Sentences with phrase «huddled against»

Sy Hakim's large landscape painting, Formations — Daylight, describes a beautiful yet challenging world, the small figure seems huddled against the power of the landscape, the outcroppings hang high above his head, a daunting climb but a great view from the top.

Now eroded down to 6, these skinny buttes are courtesy the whittling effect of time and tide, carved out of the headlands to stand lone and huddled against the waves.

This latest entry in the Hogarth Shakespeare Project, which reinterprets the Bard's works across multiple genres, hews closely to the story in most respects, but Nesbø adds one element that brilliantly accentuates the malevolence of the landscape: rain — «The rain drifted to the southeast, across streets of smashed street lamps where jackals on the lookout huddled against the walls.»

A shape huddled against the back wall, a person too tired or too cold to care about the fighting going on.

As rain plopped onto our jackets, my tour group huddled against the side of the Lyme Regis Museum on the southwest coast of England, struggling to hear our fossil - hunting guide over the sound of wind and waves.

I make my way through the snow, huddled against the chill wind.

It was a day when fans sought cover beneath overhangs, hid their day's outfits beneath garbage bags and ponchos and huddled against a stiff wind and 55 ¬ ∫ temperatures.

Late on Friday afternoon, McClendon, huddled against the cold and the mist that come with every South Bend autumn, walked slowly along the sidelines of Notre Dame Stadium.

Hojjat Gharibian was one of hundreds of homeless Iranian survivors, who was huddled against the cold with his family in Qasr - e Shirin.

Like many small dogs, she dislikes rain and will huddle against the house instead of going potty.

There are a number of terns and gulls on the sandy bars that jut out from Sandy Point, huddling against the Nor'Easter weather.

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Most people seem fine with being fed fairy tales, mumbling incantations in groups steered by smarmy leaders, and huddling together against an uncaring universe.

Standing at 10,000 feet, people huddled in blankets against the...

Standing at 10,000 feet, people huddled in blankets against the 50 - mile - an - hour winds from the East.

God's idea of religion is not a building with the doors fastened against outsiders, huddled in a holy masquerade of facades and fancy robes.

In this season's opener, against the New York Giants, after Watters made his first carry — a 13 - yard pickup — he bounded back to the huddle, shouting, «They can't stop me!»

Against the New Orleans Saints on Sept. 27, when the song The Power blared through the Louisiana Superdome speakers during a timeout, Jiggle Joints — one of several nicknames Watters has been given by his teammates — began to dance in the huddle.

Sonny has some actor in him, and against the Giants he was in true character, clasping his helmet in disbelief at officiating calls, scooping up a handful of dirt in disgust, either with himself or because of a dropped pass, and looking at times as if he would not be able to raise up from one knee after he had called a play in the huddle.

«ÄúFirst game of the year, against the Colts, there «Äôs all this talk about what Corey Dillon will mean to the running game; they come out in three wides, two tights and no Corey, no huddle.

And Jeremy had his best game of the season against Pendleton, dissecting the Buckaroos from a no - huddle shotgun to go 15 - for - 20 for 262 yards and two touchdowns.

«They were a no - huddle in 1993,» Graham says, «and it doesn't matter what you're running schematically against them; it's a philosophy.

Van Brocklin called the play five times in the huddle in the first half, only to change it at the line of scrimmage against an unpropitious Giant defense.

Mrs Hill even managed a little wave to the larger - than - usual travelling press pack, huddled together for warmth against the biting wind.

They also insulate their bodies with fur, blubber and, in the case of emperor penguins, by huddling en masse against the icy Antarctic winds that can bring the air temperature down to -60 °C.

Without it, the tribal groups that made up the Soviet Union had no reason to huddle together for defence against the West (or in the case of Yugoslavia, against a possible Soviet invasion).

So they huddle together against the harsh elements — and together, their bodies can raise the temperature within two hours to as high as 98.6 degrees.

Racing against your «friends» towards the end of a level and «accidentally» slamming them into a giant saw blade is some of the most fun you can have huddled around an iOS device.

In the case of the new science - fiction thriller The Thing, that principle applies heavily to the Antarctic setting, where inclement weather cuts off a tiny science station from potential rescuers, darkness and bitter cold make even closely huddled buildings seem forbiddingly far apart, and circumstances set everyone in the area against each other.

Meetings structured around targeted small goals, with small «huddles» facilitated by Grace after each segment, sparked palpable excitement about student progress against the standards and how to foster it through clear action planning.

She spent all of her time huddled in a corner of her cage, unwilling to even look at people, and had been known to lash out against shelter workers in her fear.

We slept most of the way, huddled together in twos against the bitter cold, opening eyes occasionally to the jagged, green and brown mountains of the Peruvian Andes, the jarring political slogans plastered across adobe houses.

Not only do you need effective weapons at every distance, but you need enough resources to build a brick house to huddle in while you chug shield potions, or so you're ready to race against another player for the high ground with your own wooden folly.

In a blended world of 3D and pixel art, we found ourselves huddled hour after hour exploring new towns, then flying and bashing steel against steel in massive open landscapes.

Yet it also darkens them, huddled tightly against the blue field of a somber sky.

Hard - edged abstractions by Ad Reinhardt, Piet Mondrian and Josef Albers huddled together and a 1946 Clyfford Still brushed incongruously against Sherrie Levine's Untitled (White Knot: 9)(1986).

Towards the end of the evening — prior to stumbling to Hungry Jacks — I got the stragglers to form a footy - style huddle, made them press against me, throw their arms in the air and shout: «We all love... Alana!!!»

I jumped out of the passenger side while the car was still rolling, and was relieved to find the kitty huddled up against the wall of the gas station...