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"put-upon" Definitions
  1. treated in an unfair way by somebody because they take advantage of the fact that you are kind or willing to do things

208 Sentences With "put upon"

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My perspective at the time was that it was all kind of put upon me—that I was reacting to this attention that was put upon me.
But, he admits, there will be strain put upon them.
Perry has successfully established herself as the righteous, put-upon victim.
That they should either take up or be put upon them?
Kaitlyn: Jimmy was very put-upon by his coworkers, I sensed.
What restrictions are typically put upon sex workers in older bills?
Later he moved to New York to minister to put-upon Italians.
Dern is believably exhausted but unfailingly loyal as a put-upon lawyer.
"A woman is put upon this earth for one reason," she exclaims.
They didn't choose it; they were children when it was put upon them.
But those are the garden variety demands federal lands put upon county government.
It shouldn't be the responsibility put upon art and artists to do that.
She was super independent, dodging the sort of societal norms that were put upon and still are put upon women — settling down and marrying and ultimately being a wife and a mother is the trajectory that everyone should try to emulate….
The women tended to be decorative—nagging mothers, put-upon wives or melancholic sisters.
The put-upon people have spoken, and they have at long last drawn the line.
This is not aimed at any of the countries that those tariffs are put upon.
But those expectations were put upon us and we allowed ourselves to participate in it.
A shy dork, put-upon but hopeful, Kay is the caretaker for her elderly mother.
The only men in the painting are put-upon assistants and the harried store manager.
And Hopper is the same gruff, put-upon papa that he was in the first season.
Ray Romano, as Richie's hapless and put-upon partner, continues to be a pleasure to watch.
It was the blame I first put on myself, then the blame others put upon me.
Elinor Dashwood, now the put-upon wife of a miserly Edward Ferrars, becomes a famous novelist.
McKinnon's Conway has transformed since the election from a put-upon workaholic to a spotlight obsessed maniac.
Lady Tremaine, with her flaws and insecurities, was far more relatable than our poor put-upon Cinderella.
Director Sam Sylvia (Marc Maron) grouches his way through being a put-upon dad (hey, remember Justine?).
Because life's too short to take on board other stuff that people want to put upon you.
"  "There are those social boundaries put upon them, but they break out of them in this show.
" The introductory caption read: "Is the put-upon housewife and mother becoming passé as a TV heroine?
The constraints – logistically and financially - that the resulting planning conditions put upon us are simply not workable.
"Now they have grabbed this narrative that they are being put upon," she said of the religious right.
Only the Commander skates by, blithely indifferent, though he continues to act as if he's horribly put-upon.
Like a kid, he is by turns zany and frustrating, and his son is the put-upon ­guardian.
But let's take a look at the types of behaviors consumers are facing from those put-upon lenders.
Her choice is a backslapping good ol' boy who just got finished sympathizing with the put-upon banks.
Russell is constantly put-upon by his mother-in-law and emasculated by a beefier, more masculine neighbor.
And once you were inside, the listening experiences were better; crowds appeared less put-upon and more engaged.
For every aggrieved passenger or put-upon flight attendant there are many more sporting smiles and playful voices.
"Least of what they deserve is to be further put upon by their country and taxed," he said.
It's funny: Comey's testimony on Monday made clear that someone does have a right to feel put upon.
Finally I spot three put upon adults with 'let's get the fuck out of here' printed on their faces.
Tamara is fascinated with the natural and relishes exposing the synthetic masks that are put upon us by society.
There's also a bully who calls himself God, and who hands out business cards like a put-upon celebrity.
In the opening sequence, he and a put-upon assistant try to capture evidence of the Loch Ness monster.
People always telling these put-upon babies what to do, what to think, what to say, what to eat.
The series was created by and stars Jake Weisman and Matt Ingebretson as put-upon junior executives-in-training.
We want to root for poor, bored, put-upon Katherine, but then she turns around and acts cruelly to Anna.
MACCALLUM: You recently were arrested in Spain and you believe that that was put upon you by Russian intelligence there. Right?
Because Joker does play — not just to its most put-upon, angry, repressed viewers — but to the entire audience's darkest hearts.
