Sentences with phrase «just girding»

The belt also had other purposes beyond just girding up the loins.

Not exact matches

Wiry and intense, with a shaved head and a Brooklyn accent, Aronofsky looks like a man who's just finished one fight and is girding for another.

(There's a specific cinematic language these films speak; when you hear a certain kind of music cue, or see a shot framed in just such a way, or when a character expresses anything approaching contentment, you'll know it's coming, so gird your loins.)

There's just enough time to gird your loins, a momentary delay while the engine boosts power to the supercharger, then the rear end squats and you sense the driveshafts take up the slack before successfully deploying all 575 lb ft to a noise like a clan of gorillas beating their chests in time to «Flight of the Bumblebee».

Whilst the UK and the US publishing industries gird their loins to do battle with libraries over ebook lending, the Swedes are just quietly and efficiently getting on with it.

As for Nintendo fans, having just paid for a brand new Nintendo Switch, and girding their wallets for an onslaught of Nintendo exclusives later this year, why would they pay for the Xbox One X?

If you wonder why the «green» movement can propose solutions to «might be problems» that require large swaths of humanity be relegated to subsistence living, don't agonize over why, just understand what under - girds their political philosophy of life.