Sentences with phrase «scrabbling in»

From its uniquely dark art style to its intense soundscape, you can tell Senua's journey will be keeping your own mind scrabbling in the dark even after the console powers down.

At his right Jack Brown suddenly found purchase underfoot, his toes in the green leather boots stuffed with straw digging in, scrabbling in ash and ice and pebbles, and...

I'm always scrabbling in the morning haha!

No more fighty hands scrabbling in the bowl!

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I wobbled into the building and waved nonchalantly at the security guards with one hand as I scrabbled in my handbag for my security pass with the other.

Not exact matches

Suppose it could be shown from past letters that my father met my mother because he missed his train, and so caught the one on which he found this beautiful young woman sitting; suppose, further, that a super-computer could show that some of my genes can be traced back to a small creature scrabbling about in the Triassic mud.

It was a hard - scrabble frontier existence into which, on February 12, 1809, was born the figure who is at the center of the ninth reflection in this millennium series.

• In the hard - scrabble coal country of Pennsylvania, employment is hard to come by.

Where Protestantism still boomed was on the dry, scrubby ridges above town, in hard - scrabble aldeas that clustered around government schools and Church of God chapels.

I don't see how any true fan can be happy about the situation we are in The club goes backwards each year but still fans on here and other social media outlets think that the club are doing great, how can you be happy when we see the same thing year in year out, scrabble for 4th, get champions league place, scrabble out the group then get turned over by the next big team For me this is not how a big club should be run (7th richest club in world football) Why don't we act like it.

With Suning unwilling to invest new money into the club until the summer, Piero Ausilio and Walter Sabatini are scrabbling around in the last 48 hours of the transfer window trying to recoup as much as possible from player sales.

With hours left in the transfer window we appear to be scrabbling around for scraps.

Despite several more years scrabbling for Premier League survival they were finally relegated in 2011/12 since when the club has encountered financial difficulties, an HMRC winding - up order and the ignominy of further relegation to League 1.

It seems incongruous to me that one of the top 20 richest clubs in the world (in terms of revenue) and one that boasts how it is in the top 10 of highest attendances in Europe should so regularly find itself scrabbling around in the bargain basement of the loan market.

The bar and restaurant area has the most wonderful alpine views, we loved sitting out on the terrace taking in the fresh mountain air, reflecting on our exciting day and took full advantage of the board games built into the tables, spending many a happy hour playing scrabble or monopoly whilst enjoying a post ski drink or two.

The mornings might still be early but at least don't involve scrabbling around for water bottles and trainers and we have time to play tennis and football in the garden, devour endless ice creams and picnic to our hearts content.

* note: These are not the exact scrabble tiles shown in the picture.

There'll be no more scrabbling about looking for keys - everything stays perfectly in place and easy to find.»

When Pope Benedict XVI resigned in February 2013, there was much scrabbling by journalists to establish when last a pope resigned voluntarily.

The scrabble for fourth place in a seat Labour was never likely to win is not a disaster, it's a disappointment.

The consequence of this is to pit services for men and women against each other in an unseemly scrabble for cash, not to mention salami - slicing those much needed resources for women, robbing Petra to pay Paul.

So that left Philip Hammond no option but to scrabble around in the undergrowth.»

Death Valley, Calif. — The dozen students and scientists spread over an area called Furnace Creek look like cyborgs in floppy hats scrabbling over the boulders.

You can say anything about art, but science is cumulative and people say, «I can't understand what's at the top of that, so I'm just going to scrabble around in the mud outside the castle and build my own shitty version of it out of reassuring platitudes and borrowed terms.»

When you put in scrabble and rearrange it to something that sounds cooler than ATAPIS because I can spell it.

I am just in love with those scrabble letters.

Not in an active, scrabbling way, but subconsciously.

Favorite date married - one of them was skinny dipping in a river about dark, playing scrabble at coffee shops.

We cooked in, played scrabble, and enjoyed some quality time with Charlie.

I enjoy music, concerts, movies, dining out and cooking in and a good game of scrabble.

I love to work in my yard and play scrabble.

In the traditional «gostra», a game stretching back to the Middle Ages, Maltese young men, women and children have to scrabble their way to the top of a Before he was a convicted serial killer, Rodney Alcala was a winning bachelor on The Dating Game.

Here, they don't even have anywhere to run / / to / /, and the desperate scrabbling for some Donkey / Puss action results in something that's less of a brainwave than a mind - ripple: as the result of a misfired spell, they... swap... bodies!

The enormous rift between Gonzalo's comfortable household and Pedro's hard - scrabble life a few miles away in an illegal shantytown ultimately becomes impossible to bridge, once the bloody military coup of September 11, 1973 erupts.

In a slickly assembled montage, the couple is revealed to be «all day, every day» champions of trivia, scrabble and charades.

Gillespie, working from a script by Steven Rogers, does an effective job of painting a somewhat less - than - flattering portrayal of the protagonist's hard - scrabble existence, with the strength of the film's opening stretch standing in sharp contrast to a middling midsection that grows less and less interesting as time progresses.

From a simple story of personal struggle, Zhao coaxes forth a stirring ode to a little - seen, hard - scrabble way of life and a sobering portrait of masculinity in crisis.

The main location was an actual house from the 1890s that had been built into the side of a hill, providing the perfect setting for a story in which the hard - scrabble pioneer lifestyle is central to character motivations.

While the rest of us scrabble around to find change for the pay - and - display, they're inevitably crouching behind a BMW, sweating profusely and generally hoping not to be shot by the stalking goons in bay 3.

After following the personal life of one transgender sex worker in Hollywood, California, Sean Baker will set his sights next on exploring the hard scrabble life of the average American citizen living in the greater state of Florida.

Not everybody's so lucky: Reeve Carney's Dorian is even more adrift this season, and Rory Kinnear's Caliban seems to be scrabbling for angst in the face of Vanessa's much bigger problems.

Have a Nice Day Liu Jian's Chinese animated noir about a bag of stolen money and the lowlifes drawn into its orbit is visually interesting in its depiction of a small industrialized town and its hard - scrabble citizens, but it's slow moving with a paper - thin screenplay.

As she did on «Mad Men,» Hendricks does a fine job of quietly showing how much the men around her character disappoint her, and how difficult it has been to keep any kind of optimism in her hard - scrabble life.

The school reported on its work in the first and third editions of the LLEAP (Leading Learning in Education and Philanthropy) dialogue series, and Cawsey says they were was still «scrabbling around» for little grants when the regional education director asked if Rooty Hill High wanted to host a Confucius Classroom.

In our «café español», girls discuss the issues they are passionate about in Spanish and play scrabble over a Spanish hot chocolatIn our «café español», girls discuss the issues they are passionate about in Spanish and play scrabble over a Spanish hot chocolatin Spanish and play scrabble over a Spanish hot chocolate.

In the wet, the car stood still today on a hill with the front wheels scrabbling for grip.

Its sonorous five - cylinder turbocharged engine now delivers 394bhp, while all - wheel drive helps it scrabble to 62mph in 4.1 seconds.

Whether manual or automatic (both are all - wheel drive), the JCW scrabbles to 62mph in 6.5 sec and tops out at 145mph.

Look at what Pagani has accomplished in the nineteen years since he and his new bride arrived in Italy, living in a tent and scrabbling at odd jobs to survive, and you are a good person indeed if you are not just a little bit touched by Envy.