Sentences with phrase «piece of cement»

A loose piece of cement can cause a person to lose their footing and fall.

On Sunday, GOP Congressman Michael Grimm announced that pieces of cement were thrown through the window of his campaign headquarters on Staten Island.

Not exact matches

Where is the cement which made religion corporate and popular, which can prevent it falling to pieces in a debris of individualistic tastes and degrees?

Coquelin was a nice piece of good fortune — the young guy took his chance and deserves a good run to cement his position.

We used the same number of fudge pieces for each wall and tried to roughly use the same thickness of «cement», but this wasn't entirely accurate.

Cementing Inspec's position as one of the most extensive sources of engineering research in the world, the milestone has been hit with an important piece of medical technology research, highlighting the IET's commitment to making essential, high quality scientific and technological intelligence available worldwide.

Two solid pieces of clear tempered glass form the base of this table, while the top comes in a variety of glossy shades, including the uniquely patterned «grey cement.»

Today the scientists are figuring out how to cement dozens of those 5,000 - letter - size chunks into a single piece of DNA big enough to hold an entire Mycoplasma genome.

But for people nonetheless looking to get their own parties started, Waitukaitis has a piece of advice on how to begin: «I would definitely recommend a cement mixer.»

I mixed up a little batch of cement and used it like glue to reattach the pieces.

Screenwriter David H. Steinberg offers up eye - rollingly over-the-top comedic set - pieces that become more and more desperate as the movie unfolds (ie a character is raped by a moose), yet it's the absence of compelling characters and the almost uniformly hackneyed nature of the various storylines that inevitably cements American Pie Presents The Book of Love's undeniable downfall.

The ongoing absence of momentum within the narrative ensures that Agora becomes more and more tedious as it unfolds, with the tragic conclusion subsequently unable to pack the emotional punch that Amenábar is clearly striving for - thus cementing the movie's place as a misguided and utterly forgettable piece of work.

By the time the absolutely inexplicable final 20 minutes rolls around (in which David takes to cross-dressing), All Good Things has certainly cemented its place as an utterly misguided piece of work with little worth recommending - which is a shame, really, given the presence of several undeniably talented performers within the supporting cast (Frank Langella, Philip Baker Hall, etc).

The inclusion of several way out - of - left - field action sequences only cements Mr. Brooks» status as a seriously unfocused piece of work, though there's little doubt that the movie remains worth a look if only for Costner's eye - opening performance.

The inclusion of several thoroughly wrenching sequences within the film's latter half - ie Becca and Howie engage in a screaming match - proves instrumental in cementing Rabbit Hole's place as an unexpectedly powerful piece of work, with the movie ultimately representing an almost astonishing improvement over Mitchell's previous effort (2006's amateurish and ill - conceived Shortbus).

And while Tibbetts has admittedly peppered the narrative with a few standout sequences (eg Martin attempts retrieve Jack's handgun while the man is unconscious), Retreat has been saddled with an aggressively uneventful midsection that does, in the end, diminish the impact of its final scenes - which effectively cements the movie's place as a thoroughly misguided piece of work.

If the narrative structure of the piece is framed by two matches between Eddie and Minnesota, the thematic structure is a freight train to Hell punctuated by first a late - night train ride where Burt lays out what he thinks of Laurie, then this rape sequence, which cements the transition from Elia Kazan's Breem - contaminated A Streetcar Named Desire to the collapse of Breem's Code later in The Hustler's decade.

Note how Mann alternates cold sex with cold bloodletting — cementing the pieces with a mess of blather and a cops and robbers heist plot that works only because it's confusing enough to keep your attention.

That Sundance accolades also failed to shield Panic from this loathsome Hollywood custom cements my statement above; only pieces of committeethink ought to be subject to further committeethink.

That Flesh and Bone — a doom - filled piece that glowers with malevolence from its horrifying opening sequence to its unsettling conclusion — never received a great deal of attention upon its initial release isn't as much of a surprise as the fact that not even the passage of time has cemented it as a minor classic.

And although Mendoza has admittedly peppered the narrative with creepy images (eg a woman covered in boils makes a brief appearance), Sapi does, in the end, suffer from a paucity of compelling (or even competent) elements that ultimately cements its place as an aggressively worthless piece of work.

