Sentences with phrase «ugly sister of»

Residential property has historically been perceived as the less glamorous ugly sister of commercial property, but in actual fact it has a considerably greater amount of technical black letter law around it.

Baba Ganoush is the ugly sister of hummus.

Not exact matches

Some years ago, an ugly row broke out when secularist politicians raised (abortion - related) objections to the proposed involvement of the Sisters of Charity in managing a new maternity hospital on the site.

[73] McKellen described Howard's junior ministers, Conservatives David Wilshire and Dame Jill Knight, who were the architects of Section 28, as the «ugly sisters» of a political pantomime.

Is it just me or do pears kind of get made out to be the ugly step - sister of the apple?

Whenever I see images from this time period, I can't help but think of Cinderella and her two ugly step - sisters, haha!

Now that I think about it... my mom has a closet full of shoes that cause my sister to roll her eyes: «UGly» she proclaims.

«I do think we need to do a better job in communicating a balanced view of interracial dating (the good, the bad, the ugly) without piling on irrational paranoia about that one time, somebody's uncle's cousin's sister's son - in - law thought he heard his neighbor's white husband call their black puppy the n - word.»

But while this kind of comedic bildungsroman has been repeatedly overdone, what saves «Submarine» from becoming the ugly sister to «Napoleon Dynamite» is its smart and strongly developed central character.

We follow the pretties through the paces of their suffering as Kidman's outtakes from Margot at the Wedding allow the uglies in the audience to feel self - righteous catharsis at her taking down a couple of churchies at a support group and her sister's entire birthday party.

Set in the early 1970s against the specter of the Manson girls, when the peace and love movement begins to turn ugly, this is the story of a runaway teenager's disappearance and her sister's quest to discover the truth.

This month's OPM reviews the greatly anticipated Italian stealth simulator, FIFA's ugly sister, the epitome of the PlayStation fighting genre, a game where you ferociously make flailing arm movements at your TV to cater for your «virtual pet» (yeah right, you crazy man) and many more.

Much as the glass slipper did not fit the feet of the ugly sisters.

Dr. Curry Politics of science appear to be the «ugly sister» to its more noble sibling.

Like your sisters hot friend, they are mesmerizingly beautiful in an ugly kind of way.»

Often, and unfairly, seen as the ugly sister to the more glamorous Crown court, coronial justice has been starved of funding and the will to reform for years.

In another example, a woman may confess she always felt like the «ugly duckling» of three sisters, and struggles to feel adored by her husband.