Coattails
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19 examples of Coattails in a sentence
Many Detroiters, myself included, are worried segregation is now returning to the city itself on the
coattails
of this renaissance.
You know the drill: young hotshot with hubristic flaw (in this case, Matthew McConaughey, trying to jump-start a flagging career by latching onto Pacino's
coattails
-- hey, it worked for Keanu and Colin, didn't it?) is discovered by glamorous and delightfully corrupt father figure (Pacino, natch).
If this was a stand alone flick, it wouldn't be so bad, but riding on the
coattails
of a brilliant piece like Atlantis makes it utterly inexcuseable.
The problem is that the movie rode in on the
coattails
of the 60's-created concept that comic books could only be done as "camp" (i.e., the 60's Batman show) for TV and movie.
Seems like the filmmakers in Sacramento are still trying to ride the
coattails
of Blood, Guts, and Octane.
I haven't bothered to read all of the other comments but I'm sure it must have been stated before -- this is a completely mediocre comedy that is simply yet another attempt by Hollywood to ride on the
coattails
of much better films like "Rushmore" and "Napoleon Dynamite."
The character of Will was the young boy who found out he was endowed with magic before Harry Potter was even created and I'm sad to see them throw away these books with a quick production to try to catch the
coattails
of the Potter craze.
Just look for any cover that hopes to ride the
coattails
of whatever is currently playing in theaters, and it is practically a given that the Asylum produced it.
Jason Ritter is riding on the
coattails
of his late dad.
I can forgive a couple of guys trying to cash in and ride on the
coattails
of a "funny" zombie movie like Shaun of the Dead and the Hartsells were heading in the right direction, but lack of money, lack of writing talent, and lack of any real directorial ability dooms them from the start.
Does Bava continue to ride on the
coattails
of the genre when its achieving mass popularity?
This warm welcome contrasts with Iraqi distrust of the political exiles who returned on the
coattails
of the American overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s regime in 2003.
On one hand, many emerging economies have become more resilient and are no longer simply riding on developed markets’
coattails.
And a final group rode China’s
coattails.
Today, the diplomatic fallout from the Ukraine crisis threatens to undermine Resolution 2139, which was adopted unanimously two months ago on the
coattails
of the Sochi Olympics.
UK firms are no doubt counting on returning to Iraq on America's
coattails.
But much of that support rode on the
coattails
of the fear caused by observing the classes just below theirs plunge into despair and loathing, while their own children’s prospects dimmed.
The BJP’s growth from the mid-1980s followed on the
coattails
of the RSS.
Nurtured by austerity-fueled discontent, trading on xenophobia, and riding on the
coattails
of false promises, Brexit and its backers won the day for many bad reasons.
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