Sentences with phrase «precarious stacks»

As I was being interviewed for my first post-college job, my future boss, who had a wonderful reputation in the field, dashed animatedly around his office, pulling books from crammed shelves, precarious stacks on the floor, and the top of his invisible desk.

Are you greeted every morning with precarious stacks of mail and reports on your desk?

A precarious stack of parenting books — about baby sign language and baby knitting patterns and organic gardening with your baby — threatened to topple off my bedside table.

If you do this, you won't have a precarious stack of DVDs, magazines, books, and toys on your coffee table.

Not exact matches

The next month, Stack and six of his managers were called to a meeting at Harvester headquarters.Because of precarious economic conditions, they were told, SRC could not exceed 33 % of its capacity for the next three years.

As much as I love the extra height and sass offered by a stacked wedge or precarious stiletto, the reality is I live a car's drive from absolutely everywhere I need or want to go, and remembering to take my heels with me to the car as I slip into my safe - to - drive - in flats some days is just too much to ask.

They accelerate through tight underground tunnels and speed through precarious mountain passes, breaking not only stacks of traffic rules but a whole book of physics» laws as well.

Respawn Entertainment's Titanfall 2 finds itself in a precarious position amid the stacked slate of first - person shooters due out this fall.

The haunting presence and form of this work is echoed in «Monumento a tre militari» (Monument to three soldiers)(1998) on display here: picnic baskets, characteristic of those used by soldiers on duty, are stacked on top of one another and piled high creating a precarious, towering sculpture.