Sentences with phrase «of white elephants»

Love the whale — love the stack of white elephants and love that you even have pretty pencils and pens.

That's like saying don't think of a white elephant.

Instead of a white elephant gift exchange, ask friends to bring one (gently worn) article of clothing to contribute to the swap.

The story of the white elephant as history tells, is this rare creature was regarded as sacred and holy in ancient times in many Asian countries.

Now they have about them the stale air of white elephants.

Because a tower of white elephants in a room is just cool.

But the conclusion of the Games has left a mass of white elephants in its wake: the majority of the sporting venues and Olympic Village have all fallen into neglect now that the Games are over.

It is the work of a bear market to reduce the prices of the white elephants until they are cheap enough to interest a new class of buyers.

Having performed the marvelous deeds of 500 previous incarnations, he had now come to his final and most glorious birth, and had entered the womb of the graceful Maya in the form of a white elephant.

Their conversation evolves from small talk to profanity - laden confessions of white elephants and dark secrets that bond them for life.

In his State of the State address Wednesday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo did, indeed, tout the same sort of white elephant already being chased by states and cities across the country.

Are you a fan of white elephant parties?

This work has yielded some valuable lessons that I'd like to share in the hope that it will make you an eLearning hero rather than the herder of white elephants.

Additional productivity only comes from projects that yield more benefits than their costs, and Japan has had more than its share of white elephants.

«If that fails, then you'll have a bunch of white elephants.

Have the EU Commission's digital single market proposals become something of a white elephant, with many being shelved and others stalled?

Cities may come to realize they've got a lot of white elephants dotting the skies because they made a terrible mistake by allowing developers and builders to mass produce the under 700sf condos which boomers, once they start to downsize en masse in a few years, will absolutely shun.

(BPT)-- The holidays are over and if you're left looking at a fruit cake and a room full of white elephant gifts, you're probably thinking it is time to find the perfect present for yourself.

Says Boorstin, «The historian trying to recover the past is like the mythical alchemist whose formula for making base metals into gold would work only if he was not thinking of a white elephant.