Sentences with phrase «around like an ape»
It would be nice to imagine Mark Emmert — the man who earns $ 1.6 million a year to slap the controls of the NCAA around like an ape frantically smashing the buttons of a nuclear missile silo — as someone competent.
https://www.sbnation.com/ Not exact matches
Another possible link is a more ape - like creature that lived around 3 million to 4 million years ago: Australopithecus afarensis, which walked upright but stood only just over a metre tall and had a puny brain.
For more than a million years their australopithecine predecessors — Lucy and her kind, who walked upright like us yet still possessed the stubby legs, tree - climbing hands and small brains of their ape forebears — had thrived in and around the continent's forests and woodlands.
So around 1900 they are being reconstructed as ape men — stooping, hairy, grasping big toes and, you know, we know they are not like that.
Megamind, like Shrek, appears to revolve around the assumption that there really are no more stories worth telling that haven't already been told; as such, this movie subsists upon aping superior tales of yesteryear with all of the overwrought self - awareness of writers who just recently learned the meaning of «meta» (but haven't watched nearly enough contemporary movies to realize that the tactic has already been done to death).
Rather than escape from a burning house by walking out the front door (this is an ape who has twice pushed a van off a cliff to hide evidence of a murder), Link inexplicably decides to climb to the roof and strut around like a complete... well, like a complete Jane.
Special effects were definitely not like they are today as they hired actors to run around and act in ape costumes.
You might think that there are already way too many books on this topic, but APE has a slightly different angle around «artisanal» publishing and entrepreneurship, which I like a lot.
Now the pendulum has swung and it feels like Snapchat is doing anything and everything — including aping Instagram — to get users to stick around.