Sentences with phrase «fingernails down»

While your cat is watching you, run your fingernails down the post a few times.

Aside from an excruciatingly mannered early scene in which Angela and Ricky's Aunt Martha (Desiree Gould) comes on like Parker Posey chewing tinfoil while scraping a knife against a glass bottle with one hand and dragging her fingernails down a chalkboard with the other, the rest of the film is pretty plain: Sleepaway Camp is shot like a 1970s TV sitcom, and as a look back at anno domini 1983, it has a documentary quality.

Then again I suppose that's what happens when you gnaw all 10 fingernails down to the brittle, white bone without even realizing that you're doing it.

The Belgian midfielder may well be facing retrospective punishment for raking his fingernails down Costa's face, while a couple of his teammates could face similar bans.

At that point our psyches were screeching like fingernails down a blackboard as the major world equity markets slid into bear market territory1.

Not exact matches

I could give them a slight pass on the others, but that was like 10,000 fingernails trailing lazily down a chalkboard.

Yet many who found Dr. Gruber's condescension akin to fingernails scraping down a blackboard were even more appalled by a paper Gruber wrote in 1997, which came under scrutiny during a recent congressional hearing at which the MIT professor was a witness.

Using a fingernail, rip a strip down the inside length of the banana, and then the rest should come off easily in almost one piece.

Meanwhile, Smith's eyes wandered down to her fingernails and all about the nearly empty dining room.

Having a toddler's scratchy fingernails grabbing down my shirt?

It feels so good - this setting down of more literal roots in this place we love, the work of breathing fresh air and living with dirt under our fingernails, the promise of goodness to come as these trees mature.

Hold your baby's finger pressing the finger pad down and away from the nail, then gently snip following the natural curve of the fingernail all the while taking care that you don't go too low and nip the quick.

Toenails should be trimmed straight across, not rounded down at the edges like fingernails are often trimmed.

Political resignations range from ministers hanging on by their fingernails - to the sudden departure as part of a plot to bring down a leader.

Squeezing a chemistry lab down to fingernail size could provide instant medical tests at home and on the battlefield

Whenever you say up or down, the alien moves its fingernail one vertebra, or half the distance between two vertebrae, or a quarter of the distance, or an eighth of the distance, or a sixteenth of the distance, and so on.

To stay connected with your partner during this kind of rough play, try to sync your breathing and maintain eye contact while you run your sharp fingernails up and down their body starting with a light touch and slowly adjusting to create a more intense sensation.

Streisand is her own once - in - a-lifetime trip, looking gawjuss with that divine voice and those killer fingernails, and the sight of the lady scarfing down four pounds of beef at a Texas steak joint is one a Streisand lover can now cross off her bucket list.

Pacino inhabits this guy Manglehorn right down to the blackened nubs of his fingernails that suggest he really has worked with metals and grease for 45 years.

Rebecca Ferguson - so fantastic in the most recent «Mission Impossible» - is utterly wasted as new wife Anna, a character who seemed to have been designed to wring sympathy from the audience, something I couldn't bestow given that she cheated and lied her way into her seemingly perfect life and don't even get me started on Haley Bennett's Megan, a woman whose tragic past was overshadowed entirely by her fingernails - down - the - blackboard performance as a one dimensional woman who had nothing but overt sexuality and a flat whining energy to offer.

The — and + and HOME buttons on the Pro Controller sit flush with the housing, so they can be somewhat hard to press unless you have a bit of a fingernail to bear down on them.

One might expect Robbe - Grillet, widely celebrated for the 1950s Nouveau Roman movement as well as his superbly manicured fingernails, to look down on the assignment.

I like to run my fingernail up and down the rotor, like the hands of a clock @ 12:00, to check for any scoring or grooves that are forming.

Brakes: look at the rotors and feel them by running up / down them with a fingernail - there shouldn't be heavy scoring or deep gouges.

And we all agree we love the 100HP's honest combination of utilitarian looks with chunky wheels; I even enjoy the fingernails - down - a-blackboard scratchiness of the cabin plastics and the comically small doors — they're all part of the Panda's appeal.

Furthermore, these little roadsters are bought with the heart not the head, often by people who just love the look of them and fancy the idea of parping around with the roof down but can't be bothered with getting their fingernails broken by a truculent classic.

On that Tuesday in January, when her life changed forever, Martine Rhodes woke with a headache, developed a sour stomach after washing down two aspirin with grapefruit juice, guaranteed herself an epic bad - hair day by mistakenly using Dustin's shampoo instead of her own, broke a fingernail, burnt her toast, discovered ants swarming through the cabinet under the kitchen sink, eradicated the pests by firing a spray can of insecticide as ferociously as Sigourney Weaver wielded a flamethrower in one of those old extraterrestrial - bug movies, cleaned up the resultant carnage with paper towels, hummed Bach's Requiem as she solemnly consigned the tiny bodies to the trash can, and took a telephone call from her mother, Sabrina, who still prayed for the collapse of Martie's marriage three years after the wedding.

Instead of having a little tab that you lift to yank off the back panel (or having to push down and slide it, which can often prove to be a bit frustrating), there is a very subtle divot on the left side of the BlackBerry Curve 9370's frame that you can stick your fingernail under and just pull up gently to remove it.

His hands rest tenderly on her shoulders, his epaulet - like fingernails, perhaps a reference to her nickname — «General Tubman» — rhyme visually with the buttons down the front of her dress.

Just 10 years ago, the glaciers visible as fingernail - like slivers in this image along the crest of the Hohe Tauern range, near Salzburg, were draped much farther down the mountain sides.

Fingernails were being bitten down to bloody stumps, until finally... zero hour!

At the top towards the left edge is a 3.5 mm socket for head phones, on the left side is a fingernail opening to reveal the micro USB socket for charging, further down two contacts for a dock...

I have been known to say that the very word «networking» has the same visceral effect on me as the sound of fingernails dragging slowly down a blackboard.

I don't have to put up with my husband not doing his fair share of the housework (actually, we were both equally crap at that), not being involved enough as a parent (erm, I was the one being caned for not doing enough craft with the kids), leaving his fingernail clippings piled on the arm of the sofa (geez that used to get on my goat) and hogging the bed covers (that wasn't a problem either, he was a lizard shivering under the doona while I constantly had a bare leg sticking out to cool down).