Sentences with word «chockablock»

Industrial tin walls packed chockablock with photographs and artifacts transported viewers back to the Reuben Gallery in the East Village, where Allan Kaprow staged his seminal 18 Happenings in 6 Parts in 1959.

Some say they dread a salon - style hanging, with works packed chockablock on the walls.

The head - swiveling dinner, sponsored by Dior, was also chockablock with dealers and museum chiefs, not just the Tate's, along with a Dior - clad segment of the New York social register.

They're simply too chockablock with well - paying Medicare recipients and the commercially insured to accept the lower rates offered by Medicaid.

A meeting room lays chockablock with red leather couches, cubist white ottomans and chrome bar stools, the growing crowd picking away at tables filled with yogurt parfaits, salads and tiny bags of apple slices.

I had never considered making meatballs chockablock with spice, served in a tagine that is more sauce than soup.

And most recently it has been about this spicy sardine sandwich chockablock with some of my favourite treats

But such genetic intrusions stick around a very long time, so humans are chockablock full of these embedded, or endogenous, retroviruses.

Just as suddenly, what began as a nifty premise morphs into a cluttered scenario chockablock with the usual riff - raff.

Taking over for «Olympus «helmer Antoine Fuqua, director Babak Najafi competently stages his shootouts and hand - to - hand combat, the former chockablock with instances of Banning putting bullets in his opponents» foreheads, and the latter often concluding with Banning's knife being repeatedly being plunged into nameless foes» necks and torsos.

It's a monologue chockablock with useful information delivered in a vibrant, enthusiastic fashion completely at odds with the limp uselessness of the picture it adorns.

Even if you don't like the 40 - year - old's humour, and many don't, you can at least appreciate its gleefully juvenile craft — scenes chockablock with sight gags, rapid - fire cutaways to hilariously absurd punchlines, painfully awkward pauses that last so long you eventually laugh, all of it wrapped in an encyclopedic knowledge of pop culture that has made him a bro deity among the coveted 18 - to 34 - year - old male demographic.

And without major changes in how the state and federal government fund these needs, public schools in the state and nationwide are likely to become increasingly more stratified, with older, failing facilities chockablock in low - income and fast - growing school districts.

Accountability is the buzz - word of the moment for voucher - backing progressives like Moore, many who hail from districts chockablock with struggling public schools.

Well - protected all around The Denali comes chockablock with safety goodies, from front and side airbags (the latter, for all seats), to GM's vaunted StabiliTrak electronic stability - control system.

It has its fair share of big resorts, but the streets aren't quite as chockablock with tourist traps.

It's a huge world chockablock with ghouls, vampires, and wraiths — and the people can be pretty nasty, too.

He was speaking of practices, mainly by dudes, that treated painting with tongue - in - cheek medium - specificity: specifically, Frank Stella's canvases — the shapes of which were reflected by their interior concentric lines — and Ad Reinhardt's tricky, chockablock monochromes.

Emojis, segments of Charlie Hebdo cartoons and chockablock mobile screens clash in British artist Celina Teague's grotesquely colourful, but invariably appealing paintings.

Unlike other parts of the country where foreclosures were widespread, the Washington area isn't chockablock with bank - owned properties.

She then staggered to the lounge room and clambered onto the sofa between two chockablock Santa sacks and sat, feverishly unaware, between them.

They are also chockablock with loans from 35 museums here and abroad, plus works from numerous artists» foundations and estates, delineating a network of institutional connections.

Chockablock with antiques, the early 1900s mansion has been lovingly restored, carefully appointed, and provides indulgent amenities (300 - count bed linens, imported soaps and shampoos, evening wine and cheese soirees, and a gourmet chef to prepare the meals).

Real Sweet is the first naturally sweet baking book that's more «hip» than «hippie» — chockablock with eighty - plus recipes ranging from family - friendly favorites to dinner - party showstoppers.

Now we are chockablock with forwards: Our Forwards include other than Alexis: Giroud, Welbeck, Campbell, Iwobi, Lucas, Sanogo, Oxlade, Akpom.

So, this year, I'm going to try not to bury my child in candy none of us want, or in so many colored eggs we'll be eating egg salad splotched with PAAS dye long after it's chockablock with Salmonella.

The Whitney Biennial, chockablock with bloodless M.F.A. product, is a little too smart for its own good.

But, Levy says, in recent years there has been an increasing appreciation for salts and how they might create intragranular films of water: Instead of the deep briny lakes or aquifers one might find on Earth, scientists are now looking to «small pockets of briny soils that resist freezing and are chockablock with nutrients.»

No matter that a story is set in 1895 in Victorian London, it must be chockablock with explosions, gunfire, special effects and fights that bear no comparison to the «fisticuffs» of the period.

There are a few laughs, but a spoof movie needs to be chockablock with laughs if it is ever going to work at all.

And the estate itself — nicknamed Crimson Peak, for the way the clay in the ground stains the winter snow a bloody red — is chockablock with restless spirits.

Until that little matter is resolved, deep space is chockablock with mega-explosions, and the Enterprise crew find themselves marooned without a spaceship on a barren and unfriendly planet.

Nancy barely makes an appearance in the film, but, starting with Tonya, the movie is chockablock with narrators, most of them unreliable, looking back in confessional talking - head interviews to the events leading up to the scandal and its aftermath in full, self - justifying cry.

It is both history and appreciation, chockablock with inside stories and little - known facts.

They want to sell copies, please their advertisers, gratify their donors, and ensure that next year's edition is eagerly awaited (and chockablock with ads).

What if our education system is chockablock with people who also want to do right by kids, who also want to close opportunity gaps and rekindle upward mobility, but are working within badly designed systems or with far - from - perfect information?

As expected from a family - hauler, the Odyssey is chockablock

Chockablock with insightful information, this webinar appeals to both librarians and indie and authors.

Chockablock with easy - to - understand, interactive directives, Jacks breaks down her smart tax strategies into six steps that will save you thousands through family income splitting and asset accumulation.

And many are chockablock with complicated derivatives.

Surrounded by forests, boasting three rivers and situated a stone's throw away from the Pacific, Astoria is fishing village - meets - Victoriana, chockablock with forts, museums and great local brews.

Stay: It's chockablock with adorable Victorian B&B s, but Cape May also has a beautifully renovated grande dame hotel.

Antiques lovers can stroll Ocean Avenue, chockablock with treasure - filled boutiques such as Rich Man Poor Man (146 N. Ocean Ave.; 805-995-3631) and Remember When (152 N. Ocean Ave.; 805-995-1232), then grab a bourbon shortbread cookie at Brown Butter Cookie Company (250 N. Ocean Ave.; 805-995-2076; cookies for two $ 2.40).

While Cayucos's Ocean Avenue is chockablock with antique boutiques, other sleepy American beach towns have boardwalks that take a kid - friendly approach.

Aside from its aphrodisiacal qualities, much of Santa Barbara's appeal is that it's chockablock with cultural sites, great restaurants, and tasting rooms for wineries, all within easy walking distance of one another.

This year, the indie fair known for adventurous experiments in sculpture and installation is chockablock with paintings of every size, shape, and support.