Sentences with phrase «skelter at»

The reader who had hoped to have a gentle ride in the train finds herself in the helter - skelter at a fairground.

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«Competing at a high level in an individual sport is extremely tough,» says Sandra Haynie, the LPGA Hall of Fame golfer who shared a house in Dallas with Martina from 1976 to 1978 and who is often credited with having been the first stablizing influence in her young friend's then helter - skelter life.

It was helter - skelter stuff, with both teams shaking at the back.

Ian Holloway assured fans at the start of the season that his goal as manager was to deliver value for money and, after a helter - skelter kind of season so far which has contained several stunning highs — beating Liverpool home and away to etch their name into Premier League folklore — we think it's safe to say that the eccentric Bristolian has succeeded.

I was right to say that they did not make much difference to the public realm, but wrong not to add that the helter - skelter sale of public assets to private purchasers, often at knock - down prices, strengthened Mammon's grip on the public culture as well as lining the pockets of extravagantly rewarded accountants, management consultants and former nationalized industry heads.

We glide past a long - abandoned beaver lodge, its sticks cut at a distinctive angle and spilling helter - skelter down the riverbank into the bourbon - colored water.

This British stop - motion - animated film from the makers of Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run is a helter - skelter prehistoric romp in which a group of villagers take on their Bronze Age overlords — at soccer.

Thomas Hirschhorn's Concordia, Concordia, shown in 2012 at Gladstone Gallery in New York, was a helter - skelter room - size assemblage of replicas of objects from the Costa Concordia, the cruise ship that sank off the coast of Italy earlier that year.

If the artist gets his way, we will soon see MPs sliding directly from their offices to the Commons, commuters zooming on to station platforms, and insurance brokers at Lloyd's leaving the office via helter - skelter.

This sensibility produced works such as Self - Portrait (2001), inspired by Louise Bourgeois's towers at Tate Modern (2000) and Tatlin's model for the Monument to the Third International (1919 - 20), in a metaphor of her up - and - down life with an autobiographical helter - skelter.