Sentence examples for a buddy act from inspiring English sources

"It becomes kind of a buddy act.

CBS has added another, "The Defenders," with Jim Belushi and Jerry O'Connell as unorthodox defense lawyers in Las Vegas -- a buddy act with broads and legal briefs.

"The Good Guys," which begins Wednesday on Fox, takes the whimsy even further -- it's a buddy act about two mismatched Texas cops that skates close to the edge of parody without quite tipping over into "Reno 911!" territory.

It's an odd buddy act: Cunningham has never actually the read The Book of Mormon, is a rabid fan of Star Trek and The Lord of the Rings and a pathological liar.

Red and Adam engaged in an enjoyable and believable buddy act, but I don't think this is a performance that will move the needle for either contestant.

As the Glenn-and-Sarah buddy act proves, these are good days to be a conservative with populist credibility — especially if you have no governing responsibility and access to a television studio (like the one Ms. Palin is having built at her home).

The president's effort and the bipartisan buddy act the lawmakers took to the Philadelphia region did point up how hard a major overhaul of the tax code will be in a divided, partisan Washington.

Gay, the author of "Tris Speaker," wants us to see these games as seminal showmanship — Paige and Dizzy Dean were "America's first black-and-white buddy act" — which somewhat undercuts his argument that they dramatically reformed the sport.

Their buddy act — the devout Yankee fan and the ex-Red Sox player — marries David's comedy of discomfort and the player who embodies the most uncomfortable moment in Red Sox history.

At last, perhaps after growing frustrated with his failure to penetrate our ninth-grade demimonde, he dropped the big one over the P.A. system, ruining his buddy act forever: "Schoolwide locker check in 15 minutes!

The creative tension here was provided by the friendly buddy act that went on between Alan Gilbert, who will step down as the Philharmonic's music director, in 2017, and Esa-Pekka Salonen, the illustrious Finnish composer-conductor, who is just beginning a three-year term as the orchestra's composer-in-residence.