Sentences with phrase «of piles of books»

If you're making a short film, and you want to illustrate a society that's falling into tyranny, you can just cut away to a scene of a pile of books burning, and everyone will know exactly what you meant.

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(Concerned digital readers should rest assured that I also have a stack of Kindles sitting right next to the pile of books.)

Miller dismissed both Bannon and Wolff's credibility, saying the author was a «garbage author of a garbage book,» and that claims in the book were «a pile of trash.»

Or we give up on that book we're writing or new online business we're starting because as we wade into the confusing middle of the project, complications pile up, and enthusiasm wanes.

Vernal says Zuckerberg typically has a pile of books on his desk, visible to all through the glass walls that surround it.

Companies are also sitting on piles of cash, with those in the Standard and Poor's 500 index holding nearly $ 1 trillion on their books.

Yes I realize the AFB and everyone else has a formula to balanced budgets, but with corporate taxes a mere shadow of what the were some 20 years ago, it will take a whole pile of growth or it will tax some major tax reform to keep the books out of the red and push into the black.

With free cash flow weak, Arcelor has resorted to piling a lot of debt on its books — about $ 12.1 billion net of cash, which makes its stock look even more expensive to me.

The books of carpet samples, now lying on the pile of putrid debris in the front of their house, revealed the muted color palette they were considering.

This book is expressively for entrepreneurs and business owners who wear many hats — those who can't resist piling more responsibility onto his own shoulders, who has more great ideas that time and resources to take advantage of them, who runs (not walks) through each day.

My hope is that this numerical system will be of growing use of as the number of book reviews piles up in the future.

While the book has no shortage of references to the parade of government programs aimed at stopping the crisis — TARP, HARP, HAMP, Quantitative Easings, Operation Twist, among them — the memoir is also a highly readable account that adds a sorely missed perspective to the growing pile of post-crisis postmortems.

This observation was brought delightfully home to me a few months ago, when I dropped a small pile of books on the checkout desk at my neighborhood public library.

In five minutes, I am on Katie's couch and her little Patricia has dragged up a pile of books and I am sitting criss - cross applesauce and reading The Ox - Cart Man aloud in Uganda with this little girl nestled on my lap, her head of braids tucked under my chin.

I believe in kitchen tables and piles of books.

There isn't much nicer for a young girl than a book like Heidi and being tucked in with a pile of pillows in a little hideaway, is there?

I have a pile of books about Francis on my desk.

Many of us do not seek heaven, or fear hell, or give a steaming pile what your edited, translated iron age comic book says.

A trial ensued, in which Servetus was once again condemned as a heretic, and on October 27, 1553, was burned at the stake on top of a pile of his own books.

Sometimes the books are piled high in a study, as in Fra Filippo Lippi's Annunciation, where Mary is clearly in the midst of some serious work.

Yes, I mean actual knitting — yarn, needles, piles of knitting pattern books based on literary heroines, fibre strands clinging to my black clothes, first - name - basis with the local yarn shop, Ravelry member kind of knitter.

There are piles of library books on the footstool.

As per Professor Crossan's analyses in his many books, the body of Jesus would have ended up in the mass graves of the crucified, eaten by wild dogs, covered with lime in a shallow grave, or under a pile of stones.

Because of some book that has been shown to be a pile of crap, with not a shred of evidence for any of its supernatural claims?

A pile of books about William Wilberforce have been published to coincide with this month's 200th anniversary of parliament passing a bill to outlaw the...

You can blow away any remaining support for the bible and argument over the details of its crazy contents (if anyone still tries to support that cr @p pile of a book) with the following anyway:

This year I vowed that, before I spent a fortune on new books, I would read some of the novels that have been piling up in my office over the last few years.

On a bright day in early autumn, I found myself sitting on the floor of my favorite bookstore with a pile of picture books two feet tall.

He's reading Curious George, turning pages, a stack of worn and creased «Daddy - don't - forget - to - read - this - one - too» books piled beside them.