Put-upon passengers will no doubt bemoan the loss of one of the last ways they can get something for nothing.
As she prepares to play her first game, she seems unsettled and put-upon when little girls approach her for autographs.
Topel doesn't have an ear for such echoes, preferring to lavish attention on the recollections of Shea's put-upon head groundskeeper.
"Candidates and those who come to vote will have a religious and social prohibition put upon them," said Sheikh Khamis Khanjar.
Ms. Anderson's version smartly shifts the usual perspective, focusing on the relationship between the problematic teenager and her put-upon mother.
The most memorable turn, though, was by the brilliant young countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, as a put-upon, underappreciated stage manager.
All of the pressure I'd put upon myself to love my body had finally had an impact: It made me loathe it.
While the administration furnished the station with pamphlets, exhibition catalogues, and maps, the Ladies often acted  put-upon when approached with questions.
We -- who watched you become the put-upon everyman of an administration built from billionaires, bankers and generals -- are rooting for you.
They're simultaneously pampered (Ardie Valdez loves UberEats) and put-upon (the new mom Grace Stanton is fed up with her breast pump).
He's also the child of immigrants who switches from English to Hindi when arguing with his put-upon sister, Mallory (Kiran Deol).
Thor and his put-upon roommate Darryl are back in a new short that needs to be a movie, Thor Ragnarok be damned.
Smith, whose real-life persona has always confused me, is appealing and charming as the shallow, put-upon, yet good-at-heart Kaz.
I am still working through the pieces of who I am, to work through the guilt and fear others have put upon me.
But the House took a better approach on issues like the implementation requirements put upon the EPA, the agency said in its letter.
Her first, "Superstar: A Novel," was published in 1970, a fictionalized autobiography about a much-put-upon denizen of a Factory-like scene.
The great Frances Sternhagen played Margery in the original Off Broadway production, in 1959, opposite Gene Hackman as her put-upon husband, John.
"The more peculiar restraints you put upon a song, the more fun it is, so this was kind of a dream assignment," Welch said.
Melania was never the person outside observers seemed convinced that she was — a reluctant and put-upon spouse who just wanted to escape him.
The only character who really evolves is Tom, the put-upon man caught in the middle of a web of adultery, lies, and murder.
This hunched and feral posture of grievance is then combined with a fiercely put-upon impatience with the service that viewers themselves are receiving.
He speaks in the slow and slightly put-upon manner of an adolescent whose parents are always hassling him about the nightmare house guest.
Far from being self-serious or put upon, Walid and Anthony can't resist poking fun at each other and making light of their situation.
Aided, and sometimes foiled, by her put-upon translator, Atung (Daniel K. Isaac), she spends her days performing a distorted version of Chinese identity.
For the past year, Jessie Mueller has starred as Jenna, a put-upon diner waitress dealing with an unexpected pregnancy and a jerky husband.
For the poor, normal rubes, we have to do everything to prove we're actually sick, actually put-upon, actually in debt, actually in trouble.
Or maybe it's like the old Phil Hartman skit "Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer": a put-upon protagonist whose world frightens and confuses him JOHN: Good morning, Mike.
Opposition to Mr. Sessions among their ranks, judges said, is more about the pressures he has put upon the office than about his stance on immigration.
Michelle Obama's childhood story shows how she was first made aware of the expectations put upon people of color to behave certain ways in certain situations.
Her concern was not with justice; she hated the idea of put-upon, suffering women, and implied that they had it coming, by being such weaklings.
But merely because a group is a numerical minority doesn't mean that it's a marginalized, put-upon group on which majorities can make no just claims.
The vibrant Canadian-Tunisian mezzo Rihab Chaieb, as Elvira's slave, Zulma, and the solid baritone Dwayne Croft, as the put-upon pirate captain Haly, offered strong support.
Like Carol, Paula was a once put-upon survivor who'd lost her family and killed in the double digits (we saw Carol tallying her total last week).
I feel like I've always been supremely aware of not wanting to be a put-upon wife and he doesn't want to be a stereotypical boneheaded husband.
His early drawings often feature a solitary central figure (possibly the artist himself) who seems both put upon by the world and is screaming back at it.
" They sought to find, The Times reported, "a cure-all for the overemphasis bugaboo and lightening the load which modern conditions now put upon the football coach.
"His supporters, all of whom thought that they were voting for significant change, are going to feel really put upon, and at the very least, might stay home."
He was just one of dozens of actors doing their best to bring to life something that was probably dead the moment it was put upon the page.
Still, I watched more episodes and enjoyed them, and as I did, I began to relate more to those old put-upon comedians who can't perform at colleges.
"I am not under pressure to be out by a specific date, and I have not had any specific conditions put upon me," U.S. Central Command commander Gen.
He sticks the landing with protagonists who fit within hard science fiction's traditional viewpoint — put-upon Everymen who chafe amid bureaucracies and the petty expectations of simpler people.
Florida, where the results for the senatorial and gubernatorial races remains unsettled, has become a testing ground for how much political pressure can be put upon election officials.
"I have never felt limited by the travel restrictions put upon Fariaz as much as I have felt a sense of hopelessness regarding his situation," Dr. Tyndall said.
And here, Scott, his doctor Bob and the put-upon lesbian couple eventually form a little pod of affection in a town that can wound through tiny cruelties.
Team-building events often evoke mocking grins from employees who envision the clichéd night of karaoke singing or "trust falls" backwards into the arms of their put-upon colleagues.
Her portrayal of a put-upon, constantly heartbroken woman whose concern for her brother places her in a state of misery and danger is never showy and always credible.
The woodenness of her acting and the years-long role as Vince McMahon's put-upon wife belied the fact that Linda was and is a ruthless, unscrupulous corporate hand.
Emma Thompson, as the hapless, put-upon prime minister — who bears more than a slight resemblance to Theresa May — adds some welcome dryness to an otherwise very broad movie.
She's now graduated from the wry rom-com best friend to the mostly put-upon ex-wife (currently, in the Showtime series "Kidding," where's she's estranged from Jim Carrey).
Joanne Froggatt, who twisted hearts as Anna Bates, the put-upon lady's maid in "Downton Abbey," subjects herself to yet another round of hardship in "Liar," starting Wednesday, Sept.
As I write this article, I am a State Minister of Agriculture, Animal Resources, Fisheries and Forestry due to the trust put upon me by the people of the state.
With each visit, people seem more put-upon: running lower on money, more desperate to find work, and struggling to find food, medical care or a safe place to live.
"This year is a crazy caravan that moves from one city to another," said Ms. Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, sounding not a bit put-upon, but rather delighted at the prospect.
Anyone who has ever been to an old-school Lower East Side garment shop will appreciate "Miss Adele Amidst the Corsets," a funny and unflinching portrait of put-upon souls.
They will be even less totally cool and fine if those close to you continue to act put-upon by the idea that they should care for others, including you.
When she turns up, his reaction is maybe 20 percent relief and 80 percent fury, and he terrorizes her just as Farrell terrorized his already put-upon son last season.
Every character, from political icon Leslie Knope to eternally put-upon Jerry, got their rightful happy ending, proven by glimpses at their lives as far into the future as the 2070s.
The supporting cast is strong, with Jeff Beruan booming as Ory's put-upon tutor; Steven Eddy robust as the count's henchman, Raimbaud; and Shirin Eskandani dusky-voiced as Ragonde, Adèle's attendant.
Her performance in Midsommar as Dani, a grieving and put-upon girlfriend who finds a kind of rebirth in a very creepy Swedish village, was indelible — who can forget her wails?
From the president to Fox News, right-wing voices wail, through their megaphones, about how put upon they are, like soccer players collapsing to the turf and writhing in pretend agony.
Sara Oliver Wight documented her genital reassignment surgery through photos and words, painting a heart-wrenching portrait of the unnecessary hurdles and red tape often put upon people seeking trans healthcare.
Another member of her circle, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, once quipped that her models, frequently family and friends, were her "victims" for all the control (and often props) she put upon them.
WALTER CROMWELL, father of Henry VIII's right-hand man Thomas, lurches drunkenly through the early scenes of Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall", dealing out kicks, punches and curses to his put-upon son.
So I was dealing with that until with our lawyer, our poor, poor put-upon head of legal at the Guardian, Gill Phillips, who has been very instrumental in this whole story.
Tyrion has never had an easy time of it on Game of Thrones, but throughout season 7, he wasn't just put upon and tormented by his family, his circumstances, and his life.
But it's also very clear that Cyril is very formidable and won't be put upon by her brother, she's the sort of dominant force in the relationship, even if he's the creative.
"There's nothing inconsistent with supporting the police and acknowledging the problems that exist in terms of dealing with the communities that, in fact, are feeling put upon," Biden said, summarizing Obama's message.
"I realized why: For me, I'm uncomfortable with nudity when it feels like it's not the person's decision to be naked, when it's something that has been put upon them," she explained.
It is unfair for a child in a family to be overlooked, and to have so much stress put upon you, and to hold the weight of the world on your shoulders.
Lisa, the put-upon manager of Double Whammies, carries a very gender-specific burden: She is a caretaker writ large, supporting not just her girls in the workplace, but seemingly everywhere else too.
Both Nixon (Kevin Spacey) and Elvis need a certain amount of ego-massaging and handling from their cautious underlings, and the filmmakers evoke a little sympathy for both sets of put-upon employees.
In films like Amy Schumer's Trainwreck, she's a put-upon stranger who explodes at the nice blonde girl on the subway for daring to wonder aloud why the train has halted between stops.
When the band takes the stage at Riot Fest in Chicago next month, it'll be completing the arc that fans—and many of the band's peers—have put upon it for two decades.
Indeed, the well-documented demise of traditional working-class jobs in Wigan and the rest of Britain has not ended people's attachment to the idea that they belong to a put-upon proletariat.
He acts as if, oh, I was put upon, and I was in debt before -- before I made my next $100 million, I was actually for a few months in debt, you know?
As the historian Barbara Ehrenreich recounts in her 1983 book The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment, Playboy was fueled by rebellion against the constraints marriage put upon men.
In this version, there are effectively three central human characters: the agency-seeking Ann; the chauvinist, bad-mogul Carl; and (oh, dear) his put-upon, slow-witted, golden-hearted assistant, Lumpy (Erik Lochtefeld).
Poor Ashley Stubbs, the put-upon head of security at Westworld, is trying to explain some fussy technical detail to Coughlin, but the no-nonsense mercenary doesn't have any interest in such nuances.
But Swift, who has maintained a strict wall between her two personas, tried to play it both ways: be the put-upon victim in her songs, but continue to coldly calculate her public persona.
In season three, FXX's acerbic romantic comedy turned over an entire half-hour to its most put-upon character, veteran Edgar (Desmin Borges), who suffers from PTSD — not that his friends noticed or cared.
Then Mr. Gall, a writer on the NBC drama "Blindspot," adds a fourth point to his geometry with the appearance of D (Maren Bush), C's put-upon girlfriend, and the structure loses its stability.
If the put-upon Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) is to be believed, the Valley is not the doorway to a new world; it's just a giant hard drive to serve obscured but predictable corporate interests.
Dee Love, a Durham estate agent, had set up a table offering refreshments to put-upon local voters, on the basis that "a cup of coffee and a nice muffin might ease some tensions".
Lost in that kerfuffle were The Meyerowitz Stories' many prickly charms, including a nuanced, moving, awards-worthy performance from — brace yourself — Adam Sandler, as the put-upon son of Dustin Hoffman's frustrated, narcissistic artist.
Perhaps, from their point of view, they are not evil conquerors at all but a put-upon minority (maybe they are actually the Children of the Forest) simply defending their territory against human aggression.
Some of the more optimistic expectations put upon them by their proponents have so far failed to be realized, and they are no closer to becoming a reality in our day-to-day lives.
His characters — like his put-upon den-mother vampire Viago in What We Do In The Shadows — tend to be hilarious but impotent, and they're endlessly self-aggrandizing, without realizing how foolish they sound.
In a recent phone conversation with me, DeMaio attributed this success to his record of "fighting the fights that some people think are unwinnable," on behalf of a put-upon middle class in California.
Janney has long brought her low voice and strong features to portrayals of smart, interesting characters, most famously the put-upon White House press secretary C.J. Cregg on the TV drama The West Wing.
In Fences, based on August Wilson's Pulitzer-winning play, Davis is revisiting the part that won her a Tony in 2010, and portrays the ultimate put-upon wife, Rose, who has abdicated her own future.
The main girls aside, it also stars Joel McHale of The Soup and Bill Skarsgard of It. Colman Domingo (Fear of the Walking Dead) plays a put-upon school principal who is accused of pedophilia.
Even with Curry at less than his best, the Warriors will likely be fine, if only because of the strain they put upon a Cavaliers team that has perhaps a few too many pressure points.
When we turn the final pages, the onus is put upon us to imagine the next chapter of our earth's ecosystems—a positive and promising and restorative one—and make that ecological possibility a reality.
To feel truly put upon and to be ingratiated toward the broad human struggle which ought to lie at the centre of a survival game, one needs to share an understanding of their character's pain.
Everyone seems slightly perplexed and put-upon that this is now a part of their lives, all because it is the last place anyone would think to look for the leaders of a resistance movement.
Ukraine's painful history as a put-upon appendage has left it ill-equipped to curb unruly habits at odds with the rule-based, scandal-shy order of the European Union, which it aspires to join.
Most of the supporting cast, which includes Gal Gadot as Pope's put-upon wife, barely register; as with so many action-movie love interests, she's only present to reflect the protagonist's troubles back at him.
More likely, though, the "summit" is just a front for the President's fan club to get together and complain about the "fake news" press and how they're so put upon, and brag about owning the libs.
That might sound implausible — or, perhaps, irrelevant in view of the high pressure put upon lower-level employees from above to "sell product" — but let us assume for the sake of argument that it is true.
But toward the end, when put-upon protagonist Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) starts celebrating his own break with sanity by dancing like no one's watching and reigning over public mayhem, the film has a real emotional power.
And as the tape player whirrs beneath Basinski's left hand, the tape inside of it decays a little more, put upon by the machine, destined to make a slightly different sound the next time as a result.
"Dramatically, I was drawn to this struggle, this very silent struggle of two people who were just so put upon that they didn't really have a voice or the actions to navigate or overcome this situation," he said.
Now certain segments of the left and the squishy middle think that somehow the taxpayer should be put upon again, despite the fact that we're already funding some $116 billion annually for the illegals already in the country.
Trump's public pressure on the Prime Minister risked leaving a leader, not usually seen as weak looking, put upon at a perilous moment -- with a new election approaching that could end his long stranglehold on power in Israel.
Elena's a part-time reporter for the local daily, but she devotes most of her energy to running her household, making sure her husband (Joshua Jackson, doing "put upon") and her four children are up to spec, too.
But the prime minister, whose 13-year tenure as chief minister of the western state of Gujarat won him a reputation for sound economic management, was going to be different, members of the put-upon corporate class hoped.
Joel Grey, on the other hand, adapts an ah-do-declare drawl as the Alabamian former attorney general Jeff Sessions, the put-upon Mr. Cellophane of this story, whose resignation letter becomes a drawn-from-life running gag.
This is a man resigned to his rage, a put-upon, artless, gray-flannelized man whose single-minded fixation on domestic income inequality and financial reform is every bit as enervating and drudgey as it is practical and admirable.
A British train employee, Ed Jacobson (Timothy Spall), put-upon at work and raising a mentally troubled son at home, comes upon an odd phenomenon: Passengers at his station are buying rail tickets to a destination that doesn't exist.
What's more, Tony (Hampton Fluker) is a bit of a tomcat and Sally-Mae (Nneka Okafor) the kind of put-upon priss who says "You know I don't take no ugly words" when someone is coarse in her presence.
Sex workers, though at greater risk for victimization due to the criminalized and stigmatized nature of their work—are, on an average day, no more or less harassed or put upon than any other woman living in this sexist world.
