Sentence examples for eccentric money from inspiring English sources

He assumed the role of Moses in Ridley Scott's biblical epic Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) and then portrayed an eccentric money manager in the black comedy The Big Short (2015), about the 2008 financial crisis.

But now, because of a lawsuit filed by Norman Zadeh, an eccentric money manager in Los Angeles, Adult Check and the handful of businesses that enable much of the porn on the internet to thrive are coming under closer scrutiny.

If Tan sometimes sounds eccentric, his money (he appears on the Forbes 2013 wealth list with an estimated worth of $1.3bn) deserves to be taken seriously.

There is a well-worn saying that the only difference between a crazy person and an eccentric is money.

But now, thanks to a lawsuit filed by eccentric Los Angeles money manager Norman Zadeh, Adult Check and the handful of businesses that enable much of the porn on the Internet to thrive are coming under closer scrutiny.

The Voysey family is a collection of willful eccentrics whose money comes from a solicitors' partnership run by the head of the family and his youngest son, Edward.

The other heavyweight US contender was Bennett Miller's Foxcatcher, an offbeat drama about a blue-collar wrestler (Channing Tatum) and his eccentric old-money sponsor (an unrecognisable Steve Carell, seemingly wearing Nicole Kidman's old nose from The Hours).

(There is no regulation, however, preventing the eccentric allocation of that money, as when the Browns' owner Jimmy Haslam reportedly drafted the quarterback Johnny Manziel on the advice of a homeless person on the street).

Over the years he has remained somewhat solitary, somewhat eccentric and always careful about money.

These passengers will be a "crown prince or movie stars or somebody eccentric with a lot of money".

Howard Hughes, the eccentric head of RKO Pictures, lavished money on what he envisaged as a stirring tale of romance and epic battles on Asia's steppes.