Sentences with phrase «of sickly»

We admit, we're not fans of the sickly sweet fragrances emitted by many a scented candle, but choose carefully and you can infuse your home with an aroma that truly enhances the atmosphere of your party.

The color of Edvard Munch is an obvious influence on use of sickly greens, dark crimsons and burnt oranges in «Playground» (1954), the earliest work in the show.

Reflecting on gluttonous consumption and overindulgence, the video offers an ending at once apocalyptic and hopeful in the sudden transformation of this sickly, sinister entity.

There were some outstanding works in that travelling exhibition, particularly the large - scale paintings such as Scenes from The Passion: The Cop Shop, 2000, and Ash Wednesday, 2004 - 5, particularly striking for their use of sickly, sulphuric yellow.

In 1989, a portrait of a sickly Donald Trump was on view at the Dia Art Foundation in New York.

J.J.'s return to the ocean went so smoothly some scientists joked that it was an anticlimactic ending to the story of the sickly calf who was nursed back to health and whose recovery captured the public's imagination.

The animals she saw were suffering from disease and starving to death, with hundreds of sickly dogs and puppies roaming the streets.

I remember going to friends» farms and seeing all the kittens... most of them sickly and thin.

Months after Texas, I still think about some of the sickly, trembling puppies we saw, and about those kids.

You'd buy it when you wanted to impress a girl, and nothing was more impressive than a bottle of sickly sweet Black Tower, because it came in a cool - looking ceramic bottle and had the additional benefit of not costing much more than a six - pack of Molson.

Indoors the front camera results in plenty of image noise, giving a sort of sickly pallor to selfies as the colours leach out.

out to the fields for more digging, and weeding of grass, and gathering of stones until one day she was hoisted onto the back of a wagon full of sickly property and carried to the town square.

I dream of the sickly Emperor Jiajing, snorting white powdery aphrodisiacs up his nostrils, and hovering over you on the fourposter bed with an erection smeared with verdigris.

Our test car's monochromatic interior left us a little cold, though, and the LED cabin lighting must have been designed by a photophobic migraine sufferer — open the doors at night, and the interior is illuminated with all the lumens of a sickly glowworm.

We'll let you decide how the «acid green» (Porsche's term; it's sort of a sickly lime) brake calipers look, but they do at least match the acid - green backing on emblems inside, outside, and even under the hood of the car, a lone highlight on a big black plate of plastic.

The first of four segments begins when the dog is rescued from a shelter and becomes the pet of a sickly boy (Keaton Nigel Cooke, solid) and his self - absorbed parents (Tracy Betts and Julie Delpy, at her chirpily caustic best).

Eventually the movie's sustained ambiance gives way to a kind of sickly thudding suspense, and these elements fail to work together.

As a pair of detectives (Alan Arkin and Loren Dean) tighten the noose around Vincent's world of sickly green lights and oppressively bland and geometric workspaces, he must improvise a few quick - witted escapes.

Yes, you will be inexplicably wrapped up in the drama of a gang of sickly stop - motion animated dogs who have been exiled to a trash island and are determined to get back to a life of cozy domesticity, enchanted by its artistry and trying your best to suppress your laughter so you don't miss a beat.

Years ahead of its time, Heathers was a sharp satire of sickly sweet»80s teen movies, a lethal dose of cinematic Drano that we still can't believe ever got green - lit (and that certainly wouldn't pass muster in today's post-Columbine world).

When word got out that Ubisoft was making a game mashing up its Rabbids characters with Nintendo's Mario franchise, reactions were muted: surely, this would be the sickliest of sickly sweet family games.

From birth, the test tube baby's life becomes intertwined with that of her sickly sibling when tissue is taken from her umbilical cord.

The Frodo / Sam / Gollum story not nearly as involving as the visceral bombast of the Helm's Deep line (itself softened by a pair of sickly flashbacks meant to flesh out the love affair between Aragorn and the elf Arwen (Liv Tyler)-RRB- nor the awe and humour of the Ent storyline, a certain impatience manifests itself as an urge to indulge in frustrated, mocking laughter.

Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest itself turned to some degree on the physical attractiveness of its sickly lead character, played by Claude Laydu; there's nothing quite so stimulating as consecrated beauty, especially in a cinematic context.

The pace slackens over the course of the protracted finale, a set piece that uses ugly, video game - style CGI (and a palette of sickly, ashy greys) to depict a battle for the city.

Keep in mind there are also no shortage of sickly, pale losers, who still live with mom or grandma and stay up all night playing on the internet.

Sorry for all of the sickly complaining lately - I am hoping to feel better soon and be back to my normal sarcastic self.

Strangely course texture and the camel color looked sort of sickly.

«There are a lot of sickly animals.»

If you had to distill someone larger than life into a few vulgar paragraphs, you would have to mention Bryant's hardscrabble upbringing in Moro Bottom, Ark., as one of 12 kids of a sickly father and a mother whom young Paul accompanied on her rounds selling produce from a wagon.

I made the unfortunate choice of bright yellow muffin papers, which cast a bit of a sickly glow in my photos, but the muffins themselves were delicious.

It's a kind of sickly banana and toffee flavour.

I and my family, including children, are all Atheists, all of my children are honor students, and model citizens of their country, by volunteering to help the homeless, cleaning parks and one even is taking care of her sickly grandmother who can't even feed herself.

Not exact matches

Then Medicare brought millions of new elderly - and more sickly - patients into the system.

The private equity fund has bought 3 pct of troubled Deutsche Bank, months after taking a 5 pct stake in sickly rival Commerzbank.

Hamlet complained that too much hesitation in the face of uncertain outcomes is bad because «the native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought... and enterprises of great pith and moment... lose the name of action.»

He paused then, at the thought of earthly sorrows, Our sickly past, incarnadine tomorrows, The myriad things that whistle arcane truth To please old minds and to instruct raw youth, And bore down on his broken knees to pray For such a world that had so much to say.

Since, too, they have no certainty of the doctrines they profess, they do but feel they ought to believe them, and they try to believe them, and they nurse the offspring of their reason, as a sickly child, bringing it out of doors only on fine days....

But on a tree which has had to struggle against inner accidents of its own development and external accidents of climate, the broken branches, the torn leaves, and the dried or sickly or wilted blossoms have their place: they reveal to us the greater or lesser difficulties encountered by the tree itself in its growth.

No, of course not, they would be malnourished, sickly and underfed.

Even repentance and remorse, affections which come in the character of ministers of good, may be but sickly and relaxing impulses, The best repentance is to up and act for righteousness, and forget that you ever had relations with sin.

One result of the process — which certainly Mark would not have encouraged, though his work started the development in that direction — is the sentimental, saccharine, sickly - sweet Jesuolatry that has mistaken strong emotion for an evidence of religion, has softened the ethical fiber and beclouded the whole theological sky of certain areas of Christianity.

To those who acceptance for these sickly, destructive ideas, ask yourself why Islam does not repudiate the idea of martyrdom?

Life had never been easy for Jerzy — born sickly into a peasant family where hard physical labour was part of daily life, he had done his chores uncomplainingly.

I lied to my parents and went to a party at a friend's house where we drank cheap red wine and those sickly sweet wine coolers with all of the cool kids.

From the start, it was clear that young Alfons would never be a farmer; sickly from birth, he was baptised swiftly as his chances of life were not hopeful.

Just use common sense his parents lived in Bethlehem they was decedents of King David a Hebrew take into the account Jesus was a carpenter and he also traveled outside a lot so he definitely wouldn't have been white looking to any of his contemporaries he was a probably more of an olive skinned person muscular and the physical appearance of someone that was a hard worker hardly what the Vatican or Protestants have pictured him out to be which is a sickly skinny weak looking person.

Christianity either lives faithfully by this life - renewing Spirit of Christ or it resorts to sickly religious substitutes.

To suggest personal will and effort to one all sicklied o'er with the sense of irremediable impotence is to suggest the most impossible of things.

People should realize that this is the Voice of those who have a voice because they have their dollars and they have the power to kill, with a button, the whole human race and under their own roof the power to kill, day by day, with counterinformation their own sickly conscience.23