Sentences with phrase «like ice floes»

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Indian societies like that of the Eskimos or the nomadic tropical tribes enacted great life - cycle rituals wherein the elderly would be set adrift on ice floes or would fail to ford the swift river with the rest of the tribe during a migration back to the mountains.

With Europe's economy skidding around like an overweight man on a crumbling ice floe, this winter seems an opportune time to strap on the skis and hit the slopes across the pond.

There are echoes of this past however, and it was interesting when we included the George Bellows painting of ice floes in the Hudson River on the top floor, because that piece harkens a little bit to aspects of late 19th - century art and the age of American Impressionism, with artists like Childe Hassam and William Merritt Chase.

One way or the other, it's clear that, by the end of the 1990s, the veneer of ice on the Arctic Ocean had shifted to a far more tenuous state, with ever less thick, years - old ice like the floes I camped on when I went with the team setting up the annual North Pole Environmental Observatory.

And they most certainly did not forecast, and would have been aghast had they done so, the CAGW scam, the Y2K - make - a-buck scare, the new - ice - age - scare, Al Gore's weight problem, the unbelievably vast sums to be made off of eco-appeals featuring heart - wrenching pictures of adorably cute and cuddly - looking baby harp - seals about to be clubbed to death for their fur, Ditto for photo - shopped pictures of forlorn looking polar bears adrift on ice - floes, universities stuffed with tenured climate science parasites, the improbable appearance of the NGO, watermelon life - form, and the like.

Independent contractor status is an excuse to be able to not care, as if Realtors are isolated entities encompassed in their own too often poor worlds and who deserve to be left like on an ice floe to die alone.