Sentences with phrase «hours sweeping floors»

When he had a Saturday or Sunday off, he didn't want to spend those precious hours sweeping floors or vacuuming blinds — he wanted some time off.

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During the Depression he worked his way through college by sweeping floors for 25 cents an hour.

Completely unrelenting, she then went on and on about how she had to work a 12 hour shift today, while very hurredly wiping tables and sweeping floors.

We want photos of you sweeping the glitter off the village hall floor; heading out to teach 5 people on a dark evening half an hour's drive away after a long day at work; your piles of philosophy books stacked next to your mat; your tabs of marking for trainees; the scrubby you use on the handstand footprints on the wall; the loose change rattling in the donation box after the PWYC; your studio rent bill; the baby sick on your yoga top after mums and baby yoga; the holes in your favourite decade - old yoga leggings; the charity shop where you buy more; coffee stains on cork blocks and the hospital room where you teach cancer patients; the costume box for your yoga and theatre kids class; your ID badge for prison work; the hug from the student who finally learned to stand on one leg...

Whether he's mimicking the act of sweeping the floor in agile grace or responding to verbal statements of cultural criticism in gliding movement, Linder's paid - by - the - hour choreography goes beyond music and ultimately engages choreography and language as a critical reflection of the relationship between economic labor and social conditions.