Sentences with phrase «childhood pastime of»

The beloved childhood pastime of lazy Sundays spent with a magnifying glass and an ant farm finally arrives on the DS in this challenging and addictive strategy simulation that trains the ant minions - as well as your brain - through the use of the Nintendo DS stylus.

The Wick, as regulars call it, was designed for storm watching, a favorite childhood pastime of the owner.

Not exact matches

Televiewing is a common early childhood pastime, and some of the children in the study exceeded the recommended number of hours spent in front of the screen.

It's one of my absolute favourite sports and was a truly beloved childhood pastime.

Watch for the way that outer space (visited more often here than in the previous films combined) dissolves into the glow stars that still cling to Clark's childhood ceiling; the way that baseball is resuscitated America's central pastime; or the way that Singer cuts every cornball moment with a little humour at the expense of our childish hunger for it (like Lois sliding down a plastic slide, or a little boy's asthmatic wheeze off - camera).

Deliberately getting lost had been a pastime of mine since early childhood.

Both are great friends of animals, so it has not been a problem for me to live for my favourite pastime «dogs» since my childhood.

Exclusive in - room services will range from bedtime aromatherapy massage for hands and feet to delivery of a coloring book that heralds a childhood pastime yet offers similar benefits to meditation.

Through the device of a playful childhood pastime — sewing her own hand with superficial stitches — Quiñones presents a metaphor about the collective longings of Cuban society, who dream of being able to travel or own their own house or car.

Various accounts of his childhood portray his family as a frugal bunch, with pastimes that border on sensational: in the summertime, for instance, they would vacation in a steel factory.

Miriam Cosic says: «For most [only] children, however, no matter how the rest of their lives turned out, childhood had a dreamlike quality, full of peacefulness, the contented pursuit of solitary pastimes such as reading or mucking around in the garden, and the undivided attention of parents.