Sentences with phrase «throwaway lines like»

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

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

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.

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.

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).

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.

Of course, reading the article, it looks like Next Gen has just chosen to play up a throwaway line from the analyst and make it the headline.

The line even sounds like a throwaway.

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.

It sounds like a throwaway line but if you consider the result would include tens of thousands of TREB members, it becomes a sobering message very quickly.