Sentences with phrase «like fancy cars»

It's meant to address a particular condition of modern life: On the one hand, technologically mediated imagery constantly impinges on us from every direction; on the other, images are perpetually being turned into real things, like fancy cars and tall buildings.

That image generated 193 likes, and over the years, exotic car dealerships approached him because they saw the image and assumed he liked fancy cars.

Not exact matches

In our culture that values the «stuff» we can see and measure, like how many awards, titles, fancy cars, and you know, fill in the rest of the goodies that map success, we often forget to factor in the price of well - being and rich relationships.

Another kind of power comes from someone's ability to reward you with things - like bonus money, trips, a company car or a fancy office.

Say you can't afford fancy features like embedded navigation or the ability to start your car through a mobile app.

«For some it's also a status symbol, like buying a fancy car to show your friends.»

They rely on daily deal services like Groupon and they are willing to sacrifice other expenses like designer fashion, cars, and meals out at fancy restaurants to acquire the items they find necessary for their daily lives, according to the Department of Labor Consumer Price Index for 2011.

I'd probably buy a fancy car or blow myself up by actively day trading the stock market like I used to.

It's so sad to think that marriages are ending every day over things like credit cards and fancy cars, McMansions and model airplanes — things we don't even need to be happy.

Fernando Alonso has said that he'd like to test a stock car one day to see if he'd ever fancy competing in a Nascar race

And here's what his reasoning was: Sandy is a doer; he likes to play golf, to wire up fancy stereo sets, to fool with his cars and to go out and play and have fun, and every time he wound up and threw a baseball he ran the risk that some time in the future, some day maybe 10 years off, he would lose the use of that bad arm and not be capable of doing the things that he wanted to.

Whether you register for a stroller that matches your car seat, or fancier one like the raved - about City Select stroller, adding a stroller to your registry is a great idea.

Cheap car seats won't break your budget, but they also won't come with all of the shiny and fancy things that other people have — like perhaps it won't have a leather handle or a full - blown toy bar.

Psychologists tell us that, at most, 10 % of our happiness comes from stuff like fast cars, big houses, initials after our names or fancy titles on our...

It may be the fancy cars, cool gadgets, or the women Bond attracts, but the Daniel Craig workout may be even more popular than other big name celebrity routines like...

Psychologists tell us that, at most, 10 % of our happiness comes from stuff like fast cars, big houses, initials after our names or fancy titles on our business cards.

Have you ever noticed how some people just seem to have endless amounts of money — like that one friend who always has the latest iPhone, Louboutin shoes and fancy new car?

They ride around in fancy, expensive cars to satisfy their mid life crisis, are successful, sometimes handsome and because of this they feel like they deserve a hot young miss to further make everyone else jealous.

I like things simple not into fancy cars and big houses.

I like to focus my energy on collecting experiences as opposed to «things» and would much rather spend my money on a trip to a foreign country than on a fancy new car.

I ship problematic things, and I'm certainly not going to pretend I don't enjoy a shallow display of wealth and sex — I watched The Hills — but as I sat in the screening for Fifty Shades Freed with my friend, watching Christian and Ana go from fancy car, to fancy plane, to fancy yacht, to their basic European honeymoon, all I could think was, «This is like a bad episode of Sex and the City.»

William McGann's I Like Your Nerve (1931) may run a short 62 minutes, but it is full of energy, humor, wit and a young Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in rare form giving one of his most irrepressible performances as a playboy who knows no bounds or borders (he keeps tormenting border guards with his fancy car) when he and a beautiful, looking real good Loretta Young shows up.

Oil derricks pump forlornly in the background as the town struggles to survive, making Arash's fancy, shiny car seem like the most pointed of anachronisms.

If you fancy turning your super-saloon into a luxury car, you can add options like a rear seat entertainment pack and the beautiful M multifunction seats (# 835 as an option).

If you don't fancy the bare carbon bonnet (it does look a bit Fast and Furious) but like the sound of the diff then it's available as an option on the standard car, too.

