Al's PlaceWant to get your Michelin star on without feeling like a stuffed shirt?
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Had they plied their craft in the 1950s, their victims would have been stuffed-shirt generals and moral busybodies.
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Connor is so ineffectual, he's barely gotten a storyline on this show, despite Alan Ruck's obvious skill at playing such a stuffed shirt.
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His campaign was premised on the idea that all these stuffed-shirt politicians acting so very proper were all just a bunch of phonies.
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He's even hired the same stuffed shirt who negotiated naming rights in the first season to head up a foundation to counteract his austerity measures in Sandicot.
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The politicians he's attacking are required to be serious, both the Tory stuffed shirt and the young female Labour upstart, who is dryly funny in private but can't risk showing it in public.
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Goode, who's a junior at Boise State University, wanted to look like a normal guy — not someone out collecting signatures, not a hippie or a stuffed shirt, not a guy whose politics you could extrapolate.
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"He wore a nice window-pane checked suit jacket, it suited him and he didn't make him look like a stuffed shirt – it was the perfect Wimbledon look," notes Johnston, who thinks William may finally be finding his fashion feet.
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But Pavone takes great pains with all his characters, from the stuffed-shirt C.E.O. who's so full of himself that he doesn't realize he's been kidnapped to the unhappy suicide bomber who volunteered for a mission but didn't understand it would involve blowing himself up.
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Zachary Catazaro, despite his handsome presence, shows only borderline capacity for bravura roles, while Chase Finlay — physically as impressive as Mr. Catazaro, technically stronger, but often an awkward partner — now comes across as more of a stuffed shirt than when he first emerged 10 years ago.
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Several cardboard constructions, stitched together to resemble folded shirts, occupy one wall; to us, the verbally fluent, these carefully fashioned objects might be poking fun at the starchy sort of person we'd call a "stuffed shirt" — but how well can we comprehend a world where tables and barns speak as loudly as people?
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"You know, I was probably more helpful to Donald last night being here then sitting in the audience at the debate because people got to see a Republican that they may have thought was some stuffed shirt – you know, right-wing, crazy whack job or however they would like to identify us – and over the course of the last month, people got to see a person I think that they came to enjoy being around and liked," he said.
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In the scene were Eddie is slamming Richie's head with the fridge, the camera cuts away to see a stuffed shirt in Richie's place, as Richie's hand is non-existent.
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Gerald is a "stuffed Shirt" who angrily objects to her plan. She proceeds anyway. It is decided that Mabel's roommate, Maud Bray (Vera Doria), will screen all responders and frighten away the less desirable suitors. This allows Mabel to respond to the more interesting letters.
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Polly Fulton is the only daughter of rich industrialist B.F. Fulton. She is involved in a long engagement to family friend Bob Tasmin, an affable, scrupulously honest lawyer. Then she meets brash intellectual Tom Brett, who blames many of the world's problems on the rich. Tom and Polly heartily dislike each other at first, but she finds him exciting compared to the likable but predictable "stuffed shirt" Bob.
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Kay is the widow of a Broadway showman called Jolly, who died after falling down a staircase at their home. Kay is now planning to remarry, to a stuffed-shirt named Rupert, and they live in the same house. Suddenly Jolly returns to her life as a ghost. Seen only by her, Jolly meddles in Kay's affairs and causes her mother and others to question her state of mind.
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Korman also appeared at the beginning of each episode as the stuffed shirt Alistair Quince (a parody of Alistair Cooke), who would soberly introduce the program in the style of Masterpiece Theatre. These monologues were cut out of the later syndicated reruns. Korman also performed the voice of Thelma's unseen late husband, Carl, in flashback episodes. An extended version of the show's opening theme song, with repeated melodies, was used during the original NBC run, but was never used in reruns.
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The novel follows the standard portrayal of him as "cowardly, stupid, shying away from combat, dominated by women, and longing for someone to give him orders". A reviewer at the time of publication referred to Duggan's Lepidus as "the eternal conservative stuffed shirt without the moral strength to live by the traditional virtues he admires and pretends to possess."Orville Prescott, New York Times, 13 August 13, 1958, p.25. He's portrayed as a more competent figure in W. G. Hardy's The Scarlet Mantle and The Bloodied Toga.
