Sentences with word «yokel»

The rules were written with good intentions to correct examples of ignorance and to solve conflict before it happens but they are enforced in blunt instrument fashion without judgement (most especially upon the individual that has the gall to actually want to build something) as a result of the Barney Fife mentality of local yokels who may have no idea why the rule was written in the first place.

Suddenly, the film is invaded by an army of yokel locals and money - grubbing family members, all looking for a piece of Woody's «winnings.»

(p. 5) Tyack & Cuban: «In the firm belief that they were the trustees of the public interest, superintendents and other policy elites of the first half of the century tended to dismiss their opponents as ignorant or self - interested... They regarded the rural foes of school consolidation as backward yokels who did not know what was good for their children.»

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS The Amateurs (R for sex and expletives) Bawdy comedy about a bunch of local yokels in a small town in Middle America who come up with the bright idea of making a porno movie.

Flat cheezy characters with motives that have to be completely transparent... Retread archetypes that you've seen in 50 previous shows... Bad guys are a politician and a hipster kid... Yes this is tv for yokel morons.

He said that the country should ignore the «chinless foxhunters, straw - sucking yokels and whinging farmers».

His unhappy but devoted trophy wife (Elizabeth Banks) tries to help, and the local yokel sheriff (Nathan Fillion) snaps into action.

But by the time the third local yokel makes the same crack, it becomes the canary in the coalmine of a tonally incoherent dark - comedy - drama that doesn't have a clue how to manage its weighty themes and discordant plot.

Pawlenty's strategy was pandering to party's base on the idea that they were a bunch of angry and ignorant yokels.

Fundamentalism in America is not simply an expression of backward yokels.

By 1939, he not only appeared in the career defining role of Senator Jefferson Smith in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, but also offered up his familiar shy and sly country yokel with much on the ball «persona» in his first Western, the hilarious Destry Rides Again.

The story centers on two small - town yokels from upstate New York, tricked into opening a barbershop in the big city that a gangster could use as a front for his speakeasy.

The last thing this problem - riddled country needs is another slack - jawed religious fanatic who tries to win votes from the other dimwitted religious yokels by insisting God «calls» him to run for political office.

Spitzer's error was personal the rest of those upstate yokels nonsense is all political because they are so greedy for power.

For, taking a page out of Fargo, the film first goes out of its way to paint the local yokels as being a bunch of colorful but backward hicks.

A number of Christians in academia share McGrath's confidence that only yokels think science can discredit religion.

All I have to do is say «Bill Ayers» or «liberal media» or any of the usual yokel - chummer phrases, and they howl and rage and earn me lots of advertiser dollars.

Just hundreds of midwest yokels blathering about their least favorite roads.

I presented those only to defend myself against smears that I was some dumb yokel who did not understand fractions.

The local yokel Dems don't seem to give a FART either — at least one of whom was trained by my mother (I apologize for my mother here, but I did not pick her as my mother, truth be told!)

Local yokels included the usual suspects, none of whom have had notable success in promoting grass - roots economic development, except for restaurants, drug stores and gas - station makeovers.

The spiciest entry in the series, it boasts the most T&A, an incredible double homicide, a witty reference to A Place in the Sun, and yokels chopping chickens.

That's the uneducated yokel's problem.

Hopper's two hog - riding, inverted American dreamers are indiscriminately gunned down by passing yokels, presumably affronted by their long hair.

At times, the local population can skew too quirky (Sean Harris as a perpetually filthy yokel is a bit much) but the familial drama central to the story keeps things grounded thanks to the strong performances of Fassbender, Gleeson, Marshal and newcomer Smith.

Oscar Diggs (James Franco) is a womanizing carnival magician with a Bucky Beaver smile and an ego outsized for the two - bit show he and his wary assistant (Zach Braff) shill to the Kansas yokels.

And by the midway point of this stupid movie (which, like most decent contemporary comedies, falls under the category of «fine, but no Step Brothers»), I was laughing so hard that I might as well have been one of those guffawing yokels from the end of Sullivan's Travels.

Sully's a good ol' boy, and he seems to regard the members of his tiny community, love»em or not, as extended family: the one - legged lawyer he plays poker with (Gene Saks), the slow - witted yokel who's his best friend (Pruitt Taylor Vince), the boss» unappreciated wife who flirts with him (Melanie Griffith), even the too - prim ex - wife (Elizabeth Wilson) he abandoned so long ago.

I ain't no shrink, so I'm just guessin» here... Plus I'm fishing with a bare hook for all you self - rightous politically correct yokels and wonder how many I'll catch... lol...

I always associate Walton Goggins with yokel henchmen types, so I didn't quite buy him as a villain.

As with most shows dealing with the expansive drug trade, there is of course a «bad cop» (Agent Roy Petty, who I still can't decide if he's a sociopath or just extremely damaged), the omnipresent cartel boss (played by Esai Morales, who can challenge Jason Bateman in a «why doesn't he ever age» contest), mysterious and helpful locals with unknown motives, and a family of slow - talking, brutally violent yokels who traffic heroin.

I spent last winter hauling yokels out of ditches with my F - 950, brute strength, and bare American hands!

The characters are the strong point though and despite the odd «underground yokel» ruining the moment, both voice acting and cutscenes are very impressive.

If you like retro gaming then you'll probably be aware that neckbeards will frequently scoff about «GoldenEye being better than those them there Call of Battlefield shooty games» in a bizarrely thick unnatural West Country accent (American's read yokel).

«Yes, I am a macrobiotic birdseed - swallowing disciple of the Marlboro Man, I like my liquor «rot gut» and my TV highbrow, I wear American yokel underwear in icy Bauhaus furniture and I drive a crappy French car.

- So say Dr. Schmidt is drivin'through some known, local - yokel hick - town with a known, 25 - mph speed trap which is «strictly enforced» (unless you're a local).

In one of her blog posts, Wikipedia board member Phoebe Ayers lamented that she had «white privilege» and reminisced about rifle - carrying «rednecks,» to whom she referred as «drunken yokel [s],» whose proximity she had to endure while growing up in the South.

You might find a local yokel judge to approve an injunction against printing a major expose of government misconduct, but that injunction is going to be reversed by a higher court in about eight minutes.

Without more details, a lot of this is inherently speculative — one could interpret this as a test for some kind of government op, or perhaps an attempt by the troll farm to pretend it had a real - life presence while it was hawking merchandise or linking slack - jawed US yokels to profit - generating malware.

I confess that I had not really given this local yokel radio station much of a listen even though I have lived in this wonderful city for more than 10 years.

Not only am I completely hopeless at channelling my inner jokel yokel, but I haven't been reading much lately.

I remember when educated people were embarrassed to use or react to the expression «record», since unqualified use of the term was something tricksters reserved for yokels.

Tory Peter Heaton - Jones said rural constituencies were populated by «chinless foxhunters, straw - sucking yokels and whinging farmers»