Sentences with phrase «chockablock with»

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

And while goji berries and acai and all of their exotic cousins may indeed be chockablock with antioxidants, there are plenty of equally worthy super-duper foods that don't require exorbitant travel efforts to end up on your plate.

It's well worth a look, if only to provide a chuckle in a realm that is chockablock with unfunny rhetoric ranging from «woe is me» to «shame on you.»

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

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

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).

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.»

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

Talkingpointsmemo.com, a liberal - leaning blog, is chockablock with stories about robocalls sponsored by the National Republican Campaign Committee.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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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.

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