Sentences with phrase «very uppity»

«They're not snobby or very uppity.

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However, if Uncle Mike thinks the new Tay Tay album is bad because women are getting too uppity these days and really need to lay off all the talk about equality, that opinion could very well be doing damage to communities, families and even Uncle Mike's own soul.

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.

And probably the very primary reason for that is young Maisie Williams, an actress so brilliantly suited to this, her first role, that it's almost too much of a wrench to imagine her playing anyone but the scrappy, uppity, doggedly loyal but ferociously prickly pint - sized Lady of Winterfell.

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.

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.

We went to a store in laurel a few hours after my mother calling into that store and for the lady that she talked to to hold a particular car, we get there and it had been sold not very long before hand, this lady then was seriously snotty and sarcastic, so I walk outside and pace a bit to cool off, when I come back in she is all pissy and trying to sell us something else and saying that she wasn't supposed to, willing to or did mother ask her to hold a car, and that when it gets busy etc...., so we leave and go to leave, I get pissed and we turn around, come back into that store, I walk up to talk to a manager, she comes over, over talks me, tells only her side of the «truth», I try to talk to the manager and tell him what we were after, he tries to sell me a 2010, I try to tell him that it was too new, he tells me to hold on that it will be ok, so I try to tell him that we were after X and that the lady from earlier in this post did x y and z and that I find / found her to be dippy, he gets uppity and pissy, tells me that I can't talk to a woman like that, I tell him that yes I can» equality» you know?

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: