Sentences with phrase «against walls like»

Switching to a plastic spray bottle, he showers pigment onto paintings that have been propped against the walls like raw icons, or piled haphazardly on top of others as though they were collapsed pediments of a weathered wat (monastery - temple) in a sub-Mekong landscape.

As far as cargo space goes, the Cube design has plenty of it, and even lets you fold the back seats sideways against the walls like in the Honda Element.

I tried to console her and calm her down, but she got more pissed and threw the colored pencils against the wall like John McEnroe in the»80s.

For far too long, we've been forced to approach walls perpendicularly lest our protagonist press up against a wall like a mime with a poor imagination.

Which is at issue with slim red neon by Lucas Michael, set against the wall like a door without a passage or a picture frame without a portrait?

A pillowcase floats against a wall like an angel.

Two additional clumps support each canvas as it leans against the wall like some icon or ex voto, reminding us that painting is a universal, not Western, art form.

At Tripoli Gallery, the works on view range from Gran Twister, 2012, a majestic conflagration of loops that hover above the exhibition space as if in orbit, to Space Slipper, 1992, a diptych of fragmented ellipses that lean against the wall like errant surfboards.

I had a fridge against the wall like this once and could never get the drawers out to clean them or behind them without pulling the fridge out of the space to get the door fully opened...

My tree is only decorated from about half way up so the puppy and cat can't knock all the ornaments off, and it's currently leaning against the wall like it drank a few to many eggnogs (did I mention my cat is sticky with pine resin?).

You can hang your DIY Farmhouse Christmas Sign on the wall by attached a sawtooth hanger to the back or simply lean it against a wall like I did!

Not exact matches

«We are not sure what direction to go now, because we feel like we're up against a wall,» Christina Gerrity said.

Employees can play Riot Games titles on the desktop computers — and against the back wall, dabble in arcade classics like The Simpsons.

Krasner: I have — like a lot of civil rights lawyers, like a lot of activists — been beating my head against the wall of the DA's office and the [Philadelphia] police department for a long time because the DA's office in Philly was not enforcing the law against police.

But recently, as Bernie Sanders has upped his rhetorical attacks against Wall Street, and Clinton's perceived ties to it, Clinton has started to sound like she wouldn't nominate a Wall Streeter either.

Exacerbating the issue is that owners of lower - priced homes likely don't have the resources to take preventative measures against the rising tides, like putting in sea walls or making changes to foundations to withstand intermittent flooding.

While she's probably not wrong in that it's likely hovering near the end - point, I would like to just take a moment to point out that most of this whole affair has been fuelled by weak - sauce allegations and conflated facts, and this particular air of desperation as people keep flinging the equivalent of spaghetti against a wall in the hope that something inevitably sticks.

Never mind that this is the same Conservative «plan» that contributed to Canada experiencing the only recession among major industrial economies so far this year. Claiming «victory» because GDP is growing again after a recession, is a bit like commenting on how good it feels to stop beating your head against the wall. Before popping any champagne, we'd better pause to ask: why were we beating our heads against the wall in the first place?

That's like making a cake and then going «meh» as you toss it against the wall.

The first time I tried to read Blue Like Jazz, I literally threw it across the room against the wall, then tore it up and tossed it in my trash can.

She pronounced it with venomous, piercing rage, like a vulture pouncing on its prey, and then she threw her cup against the wall.

Keeping running and one day you will be like Isreal pushed up against a wall.

It is ignorant comments like yours that make people build walls against religion.

Unfortunately, as you'll find out when you do finish your book, getting anything distributed in the mainstream publishing market is like banging your head against a wall.

What about those convicted of fighting for ISIS, like the prisoner sitting with his back against the wall, facing Sadiq?

All this, not because he became acquainted with convictions of his brother which he then and there adopted; not because he made any new resolution in his soul, but merely because the words spoken by his brother were like the light push of a finger against a leaning wall already about to tumble by its own weight.

It's like talking to the Western Wall... all stone with a bunch of heads banging against it daily.

Just like men want a lady in the street but a freak in the bed, a lot of women want a man who will treat her well (with kindness, consideration, and respect), but who can also throw her against a wall and make her feel like a woman * shrugs *.

Searle's account of the problem of consciousness thus shows that science was destined to run up against a blank wall when it could no longer deny the awkward fact that «inward» events (like qualitative feelings) can neither be ignored nor explained away in terms of «outward» appearances.

It is definately better to leave a place like that than to keep pounding your head against the wall.

It's been said before that you don't see a lot of wall calendars featuring verses like, «Happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us — he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks» (Psalm 137:8 - 9) or «Let a woman learn in silence with all submission» (1 Timothy 2:11).

I know that sometimes it feels like beating your head against a wall trying to work with people that don't live in the real world.

Mack is unable to do this, not because he lacks God's perfection, but rather — as Sophia shortly teaches him, with PowerPoint - like projections on the walls of her cave — because everyone's sins are traceable to some prior sin committed against them, right back to Adam.

And sometimes it seems like I'm just feeling my way blindly against the walls, stumbling over furniture, knocking over vases, and stubbing toes on table legs by feeling for a light switch that doesn't exist.

Wall probably knew what he was supposed to do against players like Al Horford, but didn't have enough experience to put it into action until he built up enough reps.

The stuff that hitches a ride with spinach will foul up your teeth like a steak knife against a concrete wall.

The plane of his swing is upright, like the swing of someone standing against a wall.

Place yourself on «death ground», where your back is against the wall and you have to fight like hell to get out alive.

And I am not saying this is bad, it just makes you look silly like talking to the mirror or training against the wall.

To be honest I often feel that Arsenal do better when our backs are against the wall, like when we clawed back a big gap to pip Spurs to fourth spot a few years back.

You know our players like their backs to be against the wall for them to do well.

Just b / c you like wall doesn't mean you have to be against sato.

At least im not calling for everyone who disagrees with me to be put up against the wall... like some commenters on here.

I do feel like a fan banging his head against a brick wall when Wenger allows his favoritism to get the best of him.

After this I am giving up debating with you as it is like banging my head against a brick wall.

Arsene cares, of course he does, this gives us an inkling to what he will be like in the dressing when our backs are against the wall.

This would be like a defensive wall for the club against marauders who think any time they can snatch the players they want from us.

«Honestly, I think we felt like we had (the game) the whole time,» Smith said, leaning up against that wall.

When I have on occasion visited those sites or observed people like yourself on here who are likely normally on those sites, I tend to feel the comments come across as a kind of bloggers version of pinning someone up against the wall and shouting in their face to literally bully them into agreeing with you.

I say this to give hope to any parents out there who feel like you're reading every book and taking every class and spending your last dollar and you're just beating your head against a wall.