Sentences with phrase «fashioned oilmen»
On fourteen dry, flat square miles of California's Central Valley, more than 8,000 horsehead pumps — as old - fashioned oilmen call them — slowly rise and fall as they suck oil from underground.
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Phantom Thread's high - end fashion designer Reynolds Woodcock, who custom - makes dresses for royalty and hoi polloi in London circa 1950s, is as much a model of obsessive - compulsive mania as Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood (2007); this master - dressmaker works in softer and more pliant materials than the wildcat oilman, but is similarly uncompromising about his process and results.