Sentences with phrase «lumbering about»

Her 2007 paintings on butter dishes, jugs, plates and tureens overlay the glazed crockery with fat - cat country squires lumbering about on horses, black servants and slaves, querulous ladies pondering the abolition of slavery, in a motley procession of 18th and 19th - century types.

The continuing glut of zombie movies hasn't taken any bite out of this social satire, in which slackers find it hard to tell when their fellow citizens start lumbering about and feasting on humans.

As if getting out was trippy enough with soldiers murdering everyone in sight, a Psycho Mantis - like child floating through the halls, and a «Man on Fire» lumbering about; Snake soon finds himself being chased by a demon riding a unicorn.

The entire first half the only thing I seen him do was rub his groin / hip area before lumbering about slowly.

Not so much a sequel as another stultifying character drama set in a world overrun by aliens, this 10 - years - later spinoff switches directors and genres, as first - timer Tom Green (building on experience from British TV's «Misfits» and «Blackout») helms a taxingly over-earnest war movie set in an unspecified Middle Eastern country, where American soldiers deal with insurgents while the menacing MTRs (as they're now called) lumber about in the background.

I was struck by how clumsy the turtle was as it lumbered about awkwardly.

Not exact matches

The Kruger family business is about as diverse as a company can be, with products spanning paper and lumber to wine and wind farms.

Contractors are already grappling with higher prices on key materials for construction projects like diesel fuel, steel, copper, wallboard, and lumber, said Ken Simonson, chief economist for the Association of General Contractors, a lobbying group with about 26,000 members which also includes suppliers.

Companies surveyed for the Institute for Supply Management's services index released on Wednesday said that while they're still expanding, they're worried about the tariffs and volatile swings in prices for lumber, steel and aluminum that make planning difficult.

The countries have clashed over the North American Free Trade Agreement, American tariffs on Canadian lumber, and Canada's recent complaint to the World Trade Organization about American trade practices.

More specifically, it's about who gets to fill the U.S. demand for lumber in the event of a hot construction market like the present one, when American supply falls short.

He'd promised to bring back jobs for the middle class; the U.S. National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), meanwhile, warned a 25 per cent duty on Canadian lumber imports would result in about 8,000 job losses in the U.S.

The U.S. housing sector, which relies on Canadian lumber imports, makes up about 15 to 18 per cent of U.S. GDP.

Canadian lumber exporters had to pay U.S. duties for nine months of 2017, totalling about C$ 500 million, but managed to pass the cost on to their U.S. consumers.

Central Nova Scotia MP Sean Fraser, whose riding includes several softwood lumber producers, estimated the province's annual softwood lumber exports at about $ 90 million.

«The last softwood lumber agreement didn't work for the tens of thousands of people who lost their jobs with the closure of about 100 local mills.

Disputes over the softwood lumber trade — which applies to wood originating from conifers, about 80 % of the global lumber industry — have plagued bilateral relations between the two states since the 1980s, and have most recently been addressed by the 2006 agreement.

The Trump administration has already made noises about wanting to get rid of NAFTA's dispute - settlement regime, which Canada has used successfully to fend off previous U.S. attacks on its lumber.

The book is about a time and place very much like that of my childhood, the Ottawa Valley, when lumber was king.

It would be a nice looking loaf for my friend, since I bartered bread for a bunch of her old canvases from last semester (a total score for me, since a handbuilt stretcher costs about $ 15 of lumber from Lowe's).

Everyone goes on about not playing players out of position then indulges the whippet in his belief about striker potential... he ain't and never will b... the difference with the ox when he came on was obvious last night... We have been lumbered with this overrated guy forb a decade now... Why we upped his wages is a mystery to me but torpedoes any talk of wenger's managerial prowess that is for sure

Wenger lost the plot when he brought in Giroud... what about the beautiful game involves having a lumbering striker who's main attribute is holding up play... our success with Wenger, and even before, came with pace and clinical striking up front, having a boss in the midfield and having physically imposing CBs... what about Wright, Bergkamp, Anelka, Henry or RVP remind anyone of Giroud (minus the left foot of course)... the formula was broken, which didn't have to be the end of our success, but when you adopt half - measures you can't expect things just to work themselves out on their own... at the very least Wenger should have brought in some wingers that can consistently cross the ball and then spend significantly more time addressing our lack of success with set pieces... ultimately this is why we continued to struggle with consistency and continued to constantly play people in the wrong positions

Shutdown Fullcast's reckless season preview series lumbers onward, adding Georgia, Michigan State, TCU and a couple teams I forget talking about at this time without looking it up.

Unencumbered executive leaders worry about being lumbered with the blame for any failures of national security, because their autonomy leaves them exposed to carrying the can.

