Sentences with phrase «by hefting»

Back when humans exchanged gold coins, you could keep track of your net worth by hefting your purse.

It was common during my grad - school years to see professors judging those who had risen to senior levels in administration not by their management skills or strategic acumen but by the heft of their CVs.

... But the cuckoo is stitched together by the heft of Fonda and Tomlin's performances and the intimacy of the writing when the show manages to take a step back and give the characters a beat for self - analysis.

Chisum Harriet, Nichole Sanders» 8 - year old nephew, a wisp of a boy nearly overcome by the heft of his father's rodeo belt buckle, picks up the conversation.

I printed them in part for logistical reasons (the class didn't need computers for anything else), and in part because I wanted them to be impressed by the heft of the discussion.

The R32 feels sound and very solid, as suggested by its heft.

Not exact matches

Because it's only.027 thick, this cover isn't going to add any additional bulk or heft to your devices, and shouldn't get caught in your pocket or by the front of a sleeve or case.

Chief executive from 1993 to 2002, and chairman from 2002 till early last year, Piëch, now 78, infused VW with an ambition and drive that made the most of its political heft, presiding over a culture that was, if not above the law, then not above stretching it, by many accounts.

Newer, nimbler social networks such as Instagram and WhatsApp, meanwhile, tend to get swallowed up by Facebook before they have a chance to rival its heft.

Due to its lack of physical heft, the first Canadian penny proved so unpopular that by 1859 the coin was being sold at a 20 % discount to encourage consumers to circulate them, and was not minted again until 1876.

With an overall weight of 122 g (4.3 oz), the Futur provides the comfortable heft, balance and solid feel sought after by many traditional DE shavers.

I've learned that reconciliation sort of beauty isn't soft — it has heft and space, marked by sorrow and suffering.

You're concern is like the kid that thinks he's collapsed all logic and rationality by asking «well, could an omnipotent god make a rock he couldn't heft?»

O Book, O Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran, Published by Everyman's Library on a dark day, I lift you from the Earth to which I recently flung you When my wrath grew too mighty for me, I lift you from the Earth, Noticing once more your annoying heft, And thanking God» though such thanks are sinful» That Kahlil Gibran died in New York in 1931 At the age of forty - eight, So that he could write no more words, So that this Book would not be yet larger than it is.

Creamy Sausage Queso Dip: For a little more heft in your queso, protein it up by adding sausage.

The texture is as meaty and thick like the other three, and that's fine by me as I like a salsa with some heft to it.

In men's rowing — given early practices, the inevitability of morning wood and the necessity of spandex — discussion of penises and testicles, sorted by size, heft, and presence or absence of foreskins is commonplace, often with a good bit of «busting each others nuts.»

I'll let you know what we decide next weekend once we heft them all side by side.

Lack of the structural heft provided by larger (more expensive) cribs (At this price, not really a CON but more of a limitation);

By Martinne Geller PARIS (Reuters)- Nestle is trimming its huge range of businesses and pushing deeper into niche medical products to improve returns, but the food and beverage giant still likes its heft.

Its authors probably do not regret its length: by its very heft, the volume seeks to rebut claims that the consequences of independence have not been carefully thought through.

Loeb has also contributed a heft chunk of change over the years to Gov. Andrew Cuomo — more than $ 170,000 when money given by the hedge fund manager's wife is also tallied.

Researchers from the Dark Energy Survey used the Victor Blanco telescope in Chile to survey 26 million galaxies in a section of the southern sky for subtle distortions caused by the gravitational heft of both dark and normal matter.

These enhancements allow expectant mothers to lean back by as much as 28 degrees more than normal to offset the added heft of a baby bump — up to 30 pounds on average, or the weight of two bowling balls — without destroying their backs, the investigators report in Nature.

The overall result is a more rustic look and feel, which is accentuated by a more substantial heft in the hand.

Shimmering across skirts and thin - strapped slipdresses, the beads added a little richness and heft (literally — by the thousands, those things weigh down a frock like none other) to the lineup.

The central conceit of the project, which gives it some intellectual heft and occasionally also makes it very funny, is the apparent dissonance between the characters and their worlds on the one hand and the extracts about art either voiced as dialogue or heard in voiceover, also by Blanchett (about five sources are used per school or type of art).

Writer - director Mark Pellington meditates on these questions at length in the somber indie «Nostalgia,» a cinematic mosaic with the thematic heft to get, say, Bruce Dern to drop by for a scene.

