(1) In fact, even as he is readying Her for lock-down, he's simultaneously dipping in and out of the production for the Jackass spin-off, Bad Grandpa , starring Knoxville as a fake 86-year-old granddad with a huge capacity for giving offence.
(2) My granddad opened a restaurant in northern Italy in 1963, the year I was born.
(3) "In 2008 my nan, in 2009 Gavin, my brother [who was attacked on the street in east London], 2011 my granddad, 2012 my dad [Jimmy Defoe, who lost his battle with throat cancer] and my cousin Hannah [tragically electrocuted in a pool on holiday].
(4) That stems from my family, my mum, my nan, my granddad.
(5) Those for whom family isn’t mum and dad, but just mum or dad, nan and granddad, brother or sister, two mums or two dads, parents from differing ethnicities … can now see a little of themselves reflected back in Wearing’s celebratory sculpture.
(6) His father, Graham, had hoped Carr would be a footballer – after all, he'd been a footballer and manager, and his granddad had been a footballer, so there was a sense of inevitability.
(7) Spry little David is the last surviving grandson of John D. It was Granddad Rockefeller who famously declared competition a sin, and built one of the world's great fortunes.
(8) Go out and buy your depressed granddad a luxury automobile immediately.
(9) It was Granddad Rockefeller who warned his Bible class: "Every downfall is traceable directly or indirectly to the victim's good fellowship" – and solemnly advised them: "Don't be a good fellow."
(10) So my Great Granddad in only a Govan native can do, wrote a staunch letter again which had many a swear word in.
(11) Also, whilst manager of St Mirren, my Great Granddad was less than impressed with Sir Alex Ferguson's tactics and teams selection, so wrote him a articulate letter suggesting some of his wisdom.
(12) Photograph: Mark Joyce I first went for a reserve match against Norwich City in the mid-1980s with my granddad, dad and brother.
(13) He's humouring me briefly in a hotel to talk The Lone Ranger , which reunites the Pirates mob ( Johnny Depp and director Gore Verbinski) to reboot your granddad's favourite gunslinger.
(14) There is even an option for granddads (it's never too late): a Sherlock Holmes-style calabash e-pipe.
(15) I only saw her once – at my granddad’s funeral.
(16) I will also wear a white poppy to honour my granddad, who robustly refused to be driven, sheep-like, to the trenches in 1914, holding that if you gave a gun to a working man and told him to kill another working man, the best thing for either of them to do would be to unite and collectively turn the guns on the bloody fat cat bosses that caused the whole thing to start with.
(17) Even those pantomime granddad goths, Black Sabbath, got their first number one album after 46 years .
(18) Seeing them force this poor 900-year-old agent to undertake the gruelling MI6 physical trial is akin to watching your granddad wheezing about on his hands and knees, shakily trying to retrieve a Malteser that's rolled under the coffee table.
(19) In other words, an era as dismal as any other has, bizarrely, become a sort of jovial granddad.
(20) Sir Alex Ferguson My Granddad's brother(William) played with Sir Alex at Rangers.
Grandpa
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Grandpapa
Example Sentences:
(1) As it was, Labour limped in seven points and nearly two million votes behind the Conservatives because older cohorts of the electorate leant heavily to the Tories and grandpa and grandma turned up at the polling stations in the largest numbers.
(2) Her mother-in-law said at the time: "Grandpa would never have bought a car, but a field."
(3) In fact, even as he is readying Her for lock-down, he's simultaneously dipping in and out of the production for the Jackass spin-off, Bad Grandpa , starring Knoxville as a fake 86-year-old granddad with a huge capacity for giving offence.
(4) My dear stoic father, honest as the days are long, was looking, for once in his life, thoroughly jangled, and I kept wanting to impart upon him mentally the wise words of Grandpa Abe Simpson : "They say the greatest tragedy is when a father outlives his son.
(5) As one author so aptly states, "Not too many years ago the words grandma and grandpa conjured images of rocking chairs and inactivity.
(6) Photograph: Courtesy of Warner Bros Picture Best makeup and hairstyling: Dallas Buyers Club Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa The Lone Ranger Winner: Dallas Buyers Club Best animated feature: The Croods Despicable Me 2 Ernest and Celestine Frozen The Wind Rises Winner: Frozen Best animated short: Feral Get a Horse!
(7) Where Heal nodded politely to Wren, Nouvel winks at him cheekily as if saying: "Come on, grandpa; get down with the bling, and get shopping."
(8) Michael Douglas is the red carpet grandpa and it is lovely.
(9) Crazy grandpa is Frank (Frank Langella), a sometime jewel thief now losing his memory.
(10) I bought the ox cheeks and veg there, along with some red wine from a grandpa.
(11) The Munsters, a 1960s CBS series in black and white, focused on a family of comical horror movie parodies including Herman, who looked like Frankenstein's monster, and Grandpa, a Dracula lookalike.
(12) One key factor is that trips to the cinema in India are a family experience: if a film can appeal to Mum, Dad, Granny, Grandpa, teens and the little'uns then it's logical to assume the box office takings will benefit.
(13) Its main competitor is Bad Grandpa, but the academy are big on Jean-Marc Vallée’s Aids drama, nominating it six times, and I don’t think a Jackass production can steal its thunder.
(14) But this is a real muscle-up to grandpa’s way,” said Cheek.
(15) Then her adoptive parents Hans and Rosa ( Geoffrey Rush , all twinkly grandpa, and Emily Watson , super-grouchy but with a heart of gold) take in and hide the Jewish son of the man who saved Hans's life in the Great War.
(16) She was like: 'Why would they not take care of crazy grandpa?
(17) For decades, the sun-soaked south of France was the heartland of “Grandpa” Le Pen, who built up an electoral base here in the early 1990s.
(18) Grandpa Bill isn't wacky, he's just a decent, well-grounded man."
(19) In truth, I don’t really understand it because I don’t feel if people were sitting down to interview Bradley Cooper they’d be like ‘let’s talk about [his flops] Aloha and Burnt’, or if they were sitting down with Robert De Niro, ‘let’s talk about Dirty Grandpa’ – and that feels sort of different with me.
(20) Starting out as a boy apprentice in the Glasgow optical engineering firm Barr and Stroud, Grandpa eventually became managing director.