Sentences with phrase «like tombstones»

One might expect a closure or an obstacle, like those tombstones.

Rusted out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation (BREATHLESS, EXAGGERATION).

Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted - out factories, scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge; and the crime, and the gangs, and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential.

The presentation of some doodads — like tombstones used by the finance companies to mark closed deals or T - shirts passed out by Silicon Valley companies after each successful stage of a project's development — give employees both a moment in the spotlight and a tangible reminder of it.

He was about six feet tall, and his skeleton was a dirty, grayish color, like a tombstone.

Gunung Kawi (Historical Site) is a name of place located in Tampak Siring District famous with the ancient relics including old temple look like the tombstone (grave), Hindu Temple and an ancient miniature of old Balinese living concept made from the stones.

It has been widely commented that «Black Box», which was initially inspired by an office filing cabinet, looks more than a little like a tombstone — or «monument» in mortuary parlance.

Not exact matches

Like the hypochondriac who wanted «I told you so» inscribed on his tombstone, prophecy believers relished the sweet delight of knowing that someday their vision of the end,: and theirs alone, would be fulfilled.

Just like pharisees of Jesus» day, who spoke the big swelling words, but were the whitewashed tombstones, full of dead bones, because of their hypocrisy!

«What I would like them to say, what I would like to have written on my tombstone: «He tried.»

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The tombstone has since been replaced over the years, but the one in the park looks very much like the original.

I like moonlit strolls in cemeteries and growing up I would spend hours at cemtereies reading tombstones until I would find the...

Liam Neeson cut his teeth performing in searing dramas, but pivoted to Death Wish - style action in his twilight years, having mowed through a variety of gangsters, thugs, and deadbeats in films like Taken, A Walk Among The Tombstones, Taken 2, Non-Stop, and Taken 3.

And then, a film like «A Walk Among the Tombstones» may be put aside just because it has action elements.

Tombstone benefited from the renewed interest in Westerns following the previous year's Oscar - winning Clint Eastwood picture Unforgiven, but in hindsight, it also seems like a precursor to HBO's Deadwood series in its ambition and sprawling cast of characters.

Run All Night manages to have a bench that runs so deep with talent that you even have bit characters being fleshed out and given real weight, thanks to accomplished character actors like Vincent D'Onofrio (Daredevil), Bruce McGill (Rizzoli & Isles), Boyd Holbrook (A Walk Among the Tombstones), and Patricia Kalember (Law & Order: SVU).

Kurt Russell is known for his iconic roles in countless movies, whether he played a badass (The Thing, Tombstone, Escape From N.Y.) or a goofball (Big Trouble in Little China, Overboard, etc.) He's one of the very rare stars who can be cool and funny simultaneously — and Russell thinks Chris Pratt is like that too,...

Indeed the Fight Club cult that Norton sets up under the tutelage of his brutal disenfranchised alter ego / evil - twin, Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), digresses into a flesh - chewing tombstone that gets dumped on the floor like so much bloody brain matter.

Point at the tombstone - shaped central touchscreen — part of a handsomely upgraded iDrive system — to accept an incoming call, or wave a haughty hand to dismiss it like a time - pressed Hollywood agent.

The back of my stomach went cold when it slowed and then stopped, watching me across the tombstones like a sheet - steel animal of prey.

Left eye of dog NOT affected with GRPU (note normal light golden brown iris color); note semi-transparent iridociliary cysts arising at the 7:00 to 11:00 position from behind the brown iris, like «crowded tombstones».

If you are religious or you simply like sacral art, there is plenty of sarcophages, tombstones, and altarpieces to enjoy.

Another tweak to the gameplay is the enhanced Krypt mode which is basically a first person game that allows players to unlock additional content for their fighters like costumes and new moves as you search for tombstones to break.

I do like how the game will only ever make you wait for about ninety seconds before giving you a match against bots, meaning you can still gain the exp you don't in skirmish games without having to wait ages for players, its great for the types of people that aren't big on multiplayer, each vehicle has unlockable skins, voice lines, tombstones to mark deaths and emotes for bragging rights, the game also features a leveling system with loot boxes for unlockable gear and titles at each level up, meaning there are always rewards for even the casual player to earn which is great for replay value.

I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank.

First, Like A Thief In The Night offers an image of a gravedigger, followed by We Done All We Could And None of It's Good, A Nocturn, in which the titular words read on two matching tombstones.

Among the shallowness and the amateurism of these paintings, Denis Tarasov's powerful photographs of mobster tombstones — that develop an interesting connection with Marianne Vitale's wooden graves — appeared like precious diamonds.

In a 2006 series of wall reliefs made of white sponge stretched over wood, Amado once again references Minimalism — in this case to the white paintings of Robert Ryman — while presenting symbolically suggestive words such as «desire,» «beauty,» and «death» that appear like raised inscriptions on tombstones, which clouds their meanings in mystery and ultimately leaves interpretations ambiguous and open - ended.

From one famous formula creator to another, we're guessing that Einstein might appreciate the fact that Hawking once said, «I would like this simple formula to be on my tombstone.»

On its own website, the «Welcome to Colma» sign looks like it's inscribed on a tombstone, and its official slogan is «It's great to be alive in Colma.»

Although both games ran smoothly, details like the gnarled tombstone - gray musculature of the hulking Titan monstrosity were sharper on the Razer Phone.

The pair lost in the finals, but not before getting rave reviews from the judges for their creative confections, including «Cheddar Habanero Crisp» (the habanero pepper was an ingredient with a «twist,» just like every soap opera has), «Strawberry Chocolate Seduction» (which was topped with two figures in a bed made from fondant), and a tombstone - topped «Gluten - Free Escaping Death» cupcake (because someone's always cheating death on soap operas, Friedman said).

Upper cabinets are the giant tombstones in a kitchen graveyard filled with unused dishes, useless appliances, and forgotten cans of food you never liked in the first place.