At the end of the day, One Piece: Burning Blood is another fun instalment of this series that features a decent collection of playable characters that is cemented with a sturdy gaming engine.

It may seem like a lot for what amounts to 170 pounds of cement, but the sale price was less than half its estimate, illustrating the difficulty in assigning value to esoteric pieces of racing history.

And at Anime Expo, Jump US editor Urian Brown announced sweeping new plans — the magazine's current digital - only iteration is booming, with its day - and - date releases of Japan's biggest hits like Naruto and One Piece cemented over the past year.

They eventually roll up on Crocodile's underlings on duck - back, further cementing One Piece as one of the most unashamedly bizarre manga out there.

Or you could rock it really cheap and easy: Use two cement blocks and plop a piece of plywood right on top in between, exactly the same way you built bookshelves back in college.

In Harry Potter, the pieces take the form of Snape's backstory, with the final moments of the final book cementing the damn good story.

Her mostly non-objective pieces have a confident physicality to them that is a result of Hope's expertise with color, and her muscular blend of cement, plaster, pigment and collage in varying combinations.

Chris Burden, another artist known for pushing his body to the limits with his often life - threatening performance pieces, is represented here by his TV Commercials series (1973 - 77) and a loop of three magnificent Beam Drop videos (1984 - 2009), in which he creates monumental sculptures by dropping immense steel beams from a crane into a pit of wet cement.

Many of her castings include color as an initial process: pigments are added to the setting cement or resin, which adds an aspect of unpredictability to the final piece.

Emre Hüner, Untitled, styrofoam and cement, dimensions variable, unique piece of a series, 2009.

We're excited by the inclusion of Letha Wilson, who, while normally known for her sculptural works that combine photographic prints with cement, will be showing a video piece filmed in New York, Ireland, Niagara Falls, and New Mexico.

His aversion to the press might also have been cemented at this point; not long after the Castelli show, Vogue magazine ran a piece about Mr. Twombly, lavishly illustrated with pictures by Horst P. Horst of his elegant Roman apartment.

In Kassel, the piece was hidden away in an off - trail section of the city park littered with compost heaps and cement blocks.

These early pieces cemented Burden's reputation as an artist pursuing his ideas with absolute commitment, irrespective of their potentially harmful ends.

Not many art appreciators were there to block my view of Rob Pruitt's hilarious installation: big fancy abstract paintings twinkling with the artist's signature glitter, innertube objets encrusted with more sparkly «action painting,» and (literally) heavy - duty floor pieces composed entirely of cement - filled jeans (Levi's, Sasson, brands from every price point): Five stuffed pairs «sitting up» created a starfish; a snakelike lineup of several more doing splits straddled the floor like a team of torso - free cheerleaders; denim couples, oozing cement cellulite, spooned, mounted each other, and / or tempted one to sit on them like furniture.

Theaster Gates «s sculptural pieces, uniform stacks of plates entombed in box - shaped cement, yearn to be unpacked, freed from their confinement.

The weed whacker piece shares space in the gallery with a pristine tower of variously sized and shaped stacked jars, each jar holding a small, dayglow rubber ball; a grid of cement sculptures formed from the interiors of plastic cups; and an airy circle of blue painters» tape applied directly to the wall.

Featuring seminal pieces at the forefront of institutional and social critique, the show gathers over 200 works, primarily from the 60s and 70s, tracing Broodthaers» ever - poetic texts, objects, and installations as cemented within a twentieth century context.

Cementing the idea of creative destruction, the piece was among the largest of Klein's explosive series of fire paintings, executed the year before his untimely death.

The key to AirCrete is in the foaming agent, which works to suspend tiny air bubbles in the cement mixture, and a small piece of equipment, a continuous foam generator, which disperses a mix of the foaming agent (which can be as simple as an all - natural «high foaming» dish detergent) into the cement mixture to be mixed together.

Samsung is already the market leader in AMOLED panel manufacturing and this latest piece of tech further cements the Korean company's name on the top of the list.

We ended up using 2 × 4's to frame out the boxes on the left and right, and then we clad them (and the little piece of wall directly above the firebox) with cement board.

I'd definitely, get rid of those big pieces of what looks like cement in the front beds and I'd also add some annuals for a little color.