Sentences with phrase «body like bricks»

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(Perimenopause hit me like a ton of hot sweaty bricks when that same child was in eighth grade, and he was shockingly sympathetic to my inability to be in my body comfortably or control my emotions.

The work and pensions secretary said the new body would «come down like a ton of bricks» on absent parents who refused to pay maintenance for their children.

It's a struggle for the body, not the soul, of the Democratic Party in a must - win Senate race, and Beltway Democrats are coming down on front - runner Joe Sestak like a ton of bricks.

Protein — and its constituent amino acids — is like a muscle house brick; if you don't take in enough to repair your muscles, not only will you not develop «tone», your body will tuck into existing muscle for protein.

The first practice was a real struggle, but the way the teacher spoke to mind, body and spirit hit me like a ton of bricks and spoke right to my heart.

Fantastic Four asks what it would be like to have your body suddenly be composed not of blood, bones, and muscles but some manner of brick - like substance that gives you the appearance of a construction - site Golem, a brick wall with fists, a social security number, and a soul.

Enzo claimed the GTO was just a body modification of the brick - like 250 SWB, and was thereby following the rules.

Scotties have no fear of water, but with their short legs and heavy bodies, they swim like bricks.

Alexis Granwell's biomorphic body - scale papier - mache sculptures on geometric wood, Masonite, and brick plinths are centrally positioned in the gallery, inhabiting it like curvier, less severe versions of Louise Bourgeois's groupings of Personages.

Several of the works question our ideas about the materiality and permanence of the built environment, with bricks made of wax, wall plugs crafted from onyx, reassembled ruined structures, and bodies painted to look like stone.