codger

• “The so-called codger representing besieged law and order is Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, played by Tommy Lee Jones with the kind of wit and assurance that reveals a master actor at the top of his game.”

  No Country for Old Men

• “He grinned, too, did Jacko, with an intensity and frequency that induced the sailors at first to call him a clever dog, in the belief that his perception of the ludicrous was very strong indeed; but as his grins were observed to occur quite as frequently at the pathetic and the grave as at the comical parts of the stories, they changed their minds, and said he was a "codger" -- in which remark they were undoubtedly safe, seeing that it committed them to nothing very specific.”

  The Red Eric

• “For reasons I can't quite fathom, in most of these movies the codger is a magician, an obvious example being the Dumbledore / Harry connection in the newest frachise entry ”

  Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com

• “The rest of the time TRICARE & Medicare take pretty good care of this ol 'retired codger.”

  Wounded Soldiers

• “The characters include a young African-American football player taking refuge from gang violence in his native Los Angeles, a 7-year-old boy on a strict regimen of medications for bipolar disorder, and a sage-like codger who scrapes together a living through illegal sales of cigarettes from a local Native American reservation.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Delectable First Course of Foreign Films

• “Whenever you hear some old codger bitching about how there's no one making good music anymore, tell him to shut up, put away his Woodstock records, and play this week's new releases.”

  The Huffington Post: Shawn Amos: PLAY > SKIP: This Week's New Music

• “Yup, that's right, that spunky young bin man whose YouTube rap sensation condemns the health secretary, Andrew Lansley born in 1956, as a "grey-haired manky old codger" is cutting short his lifespan just as surely as if he were sucking on a crack pipe while leaping Becher's Brook.”

  The Guardian: You're Looking Very Well by Lewis Wolpert – review

• “As for Up, Pixar's 10th outing, which opens May 29, about a cranky codger and an overeager Asian kid who fly off to South America in a house hoisted by helium balloons, it will likely be the first film that all three — father, mother and child, who turns 2 today — enjoy together.”

  Pixar moves on 'Up' with its 10th movie

• “Duvall returns as an elderly fellow in the 2010 Sundance flick "Get Low," a haunted codger pushing forward, again, simply because he's not yet underground.”

  Sundance Review: ‘Get Low’ Starring Bill Murray And Robert Duvall » MTV Movies Blog

• “We have to understand that he's a lonely old codger, grateful for the company of his son.”

  The Guardian: Jonathan Bernstein's Aerial View of American TV

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