Sentences with word «yuppie»

Jerry's revelation is the kind of yuppie crisis of faith that other movies structurally build toward, the kind of leaf - turning that signals a happy ending just around the bend and better days ahead.

I remember when getting up to turn the TV over seemed perfectly normal or when mobile phones in the 90s seemed advanced compared to the stereotypical brick owned by yuppies in the 80s, writes Kim O'Meara.

Ellen Page is impetuous and funny as the smart - mouthed high school goofball who finds herself pregnant after the experimental seduction of her hopelessly smitten best friend Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera), then finds an adoptive yuppie couple for her baby in the Penny Saver: tightly wound professional Jennifer Garner and easygoing musician Jason Bateman.

But they aren't just buzzwords for yuppies with yoga mats — rigorous scientific studies have shown meditation has lasting health benefits.

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.

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...

The funny lady might have made TV hay as yuppie princess Elaine Benes on «Seinfeld» and, currently, as our nation's second - in - command on the scathing political series «Veep.»

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.

The first time I ever heard of the Target brand, it was being ironically pronounced Tar - ZHAY by yuppies who drove to Buffalo to partake of its wonders.

Time: A Few Years Ago Location: A Poorly Stocked Wine Store in Todos Santos, Baja California Sur The Players: Bill and Roberta, Dave and Mary Jane, Numerous American Retirees, and One 30 - Something Yuppie Store Owner Undoubtedly from the American California «This is one of Baja's best wines,» he said, indicating a dark red bottle.

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.

The case for Robert Zemeckis as a twisted, Sturges - inflected quasi-satirist rather than faux - Capra for yuppies starts with this 1980 picture, which he co-wrote with Bob Gale.

In a dark Manhattan yuppie bar, adman Roger (Campbell Scott) dominates a discussion about sexual fulfillment, childbirth, and the propagation of the race.

A soulless yuppie named Jack (Norton, American History X) searches for some meaning to his life other than his endless quest for material things, and soon stumbles upon some support groups to help people suffering from various ailments.

JG: I just got a Volvo, so now we're the ultimate yuppie family — we have two Volvos.

But detractors are painting an image of Manhattan yuppies renting space in the boroughs to store skis and relief from their bulging closets.

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.

The E30 BMW 3 Series he's in, the ultimate American yuppie car of the 1980s, carries with it the connotation of a well - to - do suburban lifestyle.

Whaddya get when you take the top American - made Yuppie Wannabe car, throw in a Mighty Mouse of an engine and play the performance and appearance package discount game shrewdly?

«We're all productive, tolerably sane, functioning adults, we Graces, with no more emotional baggage - well, except for Rudy - than you would expect in a random sampling of aging yuppie women.

Porsche has gone to the toffs / softies and yuppie wan na be's....

Also resident concerns, them bloody rich yuppies who pretend to be socialists.

Die Yuppie Scum Die.

Published by BadLand Games, Vostok Inc. lets you play as a corrupt, narcissistic yuppie setting out to make as much money as humanly possible in this greed - driven twin - stick shooter without a conscience.

The artist Nick DeMarco, who is the creator of the popular Are.na channel «Yuppie Dystopia,» uses the service to make those kinds of abstract connections.

Exploring Krog Street Market, Ponce City Market, the Atlanta Beltline, and all the other best yuppie places in Atlanta

The music is a banal new - age score by Thomas Newman that seems to favor strings, percussion, and what sound like wind chimes; whether we're supposed to take it straight or as a comment on soulless yuppies is never firmly established.

It was one of those buppie - yuppie places, where the parking lot often plays host to expensive foreign metal.

This particular YMCA included, «a great mix of high - end yuppie fitness facility, a wonderful community resource for families, and an old - school residence for disenfranchised men,» so Fey shares a host of funny stories about working the front desk.

While dozens of tour buses wait, thousands of pilgrims of every description — the maimed, the blind, the infirm, the elderly, middle - aged American housewives, professionals, students and even a few yuppies in designer jogging suits — walk or crawl up the mountain.

One look at Cantina Italiana's yelp page and you'll find hordes of people complaining that Cantina Italiana isn't a trendy hipster, ultra-modern product of marketing to yuppie millennials.

Time: A Few Years Ago Location: A Poorly Stocked Wine Store in Todos Santos, Baja California Sur The Players: Bill and Roberta, Dave and Mary Jane, Numerous American Retirees, and One 30 - Something Yuppie Store Owner Undoubtedly from the American California

Was it the innovative baby boomers in the 1960s or the well - to - do yuppies in the early 1980s?

The London mayor claimed the attacks against the «Cereal Killer Cafe» in Shoreditch, were bred of inverted snobbery by left - wing yuppies.

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.

I was eating the steel cut yuppie stuff, mind you.

Fringe is no longer hippie for spring, it got a job, and is now yuppie.

You know them as Baby Boomers, but originally they were Hippies who became Yippies, who became the Me Generation, who then became Yuppies in the 80s as they finally settled down to work.

This country is so self entitled and privileged when these arrogant yuppies demand nothing but AAA titles for free.

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

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.

I mean, does anything say»80s yuppie like a red 911 Cab?

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.

Nosy yuppie neighbors!

It's new territory for Stillman, although his skill for skewering yuppies and the upper class in his earlier works makes the prospect of him tackling an elegant period piece all the more appealing.

Anyone who saw the three - hour My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument (1997) when it showed at the Film Center last year knows that, for better and for worse, writer - director Arnaud Desplechin, born in 1960, has a generational voice, speaking for and about French yuppies in their late 20s and early 30s.