Sentences with phrase «yokels as»

Not exact matches

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!)

A Tory candidate was left red - faced today after it emerged he once described the countryside as being full «chinless foxhunters, straw - sucking yokels and whinging farmers».

Every yokel in town is thought of as either stupid or a shady character.

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.

Driven is also exceedingly weird, an absurd series of interchangeable events narrated by an excessive amount of dateline subtitles (that linger on the screen a beat too long, in deference to the key demographic), and a pair of sports commentators who function not so much as a Greek chorus but as a couple of backwoods yokels sitting behind you trying unsuccessfully to explain the film to each other.

The only things keeping Dawn of the Dead from soaring are a quartet of characters (the doomed dad, the slut, the slack - jawed yokel, the cross-dressing émigré) who function as distracting padding — and the sort of squeamishness in regards to hardcore gore that our culture of creeping sanctimony has made par for the course since the grand guignol of the original.

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.

As it stands, it is a fairly enjoyable romp with a bunch of yokels, complete with their inevitable screw ups and misunderstandings.

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 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.

(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.»

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.

As the saying goes, democracy is a wonderful thing apart from that bit about any old yokel getting a vote.

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.