Sentences with phrase «like magpie»

Christa Davis started out in 1992 by selling her creations on a small stall in Portabello Market in London, this is where I met her one Saturday afternoon as, like a magpie, I was drawn to the beautifully bright colours and pretty details of her clothes.

The exhibition covers the main floor of the Nickle Galleries with small, whimsical works like Box (2012), large installations like Magpie (2), a 2015 piece created with fellow Alberta artists DaveandJenn, and some gems like the Working Class Pictures in between.

His work — and his life — is influenced by the developments in art history, and, like a magpie, he takes methods, media and ideas from his predecessors.

Like a magpie, I save the shiny stuff and discard the rest; it's...

A few pieces are contemporary of 2002, but she has the ability because of her identity and her individuality to pull from anything that appeals to her — a little bit like a magpie.»

From his attention - grabbing debut with «Reservoir Dogs» (1992), a deviously clever heist film where the heist is never seen and the drama is all in the conversation and the ingenious structure, to his acclaimed «Inglourious Basterds» (2009), his thrilling rewrite of World War II history as a magnificent movie fantasy, Tarantino has gone his own way, snatching up ideas strewn through decades of film history and hundreds of genre movies like a magpie, rethinking them completely, and weaving them into entirely new stories that unfold at a leisurely pace so he can enjoy every word and gesture along the journey.

Like a magpie to all that shines, I'm an App collector!

Warmer tones go so well with the gold jewellery I seem to be accumulating like a magpie drawn to something shiny.

On a drive home from the laboratory, researchers in Canada conducted a straightforward experiment: They traveled stretches of road with various speed limits (20, 50, 90, and 110 kilometers per hour) and tested how close a bird on or beside the road (like the magpie above) would allow the advancing car to come before fleeing its dangerous position — a measure called flight initiation distance.

Native wildlife like magpie geese ate the seedlings, crocodiles were a risk to workers, and the little rice that did grow was far away from markets.

The painting «Young Spartans Exercising» by Edgar Degas (1860) helped her with this: «Lots of artists are like magpies, where you steal or you take or you borrow what you need from somebody.

Are we like magpies, in that anything shiny catches our eye?

Not exact matches

Cookies — Linzer Cookies from A Canadian Foodie — Turtle Cookies from A Pretty Like in the Suburbs — Sparkling Toffee Cookies from Jelly Toast — Chocolate Drop Cookies from Kitchen Heals Soul — Christmas Card Cookies from The Simple, Sweet Life — Double Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies from Kitchen Treaty — Masala Chai Snickerdoodles from Oh Ladycakes — Chocolate Toffee Pecan Cookies from Clockwork Lemon — Gluten Free Lace Cookies from Wheat Free Mom — Merry Cherry Icebox Cookies from Bakersbeans Bars / Squares — Holiday Lemon Cheesecake Bars from The Kitchen Magpie — Salted Caramel Swirl Brownies from What's Gaby Cooking — Peanut Butter, Chocolate and Oat Cereal Bars from Bake or Break — Nanaimo Bars from Warm Vanilla Sugar — Toffee Triangles from If You Give a Blonde a Kitchen — Dolce de Leche Bars from Buttered Up — Cookie Butter Oatmeal Bars from Chelsea's Messy Apron — Cranberry Almond Brown Butter Cereal Bars from Lovely Little Kitchen — Cranberry Cheesecake Brownies from Eat Good 4 Life — Raspberry Almond Streusel Bars from TasteFood

The Magpies, like us, were crippled by injuries and could not buy a win.

For the likes of Everton, Tottenham and Newcastle it is important of course to be in Europe but financially, the Magpies especially must have struggled to make up what they have lost in terms of Premiership prize money from their UEFA Cup run this season.

He said: «I like the player, because I have good friends in La Coruna,» said the Magpies boss.

The Magpies have done well in their recent transfer business in France, and Gomis looks like another player who could make the step up to the Premier League and shine at Newcastle.

The Magpies lost 1 - 0 today after the long trip south to London, and it looked fearfully like they were going to level up the scores in the latter moments of the match, but thankfully we clung on to win.

With this signing of Murphy for the Magpies, it's certainly looks like exciting times for the St James» Park faithful as the club look to avoid relegation back to the Championship at the first time of asking.

However, he hasn't proven to be anywhere near as good as the aforementioned shampoo model and it already looks like he could be returning to the south of France having made just three league starts for the Magpies.

The difference being that Alan Pardew's squad doesn't have the same amount of depth as big - spending Liverpool, so the Magpies boss will sorely miss the likes of Steve Harper, Alan Smith, Danny Guthrie and Leon Best who are all out for the rest of the season.

