Sentences with phrase «preening in»

Even our massive, majestic resident hawk, while preening himself in the shadows of lime colored mesquite tree, gives a thankful nod to the cooler weather of Fall.

luxuriating, basking and preening in the conventional wisdom of the day with a touch of of a 3 stooges» prank: off the stage, time for the hook.

In years gone by, some regional law firms were busy preening themselves in the hope of a date with an attractive large national partner.

«Preening in the Kitchen» (1977) Photograph by Cindy Sherman.

The Met applies that very quote to a young sailor's sexually charged preening in 1906 — the first version willing to let paint dart and run, the second in flat colors pierced by eyes out of an African mask.

The object of his eye was none other than Faye Dunaway, preening in a scene from an old movie about a shutterbug who sees murders through her viewfinder before they happen.

They're preening in the windows of cat cafés and visiting retirement homes!

The new Jeep Wrangler is headed for the trails, and the Mercedes G - Class, though capable enough to hang off - road with the Wrangler, will do most of its work preening in fashionable locales and fancy mall parking lots.

Often, both are naked, banging away at various blondes, preening in the mirror or staring at women's bottoms.

They're comparisons that inspire Bruce, in billionaire playboy mode, to ruin his family's name with unpleasant drunken outbursts, high - profile stunts with supermodels, and general strutting and preening in the American Psycho mold.

«Andrew Cuomo's preening in the face of such a laughably small accomplishment is proof positive that this Governor has given up on trying to fix New York's business climate.»

A boy of no more than 15 preens in an intersection, automatic weapon slung over one shoulder.

This steel - gray one - shoulder dress is going to look great as you pose and preen in the reception photo booth with your high school classmates (#weddingwin).

There's a scene near the beginning of «Saturday Night Fever» in which Tony Manero — hardware store worker by day, disco dancer by night — preens himself in front of a mirror in his bedroom.

Porsches, Audis, and Benzes preen in these parts.

If it's cold outside, you can allow your bird to dry off and preen in a steamy, warm bathroom.

Guests can work out in the fully equipped Fitness Center or get pampered and preened in the Energy Clinic.

Discover supernatural items: Race around the arena on your broomstick, visit the gypsy caravan or preen in front of your magic mirror.

Not exact matches

Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor finally meet in the boxing ring on Saturday night in Las Vegas after months of pre-bout hype and a string of preening press conferences rife with insults and posturing.

His hubris, on full display as he preens and gossips and makes catty remarks about Trump's spray tan and hand size, quite possibly put this man he considers a dangerous buffoon in office.

He preened with guns and knives on social media, bragged about shooting rats with his BB gun and got kicked out of school — in part because he had brought bullets in his backpack, according to one classmate.

And yet in this deeply Christian, extravagantly post-Christian nation of ours, a number of sincere believers find the life of Christ and his saints somehow compatible with the sterile, preening, sub-adolescent egoism of Objectivism.

For what a presence he was, that snow - white fisherman With the long golden beak and the black stick legs, Whether preening his wind - riffled feathers As he stood on his bright - orange water temple (That pi - shaped torii that floated like a spirit), Or flapping prehistorically across the pond To stalk and stab in the dark water Plucking with dagger bill a twitching minnow.

He preened himself as an authority in the humanities as well as in the clinic, a scientist whose understanding of sex, and of our tendencies to deny and repress its power, gave him the key to understanding human nature and made him a bearer of the cold light of fact to an ignorant and myth «ridden civilization.

Surrealists, Beat poets, student revolutionaries, punk rockers, clever lycéens, and legions of the semi-educated who preen themselves on being thoroughly modern — as Rimbaud insisted we all must be — hold him in supreme reverence.

At first blush, I had him pegged as a modern, updated Edie Sedgwick, New York City's mascot frog preening and posing for a selfie while being publicly boiled to death in our pot of water.

That's a pretty poor analogy — if you were competing with your neighbour in e.g. a gardening competition and your neighbour had an amazing array of flowers and all you had was weeds, even if you preened them it is pretty obvious who would win... common sense.

Each year, the footballers of Naples primp and preen themselves for what might be football's most ridiculous calendar, and this year, according to their website, «the players and coach Benitez are portrayed in a mix of fashion, humor and sensuality.»

You wake up in the morning, get your kids ready for school, get them to actually go to school, clean the house of all their mess and, before you know it, you're too knackered to bother with pruning and preening your personal appearance.

Preen by Thornton Bregazzi Hair: Luke Hersheson for TIGI Inspiration: Grunge meets glamour in a fresh, girly twist on the style of the early 90's.

Indeed, those busily preening themselves for their prescience in rejecting disposal diapers forgot to include the environmental impact of sanitizing reusable cloth diapers, an impact that may be worse than the problem of landfills containing used Pampers and Huggies.

Of course, they do have one thing right: it is hard to find time to indulge in our old preening rituals when we have an infant who needs our attention.

That decadence would push an Olisa Metuh to preen and strut in court, as if being docked for alleged sleaze deserved some gold medal.

We have preened ourselves hitherto that, by contrast to the Americans who routinely used torture in their Bagram detention centre in Afghanistan and Abu Ghraib in Iraq (as well as in their global secret network of «black prisons» where -LSB-...]

Last year's Glastonbury headliner was controversial, as Kanye West preened about the stage in front...

Last year's Glastonbury headliner was controversial, as Kanye West preened about the stage in front of a disobliging crowd.

Osborne, grinning and preening himself like his newly purchased cat, luxuriated in his adversary's obvious discomfort — recognising not only the personal but the political challenges the shadow chancellor has to slay.

THIS common crane, preening itself at Lake Ganzen in Germany, has an extraordinary adaptation.

Birds can take in these smaller doses by preening slightly greasy feathers or eating...

Birds can take in these smaller doses by preening slightly greasy feathers or eating contaminated food, for example.

Birds fed the crude oil were less active and spent less time preening their feathers than birds fed peanut oil, said study coauthor Christopher Goodchild, an ecotoxicologist at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater.

But in this case, the birds didn't have any crude oil on their feathers, so the decrease in preening is probably a sign they're not feeling well, the researchers say.

But given that people, unlike rodents, don't preen each other, researchers assumed that we rarely come in close enough contact to perceive chemical cues in tears.

6 Fashion march of the penguins: Thousands of tiny, colorful sweaters have been knit for these flightless birds, to keep them from preening themselves if they are doused in oil from a spill.

Researchers assigned a score to birds based on the proportion of compounds in the preen oil.

When researchers inject antibiotics into the juncos» preen glands, the concentrations of three smelly molecules tend to decrease — the same three molecules that juncos find sexy in the right proportions, Danielle Whittaker of Michigan State University in East Lansing told attendees.

Have you fallen in love with certain Heels from Preen By Thornton Bregazzi?

Skirt: Preen by Thornton Bregazzi (bought in sale at Yoox) Shirt: H & M Denim jacket: Sportsgirl (very old) Bracelet: Jewelry to Your Doorstep Sunglasses: Loewe (old) Shoes, wedges: ToBe (old) Leather top: Cigno Nero similar (but a lot more expensive...) Shoes, heel: Players (old)

From Giambattista Valli and Givenchy to Prabal Gurung and Preen, the idea was used by different designers in a number of ways.

Let's take a break from obsessing over her street style and obsess for a moment over red carpet style, which includes this V - neck blood - orange Preen midi, a matching lip and mirrored Brian Atwood sandals for the Samsung Hope for Children Gala in N.Y.C.