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"hangdog" Definitions
  1. if a person has a hangdog look, they look sad or ashamed

66 Sentences With "hangdog"

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"It would have been a delirious interview," he said through a hangdog smile.
Frey appeared contrite and hangdog, admitting that he had embellished his own story.
Gosling is at once hangdog and enthused, with a shrug of self-deprecation.
He didn't show that somehow he had been offended or have this hangdog look.
The Japanese actor Hiroshi Abe has one of the great hangdog faces in cinema today.
The woman who shot the guard (Dascha Polanco's hangdog Dayanara) is led away in handcuffs.
I'm guessing you stood up straighter in the first version and looked pretty hangdog in the second.
"It makes me sick," Barras (the wonderfully hangdog Steven Rattazzi) says, once the show is a hit.
Mr. Persons fields a female part or two, among other identities, and has an agreeable hangdog countenance.
Borges's portrayal of Edgar has always vacillated between an earnest hangdog friend and a fragmented, sporadically angry veteran.
Gene struggles to connect with Conrad, and takes to following him around town like a hangdog private detective.
Mr. Golan's nervous hangdog affect works as well for Ben as it did for the shaky P.O.W. Uri.
Alison saves her suspicion, and her sass, for Hern (Chris Stack), the program's other leader, a handsome, hangdog pastor.
Cohen then walked out of the building with a hangdog expression and made a silent beeline to the car.
He had Michael Cohen, hangdog-faced, testifying in front of Congress now because now this stuff is real. Right?
Earlier this year, just days after Mueller's redacted report detailed Russia's interference efforts, a hangdog Manafort perp-walked into prison.
Eckhart, as Greg, is hangdog hot; Louise Bourgoin is vivid, if one-note, as Greg's C-word of a girlfriend.
Unshaven, these days, and hangdog, glasses clipped to his smock, Mr McIver has clutched a bible as he shuffles into court.
He often wore a hangdog, puzzled look on his face during matches, where once there had been nothing but ice-cold surety.
He employs these to great hangdog effect throughout The Night Of, the new HBO miniseries that aired its third episode of eight last night.
David (Colin Farrell), who has a hangdog expression and an actual dog at his side, is sent to the hotel soon after his divorce.
The man with a shaved head, a hangdog face and arm tattoos, has mostly stayed silent, meeting only consular officers from the Russian Embassy.
She exacts revenge on her insubordinate vice president, Tom James (a dry, hangdog Hugh Laurie), by making him the scapegoat for a potentially failing economy.
It's a terrifically representative episode of this hangdog hangout comedy about the people who make the place where "everybody knows your name" a place worth going.
Even though they are not new, entries like MOXIE, BAUBLES, GRAY MATTER, ANGLOPHONE, CHURCHY, HANGDOG and the new-to-me, beautiful word QAID caught my eye.
His doleful, hangdog expression and strangled vocal delivery give all his characters an air of grievance and self-pity — no one's feelings hurt more than theirs.
That possibility was raised in this week's episode of "The Americans," when the hangdog Gennadi and the headstrong Sofia didn't just fade away after their defections.
Literally, Lamb clung to guns and religion to take down Saccone, the hangdog Republican candidate who projected all the vigor of a wilted salad in his own campaign.
Let's look at some excerpts from this hangdog statement in which college sports' governing body said it will lift the de facto ban on championship events in North Carolina.
There's no need to pass a giant tax reform package, and there's also no need to run around Washington with a hangdog look or vague sense of shame about it.
Written by Howie Cohen and directed by George Gomes, with art direction by Bob Pasqualina, it featured Mr. Moss sitting on the side of his bed with a hangdog expression.
One of the more lasting images from Trump's squalid appearance on Tuesday was that of his chief of staff, John Kelly, who stood listening to him with a hangdog look of shame.
Cohen, who is fifty-two, has an unlined face, more or less permanently set in a hangdog scowl, and a voice that retains the unmistakable trace of his childhood on Long Island.
But, when you commit a double murder, Kardashian (as equipped with Schwimmer's hangdog Ross Geller gaze) is definitely the guy you'll want by your side, baffled when you flunk the polygraph test.
Robert (John Magaro) is a hangdog Manhattan photographer flailing after initial success; now he endures the indignity of working for his philandering father, Harry (Christopher McDonald), who runs an Upper East Side preschool.
Like HIMYM's Ted Mosby, Dylan has a slightly goofy, hangdog charm, though he lacks the pompousness that made Ted so frequently irritating (as well as Ted's obsession with settling down and having babies).
Together they've written a nominations-bait part for John Turturro (who is great and deserves it), as John Stone, the hangdog defense attorney who appears, almost literally, out of thin air to save the day.
