Sentence examples for from uncool from inspiring English sources

He was born and raised in Jamaica Plain, knows that trying to defend Boston from uncool is like blocking a bullet with a slice of bread.

Standup Mickey Flanagan is filming another pilot for C4, called The Man from Uncool, and details have emerged of the BBC's new James Corden vehicle, a comedy thriller called The Wrong Mans, co-written by playwright and musical comic Tom Basden.

From his uncool Korean parents with their "legitimately tragic childhoods" to the angry little kids next door ("a barrage of iceballs arc overhead like grenades"), Albert views growing up with all the comic sweetness and unsentimentality it deserves.

BlackBerry, the formerly hip and now dying smartphone maker, is getting a lifeline from a pretty uncool place: The United States government.

In the context of all that sincerity, The Darkness were seen as a "joke" band four men from the decidedly uncool town of Lowestoft in Suffolk who favored spandex over leather jackets and falsetto over pained emotional candor.

The tearful face evokes other uncool moments from Jordan's long career: his awkward return to the N.B.A. in the early two-thousands; his inauspicious ownership of the Charlotte Hornets franchise; his stubbornly unevolved fashion sense.

They have gone from being on the "uncool" list last fall to the "cool list" this summer, said Kevin Ume, president of element Holdings Inc., a marketing firm that specializes in research on the buying habits of teenagers.

Poly Styrene herself was far from conventional, with wildly uncool wire braces on her teeth, Day-Glo stage clothes and utter determination not to conform to stereotypical notions of Barbie-doll pop pinuphood.

I resurrect this profoundly uncool episode from my youth not just because on some level I must still crave negative attention but also because I feel kinship and concern for Dante de Blasio, the young man whose own Afro was the star of a TV commercial this past summer, one that many political observers believe propelled his father, Bill, to the Democratic nomination for New York City mayor.

Their playful and ironic acceptance of regressive lad culture invites, and even dares, condemnation from academics and the uncool.

So obsessed that he concealed his decidedly uncool secret from all but one or two of his aspiringly cool fellow Beats.