Sentences with phrase «throwaway lines in»

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

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.

So much of what actually works here comes from little looks, an occasional throwaway line in what seems to be a screenplay that left plenty of room for the two lead actors to improvise jokes to mixed effect, and the situations that are far shorter than the majority of scenes, like when the son takes his mother to the Grand Canyon after she has spent the entire trip saying she wants to see it.

Irate that columnist George Will had questioned the benefits of early childhood education in a throwaway line in paragraph 15 of an op - ed, Heckman wrote, «Those benefits, quoted by President Obama this year, come from my evidence - based analysis of more than 30 years of data from the Perry Preschool program... It is as good a trial for effectiveness as those we currently rely on to evaluate prescription and over-the-counter drugs.»

Or that a guy may once have mentioned something as a throwaway line in a telephone interview ten years earlier — and by a (deliberate?)

It's a familiar story: An interesting paper gets published, there is a careless throwaway line in the press release, and a whole series of misleading headlines ensues.

The news that the key report driving global policy on climate change used a throwaway line in a popular science magazine to suggest some Himalayan glaciers could disappear in 25 years reads like a Monty Python skit.

That's usually a throwaway line in lots of smartphone reviews, but I'm telling you I mean it.

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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 bodIn 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 bodin a leading man's body.

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.»

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.

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

Sometimes you can't win: Just when you stop littering the environment with throwaway water bottles and switch to reusable containers comes an uproar over bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical found in some can linings and hard plastics.

Russell pokes fun of his weight, makes ludicrous power plays to establish his dominance in prison, and invites a number of deeply uncomfortable jokes about his inevitable sexual abuse in prison — a line of comedy that feels even more unwelcome given that the film's cast includes an accused sexual assailant in T.J. Miller, who needlessly returns as Deadpool's best friend, Weasel, in a few throwaway scenes.

As in her previous collaboration with Robespierre, Slate is disarmingly delightful, slowly unveiling a new side to Dana and coaxing laughs out of lines that should by all rights be throwaways.

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.

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 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).

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.

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.

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

«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)

In a throwaway line, which you might miss if you sip your soda too loudly, it's revealed Hawkeye and Ant - Man gave themselves up to the United Nations offscreen, basically entering forced retirement and / or house arrest.

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.

Or another moment in which an obviously over-dubbed throwaway line is added to describe a villain with: «He looks Afghani!»

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

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).

This quick line, almost a jokey throwaway, is, in fact, key to Sarah Polley's conception of autobiography and documentary filmmaking.

One of the most interesting lines of dialogue in Avengers: Infinity War, is also a bit of a throwaway line, but it has big implications for Avengers 4 so let's revisit it.

The first half of «A Quiet Passion,» in particular, is a riotous assemblage of drawing - room banter to rival Whit Stillman's recent adaptation of the Jane Austen comedy «Love & Friendship,» though the line readings here are more deliberate than effervescent, and even throwaway witticisms prove intimately revealing of character, milieu and circumstance.

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.

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

Not funny out of context, but in the movie it is preceded by certain other lines, and delivered with a certain throwaway intonation, and seen from a certain camera angle, and followed by certain reactions.

This narrative twist has been the subject of intensive theorising and fan speculation since the game's release in January, but you get the impression that Capcom weren't really aware of this, as the mystery is basically brushed aside with a throwaway line of dialogue.

Vexed at the outcome, the villain's henchman said that dealing with the Avengers would be «courting death itself» — a throwaway line that was in fact full of meaning and thrilled fans of the character.

With the blessing of Monsters, Inc. writer - director Pete Docter, they decided not to take a throwaway line from Sulley in the first film — «You've been jealous of me since the fourth grade» — literally.

Oscar - winner Octavia Spencer («The Help») is a throwaway casting choice as Amity Johanna (who has more of a role in the novels), and Oscar - nominated Naomi Watts has barely ten lines in the whole film (though she is gifted with the closing scene of the film — a scene that was drastically changed from the book).

It is, however, the last evidence that Wright is supposed to be a mixed martial arts fighter, apart from a throwaway line late in the film explaining why it is that this killing machine — a guy with a vaguely hinted at super-secret special forces background — is spending his time taking dives on a second - rate MMA circuit.

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 lateIn 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 latein 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.

A subplot where Hit Girl is ostracized by some classmates and exacts a nasty revenge seems like a dry run for Moretz's performance in the upcoming Carrie remake; elsewhere, the filmmakers borrow from virtually every comic - book movie ever made while retaining a smug sense of superiority toward the genre (one throwaway line mocks Stan Lee fan boys).

The ending of Iron Man 3 where Stark all but hangs up the armour and destroys his robotic army is entirely ignored for the sake of the plot, meanwhile Cap and Falcon's decision to hunt down Bucky Barnes at the end of Captain America: Winter Soldier is also hastily glossed over in a throwaway line which does nothing but make the ending of Winter Soldier feel pointless.

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.

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 paintingin 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 paintingIn 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.

It was a throwaway line and I was careless in the way I expressed it.

Just as in Fairchild v Glenhaven Funeral Services Ltd [2002] UKHL 22, [2002] 3 All ER 305, where Lord Hutton's deliberate throwaway line opened the door for defendants to argue that mesothelioma damages were apportionable, so too one must look to the subtext in Rothwell.