Played by the bass-baritone Greer Grimsley with a hangdog mustache and a weary slouch, Sweeney is here more a disaffected bloke than a wild-eyed psychopath: a Todd who might have voted for Brexit.
Vivian (Julia Roberts), plucked off the streets by a john with a conscience and a perpetually hangdog expression (Richard Gere), launches into a charmingly off-kilter rendition of Prince's "Kiss" while luxuriating in a bathtub.
After he reached the witness box, where he has sat with a hangdog expression since the hearing began, he appeared to recognize that Ms. Raisman and Ms. Wieber were seated together in the front row.
There is a glorious sequence in which one of the key reporters, played with hangdog nobility by Bob Odenkirk, is tapping at his typewriter late at night when the printing presses rumble into action down below.
But in the end, we chose to focus on the story that we knew Maggie would have unique insight on: Cohen's journey from being Trump's pit bull to being the hangdog figure we saw that day.
When Mr Priebus emerged from the election to become White House chief of staff, he looked less like a power-broker than the hangdog butler of a stately home sold to a brash and bullying new owner.
If only Aranoa had shorn his hangdog movie down to Robbins and Del Toro alone—a pair of patient no-hopers, bulky and bearded, ruing the wreckage of Eastern Europe like gunless cowboys eying the old West.
A monument of pagan majesty, in her strapless gown, she is an alabaster bust endowed with the breath of life; more blasphemous still, she drips water onto the head of her devotee, a hangdog reporter named Marcello (Marcello Mastroianni).
But the hangdog Mr. Ogalla, a nonprofessional actor and a friend of Mr. Veiroj's (and, with the director, one of the film's four screenwriters), does not project the tension to be expected from a driven man on such a mission.
At the same dinner, she meets a young priest with a scruffy, hangdog affect (Andrew Scott, best known for playing the villain Moriarty in the BBC's Sherlock) who is new to her father's parish and has agreed to perform the wedding ceremony.
Along with the depressive Hannah, who moves in with Rose, the ensemble includes Josh's stoical dad, Alan, and his new girlfriend, Mae; Josh's high-school girlfriend, the equally adrift Claire; and his hangdog friend, Tom (played by Thomas's own best friend, Tom Ward).
Okay, in fairness, Jessica James has some other bright spots in its cast, particularly O'Dowd, doing his familiar but effective hangdog-paramour thing, and Lakeith Stanfield as Jessica's ex, who shows up mostly in fantasy/dream sequences as a sort of avatar of Jessica's subconscious.
I happen to like Gosling in hangdog mode, when he yields to the pressure of sentiment, as in "Blue Valentine" (2010), but many of his worshippers prefer the cool constraint that he showed in "Drive" (2011), and that is mostly what we get here.
And Mr. Trump's Washington has carried the premise to its logical end: In Mr. Cohen, the Capitol welcomed a star witness to meet the moment — a hangdog avatar of New Yawk hucksterism, delivered from central casting to revisit the questions that have defined this presidency.
NEW YORK – When senior White House officials wanted to know what mood the president was in before a meeting, they used to look for guidance from Keith Schiller, a man with a hangdog face who sat in a small, shared office off the Oval.
And unless the president or any of his family members face charges in the years to come, Mr. Cohen, a former personal-injury lawyer with a hangdog expression and a Long Island accent, may go down as an unlikely big fish caught in the net of Trump World investigations.
He haunted his friends' shows — Full Frontal With Samantha Bee, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, the late Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore — with a newly gray beard and a hangdog expression that seemed equal parts exhausted by the news and relieved that he doesn't have to cover it daily anymore.
He also has solid leads: Though Mr. Lieberher's character is slightly overinnocent — a straight-A student so sensitive that he weeps at the death of an insect — the actor complements Mr. Owen, whose hangdog charisma serves him well as a man struggling with addiction while he strives to reconnect with his son.
But for all the hand-wringing, all the hangdog moods, all the whining, all the misguided wars and mismanaged entities, these students will enter the workforce chapter of their American experience better positioned to dream, think, do big things than almost any other students in any other country at any other point of time.
"Last night on television: The Passion (BBC1) - Gavin & Stacey (BBC3)", The Daily Telegraph, Telegraph Media Group. Retrieved 21 March 2008. Andrew Billen of The Times praised "some nice touches", but was overall more critical, calling Mawle's portrayal of Jesus too "meek, mild and hangdog".Billen, Andrew (17 March 2008).
Dortmunder is tall with stooped shoulders and "lifeless thinning hair-colored hair" and has a disreputable "hangdog" face which rarely smiles. He shares an apartment with longtime girlfriend May Bellamy, a supermarket cashier, in Manhattan on East 19th Street. Unlike Parker, however, Dortmunder is a nonviolent character who devises schemes that start out fairly straight-forward but usually turn out outlandish and over-the-top.