Incisive, cutting and verbally dexterous, if a little overwhelming in a single sitting, Barnett's best new songs — «Pedestrian at Best,» «Depreston» and «Debbie Downer» among them — inject memorable heft into timeless rock terrain formerly explored by Polly Jean Harvey, young and angry Elvis Costello, Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain.

But when it emerged that «Monster House» creator Gil Kenan was set to take charge, The prospects of «Poltergeist» improved immeasurably: his films have precisely the right blend of spooky thrills, oddball invention and emotional heft to suit this story of a young girl abducted by vengeful ghosts.

Despite appearances by tennis greats - chief among them John McEnroe and Chris Evert playing themselves - lending heft to the film, some of the tennis scenes are clearly digitally enhanced and Bettany, while a very fit bloke (in all senses, as we see a lot of him in the locker room) is not a decent enough player to pull it off.

Surprises are few and far between in this attractively filmed yet disappointingly conventional thriller that's short on psychological heft — given the set - up and the characters» relationships, the script by Ronald Bass is entirely too timid for its own good.

Kenan's films have precisely the right blend of spooky thrills, oddball invention and emotional heft to suit this story of a young girl abducted by vengeful ghosts.

As they take to the road pursued by all manner of miscreants, Logan, the professor and the girl become an unlikely multigenerational group, and the conversations Logan and Xavier have about family, disappointment and responsibility have surprising emotional heft behind them.

Buoyed by clever takes on undead lore and charmingly dorky puns, the film earns its emotional heft through inspired characterizations and centuries of starch - collared melancholy.

Judging by the Boston area premiere, where the red carpet rolled out for the stars, industry hobnobs and Patriots royalty, the film holds more heft for local viewers, in a local context.

The film is also supported by the tremendous performances, not just from Nanjiani and Kazan, but from Romano and Hunter, who bring a surprising dramatic heft to the picture.

But the story is given dimension and heft by the elliptical way in which it unfolds.

1/2 * / **** Image A Sound A - Extras B starring Ben Affleck, Uma Thurman, Aaron Eckhart, Michael C. Hall screenplay by Dean Georgaris, based on the short story by Philip K. Dick directed by John Woo by Walter Chaw At the end of John Woo's latest Hollywood misstep, Ben Affleck, as brilliant «reverse engineer» Michael Jennings, hefts two bags of manure on his back and stumbles around with them for a while, effectively defusing anything cogent I could say about Paycheck.

Its sequel, directed by John Woo, featured all of the filmmaker's trademark visual style (balletic slo - mo gunfights, pigeons flapping their wings also in slo - mo before all hell broke loose) without any of the poignancy or dramatic heft of his best Hong Kong - set films.

«The Desert Bride,» a Chilean - Argentinian film written and directed by Cecilia Atan and Varelia Pivato, belongs to the same de facto genre as Lelio's film, but it's a slighter effort both in terms of length (78 minutes) and dramatic heft and complexity.

The imitation comes right down to the score, which at one point lifts cues from The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford to give it the historical heft it so sorely desires.

Overall, Running With Scissors is a mess, but one that's made watchable by its Oscar - worthy performances and the emotional heft of its mother - son storyline.

Firing both our imaginations and our own core emotions (particularly Joy, with some Sadness thrown in for heft), the brainy script for this Pixar beauty is matched by its animated splendor, a go - for - broke design featuring remarkable imagery, and its humanist reach, which extends to both family and (imaginary) friend alike.

A robust screenplay by David Scarpa, direction by Ridley Scott as bracing as a strong belt of brandy, and an excellent cast giving it all they've got contribute dramatic heft to a riveting story of American avarice and greed behind the factual 1973 kidnapping of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty's grandson, J. Paul Getty III (aka «Paul»), snatched from the streets of Rome on a sunny July day and held for a $ 17 million ransom which the old man refused to pay.

A household name, the character of Bond has enough cultural heft and influence that he warrants interpretations from independent sources besides, and given that Sean Connery was lured out of a twelve - year retirement from the character — hence the title, Never Say Never Again — as well as the room for improvement left by the original Thunderball, the film had the potential to be more than just a cynical cash - in.

The end result is a profound work of genuine emotional heft — two hours of hope surrounded by the worst conceit imaginable.

Montages are used to show the passing of time and as such pass by too quickly to attach any sort of emotional heft to them.

New faces Liam Hemsworth and Yu Nan help elevate the film's dramatic heft, but the chief appeal of this sequel is the inspired carnage unleashed by this motley crew of box office has - beens.

There's also a surprisingly ambitious and vivid recreation of 1950s Coney Island and coupled with Storaro's aesthetic, it's frustrating that the practical craftsmanship of others isn't supported by a script that brings the requisite heft to the table.