Sentence examples for jackass with from inspiring English sources

I want to hear what some jackass with a Ph.D. had to say".

He was an early promoter of Thoreau, lent money to Poe, and employed as foreign correspondents both Mark Twain and Karl Marx (who described Greeley to Engels as a "jackass with the face of an angel").

The Chief, who wants to tart up Swamplandia! by means of what he calls Carnival Darwinism, tries to laugh this off; at least Osceola is not dating "some mainland jackass with a motorcycle" or "some loser with an earring," he maintains.

Jonathan Franzen, of course, studying a more casual style, responded to Michiko Kakutani's description of his book of essays as a "portrait of the artist as a young jackass" with the assessment that she is "the stupidest person in New York," a view seconded by Salman Rushdie, who after receiving his own bad review from Kakutani, called her a "weird woman".

I don't think I've ever bought a book specifically because of a blurb, but I've returned a few to the shelf because of an overwrought rave from a pretentious jackass with whom I've had the misfortune to serve on a panel.

There is – possibly – a grisly fascination in seeing Gary Coleman in his last-ever role, sending himself up in this dismal grossout-prankster film, pinched partly from Borat and Jackass, with a premise taken from the 1951 British comedy Laughter in Paradise.

Every person, regardless of income, naturally considers himself superior to the rich jackasses with their McMansions.

Still Vallone worries that without legal punishment, less responsible jackasses with a smartphone will repeat rumors for attention.

They also have an uncanny ability to act like complete jackasses with utter disregard to the fact that they're acting like complete jackasses.

But when the media spotlight cools off, "that's when these jackasses with guns start playing Wild Wild West again".

His primary supporter, synagogue vice president Louis Jackson, who had broken the story to the press, described the congregation as a "collection of jackasses", with the "chief jackass" being the president Louis Schwartz, who Jackson accused of eating ham himself, and of stealing from the synagogue's charity boxes.