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108 examples of Proverbial in a sentence

James Coburn looks appropriately puzzled as the proverbial villain of the piece (he wants to shut the school down, and after meeting the students, any audience may come to sympathize with him).
I doubt that there are many hookers like V but she has the proverbial "good heart".
Specializing in characters on the proverbial brink, Leigh becomes rudderless in 'ordinary' roles, such as her corporate's assistant in "Backdraft".
To be certain, much of the comedy adheres to the "racial tension" theme, and there is of course plenty of the proverbial cultural clash that abounds- consummating with, you guessed it, a torrential family dinner scene in which Kutcher's "empowerment" eventually gets the best of him, but "Guess Who" isn't content to strictly deplore racial boundaries, as it also works effectively as a howlingly funny "meet the father from hell" scenario, succeeding solely on Mac's uncannily nimble charisma and wit, who has an aura about him that would make any future son-in-law shrink to his skin, or to a greater extent, be obliged to sleep and "spoon" with the man!
And with appearances from Robert Englund, Scott Wilson, and Kane Hodder makes this an absolute must for any old school slasher fan. the only reason it did not get a 10 from me was the gore, it didn't need it but some hard core, well done Peter Jackson (braindead) style gore would have made this film one of the all time greats and been the proverbial icing on the cake.
Any adult male who preys on minors should be - literally - whipped to within the proverbial "inch" of his life.
Under the guise of a semi-serious dissertation of how and why the world's favourite expletive became as proverbial and culturally offensive as it is, director Steve Anderson fills most of its running time with obvious allusions to its history and capping it off with vainglorious interviews with the media's foremost douchebags like Bill Maher and Evan Seinfeld, among other celebrities who use their screen time to cheekily rail against conservatism and vaunting themselves as trailblazers in the fight for their country's First Amendment.
I would definitely take this one to the proverbial desert island.
I hope that this doesn't mean that these people are on their way down the proverbial ladder and will have to sink into the gutter with more trash like this.
Gregory Peck, who gets to wear the proverbial white wig in the final reels, is commanding while grilling the witnesses, but we never learn what makes this man tick, or why he should lose interest in wife Ann Todd (who has some spunk in her early scenes, but loses it fairly quickly for the sake of melodramatic pathos).
Alan Ayckbourn's only major stage to screenplay (to date) is mucked-up with a lot of tricky camera work and opened up like a cancer patient, straying far off the path set by an excellent stager re: newcomer disrupting a provincial troupe staging John Gay opera on proverbial shoestring.
Instead, it's a world of fantasy pretending to be the real world, with just a thin layer of verisimilitude on top of the proverbial cake.
And Spain may be the proverbial canary in a coalmine.
Yet followers of world affairs would be unwise to consign colonialism to the proverbial dustbin of history, for it remains a factor in understanding our world's problems and dangers.
The Greek default has turned out to be the proverbial dog that didn’t bark.
My answer is this: if we stay where we are, like the proverbial dog in the manger, the hay – Russia’s economy – will rot.
Syria is the proverbial problem from hell, a country whose borders have little to do with the tribal or sectarian identities found in the Levant.
Long-standing charges of currency manipulation provide the proverbial smoking gun that US politicians – of both parties – believe justifies the imposition of steep tariffs on China’s exports to the US (which totaled $365 billion in 2010).
Like the proverbial bus driver fixated on what is happening in his rear view mirror rather than watching what is in front of him, too many bond analysts focus on historical economic data as the key determinant of future performance.
But that is the proverbial exception that proves the rule.
In this respect, Venezuela is the proverbial fish out of water.
If doctors, computer specialists, or engineers (let alone the proverbial Polish plumbers!) were allowed to move freely, the concentration of talent in the richest countries would most likely increase.
If a proverbial Martian were watching the flow of electrons between East Asia and North America, he would probably notice robust two-way traffic.
And yet it is also the proverbial canary in the coalmine, signaling a broad populist/nationalist backlash – at least in advanced economies – against globalization, free trade, offshoring, labor migration, market-oriented policies, supranational authorities, and even technological change.
Even the country’s proverbial inequality is beginning to shrink, albeit slowly, and lower-middle-class living standards are finally rising to where they should have been a decade ago.
Asia's Growth Model Still Holds TrueWith the proverbial benefit (and embarrassment!) of hindsight, it is clear that the patterns of growth that occurred over the last half-century were little understood and rarely (if ever) forecast by economists.
It was the proverbial match thrown by a careless smoker into a parched forest.
Now that the so-called liberal establishment is feeling the nationalist, bigoted backlash that its own illiberalism brought about, it is responding a little like the proverbial parricide who appeals to the court for leniency on the grounds that he is now an orphan.
But, like the proverbial “rule of three,” the results can be negative or positive.
Most Western commentators continue to over-simplify this debate, framing it in terms of the proverbial China hard-landing scenarios that have been off the mark for 20 years.
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