Sentences with phrase «like old letters»

Every year they drew the lottery, the old folk for their baptism, their limbs scrawny skin like old letters worn out by the lover's reading.

I would never write something like my old Letter to Women's Ministry — that girl was way more bold than I feel most days.

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On the other hand, if your partner looks at old love letters often or has kept around more intimate items (like an ex's favorite hoodie or a bottle of cologne / perfume), it could indicate he or she still has feelings.»

But this rejection, in turn, prompted Hamann to compose and publish a piece called To the Witch at Kadmanbor, a «letter» supposedly written by Nicolai to an old sorceress, asking her to translate Hamann's Monologue from the Chinese of the «Mandarin» who wrote it» a letter that, midway through its course, suddenly becomes a delirious monologue of its own (in which the witch now appears as the Fury Alecto, but with two faces, «a calf's eye like Juno's, and the watery eye of an owl») before concluding with the recommendation that Hamann be forced like his illustrious ancestor Haman — from the book of Esther — to mount the scaffold.

While Paul's thought is by no means always clear, and perhaps from letter to letter not always exactly the same, it is nevertheless certain that his concept of resurrection can be clearly distinguished from that of the traditional «bodily resurrection».27 Paul does not speak in terms of the «same body» but rather in terms of a new body, whether it be a «spiritual body», 28 «the likeness of the heavenly man», 29 «a house not made by human hands, eternal and in heaven», 30 or, a «new body put on» over the old.31 In using various figures of speech to distinguish between the present body of flesh and blood and the future resurrection body, he seems to be thinking of both bodies as the externals which clothe the spirit and without which we should «find ourselves naked».32 But he freely confesses that the «earthly frame that houses us today ’33 may, like the seed, and man of dust, be destroyed, but the «heavenly habitation», which the believer longs to put on, is already waiting in the heavenly realm, for it is eternal by nature.

Make it sound like you're just sending an ordinary old letter.

The old New England family has been made to seem hopelessly dour, somber and lugubrious, but one has doubts about the picture when he runs upon a letter like this, written by John Winthrop to his wife in 1637, after they had been married twenty years:

And that is a very freeing thing, buying wine like coffee table books, based on lettering and old surf rock sentimentalities.

Mata wrote a letter to her 18 - year - old self — like a lot of kids are instructed to do — while attending Holy Rosary School in Woodland.

They picked us because they wanted their child to have a sibling and they wanted them both to be adopted (we have a 3 year old daughter who was adopted as well) They also liked that we had a picture of our daughters birth mom in our letter because they wanted an open adoption and a good relationship.»

My 5 year old is left handed, which is always a concern for me when buying products like this, however she hasn't had any problems at all and it has definitely helped her improve the formation of her letters and most importantly she loves using it.

What they found was that when asked to spell a word like, «cat,» for example, an older child may not be able to write any letters that actually sound like the letters in the word, but he / she recognizes that «cat» is a shorter word than say «elephant» and writes down their word accordingly.

Numbers Teaching your 3 year old preschooler their numbers is a little early but some children, like my 4 child, are interested in numbers and letters from an early age.

I'm always looking for fun ways to incorporate letters into play, because if my 4 - year - old thinks it something like «learning» she shuts down.

There are a whole series of letters that he wrote to her at that time, and this is when he is nearly 40 years old; these letters read like the letters of a 15 - year - old boy.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sent a handwritten letter to the 8 - year - old who dressed up as the Supreme Court justice for «Super Hero» day at school, telling the girl» «You look just like me.»

Ten - year - old Hailey Bussey, whose PFOA blood level of 51.5 is 25 times the national average, carried a handwritten letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, asking why the administration «left us to die like sick kittens.»

Like sixty - year - old frat boys, they all laughed when Lavrenty Beria, the secret police chief and serial rapist, pinned little notes with the Russian word prick spelled in big Cyrillic letters on Khrushchev's unsuspecting back.

The productions of older prephonological spellers also were more word - like on several objective measures, including length, use of different letters within words, and combinations of letters.

Its amazing to many to choose from Tilly but id have to say french post i just love old letters and books and the fabric looks like it is full of a story.

The «agency» could be some old man writing love letters to silly old American men like me.

This felt like an old - school, big budget sci - fi film with massive special effects, great visuals and a concept that made you think in Director Joseph Kosinski's love letter to 80s and 90s science fiction trendsetters.

A love letter to the old days featuring both remixed classic levels and all - new zones, the greatest compliment that can be paid to Sonic Mania is to say that it truly does feel like another game that fell right out of Sonic Team in the mid 90s.

Carey Mulligan is the perfect fit for the thoroughly modern madame, her baby features and quietly mature presence able to make Bathsheba look like a teenager and a world - worn widow both at the same time; the moment when she sends a joking Valentine's letter to older bachelor William Boldwood (Michael Sheen) is accompanied by a coy, girly giggle, while her dealings with the dismissive men who want to buy her farm's grain are carried out with a stubborn dignity.

