Sentences with phrase «into rube»

The wide selection of death traps, the main attraction of the game, is wickedly funny to mess with, as you gradually transform a corridor into a Rube Goldberg stomping ground that in turn transforms googly - eyed orcs into piles of roasted meat and useful coins.

The new game lets players practice basic physics as they help a floppy - haired whiz kid arrange everyday objects into Rube Goldberg - type devices.

Not exact matches

Just another CEO packaging up feel - good platitudes in the hopes of duping yet another flabby rube into an inflated gym contract.

• Even if one agrees with Mark Noll, who is perhaps the most distinguished Evangelical historian we have, Dale at least offers a helpful insight into the history and thought of a movement most other Christians in America tend to dismiss as rubes, fundamentalists, reactionaries, crazies (snake handling?

He has more of his father's fleshy, raffish, cigar - chewing air than any of his brothers, and he takes the greatest delight in the stories about the old days in the First Ward, when Art Sr. and his brother Dan, a terrific athlete who is now a priest (and who is said to have spent some time protecting Chinese nuns with his fists), would become drawn into a three - rounder between the visiting carnival boxer and their friend, Squawker Mullen, and the carnies would holler, «Hey, Rube!»

Director James Wong enjoys organizing dangerous objects and circumstances into precariously menacing Rube Goldberg arrangements.

First with the machinations of talking the rube with the car in question into letting them take it out alone, and second, when Stuntman Mike with a different car, but the same hood ornament, shows up to make this a day the ladies will never forget.

Both the rubes and the sophisticates are up to their ears in marital problems; each evolves through infidelity into self - discovery.

Ryan O'Neal (dressed to channel Harold Lloyd) plays bumbling lawyer - turned - film director Leo Harrigan, just a guy who quite literally stumbles into the film industry and inherits an entire film company in the middle nowhere, and Burt Reynolds is the Florida rube hired to shut them down who ends up their leading man.

This is to say nothing of the challenge of assessing and nurturing teachers, a task greatly complicated by the Rube Goldberg evaluation requirements put into place in many states following Race to the Top.

Personally I think the worst thing to ever happen to the Zelda franchise was the insistence of some rube in Japan that all the games could be organized into sensible timelines (the plural necessitated by time travel, which, ugh.)

When you first step into Greg Smith's installation at Susan Inglett Gallery, the artist's stunning material sensibility overshadows any realization that what you see are actually the reconfigured trappings, ruins, and byproducts of an unusual Rube Goldberg machine.

The instruments are ragtag concoctions that would make Rube Goldberg beam: A spiraling staircase that oozes music from organ parts saved from a Katrina - flooded church; industrial fans converted into percussive sound machines; a giant stand - up bass made of a weed - whacker and a bathtub; a weather station connected to an analog synthesizer.

The German toy / model company Conrad ran a TV advert featuring an amazing Rube Goldberg bike lock that used motorized skateboard wheels to raise your bike several meters off the ground and up a lamp - post; here's a making - of video showing the R&D that went into this fantastic gadget.

This agency would make Rube Goldberg proud in the complexity of how it takes getting a simple insurance quote into a several month ordeal.

Would it be possible to get a list of the rubes who invested into this «initial coin offering»?

For example, on the property rights front, the Conservatives have lapsed into the lingo of mystics and dreamers in the hope that we rural rubes will be satiated.