Sentences with phrase «piles of old»

Everything at Frieze does, even the piles of old timber that litter the floor of another stand, and the empty shelves and blank pegboard walls installed at T293, a gallery from Naples.

As someone who decorates her apartment as much with piles of old books as art, I really am drawn to work that successfully merges those two worlds and aesthetic.

If you're Mass MoCA, you shroud Christoph Büchel's incomplete 2007 «Training Ground for Democracy» in yellow tarps and air your dirty laundry by displaying his list of requested materials for the piece, which included 8 voting booths, piles of old computers, 1,000 feet of barbed wire, 12 grenades, 8 body bags, 4 prosthetic legs, and the fuselage of a 737 airliner.

Certain key motifs appear over and over: skinny legs that seem to have been de-boned, piles of old shoes, cartoonish and clunky, clocks with one hand, low hanging light bulbs and, again and again, these hooded figures that may be Klansmen or something more personally emblematic: the masks that artists, like all of us, hide behind; the disguises we don to face or shy away from the world; the evil, banal and faceless, that lurks within us all.

The later piles of old shoes can look deliberately meaningless, like cartoons without a punch line.

Lewisham rescue team attended the house with a social worker and it immediately became clear that it was not just a matter of calling the cats and putting them in baskets, the whole house was stacked high with piles of old clothes, heavy boxes, rubbish, and very heavy furniture that the cats could hide behind.

A native of New York City, where he grew up in a household that read six newspapers daily, he dreamed of ending his days like the tabloid - famous Collyer brothers of Manhattan, who died in their brownstone, buried under piles of old papers.

If you don't mind searching through piles of old photographs and the occasional vintage ukulele, you can find a real gem.

We climb the cracked steps, littered with broken glass, rusted piles of old pipes, crushed ceramic tiles, and mounds of dust.

The home page is a scrolling feed filled with photos of disorganized junk drawers, linens spilling out of closets, and piles of old shoes.

That is all the disciples saw when they got to the tomb on that first morning — two piles of old clothes.

@Reality, you keep harping on this same old theme, until you are like pile of old dried - up bones.

Dried mango and pineapple along with cashews are tossed with a hearty pile of old - fashioned oatmeal (and shelled hemp seed for extra protein) and then coated with a packaged light caramel sauce.

Your challenge just gave me the idea to take that pile of old out of style clothes and use them to make quilted shopping bags for my family.

I have a whole pile of old non-adjustable FuzziBunz that I'd be using instead of selling if I could adjust the elastic.

I'll put together a pile of old toys for Goodwill or Purple Heart and no sooner will I have the pile of «baby toys» ready to go when someone pulls...

While you may not be building a pile of old towels in the cupboard under the stairs, you may also be nesting.

Searching through a pile of old New Scientist magazines, I came across Peter Nowak's article about smartphones and TVs with...

Anyone with a pile of old radios in the attic could get rich by dusting them off before next Sunday (15 May).

I was able to look inside for answers (some were hidden into a big pile of old stuff...) instead of outward for medication and numbness.

So, when I found this coat in a pile of my old clothes, I certainly forgot about camel coats and biker jackets (I've worn enough of those by now) and started wearing this tweed bluish grey one instead.

Randy Quaid plays a no - nonsense columnist called Michael, and after being ignored several times by people shouting and complaining in Henry's office, he grabs a large pile of old newspapers and shoots them to get their attention.

His cruiser rattled over potholes, past moss - covered Greyhound buses long retired from service, past Fire King of Seattle and its pile of old extinguishers rusting in an adjacent lot, past Custom Crating and Wood Box Company.

They remind me of the rest of Neil Young's lyrics: «I've been wrong before, and I'll be there again, I don't have any answers my friend, just this pile of old questions.»

A pile of old towels can be fun to push, dig and rearrange, either by themselves or inside a box or tunnel.

It follows the same approach as the traditional or direct training method... with the difference that the designated area is inside the house and usually consists of a pile of old newspapers.

Starting off slowly, as you learn your trade in a fight to the death against a pile of old tin cans, the whole premise and idea of Western Press is a simple one, as you make your way as fast as you can through 10 face button presses, with each incorrect press delaying your progress by mere milliseconds.

Meanwhile, in the centre of the spacious hall, there's a towering pile of old wooden tables — flipped, angled, interlocked — that were previously owned by the Railway Museum.

While weighing up whether Wallinger's «prank» was «a complete pile of old bear droppings,» Harris rubbished the Tate's «exquisitely pretentious sleeve notes» about the work.

The California Condor by Tom Sanford shows this prehistoric bird perching on top of the a skull, and a pile of old fast food wrappers and drinks, topped by a beer can, showing the birds precarious hold on life in the midst of an environment overwhelmed by trash.

Of course, there could just be a tape machine in there, or a pile of old electrics giving out a hiss.

This a Victorian notion — a pile of old tree roots, in this case sweet chestnuts, which are stacked up and held in place with steel rods.

I don't suggest that law has laurels it can rest on, though; indeed, its having got there early has created a sense of complacency and a pile of old capital that stand in the way of needed change.

Whether you're picking through a pile of old drives gathering dust on your office shelf or you're considering buying a new one for the task, there are a few things to keep in mind.

I have a large pile of old fence pickets in the backyard I got for another project so I used some of those.

This year we're recycling a pile of old bricks for a paved walkway and seating area underneath the gazebo (more on that coming up this summer).

And let me tell you, she has such a creative eye for beauty where I just might see a pile of old wood!

When we first dated he had a pile of old newspapers in the living room that was like an archaelogical dig, with dirty dinner plates buried at various levels.

Not exact matches

On the other hand, if you need to work long hours at your current full - time job, you commute 60 miles round - trip, and you have two - year - old triplets, piling a part - time business on top of all those commitments could be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

Old Dragon is the local name of a pile of rocks near Woody Island.

As we considered other options, we stumbled upon a pile of 100 - year - old white cedar on our block.

Furniture from the home of Joseph Filek and from that of John Medvec, pioneer of the river colony, was being piled into moving vans when Mrs. Medvec, 57 years old, fainted.

Consultants walked home with piles of «grey material» such as 30 - year - old reports on Arctic gas drilling.

Due to the fixed nature of the payments, some older individuals may be able to consider Social Security payments, employment pensions, and other predictable and / or passive income sources as part of their bond pile, thus reducing or eliminating the need for bonds.

Old alarm clock with piles of coins and letter magnets spelling TAX on a wood table.

The old dream of living in the Lord's presence had died buried under piles and piles of coping devices.

The room was old and small, the chairs were scratchy, the window faced only the early spring streets of Edmonton with winter's left behind gravel piled in the gutters.

Circa late 1969, the Airplane seems to sense that the generalized radical community needs some encouragement, a pep rally of sorts to get them past all the spirit - draining confusions that had been piling up, and all the minor divisions radicals had made between one another in the course of late -»60s intensity, you know, naturalist communalists v. wired hipsters, pacifists v. biker gangs, Hare Krishnas v. Shamans, old - school SDS - ers v. the new Weathermen - types, angry feminists v. «Ramblin» Man» swingers, Black Panthers v. white hippies, Maoists v. anarchists, health - foodies v. druggies, etc., etc., and to focus instead on the big divide between all of them and the Establishment.

Between two rows of the piled dead, men stark and naked, women with cold babies at their breasts, amid the bleak desolation of old battlefields, the conquerors appear, Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, and their ambitious company, riding on horseback amid bloody scenes to their supremacy.

I am at least using modern, educated, and rational morals to judge you by and not using some old pile of rags filled with fecal matter to «interpret» my life and how I function.