Sentences with word «mewling»

The first, Gordon's The Food of the Gods, makes the unfortunate choice of mewling its eco-theme loud and long in an opening voiceover by footballer protagonist Morgan (Marjoe Gortner, the decade's sensitive action hero).

We finally sat down at the end with big bowls of stew and lumps of rough bread and a cup of rainwater and about twenty cats mewling about our legs.

And this animal market — a sprawling rundown building honeycombed with cubicle - size stores and pierced by grungy skylights that filter the strong Beijing light — boasted scores of twittering songbirds, mewling kittens and chirping crickets.

We've been wondering what Eliot Spitzer's been doing with his time, other than atoning for his sins and mewling over what could have been and atoning some more.

You are the one who, along with HS and a bunch of other wackbaskets, mewl on about how awful everyone else is and how good you are and then turn around and make yourselves hypocrites.

There is something sort of thrilling and even sinister about Britney's song here, with her inky mewling taking on just the slightest hint of menace when played behind a thunder god marching towards vengeance, lightning bolt - ing undead armies over the rainbow bridge into the gaping maw of eternity.

The early days are like nothing else, with all the emotions, the joy, the tiredness and a tiny mewling newborn.

One episode is framed, clumsily, by flashbacks in which a younger and more virile Hank, seen exclusively in silhouette and shot at what appears to be magic hour, mewls misterioso about the chemistry of the human body as though he were screen - testing for an Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu film.

Throughout the film's opening stretch, Hoffman registers Ben's pent - up discomfort with a series of little mewling whimpers, and reveals a true gift for understated physical comedy in a very funny scene with Henry as a hotel desk clerk.

Whether the sneering demigod will be as impressive a force of nature without Joss Whedon to pump out superior dialogue (in the vein of his «mewling quim» rant at the Hulk in The Avengers) remains to be seen.

He bellows while Parker mewls, struts while she shrinks.

Some will cape for Stevens's whispery mewling, but the real threat is the increasingly seen, confoundingly beloved The Greatest Showman, which just might wriggle its way into a win at the last minute.

But now it's deployed as a juxtapositional joke — as when Eisenberg's character, Mike, trembles and mewls after he skillfully snaps the neck of an enemy.

I was in the truck, my Volvo 245 wagon was loaded on the trailer, the cats harnessed and mewling pitiably in the cab.

She was a colorless, skinny thing, mewling like a cat, and when I ushered her inside she started crying, tears so big and fat I worried she'd drown.

There's no cacophony — it being midsummer and high noon — but he can hear the thin, come - hither whistle of a phoebe from the woods in front, the fish hawk mewling as it circles high above the point.

The seabirds mewled and swooped, unnerved, it seemed, by the spectacle of that vast bowl of water bulging like a blister, lead - blue and malignantly agleam.

It is interesting to note that a cat's mewl for food sounds eerily like that of a human infant.

Unfortunately, it turns out things weren't running so smoothly: «It became clear to us around when the night - cat's gentle mewl rang clear over the Valley of the Forbidden that there were some mechanics that still needed tweaking,» said a representative from Nintendo.

Of course, whenever there's a blizzard or a blast of arctic air — as with the «bomb cyclone» in the northeast — environmentalists start mewling about how that, too, is a sign of global warming.

That leaves Shelley Winters to mewl in perfect self - pity as the hapless factory girl George knocks up before he knows what's hit him.

What a bunch of mewling, exculpatory pablum.

Her words puzzled me at the time but weeks or months later, numbed by lack of sleep and overwhelmed by being the whole world to this one little person, my maternal feelings retreated and I was left feeling confused and empty, with a mewling infant in my arms.

These warnings were disregarded as the mewling of Remoaners, intended to sabotage the project.

Jax (Hunnam), who has always been the weakest actor of the bunch, continues in his mewling, self - righteous, conflicted ways, taking focus from other more interesting characters and stronger actors.

The choice of this mewling ballad reflects Dick's occasional missteps in The Invisible War, like having Cioca read her old suicide note aloud.

It's tough to fault Josh Hutcherson for his performance in a role that's just this side of mewling; Peeta is a beta male through and through, pining for Katniss endlessly while she's off in the woods making out with Gale.

Dialogue snaps and enchants, humor never absent, even when it's time to mewl.

For the first hour and change of the finished film, the casting controversy seems a blessing in disguise for any Asian actress that might have had to shoulder such a mewling dud.

And Nadia (Noomi Rapace) is a timid Rocky - like local girl, who warily welcomes Bob into her life after he finds a mewling pit - bull puppy in her trash can.

Note that we are doing our best not to mention the mewling yuppies in Lincoln's ads.

They possess a vocabulary of sounds that suit their every mood: be it a purr or a growl, a mewl or a meow.

«It's not a good time,» she smiles at her left hand, clutching the handle of a mewling cat carrier.

The mewling heard during the stand off is distressing to human ears, but is a perfectly natural way for cats to have the conversation necessary to avoid physical contact.

When we find a mewling, helpless litter, the urge to jump in and save them can be very powerful.

But this isn't a game we're about to judge based on its illustrious lineage or the mewling vitriol of a few Internet fan boys.

Beset by raiders, famine and disease, Dion only survives by the swift intervention of Nikandreos and his willingness to arm himself with weapons / farm implements and butcher every person who isn't a mewling civilian.

Insofar as Dylan's made a career out of spewing, mewling and raging, it's pretty likely that he'll speak out on this matter before too long.

Streaming device platforms get better with age (well, usually) and I'm sure Android TV will mature in the coming months and years, but right now it's a mewling seal pup thrown into a swirling pool of sharks.