Sentences with phrase «hand out of straws»

It will be difficult to build a hand out of straws and modeling clay that can grab heavier objects.

Not exact matches

These are the non-food treats I'm handing out for Halloween: Jack «o» lantern straws, brightly colored vampire fangs, plus tons of glow bracelets (not pictured).

GLAAD has come out strongly against the ad, which has begun running in Iowa, where foes of marriage equality are grasping at straws to find a way they can possibly overturn the sweeping unanimous decision in favor of marriage equality recently handed down by the Iowa Supreme Court.

Joan assessed the crowd, lighting upon the most interesting: young men turning white T - shirts into art, pinching the material tight and rubber - banding each section until they looked like porcupines being dipped into huge steaming vats of colored dyes; the young woman with a bird's nest of purple hair sitting at a potter's wheel, slamming down hunks of clay, her hands moving nearly as fast as the wheel, cups, vases, plates, bowls, trays, appearing like magic; the elderly man in a worn blue linen suit, a jaunty straw boater on his head, a smeared palette tight in his hand, painting a mammoth canvas of people on a beach staring out at an ocean where a sailboat bobbed in the distance, though he himself was standing in a mowed field; the handsome young man at an old - fashioned school desk, a manual typewriter in front of him, a stack of paper to the side.

Award Chart devaluations, Partner award chart devaluations, slashed mileage earnings, and a reduction in the number of SWUs handed out have all been bitter pills to swallow in the past few weeks but, for me, losing the ability to upgrade into Business Class from an Economy fare would probably be the final straw.

There is something gloriously self - referential about playing the straw man card in a post in which you, for no apparent reason, explicitly re-interpret «quite conceivable» to mean «kind of likely», then call it «magical thinking», quote a psych text in case we don't know what magical thinking is and dismiss it out of hand.

But: (1) often, I see «skeptics» building straw men out of valid arguments that expertise should not be dismissed out of hand, and (2) I often see selective reasoning from «skeptics» where they denounce «realist» arguments as appealing to authority when they then turn right around and appeal to their own authorities.