Sentences with word «uppity»

Having a small of custom AI warriors at your disposal is quite nice, especially when your nephew gets uppity with his skills.

If the country is going to get uppity with the Times, the editors sniff, the country can just go and find itself another newspaper to tell it what to think.

Who knows what kind of uppity ideas they'll get after seeing Transformers!

Bloggers have been getting uppity about newspaper journalists pondering their influence.

Among the notables is Stephen Campbell Moore's affable physician, Samuel Anderson's intrusive Jehovah's Witness and Frances de la Tour («Hugo») and Roger Allam («The Woman in Black») as uppity residents with mounting impatience.

They're worse than useless when it comes to the IRS abusing its power against American citizens, the Department of Veterans Affairs turning into a horror show, the Administration lying about a deadly attack on a U.S. consulate, or the Justice Department running guns into Mexico, but they've got plenty of time and resources to crack down on uppity climate scientists.

Acquiring other brands from food companies under pressure from uppity shareholders could be one way of boosting returns.

Way too uppity for mom.

It's more PC to say you don't want to donate to a young black mans education because you read some Ayn Rand than it is to admit you don't want to support scholarships because you don't want anymore «uppity blacks» running around thinking they can be President.

Do not be so uppity during the first date.

Now they are forced to literally lead each other's lives, as Charlie, in his father's body, must go to work in the dog - eat - dog corporate world, while Marshall heads back to the 6th grade to be tormented by bullies and dealing with uppity teachers.

Wilder, William Wyler, Zinnemann, George Stevens, Clint Eastwood and Lee all won multiple Oscars while uppity auteurs waited for their names to be called.

It's the smartest kid in class, but it's not uppity about it.

It is empirically correct, for instance, that a successful market economy releases democratizing pressures» the children of hungry peasants, once they have forgotten the hunger, become politically uppity.

Given that Diego has celebrated every single Argentine goal like it was a semi-miracle it seems a little strange that he then gets a little uppity when greeted with scenes of sheer jubilation.

Tony Hale (Veep) and Thomas Lennon (Reno 911) play uppity educators, with Jenna Fischer (The Office) and Judy Greer as the boy's moms (the perennial bff is asked to pull off perhaps the new years» worst line of dialogue, «My Lord is bigger than your statistics»).

The 139 bln - euro Magnum ice - cream owner may attract uppity investors for the same reasons Kraft Heinz came calling: low margins and relatively little debt.

This one's startin'to git real uppity now, ain't she?

Women acting uppity!

Sommeliers bicker with uppity diners.

Why is everyone getting so freaking uppity about it.

It doesn't work very well, whatever uppity backbenchers claim, because the first - past - the - post system means most people aren't represented by someone they backed.

Tonight we learned that Farage patronises uppity women & Cameron struggles with questions about immigration.

This slouchy, menswear - inspired ensemble provides a prime example of Markle's plan to be a different sort of duchess — the effortlessly cool Serena van der Woodsen to Kate Middleton's uppity Blair Waldorf.

The moral of the story is being yourself in the face of uppity Europeans and a father who wants to hide you away is the epitome of patriotis.

Along the way, we're shown (surprise, surprise) that the DA is an unabashed racist who treats black people as if they were uppity mischief - makers on his plantation, and that even in the depths of East Texas, there are a few folks who will stand up and fight the power at great cost to themselves, simply to get the truth out in the open air.

Idiocracy a fun film for those who laugh at, or perhaps lament, the sorry state of our society, where reading is increasingly being deemed by youth culture as passé, popular entertainment has nearly no emphasis on story (Judge portrays films of the future as nothing but shots of bare asses that occasionally fart, which the audience finds consummately entertaining), and people can't speak intelligently without being labeled as uppity snobs.

In the meantime, Georgia, learning to put aside her inhibitions, goes base - jumping, rides in a helicopter and stands up for the staff when uppity patrons at the establishment berate their performance.

This will undoubtedly vary from the accounts of uppity film critics who will discount the basic plot and obvious laughs (which is the whole point).

When Harper's uppity mother (Jean Smart) cuts him down in a most refined yet menacing manner (it's a terrific scene that could very well win Academy attention for Smart), while one hates her bitchy attitude, one can still see where the objections are coming from.

Uppity ups at the Ministry of Magic refuse to believe Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes) is back and in order to squelch any fears of his return, they've started a smear campaign meant to discredit both Harry and the school's headmaster Albus Dumbledorf (Michael Gambon).

It's hardly even worth complaining, then, that Anchorman uses its faux satire of the 1970s as an excuse to play out male fantasies of knocking uppity women — like aspiring anchorwoman Christina Applegate (View from the Top, The Sweetest Thing)-- back down into their proper place; as with the new Stepford Wives, Anchorman pretends to send up passé attitudes while actually expressing very contemporary fears.

Yet, he admits, the question is actually a good one — an «uppity version» of what's worth learning in school.

The more uppity I get, the more hits my blog gets.

How that uppity tart cousin of theirs looked at the fireman's ball last night?

Pingback by Google Trends as a book promo tool — plus a few uppity thoughts on Washington, D.C., novels TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home February 20, 2009

The idea is, basically, in a nutshell, can you still afford your home when rates go uppity up!

Uppity bastards.

Whether its opponent is a smaller, uppity dog who thinks it is a mastiff, or a human intruder who wishes he / she was one, the Bull Mastiff is polite but firm.

Sony Stops Being a Baby About Cross-Platform Games - There are more great multiplayer games out in the world than ever, and while Microsoft and Nintendo have worked out a way to let their user bases play together, Sony has been pretty uppity about it.

Uppity Negress addresses the layered roles gender and race have played historically in black women's ability to navigate their position in urban space.

He attempts to sell his discomfort with uppity feminists and misguided social engineers by blaming them for the sad state of educational quality.

«They're not snobby or very uppity.

Many clients fear that their lawyers not only will resist management, but will actually retaliate against uppity clients by inflating their bills or throwing the case.

Well, the American authorities are certainly better at prosecuting uppity women (Martha Stewart) and arrogant foreigners (Conrad Black) and they know when to issue pardons to their own kind (Marc Rich).

With that in mind, he urged non-Indigenous organisations, decision makers, management and politicians to «understand why we get a bit uppity sometimes» and comply with some «very basic, easy to do principles» that are non-negotiable for «fixing» Indigenous health: