Sentences with phrase «with yuppie»

«With me or against me» is mocked when it comes from Dubya, but rewarded in all its shapes otherwise, especially when it's draped with yuppie babble about better world and patriotism.

As for all that hairdresser talk, clearly the past weighs heavily on the SLK name, much the same as the bad years of sissy BMW 3 - series» relationship with yuppie stockbrokers made it difficult to turn opinion when the 3 - series got its act together.

Shameless, Season 3, Episode 2: Lip underbids illegal immigrants with yuppie volunteers to help pay the bills.

Indeed, the very term «smart drug», with its yuppie - cum - cyberpunk connotations, makes orthodox companies like Glaxo recoil with horror.

Not exact matches

Taking the advice and working closely with Gekko, Fox soon finds himself swept into a world of «yuppies», shady business deals, the «good life», fast money, and fast women; something which is at odds with his family including his estranged father and the blue - collared way Fox was brought up.

We may put ourselves on a list to adopt children with disabilities in order to provide a backup for someone who is struggling with the decision, Churches tempted to aim for yuppie - friendly perfection in their church pageants and Sunday school instead may need to reconfigure the expectations of the parents they seek to attract.

With the benefit cap meaning that housing benefit will be capped at a point where for many who rely on it will have to move away, which means areas with relative affluence with sites of former counci estates, which are now being snapped up by yuppies or young professionals renting them will increase in an area — less likely to vote Labour than those who were on receipt of housing beneWith the benefit cap meaning that housing benefit will be capped at a point where for many who rely on it will have to move away, which means areas with relative affluence with sites of former counci estates, which are now being snapped up by yuppies or young professionals renting them will increase in an area — less likely to vote Labour than those who were on receipt of housing benewith relative affluence with sites of former counci estates, which are now being snapped up by yuppies or young professionals renting them will increase in an area — less likely to vote Labour than those who were on receipt of housing benewith sites of former counci estates, which are now being snapped up by yuppies or young professionals renting them will increase in an area — less likely to vote Labour than those who were on receipt of housing benefit.

Clever sleuthing finds a connection between a virus associated with cancer and the mysterious «yuppie flu.»

I swung around, I didn't even think about what I was doing, some 30 some year old yuppie fuck with an underarmour tank top and a fucked up stick physique.

The Yuppies (young urban professional) ruled the finance world with their stylish and perfected lifestyles.

Alexander Wang's collection also went for a slightly more contemporary yuppie and also touched down in the 90s with the Matrix feeling.

Dating a country boy is such a breath of fresh air compared to trying to keep up with all the yuppies desperate to get ahead.

If you are looking for a nerd, a yuppie, or a preppy keep looking I am a man and with you a i can have an intelligent conversation, a candlelit dinner or you can live on the edge with me and take a moonlit ride on my harley.

More of a «Yippie» than a Hippie... that would be a Hippie at heart but one with a career, (Yuppie) LOL No Offense to my brethren here.

Across the St. Johns River lie Riverside and Avondale, areas with a Bohemian feel mixed with a touch of yuppie.

The first half concerns Brooklyn high - school student Chantel (Ariyan Johnson) as she deals with academic disagreements with her teachers (at one point getting into shouting match about the Holocaust), takes advantage of her boyfriend's wallet to go on a shopping spree, and confronts yuppies in the Upper West Side gourmet shop where she works.

The «bachelor party gone wrong» is a well - established comedy sub-genre and the prospect of yet another bunch of shit - faced yuppies getting into scrapes with hookers is hardly one to savour.

Fiona and the queen (Julie Andrews) are swiftly locked up, along with Snow White (Amy Poehler), Sleeping Beauty (Cheri Oteri), and Cinderella (Amy Sedaris), Fiona's more typical storybook counterparts, who've been reimagined as ungrateful yuppie snobs.

We know this because her best friend, her mum and her colleagues talk about * nothing * but the problems of attracting and holding onto those yuppie college boys in their bright uniforms, all with exciting careers ahead of them.

This mild 1984 comedy about a mermaid (Daryl Hannah) who falls in love with a New York City yuppie (Tom Hanks) isn't at all hard to take (John Candy, in a supporting role, is hilarious and original, and Hannah has a pleasant naive charm), but its appeal is based almost entirely on regression — a thematic regression to infancy (now endemic to the American cinema) and a stylistic regression to the most lulling kind of TV blandness.

It takes more than just the right clothes and soundtrack to imbue a flick with genuine Eighties spirit: though the leads click charmingly, this feels exactly like a Noughties teen comedy in yuppie drag.

Unfolding with the inevitability of a bad dream, The Killing Of A Sacred Deer is Lanthimos» darkly intense, almost biblical spin on one of those thrillers about a yuppie family terrorized by a vengeful stalker.

Almost immediately, she's honed in on by two very different types of predatory men: Her boss (Justin Bartha) is a cavalier yuppie who comes on to her in his office (which she goes along with willingly), while a neighborhood drug dealer named Blue (Brian «Sene» Marc) simultaneously teases and covets her (again, she goes along willingly).

Romantically she jumps back and forth between yuppie Ben Stiller and slacker Ethan Hawke, while her best friends Janeane Garofalo and Steve Zahn provide comic relief and go through their own crises — including a brush with HIV.

Page is a star, no question (the only reason you don't walk is because she patches a lot of holes), but Juno is best at revealing the limitations of folks like Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner, the perfect yuppie couple to whom Juno decides to bequeath her spawn — the one tasked with wearing Soundgarden T - shirts and pining for his days opening for The Melvins, the other asked mainly to be the hysterical, barren woman, ovulating like a chicken and resembling that Mo Collins character from «MADtv» who, in lieu of children, collects Precious Moments figurines.

«Bleeding Heart» sees another leading lady effort from Jessica Biel, content in a yuppie clean living existence until she's burdened with taking in her troubled younger sister.

Raimi finally returned to the dark side with this sizzling tale of yuppies vs. the supernatural.

Still, there are undeniably funny bits, with commentary on yuppie - dom and the state of modern business that makes it a perfect example of the materialistic thinking that was so rampant in the Eighties.

And it's filled with terrific performances, including Kristin Scott Thomas as an earnest career politician, Bruno Ganz as a spiritually enlightened (and more than a little smug) Zen teacher, Patricia Clarkson as take - no - bullshit realist, and Cillian Murphy as a vengeful yuppie.

Jonathan Demme's buoyant mid-Eighties yuppie road movie is, in retrospect, maybe the key American film of its era along with Blue Velvet (also 1986, but Blue Velvet was more popular), but despite excellent reviews very few people went to see it.

Yet screenwriter Cody (born Brook Busey) understands that characters are not predictable, not even the yuppie couple «desperately seeking spawn» who want to adopt Juno's baby, and with whom she seeks to resolve her conflict about not having an intact family.

Braff is prototypical emo yuppie Michael, who, on the eve of tying the knot with lovely Jenna (Jacinda Barrett), meets a free - spirit skank (Kim (Rachel Bilson)-RRB- and almost (or successfully) ruins everything in the pursuit of fresh tail.

Director Ted Kotcheff («Billy Two Hats» / «Fun With Dick and Jane» / «North Dallas Forty») aims low for Animal House humor and manages to do that by channeling his tale to yuppies.

Singles (1992) proposed to be about misfits in Seattle's music scene, but ended up following dull Yuppies with cars and mortgages.

It's even possible to read it as a critique of the Reagan administration along the lines of Dan O'Bannon's less - successful The Return of the Living Dead from two years earlier — locating as it does a pair of sweater - and - ascot yuppies (Sarah Berry and Richard Domeier) to play against the aforementioned hicks (Dan Hicks and Kassie Wesley), with blue - collar folk represented by our Ash and Linda.

Symbolism is everywhere as Manglehorn keeps his emotions «locked» away from his snooty yuppie son (Chris Messina) and retreats into his imaginary relationship with Clara, rather than embracing Dawn's brave come - on.

He lives the yuppie life with wife Audrey (Alfre Woodard, Mumford, Love and Basketball), although their marriage is strained because of issues between them and the fact that their older son is not home.

Reuniting with her well - to - do older sister Lucy (Sarah Paulson), whom she has not spoken to in over two years, and Lucy's yuppie husband Ted (Hugh Dancy), Martha struggles to adapt to life with regular people.

Through sold out showings at my theatre of Eraserhead, Lost Highway and The Elephant Man, with their crowds hipster yuppies that plague Seattle like mixed metaphors in an English 101 class.

Director Mary Harron flattered Bret Easton Ellis's notorious novel by investing it with a deeper conception of yuppie evil (brilliantly conveyed by Christian Bale), and by filling the margins with humorous»80s details: a chic parade of designer Tribeca restaurants and neon - laden nightclubs.

The director has always leaned towards dense dialogue over visual flourishes making him sort of a socialite, yuppie - focused Kevin Smith (I probably just lost the «criterion collector crowd» with that comparison and in all fairness, Stillman was there first.)

And it's surprising, since the GT500 appears just as we were thinking Ford had gone all yuppie with the Boss 302 — the impressively multidimensional Mustang that's so well - rounded it could conceivably find its way into the garage of a BMW owner.

With 300bhp in race trim, and close to 200bhp for the road - going homologation version, the BMW E30 M3 arrived just in time for the 1980s yuppie generation to idolise and aspire to.

Labeling their option packages with the Eddie Bauer name gave Ford some respect from yuppies, and both companies profited from brand recognition.

It curls around the western shore of a small lake just outside Algonquin Bay, Ontario, providing a pine - scented refuge for affluent families with young children, yuppies fond of canoes and kayaks, and an artful population of chipmunks chased by galumphing dogs.

The Sporn Co.'s product ideas come from working with dogs at the company's Yuppie Puppy Pet Care Center, located one floor below the company's design center in New York.

After schools close off their campuses for the term break, and pilgrims have culminated their respective Lenten sojourns, coeds with no summer classes, as well as yuppies who...

Here you'll find hoards of youthful yuppies and A-list celebrities, all with one thing in common: money to spend.

Aaron Hobson a month before had too many men in cowboy hats and cars, although a yuppie somehow ended up with his tie loose in the East River.

Few could have anticipated the rapacious development Harlem is undergoing today, as real estate investment and speculation displace longtime residents and remake the neighborhood into yet another yuppie frontier, with galleries, as is usually the case, playing their vanguard role in driving up rents.