Sentences with word «wastrel»

Dudley Do - Right, the television cartoon version of the proverbially virtuous Canadian Mountie, always came up against Snidely Whiplash, a rascally wastrel who was very hard to subdue.

In this scurrilous re-working of the Arthurian myths, the foul - mouthed, drunken wastrels of the Round Table reluctantly attempt to fulfil their Quests in a medieval England populated by a cast of violent, duplicitous and insolent grotesques.

While mopping up the champagne - soaked carpet on a massive yacht, she runs into Eugenio Derbez's playboy Leonardo — the party - hardy wastrel son of the third richest man in the world, we are told — who not only insults her but pushes her into the drink along with her cleaning gear.

It told the story of a transgender prostitute and several other L.A. drama - queen wastrels, and the small miracle of the movie is that it wasn't -LSB-...]

In Josh Brolin's loose and game performance, the second Bush was a grinning goofball in his youth, a drunken wastrel whose «Poppy» reluctantly bailed him out of trouble after trouble.

Not only Henry, but Tom Bertram, Edmund's wastrel older brother, and John Yates, the fervent actor, seem more interesting.

But just as Rabbit proves more than a mere wastrel, Nelson is revealed as more than a dopehead: he seeks and finds a cure for his drug addiction.

All complete with action of the martial kind, a wafer thin storyline, and some odd characters for Jackie to bash up and now, a partner who is a lovable wastrel.

In his larger roles, Meeker was frequently cast as a caddish «other man,» a spineless wastrel who might be (but seldom was) the mystery killer, or the respectable businessman who's actually a conniving crook.

In one of Alfred Hitchcock's suspense classics, tennis pro Guy Haines (Farley Granger) chances to meet wealthy wastrel Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker) on a train.

Carla, as before, is the group's slovenly wastrel, so it makes perfect high - concept movie sense that her mother, Isis (Susan Sarandon), is a reckless drifter in black cowgirl duds who gets dropped off by a trucker and immediately lights up a joint; she has no idea it's Christmas, or even what year it is.

Forced to follow wastrel father Ray (Travis Fimmel) to Oregon, teenager Charley Thompson (Plummer) is drawn to the Portland Downs racetrack, where he befriends shifty trainer Del (Steve Buscemi), pragmatic jockey Bonnie (Chloë Sevigny) and Lean On Pete (Starsky), a five year - old quarter horse who is just one bad race away from being sent to a Mexican slaughterhouse.

Killer Joe, originally written for the stage in 1993, isn't Letts's most mature work but it has a barbed narrative hook: Up to his beady little eyeballs in debt, Lone Star state wastrel Chris (Emile Hirsch) contrives to have his mother killed for her life - insurance policy.

The surprise is that this kind of personality - based trick has resulted in the most searching and affecting performance of the actor's career: his Ivan is an organized, surface - only wastrel who has admitted to his limitations and made peace with them, beautifully balancing the title character's uncertain yearnings.

But if you must be an auto wastrel, the splendid XJ - S is one way to go.

foundling (noun) also wastrel.

We're energy wastrels.

Twenty years ago, when Hansen of GISS (Goddard Institute of Space Science) first resorted to duckspeak («warm is cold,» etc.), Michael Crighton noted: «Freeze or fry, the enemy is always free - market entrepreneurial capitalism, the solution is always bureaucratic State socialism» — that is, wastrel Luddite modes consciously aiming to blast individualist bourgeois consumer culture at its very roots.

They've got to stash the money somewhere, the dollar's still the world's reserve currency, and encouraging America's wastrel ways probably seemed like a good export strategy anyway... So funding its addiction to never - ending deficits & increasing debt (at ridiculously low interest rates) has become a real doddle for the US — well, as long as that global savings glut remains available.

Few performances in the past few years were as divisive as Emory Cohen's turn as Bradley Cooper's wastrel son in «The Place Beyond The Pines» — throw a rock and you'd find someone marking him as a bright new talent, throw another and you'd hit someone that thought he was mannered and annoying.

It told the story of a transgender prostitute and several other L.A. drama - queen wastrels, and the small miracle of the movie is that it wasn't just visually accomplished.

Roderigo, who refers to Othello as «the thick - lips,» is apparently a wastrel whom both Desdemona and Brabantio have scorned as a suitor.

That is the kind of development that conservatives need to ponder, asking themselves how education can be rescued from the state, without reducing it to a privilege that only a few can afford, and without abandoning the children of wastrels to their fate.

And while we are on that dread subject of Walcott, how many more decades will this wastrel be encouraged by the club to keep picking up huge wages for nothing in return.

With an alarming lack of knowledge of the game, he selected a side full of wastrels and non-entities, and by the end of September he had lost complete interest in the team and was just happy to leave them to their own devices, collecting the odd point here and there.

Now Cuomo and his buddies want to burrow deeper into your paycheck to cover their wastrel ways.

however the prince is a wastrel and his aristocratic parents are broke so they give him a choice: marry money or shoot himself!

In films, however, the shifty - eyed, weak - chinned Rice was forever typecast as malingerers, wastrels, back - stabbers, and modern - day Uriah Heeps.

If you played a word - association game with «Alexander the Great,» you'd probably come up with «conqueror,» «king,» «warrior,» «legend,» «despot,» «wastrel» or «killer.»

2 — Chimes at Midnight (Criterion, Blu - ray, DVD)-- Developed by Orson Welles from a stage production drawn largely from Shakespeare's «Henry VI» and «Henry V» (as well as «Holinshead's Chronicles») centered on Falstaff (played with bedhead and bulbous nose red with drink) and his bad - father relationship with young Prince Hal (Keith Baxter), the heir to the crown of England, is his wastrel years.

Wonderfully over-the-top melodrama starring Rock Hudson as a wastrel playboy who's wracked with guilt when his recklessness causes the death of a man and blinds his poor wife.

It also gives Melrose a post-Imperial flare, as Patrick wrangles with his father's legacy as a wastrel aristocrat who came of age in the Jazz Age and held some, um, colorful views of the world.

When 12 - year - old Joey flees his East Texas farm to escape the deadly intentions of his stepmother and her lover, he finds adventure and danger in the company of outlaws and his wastrel cousin.

«Stop neither for wantons, nor wastrels, nor to gape at the dumb - show or mummers.

Such is the fascination of Raeburn Court, where the plans of Byron Stratford, Duke of Raeburn, to exact revenge against her wastrel brother, Jack, are thwarted by the wiles and...

Overcoming his reputation as a coward and wastrel will take more than heroic war...

-- Roseanna M. White, Bestselling Christian Author Tressa Danell is finished with men — from the wastrel who left her a widow, to the smelly trapper who keeps proposing, to the banker who wants to repossess her bakery.

join far cry 4 executive producer dan hay and aisha as they debrief E3 2014, drink stout, and wastrel their way through the world of video game development.

These wastrels could at least limit idling on hot and cold days by parking in the shade when possible, or blasting the heater before they park, letting residual heat linger inside.