Sentences with phrase «like shiny stuff»

In LA, people like shiny stuff.

Not exact matches

Though I certainly like my share of stuff (hello, shiny objects) I believe in acquisition as a mindful curator rather than simply a consumer.

When we mold it into formal wear, we add up shiny, glittery elements to it like diamnontis, or use any self - embroidered stuff and add up the hand or machine work to adorn it.

If you are a person that always likes to be up to date when it comes to fashion trends, I'm pretty sure you already know that this year, catwalks were flooded with shiny and glittery stuff.

Take a look, and you tell me if the notorious photographer's tattooed arms and veiny hands groping at shiny red stuff makes you feel like dropping over a grand per item on marked - up luxury accessories.

Other than that, the graphics aren't all that impressive as of yet and I can't say I like all this shiny stuff — it just doesn't fit.

I cleaned the hinges of my doors and tailgate, the grease had attracted all sorts of dirt and turned black, tar - like and abrasive (metal shiny when I wiped the stuff off).

The grille dazzles with the shiny stuff, all lit up in the sunlight like the encore of a Pink Floyd show.

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

And then I remembered, I had an agent, a great agent, I wrote great books (so all the rejecting editors told me) and yes, you are right, self pub has given my stories a voice and an ear and the chance to be read, when they otherwise would have still been gathering dust on my hard drive, yet, on the other hand this is hard, REALLY HARD, it is SO hard to find your way to a readership as a SP, with limited funds (dwindling)... and the glimmer of trad pub — with their power to splash your name around established circles of readers, and their ability to secure a great number of reviews where, as a self pub, doors have been slammed in my face — becomes temptingly shiny again, (it's like childbirth, you forget all the painful stuff with time)... and it all gets very tempting... almost tempting enough to consider sacrificing one work JUST one artistic premise for the trade off of visibility... and then perhaps, just perhaps THEN, my SP efforts will finally sprout wings... but then I hear you and other say, it wasn't worth it, you'd never do it again, and I sigh... And then I wake up the next morning and think of packing it all in, and going to work for Walmart and steady shitty pay... lol And then along comes this blog post.

«We get so hung up on stuff like stainless steel appliances,» Ladouceur says, recalling a couple who became fixated on a home because of its shiny, fresh - looking kitchen.

More importantly as we teeter on the brink of the next - generation, ready to welcome in bigger worlds and shinier stuff, Call of Duty feels like it needs another Modern Warfare event to revitalise the series, and so the question is do Activision, Treyarch and Infinity Ward have the balls to do it?

As always the software is a doddle to navigate, having seemingly been designed so that even entirely drunken Scots like myself can at least figure out how to make the keyboardy thingy all shiny and pretty and stuff.

Yes, I know, FIFA makes people that look more like the real players and it's all slick and shiny and stuff.

I would say the trophy room though is probably a little of each, but it's more of happy accomplishments and stuff I like over a LOOK AT MY SHINY THINGS.

Amazed at how dreary, dull and — like a lot of sixties stuff — how tacky it looked, with its shiny new coat of gold and green gloss and its rather wonky orthogonality.

Along the east coast, in recycling meccas like Guiyu (above), much of the trash pile is made up of our shiny stuff (iPods and Powerbooks and phones), sent back to its country of origin in the form of toxic - tinged computer waste.

Where the standard M2 has a shiny plastic rear that's basically an impersonation of glass, the Aqua version has a textured translucent top layer that makes the rear feel a bit like textured glass — the kind of stuff used in the mouse trackpads of high - end laptops like the MacBook Air.