Sentences with phrase «piling up a mountain»

The new head of LACMA's contemporary art department arrived in January with plenty of ideas, but it takes time to pile up the mountains of books and files that overwhelm many of his colleagues.

I'm wearing the backpack to collect Street View imagery as I walk to the shore of Frobisher Bay, where the wind is the strongest and you can see the tide piling up mountains of sea ice.

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China is engaged in an elaborate shell game to hide a mountain of bad debts piling up on the balance sheets of its banks, developers and state - owned enterprises.

This pie is lemony, and the crust is so flaky (because I didn't make it) and I pile the meringue up so high that it looks like a mountain of clouds.

Piles of laundry are blocking the bedroom door, there's a new shade of pink crayon on the couch, deadlines are piled up on my desk higher than the husband's mountain of stinky running shoes (that's bad), and the dog's obsessive licking habit has officially caused yet another grey hair on my head.

We would all pile into four pickup trucks and head for the Kiamichi Mountains in the southeast corner of the state, setting up camp in the area we called Jason's Pass, after my grandfather.

The Frenchman's mountain of trouble is piled up with players refusing to take a pay cut to leave and that is also delaying potential signings.

, feeding a baby every 2 to 4 hours (with each feeding session lasting about 20 minutes, give or take,) trying to figure out why a baby is crying, tackling a never - ending pile of laundry, being covered in spit up, doing a mountain of dishes (and more)-- and doing all of this on a serious of cat naps over a span of several weeks sounds like sitting back and relaxing, well, I guess yes, moms on maternity leave really are enjoying kicking their feet up.

The last few days have been wonderful to watch, as the newly minted Republican Majority in the U.S. House of Representatives stood up to Barack Obama and his unending desire to pile mountains of debt on future generations.

Snow is accumulating on Belleayre Mountain in the Catskills, but a group of the ski center's supporters wants to see funding pile up as well.

These massive pile - ups generated mountain chains, and as the mountains eroded, they released nutrients into the oceans, feeding the photosynthetic bacteria.

He discovered many geologically recent faults at shallow angles — which all point to the mountain making adjustments in the past million years to the way its rocks pile up.

That's because the gravitational attraction from a massive undersea mountain range causes water to pile up in a broad sea - surface bump several feet high.

I got to know Julian quite well after our son was born, frequently traveling the back elevator to do the mountains of laundry that magically pile up when you have a baby.

Whether that means hibernating under a pile of blankets to watch the winter Olympics (we've been staying up way too late catching the live action); hanging out in the fresh mountain air (hello motherland); or dinner by the fire in the comfort of home (and maybe the promise of something warm, bubbly and delicious baking in the oven).

I grew up in Massachusetts, with 3 foot snow drifts and mountains of the white stuff piled on the side of the road, perfect for fort building.

Project Cars 2 may do a great many things exceptionally well, but it's hard to look past the mountain of gaffes that quickly pile up on and off the track.

The A8 is Audi's flagship sedan, the top of the pile, the king of the mountain, but the company does itself one better with the 2009 Audi S8, an amped - up version of its big luxury car designed to throw a little thrill toward those well - heeled enough to afford such a car.

On the first saddle of mountain outside of town, I gathered up a knee - high pile of tinder - dry leaves and threw a lit match into it.

Fortunately, many Americans appear to be digging their way out from under the mountains of debt piled up during the recession.

Unfortunately, this cycle has far too many times in a row and the sky - high Interest and fees continue piling up... leaving many payday lenders in mountains of debt, unable to get out.

When debt begins piling up, it can appear that mountains of it build up before the individual can even begin to get rid of it and before long, they end up becoming overwhelmed and confused about what had happened.

Day 1: We start from Arequipa at 08:00 in our private transport, we pick you up at your hotel after 2 hours driving we visit the Vicuñas National Reservation of Salinas and Aguada Blanca, we stop some minutes at Patahuasi to appreciate the handicrafts of alpaca and to drink a «mate de coca» to avoid altitude sickness, because, the highest point on this road is 4,900 meters (more than 14,000 feet) at that altitude we can appreciate the view of all the volcanoes in line like Ubinas (smoking volcano) El Misti volcano, Chachani, Ampato (were they found Juanita mummy) Sabancaya (active volcano), Hualca Hualca and Mismi (at this mountain is located the source of the Amazon river) and also the magic «Apachetas» piles of stones or rocks set by locals and also by tourists like an offering to the «Apus» (spirits living inside the mountains and volcanoes).

Thirty - seven hours later, a pile of bodies the size of a mountain in my wake, I was still having fun slicing up goblins and direwolves.

Galaxy 2 freshens up concepts from the original while also piling on a mountain of new ideas.

Much of the island still looks like a construction site with mountains of sand piled up, but, according to the shiny plastic model I am shown, when finished in 2023 it will be able to accommodate about 130,000 people.

But I must point out, it's still not a «literal» mountain because a) the evidence hasn't been piled up to said height, and b) a mountain is a natural

Mountains of torn tissue paper, shredded wrapping paper, and crushed bags, not to mention the cardboard and plastic packaging that all the toys come in, pile up high.

On such an afternoon some score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be... engaged in one of the ten thousand stages of an endless cause, tripping one another up on slippery precedents, groping knee - deep in technicalities, running their goat - hair and horse - hair warded heads against walls of words and making a pretence of equity with serious faces, as players might... between the registrar's red table and the silk gowns, with bills, cross-bills, answers, rejoinders, injunctions, affidavits, issues, references to masters, masters» reports, mountains of costly nonsense, piled before them... This is the Court of Chancery, which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire, which has its worn - out lunatic in every madhouse and its dead in every churchyard, which has its ruined suitor with his slipshod heels and threadbare dress borrowing and begging through the round of every man's acquaintance, which gives to monied might the means abundantly of wearying out the right, which so exhausts finances, patience, courage, hope, so overthrows the brain and breaks the heart, that there is not an honourable man among its practitioners who would not give — who does not often give — the warning, «Suffer any wrong that can be done you rather than come here!

On such an afternoon some score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be... engaged in one of the ten thousand stages of an endless cause, tripping one another up on slippery precedents, groping knee - deep in technicalities, running their goat - hair and horse - hair warded heads against walls of words and making a pretence of equity with serious faces, as players might... between the registrar's red table and the silk gowns, with bills, cross-bills, answers, rejoinders, injunctions, affidavits, issues, references to masters, masters» reports, mountains of costly nonsense, piled before them... This is the Court of Chancery, which

With a family of 6 that added up to MOUNTAINS (plural) of laundry... piled everywhere but the laundry room.

We had to do a lot of stuff - shufflin'to get that shot that day, and if you could see the mountain piled up behind the camera, you'd wonder why I was even smiling in that picture - ha!

Having mountains of papers and letters piling up is a giveaway that no - one is home.