Sentences with phrase «sickly man»

The challenge came from keeping your character fed, watered, liked, protected, healthy, and well - rested while you ran about doing your good work, and inevitably three hours into the game you were controlling a sickly man with bloodshot eyes who sold razorblades to children so he could afford more coffee and maybe repair his galoshes with the change.

The later version of Darwin is a sickly man who is consumed by his work.

Not exact matches

As he stood up at the Despatch Box to unveil his spending review, the Chancellor looked a sickly pale, his visage so ghostly that it had the confusing effect of making Danny Alexander, his very own Blucher, and a man whose own colouring is a few notches past alabaster, looking like he'd spent a week basking on a sun - bed.

As Reverend Toller, a lonely, sickly pastor at an historic church nicknamed «The Gift Shop,» because more people take tours of it than attend it, Hawke is the very picture of grief, remorse and guilt, a man of the cloth questioning his faith, whether he's lived a purpose - filled life, and if the death he sees just over his shoulder will have any value either.

Which means that rather than the normal action film sweet / sour balance, Man on Fire presents a much less preferable sickly sweet / unremittingly and sickeningly bitter balance.

He is transformed from a sickly, frail man to the peak of human physiology.

The son of a lawyer (Brett Rice, channelling Ned Beatty) and a harridan (Clara Jones), Bobby, because he was sickly, irritatingly fey, and dangerously over-protected as a child, becomes a great golfer, and, taking a moment to marry Nurse Grimace (Claire Forlani) while at Georgia Tech, continues onwards in his quest to become the first man in history to win the PGA's four major tournaments in one calendar year «Grand Slam.»

In a lively and engaging narrative, Ellis recounts the sometimes collaborative, sometimes archly antagonistic interactions between these men, and shows us the private characters behind the public personas: Adams, the ever - combative iconoclast, whose closest political collaborator was his wife, Abigail; Burr, crafty, smooth, and one of the most despised public figures of his time; Hamilton, whose audacious manner and deep economic savvy masked his humble origins; Jefferson, renowned for his eloquence, but so reclusive and taciturn that he rarely spoke more than a few sentences in public; Madison, small, sickly, and paralyzingly shy, yet one of the most effective debaters of his generation; and the stiffly formal Washington, the ultimate realist, larger - than - life, and America's only truly indispensable figure.

By 1489, when Michelangelo first began to attend sessions at Lorenzo's garden, Bertoldo was a sickly old man (he would die two years later), and he worked almost exclusively in bronze, a medium Michelangelo famously despised.

Big clumsy buttons and handles for meat - handed working men's hands to turn and sickly green CRT monitors and flickering neon tubes and beeps and bloops and nary a hint of SmartGlass or holographic displays or gesture interfaces to come (Hi, Ridley Scott's Prometheus!).

For twelve hours, my awkward, sickly 15 year - old self was Spider - Man.

Izhar Patkin's Unveiling of a Modern Chastity, the earliest work in the exhibition, was made as the first gay men were coming down with the then - unknown illness; it's a sickly yellow painting, shot through with oozy, rust - colored wounds.

As if you needed one more reason to feel guilty for couch - surfing when you should be kick - boxing, a recent study on long - term relationships indicates that men in excellent or good health have better sex than their flabbier or sickly peers.