Sentences with phrase «paper on the duck»

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We used ducks, turtles, snails and of course, our hands to stamp away, creating our very own pond on paper.

But that hasn't stopped British newspaper The Mail on Sunday trying to resurrect a dead duck: this time claiming that scientists at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) played fast and loose with data on a well - regarded 2015 paper in Science that definitively showed there was no pause in global warming.

The pitch: Sorrentino's first English - language feature — hardly a surprising move, given how his previous features toyed with Hollywood forms — sounds like a decidedly odd duck on paper.

On paper, the plot of this movie makes very little sense: two men who only wear suits and never take off their sunglasses, neo-Nazis, a grown man named «Duck,» Cab Calloway, a Catholic nun on the verge of eviction, Carrie Fisher with an assault rifle, and the entire Illinois state police departmenOn paper, the plot of this movie makes very little sense: two men who only wear suits and never take off their sunglasses, neo-Nazis, a grown man named «Duck,» Cab Calloway, a Catholic nun on the verge of eviction, Carrie Fisher with an assault rifle, and the entire Illinois state police departmenon the verge of eviction, Carrie Fisher with an assault rifle, and the entire Illinois state police department.

Days later, while cleaning up a corner of this bachelor pad that contained an inflatable Anaheim Ducks goalie, a windbreaker that the boys weren't sure had been peed on or not, and a naked three - foot - tall plastic doll nicknamed «Olivia,» I found a surprisingly large stack of papers from 2008.

8.9 The Mazda MX - 5 RF seems like kind of a lame duck on paper.

Other noteworthy inclusions were Frédérique Loutz's exquisite artist's books made from a single folded sheet of paper; a giant display of lithographs dwelling on contemplation, traces and loss, from conceptual artist Marie - Ange Guilleminot's ensemble Nuancier (Color Chart); Mélanie Delattre - Vogt's fine lithographic drawings, based on culinary images from a 1970s freezer manual where disembodied hands cut up squid, duck, pig and bunches of rhubarb.

Hans Hofmann Hans Hofmann: Works on Paper Featured Exhibitions Exhibitions Curatorial Jonathan Duck Staff

Strauss Bourque - LaFrance, Duck Duck Juice, 2016, oil, acrylic, watercolor, wood stain, wood fill, wax stick, collaged paper and found images on shaped birch panel

Belott somewhat atoned for his thematic neglect in the back room of the gallery, showing four quick - and - loose graphite - on - paper drawings that were not so much drawings of ducks as they were a representation of the word duck, scrawled out multiple times inside of a series of boxes like an oblique floor plan.

Publicly, most automakers are ducking the issue and emphasizing potential pitfalls of building hybrid cars with plugs, but pressure is mounting behind the scenes to give the idea some life... «Such development should have the highest research and development priority because it promises to revolutionize transportation economics and to have a dramatic effect on the problems caused by oil dependence,» write George Shultz, former U.S. secretary of state, and James Woolsey, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, in a June position paper on oil and U.S. national security... They argue that battery development for plug - in hybrids «should for the time being replace the current research and development emphasis on automotive hydrogen fuel cells.»