Sentences with phrase «as ramshackle»

Another stage played as a ramshackle take on a Sol LeWitt wall drawing: on a wood plank marked with squiggly etchings on the wall, course - goers had to lean over and trace the shape of the lines while maintaining close proximity and without letting their pencils leave the surface for any reason.

Deeper down, there are thematic parallels to Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums, with Dustin Hoffman equalling Gene Hackman's performance as a ramshackle but charismatic father figure who boasts refined skill for pressing his children's buttons.

For its part, Wolverine is neither as resonant as the first two X-Men movies nor as ramshackle as the third.

Not exact matches

I've played several of them, and am always blown away by the numbers that appear on the screen: «Cash Show» consistently draws more than 100,000 players and gives away a total of $ 20,000 a day on weekends ($ 9,000 on weekdays); «The Q,» a hilariously ramshackle app out of Charleston, South Carolina, gets approximately 10,000 players going for as little as $ 100 per quiz; «Quiz Biz,» on the popular live - streaming app Live.me, gives away up to $ 50,000 — a pop — to tens of thousands of players.

He says this matter - of - factly as you begin walking through a scrubby field to an old white farm house, ramshackled and sagging, in need of paint, but generously proportioned and graced with a wraparound veranda.

Two world wars and an economic crash come and go, as international football carves out its place, without quite ridding itself of its ramshackle, amateurish air.

It means Van Gaal could be forced to field a ramshackle defence, as Marcos Rojo dislocated his shoulder nearly a fortnight ago, while Phil Jones and Jonny Evans could play on Saturday but are coming back from respective injuries.

The Gugu Guru Team highly recommends Jordan Reid's two parenting books — Ramshackle Glam: The New Mom's Haphazard Guide to (Almost) Having It All and Carrying On: Style, Beauty, Décor (and More) for the Nervous New Mom; as well as Jordan Reid and Erin Williams» newest creation, The Big Fat Activity Book for Pregnant People

Maurice Glasman still seems surprised as he sits in his cosy, ramshackle apartment perched above a clothes store in bohemian north London.

This was good enough for Plato, the 800 - pound gorilla of ancient Greek intellectual life, to include Beauty as one of his famous forms: those transcendent, invisible archetypes of which this reality is nothing but a set of blurry ramshackle imitations.

Their glossy bulk looks out of place as they squeeze between the electricity poles and cramped bars, ramshackle wooden offices and tiny shops that line the street.

Its absurdist scenarios serve as little more than a ramshackle frame for bizarre non sequiturs, stoned pop - culture riffing, and some of the weirdest gags ever to make it into a studio - released film.

The story of Burt Shavitz, the bearded, backwoodsy photojournalist - turned - homespun entrepreneur whose beekeeping and honey - selling business morphed into the Burt's Bees empire, «Burt's Buzz» spends its first hour as a charming character study of an idiosyncratic man who lives a ramshackle life («sort of like a high - class hobo») when he's not serving as the public face of a huge brand.

Somehow meatier and more ramshackle than its counterpart, the film follows Eleanor as she makes an apparent suicide attempt, walks out on her husband, decamps to her family home, and begins taking college courses while she figures out next steps.

A match made in feathered - bangs heaven, the love story is incredibly seedy, beginning with a «meet cute» in a ramshackle hallway as Youngblood wanders around wearing only his jock and proceeds into a rare secondary «meet cute» as Youngblood is caught reading a porno novel at the local drugstore.

Excellent performances bolster this ramshackle tale of a champion boxer trying to make good with his life following the loss of the one thing that always managed to keep him on track, his beloved wife, both orphans who met in foster care as they grew up on the wrong side of the tracks in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen.

As anticipated as it was around here, the Helen Mirren - starring horror flick unfortunately turns out to be a ramshackle and incomplete edificAs anticipated as it was around here, the Helen Mirren - starring horror flick unfortunately turns out to be a ramshackle and incomplete edificas it was around here, the Helen Mirren - starring horror flick unfortunately turns out to be a ramshackle and incomplete edifice.

So I'll try to be as measured as I can when I say that I haven't seen a more thrillingly alive movie at Cannes this year than «The Florida Project,» the latest tour de force of ramshackle realism from writer - director Sean Baker.

No film, before or since, has depicted cyborgs as so improvised, so ramshackle, so... crappy.

