Sentences with phrase «of pokey»

With a wonderfully creepy score by regular Brian De Palma collaborator Donaggio, the movie gets a lot of mileage out of pokey source material.

Scott spends the first two acts attempting to build the foundations of a pokey, urgent science - fiction drama, and then pulls an aggressive U-turn, opting for all - out carnage.

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Most women have experienced one or many of the indignities of a poorly fitting bra, including saggy cups, itchy tags, pokey underwires, and a band so tight that it causes ripples in one's back or, more unflatteringly, in one's boobs.

Molly wasn't enamored of Moravia's pokey pace and wanted to use basketball as her ticket out.

I'm in love with this dress because it's made from a super soft, stretchy modal material, doesn't have any itchy tags or pokey seams AND best of all, it can be worn for nursing after the baby arrives.

It just is what it is,» she says, sitting in her pokey office in the Palace of Westminster.

My office looks directly into the pokey workplace of a Conservative MP, and I often see what he's looking at on the net.

The party would also encourage houses to be built instead of «pokey flats», scrap Whitehall rules against putting in sufficient parking and garden space, and give local communities more of a say in where new homes are built.

And Westminster Abbey can be a bit pokey, but when the place is going to be full of dodgy geezers («bums» in the Daily Mail's diplomaticspeak) then squeezing in a couple of former prime ministers is not a big ask; especially as Conservative former PMs are invited.

It's tragic to see children being led into dark, pokey little corners of medieval superstition.

If I am really feeling pokey, I will make beet - based juice with a boatload of ginger.

The idea of cloth diapers dredges up unpleasant visions for some — pokey pins, leaks and other unmentionables.

If you own any Real Techniques or Sonia Kashuk brushes, then you know that while they are good quality and sold at acceptable price point, some of the brushes have that «pokey» feel with shedding issues.

Some of my MAC brushes are getting rough and pokey, so I'll look into these!

Don't worry if you have «two left feet» - I spent six years training at the Gangnam - Style School of Dance, and can teach you how to do the hokey pokey for a nominal fee

Do nt worry if you have two left feet - I spent six years training at the Gangnam - Style School of Dance, and can teach you how to do the hokey pokey for a.

While the pokey details have included the protracted not - quite - romance between Erica and Father Jack (Joel Gretsch) and the precise loyalties of black - ops and terrorism expert Hobbes (Charles Mesure), the new year brings at least a veneer of urgency.

Devotees of Cage at his most unhinged won't want to miss his performance here, during the course of which he smashes a pool table to smithereens with a sledgehammer while singing «The Hokey Pokey.»

Hopefully you have the baseball bat in your sticker collection, because there are few greater joys in Sticker Star than knocking every piece of Tower Power Pokey right out of the park — er, pyramid.

In this one, schlub Richard (Michael C. Hall) shoots a home invader who happens to be the son of real bad man Russell (Sam Shepard), someone who, fresh from the pokey, arrives in Richard's small Texas town for his pound of flesh.

A pokey plot thickens around the disappearance of a phlegmatic young poet, Sidney Giblet (Steven Mackintosh), suitor to Hugo and Harriet's daughter, Cleo (Lena Headey, «The Jungle Book»).

It's too bad then that the pacing in the first half of the film is so pokey as to get the second half stuck in catch - up mode.

Big Pokey has a substantial amount of health and attack power, and will become enraged when Paper Tower Power Pokey is defeated (and vice versa).

She's the fun force of nature, exposing pokey Logan Lerman to love and life.

July 28, 2014 • A man out of time, Pokey LaFarge never feels like a mere novelty act.

Given a series that's been scored by the likes of David Newman and John Powell, Debney quickly establishes his own brightly identifiable symphonic palette that's still well in line with the past soundtracks» frenetic energy, with friendly, pokey rhythms and busts of spastic comic energy that also bring to mind Debney's score to «Liar Liar.»

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The Images: ♦ Swanndri ♦ Pavlova ♦ Gumboots ♦ Hokey Pokey Ice Cream ♦ Jandals ♦ Monarch Butterfly ♦ No. 8 Wire ♦ Poi ♦ Rugby ♦ Silver Fern ♦ Haka ♦ Feijoas ♦ Kiwi ♦ Pūkeko ♦ Pōhutukawa ♦ Pāua Shell ♦ Kūmara ♦ Hei - Tiki ♦ Koru ♦ Flax Kete ♦ Kiwifruit ♦ Mince Pie and Tomato Sauce ♦ Black Singlet ♦ New Zealand Flag ♦ Pounamu ♦ Fish and Chips Please note that 24 of the images are hand drawn, and 2 (Kiwi and Pūkeko) are digitally drawn.

