Sentence examples for palooka from inspiring English sources

The ruin in question is the longshoreman Eddie Carbone (Liev Schreiber), a palooka with no purchase on language or on his own psyche, who is destroyed by his unexamined desire for his teen-age niece, Catherine (Scarlett Johansson), whom he and his wife, Beatrice Jessica Hechtt), have raised.

Illegal or not, Goldman's behavior was unquestionably greedy, cynical, and corrosive; it's a little like putting up a palooka and paying him to throw the fight.

Among its many narrative sensations was the first sighting on the American stage of a sexual male — the priapic palooka Stanley Kowalski — and of sexuality as the engine of life.

Among the pejoratives the chiliheads I spoke with used to describe each other were "clown," "joke," "Johnny-come-lately," "whack job," and "palooka").

A few days later writer had an interview with her and she said one thing she always did when she hired new assistants was quote them her favorite line from William Carlos Williams: "The difference between a palooka and a trained fighter is form, nothing but form.

"What'd I do that for?" Phil, a psychopathic ex-con turned actor, asks another palooka, in "Those the River Keeps," the 1991 prequel to "Hurlyburly".

Those political palookas are performing the service of identifying the anti-Romney voters as fringe voters — people who have nutty ideas about government, or who are just angry at modern life.

These people could teach something about manifestations to Brezhnev and Castro and their palookas in Moscow and Havana.

In the past, the Eagles have been failures, teases, doomed underdogs, strife-racked self-destructors and punchy palookas.

Wilson, who was known as Mr. Excitement, was a Golden Gloves champion in his late teens, before he started knocking out the public instead of palookas, and he specialized in a kind of athletic showboating — dazzling footwork, sartorial striptease — that justified his moniker.

"Bounty hunter" is a great job title in a televised world, where good and evil punch it out like cartoon palookas.