Bill Paxton (who also directs) stars as a widowed country dad awakened one night by an angel — or a bright light shining off the angel on top of a trophy on his ramshackle bedroom bookcase.

Fortitude also forms the mortar of her performance in Mira Nair's Queen of Katwe as Nakku Harriet, the Mother Courage of a family of hungry, unschooled children in a teeming, poor, ramshackle township in Uganda where skyscrapers stand in the hazy distance like the Emerald City of Oz.

On a rainy afternoon, a mother's life is shattered as her son slips from her grip and runs into the street... I Let You Go follows Jenna Gray as she moves to a ramshackle cottage on the remote Welsh coast, trying to escape the memory of the car accident that plays again and again in her mind and desperate to heal from the loss of her child and the rest of her painful past.

As many as 8,000 animals a year were cared for in that ramshackle building until it was finally sold and torn down in 200As many as 8,000 animals a year were cared for in that ramshackle building until it was finally sold and torn down in 200as 8,000 animals a year were cared for in that ramshackle building until it was finally sold and torn down in 2004.

Tired of your ramshackle apartment, dull existence and boring jobs, you're accepted into the exclusive organisation, so you can pry into the privacy of the «caged monkeys» as they go about their lives...

TWO statements by the artist Donald Judd turned out to be remarkably prescient about the ramshackle - beautiful cast - iron building on Spring Street he bought in 1968 for use as his home and studio.

History may assign his Nouveau Realisme, as the movement called itself, to that one day in March, but his ramshackle constructions fill one of Chelsea's largest galleries.

Liz Ryan's photographic montage details this ramshackle, yet remarkable structure, as part of her continuing research exploring everyday life and creative interplay.

It seems there's no place for them in this somewhat ramshackle narrative that feels as if it's been put together by rummaging through the store cupboard — not the best way to write history.

Smeared with mud, Laure Prouvost's letter of invitation for her exhibition «This is the visit» announced a tea party and an evening of «fond - razing» for her Grand Dad, described elsewhere as «a very close friend of Kurt Schwitters» who is still lost in the tunnel he's been digging to Africa from his ramshackle cabin in England's Lake District.

Trained as an oil painter at York University in Toronto (BFA) and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA), he is currently working on a suite of gouache paintings called «The Most Beautiful Things in the World» in which he depicts images of beautifully ramshackle instruments of authority.

Finally, we have a piece that resembles a ramshackle stairway ascending towards the high set windows, as if inviting visitors to climb this rickety sculpture that would then collapse under their weight.

The artwork observes Keen's early experimentations as a filmmaker — blending bizarre narrative, explosive animation and an orgy of surrealist collage with a ramshackle, stop - motion glimpse of film noir.

A generous hint of his direction could be seen in the 2012 Biennial (then hailed by New York Times critic Roberta Smith as «one of the best Whitney Biennials in recent memory»), which included such unforgettable moments as Werner Herzog's presentation of drawings by Hercules Segers intermixed with filmed performances by the Dutch avant - garde cellist and composer Ernst Reijseger; Dawn Kasper's performative residency in a ramshackle studio of her own creation on the museum's third floor; and the transformation of the entire fourth floor into a long stage for dance, most memorably Michelson's highly concentrated, multipart «Devotion Study # 1 — The American Dancer.»

In the large gallery rooms at the Bronx Museum, viewers get a sense of the cathedral - like qualities Pier 52 gained when light streamed through the meticulously designed cut - outs, transforming the abandoned, ramshackle riverside structure into what the artist described as a «sun - and - water temple.»

The planthouses aren't as intricate and Zen - like as some of the other works we've seen previously, but there is a simple, bucolic charm to their ramshackle appearance.

I've played several of them, and am always blown away by the numbers that appear on the screen: «Cash Show» consistently draws more than 100,000 players and gives away a total of $ 20,000 a day on weekends ($ 9,000 on weekdays); «The Q,» a hilariously ramshackle app out of Charleston, South Carolina, gets approximately 10,000 players going for as little as $ 100 per quiz; «Quiz Biz,» on the popular live - streaming app Live.me, gives away up to $ 50,000 — a pop — to tens of thousands of players.

As a student at Plymouth university, Adam scrimped and saved # 6,500 to bag himself a windswept, ramshackle timber shed in a remote corner of Cornwall.