Sentences with phrase «like pelting»

The images have a sour, battery taste and feel like the pelting of a hot summer cloudburst.

The light glows redly on an ornate clavier and on the man known to Renaissance scholars as Dr. Fell, the doctor elegant, straight - backed as he leans into the music, the light reflecting off his hair and the back of his quilted silk dressing gown with a sheen like pelt.

A popular idea is to paint the underside of a freestanding bath in stronger shades like Pelt or Rectory Red to add a pop colour to off - white bathrooms.

Not exact matches

Drew Van Pelt, the head of Larson Juhl who was hired by Cool in 2011, says she connected him with other chiefs at sister companies like Johns Manville and molding - maker Marman Industries.

As Ad Age's Anthony Crupi reports, Van Pelt said viewers who fall asleep to his midnight TV show and wake up to the new digital program might feel like they're married to him or are «hooking up,» then asked the audience to «decide which is the more horrifying thought.»

Isn't it time to leave the game or do you like being Charlie Brown to Lucy Van Pelt with a football?

While I fit in a quick workout before many of the other bloggers flew in, I listened to the heavy drops loudly pelting the gym's windows like the constant drum roll of a snare.

At the end of that first meal, a server asked if we'd like to have a hot cocktail on the large outdoor patio, where there are a few benches draped in animal pelts, arranged around a roaring fireplace.

We have already stripped to our shorts, securing our shirts and trousers in a big wooden chest to keep them dry during the downpour, and the pelting of the rain is like a monstrous needle shower.

See how poor nacho monreal was today yet people never criticize him.Gibbs should start over him next week.Yet people would say things like Gibbs is shit despite him being very consistent for arsenal.The only problem to me with Gibbs is that sometimes in some matches he gets caught out too much apart from that he is a better left back than Monreal and when both are at full pelt Gibbs is still better.I just do nt get it i watch the two of them play and i do nt know what makes Monreal better than him.

Unfortunately, it looked like they also pelted them with rally towels and other junk.

We have a formation where we can «sit deep» and not get pelted like MNUFC on a Saturday.

Buccigross started to act like a Zamboni when Van Pelt grabbed him and accidentally pushed him off the desk.

I will not be asking him this question again, because I'm beginning to feel like a journalistic Charlie Brown lining up to kick the football teed up by the Cuomo administration's Lucy van Pelt.

Deck hands pelted by frozen sea spray and snow stagger like drunks.

But according to new research on vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus, seen above), the behavior may also improve a pelt's insulation by fluffing it up like a duvet, scientists report in the American Journal of Primatology.

It surely sounds like the LHB was an awful time for the beleaguered young planet — but perhaps the pelting was a good thing after all, say researchers.

Factor in great co-op centric abilities like Arctic Arrow (E'lara freezes enemies and Caddoc shatters them) and Wind of Wrath (Caddoc raises enemies off the ground and E'lara pelts them with arrows) and it becomes obvious — this is a must - purchase game for fans of cooperative play.

Smeared in the gore of her lost child, shaky and stumbling from blood loss and maternal panic, she battles winds snapping like bullwhips, rain that pelts with the ferocity of old world lapidation.

Hunting critters then skinning and selling their pelts was one of the original's Redemption's most diverting pastimes, and it looks like the sequel is doubling down on the PETA - bothering action.

These peltings compliment David's inner crisis; he longs to be a success like his father, an award - winning novelist, Robert Spritzel (Michael Caine), but instead he tries to figure out what happened to his marriage.

Like the scene where Pyle is pelted with bars of soap wrapped in towels by his fellow men in his unit, he feels the pain, but the outrage, the anger, the viciousness of their actions is muted by the impersonal nature of it — Kubrick's piece is equally painful but impersonal.

Some are fast, some are slow and some look and dance like Michael Jackson while getting pelted by anthropomorphized flowers.

Rocks pelt the car as we jerk around in the back seat like we're on a rickety wooden roller coaster.

«It has banged - up body panels, peeling paint, a cracked dash, an intermittent airbag warning light, and once - blue sheepskin seat covers that look like sun - bleached Cookie Monster pelts.

I can't picture his face anymore, but I do remember that he had pitched his booth at the top of a wide, stone staircase, and that, draping down from the top like water, were the pelts of maybe two dozen brown bears of all shapes and shades, mouths agape.

A few minutes later the rain pelting my truck sounded like firecrackers.

And it's dynamic weather, where the rain takes many shapes — teeming, drizzling, blowing, pelting, and pouring straight down, to name a few — and storm fronts come through like conquering armies.

Hubby dashed inside to ask the owner if he knew where we might find overnight accommodation, while I stayed in the car listening to freezing rain pelt our car like a hail of bullets...

Better to be like the great moral philosopher Linus van Pelt, who carried a candle at night, and his sister Lucy asked him why he was doing so.

Despite the about - face, initially this seemed like a bit of a buyers» strike really... brought on by a mild winter, sticker shock (after pelt prices doubled in 3 years), higher retail inventories, and signs of slowing Russian & Chinese growth.

That said, like that great moral philosopher Lucy van Pelt, I haven't ruled out stupidity yet.

That's just like have two of the same dogs, but different color pelts.

First, you will encounter the pelt - like plush coat that is like the coat on no other domestic cat.

In addition to the coastal resorts that established themselves in the «60s and «70s and any number of tomato - pelting, bull - running festivals made famous by Hemingway and the like, Spanish tourism nowadays seeks to cater to the visitor on the lookout for culture, for history, for sport, for spiritual retreats and food odysseys, riding, hiking climbing and skiing, painting and writing, winetasting and walking.

In addition to the coastal resorts that established themselves in the «60s and «70s and any number of tomato - pelting, bull - running festivals made famous by Hemingway and the like, Spanish tourism nowadays seeks to cater to the visitor on the lookout for culture, for history, for sport, for spiritual retreats -LSB-...]

The island Chumash performed a fox dance and probably used the pelts of foxes to make articles like arrow quivers, capes, and headdresses.

By Darryl Leniuk Special to The Globe and Mail (Canada's national newspaper) March 28, 2009 With each paddle stroke, sea spray pelts my face like driving rain.

After you kill an animal you can skin it, and the animal pelts can be crafted into things like larger ammo belts, slings that allow you to carry more weapons at once, and rucksacks to store your loot.

After being pelted with incendiary shuriken and throwing stars, nothing can spell vengeance like a swift slash of a blade across the neck.

The cover is a collage shaped like a moon made from mixed media, blankets, plastic pearls, aluminum foil, animal pelts, packaging tape, ink and other materials.

Since our early days as the global leader in the beaver - pelt industry, we've cut down trees, and dug up rocks, and pumped stuff out of the ground, and sold it to you — and others — so you could turn it into more useful things like furniture, appliances, houses, suburbia, and so on.

Answer: As of Jan. 1, a new Illinois statute allows furbearers like yourself to salvage pelts or even food from roadkill.

In order to get Warm Pelt in Monster Hunter World, you'll want to focus on taking down the smaller animals (like Kelbies) in the Monster Hunter World's open environments.

Then, when you factor in an emergency day or two for inclement weather, it can feel less like you're juggling multiple balls and more like you are just getting pelted by them.

Although I like them, I am feeling a bit pelted by pumpkins, and it also makes me feel a tad cynical about how blog promotions work.