Sentences with phrase «fingernails on»

Their voices often are like grating fingernails on a chalkboard.

To any experienced resume writer, these words are like fingernails on a chalkboard.

What do fingernails on a blackboard, making a speech to a hostile crowd, eating overcooked broccoli, preparing your tax return, and walking on hot coals have in common?

For us, it's like fingernails on a chalkboard, and there's an automatic shutdown of our brains when that dreaded word surfaces in conversation.

But for at least one reader, hearing about the Fisher's pursuit was «like fingernails on a chalkboard.»

I had to visit RC to confirm it was quoted verbatim... which was worse than fingernails on a chalkboard.

Stuff like that is like fingernails on a blackboard to me, and I'm not even a physicist.

That's like fingernails on a chalkboard.

It isn't just Curry, and every time I see it it grates like fingernails on a chalkboard.

There is a poetic slip from the layered and scaled false fingernails on the aggressively physical flower sculptures to the delicately hand embroidered sequins that shimmer, snake - like across large canvases.

Both the title of the exhibition and a new body of work, Fingernails on a black board investigate how voice acts as the embodied medium of speech.

- Sharon Hayes, «There's so much I want to say to you» Andrea Rosen Gallery is pleased to announce Fingernails on a blackboard, Sharon Hayes» first project with the gallery and an eagerly anticipated exhibition at Gallery 2.

USA: Sharon Hayes: Fingernails on a Blackboard at Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York; Leigh Ledare at Mitchell - Innes & Nash, New York; Jumma Manna: Menace of Origins at SculptureCenter, New York; Urs Fischer: Mermaid, Pig, Bro w / Hat at Gagosian Delancey Street and Last Supper at Park & 75, New York; Math Bass: Lies Inside at Overduin & Co, Los Angeles; Allen Ruppersberg: Drawing and Writing at Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles; John Tweddle at Kayne Griffin Corcoran Los Angeles; Elliott Hundley at Regen Projects, Los Angeles.

While Scalzi does sound like fingernails on a chalkboard (and ruthlessly plagiarized H. Beam Piper — for which I will never forgive him) apparently he sells well.

There came a light scratching of fingernails on the curtains, and Doc Muswell entered, along with the Mother Superior or some other bigwig, by the look of her.

Those words irritate me like fingernails on a chalk board, fork tines on china, grinding teeth.

However, when these lowlifes write their illiterate, threatening notes, using «girly» is like fingernails on a blackboard to me!

SOUND DESIGN: A fascinating documentary narrated by sound designer Gary Rydstrom, who reveals the secrets of the sound effects in A Bug's Life as things as diverse as raw crab crackling, fingernails on a chalkboard, flapping 35 mm ends on reels, kazoos, blowing on playing cards, and on and on.

The combination of fingernails on cardboard and crinkling plastic is a known ASMR trigger, but mixed with the capitalist euphoria of a new purchase, these videos are hits.

If you're looking for something for the kids to watch that won't scratch your brain like fingernails on a chalkboard, Amazon Prime Video's adaptation of The Dangerous Book for Boys is your new favorite.

After all, one person's quirk is another's fingernails on a chalkboard, ripping scorching holes in your head as the sheer bafflement of what is going on cause you balk and run for the Woods.

If you find her (Ryan) distinctive persona to be too irritatingly cute to bear, this mannered movie is likely to play like fingernails on a blackboard.

Listening to her complain was worse than fingernails on a chalk board.

Why is the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard so painful?

For scientists, when we see bad science in movies or on TV, it's like fingernails on a blackboard.

Some of us even get a fresh coat of baby poop on those fingernails on the daily as well - yummy I know.

But, it is hard to listen to... like fingernails on a chalk board.

For a long time the fight game has been hanging by its fingernails on Muhammad Ali's presence.

The source explained: «There's things that are like fingernails on the chalkboard to people of faith.

But here is the truth: I'm happy because my hands aren't clenched tight, no white half - moons from my fingernails on my long life line any more and my tongue is heavy with the bread of life and joy joy JOY.

To a good analyst, it should sound like fingernails on a chalkboard when numbers don't make sense.

Make sure the fingernail on the finger you intend to use is trimmed close so as not to scratch inside the baby's mouth.

It is plucked with a false fingernail on the right ring finger and is known as «the instrument of the heart» because the open gourd is held close to the musician's heart.

The surgery to declaw a cat doesn't simply remove the tip of its claws (like removing a fingernail on a human).

Not exact matches

Fast forward, and now Dauman is hanging on to his position by his fingernails.

And share they did — everything from allegedly crunching on fingernail clippings in Big Macs to getting food poisoning.

«We were really hanging on by our fingernails,» says Laflamme, 40, who has since become the CEO of Pete and Gerry's.

In fact the horn is made out of keratin, the same protein that makes up your hair and nails, and the amount of keratin given through the medicine is equivalent to chewing on your fingernails.

Not just Egypt, India, Africa, Mid-East, Haiti... FEEDING THE WORLD IS MAKING MONSANTO & BIG AGRI RICH, SUPPORTS OVER-BREEDING IN RELIGIOUS - IGNORANT POPULATIONS, AND IS DESTROYING AMERICA, - esp, bye - bye Cajuns hanging on bt their fingernails.

You are on all fours, scrabbling up rock face, your fingernails are filthy and torn.

My friend Adele describes fundamentalism as holding so tightly to your beliefs that you fingernails leave imprints on the palm of your hand.

In praise of deep breaths and slow kisses, of long hold - on - to - me hugs, of children draped on my lap begging for slow back scratches with my fingernails while watching television.

hurled at every person or organization that represents the institutionalized church... Church books are written by people with a plan and ten steps, not by Christians just hanging on by their fingernails... And yet I am writing.

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

Curve your left arm around your daughter so that you can stroke her baby - fine hair while holding her tight and use your right arm to trace circles on your son's back lightly with your fingernails.

Prior to these discoveries, her hand would flail about uncooperatively, hitting her on the head or leaving delicate fingernail scratches on her nose and cheeks.

The real Jesus had dirt underneath his fingernails and calluses on his hands.

It is not, this time, holding on by the fingernails, and it is not a terror - struck confession before the enemy God.

This theological tradition was able to portray a striking and even heroic faith, a sort of holding on by the fingernails to the cliff of faith, a standing terrified before the enemy - God, present to man as terror or threat, comforting only in that he kept us from the worse terrors of life without him.

When would have been a more convenient day for your fingernails to catch on the pavement and slightly delay the progress of the civilized world dragging you kicking and screaming in to the light of modern day?