Cartoonist Jeffrey Brown has won awards for his books depicting the Sith Lord as a put-upon dad, and for certain young fans, he might be better known for his dance moves than for being the fist of the Empire.
He has a certain range, and projects from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to The Office to Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy to Black Panther have made use of his notable talent for playing brittle, fussy, endlessly put-upon characters.
While Iraqi forces may soon condemn ISIS to territorial defeat, it will not be possible to wash the mosque of the stain ISIS put upon it when leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi used it as the location to declare the caliphate.
If they are less colorful cousins to Ignatius J. Reilly — the grandiose hero of "A Confederacy of Dunces"— and his hovering, put-upon mother, there is also quite a bit of Tennessee Williams's Tom and Amanda Wingfield to their dynamic.
This is Fox News' gambit when they talk about the war on Christmas, Trump's angle when he attacks the "fake news" for criticizing him—bullies acting like victims to spark that particular, put-upon sort of outrage that ignites their base.
And because the demographic of put-upon older white men does, in fact, exert disproportionate influence over American social and economic institutions, there continues to be a well-compensated and not very taxing job for him into his late 70s.
Bilott skillfully tells the story of his epic battle with DuPont and its lawyers in "Exposure," which lands in bookstores just ahead of a new movie, "Dark Waters," starring Mark Ruffalo as Bilott and Anne Hathaway as his put-upon wife.
As a fellow plus-size woman, Gordon was familiar with the expectation put upon so many of us to make up for our bodies by being as traditionally feminine as possible in every other way, including maintaining long, luxurious hair.
The most impressive performers here are the most naturalistic: Ms. Regina's Irene is put upon but resourceful, and Toussaint Jeanlouis's Dooley Wilson (Sam in "Casablanca") persuasively likens the studios' loaning of actors among themselves as a kind of human trafficking.
The woman is rendered in this film with imagery that evokes both Mary and Gaia, the Greek ancestral mother of life, but as not merely a willing vessel but a very put-upon woman who's reaching her absolute breaking point.
The same could be said of even the smallest and at times most annoying characters: Kevin Doyle's Molesley, the sadsack, put-upon under butler, or Sue Johnston's Denker, Violet's meddling maid, pushing herself in and out of rooms like an overly aggressive duck.
Such is the character title for Lawrence's put-upon wife, who — no matter how dutifully she boils a pot of tea or rehabs a vacant guest room — can't seem to gain her husband's respect or attention, even after he knocks her up.
It stars Logan Marshall-Green — the brooding, put-upon protagonist from Karyn Kusama's The Invitation — as Grey Trace, a mechanic who's extremely skeptical of the career his wife Asha (Melanie Vallejo) has chosen as a high-powered… something at a prominent AI firm.
The book is, in some ways, a document that perfectly encapsulates what the word "millennial" means to the people it describes: a uniquely — indeed, historically — put-upon cohort, defined by economic trauma and unfairly blamed for all that has happened to it.
"He wanted to make sure the images of the downtrodden and the put-upon were captured with dignity," Hugh B. Price, a former president of the National Urban League and a former New York Times editorial writer, said in a phone interview.
It is confidence that lets this French-looking bistro with its much-put-upon marble bar and fuzzed-up mirrors play Yo La Tengo one night and Whitney Houston's greatest hits on another and still believe that somehow it will all mean something.
"Additionally, Naval Special Warfare Center remains committed to providing a safe, fair and equally dignified training environment that will best prepare all SEAL and SWCC candidates for the extreme demands put upon them as members of a SEAL or Special Boat Team."
Like his Russell in "The Irishman," Pesci's performance as Joey is guided by restraint: Whereas Jake is ruled by his appetites — for food, violence, teenage girls — and freely expresses his emotions regardless of the situation, Joey remains the put-upon, sometimes humorous straight man.
Their delirious glee is matched, in another key, by the drunken court underlings (Jackie Clune and Karen Dunbar), who devise an ill-fated rebellion against Prospero with his bestial servant, Caliban (a much-put-upon Sophie Stanton, seen in the "Henry" plays as Falstaff).
