Sentences with phrase «at jaunty»

Look at the details If it's unclear whether you live at Number 6 or Number 9 because the number is hanging at a jaunty angle, take five minutes to sort it out.

Blocka Flats is a cupboard - sized sculpture made by sawing a small cabinet into slices, then reassembling them at a jaunty tilt that appears somehow to enlarge every dimension.

The sleuths who battle the demons in Demon Town may be wizards but may not, and they may wear their fedoras at jaunty angles or not.

The idea behind the design was similar to an estate — a top - hinged tailgate set at a jaunty angle to provide a stylish look and also, more versatility than a saloon.

Dean asked if I was going to do a proper economy run, I looked at the jaunty line meandering across Europe towards Calais on the satnav display and replied «no», and we maintained our slighty - higher - than - you'd - dare - in - the - UK pace for hour after hour after hour.

LOVE the pic of you with the scarf casually knotted at a jaunty angle!

Exoplanets tell a different story, with some tilted at jaunty angles and others orbiting their stars backwards.

Not exact matches

Jaunty Justin Gatlin and plucky Lauryn Williams gave the U.S. a sweep of the 100 meters at the world championships

I should be heading up there Thursday morning, Lord willin» and the creek don't rise, and will have both hats (e.politics and New Media Strategies) firmly set atop this tired old noggin, cocked at an appropriately jaunty angle of course.

The actor looks ready to party in his all - black Dolce & Gabbana ensemble, complete with unbuttoned shirt and jaunty fedora, at a photocall for Midnight in Paris.

With zee jaunty beret at a cute angle like that.

So for all of you who don't know what to ask for Christmas, take a closer look at the Spicy Scarves as they are classy, glamorous and jaunty.

My perfect party hat has sequins and tinsel galore and sits, perched on my head, at the perfect jaunty angle without budging!

It is at this funeral, after a series of delightfully frivolous set pieces — all scored with jaunty balalaika music by composer Alexandre Desplat — that the plot kicks in.

Stephen Warbeck's catchy but incongruously jaunty music signals to us right at the outset that nothing too bad is going to happen to anyone in the Trumpton - like world that the filmmakers evoke.

Director Jon Watts and his five other screenwriters are better at the small stuff — the jaunty high school scenes — than the kapowie CGI battle sequences.

Solemn and self - important to a fault, both could have used the relaxed, jaunty brio that fills «Their Finest,» a World War II comedy that, despite its light hand, never compromises the grief and loss that lie at its core.

The point, I think, at which I dangerously lost faith comes near the end, when what should be the film's rather horrifying climax is turned into an ill - timed bit of jaunty humor.

Anton Karas's fabulous zither theme perfectly captures the tone of the film, managing to be jaunty and slightly sinister at the same time.

The trailer ran in front of pretty much every movie I saw at my local art house cinema for about two months before opening there, and can't say I was particularly impressed by anything other than the jaunty acoustic guitar score.

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (Blu - ray + DVD + Ultraviolet) Details: 2015, Warner Home Video Rated: PG - 13, action violence, partial nudity, suggestive content The lowdown: This jaunty action feature looks at the world during simpler times — the Cold War.

By taking the material so seriously, both actresses ultimately transform this jaunty, vengeful pseudo-satire into something actually sobering — a tragicomedy that, at its best, stings and then aches like a punch in the face.

• «Hot fun in the summertime...» scoring Judith's (Holly Hunter) jaunty stroll down a magical / ordinary New York street at the end of Living Out Loud...

«Show me your world, Chris,» says an unworldly Englishwoman to her lover as they embark on a trailer tour of the scenic North at the deceptively jaunty start of Sightseers.

A zombie sat at Her Majesty's grand piano, knocking out a jaunty tune for example, or the awkward gait of the undead guests showed a house party gone horribly, horribly wrong.

They heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and they rode out on the round dais of the earth which alone was dark and no light to it and which carried their figures and bore them up into the swarming stars so that they rode not under but among them and they rode at once jaunty and circumspect, like thieves newly loosed in that dark electric, like young thieves in a glowing orchard, loosely jacketed against the cold and ten thousand worlds for the choosing».

Joan assessed the crowd, lighting upon the most interesting: young men turning white T - shirts into art, pinching the material tight and rubber - banding each section until they looked like porcupines being dipped into huge steaming vats of colored dyes; the young woman with a bird's nest of purple hair sitting at a potter's wheel, slamming down hunks of clay, her hands moving nearly as fast as the wheel, cups, vases, plates, bowls, trays, appearing like magic; the elderly man in a worn blue linen suit, a jaunty straw boater on his head, a smeared palette tight in his hand, painting a mammoth canvas of people on a beach staring out at an ocean where a sailboat bobbed in the distance, though he himself was standing in a mowed field; the handsome young man at an old - fashioned school desk, a manual typewriter in front of him, a stack of paper to the side.

The best of breed competition at the prestigious Westminster Kennel Club dog show presented an evening of firsts as a jaunty Sussex spaniel known formally as Champion Clussess Three D Grinchy Glee walked away with the top prize.

Each competitor, grouped in divisions demarcated by age and gender, lopes around the outer perimeter of the show ring at various speeds and gaits demanded by the announcer, occasionally reversing directions, all to jaunty instrumental music selected to create the illusion that the horses are moving with high - kicking dance steps.

The Gunstringer himself is propelled toward the horizon at a constant jaunty skip by the game, or perhaps the seriousness of his mission.

The soundtrack can be a little hit and miss — It's composed of jaunty, electronic tunes so your mileage may vary depending on what kind of music you dig; even with my general dislike of electronic music there were a few tunes that squirmed their way into my brain like a symbiotic parasite and remained there for the following few days, so chances are there will be a track or two that will appeal — Or at least grow on — most players.

When his remarkable exhibition «Home and Garden» appeared at the New Museum in mid-2015, however, the darkest ramifications of the era had not yet arisen, and his show retained a jaunty, exploratory cast that was essentially neutral about the value of its portents.

Music by Rufus Wainwright from a digital video work by Douglas Gordon floods the small oblong space, while a jaunty Jim Lambie sculpture of burnished metal hanging at the far end throws back reflections of the audience.

A neon pink light illuminates and overtakes the room, the pink color at once jaunty and cloying.

Fortunately for David Hockney, he is an artist whose work is characterised by its brightness, its sense of jaunty exploration, so the huge look - back at his 60 years in art that has opened at Tate Britain never grows bleak on us.

There's a lot to read and look at before we even get to Büttner's large woodcuts — a bare black silhouette of a hill, jaunty potatoes floating in a field of colour, a number of simplified images of a beggar, a body humped over, arms extended in supplication.

The planets in our solar system all orbit in a flat plane relative to the sun, but the plane itself rotates at a six - degree tilt with respect to the sun, making the sun appear to have a jaunty angle — up to now nobody has known why.