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Gamblers in sentence

26 examples of Gamblers in a sentence

Compulsive gamblers are experts at self-deception.
Such people tend to become overspenders, compulsive gamblers.
From the first hi-hat cymbal beat that accompanies Saul Bass's iconic title sequence we are drawn into Preminger's take on what is nowadays called "The Life",in truth a murky area occupied by hustlers,junkies,cops,drug dealers,stone gamblers,jazz musicians,their women and hangers-on.The lines are blurred in "The Life",and it's dog eats dog down there.
If anyone remembers, LV wasn't exactly London... the city coddled the mob and codger gamblers in those days.
Without the wonderfully street, hilarious writings of Damon Runyon this film would never have been made - nor most of the other great classics that deal with gamblers & the like from before 1960.
He bets odds-player Sky Masterson, well-presented by Marlon Brando, that he cannot get a Salvation Army girl to go to Havana with him; Masterson wins the bet, saves the Mission, falls in love with the girl, gets the gamblers and riffraff at the crap game to attend a service, and tells everybody the lady was impervious to his charms--a complete lie.
A perverse killer (Alex O' Loughlin) is feeding up women to elephantine proportions whilst he creates a secretive website where gamblers can place bets on their imminent deaths.
When it comes to diplomatic offhandedness, the Chinese have long had what British gamblers would call “form.”
People have enjoyed such huge capital gains over the past decade that most feel like gamblers on a long winning streak.
It was not a thuggish tackle, abuse of the umpire, or match-fixing in collusion with gamblers.
Today’s money managers, by contrast, tend to resemble gamblers or even fraudsters like Charles Ponzi.
Nevertheless, at a time when finance is under a cloud, the party that defends the freedom of the financial gamblers over the freedom of the individual is winning favor with the electorate like no other.
Two days before the count, bookmakers were paying out to gamblers who had bet that Scotland would vote “No” to independence.
The addictive potential is also identical: just as gamblers and cocaine users can become compulsive, needing to gamble or snort more and more to get the same dopamine boost, so can men consuming pornography become hooked.
Lack of equity capital, in turn, made risk-averse shareholders hire gamblers to manage their limited-liability investment companies.
But, because they do nothing to protect themselves against their real estate price risks, they are unwitting gamblers.
But on average and almost certainly, we as a society, like all gamblers, will lose.
For example, the wide availability of electronic gaming machines and online gambling makes it difficult for “problem gamblers” to stop gambling, even though they know that they are losing more than they can afford to lose.
Could a commitment contract help problem gamblers to stop?
But the card also gives gamblers the chance to set limits for themselves.
The idea of offering gamblers a chance to set their own limits before they begin a gambling session is beginning to spread around the world.
One major truth about the past year is that financial market problems lie not just with hedge funds - which are the biggest and least regulated gamblers - but with good old commercial banks, which display an uncanny ability to create trouble by excessively risky gambling, whether in loans to emerging markets or to the likes of LTCM.
Its CEO, Arthur Hayes, boasted openly that the BitMEX business model involves peddling to “degenerate gamblers” (meaning clueless retail investors) crypto derivatives with 100-to-one leverage.
Like seasoned gamblers, central bankers may soon discover that not all bets pay off over the longer term.
Usually what gamblers regret the most isn't the loss of their money so much as the loss of their insane hopes.
Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers; to bet is in the English temperament.