Clark's nostalgia-soaked comedy about a put-upon nine-year-old (Peter Billingsley) in the 1940s and his disaster-prone Midwestern family owes its popularity to Turner broadcasting, which turned a modest hit into a phenomenon by airing it relentlessly on TBS and TNT.
Deep in their bones, Alabamians know that if Roy Moore goes to Washington, the wardrobe department at "Saturday Night Live" will surely accommodate them by finding a cowboy vest, a tiny pistol and a Girl Scout dress, and they're prepared to feel very put upon.
Any connoisseur of 21st century prestige dramas about difficult boss men will recognize Vinyl's calculus immediately: mercurial figurehead, put-upon right-hand man (a sensitive, wry Ray Romano in this case), struggling female upstart who longs to break out of coffee runs and into the big leagues.
Biden's commonsense wisdom that better things aren't possible looks a bit foolish when states and cities are already taking steps—like pausing evictions and housing the homeless in hotels—that they could have taken without a pandemic, demonstrating the arbitrary limits that Democratic politicians put upon themselves.
Put upon over the centuries by more powerful neighbors claiming their land, notably Russia, Poland and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Ukrainians have rarely had firm allies or even their own functioning state, a situation that has encouraged a highly transactional approach to foreign and also domestic affairs.
Wise's sentiments in "Fargo" recall more the put-upon Coen heroes in "A Serious Man" or "Inside Llewyn Davis," who are constantly put through Job-like trials — often of their own making — and seem to step on a rake every time they put a foot forward.
Ben Elton—who wrote "All is True"—is also responsible for three seasons of "Upstart Crow", a sitcom in which David Mitchell plays a much-put-upon Shakespeare whose moaning about public transport, among other things, allows for much anachronistic fun delivered in a jokingly cod Elizabethan English.
"Clients (are) saying we want somebody to put in place a plan of action that allows us to either benefit or to manage the challenges that Brexit has put upon us," said Robert Grimsey, marketing director at the firm, which recruits for sectors including technology and IT outsourcing.
Giuseppe di Lampedusa, "The Leopard": Revisiting old friends: vulgar, sticky-fingered loudly gorgeous Angelica, impetuous, latterly cynical Tancredi, put-upon Father Pirrone, the impossible astronomizing Prince himself; plus one of the all-time great literary dogs, Bendico, who at the very end of the novel stands for history itself.
Yet they're still worth checking out, if only to witness each singer's evolving sense of self: Perry seems to waver over whether she's an empowered, independent woman or a plucky underdog, while Swift is stepping into the role of a put-upon victim who can't take it anymore.
Over the last few years we've gotten several MMA movies coming out of Hollywood, and pretty much every one of them (along with nearly every boxing movie) has been about a put-upon parent/former fighter seeking redemption (both financial and spiritual) in the cage or the ring.
"That constant expectation I put upon myself is a little bit disappointed in me, but I think that will fuel me for next year because I know how bad I want to go low 56, even faster now, and I know exactly how to do it," said the 24-year-old.
Before filming began, though, she underwent nearly a month of rehearsals, where she worked alongside the movie's other breakout star, 7-year-old Brooklynn Prince, who stars as her cautiously big-hearted, delightfully big-mouthed daughter; both actors share numerous scenes with Willem Dafoe, playing the hotel's kind yet put-upon caretaker.
Unlike contemporary stars like Jennifer Lawrence, whose carefree, cool girl femininity feels so incredibly of this moment that it makes her seem woefully out of place in a period drama like Serena (2014), Knightley has always felt on some level outside of contemporary ideology, unwilling to heed the demands put upon her peers.
Toward the end of the show, there's a match between Lance Storm, a young wrestler who was new to the company, and William Regal, a veteran whose most recent on-screen role had been less about wrestling and more about his exploits as the bumbling, put-upon "commissioner" of the World Wrestling Federation.
A study of Google search results by anti-tracking rival DuckDuckGo has suggested that escaping the so-called 'filter bubble' of personalized online searches is a perniciously hard problem for the put upon Internet consumer who just wants to carve out a little unbiased space online, free from the suggestive taint of algorithmic fingers.