I often wonder why anyone would load up what is essentially a cheap compact with luxury - car amenities like HID headlights and fancy stereos, so I'm glad this Special Edition model doesn't have them.

Where the previous A6 looked like a Passat that had lingered too long at the buffet, the 2016 version is easily mistaken for a top - of - the - range A8, a mistake quite a few of my neighbours — including one who fancies himself an expert on luxury cars — made.

The LR4 showcased many of the same features found in the fanciest of cars — from the smooth leather seats like the Jaguar F - PACE and the integrated infotainment system like the Infiniti QX60.

Many automotive journalists fancy themselves design experts, often examining a new car's looks almost to the point of absurdity, from the quality of the paint finish to the dash - to - axle ratio, and when we find something we don't like, it's blacklisted for eternity.

I have customers with the fancy Teslas and they paid like 85,000 up for their cars.

Because frankly, we don't like our cars to sound like fancy pants food.

All of that stuff I listed off above does come at a price, but we have to keep in mind that our particular test car is a Vsport Premium model that packs a bunch of other features like 20 - way adjustable front seats, a reconfigurable gauge cluster, your choice of either real carbon fiber or wood cabin accents, color configurable head - up display, aluminum pedals, adaptive cruise control, front and rear automatic braking with collision preparation, a giant sunroof, tri-zone climate controls, heated rear seats and fancier wheels.

Until just recently, I couldn't get a car that tickled my fancy like it did.

At first we were a little disappointed not to see a Miata wearing the pace car livery, equipped with the fancy amber light bar and beefier tires allowing the trio of Mazdas to corner like champions and stay ahead of the two wheeled racers.

You can get fancy with Uber by specifying an UberBlack car, but even those are nothing like this.

This car, like the 1964,»65 and»66 Mustang, was a collector the minute it hit the public and will continue to be a hit until someone in Detroit gets fancy and destroys the desire of ownership.

Sure, it won't keep its value like a Volkswagen Golf or a Ford Focus would, but it will offer a good alternative for those on a budget, looking for a straightforward car that does the job without fancy add - ons.

It's simple and built from cheap plastic, but at the same time hard, low - cost materials like this are expected in a car of this type, and they're fine if the car going to be used for off - roading and work duties, as there's no fancy trim to spoil.

Great interior and makes me feel like I'm driving a fancy car.

As if you are in a funhouse car, you are hooked onto the tracks of the story and pulled into its depths... His abiding love for frame narratives places Auster in the company of metafiction novelists like Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon, or Italo Calvino, yet he is not a flashy, fancy, or difficult writer.

If you did not have access to credit of any kind — no credit cards, no line of credit, no over-draft protection, no loans — would you be as willing to drop gobs of your hard - earned money on things like expensive shoes and fancy cars?

There are some VERY nice hotels to stay at (like Harmony Hotel or L'acqua Viva) but you won't find fine dining, paved roads or fancy cars.

It seems like developer Kunos Simulazioni tried to get too fancy with the steering animations, and I would see my driver's arms flailing about inside the car as if he was having a seizure while driving.

What with all their fancy words like Speedcross, drifting, and cars.

If you fancy something more curated, the official Horizon championship series are designed with imagination and a mischievous sense of fun, with events for cars weighing over two tons, or costing under 15,000 credits, or celebrating great automotive rivalries like that between Aussie carmakers Ford and Holden.

On our way back to the car Elise said she felt like she was on some fancy Vanity Fair interview — popping around the city before we get to the nitty - gritty.

We get pretty excited about the fancy new green (er) cars appearing at events like the New York Autoshow — take the new Mitsubishi iMiEV for example.

E-bikes in China come in many flavors, from fancy scooter - like objects to simple bicycles with battery packs hitched to the back rack and are cheaper and less regulated than cars.

Catlady: I was referring to their affinity for diesel cars, like the recent Peoples Car with the fancy emission control.

For those who say you can't go shopping, there are fancy bikes like this Tern GSD that can carry as much stuff as a small car, up to 400 pounds capacity including rider.