"The Bank Job" has its familiar scenes — sturdy fellows digging underground to get to the vault, the excitement of closing in on an enormous treasure, a smashing girl who's connected to the caper, and so on.
Donaldson races through the dubious or outrageous elements in the plot, directing the movie not as a farce but as a tight-knit crime thriller, with all the usual pleasures of the heist genre — sturdy fellows digging underground in order to get to a vault, the excitement of closing in on an enormous treasure, a smashing girl (the ex-model Saffron Burrows) who's connected to the caper, and so on.
There was a sturdy fellow from corn-country, who represented the no-nonsense fearlessness of your average American.
He had hoped for a sturdy fellow to help around the farm, but Dickie-boy was a sickly, fine-boned child who had trouble lifting a finger to pick his nose, forget pitchforks and shovels.
A sturdy fellow, Mr. Brakefield told his compatriots there was no sense selling stocks in a panic, since the market would come back as it always had. "What's the hurry?" Mr. Morgan took polite issue.
Lobster curry, tender nubbins in a rich, mild sauce at $17.95 was the most expensive entree, and shrimp shahi korma ($15.95), sturdy, sizable fellows in a creamy cashew-studded sauce, ordered hot was the spiciest.
T. J. Keane's, on Eighth Avenue in the heart of the theater district, is a bare stage of a bar that provides the essentials -- drafts of Guinness, polished wood and a stool-side menu heavy on beef -- in a fashion that draws both the patrons of the Great White Way and the sturdy, quick-drinking fellows behind the scenes who make it all work.
The BFG opened in the UK with a sturdy £5.29m, nabbing the top spot ahead of fellow new release Star Trek Beyond.
The fellow volunteers Ive met are a sturdy lot.
The Spitfire's effectiveness throughout World War II was due in large part to the fact that its basic design could be developed continuously, unlike, for example, its fellow Battle of Britain counterpart, the sturdy Hawker Hurricane.
"I look at myself and I say, 'I'm the man,' " said Degel, a round-faced, crewcut fellow in his late forties, with a sturdy build that was testing the seams of his three-piece suit.