And I think that knowing Jeff, going on this journey and seeing what he's been through, we all have stuff that we're dealing with whether it's a father that died of cancer or a friend who's dealing with a divorce, we all have things that we are trying to overcome and feel deeply put upon by.
Either way, one set of voters will be left feeling put upon by the EU. Dealing with the migrant crisis, as we have seen, will involve difficult choices about how and whether to help those southern countries bearing the brunt of the problem, and how to distribute the burden among those willing to lend a hand.
He's a guy who's enjoyed a well-compensated, high-status, easy-to-do job for decades who nonetheless quite sincerely feels put upon by the fact that he lost a job to a woman sometime in the 1970s and sometimes get called a racist because he thinks young black men should be subject to discriminatory treatment.
Between "Mad Men," in which she played the ambitious but put-upon Peggy Olsen; "Top of the Lake," in which she plays sex-crimes detective Robin Griffin; and "The Handmaid's Tale," in which she plays the enslaved Offred, one can watch Ms. Moss survive sexist torture in stories set in the past, the present and the crypto future.
He's been nominated for a Tony, a Grammy, three Golden Globes, and an Oscar, and he's turned in unforgettable performances in roles ranging from Roxie Hart's put-upon husband in 2003's Chicago to Dewey Cox in 2007's Walk Hard to the title character in 2012's Wreck-It Ralph, a role he will reprise this fall in the film's sequel.
A big and almost certainly costly undertaking, though between the rock climbing and ziplines, most of the international press members present don't seem too put upon with the long trek to the Sierra Nevadas, even if it's a rather resource intensive undertaking to try out a pair of new cameras and score a few precious minutes with the company's new drone.
"If we really want to talk about what is going to potentially create panic in this country, it's an administration that's just not being straight with the American public about the extent of this epidemic and the real-life consequences that could be put upon Americans," Senator Christopher S. Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut, said Sunday on "Face the Nation" on CBS.
And so the main victims of Western liberalism's peculiar relationship to its Christian heritage aren't put-upon traditionalists in the West; they're Christians like the murdered first communicants in Sri Lanka, or the jailed pastors in China, or the Coptic martyrs of North Africa, or any of the millions of non-Western Christians who live under constant threat of persecution.
The shards of feeling that exist are saved (no surprise) for the guy time between D.J. and his ever-faithful sidekick, Stan, whom the invaluable Adrian Scarborough plays as a put-upon assistant who also happens to be his master's perpetual analyst: "You fear being alone," Stan observes of D.J., who for all his daredevil frolics wants nothing more than a friend.
Wood, asked whether the inter-Korean dialogue was due to pressure on Pyongyang, later told reporters: "Absolutely, I think it very clear that the pressure the international community has put upon North Korea has got it to take a much softer tone with regard to the Republic of Korea and its desire now to participate in the upcoming Olympics." additional reporting by Cecile Mantovani; Editing by Robin Pomeroy and Janet Lawrence
The singer drives that point home several times in the music video for her latest single, a clip from the rah-rah school of feminism that casts Lopez as a '50s housewife, a put-upon Joan Holloway-esque secretary, a Rosie the Riveter figure, a rad '80s businesswoman, and an angry, Howard Beale-channeling news anchor — who urges the rest of the Lopezes to rise up against their male oppressors.
The tens of thousands of people who came to see him speak at campaign events might have numbered well below the millions who had watched him on TV, but the sheer physical fact of them — he would talk endlessly at his rallies about the lines trying to get inside the building, the poor put-upon fire marshals who had to deliver the bad news — seemed to entrance him.
Other characters include Toño (a half-jumpy, half-broody Alexander Flores), a teenager who's been kicked out of school for sexually harassing a teacher; the hotheaded and put-upon Palito (an aptly jittery Sean Carvajal), Jeison's brother, who was born with fetal alcohol syndrome and is moony about Tati, who puts up with him mainly because he's free with his drugs and money; and El Mago (Luis Vega), who earns money doing card tricks for tourists, and comes to the rescue of his friend Hugo (Flaco Navaja) when, after a drunken binge, he soils himself on a bench.

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