Three dilapidated buildings sit on a vacant lumber yard in the Town of Smithtown and have been abandoned for about 12 years, according to town Councilman Edward Wehrheim.

«If you're building a deck, you have to cut large sections of lumber to length, and that's often done on site,» says CSAIL postdoc Jeffrey Lipton, who was a lead author on a related paper about the system.

As the first giant tortoise, weighing in at about 100 kilograms, started to lumber aboard the platform at Rotterdam's zoo, Chiari thought, «Oh my gosh, it's going to crush everything.»

If you owned a lumber company, and learned that mud and brick made stronger homes, would you tell everyone about it?

Montana About Blog Superior Hardwoods of Montana is a reclaimed lumber company selling flooring, siding, timbers, engineered hardwood flooring, and more.

Peter Debruge of Variety also finds it to be a «lumbering, confused, and cacophonous mess,» but, while acknowledging that it's almost impossible to divorce the film from its production woes, Indiewire's Eric Kohn writes, «It's sloppy and amateurish in parts, but always reaching for something, often resulting in a fascinating half - formed beast working through a lot of baggage: a vanity project about the nature of vanity, centered around one of literature's most famous examples, in the context of the most famous vanity projects of all time coming to fruition.

But, lumbered with a story that struggles to find resonance beyond its improbable plot devices and preposterous MacGuffinry, Justice League isn't about to steal Avengers» super-team crown.

With no momentum and no real characters to care about, [Eragon] lumbers its way toward a grand, sequel - setting finale.

He is a mess as only Depardieu can be a mess — lumbering and slovenly — and looks about as innocent as a bad - guy wrestler.

Under the masterful direction of Hayao Miyazaki, this animated film brings to life an enchanted, smoke - belching castle that plods about the countryside like a great lumbering animal.

I could talk about how Tara Reid can not act, how half of the cast are so lumbered with the role of red shirt that they don't have a personality or even a name, or how some of the dialogue is so cringe - worthy that you have to pause the movie to let the awful line sink in (although some of the puns appeal to the terrible comedian within me — «jumping the shark?»

(Radders is lumbered with a «little did I know I was about to meet the man who would change my life» narration).

Hardly the mere home invasion thriller it's been marketed as, this is an angry film for an angry time, a heavy, at times lumbering, allegorical work about woman and man, nature and God, painstakingly made from a script the writer - director claims he dashed off in five days; its unrefined, somewhat all - purpose symbolism is evidence of an almost demonic process, and its confusions, self - lacerations, and silliness would be less welcome if Aronofsky hadn't in the process mounted the most technically impressive filmmaking of his career.

Talk with children about the attributes of trees — they clean our air, they provide many foods, they give animals homes, they provide lumber to build homes... After you have compiled a good list, invite children to think about why it might be nice to be a tree.

Later, we sampled the same route in a stripped - down XL SuperCab with 1,000 pounds of lumber in the bed (about half its payload).

A vehicle of this size and weight should lumber and pitch about when pushed but the Bentayga shrugs off fast bends and tight corners with contempt, remaining utterly composed even over rough road surfaces.

Each of the three beds is about 22 inches deep and shaped to accept 2x8 - foot lumber dividers.

The following is a look at some of these haulers of families, pets, drywall, lumber, race cars, horses and just about anything else.

Have hauled 1000 # of lumber, inside, and about 1000 # of landscape edging bricks.

It seemed the Allegiance had in her lumbering way still managed to get into flying distance of not one but three lawful prizes, on the way to Madras, and another one on the way back, when Hammond's urgent need of a transport to carry Temeraire to Rio had necessitated her abrupt about - face and return.

But revolutions don't actually happen overnight, especially if you're talking about turning around an entire diseased, lumbering industry, like publishing.

Perhaps surprisingly, until only about forty years ago, trading futures markets consisted of only a few commodity farm products, however, now they have been joined by a huge number of tradable financial and other tradable products such as precious metals like gold, silver and platinum; livestock such as hogs and cattle; energy contracts such as crude oil and natural gas; foodstuffs like coffee and orange juice; and industrials like lumber and cotton.

A new tariff on Canadian lumber threatens to further disrupt homebuilding at a time when lenders are increasingly concerned about a purchase mortgage resurgence that has failed to materialize.

As Hurricane Harvey lumbered toward Houston, Perkins had one eye glued to her iPhone and the other on TV, watching «Outdaughtered,» a reality show about a family with quintuplets.

Over time it fell into disuse and in 1906 was about to be razed for lumber.

Montana About Blog Superior Hardwoods of Montana is a reclaimed lumber company selling flooring, siding, timbers, engineered hardwood flooring, and more.