The Magpies have done very well to stave off any relegation concerns that they could have had this season and like the Foxes have won their last two.

Nicolai Jørgensen looked like he'd be the man to come in, with the Magpies heavily linked with the Dane throughout the end of the transfer window.

Magpies» combative midfielder / defender, Cheikh Tiote (To Be Shown a Card: 3.25 SkyBet), will need to keep a cool head up against the likes of Drogba, Anelka and Malouda as the Ivorian has been booked in five of his last six league appearances.

The performance from Bruce's Black Cats, who were made to look like pussy cats that day, was so bad that Bruce himself felt it was his duty to publicly apologise to all the passionate and devoted Sunderland fans for what they had just witnessed, which was Newcastle making a mockery of what should have been an evenly fought contest but instead turned into a Magpies goal glut.

There will be no shortage of suitors in the MLS or China should he desire, but he could also potentially move back to England, where he represented the likes of Newcastle and Hull and scored some splendid goals like this one here for the Magpies.

I'm not a big fan of pink or glitter, so the fairy in this bracket by Metal Magpie, sitting looking thoughtful, epitomises what I think fairies are really like.

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That was when our forebears rushed around the world like demented magpies picking up anything and everything that took their fancy.

Yours look like they'll go with a lot of things, and I LOVE how you've styled them here in your inimitable way < 3 I adore your magpie necklace; that is so cool.

I love mixing two or more brooches together, and as much as my magpie eyes are always seduced by big, brash rhinestone statement pieces, a smaller brooch like this is the key to a successful «bouquet» — it complements and / or ties together bigger pieces.

I'm trying to make better choices when buying clothes, I'm still a bit magpie like though Michelle xx

In my pre-baby days, I'd wander through the stores stocking up, magpie - like, on anything shiny or sparkly or glizty.

Mmmm, my magpie must be in full control today, as I really like the beaded foiled organdy and the foiled lace.

This is a great season for sparkle - loving magpies like me; I love the more - is - more eclecticism that Alessandro Michele is bringing at Gucci.

I am such a magpie, I like all that glitters, but my favourite are the Smoky Quartz Rhinestones, e.g. http://wanderandhunt.com/collections/rhinestones/products/smoky-quartz-marquise-rhinestones

Through the show's first 13 animated adventures of this two - disc collection, ex-secret agent Alfred and lethal swordstress Katana join Batman to takes on an array of evildoers including the likes of Anarky, Professor Pyg, Mister Toad and Magpie.

He gets performances from Jennifer Jason Leigh and Miranda Richardson that make them look, respectively, like a nervous little magpie and proud, mean swan.

Zoo takes theatre to classrooms to relate stories about critically endangered birds like the Javan green magpie

Fortunately for me they were driven by Ollie Marriage, as I was on holiday and his magpie - like nature meant he couldn't resist the shiny new metal.

I like the small copper - coloured («Ignis» on the Jag colour chart) highlights too, drawing your eyes magpie - like to the paddles and starter button.

Spring Design, like so many other companies, keep tossing out inadequate products to magpies like me who snarf them up.

They prey on the Asian magpie and the Siberian weasel, sometimes known as the «hutong weasel,» a ferret - like creature that looks a little like a cute red panda.

Ideal Getaway: Like a chatty intellectual magpie, change - loving Gemini needs to return from any vacation with plenty of stories to tell.

It seems that GTA V's magpie - like collage of influences and reference points is very much a reflection of its lead writer's mindset.

Mario and his Mushroom Kingdom cronies were all bouncing about on each other's bonces to cheery chiptune music, while SEGA was the ostensible renegade pushing into more mature markets, with its totally - not - on - drugs - while - this - shit - got - made likes of ToeJam & Earl and a mutant hedgehog with a kleptomaniac magpie's eye for gold rings.

It refers to the process of magpie - like borrowing that characterises all creativity, whether consciously or not.

Forget narrative around Bernhardt; a spitfire magpie, she follows Warhol's credo of «liking things,» and paints what she likes the way she likes to paint it.

Rauschenberg's style derived from his ability to marry Schwitters's magpie sensibility with a sense of scale, and of the grand gesture, that he'd learned from the Abstract Expressionist painters whose work he had gotten to know after arriving in New York in 1949: artists like Jack Tworkov (a fervent early supporter), Franz Kline, and, of course, Willem de Kooning, whose own art would become raw material for Rauschenberg's famous Erased de Kooning Drawing (1953).

His work has a highly refined aesthetic that is often informed by his magpie like approach to influences from film, music, literature and philosophy, which shape and colour his practice.