Sentences with phrase «of rickety»

It's kind of rickety.

In Down the House, 2008, Gilmore, mallet in hand, stands precariously atop a pile of rickety wood furniture and plaster blocks tied haphazardly together with fluorescent pink construction tape (a matching bow in her hair) and coated in still wet red paint and plaster.

Her work is also painful — the broken chair on top of a rickety stool could be taken for a self - portrait, the filing cabinet and paint - rimed metal box jammed together on the wall a kind of collision of bodies, her dangling, mangled canvases fighting gravity, twisting in the wind, flopped hopelessly on the floor.

The stages still hold up beautifully, with plenty of memorable areas — the climbing sections of Ricco Harbor, the verticality born of rickety amusements of Pinna Park, the subtle, chill beauty of Noki Bay.

He illuminates all the beauty, frustration, wisdom and bonding that comes with trading our comfort zones for the inside of a rickety car in a foreign land.»

Some part of me really enjoyed the novelty of the rickety Fanxipan Express, if only to feel a little better about my own country's Amtrak; enjoying rail travel in South Korea or Finland can give an American a serious train inferiority complex.

And, of course, the derivative storyline, in what is an endlessly derivative military SF sub-genre, invariably revolves around a renegade crew of a rickety, obsolete battle cruiser who are incapable of following orders from the Confederation Admiralty, or some other cookie - cutter, authoritarian shot caller, and who are all that stands between Earth and an invasion from Planet Wherever... Don't even get me started on the zombies.

He attempts to capture the large - scale dilemma they faced by the many overhead shots that look straight down into a never - ending crevice and the close up shots of the rickety ladders and ropes that are used.

And many of the jokey predicaments — Tonto and Reid buried up to their necks, Tonto and the Lone Ranger forced to rob a bank, Tonto's attempt to warn his blundering captors of their doom or Reid's «burial» at the top of a rickety tower — pay off hilariously.

One Trench Tucks can be found at the end of Rickety Rafters.

The album's durable thrills came in the form of rickety transitions and improvisational swerves that threatened to lose momentum while secretly consolidating it.

One area of low - hanging fruit — or at least fruit that could be reached by a long extension pole, perhaps while teetering at the top of a rickety three - meter wooden ladder, the base of which has long been under assault by termites — is monsoon depressions.

The «Cossack» in Ian Tattersall's new book, The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack, exemplifies the risk of relying too much on the opinion of authorities and not enough on systematic analysis.

In The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack, he traces the contingencies, false starts, and diversity of opinions that have characterized the intellectual history of paleoanthropology from Darwin to today.

About this Book: The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack And Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution Ian Tattersall Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

At Friday's practice 13 - year veteran defensive tackle Howie Long, the only Raider left from the old Oakland days, felt good about the off - season acquisition of Hostetler and the remodeling of the rickety Coliseum.

Unfortunately, we all sat down together to eat breakfast on the same side of a rickety picnic table that had seen better days, and the picnic table toppled over, practically in slow motion... our pancakes flew through the air and landed on top of us, along with everything else that was on the table.

Not exact matches

The rickety black square table in his dining room rocks from leg to leg as he saws through a juicy slab of beef.

«It was the most rickety, Podunk thing you can imagine,» says the former employee, likening it to the treacherous labyrinthine underworld in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

Hammond's commitment to find the funds for Brexit preparations stands in sharp contrast to promises made by the Leave campaign before last year's referendum, which had assured Britons that leaving the EU would leave the country with hundreds of millions of pounds more a week to spend on other priorities such as its rickety National Health Service.

Instead of having to climb down my somewhat rickety bunk bed whenever I needed a highlighter or a granola bar, I stored all of my studying and reading essentials within reach.

Thousands of workers are walking off of job sites, fed up with going to work hungry, putting their lives at risk at rickety refineries, all for a paycheck that fails to cover even the most basic expenses.

