Sentences with phrase «left gnashing»

The Scottish nationalists have been left gnashing their teeth as they contemplated a # 1.1 billion NHS bill left to them by the Labour government.

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Brian Glanville is sorry to see West Ham leave Upton Park, but he has no time for the gnashing of teeth that has accompanied the decision to allow the club...

So this week the merest sniff of bad news was enough to leave us wailing and gnashing our teeth.

Pieces of stalk, leaves, and cobs dance as the kernels disappear underneath, but inside the sealed cab the noise of corn gnashed by steel teeth barely registers.

It's lies lifeless, as the film has already squeezed whatever juice the fruit of ideas were once held at the time of the project's inception, until there's nothing of the fruit left but the hands that once held it, torn apart and bloodied by the constant gnashing together to get that one last drop to provide the sustenance to bring the whole thing to a merciful end.

ends where it started, with the characters having huffed and gnashed their teeth and changed nothing — and whereas their great movies side with loser heroes, turning failures into studies of people struggling to hold on in the face of apparent meaningless, this one seems to be out to teach them a lesson to leave well enough alone.

Hard winds gnashed at our aspen saplings — bending the trees to the earth like supplicants, their new leaves so dry they curled like paper held to a flame.

There is much gnashing of teeth and wringing of hands about women leaving the law profession in droves.