Sentences with phrase «hovel of»

Especially after living in a dinky hovel of a home with measly 7 1/2 foot high ceilings and one room that's supposed to be living, family, office and play room.

Richard Hughes is known for his exceptional skill to turn ordinary, sometimes slightly repulsive objects that might be found in a hovel of a rooming house or unceremoniously dumped by the side of the road «'' bleak monuments to abused domestic or public spaces «'' into narrative sculptures.

The original ranch was twenty - three hundred acres out of the old Meusebach survey of the Fisher - Miller grant, the original house a oneroom hovel of sticks and wattle.

I remember back towards the Wild World days on DS, trying to make the most out of my hovel of a home.

It needs to separate the lashes, lift my short spindly genetic shortfalls, from the hovels of my face and mold the shacks of my eyelashes into skyscrapers.

Not exact matches

Preston is advised to delete the word «democracy» from the title of his propaganda hovel.

Here we see unknown writers in the hills of ancient Judah, seated in simple homes that from the point of view of our present - day luxury might be regarded as little better than hovels, surrounded with furnishings more bare and austere than those of a medieval monastery, equipped with simple reed pens and rolls of papyrus, or perhaps with broken sherds of old pots, as they slowly indite in awkward, ancient Hebrew characters, words that have run like fire and are potent at this distant day.

Begin to explore Gulliver's Travels, and Swift will end by leading you through his critique of the Enlightenment or Irish policy by way of a Grub Street garret or Hibernian hovel.

Yet, the «instinct,» if we want to use that word, is of a higher order than mere cravings, which Gopnik glosses over when he compares the impetus to read to our need for clothing and shelter: «there really are no whys to such things, anymore than there are to why we wear clothes or paint good pictures or live in more than hovels and huts or send flowers to our beloved on their birthday.»

Books can help; listening to others who «have been there» can bring intellectual assent; but once we have met the Jesus of Matthew 25:35 - 45 and Luke 4:18 - 19 in the hovels and barrios and streets of our own and others» lands, we can never again read the Bible in the same way.

Reading of his elevation I wondered idly what had happened to his erstwhile neighbouring MP in Lincolnshire, Quentin Davies, who once submitted a receipt for # 20,700 of work on the bell tower of his second hovel.

I was friends once with a man who had a lot of «issues» — was broke and basically unemployed, lived in a hovel often without utilities, needed his parents to still support him and his son, etc. yet he found a lonely middle aged woman who was a doctor to marry him and take him in!

This is a story well - fed movie stars and such people love to tell themselves — that they'd leave behind their lives of luxury for a stinking hovel if it were for love and family.

Daughter Dottie (Juno Temple), a naive 13 year - old stuck in the middle of this horrid hovel, dreamily awaits rescue by a Handsome Prince.

Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) is back in District 12, but rather than the coal - miner's hovel from which she departed to take part in the eponymous games, she and co-winner Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) are living in the Victor's Village, an upscale and pointedly deserted subdivision where said victor's live in the sort of Federal - style splendor of which those in the districts can only dream.

There is nothing that matters in The Turin Horse, and the extended shots of our hero (Janos Derzsi) and his daughter (Erika Bok) staring into the endless eddy outside their hovel's window have about them a certain entropic rage.

Even when Nic and Jonah venture into a dilapidated hovel to search (with a dodgy flashlight, of course) for the guy they've threatened online, these seemingly obvious creative choices are merely misdirection, a prelude before the script's «real» ideas kick in.

The supreme example of Russell Beale's ability to explore the senselessness in Shakespeare's play occurs in the hovel scene.

By hoisting his camera skywards to capture aerial views of a deserty Americana suburban sprawl, he draws aesthetic parallels to the dusty spread of Middle Eastern hovels his characters are occupied bombing and blasting.

Forced to pack her bags and move out of the palatial sorority house, the rejected freshman ends up in a rundown hovel known as the Vortex with a group of seven hopeless geeks.

There, he is confronted by one of his classmates, Ben Grimm (Evan Hannemann as a child), whose family operates the facility and lives in an adjoining hovel.

Tonight there is no debris in front of the hovels on 103rd, Gorman, and Weigand, streets that embrace the school.

With little light and even less food in her hovel we learn that Mercy's living conditions exemplify those of most of her class, what we would call today the working poor.

Dominic Hall is born in a hovel on the banks of the Tyne, but thanks to a postwar building boom, his family moves to a council estate, a new community that throws together people who, in previous times, might not have known one another at all.

Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda.

Monks had seen a photo of the place — a stone hovel in a barren field, miles from the nearest tiny village.

I was born in a hovel on the banks of the Tyne, as so many of us were back then.

The house resembled a witch's hovel, with its dreary flower beds and sharply pitched dormers and shingles the color of thatch.

A downcast, heavyset American girlfriend whose bright orange hair was strewn across his Alphabet City hovel as if a cadre of Angora rabbits had visited.

I feel the winter chill in all that I do at present, and no, I am not talking about the lack of insulation in my hovel.

I'm a Lawyer Living in a Hovel in New York With Private Student Loan Debt and Thinking of Becoming an Escort.

The first stop, about 15 hours into the trip, was Kete - Krachi, a remote, squalid outpost with one main paved street, mud - hovel buildings and shelters made of saplings and tarps.

The accommodation options on our list of the most popular Surin hotels for around $ 100 are not barely liveable hovels, either.

This scene of melancholy changes quickly, as his hovel is quickly intruded by Capt. Robert Norton and Sgt. John Carver.

Currently, / indev / consists solely of a survival mode which requires players to mine ore, coal and stone, farm trees and food, and generally prepare their starting hovel for the dangerous zombies and skeletons that arrive at night.

That's right, you'll be spending the majority of your time building your little hovel into a village.

The confessional Emin piece, on the other hand, describing the desolation, despair and self - loathing of a young woman living in a hovel and drinking for company, reads, Breese suggests, almost as an introductory text, sketching the scene of the female artist living and working in an androcentric world.

Once in the hovel, orientation began with a screening of The Hero's Journey, a new film made by Sachs and his frequent collaborator Van Neistat that traces the path of an apprentice in the artist's storied SoHo studio.

This week on a solo show of Snacky Tunes, Darin welcomes MOOD Magazine Co-Founders Mario Villar and Emma Hovel....

New York, curated by Anne Ellegood New Prints Winter, 2003, International Print Center, New York, NY 2002 Keine Kleingkeit (Not Really Small), Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland (catalogue) 2001 Ball Point Inklings, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA 2000 Points, Lines, Planes, Les Filles du Calvaire, Brussels, Belgium (catalogue) Bad Touch, Lump Gallery Projects, Raleigh, North Carolina Studio International, Paintings from the Ophiuchus Collection, The Hydra Workshop, Hydra, Greece Warped: Painting and the Feminine, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK (catalogue) Mapping, Territory, Connections, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France Points, Lines, Planes, Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France (catalogue) Painting Function, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, curated by Saul Ostrow Joanne Greenbaum, Charlene von Heyl, Amy Sillman, James Van Damme Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Examining Pictures, Armand Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA curated by Francesco Bonami and Judith Nesbitt 1999 Examining Pictures, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, curated by Francesco Bonami and Judith Nesbitt Nacht Bild (After Image), Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland curated by Peter Packesch Examining Pictures, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK, curated by Francesco Bonami and Judith Nesbitt 1997 Current Undercurrent, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York Painting Now and Forever, Part 1, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY Exploiting the Abstract, Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY 1996 Explosion in a Tool Factory, Hovel, New York, NY Un Oeil Americain, Galerie le Carre, Lilles, France 1995 Wacko, The Workspace Gallery, New York, NY Other Rooms, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY Natural, Arena Gallery, Brooklyn, New York Jane Fine, Joanne Greenbaum, John Paul Philippe, Arena Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Pleasant Pebble, The Workspace Gallery, New York, NY 1994 New York Abstract Painting, Salvatore Ala Gallery, New York, NY 1992 Vibology, White Columns, curated by Bill Arning AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2010 Artist in Residence, CCA Andratx Art Center, Andratx Mallorca, Spain 2009 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant 2007 Artist in Residence, The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas 2005 Artist in Residence, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, N.Y. 2004 The Pollock - Krasner Foundation, Inc..

(Tech Xplore)-- Years back, a tiny structure in the woods evoked words like «hovel» or «shack» but tiny homes in the news now suggest that engineers, craftsmen and designers are on to a new train of thought about little houses,...

Centuries from now — archaeologists and palaeontologists will be sifting through what were communities of isolated - candle - lit hovels and find the remains of the 21st Century wind - worship - cult that ended up living in the Stone Age poverty that they were ready to foist upon everybody else.

That's right, you'll be spending the majority of your time building your little hovel into a village.

It's week 6 7 of the One room challenge and my guest room no longer resembles a crack den hovel!