Sentences with phrase «from rickety»

Gears 4's basic premise centers around a mysterious new enemy called the Swarm that starts snatching folks up from rickety villages and armored military bases alike.

They were renting snorkels, fins and masks from a rickety wooden desk for the equivalent of $ 2.

From the rickety private dock we can jump into the cool water, or flag down a passing lancha to take us to one of the villages.

A specific object (a pink hairbrush with blonde hair matted in the bristles, a discarded replica of a Dali painting, a baby robin, poking its wobbly head from a rickety nest)

Director Roar Uthaug («The Wave») piles on the flashy CG set pieces, from a rickety plane dangling over the top of a waterfall to the various tricks and traps of the tomb, but they feel more like elements for a snazzy trailer than scenes that actually create suspense or adrenaline.

Guy Ritchie's momentum and speed - ramping flourishes distract from the rickety mystery, but I'm not convinced that the old - school detective stories need to be turned into a spectacle - laden action film.

In the 1880s, these women cooked up chili in big clay pots during the day and sold their wares from rickety chili stands on street corners all night long.

Not exact matches

The rickety black square table in his dining room rocks from leg to leg as he saws through a juicy slab of beef.

Those very expensive lifts, which reduced a skier's time spent waiting in line, drew patrons away from the neighbouring Whistler Mountain with its rickety lifts from the 1960s and»70s.

A matter such as US tax reform was never going to pass without comment from JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, who tends to lurk in the background of his bank's results calls like a grumpy uncle at a Thanksgiving dinner, occasionally piping up with a tirade against clueless politicians or rickety US infrastructure.

Of the sixteen souls who started out from Oklahoma in that rickety old truck, only Oca Tatham and his immediate family found permanence and prosperity in California.

At Friday's practice 13 - year veteran defensive tackle Howie Long, the only Raider left from the old Oakland days, felt good about the off - season acquisition of Hostetler and the remodeling of the rickety Coliseum.

The rickety old Douglas DC - 3 propeller plane that ferried Wild Thing and the rest to and from games is one of a kind.

From the raft ride to the rickety rope bridge, to Becky and Tom's cave, your child will be able to see the book brought to life.

About this Book: The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack And Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution Ian Tattersall Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

In The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack, he traces the contingencies, false starts, and diversity of opinions that have characterized the intellectual history of paleoanthropology from Darwin to today.

A rickety old wizard discovers with help from his friends that life can be enjoyable without a rickety old wand and its unpredictable magic.

Three years after the original «Madagascar,» the animals - on - the - run from the Central Park Zoo and their pals depart for New York on in a rickety plane operated by a canny, if pesky penguin crew and crash - land on the vast plains of Africa.

Donner, while not quite at the peak of his form in execution, does manage to keep all of this mess from getting too unruly, and with a great deal of energy and zing, makes this a fun, rickety ride.

When a farmworker's wife dies from a fall through the Baron's rickety barn loft, her son does what any sane person would do under the circumstances: He mangles the Baron's cabbage crop.

But even at Piney Branch, which benefits from the vast resources of a huge, affluent school system in Montgomery County, Maryland, it sure seems rickety, held with lots of duct tape and chewing gum, and subject to collapse without just the right staff and parent support.

And, of course, the derivative storyline, in what is an endlessly derivative military SF sub-genre, invariably revolves around a renegade crew of a rickety, obsolete battle cruiser who are incapable of following orders from the Confederation Admiralty, or some other cookie - cutter, authoritarian shot caller, and who are all that stands between Earth and an invasion from Planet Wherever... Don't even get me started on the zombies.

From our back stairway's window I saw a slow horse pulling a rickety wagon.

Reverse mortgages are often promoted as «bridge» to get you from 62 to 65, but a 2016 CFPB study found that bridge can be pretty rickety.

When we stopped in at the Khai Hoan factory, workers were unloading heaps of anchovies from a disheveled wooden boat onto a rickety pier.

Beaches have an abandoned Robinson - Crusoe feel with rickety shelters constructed from wood and sticks with covers of dried palm leaves.

Along the way you encounter makeshift ladders built from bamboo and wood, which aid in the climb but they can be unnervingly rickety.

We're in Battambang where we visit a crocodile farm and ride a pretty scary and very rickety train made mostly from bamboo.

«Here» was a rickety metal ladder emerging from a hole in the ground.

Scary but fun — rickety bridgeUnfortunately, most tourists zip right past it on the way from the Puntarens / Paquera ferry to Montezuma, Santa Teresa, or Tambor, never knowing what they've missed.

What we can glean from the demo, Beginning Hour, is that the action takes place in a remote mansion (before you chip in, not in the Spencer Mansion) in the middle of the countryside; as is the bread and butter of the survival horror series, you play as a seemingly clueless guy stumbling about the rickety homestead with no idea what is going on, his only clues being the occasional shadow of a shambling body or gurgling noise from monsters lurking outside.

I normally hate first person driving, but the perspective of being in a small rickety buggy while running from Volatiles at night effectively gets the heart pumping in that special Dying Light way... until you're stopped dead by a waist high stone wall that you couldn't see through the forest or tall grass.

A slow and rickety elevator deposited me into a space with lots of windows letting in light from outside.

Her readymades were always hand - made anyway — from her tent with the names of everyone she ever slept with stitched on to it, to rickety wooden fairground structures recalling her seaside childhood.

So down I went, a former sorority girl from the University of Michigan, following three clients down the rickety steps of an unlighted, century - old church basement.