Sentences with phrase «elaborate rube»

To avoid being bitten by this large ocean - roaming eating machine, I constructed elaborate Rube Goldberg-esque systems to turn off the light switch across the room from my top bunk.

But contemporary horror is overwrought with gimmicks and unstoppable comic - book killers whose longwinded master plans and elaborate Rube Goldberg torture mechanisms have become a cliché unto themselves.