Sentences with phrase «of rusty nails»

Sand the wood, separate the boards from the block and get rid of those rusty nails.

In the book, recording artist Tom Waits wrote: «Sylvia bones the fish with wild courage and a picture rifle around her neck like clocks and trains that take you to the real carnival of rusty nails, wet boots, and rain along the slow meat wheel.

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At this point one can barely make out the faded letters spelling out «postmodernism» on the dusty sign that precariously dangles from a rusty nail above the central mineshaft of academic commentary on the arts.

Like sorting out a large can of nails and screws... the nails are sorted from the screws, then sorted by the use of the nail or the use of the screw, then the head, then the diameter, then the length, then if they are clean or rusty... and on.

In its convincing portrayal of a situation where a rusty nail is as lethal as an unexploded bomb, and the few remaining inhabitants seem — much like the audience — more likely to die of stress than anything else, the movie rocks.

This is the modern art of modern Britain, and it stays in your mind like a rusty nail in the foot.

For example, R.S.V.P. (1976) crisscrosses a pair of pantyhose with sand - filled feet around two rusty nails.

The corrosion and decaying of materials - bleached and peeling paint, rotten wood and rusty nails - is executed artificially with masterful skill.

Guston's lithographs incorporate the vocabulary of his late paintings which includes rusty railroad nails, old shoes and shoe heels, bare light bulbs, old automobiles, clothing and the smoking of cigarettes.

It is a thinner veneer type of birch that will more than likely crack and split if you try to just yank it off, and the nails that hold the panel on have a tendency to be a bit rusty after all of this time so the nail heads might pop right off leaving the rest of the nail still inside the piece.....