Sentences with phrase «while uppity»

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

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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.

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.

Now, I may sometimes refer to this room as the «foyer», but you must know that while I am typing it I am actually saying it sarcastically in my mock «uppity girl» accent (think Mary Crawley from Downton Abbey).