Sentences with phrase «like jaunty»

We like the jaunty, all - American vibe of this color scheme, but you can also customize your own on Nike's site.

Colorful combatants in Washington and across the nation — like jaunty roosters embroiled in a cockfight — remain locked in battle over school choice and whether to further de-center public institutions.

Not exact matches

Some jaunty pale pink suspenders like our Blush Rush clip - ons are just what the Fashion Doctor ordered.

A jaunty, pink - and - navy striped suspender like our Maybe Baby adds an easy - to - do touch of eyecatching to your looser - fit dark denims.

With zee jaunty beret at a cute angle like that.

For their part, Sharp and Keith continue to swap guitar licks and lead vocals, uniting in loose harmony and occasionally dialing up the tempo on tracks like the Keith - led rocker «Sally Rose» and the mellow yet jaunty Sharp tune «Strange Insistence.»

Stephen Warbeck's catchy but incongruously jaunty music signals to us right at the outset that nothing too bad is going to happen to anyone in the Trumpton - like world that the filmmakers evoke.

Probably Singer's version was something like another Argo — a jaunty, stranger - than - fiction caper about oddball outsiders colluding with the government on a covert op.

When it became a hit, much like 101 Dalmatians had six years earlier, the successors of Walt and his brother Roy (who passed away in 1971) seemed to believe that the way to honor the studio's legacy was with jaunty animal musical comedies.

By taking the material so seriously, both actresses ultimately transform this jaunty, vengeful pseudo-satire into something actually sobering — a tragicomedy that, at its best, stings and then aches like a punch in the face.

A jaunty cross between a coupé, hatchback and SUV, the DS 4 — no longer badged as a Citroen — is a car like no other.

They heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and they rode out on the round dais of the earth which alone was dark and no light to it and which carried their figures and bore them up into the swarming stars so that they rode not under but among them and they rode at once jaunty and circumspect, like thieves newly loosed in that dark electric, like young thieves in a glowing orchard, loosely jacketed against the cold and ten thousand worlds for the choosing».

Deqo finds them attractive: she likes the dark bottle - green of their uniforms, the gold on their epaulettes, the jaunty angle of their famous hats; she even likes the silver pistols that hang like jewellery from their hips.

Joan assessed the crowd, lighting upon the most interesting: young men turning white T - shirts into art, pinching the material tight and rubber - banding each section until they looked like porcupines being dipped into huge steaming vats of colored dyes; the young woman with a bird's nest of purple hair sitting at a potter's wheel, slamming down hunks of clay, her hands moving nearly as fast as the wheel, cups, vases, plates, bowls, trays, appearing like magic; the elderly man in a worn blue linen suit, a jaunty straw boater on his head, a smeared palette tight in his hand, painting a mammoth canvas of people on a beach staring out at an ocean where a sailboat bobbed in the distance, though he himself was standing in a mowed field; the handsome young man at an old - fashioned school desk, a manual typewriter in front of him, a stack of paper to the side.

It's a fine example of jaunty indie pop rock and I like it.

The soundtrack can be a little hit and miss — It's composed of jaunty, electronic tunes so your mileage may vary depending on what kind of music you dig; even with my general dislike of electronic music there were a few tunes that squirmed their way into my brain like a symbiotic parasite and remained there for the following few days, so chances are there will be a track or two that will appeal — Or at least grow on — most players.

Homage to classic games like Donkey Kong, Galaga, and Duck Hunt also abounds, and though you'll definitely see these tricks a few times over, with the boss fights feeling the most conspicuously recycled, a jaunty pace keeps the whole experience moving forward.

And yet there are seemingly jaunty works to be found here, with Mona Hatoum's Natura morta (bow - fronted cabinet), 2012, showing gaudy glass hand grenades resembling Christmas - tree decorations, and Jitish Kallat's miniaturized security - line figurines — Circadian Rhyme 1, 2011 — looking like an adult Playmobil set.

Don't miss Warhol's Kids on Swings (1946), his Still Life (1948), and, especially, his jaunty I Like Dance (1948).

A string of multicolored mummified voles dangle from the ceiling like carnival lights, adding a jaunty tone to the perverse proceedings, while a popular music soundtrack programmed never to repeat a single song plays endlessly.

In films such as Swinging the Lambeth Walk (1940), where drawn and scratched lines undulate in striated verticals and sine - wave - like horizontals to a jaunty jazz sound track, and Free Radicals (1958), in which chalklike inscriptions streak and sway across a pitch - black screen accompanied by African music, New Zealand animator Len Lye used the cinematic apparatus to make static frames (cels) appear to move.

Not that I would know... On the gallery walls are a number of paintings on polished stainless steel where a haze of highlighter - coloured spray - paint with jaunty lettering (made using masking tape) exposes the mirrored surface beneath spelling out statements like Crushingly Hopeless and Dead Ur Lovers.

I like putting touches of Christmas in every room — sometimes just a bit of cedar or pine in a vase or jug tied with a jaunty ribbon.