Sentences with phrase «as preening»

This surrealist photographic self - portrait of herself as a preening housewife looking over her shoulder while standing at the stove, is part of a series of self - portraits entitled «Untitled Film Stills» (1977 - 80).

Grooming, also known as preening, is a normal behavior of parrots and can occupy a good portion of a bird's day.

«Toys have many uses, such as preening, chewing, weaving and shredding, just to name a few,» she says.

But he also has fun with new characters such as preening clothes - horse Ken (voiced by Michael Keaton) and his Barbie; Lotso's prison enforcer Big Baby (with a sinister eye droop); a Monkey watchguard with clashing cymbals and a hedgehog, Mr Pricklepants, who fancies himself a thespian.

And Keaton could hardly be better supported: Norton is uproarious as a preening, Method - acting nightmare; Watts and Riseborough note - perfect as actresses jangled by daft insecurities; Stone tremendous as the lone voice of reason, faltering and defiant.»

He was marvelous in Neighbors as a preening frat boy, and emerged unscathed from the sex comedy That Awkward Moment, which criminally squandered a crop of young talents with great potential: Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Imogen Poots and Mackenzie Davis.

Carell's performance as Doc is muted to a fault — to be clear, this is a performance that lays it on just as thickly as his work as the preening billionaire sociopath in Foxcatcher or the grossly misogynistic Bobby Riggs in Battle of the Sexes.

Best of show honors are shared by Beale and Jason Isaacs as preening Red Army field marshal Zhukov.

Meryl Streep is tremendously good as the witch, all claws and sneers, and Chris Pine is very funny as the preening peacock of a prince who becomes besotted by Anna Kendrick's Cinderella.

It's in the representation of Shakespeare as a preening, murderous, and illiterate ham, however, that Anonymous most clearly shows its hand as a crass hit - piece rather than a fun bit of historical revisionism.

Killer Joe casts McConaughey as a preening wolf let loose in the henhouse, a corrupt authority figure whose pristine appearance — in a realm where nobody seems to mind looking like death personified — and strange moral code mask a core of pure sadism that comes out in a gruesome, bleakly funny climax that will forever change the way audiences view fried chicken.

There's also a delightful grab - bag of colorful supporting roles for the sparkling cast: Hilary Swank as a meticulous investigator, Riley Keough as the Logans» capable sister Mellie, Dwight Yoakam as a preening prison warden.

The bell rang, and as the preening fighter emerged from a cartwheel, the quiet one decked him with one roundhouse punch.

His hubris, on full display as he preens and gossips and makes catty remarks about Trump's spray tan and hand size, quite possibly put this man he considers a dangerous buffoon in office.

Acting as canine arm candy for striking two - legged fashion model, Elanna Bryan, the three greyhounds were perfectly poised as they preened and posed for the camera like seasoned pros.

Oil - soaked penguins lose their natural ability to keep warm, and risk ingesting oil as they preen their feathers.

Not exact matches

Or wait for a workplace event where preening is accepted, such as a gala dinner, and let your freak neckwear fly.

Lord knows, we find Trump's clumsy preening and incomprehensible ravings as simultaneously frightening and amusing as the next befuddled commentator, but the remarkable truth is that some pretty challenging things really do seem to be getting done.

The sanctimonious moral preening offered via social media from such figures as Apple's Tim Cook and the historically amnesiatic Hillary Clinton are both laughable and inexcusable for their dedication to spreading flavor - of - the - moment distortions.

For what a presence he was, that snow - white fisherman With the long golden beak and the black stick legs, Whether preening his wind - riffled feathers As he stood on his bright - orange water temple (That pi - shaped torii that floated like a spirit), Or flapping prehistorically across the pond To stalk and stab in the dark water Plucking with dagger bill a twitching minnow.

He preened himself as an authority in the humanities as well as in the clinic, a scientist whose understanding of sex, and of our tendencies to deny and repress its power, gave him the key to understanding human nature and made him a bearer of the cold light of fact to an ignorant and myth «ridden civilization.

Surrealists, Beat poets, student revolutionaries, punk rockers, clever lycéens, and legions of the semi-educated who preen themselves on being thoroughly modern — as Rimbaud insisted we all must be — hold him in supreme reverence.

At first blush, I had him pegged as a modern, updated Edie Sedgwick, New York City's mascot frog preening and posing for a selfie while being publicly boiled to death in our pot of water.