A matter such as US tax reform was never going to pass without comment from JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, who tends to lurk in the background of his bank's results calls like a grumpy uncle at a Thanksgiving dinner, occasionally piping up with a tirade against clueless politicians or rickety US infrastructure.

I went to my rickety Ikea bookshelf, swaying with the weight of books, and pulled out the slim volume of poems for the Incarnation called «Accompanied by Angels.»

When we had an extension built, first the builders had to knock down a rickety garage and construct solid foundations.If we want to be part of a church...

So all that scholars really have to go on is the text itself — a wild ride on a rickety, ancient, circular - reasoning roller - coaster with little external data to anchor our knowledge of anything.

Of the sixteen souls who started out from Oklahoma in that rickety old truck, only Oca Tatham and his immediate family found permanence and prosperity in California.

«Because after all the bribes, threats and promises that have patched together this rickety coalition, we can not prevent another suicide bomber being born — and nobody can tell us how to dodge this devil's cycle of despair, hatred and, yet again, revenge.»

A rickety old ice cream maker was delivered to the center of the dining room and loudly cranked.

It was not much of a hill, and there was not much to buy at the Hatchet Creek Shopping Center, but there was a rickety jukebox on the dock that took us back to the»50s.

Tour an old house or historical location and the stairs will feel weird, even rickety — all because of small variances in the stair sizes, which were made before these were standardized.

We were supposed to be touring the city but instead we went almost directly to a ramshackle part of town, where earlier the camera crew had spotted some kids playing table tennis on a rickety old table that was set outside in the rain in a grimy dirt plaza that was beginning to turn slippery.

The rickety old Douglas DC - 3 propeller plane that ferried Wild Thing and the rest to and from games is one of a kind.

On a recent day in Maradona's old Villa Fiorito neighborhood, little boys, shirtless and barefooted, play soccer on one of the two dusty fields that haven't yet been taken over by rickety tin shacks and a garbage dump.

Once a rickety truck, vintage of John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, was rattling along the road which bordered the 18th fairway as Pro Frank Stranahan was addressing his approach shot.

Arsene made himself part of the furniture and until the house is cleared he will remain even though he is now a rickety, non functioning chair.

He's American Rebel, and to the fans at a rickety ring in Anaheim, he's the baddest of bad guys.

Tears pricked my eyes as I remembered the rocket fuel coffee, the delicious berbere, the van like a rickety roller coaster, the strong hugs of the women I met, the tears of this little sweetheart at the orphanage.

After long days traveling over unpaved roads in a rickety van, our dusty group of travelers unwound by listening to music and telling stories late into the night.

I chain drink cups of tea whilst working at my chaotic, rickety desk and printing in my chilly garage - cum - studio.

Thirdly, as the Doona is made of plastic, it feels a bit rickety and flimsy at times, for example, on uneven ground.

How to Make The Equity in Your Home Work For You: I sit down at the rickety table outside of our local coffee shop.

A victory for the pro-AV campaign would boost the morale and standing of the Lib Dems and perhaps shore up an increasingly rickety coalition.

An old rickety bicycle parked under a tree in the house was all my father could boast of as property.

Wobbly, rickety and unsteady after an asteroid's smack, the physics of Enceladus» rotation would have eventually re-established stability, a process that likely took over a million years.

It looked like a typical old East Coast house, rickety stairwells, pictures of the ancestors.

A few rickety Moskviches, twenty - six - horsepower knockoffs of the 1938 Opel Kadett, quickly clattered out of the way, and soon Khrushchev and his retinue reached the new suburbs.

Explorers 500 years ago faced a similar question: Is it too risky to sail to some unknown land in a rickety boat at the mercy of the wind?

Wearing hard hats and boots, we climbed five stories down a rickety set of stairs and emerged inside the cavernous construction site that will eventually form the East 96th Street station.

Nearly a month after Hurricane Maria wiped out Puerto Rico's rickety electrical grid, emergency responders are still struggling to treat the immediate health needs of people on the island.