Sentences with phrase «by grubby»

ah... the best trees are always the ones laden with the fragile ornaments that grandma used to hang... and the holding - on - by - a-thread paper gifts made by grubby little hands way back in the day... and the handcrafted gems given with love by friends who have moved on...

Writing in the Guardian recently, the social critic George Monbiot commented, «So I don't blame people for giving up on politics... When a state - corporate nexus of power has bypassed democracy and made a mockery of the voting process, when an unreformed political system ensures that parties can be bought and sold, when politicians [of the main parties] stand and watch as public services are divvied up by a grubby cabal of privateers, what is left of this system that inspires us to participate?»

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He's just another biased prejudiced religious fanatic; they're a dime a dozen, churned out by churches that seek to control every move you make and want as much of your money as they can get their grubby filthy hands on.

These Free From Pancakes for Babies and Toddlers hold together well and won't break apart or crumble when handled by (grubby) tiny little hands.

And you can't because it's a logical contradiction - you don't even have to do any grubby work with the data and the documents to prove it, it's just proven by the meaning of the words themselves.

We come away with dirty hands and grubby faces but a wonderful sense of that pure joy one gets just by being outside.

Bear with me... My toddler is fascinated by anything arts and crafty, and was immediately drawn to this (despite my fear of grubby paw prints on my beautiful new shiny tablet).

By this point the scandal was more than touching the prime minister, it was rubbing its grubby hands all over his pants and not bothering to say thank you.

MPs have defeated William Hague's «grubby» attack on John Bercow by blocking a move to introduce secret ballots on Speaker elections.

In the urgent question brought by Sir Gerald Kaufman, who will be the father of the House in the next parliament if he is re-elected, Hague was told he was being «grubby» and «nauseous».

And it's really disappointing because she went through all that terrible stuff at the beginning where we all hated her, then she redeemed herself by working like a normal human being to save herself and her children and now this, and it's shoddy and grubby and really upsetting.»

It is these little Westminster - insider quirks that draw audience members into the grubby little world decried by one disillusioned MP: «it's archaic, it's old - fashioned, it's bollocks.»

Our dreams for ourselves are pretty much over, having been ended by the recent and vivid reiteration of the news that we really are just grubby and excitable apes, incapable by our nature of even agreeing on a set of facts, let alone working together to try and change them.

Opening on a brutally tense standoff between hero Ernest Holm (Michael Shannon) and two grubby water thieves, this expertly - realized world could conceivably be post-apocalyptic, sparsely occupied by a patchwork of desperate characters milling through stretches of sand - blasted country on a hunt for their next water source.

It seemed as if we'd never get to see any other kind of foreign film hereabouts — an effect reinforced by Ettore Scola's A Special Day, in which a director who had heretofore drawn a lot of his strength and interest from the unpredictable intersections of gritty - grubby realismo and flamboyant stylization (The Pizza Triangle, We All Loved Each Other So Much) inclined dangerously toward high gloss.

A grubby world of politics was on show and it was a fascinating study of the methods of persuasion and tactics used by Lincoln and his opponents to achieve their desired goals.

By the end, Ebbing feels like a town we know our way around, from the grubby confines of the police station to that lonely stretch of farm road with its three accusing billboards.

He uses still shots of street life as the visual connective tissue between capturing meetings held by various minority groups: Columbians celebrating a World Cup victory and then taking their party to the pavement; a mature LGBT community circle discussing the venue for future meetings; a Halal butcher blessing chickens prior to slicing their throats and having their still - twiching bodies dragged through various grubby processing machines; a group of Hispanic activists gathering stories of small business being forced out of their premises due to unfair rent hikes; and even a group of Christian urban beautifiers who are seen descending into intense prayer when one of their number explains that her father is dying.

He works shifts at a car plant but is so broke he's had to move in with his flaky mum in her trailer home in the grubby suburbs (joined to Detroit by the eight - mile - long road of the title), along with the little sister he adores and...

This grubby scheme is no less than a secret programme, smuggled in by the back door with the explicit aim of helping to deport innocent children and their families.

Pocket - lint was lucky enough to get its mucky paws on the 10 - inch, Android Ice Cream Sandwich, tab (and we weren't the only ones as you can see by the amount of grubby fingerprints it sadly displayed) at the press conference where it was officially teased for the first time and we have to say it's an impressive beast.

Parents who spend time in waiting rooms with their kids - at the dentist, doctor, hospital or even a car dealership - inherently recognize that the tattered books provided to keep the kids busy have been handled by hundreds or thousands of grubby hands.

My reaction to reading this news (in the Guardian newspaper) is that book readers in general remain prolific but nowadays content themselves with grubby bestsellers or popular potboilers marketed by the global giants.

So, by all means bathe your puppy if he is really grubby or has rolled in something smelly, and bathe him often enough for it not to be an alien experience.

To the grubby hiker, windswept and unshowered, to be served by the family matriarch on what was clearly the best china, and to be seated next to the stove and warmed with blankets and kindness, was like wandering into another world.

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As confirmed by BioWare General Manager, Aaryn Flynn, Mass Effect: Andromeda will reach our grubby little mitts on March 21st for North America, and the 23rd for Europe, because fuck us right?

Headed up by former Uncharted designer Amy Hennig, it was to be a solo action game that took in the grubbier parts of the Star Wars universe.

As part of the wider MI!MS project, Holden teamed up with Roger Illingworth, childhood friend and fellow band - member from The Grubby Mitts, to revisit and rework a series of songs that they initially composed as teenagers, which were performed in Kingston upon Thames by pupils from Tiffin School Chamber Orchestra and Tiffin Children's Chorus, the latter comprised of children from primary schools across South West London, and accompanied by readings from actor Sam Marsh.

All this has been assembled out of Barlow's trademark combination of grubby industrial tarpaulins and haphazardly banged - together four - by - twos.

The other talking point stands were Seventeen's sit - on - a-snake virtual reality show by Jon Rafman, and Hauser & Wirth's presentation of their artists» work as that of a fictional artist in a mock - up studio (were they trying to transcend the grubby fiscal reality of the fair?).

The two will also be performing with Bedford - based band The Grubby Mitts in an evening of readings, films, comedy and stage performance hosted by the Whitechapel Gallery on Sept 3 (2016).

Over in Holborn, in the grubby gloom of a disused tram subway, there is an ambitious project produced by arts organisation Measure.

It's just that science and scientists, climate scientists in particular, still haven't caught tup with the fact that a lot of science is now being seen by the public as equally grubby in it's attempts to enhance it's own status as the lawyers and legal fraternity or the big pharma of the medical world or the shenanigans of the financial and accountancy world and all the other grubbiness inherent in any profession that seeks to elevate itself and it's practitioners to a high public, power wielding status by fair means or foul

I can not be the only one getting pretty sick of hearing about compensation culture, increasing motor insurance premiums caused by greedy Solicitors in «grubby offices», and the fact that society as we know it is sagging to its collective knees under the weight of personal injury claims.

Many of those features haven't really been advertised much — if at all — by Square Enix, that evidently preferred to have an element of surprise for when the first Japanese gamers got their grubby hands on the massively anticipated title.

After a winter of bad weather and the only «cleaning» coming from the rain, garden paths can end up looking a bit grubby and moss - covered by March.