Sentences with phrase «came and went like»

This parting glance at Mait's painting in the window, with its delicately shimmering washes of blue, brought back for me one of those rhapsodic lines from The Great Gatsby in which the jazz of Fitzgerald's finest prose is both music you can dance to and a reminder, with its blue notes, that the illusion eventually ends: «In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.»

Their moment came and went like many other artists.

Five years ago, our big day came and went like a storm... literally.

But October 22 came and went like any other day, and as soon as the sun set the devastation among Miller's followers took hold.

Like we said above, programs can come and go like the wind.

So, I can only speak for myself... the 21st will come and go like any other day, and I won't be letting out a...

And you say, «I can't command my emotions; they come and go like clouds.

It comes and goes like the tide, breaking over us, threatening to sweep us away into the murky waters, barely releasing its grip long enough for us to grasp at the sandy shore of faith.

Thoughts and emotions come and go like clouds in the sky, we can simply observe them as such, rather than acting on them.

So players will come and go like moths on a screen.

We have receptionists that watch coming and going like a hawk.

Veteran pitchers come and go like that, bringing a wisp of «Oh, yeah, I remember this guy» into a couple of games and vanishing just as quickly.

But his game has come and gone like this and it could be a short week for the defending champ.

Fashion styles and trends come and go like the seasons.

After exploring all of my medical options, I just realized the support of my family + my friends really cured me, while it's a constant battle, every single day gets better and it comes and gos like waves of the ocean

i really love to get good wear out of these «trends» that seem to come and go like the wind!

I come and go like the tides.

He acts like a god in a picture interested in explaining the ways of this god to the men who worship him, coming and going like an impure thought, given to emerging from the dark like a Faulknerian catfish and portrayed as though he understands that being an icon means serving as an avatar for other men's unexplored desires.

Occasionally, Black stumbles into a witty line or funny character beat, but those come and go like a fleeting breeze on a humid, sticky day.

If you don't want to see yourself coming and going like oh so many Porsche / Maserati / you name it owners, this is a super car for you.

This is useful for diagnosing MIL issues that can come and go like vacuum leaks, bad connections and misfires.

Not immediately forgotten (my mind hasn't slipped that far yet) but these digital stories seem to come and go like a continuous river flowing through my mind.

The girls come and go like Bond girls for now, with both of the first two volumes following separate, contained stories.

In an industry where sequels come and go like clockwork, it's rare to see a sequel take its time, and what's more, put work into the game's...

So I was concerned that Skyrim would come and go like every other game, because perhaps the appeal just wouldn't be there anymore after spending hundreds of hours in Oblivion.

Axel Schweiger wrote, that we had just a couple of warm springs, which caused the deviation from the GCM predictions, and this is one interesting point: Is this «couple o» warm springs» really something coming and going like any cyclone, or is it a sign of a changing weather regime with stronger mixing and stronger heat transport?

Am sure glaciers don't come and go like that.

You could call them legal tech startups, but they don't really resemble the venture - backed Silicon Valley long - shots who come and go like clockwork.

Steve Martin a Multitalented Artist While some fads come and go like the Leapster 2 this holiday season, things like the talent of Steve Martin are eternal.

The inconvenient truth is there's no such thing as a perfect partner, all couples fight, and feelings of love come and go like the weather.

How does one create a culture that values PROFESSIONALISM above all else, i.e.; short - term commission chasing newbie desperadoes who come and go like quicky prostitutes at a hooker convention, not to mention high - flying Terry Paranych - types who don't get it until they do get it from within the ranks of the regulators?

I, and others herein, are not talking about your good performances; we are talking about the masses of amateurs who infect the system and come and go like bad colds on a regular basis.

However, my observations are intended to cast a light upon the cadre of a well organized systemic group of ORE elites who live off of the avails of the disorganized peons (as some of the ruling class might think of their serfs, who come and go like horny fireflies in the night)... always after having deposited hard cash into the elitists» bank accounts... never to be seen again.

Bank employees come and go like a revolving door.

Not exact matches

Ultimately «success» comes and goes, like everything else in life.

I'm not coming out with a solution or a premonition of the future, what it's going to look like, except that we're going to have a ton of data and we have to solve this problem.

Bill came up with the idea of a self - loading vehicle that could lift a bale over the front and drop it onto an inclined bed with a slick surface so, Larry says, «it would go down like a Slip»N Slide.»

«We're grateful when something like this comes along,» he said, «because it can be cured — and it is not in any way going to be a permanent debilitating condition.»

«It seemed like such a fluffy exercise, but I went through it anyway,» Holmes says, «and coming out of it realized there was a huge benefit.»

They would go to a store to buy a phone and they would come out with, like, all this stuff that they hated,» he told «The Brave Ones.»

By preparing yourself for what it's going to be like and making agreements from the get - go, you're more likely to come out better should the relationship take a turn for the worse.

«We had no idea that the people coming and going to meetings were the likes of the Rolling Stones, Janet Jackson, the boss of Boeing or a distraught bank manager (on more than one occasion).»

Ardmore is technically in the suburbs, but like if the suburbs went on a year abroad and came back with cooler taste in music and clothes and had a sudden penchant for exotic food and drink.

It's important to make sure workers feel like they can come to you, and that you're not only going to them when there's a problem.

A self - driving vehicle needs sensors to see where it's going and a highly accurate global positioning system to know its exact location — and that's where startups like Quanergy (a laser sensor maker) and Swift Navigation (a GPS chip maker) come in.

With usage limits low and woeful upload speeds, both individual Canadians and businesses are looking like they're going to once again get the short end of the stick when it comes to migrating to the cloud.

Schneider: We were still figuring out exactly what kinds of games we were going to make, so we were like, «Hey, you should come work with us at Warner Bros.,» and they'd be like, «What do you make?»

«It's like kids who think that you go to the ATM and money just comes out,» she said.

But when it came to the point where someone's like, «All right, it's time to leave your entire life, your family, everyone you know behind and go to another planet forever until you die,» people would probably say, «Uh, actually... no.»

Media moguls will come and go, but, in an era of programmatic advertising and Facebook - optimized content, it's doubtful there will be another one who thinks quite like Si Newhouse thought.