Sentences with phrase «of creaky»

The TiVo Roamio OTA is a hulking piece of creaky plastic, more like a cable box than a modern streaming device.

What is the effect of the creaky hotel McEwan creates, and the crashing permanent waves on a beach where the temperatures are still chilly in June?

One involves the lifting of a creaky security gate so a camel can saunter past.

Not without its faults and moments of creaky pretension, Blue Valentine manages at the end to provoke a real, resonant response to what it means to lose love to the ugly realities of living.

Communing with the spirit of «The Shining,» Ovredal spins the material into a minimalist haunted house story in which the slow approach of a dead person's footsteps on the other side of a creaky door holds far more terrible possibilities than any given jump scare.

Insidious, on the other hand, looks backward — it's a timeless, ruthlessly efficient scream machine that plays like a spiffed - up version of a creaky old Universal monster movie.

With such an in - house cast of extended Coppola family sparklers, one would think things couldn't go too wrong in the comedy department, but they have little chance to oil the wheels of a creaky script written around Sheen.

Earlier in the season, especially after Jordan Peele and Greta Gerwig were not nominated for best - director Golden Globe awards, it looked as if the directors» race might be tinged with injustice, a distillation of creaky prejudices about women and people of color directing movies.

What separates «Black Panther» from the Batmans, Spidermans and Iron Mans of the creaky, big studio superhero genre is that it looks and, more important, feels nothing like the usual bloated franchise movie that takes no chances and plays by genre rules.

The mooted Stooges - Sean Penn, Jim Carrey, Benicio del Toro - dodged a bullet judging by this muddle of creaky slapstick and laugh - free plotting.

During his tenure as executive director of the Port Authority, Delta launched a $ 1.2 billion expansion of its creaky terminal at JFK airport.

Sure it was old and had the quirks of a creaky old barn, but its walls, curtains and seats had witnessed greatness, from the ridiculous to the sublime... No charges were ever filed, even though it was called arson.

and both have the imprimatur of their creaky national machines.

In Saturday's case, a former federal cabinet minister renowned as one of his generation's shrewdest campaigners made good on yet another case of frontrunner status, having earlier this year easily seized the helm of the creaky PC ship and seamlessly executed a merger vote to fuse the Tories and Wildrosers into a single party.

Not exact matches

Some of us start to feel creaky and absent minded well before retirement.

While utilities have long discouraged energy storage by homeowners and industrial consumers because it threatens their revenue model, Brown says it makes a lot of sense, not just for enabling more renewable power but for lightening the load on old, creaky infrastructure.

Worse, they are producing that energy using creaky old coal plants that are, apart from generating a lot of pollution, sometimes unreliable.

Whether it's your first day as an entrepreneur, or you're a creaky veteran of business, you know that finding, recruiting and keeping the right talent is essential to business survival and success.

In the summer of 1983 Foster's leveraged net worth paid for 500,000 square feet of medieval - looking foundries, 200,000 square feet of ramshackle storage warehouses, a couple dozen creaky overhead cranes, four two - story electric furnaces, and countless other pieces of aging appurtenances.

«There's nothing like walking from the 1st floor of a modern looking expensive, trendy restaurant until you get out of the public area and go down the creaky unpainted wooded stairs and find a basement with damp stone foundation walls, puddles of water on the ground, and a crew of people cooking soup in a 10 gallon pot which is on the ground at the time.»

Fiber offers speed and reliability that creaky old copper networks can only dream of.

Many entrepreneurs lie awake at night, either with sweet dreams of disrupting an old creaky market or nightmares of disruption in their own industry.

Yet if Feyerabend is correct, and an unpopular new theory can ignore or reject experimental data long enough to get its footing, how much longer can an old and creaky theory, buttressed by the reputations and influence and political power of hundreds of established practitioners, continue to hang in the air even when the results upon which it is premised are exposed as false?

A couple weeks in the parish looking around at things, assessing the state of the Sunday school or catechetical education or the decrepit office equipment, with your head simply bubbling with all the latest liturgical gizmos plus a really whiz - bang theory about the authorship of John, and you will wonder how this creaky old congregation ever managed to survive without you.

