Sentences with phrase «like nooses»

Relationships shouldn't feel like nooses around someone's neck.

- Daniel Torday, author of The Last Flight of Poxl West «Like absolutely nothing I've read before, Levinson's brilliantly unsettling, fiercely funny novel takes on both dangerous intolerance in the near - future world, and in the confines of one wildly destructive family, where ties tighten like nooses and kith and kin can become like warring political systems.

The ankles are tied together and another length of rope is wound around the neck, like a noose, and tied to the ankles.

The 79 bus loops around the housing projects in the East Hills of Pittsburgh all day — «like a noose,» as reluctant resident Brian Broome... more

Credit card debt can sometimes feel like a noose around your neck.

It is made in reaction to the circumference of saccharine sentimentality and repressive rage that persists in culturally mediated visions of the mother, a circumference that tightens like a noose around the necks of actual women.

Gerald Machona's photograph Keep calm and untie the noose I, depicting a black man in a suit with a tie strung around his neck like a noose, continues the theme of abated freedom in the show.

Not exact matches

So, as we scrambled like M * A * S * H * surgeons on the battlefield to stabilize the patient in real time — finding new financing, negotiating long term contracts with our employees, reversing our pension deficit — and the noose slightly loosened.

While governments in the likes of South Korea, Indonesia and Singapore try to tighten the regulatory noose on cryptocurrencies, they are more amenable to projects on the blockchain than their counterparts in the West.

This was not a hangman's gallows like we see in Western movies with the looped noose, but was a large pole stuck into the ground, with the top sharpened to a point.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a tense and dense espionage thriller, that weaves its story like a tightening noose, until the audience is left breathless in the cinema.

Without the debt noose around your neck, you now feel like that putting money aside for emergencies, saving up your down payment for a new home, contributing into RRSPs are all possible again.

Although normally set to catch foxes and rabbits, two out of every three animals caught in these nooses are unintended quarry like dogs and cats.

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Some — like Carrie Mae Weems and Gary Simmons — mount powerful explorations of racism, employing such deeply charged images as archival photographs of slaves and the recreated nooses and hoods of the Ku Klux Klan to tap into an emotional well of past injustice and persecution.

Rafferty has created a theatrical event in the upstairs and downstairs of the still - new Uffner galleries with floor - to - ceiling curtains dotted with pink - and - purple flies; blob - like paintings (of people, a wall, a noose) and inkjet prints layered on top of each other, flattened behind plexi to give the appearance of multi-dimensional depth; all adorned with the tiniest of hardware, like screws, that have been attached to the surface of her works.

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Ali endows the characters and scenes in her paintings with everyday attributes like dodge balls, sneakers, and Band - aids, as well as historically - and culturally - loaded items such as nooses, hoods, robes, masks, and military - style uniforms.

Certain pieces dealing with professional sports might have served as a Nike campaign if not for scattered, disturbingly altered details, like two black men dramatically posed in action playing basketball, the hoop replaced by a noose.

Google is circled like Custer, the noose is getting tighter and tighter.

The noose of regulation seems to be closing around the Medusa's head - like neck of cryptocurrencies.

Countries like China and Vietnam have already tightened the noose on virtual currency exchanges and investors.