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American culture reflects its preoccupation with taxidermy in a variety of ways. Various words and phrases used in everyday life are derived from the vocabulary of taxidermy—the threat to "beat the 'stuffing' out of someone" or derogatorily referring to someone as a "stuffed shirt," meaning that they are fake or artificially pompous. It has also manifested itself in popular television shows such as in the Scrubs episode where the doctors encounter a dead dog and in The Office where Dwight offers to have his taxidermist stuff Angela's deceased cat. Taxidermy has also been institutionalized as an American folk craft.
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The series focuses on struggling Hispanic stand-up comic Paul Rivera and his large Mexican American family, who still called him by his given name Pablo. While they supported his career and longed for his success, his traditionalist parents were offended by the ethnic humor he incorporated into his act and urged him to be more respectful of his heritage. Rounding out the boisterous family were his sister Lucia and know-it-all brother-in-law Hector and their five children, his "stuffed shirt" brother Manuel and flirty sister-in-law Carmen and their two children, and his very- anxious-to-wed spinster sister Sylvia. José was Paul/Pablo's slick but inexperienced agent.
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After his rescue from the Russians by Task Force Parker, Bellmon was repatriated to the United States and reduced in grade to major as part of the army's draw-down following World War II. Bellmon shifted from Armor to Army Aviation in time to be part of its expansion into a combat arm, was quickly promoted, and eventually became the Commanding General of the Army Aviation base at Fort Rucker. He later commanded the XVIIIth Airborne Corps in one of his final assignments. While he is portrayed as a bit of a stuffed shirt who has a problem with officers who don't go by the book (particularly Green Berets), there is no doubt as to his abilities and his devotion to the US Army. The Bellmons are well-off financially.
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Manning has classically been portrayed as a stuffed-shirt bureaucrat who refuses to trust the paranormal members of his agency, even though their presence is critical to the successful defense of the planet. In recent years, Manning has softened his approach to his superhumans; Roger the Homunculus, for example, was promoted to leader of his own squad even though Manning, at one point, had a bomb placed in Roger's chest as a precautionary measure. Manning, perhaps smarting from the defection of Hellboy from the Bureau, recently refused to accept the resignation of Captain Ben Daimio after a disaster that claimed Roger and his team. In this way, Manning has developed from a cold administrator to a leader that places the needs of his agents over the needs of the Bureau.
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Waiting for Jeff, Sky and Linda have been killing time playing backgammon. Eventually, Jeff arrives and rushes with Linda and Sky to White Plains where the guests, including Judge Milliken, have been drinking and waiting so they can jump out and shout "surprise". Coming into the room where the guests are hiding, Jeff tells Linda that he hates to come here and that he can't have a good time because "I have to look at that sour puss of your old man's all evening", adding that "I think he's a stuffed shirt and an old crab and a bore" and expanding about "that crowd of gibbering idiots he always has around him, like your half-wit aunt Letty, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap, yap". Going further, he mentions "that potato-faced judge who married us, you know, Milliken".
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Norma Wilson (11 December 1909 – 10 July 2000) was a New Zealand athlete who represented New Zealand at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. Born in Gisborne, New Zealand, she was a member of her local athletics club and by the time she was 18 years old she was dubbed the New Zealand Lady Flier by the media, she had twice equalled the 100 yards World Records but on both occasions the tracks were deemed seven inches too short. Wilson was the first woman track athlete to represent New Zealand at an Olympics when she competed in the 100 metres, where even with the lack of experience in using a cinder track she finished second in her first round heat, before finishing in fifth place in the semi-final heat. She told the “stuffed shirt” officials when she returned that New Zealand needed a cinder track.
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Jamie King (Jamie Foxx) is an aspiring musician from Terrell, Texas, who has come to Los Angeles to pursue a career in entertainment. To support himself, he worked at his family's hotel, the financially strapped King's Tower, which is owned by his aunt and uncle, Aunt Helen and Uncle Junior King (Ellia English and Garrett Morris). Among his co-workers during the series' run were the beautiful and intelligent front desk clerk Francesca "Fancy" Monroe (Garcelle Beauvais) and Jamie's high-strung, stuffed-shirt, "bourgeois" nemesis Braxton P. Hartnabrig (Christopher B. Duncan) who works as an accountant for the King's Tower. Jamie's romantic overtures toward Fancy were mostly unrequited until the final two seasons, when the two began to tentatively date and eventually became engaged and finally married. Braxton, who generally served as the brunt of Jamie's insults, was known to get in a few digs of his own as the series progressed - eventually becoming Jamie’s best friend and at one point, roommate.
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