Suddenly, «Rockstar Charlie» is announced over the speakers to roars from the audience as the lights dim and cameras pop and an ESPN E60 film crew follows the lanky, former nursery school teacher turned model - boxer, somehow both as bouncy as Tigger and serene as a lullaby, throughout his ring entrance, preening before the crowd with his tats and Sid Vicious chain - and - lock necklace while models squeal out his name.

That decadence would push an Olisa Metuh to preen and strut in court, as if being docked for alleged sleaze deserved some gold medal.

We have preened ourselves hitherto that, by contrast to the Americans who routinely used torture in their Bagram detention centre in Afghanistan and Abu Ghraib in Iraq (as well as in their global secret network of «black prisons» where -LSB-...]

Last year's Glastonbury headliner was controversial, as Kanye West preened about the stage in front...

Last year's Glastonbury headliner was controversial, as Kanye West preened about the stage in front of a disobliging crowd.

Preen oil released from a gland near the base of the tail also works as a water repellent.

preen To make oneself look more attractive, such as by combing one's hair or straightening the wrinkles out of one's clothes.

But along with the preening admiration bestowed on Taylor from many of those most stridently rejecting climate science or any effort to manage climate risks, he also won the very begrudging respect of those mainstream climate scientists and policy advocates who, while admiring his communications savvy and stage presence, trashed what they dismissed as his pseudo-science proclamations.

This spot wobbled around as a bird shifted to preen its feathers or look at a neighbor.

Looking as lovely as ever, she wore a Preen Spring 2014 dress cut from white stretch - crepe featuring a kaleidoscope of colour and print.

As is becoming a longstanding tradition backstage at WMCFW, Maybelline's head makeup artist and maven, Grace Lee, was once again charged with primping and preening every single face that walked the runway.

This is one of the only hairstyles we can think of which looks just as perfect when worn in a scruffy, effortless top knot on casual days out as it does when it is preened and polished to perfection by a b →

Also of note were the grown - up womanly looks at Mulberry and Preen as well as at L'Wren Scott's UK debut, where look seven (a cobalt wool dress with gold collar) premiered on the runway after it premiered on Nicole Kidman at the Stoker premiere.

This steel - gray one - shoulder dress is going to look great as you pose and preen in the reception photo booth with your high school classmates (#weddingwin).

New York's take on tartan turned to buffalo check, with Rag and Bone including pullover jackets and pencils, and Preen showcasing asymetrical maxis in colours as bright as jewels.

Preen's flower jacquard dress was Shailene's sophisticated selection as she honored her Divergent co-star.

Why we like it: Preen's Pre-Fall 2014 flower jacquard dress was Shailene's sophisticated selection as she honored her Divergent co-star.

One of my friends alarmed me when she found the big - smiling one on British Vogue's Pin - board — flattering as well — and then I realised I had to contact the girls who shot me — there was no crime involved lol — at 9 am in the morning before Preen's show this London Fashion Week.

Directed by Pensacola, watch and learn as the enchanting Chiba - born model rolls Japanese phrases off her tongue, while wearing looks from designers including KTZ, Helmut Lang, Alexander Wang, Preen by Thornton Bregazzi and 3.1 Phillip Lim.

Kimberly also advises to look for «preening gestures» which serve as unconsciously signs of interest.

«The offline «flirting» equivalents, at best, would be a suggestive look or a preening bodily gesture such as a hair toss to one side or an over-the-shoulder glance, each subject to myriad interpretations and possible misinterpretations contingent on the perceptiveness of the players involved.

Lincoln is positively littered with familiar faces, notable standouts being Lee Pace as a young, preening and suitably odious pro-slavery Democrat (Fernando Wood, for you history folks) and David Strathairn as Lincoln's trusty right - hand man William Seward.

Miguel soon sets off on a quest to find the undead de la Cruz (Benjamin Bratt, slick and preening), who's as famous in the afterlife as he was in life, and who holds the key to sending Miguel home.

Louis eventually winds up at a prison camp run by a preening sadist known to the men as The Bird (Japanese musician Miyavi, making an impressive screen debut), who takes a personal interest in trying to break Louis.

Loud, frantic, ridiculously overproduced and featuring a preening performance by Val Kilmer as a supposedly brilliant master of disguise, The Saint is sheer overkill.

Daniel Radcliffe has grown already by Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) and his presence benefits greatly from his increased confidence and maturity, and Kenneth Branagh is perfectly cast as the guest wizard, a glib, ego - maniacal author who spends more time preening that practicing spells.

Singers Gwen Stefani (as Harlow) and Rufus Wainwright (preening ridiculously as a nightclub singer) get unnecessarily featured moments.