Note I never said conclusive, but you really have NOTHING, while we an see the creation of your religion mirrors countless others, and because we can see man likes to create gods and religious beliefs, it is obvious that your book is just another one on the pile of baseless made up nonsense.

I counted today, and in my pile of books that I absolutely MUST read as soon as possible, there were 191 books.

Top of my pile was Molly's new book - All About Roasting.

I'm always caught up by books about women and their work so my bedside is piled with two kinds of books — cookbooks and biographies.

However, it's not uncommon for 90 % of the floor space to be taken up by piles of books, fancy heels that have been kicked off with relief at the end of a long day, and scattered recipe print - outs.

This has nothing whatsoever to do with this particular post, but I have to say this (long - winded though it is)... I currently have about 16 hours of documentaries recorded and waiting for me, 2 - 3 loads of laundry to wash, a pile of un-read books, baking of my own to do AND a beef & Guinness stew that needs making for my boyfriend's birthday dinner, and I just spent 3 hours straight reading your blog.

I've had the lovely book Baking with Julia in my cookbook collection for a while and have made some very successful and delicious recipes from it, but it had somehow gotten buried under the ever - growing pile of newer cookbooks over time.

A lovely book dedicated the joys of vanilla (there are many), the book got a bit lost in the pile of cookbooks that I'd been hoping to try out.

The book sounds great — I confess I bought the first substitutions book and haven't really spent much time with it because I bought it on holiday and when I got home it disappeared in the pile of goodies I had bought.

Even after returning borrowed books and ukuleles to generous friends, I'm sitting amidst a pile of art project leftovers and bulk pantry remainders.

When they re-emerged, I felt as if I'd come across a brand new pile of books - a little dusty, but aside from that there they were ready to provide me a few hours of reading on a particularly stormy afternoon.

On the little side table in my office, the one next to the cozy recliner I'm currently writing in, there's a pile of gardening books, seed catalogs, half - full journals and creative writing books.

As I write this post, I'm surrounded by a sea of cardboard boxes, stacks of books and papers, and a huge pile of food magazines that I'm not entirely ready to party ways with just yet.

Piled high to the ceiling with new books, old books, rare imprints and out - of - print titles, it's the kind of place one might have found Jack Burden doing research in All The King's Men.

Do you think that the pile of scrolls and books that the Archmaester has Sam copying as his punishment will turn out to be some of the off - limits tomes that he requested access to in the first place?

Both men picked up their fifth bookings of the season and in turn will sit out a game through suspension, but with a nine - point buffer over their rivals, Conte will be delighted that his side have piled the pressure on them to respond with Arsenal and Manchester City facing each other on Sunday.

«Paul Tough's excellent new book... rises to the top of the parenting book pile for its deep exploration of failure and the ways in which it builds character in our kids.»

While the pile of concussion books in my office continues to grow taller, seemingly with every passing day, one that will stay at the top of the very short pile of my favorites is Back in the Game: Why Concussion Doesn't Have To End Your Athletic Career (Oxford University Press, New York 2016) by sports neurologist Jeffrey Kutcher, M.D., and award - winning sports journalist Joanne Gerstner.

Also, if like me you have lost your tripod, set up a chair, then pile boxes, books and other flat things on top until you reach desired height, then sit the camera on top of all that to take the photo, hehe!

After a trip to the art store for a new pile of blank books (we like to make our own, but we're also big fans of Bare Books for this sort of project), the reading, the studying, the painting, the cutting and writing commebooks (we like to make our own, but we're also big fans of Bare Books for this sort of project), the reading, the studying, the painting, the cutting and writing commeBooks for this sort of project), the reading, the studying, the painting, the cutting and writing commenced.

If your daughter, niece, or grandchild is a Barbie fan already, a title like Barbie: I Can Be A Computer Engineer might catch your eye, but don't be deceived: as The Mary Sue reports, this book is a big a pile of sexist dreck as you're likely to find in the bookstore.