Included: ♦ Swanndri ♦ Pavlova ♦ Gumboots ♦ Hokey Pokey Ice Cream ♦ Jandals ♦ Monarch Butterfly ♦ No. 8 Wire ♦ Poi ♦ Rugby ♦ Silver Fern ♦ Haka ♦ Feijoas ♦ Kiwi ♦ Pūkeko ♦ Pōhutukawa ♦ Pāua Shell ♦ Kūmara ♦ Hei - Tiki ♦ Koru ♦ Harakeke Kete ♦ Kiwifruit ♦ Mince Pie and Tomato Sauce ♦ Black Singlet ♦ New Zealand Flag ♦ Pounamu ♦ Fish and Chips 24 of the images were hand drawn and coloured and 2 of the images (Kiwi and Pūkeko) were digitally drawn and coloured.

She is a dedicated educator, writer, blogger, reader, Netflix - watcher, supporter of 1:1 technology, and owner of two dogs (Pokey and Ozzie).

Lexus quotes a zero - to - 60 time of 8.4 seconds for the 250 convertible, which is pokey for a luxury car.

What is extraordinary about this tale is not that an R8 was in the way of a hatchback with an eco-engine, but rather that the engine felt pokey all the way up to this speed, and it could have given more.

When I need to flatten the pedal in order to blast past a pokey pack, or haul it down hard when a ribbon of red lights suddenly beckons dead ahead, the F - Type has proven an urban warrior.

It's rather pokey, too, being good for a monstrous 612bhp and 663 lb ft of torque.

The Element's a bit pokey - a combination of its heavy curb weight and small 2.4 - liter, 166 horsepower four - cylinder engine - but that hasn't stopped the SUV from becoming a cult figure on the used market.

Overall, the engine is a little bit pokey, but this is what I expected of the base model.

We still haven't found the limits of the chassis, and because we don't want to land in the pokey or harm the innocent, we likely never will on public roads.

Space wise it feel a little pokey compared to my old Passat estate but in fairness, we haven't had trouble fitting everything we need in it when going away for a week with a family of 4 - as my kids are still fairly young there is enough room for them in the back - probably wouldn't be as comfortable with 2 adults in the back though.

The 2.0 - liter boxer engine is a familiar powerplant, 152 horsepower and 148 pound - feet of torque — it's a little pokey off the line, but once you're up and moving, the way this car handles is its own reward (more on that in a moment).

Although relatively fuel efficient at up to 29 mpg combined, the Rogue can feel a little pokey with a full load of passengers aboard.

(The Pokey Little Puppy — one of the first twelve books in Simon & Schuster's series, «Little Golden Books».)

We're talking the kind of performance that makes some home Internet connections look downright pokey.

An 8.1 - inch screen might sound a little pokey for a full Windows experience, but we've already seen plenty of Android tablets delivered at 7 - inches and find the slightly larger size from Acer works well.

Did You Know: Guests at Babe's Chicken Dinner House enjoy some of the best home - style cooking around, but you'll need to bring your dancing shoes if you want to join in when the wait staff does the Hokey Pokey.

His misfortune in being picked up by the dog catcher and ending up in the «pokey,» so to speak, turned out to be a stroke of luck for him.

The building on the northern side has deluxe rooms and a handful of standards, while the one to the south has standards only, which tend to be small, pokey and windowless, but good value at around $ 15.

After studying abroad in New Zealand, Amanda has decided she'd love to move there one day so she can wear jandals, eat hokey pokey ice cream, and continue pretending she understands the rules of rugby.

In the game, players can fly around and use ultra-super powers to fight crime and battle the forces of evil, visit the exclusive Adventure World to unlock iconic locations like Pokey Oaks elementary, Rainbow Land, and Professor Utonium's lab, and also go head - to - head in the Battle Arena for endless fun!

In addition to that it could come with a couple new enemies for each theme such as penguins for the Ice world, Pokey for the desert world, for the soda forest maybe one of those giant boos which follow you for a long period of time and for the beach maybe the giant purple cheep cheeps.

This would prove to be a significant bottleneck for programmers and likely accounts for the relative lack of high - speed action games on Super NES; processor speed isn't everything, but the systems counterbalances to its pokey chip required unconventional effort by developers.