don gives a master class in covering trashy news; the way you can see Olivia Munn finding her bearings as an actress, and how that parallels her character becoming a confident on - air personality; the brashness of Jane Fonda, the patience of David Krumholtz, the deliciousness with which Emily Mortimer says the word «douchebag,» the way Jeff Daniels tosses off his throwaway lines, and the way he answered that «sorority girl»'s question the second time.

Disappointingly, other than a few throwaway lines she contributes little to the story, and actually seems kind of pointless...

There are no throwaway lines, and every word we hear tells us a little bit more about the characters.

I think she's fun and cute and it's great to see that she actually gets to do more than stand there and recite a couple throwaway lines.

In fact there are no throwaway lines in this film at all — the script is perfect.

«Arrested Development» Award for Best Throwaway Lines: • «Keep it in the oven...» — Jason Bateman, «Juno» •»... Terrorism...» — Michael Cera, «Superbad» (actually, Cera has so many astonishingly brilliant under - his - breath moments in «Superbad» and «Juno» it's uncanny)

Key characters are dispatched with little thought, and momentous plot developments are delivered in single, throwaway lines.

What Chase did have was Hughes» tightly written script, peppered with sight gags and such a deep arsenal of throwaway lines that new ones emerge with every viewing («Don't forget the rubber sheets and the gerbils.»)

Some of the throwaway lines are rather funny, as are several of the sight gags, such as a recurring bit in which the Duke keeps accidentally killing his wife's dog, then replacing it with one that looks nothing like the previous one.

In this universe rife with inside jokes and gems disguised as throwaway lines, Guest himself appears as the wondrously detached director of the film, who asserts his authority by not asserting it when dealing with addled actors or wounded first - time screenwriters (Bob Balaban and Michael McKean).

had me laughing out loud despite sitting on my own watching it), but I missed some of the brilliant seemingly throwaway lines that were highlighted in the features.

In a throwaway line intended to highlight his perpetually boyish good looks, his agent Rick Yorn refers to DiCaprio as a character actor in a leading man's body.

I thought that was a throwaway line, but then I heard variations of it again and again.

When we raised the matter with Barack afterward, he was surprised and frustrated that a debate in which he had generally performed well would be remembered for what he regarded as a throwaway line.

It's a throwaway line, but Nietzsche was onto something when he said madness was the exception in individuals but the rule in crowds.»

What exactly was the relevance of this throwaway line?

That matters a lot more than some throwaway line about the stimulus or whatever.

You've heard the culture's throwaway line to those struggling with being single: «You need to get laid.»

It may just have been a throwaway line, a presumed witticism, to which he gave little thought; in which case he is convicted merely of intellectual sloppiness.

A throwaway line in an Oxford Outlook article about the worship of the Virgin Mary provoked a response from Vivien Dayrell - Browning, a 19 - year - old secretary at Blackwell's.

Criticism of Jihadism is dismissed with a throwaway line: «Islam is accused of violence, as if Christianity is innocent.»

Then he added a throwaway line, something like «and there are free agents, if we get them signed in time, they can go.»

We will have to wait and see whether Wenger's throwaway line suggesting that the medical staff have actually discovered the underlying reason for the fact that Aaron Ramsey's injury problems keep coming back.

Mr. O'Brien said he was stunned and overwhelmed by the viewers» response to what had initially been a throwaway line, and by what that response, collectively, suggested about how the digital world was affecting traditional media like television.

This throwaway line that it is more expensive than sending a kid to Eton — it may be, but it is not more expensive necessarily than sending a criminal out onto the streets.

The directive to «go with your gut» is more than a throwaway line from pseudo-science.

Take for instance, Po's throwaway line after chugging up hundreds of stairs on his way to dastardly Shen's headquarters: «I threw up a little bit on the third floor.

Worse, barely any of the exposition in the film's dreary first half hour affects the rest of the movie; one throwaway line creates a late - movie action beat, but it's not even played as the triumph over personal history that it could have been.

Here's the thing: every time a character is introduced, every time a seemingly throwaway line of dialogue is given that little extra emphasis, every time the classic three - act structure requires a very particular plot development... you know exactly what's coming next.

Notable chiefly because their absences are explained in a throwaway line that gets thrown away by the character tasked to deliver it like it's a soiled diaper.

(Ant - Man and Hawkeye are notable exceptions, their absence relegated to a throwaway line of dialogue.)

It's a throwaway line, but it encompasses the film's eventful downfall, as Whiskey Galore!