" A Rough Rider with Theodore Roosevelt and hero at San Juan Hill,Walker, Rough Rider, pp. 137-189: "A favorite among the cowboys was 'Little Billy' McGinty, a wiry Oklahoma wrangler and bronc buster. Among the many stories that circulated about McGinty, a favorite concerned his absolute and unwavering inability to stay in step on the parade ground. After repeated chewings-out, the hangdog Little Billy finally implored, 'Let me git my pony.
In 1806, Godfrey married former schoolteacher, Lucy Avery (February 11, 1786 – April 6, 1867), in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, against opposition from her parents. Lucy's Avery ancestors were Puritans who had emigrated from Devon, England, to Salem, Massachusetts, in about 1630.Chernow 2007, p3-4 Godfrey was said to be outmatched by his wife, who was taller, more confident, and better educated than Godfrey. Godfrey himself was said to have a "stunted, impoverished look and a hangdog air of perpetual defeat".
I only hope they go somewhere with the gambling thing, because otherwise, in my opinion, this episode will have been a total waste of time." Price Peterson of TV.com wrote that while he "liked it overall", he disliked the focus on Logan and Weevil, writing that he was "more than ready for Weevil to be written off the show" and, "I'm getting slightly tired of [Logan's] storylines. He seems to be alternating between woe-is-me hangdog and shifty bro liar. […] Logan is not my favorite.
Freud was one of Britain's first "celebrity chefs". He worked at the Dorchester Hotel, and went on to run his own restaurant in Sloane Square at a relatively young age. He appeared in a series of dog food advertisements (at first Chunky Meat, later Chunky Minced Morsels) in which he co-starred with a bloodhound called Henry (played by a number of dogs) which shared his trademark "hangdog" expression. In 1968, he wrote the children's book Grimble, followed by a sequel, Grimble at Christmas, six years later.
Melody's second theatre show, which premiered in 2013, was an exploration of dog shows and beauty pageants. It was called Major Tom, after her pet basset hound, who appeared on stage with her ('The dog is remarkably placid and never lets his hangdog expression slip. As such he becomes the straight man to Ms Melody's oddball.'Juliet Hindell, review of Major Tom, Exeunt Magazine 2 May 2015) The piece tells the story of Melody's attempt to win the title of Mrs Galaxy UK, while also entering Major Tom for Crufts.
Papadopoulos & Sons was awarded three stars out of five by The Guardian, which described the film as "an ambitious attempt to rewrite Lear for laughter rather than tears. It's a throwback, but relaxed, sweet and funny with it: a first feature that makes an impression by not pushing too hard to make an impression". The Daily Telegraph compared it to Raymond De Felitta's City Island and concluded that "it gets by almost wholly on hangdog charm, but that’s an underrated asset, and so is Dillane, delivering a terse and rueful performance that’s typically excellent." On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 71% based on 14 reviews, with an average rating of 5.73/10.
While there, he performed throughout Britain as a headliner and also shared the bill with such artists as Bert Jansch, Tim Hardin and Elvis Costello. After returning to the United States, Lord shared the bill with such artists as Richie Havens, The Rowan Brothers, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Sam & Dave, Vassar Clements, Albert King and Brewer & Shipley, among others. Lord's first album "Inside Out", produced by former "Fugs' guitarist Ken Pine and released on the Inlet Records label in October 1982, was a Billboard Magazine Top Billboard Album Pick (recommended LP). Lord's second album "Hangdog Heaven", released on the Blue Vinyl Records label in March 2000 and produced by Ken Pine and Larry Gates, was characterized by the New York Post as a "...dozen-song man-and-a- guitar disc [that] freely crosses the borders of folk rock, contemporary country and old-fashioned jazz guitar.
They're shot and performed with verve, and they put to shame those medleys contestants often perform on the Wednesday edition of American Idol", but again observed: "Whether it will work as a satirical dramedy about the cutthroat social environment of high school is another matter." Of the principal cast, Ryan said: "Casting Matthew Morrison as Will Schuester [...] was a wise move; the actor not only has a sweet voice but a hangdog hopefulness that gives a needed anchor to the show's more satirical elements. Cory Monteith gives quarterback Finn Hudson a jock-ish authority mixed with an appealingly square naivete, and Lea Michele not only has an amazing voice but manages to make her character, spoiled diva Rachel Berry, more than a humorless stereotype." She was critical, however, of Gilsig as Terri, calling her "the worst thing about Glee" and opining: "As written by Murphy and played by Gilsig, the character is screechy, unfunny and deeply unpleasant.

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