Sentences with phrase «yokels who»

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.

This latter accident - the result of a farting mini-game gone wrong - is funnier than it should be, especially when deployed before a crowd of yokels who've gathered to admire your fine dancing.

(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.»

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.

Bubba, a mentally challenged man in a small town, befriends a little girl named Marylee, and when she's attacked by a dog, four yokels who've apparently read Of Mice and Men one too many times assume Bubba is to blame.

After Phil, Stu, and Alan are arrested for stealing a police cruiser, Officers Franklin (Rob Riggle) and Garden (Cleo King) tell the boys that they are intimately familiar with their type, yokels who come to town all «Vegas!

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.

After all, any yokel who happens to be sitting on a pile of cash — thanks to a trust fund or windfall inheritance — can throw it at a house.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

A Marine's Story (Unrated) «Don't ask - don't tell» drama based on actual events in the life of a returning Iraq War veteran (Dreya Weber) who encounters intolerance in her conservative hometown when the local yokels learn that she was forced to retire from the military for same - sex conduct unbecoming an officer.

Luckily, they befriend another kid, Haley (Lewis, Foxfire), who helps them to gain enough money to keep them on their way, using Jimmy's prodigious skills at playing video games to hustle the local yokels for quick and easy cash.

They're the ones who phone up Lowell Green, no slouch in the yokel department himself»