Sentences with word «flatfoot»

The unusually strong performance of US stocks in 2013 was a welcome surprise for investors who are following a simple buy - and - hold strategy and a source of exasperation for many professionals caught flatfooted by the steady rise in share prices.

A small number of children still have flatfoot by the time they are 10 years of age.

Related Two Coats post: Abstract Expressionism at MoMA «Artists less celebrated, whose work used to seem flatfooted and obvious to me, now scan as forward - thinking.

Benton is building a grass - roots structure for McConnell across the state that already includes nearly 3,000 precinct captains, a bid to ensure that the senator isn't caught flatfooted again.

Otherwise, you're just going somewhere flatfooted.»

A manifesto is flatfooted advocacy of a blueprint for reform; it's the irony that makes a proposal utopian.

In all likelihood the 7» 1», 340 - pound flatfoot will remain on patrol.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) Tyson Jost and the speedy Colorado Avalanche caught the Buffalo Sabres flatfooted through most of the first 50 minutes on Sunday night.

Spurs twice took advantage of this last weekend with their passing through Arsenal's flatfooted last line of defence to a man running in behind and it is expected Swansea will do the same and if Arsenal do not defend this sort of passing better than Michu may well score against Arsenal yet again this season.

It flew past goalkeeper Butcher, leaving him somewhat flatfooted and more than slightly amazed.

Shoes used to fix problems such as flatfoot or intoeing are called corrective footwear.

In 40 years of Clean Air Act regulation, she noted, regulators have never been flatfooted enough to allow environmental rules to dim the nation's lights.

Chris and Lisa (Patrick Wilson & Kerry Washington) move into the tony titular neighbourhood, next door to veteran LAPD flatfoot Abel (Samuel L. Jackson, in full motherfucker mode), where they proceed to royally piss off Officer Abel first by being interracially in love and then with a series of little offenses that Abel misperceives as attempts to corrupt his two children.

The moment causes a rift in his psyche, and a realisation that, perhaps he's more than the stoic flatfoot he's been tasked with playing.

Realizing that a string of ritualistic family murders are tied to the places where they happen, the erstwhile former flatfoot plans to burn down an abandoned church to sever Bughuul's influence over the place, only to discover the house next to it is occupied by Courtney Collins (Shannyn Sossamon), a mother of two young sons who's living there on the downlow to escape her abusive husband (Lea Coco.)

The combination of fat tires (on both models) and the car's 72.4 - inch width gives it a very flatfooted feeling.

A white boy rode flatfoot on a skateboard, towed along, hand to shoulder, by a black boy pedaling a brakeless fixed - gear bike.

Inventive (and cameraless) photograms by Floris Neusüss and Adam Fuss are diverting if a little flatfooted here; and as for that pesky digital revolution, only a handful of artists here work with digital technology.

Artists less celebrated, whose work used to seem flatfooted and obvious to me, now scan as forward - thinking.

Only occasionally does some piece of personal description raise our hopes that it may conceivably be based on a true reminiscence, e.g. that Justus Barsabas (cf. Acts 1:23) was flatfooted, and that Paul was «a man short of stature, thin - haired upon the head, crooked in the legs, well - built, with eyebrows joining, and nose somewhat hooked, full of grace» (Acts of Paul).

Unfortunately, I think that when the pros take a closer look, they'll see a well - muscled 6» 6 guy, with 7» wingspan, speed of a young Tony Parker, plays defense like Bruce Bowen, except with much greater shot - blocking ability, flatfooted, his elbows go above the rim, and throw in a 40 % + from 3 - point land.

His quick touch and volley beat the flatfooted Chelsea backline.

Parents sometimes worry that flatfeet will make their kids clumsier than other kids, but doctors say that being flatfooted isn't a cause for concern and shouldn't interfere with playing sports.

Many young kids have flatfeet, toe walking, pigeon toes, bowlegs, and knock - knees.

If your child continues to have flatfoot but it doesn't cause any pain or discomfort, corrective shoes or orthotics are not necessary.

Public sector unions were caught flatfooted, even in traditionally blue states like Michigan and Wisconsin.

«We don't want to get caught flatfooted,» he said.

A gloss on John Woo's breakout vehicle The Killer (making the title somewhat ironic), where Chow played a penance - seeking assassin, The Replacement Killers involves a cop (a constipated Michael Rooker) who killed a Chinese smuggler — the grandson of mob boss Mr. Wei (Kenneth Tsang)-- in a raid and the hit - man, John Lee (Brother Chow), assigned by Mr. Wei to rub out the flatfoot's own much younger son in revenge.

O Brother, Where Art Thou could claim significant compensations for its flatfooted folk dance, rich music and innovative photography among them.

The Bourne Ultimatum has to make some minor sacrifices — the one - dimensional villains, the flatfooted removal of Nicky from the movie, the slightly overbearing political themes — in order to be more than a simple action movie.

Along for the ride is Ryan Gosling, hanging up his dancing shoes for a flatfoot's gait.

The big attraction was turns banked as steeply as 45 degrees, which allowed drivers to flatfoot it around the entire track.

I turn off traction control and flatfoot it.

Finally we flatfoot it and the 918 sprints down a straightaway.

A few seconds later, when I pull the» chute after powering past the 4 - mile timing lights, I ping - pong between relief at not having wrecked and frustration at not having flatfooted it all the way home.

Fourth gear, and I continue to flatfoot it around the high - speed oval at the Balocco test track in Italy.

I gave them the ring around the rosie and flatfooted it to Chicago.

Ken Johnson reports: Richard Phillips is known for large - scale paintings based on pornographic photographs of women, which he copies in a flatfooted, photorealistic style.

and his manner of painting was the visual equivalent of Callaghan's very «Canadian» prose: flatfooted, unadorned, coarse - grained and somehow the better for it.

Bush, himself, was like a Morley Callaghan character — plain - speaking on the surface, complex underneath — and his manner of painting was the visual equivalent of Callaghan's very «Canadian» prose: flatfooted, unadorned, coarse - grained and somehow the better for it.

Richard Phillips is known for large - scale paintings based on pornographic photographs of women, which he copies in a flatfooted, photorealistic style.

Similarly (though inversely) Reeder's pasta and roller paintings elevate the flatfooted «art» idea to a level of uncomfortable, humorous grandeur — at once reductive and overblown.

In this big square canvas composed of interwoven and monochrome protractor shapes, with its flatfooted reminiscence of Matisse's lyricism, we sense an artist thinking of himself - and being taught to think this way by his critics - as channeling the main historical current of his art through his own work.