Sentences with phrase «with dunce»

So I'm going to just sit over here in the corner, with the dunce hat on, and spend a while whittling me a new sand stick; well hell that other one had got a little blunt anyway.

In 1975, Wiley created his persona «Mr. Unnatural,» who has appeared in a hilarious series of portraits of the artist as an idiot savant, with dunce cap, kimono, and geisha sandals.

Despite that, I think this still only deserves a 0.6 Price / Book valuation — with this dunce, who the hell knows when value will be realized, or wasted away...

Imogene Poots, Jessica Lucas, Addison Timlin and MacKenzie Davis each play smart, beautiful women who somehow associate with these dunces.

Not exact matches

He is witheringly critical of astrology, dubbing it, with the rest of occultism, a «metaphysic of dunces», suggesting «a climate of semi-erudition is the fertile breeding ground for astrology.»

No matter what the truth, the thinking classes, with the sophisticated journalists following obediently behind, have regarded the Democrats as their kind and most Republicans as dunces.

Toguether they are trying to plan how to stay coach of a football club with no ambition of winning anything but fooling dunces with sweet dictionary words.

For dunce and make him stand in the corner of the classroom with one of those pointed hats on his head.

With a manager (described in one national newspaper as a tactical dunce) in the last year of his contract he is a dead - man walking and unlikely to command any respect from his players.

Well educated and fairly wise but with a tendancy to act like a dunce when an exotic woman is in control.

The actor, best known to Americans for his role in Guardians of the Galaxy, brings nuance to the character, infusing the lovable muscle - bound dunce (the prevailing feature of Patrick Warburton's 2001 take on The Tick) with a more human and empathetic element.

Paul Jesson gives a lovely performance as Turner's beloved elderly widowed father, who is content to live with him as his manservant and factotum, and has relapsed into what Turner shrewdly identifies as the false persona of a «dunce» — despite the fact that he taught Turner to read and write.

Along for the ride are Abercrombie - dunce Ryan (Billy Magnussen) and his intellectual «British» (Irish) date / ringer Sarah (Sharon Horgan), with childhood sweethearts Kevin (Lamorne Morris) and Michelle (Kylie Bunbury).

«Burn After Reading» is a blackly comic illustration of Murphy's Law, set in the Washington world of CIA espionage, and populated with a cast of delusional dunces who are a wonder to behold.

Davis has forged a wisecracking, cross-species bromance with his simian companion, who he rescued from poachers years earlier and whose fluency in sign language makes Koko look like a total dunce.

Summary: A nerdy, romantic dunce who has never had sex plunges headlong into a relationship with a 40 - year - old mother of three.

The dunce hat should really go to the message boarder who came out with that old chestnut: Plenty of upside here, folks, and only 0.4 p of downside — worth a punt!

Score: Five points for coming to you with its tail wagging; four points for coming part way; three points for standing or rising; two points for moving, and one if your doggie dunce pays no attention at all.

Of course, Snow's a dunce, and Lightning needs to grow up, and they're all way too dramatic, but the game seems to realize a lot of that and doesn't let the characters get away with it just because «that's the way they are».

As ever you're tasked with re-jigging the environment to coerce your troop of mechanical dunces to safety, gobbling up as many collectables as possible along the way.

Two of Wiley's constructions from the 1970s are also included in the show, the most elaborate of which is Hard Lesson for the Dunce (1977), which incorporates a tree stump, a carved wooden head, a spindly branch decorated with strung together metal lettering, and a chalkboard all accompanied by a watercolor of a dunce - cappedDunce (1977), which incorporates a tree stump, a carved wooden head, a spindly branch decorated with strung together metal lettering, and a chalkboard all accompanied by a watercolor of a dunce - cappeddunce - capped log.

Other settings include a schoolroom with a chalkboard and a chair set up as a dunce in the corner, and a disco ball - lit psychoanalyst chair (Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, and Charlotte Perriand) in conversation with another chair, one with an orange ball substituted for one of its four feet (Peter Shire).