Sentences with word «doorstop»

Although I have very much enjoyed Fiona Banner's textual reworkings of film - especially her tome like doorstop of a book which describes, scene by scene, six Hollywood Vietnam war movies - her more recent work, which includes more sculptural, physical ele ments, seems to me transitional.

Following this advice, my daughter and I bought a cute little blue doorstop in the shape of a quotation mark, which seemed perfect — and kind of adorable — because she wanted to be an English major.

as the author of the 400 page tome that I only manage to slog through to page 126 before I dump it (and I've done that with doorstop novels many times, although typically way before page 126!).

Now, other reviewers have weighed in — and most are enthusiastic about the idiosyncratic 1,100 page doorstop with more than 200 essays by contemporary writers and academics, including novelist Walter Mosley writing on what it means to be «hardboiled,» novelist Mary Gaitskill on why Norman Mailer moves her, and humorist Sarah Vowell on «American Gothic» and kitsch.

The buttresses of ice frozen around Antarctica's edges, hundreds of meters thick in many cases, are also in the sea, but they can act like doorstops and — once moved out of the way — can allow huge volumes of ice on the continent (in theory) to move toward the sea more easily.

If you normally write 200k doorstop books, that might seem an impossible task.

Over the years as print directories became doorstops Yellow Pages moved into the digital space.

Android Wear watches become veritable doorstops without their companion handsets.

Remember at the SAGs when Frances won for Best Actress and got up on stage all like, hey, younger actresses need doorstops too Full Story

After several tries with the little blue doorstop underneath the heavy metal door, my daughter and her roommate came up with a much better system that used a hanger and a belt and a large hook on the opposite wall.

When you face your first snafu or setback — a broken doorstop let's say — take a breath, find a buddy, and work together to come up with a solution; a solution likely to be even better and more effective than the original.

I would also love to see doorstops, envelopes & pincushions added & I agree with Pouch's suggestion of maybe changing drawer scenters to something like lavender sachets.

Made of weighty steel, our Geo Doorstop doubles as a sculpture on desks, bookshelves or side tables.

The poor authors, with no knowledge of the business end of publishing, have been snookered out of hundreds or even thousands of dollars and now have cases of unmarketable books serving as very expensive doorstops.

Here are 15 doorstop novels we love, in a variety of genres.

Certainly, it's our investment in her which holds the whole film together, since the script's attempt to compact Hardy's doorstop tome comes to serious grief in the later stages, and Vinterberg's directorial approach is surprisingly bland, perhaps stymied by budgetary restrictions granting only so much period recreation.

I think what's happening is big doorstop «blockbuster» bestsellers are on their way out, but literary fiction will always have a steady market.

My Granny made doorstops like this also.

One of the only confirmed photos of the author of such celebrated postmodern doorstops as Gravity's Rainbow and Mason & Dixon is from his two - year stint in the US Navy, which came in the middle of his four years at Cornell University in the late 1950s.

The market has evolved from the days of doorstop deliveries of meat, dairy...

The four best biographies of 2009 each approach doorstop size» which suggests that, for these authors, there's a lot of fertility in the facts.

This year marks the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, and Bible publishers are ostentatiously commemorating the landmark by producing an abundance of gorgeous doorstops.

Do not give up and stick it in the oven yet — you will end up with a flat, dense doorstop that is covered in cracks.

$ 9.50 A Naughty Duck doorstop is forged of iron, has alter ego called Nice Duck.

That cute little doorstop totally didn't work!

Window ledges grew thick with fossil clumps of ancient grasses; my office door sprouted several Carboniferous doorstops.

As this reporter left his office, Bornstein pointed out what appeared to be a small, naked doll sitting on the ground — «here's a naked doorstop.»

He points to an original Escher print over my head, between the shelves of his wife's collection of antique metal doorstops.

«Molecular doorstop could be key to new tuberculosis drugs.»

Be sure to follow along on my Instagram stories to see way too many photos of charming doorstops and colorful buildings.

Something like Stephen King «s own thousand - page viral outbreak, end of the world, showdown - between - good - and - evil doorstop The Stand.

Cribbed by screenwriter David Nicholls from his own mega-selling novel — the kind of fast - digesting doorstop that's been a ubiquitous presence on London public transport for the past two years — the line is one of those reductively heart - on - sleeve sentiments that Richard Curtis sharpened to a blunt point in his 1990s heyday; when Hathaway drops it, you can hear the film straining for its own place in the pop culture quote bank, somewhere between «Is it still raining?

Doorstop Dash is the second level in Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble.

IAP WINDOW CONVERSION KIT — Includes two pieces of tempered automotive safety glass, two upper window channels, four anti-rattle weather - strips, and installation instructions; Get Cal - look windows and retain function; One - piece window glass fits into stock window area; Eliminates factory vent window and division bar; Choose from clear or gray - tinted glass; Original doorstops must be removed for easy installation.

Now, there's less of a «doorstop effect» with ebooks than print books.

It is as different from the original Fire as the first, clunky Kindle was from original, clunky, doorstop Kindle.

Your stereotypical self - published author was a little old lady with a briefcase full of messy manuscript pages, paying thousands of dollars to produce a poorly proofread doorstop that no one read.

I know I've said it before, but it is very appropriate... I think Planned Obsolescence has reached a New Low, when EVerything Tech is reduced to a Digital Doorstop the moment you get it home!

«Eliminating the need for users to have two different devices»... seems to me, he is holding two devices... one of which is a costly doorstop without the other

It reprints the Hobgoblin saga, the best two - issue story of all time (Juggernaut), the classic «Kid Who Collects Spider - Man,» Amazing Spider - Man Annual # 15 (1st appearance of Monica Rambeau / Captain Marvel), and lots more, in one handy doorstop.

While Bertie looks about as menacing as a furry doorstop, all of his actions connect him to his distant wild wolf ancestors.

One year out is historically when the good games start to come, and that's good because every gamer wants to justify their $ 300 - $ 500 doorstop purchase.