shaggy-dog

Subsequently I found out that the story is almost certainly a mytha classic security shaggy-dog storybut I’m a gullible fool and it made a massive impression on me.

Catherine O'Flynn - An interview with author 2010

Fleming and Höll made a nearly convincing case for the over-the-top volubility of "Verführung," though the shaggy-dog episodic nature of both poem and music never quite coalesces.

Archive 2009-04-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009

For Craig (Keir Gilchrist), the depressed, anxious and momentarily suicidal Park Slope teenager at the center of the forthcoming film "It's Kind of a Funny Story," self-commitment to a psychiatric ward marks the first step toward a kind of shaggy-dog enlightenment.

A 'Funny' Thing Happened in Brooklyn Bruce Bennett 2010

His pursuit of Ingram produces a shaggy-dog chapter that leaps around in time and place from Newfoundland in 1497, to the Atlantic Seaboard in 1523, to the St. Lawrence Valley in 1535 and to Florida in 1526, before narrating Hernando de Soto's brutal march during the 1540s across the Indian country of the southeast.

How the East Was Won Alan Taylor 2012

Fleming and Höll made a nearly convincing case for the over-the-top volubility of "Verführung," though the shaggy-dog episodic nature of both poem and music never quite coalesces.

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow Matthew Guerrieri 2009

He also had a goofy side, explored in the unclassifiable flop "Beat the Devil" (1953), a shaggy-dog story about stranded, feckless criminals, and perhaps in "Reflections in a Golden Eye" (1967)—sexual perversity on an Army base with a cast led by a shyly preening (and unimprovable) Marlon Brando.

The Man Who Would Be King Richard Schickel 2011

Jesse Peretz's Our Idiot Brother is a summer-ending treat, a low-key comedy with sharp performances and a shaggy-dog feel.

Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Our Idiot Brother Marshall Fine 2011

Hussain's metaphorical description of the piece in the program set it up as a kind of shaggy-dog story: "An Islamic sufi, a Hindu priest, and a Biblical preacher embark on a journey together" the texts, pleasantly and generically spiritual, were in Sanskrit, Hindi, Urdu and English.

NSO review: Tabla meets West as 'India' concert strikes a crossover convergence 2011

With Terriers (which I review in the current issue of TV Guide Magazine and which will be posted online closer to the Sept. 8 premiere), FX is hewing closer to the Justified model in introducing heroes — small-time, unlicensed, shaggy-dog P. I.'s — who aren't particularly tormented.

Ask Matt: Closer, True Blood, Eureka, Mad Men, Terriers and More 2010

His contemporaries roared at his shaggy-dog anecdotes about recalcitrant horses and absent-minded claims-stakers.

A Mississippian Flood 2010