Sentences with phrase «neat piles of»

Is this a nostalgic, symbolic reimagining of the Russian city from which his parents had fled, a homeland and refuge he never had, or an allusion to the neat piles of boots stacked in Nazi concentration camps?

Lucas has a broad oak desk covered in neat piles of paper and a framed black - and - white photograph of a woman whom I take to be his wife.

Much later, while vacuuming and shifting furniture, a neat pile of pills was discovered under a chair, just where Willie had stashed the stack.

Not exact matches

Salad isn't his thing, though he does always eat it, and if there are too many extra veggies in it, there is always a neat little pile on the side of his plate.

Grumbling while I gather my scattered paperwork from throughout the year, spend three hours organizing it into neat little piles across the kitchen table, then three more hours with a pad of paper and calculator, tallying up the numbers again and again and again, just to be sure... Whoah.

Cover fully with lettuce, then divide the shrimp between the two sandwiches, arranging them in neat piles in the center of the lettuce.

Rather than depicting a neat little pile of the ingredients, the new packaging indicates the bars» explosion of flavor by artfully sprinkling them across the box.

That wasn't working out here, so I neatly piled a couple spoonfuls of toppings on my mushroom, with a pretty little cilantro leaf, making it look as neat as I could.

Remove the greens to a cutting board and make a neat round pile in the center of the board.

YANGON (Reuters)- A group of women dressed in green sarong - like longyis and simple white blouses stand around a table piled with census forms entering neat notations on spread sheets by hand.

But, there's something about the soothing process of folding all of those clean, white cloth diapers into a neat pile and actually finishing a task!

About 10 yards from the mass grave, the team found another cache of bones that are probably the result of the same incident: mostly skulls and femurs, stacked in relatively neat piles.

Santino, a resident of the Furuvik Zoo in Gävle, Sweden, calmly gathered stones in the mornings and put them into neat piles, apparently saving them to hurl at visitors when the zoo opened as part of angry and aggressive «dominance displays.»

After piling her hair into a messy French twist, hairstylist Chris McMillan wrapped a piece of black elastic around her head twice, tying it off in a neat knot at the nape of her neck.

Ours was snowy, and MAN was it neat to wake up and see piles of the stuff for more than one day this time!

Penelope Houston cited the opening scenes of The Bride Wore Black in summarising the Hitchcock connection with Moreau's character: «In the opening sequence, she is unmistakably playing Marnie: the half - packed suitcase, the neat little piles of bank notes, the doleful parting from mother and sister, and the moment when, having sadly boarded the train on one side, she ducks briskly down on the other and marches back along the platform (Marnie camera angles all around) on her errand of vengeance.»

The brightly lit room into which Peter stepped looked as he imagined an autopsy room might -; but, instead of human cadavers, books lay on the counters in various states of disassembly next to neat lines of knives and piles of various kinds of paper.

It is very easy to monetize a pile of cash and convert it into a neat dividend machine, which will deposit cold hard cash into your brokerage account regularly.

They made a neat little pile that made us think of The Island of Misfit Toys, and these clearance /» unwanted» toys are just the perfect companions to cheer up the dogs sitting at shelters for ages, who some may see as unwanted as well.

If you really want your bird to choose its own name, a neat thing to try is to write down several names you like on pieces of paper and put them in a pile.

Offerings of fresh fruits and vegetables accumulate on these tables, at times massed into bountiful piles, at times organized into neat patterns.

This pile here is such - and - so, that pile there is the tax material, and the red file sticking out has the notes I've been making... But on my computer I tend to go neat and hierarchical, with a more rigid taxonomy and maybe overlapping (i.e. piles) of windows.

The «Z» brick siding needs to be re-glued; looks like a bunch of faded «Z» bricks have been pushed under the unit in a neat pile under the dripping toilet pipe.

Once the last flake has dropped, simply grab the far edge of your tarp and pull it back over itself, allowing the snow to roll and slide into a neat, out - of - the - way pile in your lawn.

I surely have a compulsion or obsession with having «things in order» because while all the cabinets are surely lovely and the contents beautiful as well, it is all the neat stacking and pretty piles of organized goodness I am drawn to!

It doesn't always stay so neat (I currently have piles of fabric everywhere!)