Sentences with phrase «rumpled suits»

These are crusaders in rumpled suits with coffee cups instead of capes, plodding through the boring legwork that comprises so much of real journalism — making lists, finding almanacs in dusty rooms that stink of dead rat, filling out forms at the courthouse, eating leftover pizza in dismally unkempt apartments.

And I cringe when a member of our team shows up at the big pitch with a rumpled suit four sizes too big for his frame.

Ward wears the role of Hoke like a rumpled suit pulled out from under a pile of weeks - old laundry.

When you think of short - term borrowing, do you imagine going to a storefront office in a strip mall and filling out a long application while a fellow in a slightly rumpled suit waits, fidgeting, shuffling papers?

Not exact matches

Easily the standout on this year's concept lawn display, the one - off Icona Volcano's brushed titanium finish is both strikingly elegant and curiously rumpled — like Columbo in a Zegna suit.

I was with Peter Mayer, the president of the Overlook Press, a large, rumpled figure in a black corduroy suit who wanted to publish Said's small romantic novel Ali and Nino.

Dressed alike in their rumpled black suits, carrying their great black - bound books, they pass through the crowd into the main sanctuary where the older men are arriving, businessmen coming from downtown, the storekeepers from the neighborhood, the retired grandfathers.