I look forward all day to this moment, the moment when she begins to settle and we find our way to the creaky old rocking chair in the corner of the room to page through these old favourites one last time.

For example, it is a general or pure possibility that I might win the 100 - meter dash in the next Olympic Games, but this is not a real possibility given my creaky joints, advancing years, etc. «Real potentiality» refers to those possibilities for the ingression of eternal objects which still remain after one strikes from consideration the impossibilities which the conditions of a given, factual world eliminate from the horizon of any particular actual entity or set of actual entities arising out of that world.

It's based in a sprawling old house with creaky hardwood floors in a largely black section of the city called Walltown; drug problems and civic neglect give the neighborhood a reputation as a dangerous place.

And a recent overhaul of a formerly creaky website now sees thousands introduced to the magazine through online articles, blogs and news features.

As we age, our own bodies» collagen production goes down and that's when signs of aging start popping up, like wrinkles and creaky joints.

But he was a creaky 41 years old now and barely recovered from an attack of hepatitis and a mishap which saw three ribs pulled loose from the sternum.

It was a cold day in November when Jean - Claude Killy, creaky and unsure of himself after almost five years of retirement, poised at the top of a snowy slope in Aspen, Colo. and thought, «Well, here we go again.»

It's a creaky old black and white gem chiefly remarkable because of the several Arsenal players including Cliff Bastin and Eddie Hapgood who actually play in the film.

His critics say he doesn't have sideline - to - sideline range, that his knees are creaky (he was held out of early preseason games) and that he's coming off a down year.

Atletico, under the stewardship of Diego Simeone, sit second in La Liga and possess a front two of Antoine Griezmann and Diego Costa that should test Arsenal's creaky defence.

United's creaky and injury - ravaged defence has been their Achilles heel since Van Gaal took over and there is no sign of things improving.

But what I want to talk about today is that bleak, creaky, sand - in - your - brain - gears, hot, searing feeling of being awake between the hours of 2 and 5 am with a child.

And finally, because the basket is made up of woven fibres, they are often very creaky & scratchy which can keep parents and baby awake.

12:28 - Richard Ottoway, Con, snarly and creaky and oddly wholesome, says there are serious constitutional issues on the lack of debate about euthanasia.

New York City's creaky and opaque Freedom of Information Law process will soon get a long - overdue transparency and efficiency makeover.

A behind - the - scenes effort to make major changes to the sprawling but creaky state Workers» Compensation Board is off the table and unlikely to be part of the 2016 - 17 budget, those on both sides of the issue acknowledged.

The Manhattan borough president, Scott M. Stringer, will call on Tuesday for restoring New York City's long - abandoned suburban commuter tax to help stabilize the finances of the region's creaky mass transit network.

He listens to everyone who trudges up the battered, creaky staircase and enters his office with a look of hope or, sometimes, desperation.

The nation's system of public financing presidential elections is «creaky» Obama said today, offering another possible argument for bypassing, waffling, going back on his promise.

A few months later, I call Piatek and catch him creaky - voiced, lying in the bed of a hotel room in Bally's casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

But it also made possible the building and continuous operation of at least a small and creaky space station; the launching and in - orbit repair of hundreds of satellites, telescopes, detectors, and space probes; and the conducting of a slew of space - based experiments that contributed immensely to a range of fields.

Creaky physical conditions at U.S. airports are reminiscent of those in developing nations.

A form of speech known as vocal fry that is low in pitch and creaky sounding is increasingly common among young American women.

There has never been a better time to upgrade some of those older creaky appliances that are gobbling up much more energy (or water) than they need to in your home.

More than three decades in the making, its elegant mathematical structure was intended to replace the «standard model», the eminently serviceable but sometimes creaky and in parts aesthetically unpleasing theoretical construct that is currently our best description of matter's fundamental workings.

A curious vocal pattern has crept into the speech of young adult women who speak American English: low, creaky vibrations, also called vocal fry.