Sentences with word «wisecrack»

The Blu - ray exclusive Picture - in - Picture Commentary featuring Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Ed Helms and Todd Phillips is a certified hoot, with lots of reminiscences about the cast and production along with the occasional surgical wisecrack.

Some of the jokes are just plain unsettling (there's a running joke about «child molesterers» — not a typo — that comes across as more unpleasant than amusing), but for every awkward and squirmy wisecrack there's a comedy goldmine (the cameo by Waititi as a local preacher is one of the funniest scenes in years).

Written and directed by James Gunn, the tale follows Peter Quill and a band of unlikely heroes as they hurtle through space, dodge and sometimes fight angry foes, trip over their own foibles, and wisecrack their way through adventure.

Writing in this paper, Susannah Clapp called her performance «delicate and fiery» and said: «She moves round the stage like a light - footed schoolgirl, but drops a wisecrack like a miniature Mae West.»

Throwing in a stream of one - liners and sight gags to see what sticks, littered with genuine attempts to cultivate a romance, is also a lacklustre technique that doesn't hide the feature's wisecrack - laden dialogue or general sense of meanness.

The chip's theft would be devastating to the nations of the world and upset the balance of power and / or would put Apple and Microsoft out of business; the explanation is tossed off quickly and is really not germane to this discussion, because mainly what the movie wants and needs are excuses for people to fight and wisecrack and drive stylish cars very quickly and blow things up and smash vehicles and destroy property and make some more jokes and maybe flirt a little and kill people without dwelling too long on the dead bodies and maybe quite possibly and casually kill innocent civilians but not acknowledge anything more than — wow!

It's a snarky, caustic, sarcastic wisecrack feast hidden under the Disney Logo and a stupid title.

Unfortunately, the movie gave him little to do other than make the occasional wisecrack while standing around looking serious.

It's a lone credit, though I would gamble that some of these actors provided a wisecrack or two of their own.

For a wisecrack or two, this would provide levity and amusement.

And a wisecrack.

That said, despite his poisonous tone, Carver's best wisecrack, derived from a Biblical story is a corker (I won't spoil it for you) and brought the house down at the State Theatre.

And it features an endearingly dysfunctional family with Jason Bateman and Tina Fey at its center, both of whom wisecrack aplenty as they keep their wackier clan members in check.

Freed, or to be freed, slave Django (Jamie Foxx) is too bitter and steely - eyed to wisecrack or even smile as his pointed verbal bullets hit home.

They will be Friend makes a funny wisecrack over her friend buying a present for her husband.

Heading for the basement lab, one of the East Bay narcolepsy support group members — the handsome, silver - haired man — had ventured a small wisecrack as he neared the yelping dogs.

On the one hand, it is possible to see the comic side in the Manifesto pilfering phenomenon and agree with the «great minds think alike» wisecrack, but, on the other hand, it is a dangerous practice for our country for political parties simply to take on concepts and programmes they do not believe in, nor have thought through.

was speaking at a congressional awards dinner Wednesday when he made a wisecrack about a widely circulated photograph of Conway kneeling on a White House sofa.

I deleted my wisecrack about wearing adult diapers when dining out after a «certain age».

Our consistency of manager has become a wisecrack for opponents of Arsenal.

First a little background, especially about that name, which, of course, inspires (too) many a wisecrack (he's also got a golfer brother named Luckie).

Many an evening, before and afterward, he would sit in our living room after dinner and respond to the invitation to recite some poetry ¯ especially Yeats ¯ and he would demur, and wisecrack, and then launch out into thirty or forty minutes of long ballads he had committed to memory.

As he puts it: «I'd like to CHALLENGE every woman in tech who's a) got a nice care, b) owns a nice house, or c) is making over $ 125K a year to start thinking of themselves as the next Ron Conway or Esther Dyson in the making and commit to investing in startups...» I'll forgive him for the poor grammar, ditto for the wisecrack a couple of paragraphs later about how some of us might have spent $ 5,000 to $ 10,000 on our MBAs... or our wardrobes.

This whimsical, witty fantasy novel features a feminist protagonist, one of my favorite love stories in YA literature, and a hilarious wisecracking fireplace.

You hear wisecracks about founders letting «the inmates run the asylum» in the name of equality or democracy and that, as a result, those businesses are headed right into the ground.

And nobody sweetened the medicine more than Harrison himself — the gathered investors laughed easily at his wisecracks delivered in a disarming Tennessee drawl.

Some companies, notably Southwest Airlines (LUV), project funniness in all areas of their business, from wisecracking flight attendants to the stock ticker, LUV.

In entertainment, Texas Guinan, a former silent film star from Waco, Texas, partnered with a gangster and opened one of Manhattan's first nightclubs, starring as its raucous, wisecracking hostess.

Economics minister Alexei Ulyukayev, a wisecracking liberal who locked horns with state oil colossus Rosneft, was arrested last autumn on shaky - looking graft charges and remains under house arrest.

That's the purpose of that wisecracked comment «to feed the ducks».

Unless this is a conversation between friends who are used to sparring with one another sarcastically, you're not likely to come off as very funny (or indeed, very helpful) by dispensing wisecracks.

Whispered wisecracks and feet shuffling?

It featured some mountebank striding up and down in front of an audience, wisecracking and sneering at Darwinism....

Instead of the glossy, wisecracking polished tone they established in their Avengers movies, the shows offer gritty, dark looks at flawed characters that are barely super or heroes.

Chris Pratt and co. return to bring their signature brand of wisecracking rock»n roll to the MCU, with a sequel to the hit intergalactic action epic.

Well, they ended up easily catching this guy, and they made some wisecracks to him about if he had just worn a belt, he might have been able to run faster.

More distinctively, it offers an unforgettable portrait of the summertime context in which Niebuhr consorted with Protestant ecumenists, traded wisecracks with Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter (an agnostic among the Heath clerics) and wrote most of his major works.

He wrote the celebrated score for Bugsy Malone, and appeared in numerous films himself — stealing the show as a wisecracking bootlegger in Smokey and the Bandit.

He tells Jack Burden, the smart - aleck, wisecracking narrator (to whom the story equally belongs), that he himself went to an old - fashioned Presbyterian Sunday school where in the old days they still taught some theology.

The Muppets as a gang of wisecracking TV producers.

When I share those wisecracks with my preponderantly Methodist seminary students, they invariably react with nervous laughter.

The angels respond with wisecracks and not - so - innocent questions, such as, «Well, if all agree the sea is getting somewhat saltier every year, why, after billions of years, isn't the sea all salt?»

Right now, this moment, whatever Joe means to himself behind his wisecracks, his dark, rugged good looks, and his flashy tailoring, he is mostly one thing — a big celebrity in a celebrity - conscious town.

During it all, the wisecracks flowed like cocktails.

Convinced that his exempt status was official, Beem departed, leaving a trail of hugs and wisecracks.

«Hold your noses, men,» said Kolius, the wisecracking Texan.

Siragusa, a defensive tackle, is a crass, wisecracking wide - body from New Jersey.

This is notable because his real - life presence at a U.S. Ryder Cup dinner at Jack Nicklaus» house Thursday night — following Wednesday's home video of Woods hitting a 9 - iron into a simulator and the CSI: Jupiter treatment accorded it — engendered another round of wisecracks about the state of the health of the former world No. 1.

Helen was quiet and always accommodating to a fault, but once you got to know her she was wisecracking and fiery.

Senate President Joe Negron isn't known for his wisecracks or snappy comebacks.