Sentences with phrase «mere moments away»

Not exact matches

It's been a while since I made one SK Deb's delightful recipe, so I was happy to rescue two and one half overripe bananas away from — how did you put it — mere moments before the descent of fruit flies?

It seems like mere moments after I get the last dish dried and put away, it's time to make dinner again.

The home side and champions - elect were two goals to the good - the fireworks were being set up as Manchester City were a mere 45 minutes away from winning the Premier League against the eternal enemy in front of their own fans who have waited decades and decades for this moment.

Much better, and actually memorable, is the moment when a character is murdered so close yet so far from escape, in an alleyway mere steps away from a fireworks - festooned parade.

Instead of splurging the cash on extended action scenes early in the running time, Edwards instead gives us mere peripheral glimpses of the action through TV news coverage or unexpected cut - aways at the last moment.

Sometimes Ritchie makes his simplistic points simplistically: past - it Barbie doll Feldon pushes her lonely, tendresse - starved husband away and we're left looking at the blue - green - lit TV dinners in her freezer (the word «frigid» is mercifully delayed till their next interview); Michael Kidd, as a gruffly sentimental directorial superstar engaged by the local Jaycees to stage the spectacular, watches the Antelope Valley girl turn an onstage fumble into a sympathy - inducing bonus and murmurs, «They learn fast» (a mere reaction - shot cut to him at this point would have verged on the excessive; the line kills any validity the moment might have had); a drummer (screenwriter Jerry Belson, no less) watches one contestant segue into a striptease whose impiications are hilariously ambivalent in the context of so much plastic puffery, then exchanges glances with the orchestra leader and gives his drumstick a ribald stroke.

The very ground will heave and crack, gravity defying chunks of it breaking away and floating in mid-air, while the buildings twist and contort into strange angles, creating these amazing looking levels that are a twisted parody of the normal city which existed mere moments ago.

Keep frail young Frederick away from the windows, for he is consumptive, and a mere moment too long in the bluster could spell the end of his beautiful life.

You could easily begin your city tour the moment you land, with the Andersen being a mere 17 - minute train journey away from the airport; so, let us not waste any time and begin...

Just think: All of those piles of papers in your home office can be put away in mere moments.