When they're vanity projects built on such hoary devices as talking to off - stage characters or writing letters and reading them aloud, they can make theater feel like a dried - up old fossil.

During the first days of school in September, every 5 - year - old The was shown a sheet with 100 capital and lower - case letters, like the one shown below, and asked to name as many as possible in one minute.

Indeed, having four - year - olds sit quietly through direct instruction, reciting memorized lists of letters and words, while their performance is constantly being examined and quantified, sounds not just impossible, but also doesn't sound at all like something children who still take afternoon naps should be subjected to.

The fact that the Vette guys finally woke up after all my hundreds of letters (more like 90 plus;) asking them to add the Michelin Sport Cup tires to the ZR1, I knew for a fact that it would cut at least 5 seconds off the Nurburgring times because at my home track, just by changing from the PS2 stock tires on my Z06 to the sport cup tires that the Dodge ACR Viper used to set the old N - ring record I knocked off a ton of time.

Blending riveting narration with portions of actual letters Sullivan wrote to her own teacher at the Perkins Institution for the Blind, the author begins with the arrival of 20 - year - old Sullivan and her first charge, six - year - old Helen, who «was like a small, wild bird, throwing herself against the bars of a dark and silent cage.»

A website made from a basic, generic template (99 % of the time) is like finding a hardcover book that's missing its dust jacket (the old kind that had nothing more than a solid color and gold lettering on the edge).

In the interim, if you have received letters like this after filing a consumer proposal, and if your student loans were older than 7 years when you filed the proposal, speak to your proposal administrator.

If not death, they are demanding muzzles, and ID gear much like centuries old Scarlett Letter, even if the animal did nothing at all.

Endless streams of old mopeds buzzing around our bus like bats, brick houses by the road, lines and squiggles all over the letters of its Romanized language.

With this focus on just a single brand comes a sort of expectation that Test Drive: Ferrari Racing Legends should be a love letter to Ferrari, a in - depth look at the storied history of the famous Prancing Horse and a passionate recreation of how its many cars perform on the track so that we can all finally get some idea of what it would have been like to drive the old classics, as well as the modern greats.

Whereas the latter felt like the clichéd «love letter» to old - school JRPGs, Lost Sphear feels more like a tribute to I Am Setsuna.

Developed by Bobby Schroeder using RPG Maker VX Ace, the game is a love letter to RPGs of old like Secret of Mana and Dragon Quest.

Cast of the Seven Godsends for the Nintendo Switch is a love letter to old platformers like Golden Axe and Altered Beast, and it sticks the landing and provides some nice updates in fun ways.

If you dig the old school days of platformers and hearken to the feelings that games like Metroid, Super Mario, Ninja Gaiden, and other such titles may have given you decades ago, Cave Story is a love letter to players like you.

Anything to weed out the people on Live that drive me crazy: the twelve year olds who accuse me of sexual improrities (and question my orientation), say things about my mother, drop four letter words like they're going out of style, and quit games at the most inopportune times.

Yukes has thrown out the old Road to Wrestlemania and replaced it with a mode that recreates memorable moments from this era of the WWE ad feels like the ultimate love letter to wrestling fans.

Developed by Nate Schmold and a small team of game wizards, Cosmochoria is described as a love letter to and re-imagining of, old school action - arcade games like Asteroids, Mario Bros and Donkey Kong.

EA has publicly responded to a letter - writing campaign directed at the publisher by anti-gay groups complaining about the inclusion of same - sex relationship options in games like Mass Effect 3 and Star Wars: The Old Republic.

The letters add up to a text (which accompanies the work) a stammering, hesitant, syntactically unsure consideration (written by a hand that appears on the wall like the hand that wrote on the wall in the episode of Belshazzar's Feast in the Old Testament) of the relationship between «I» and «We» and the horizon that encompasses singular and plural modes of being.

She looks like a woman in a Dutch Old Master, holding an artifact of mass media rather than a love letter.

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Like Mayne's architectural design, Pentagram's graphics for the new building establish a dialogue with the older structure.For the signage typography the designers chose the font Foundry Gridnik, which resembles the lettering on the façade of the Foundation building.

Like her hand - lettering, the collage echoes of Cubism really do suggest a truth in that old show at NYU.

Some of the items expose back - room brokering, like a letter sent in 1973 by installation artist Louise Nevelson to painter Adolph Gottlieb as part of an effort to woo Gottlieb to the gallery's roster: «Adolph, I'm too old to beat around the bush and know you too long for that,» she wrote.

Take a look, in case there's anybody who feels sentimental for what the Pravda letters columns used to look like — or the old show, Moscow Mailbag, hosted by Victor Posner on Radio Moscow in the 1960's.

That sounds like a pretty blunt dashing of the hopes of environmental groups like the old Beijing NGO Friends of Nature, which sent a letter to the NPC this week urging a clean stimulus.