Sentences with phrase «like crank»

Me look like a crank when you claim that speed makes physical processes slow down without destroying the bodies by x per decade..?

This makes him look like a crank.

Crichton sounds like a crank, and clearly he is ideologically motivated and therefore hard to trust his logic.

Legitimizing years of DIY «protest rides» by biker crews like Crank Mob and Critical Mass, CicLAvia lobbied the city to close major streets to automobile traffic for just a few days a year.

@GeoffM rereading your complaint, it does sound like a crank sensor.

I am a big fan of Statham from movies like Crank, The Transporter, The Italian Job, and Snatch, and where this movie is perfect for him to be in, the film is just so slowly paced that when it does come time for Broker to kick some ass, it just seems out of place.

Together, the two have been responsible for hits like Crank, Gamer, and Ghost Rider: Spirit... Read More

As Lucy's body and mind are rapidly evolving, her individual cells want to fall off on their own — bits of her start flying away in the airplane washroom — and she knows she has about 24 hours to stay alive, which makes this one of those time - ticking movies like Crank or Speed.

Now Janet Richmond, Robby Weimer and Erik Jorgensen have discovered that UNC - 13 primes syntaxinmuch like a crank opening a catapultto fire neurotransmitters into the gaps, or synapses, between nerve cells.

Look for a small hole at the bottom of the disposal, place the wrench inside, and turn it like a crank.

«Back in»83 shops like ours cranked out a lot of crap,» he admits.

3) Question: I'm supposed to be navigating this nuclear submarine, but at the same time I really need to study for my exam and I also feel like cranking some tunes on my iPod.

Not exact matches

Because you toil from the comfort of your own home, you can go ahead and crank the shoebox - sized 50 - watt Bluetooth room - filler up as loud as you like.

I was worried that my new bride would find me in the hotel business center cranking through emails like some crazed addict.

For Scaramucci, that means «letting him be himself» — perhaps unleashing Trump to crank out lengthy Twitter rants like the one he dropped Saturday, the day after the Mooch debuted.

Pulling down the handle to lock in the capsule, it almost feels like you're cranking out a coffee.

Of course, like all economic impact studies (they're a dime a dozen, cranked out regularly on behalf of companies and industries trying to puff up their importance) the Facebook report is so chock full of assumptions and «multiplier» effects as to be completely useless — except, that is, for the respective company's marketing department.

Still, the angst gets cranked up every time computers do something impressive, like when Google's AlphaGo recently beat South Korean champion Lee Sedol at the ancient game of Go.

It could be an old coin, an item owned by a celebrity or something totally off the wall like a hand crank corn - shucker.

Bond yields may seem like a dial that can be cranked up or down to control returns, but the reality is that there's no free lunch.

Crank up the brightness and images are near life - like.

The content is great but they have the budget, ability and brainpower to crank out additional formats with more potential for social momentum like video and infographics.

I am just pointing out that IF there were a god with even sort of the resume Jehovah has been said to have, ie omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent, and if this god somehow cranked out a human son, that son wouldn't act like the drunken alpha ape described in Revelations.

Church planting books are being cranked out like romance novels — lots of promises and passion, but little facts on what does and what doesn't help church plants succeed.

The Founders no more meant to limit the 2nd Amendment to muskets than they meant to limit the 1st to hand - cranked wooden - type handbill presses like the ones Ben Franklin used.

Any religion continuing to deny evolution looks increasingly like a bunch of cranks and fools, hiding from the modern world.

Complex pop art like Game and the Crank movies shun escapism to stylize and replicate real - life complications.

That is why Isaac Peebles in the 19th century thought it was wrong for people to sing during a train ride; and why it is wrong to race our cars through the streets, stereos cranked high enough to be sure that everyone we pass has the opportunity to enjoy the music we happen to like; and why it was wrong for Cohn to wear his jacket; and why it is wrong for racists to burn crosses (another harmful act of self - expression that the courts have protected under the First Amendment).

«Breezy diction» is highly suitable for letters to the editor, where space is tight and the writer must make his point forcefully and persuasively without coming off like a sputtering crank.

It must as it were be «cranked up» like the universe in deism.

Now, cranking up the oven for these delicious and healthy muffins, might not sound like the thing to do on a steamy day, but trust me, they are worth it!

It's almost time to pack up the ice cream maker and start cranking up the oven, but I wanted to share this summer - to - fall transition ice cream that really does taste like carrot cake.

This Christmas I knew I'd be cranking out the gingerbread treats like an elf makes toys, and I knew I wanted to start with a soft batch version of gingerbread cookies.

Once you learn these, you'll be cranking out picture perfect pies like a professional.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but are not Electric Pressure Cookers like the Instant Pot and Fagor Lux Multicooker just made for cranking out these steaming bowls of deliciousness!?

Using a hand - crank pasta machine like my great grandma had makes me feel connected to my roots!

The Colleen he speaks of in reverential tones is Colleen Delee, the 49 - year - old self - taught baker who cranks out something like 375 perfect baguettes every week for Petit Trois... in her Beverly Hills apartment.

I'm cranking out barbecue sauces this summer like they're going out of style.

It's a hot that hangs in the air, letting you breathe it in, that is cured only by two things: being completely immersed in water or hiding indoors, the air conditioning cranked as far as it will go.I find that the heat makes me very unmotivated to do things like take a walk, water and weed the garden (though I have forced that one on myself) and prepare food and eat it.

Just like in Game 1, Columbus trailed by two goals late in the first period, and just like in Game 1, the Blue Jackets cranked up the pressure in the final 30 minutes to take over.

I crank - like mad, picking up the line.

How does he get that thing cranking like that?

Southern didn't produce a run of pros like GSU in the 1970s, but it has cranked out stars like Mel Blount, Harold Carmichael, and Aeneas Williams.

The media focus surrounding a game like the South Wales derby cranks up a notch.

Next time, after she is fed, etc., when her face even starts to look like she might cry, put her in the stroller, put headphones on and crank up the tunes, and take her for a walk.

Battery - operated is OK, but I like the weather radios that can be powered by manual crank as well, like the Midland Emergency Crank Rcrank as well, like the Midland Emergency Crank RCrank Radio.

I like to crank this one out while the kids are zoning with the iPad — sometimes twice if I'm feeling ambitious.

Music boxes and piggy banks; we really like this line we carry from Switzerland, and the round music boxes in particular are really great, the way even a one year old can turn the crank.

«I've been in condos [during the festival] where it sounds like Lollapalooza is cranked at full volume in their living room.

You've finally made it through «The Witching Hour,» rocked your baby to sleep for a half an hour, (which felt more like three hours) and at last deposited him in his crib, cranking the white noise machine up a notch before you tiptoe out the door.