Sentences with phrase «like wads»

It is as if Allen has lifted them from the studio floor of Leon Kossoff or Frank Auerbach and stuck them — like wads of tar — onto an abstract painting, whose graphic imagery of symmetrical patterns evokes the symphonic abstractions of Frantisek Kupka and the Surrealist landscapes of Paul Nash.

the picture post cards she had seen, the novels of country squires she had read; it was this that he had to address, this immateriality which could not hear him or answer, deaf and impersonal like a wad of cotton.»

«The clot clogged his heart chamber like a wad of gum in a pipe.

When it comes to acne, ginger is like a wad of 60 dollars on the pavement which people glued to their phones keep walking past.

Why can't I ever find something good, like a wad of cash?

Rob described the original Kindle as «looking like wadded up cardboard» and I think he may be right.

An umbrella - like chandelier of fluorescent tubes trailing a tangle of wire tendrils, suggesting a maypole imagined by a hallucinatory Dan Flavin, is reflected here in the shiny black surface of an enormous tiled wall that has crumpled like a wad of paper (actually its starting point), frozen in midcollapse like a petrified lava flow.

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Forking over a wad of cash to promote the company might seem like the thing to do, but if your return on your investment is next to nothing, it could kill your company.

It's like if you needed to change a lightbulb and couldn't reach the fixture — OK, yes, if you pile up enough wads of hundred dollar bills you could climb up the mound and do the job, but buying a stool would seem a lot more sensible.

Self - aggrandizing «Christians» like Rob get their bloomers in a wad when others object to being told they must live according to some belief that is no more sensible than any other belief.

Line a standard 11x17» baking pan with parchment paper (tip: if using rolled paper, tear off a section, wad it up, and then flatten out - works like a charm!).

they do not like sauerkraut, they didn't even know it wad there.

You don't want to look cheap, so you order second cheapest bottle in hopes you don't look like a tight - wad and get a decent wine.

You could not be more wrong about comparing paulinho to gambau, he is a brazil national team starter FFS and against roma he wad surely missed with his pace and physicality but i think he is not a barca kind of player and he is not the best option for a big team like barcelona but still he is a good team player and we can use him as back up for rotation

He is blowing through wads of cash like there is no tomorrow, Lukaku could end up at 100m, he'll never be worth that price tag not imo.

It seems like there are loads of very good players that can be bought this transfer window with a big wad of cash, but as usual Wenger thinks this team «Can challenge for the title» with «Only one or two additions» and that's exactly what we'll get.

He's been dropping wads of cash like J - Law's been dropping her pants.

That said, I think wads / bites / hunks / balls like this are best made as free - form, creative, recipe - free items.

I feel like I can't be alone in the temptation to throw a wad of cash at any product that contains «collagen» in its title, as collagen is paramount in the battle against aging.

But after some hot glue intervention they started to actually look like a tree instead of a wad of paper.

Victoria — who like all sugar babies interviewed for this article, asked that her last name not be used — says that before she discovered the website, she'd had some experience dating older men who lavished her with gifts and the occasional wad of cash, but she never imagined she could finance her entire life and education that way.

He actually was just like handing out wads of cash to people on the street.

The impressive ensemble helps make proceedings go down a little easier, but it's still like trying to chew a wad of taffy that's way too large for one person to handle.

I didn't feel too much like defending the show's concept of completely random humor aimed at college - aged stoners after suffering through the misguidedly feature - length escapades of a pack of fries, a milk shake, and a wad of meat, laboriously titled (I hate having to write this) Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters.

And getting your panties in a twist over calling a publisher a legacy publisher is like getting them in wad over calling someone an author instead of a writer.

So, like the nosebleeds - yeah, I had these vicious splashy nosebleeds which I was kind of famous for with big wads of paper sticking out of my nose.

I mean if we have a couple that are both cheap tight - wad accountants like us, they're probably not going to have too many problems with debt.

Some things kind of stay in their stomach for really long times, like if it got all wadded up, so keep an eye on him.

While we like to joke about hairballs, and they are sometimes harmless, these wads of fur,...

Toss a ball or wadded up piece of paper for her to chase, use a fishing pole type toy like a feather dancer to stimulate her to chase and pounce, or provide interactive toys like round - a-bouts or treat dispensers.

Still others will say that Phu Quoc looks like a fat green wad of money.

He walks around with wads of cash If your honey is handing out hundreds like a Goodfella, that could be a sign of trouble.

This week we throw around opinions like we're Sony tossing wads of cash at Naughty Dog.

The intricacies of three dimensional space are instantly apparent in rail shooters like Star Fox, as are their need for more complex models and a very different approach (not to mention wads of cash an indie might not have in that piggy bank under the bed).

The drinking board's first order of business was to start making games again, many of them from some of Konami's hugely lucrative and immensely popular franchises that fans have been literally begging to throw huge wads of cash at for like, one million years.

Like the great Scottish poet, Robert Burns once wrote, «O wad some Pow» r the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us» *.

The circular red ribs that make up the urn - like form of Cherubini's «Morning Star» reflect the looping vase handles and linear flowers in Nichols's still lifes; the figure / field spatial disparity in Bischof's «Omi im Bregenzer Wald» is also found in Trudy Benson's «Yes, and...» from 2014 (evidently a play on Yes, but..., Dore Ashton's classic study of Philip Guston's late work, published in 1976), where beads of yellow paint resembling wads of chewed - up chewing gum seem to drift above a receding gray and green field, which is bordered in peach - and - gray shards intersecting with black - and - white stripes.

Identifying and inverting various YES or NO points in the operational flow chart led to the following experiments: Cutting a 6 × 9 foot piece of glossy paper by hand with a box cutter and wadding it up into the darkroom sink and pouring very hot and very cold chemistry onto it with the overhead lights on like in a regular room.

I could joke like Joseph Beuys would say he made his first artwork with blood and wadding when he was six months old.

Wind power is like that annoying tight - wad cousin who stays for a week, drinks your beer fridge dry and then leaves in the dead of night.

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Don't get too heavy - handed, though — people like to know you're hip to the Internet and not a trembling wad of social media paranoia.

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Just like Gold can be sunk with a pirate ship, or wads of dollar bills burned in a fire, digital currencies can also be lost and never found again on the Blockchain.

I became hooked on the mildly dangerous rituals involved in making one: I loved splitting logs with a maul and bringing the chunks inside in our white canvas log carrier; I loved executing the intricate network of kindling and logs that would ensure a roaring blaze; and perhaps most of all, I loved windmilling the jumbo fireplace matches across the sandpaper matchbox - bottom like Pete Townsend, then touching them to the newspaper wads strategically located in the log structure.

And if stuff moves, i like beeswax better than poster putty, but have been known to make a duct tape wad if necessary.

It was part of a whole series of snapshots he posted that flashed his wealth, other pics included his arm covered in Rolex watches, piles of diamond - encrusted jewellery and a wad of cash that he held to his ear like a mobile phone.

We ended up with a giant wad of hair just like yours!