Sentences with phrase «smaller than a town»

The farm scenes in particular (the poor city is reduced to only a few locations (that look like sets actually) and seems much smaller than the town in Sunrise are really stunning: much of the film feels like Days Of Heaven was the film Murnau actually wanted to make (same location: wheat field in the upper midwest, attacked by a natural disaster, though Murnau doesn't appear to have the budget for his hailstorm whereas Malick could afford locusts).

Not exact matches

Though there's generally less competition for jobs in small towns, business owners need to be more careful about finding applicants who are truly qualified and most likely to stay in the position for longer than their counterparts in bigger locales.

Presidential candidates, of course, have a lot more jobs available if they win than a small town mayoral candidate, but they also have more staff.

For those who love pulp fiction or the crime blotters in their town weeklies, however, there is no better place to look than in the small print of the Wall Street Journal's B section.

Though it may be small, Saint - Chinian has everything you need for daily life — local produce shops, restaurants, bars, doctor's office, dentist, pharmacy, a health shop, wine cellars — yet it is still a small, charming little town, barely more than a village, typical of the region and packed with history and lots to see and do.

I grew up in a rural area in a town with a population smaller than my first college dormitory!

If you choose to live in Louisville rather than Kentucky's smaller towns, you can get more for your money, according to another GOBankingRates study.

However, the small town vibe and peace of mind doesn't come cheap — the AreaVibes cost of living index is 26 percent higher than the rest of the state and 40 percent higher than the national average.

With a population of just over 45,000 people, Cornwall is an «in - the - middle» kind of place — not quite large enough to be a city, but certainly bigger than a small town, and as a Read more...

That might mean outsourcing tasks rather than having to own the expensive real estate for vineyards and tasting rooms — and finding innovative ways to bring the wine to small towns, and big cities, as the son of a well - known California winemaker has done.

I have never — as David — portrayed myself as anything other than an under - educated, small town, rural, pastor.

The most offensive aspect of Obama's assessment was its crude anthropological reductionism, the assumption that he understood the people of the small towns better than they understood themselves.

homosexuals can be nastier than bitter small town baptist widows).

People are making their lives complicated more than they need to by making world problems their problems; go to some small town and ask farmer's wife what is her biggest worry when she wakes up!!

ISIS militants massacred more than 200 civilians, according to a disturbing report, when they raided the small, mostly Kurdish town of Kobani on the Syrian border late last week.

In a smaller than small Vermont town, I was the shy new girl, the daughter of the visiting preacher; she was the bubbly, outgoing girl from the unchurched family.

Valparaiso, to begin there, has a feel these days that is more suburban than small town.

They produce impressive evidence to show that, contrary to commonly held assumptions, religion does better in pluralistic cities than in small towns and rural areas.

Think of the low - rise, high - density character of neighborhoods in Paris, London or Charleston, or any pre-1945 American town or city neighborhood, which are characterized above all by a beautiful, walkable, convenient public realm that more than compensates for their small building parcels.

Rather than using his acute grasp of manners and speech to demonstrate their fatuity, he asks us to acknowledge beneath and within the clichés and banalities of small - town life — including that of the church — enduring and even noble sentiments.

after 30 years of moving around the country and participating in various churches that were glad to have me be part of their work & ministries (as a musician), I find myself now living in a small, very isolated, undereducated and underexperienced town, where I've been rejected by more than one church on the basis that I know too much (I apparently make everyone else feel stupid) and have too much experience (i.e., I make everyone else feel inadequate).

The city was far more qualified than the country or the small town to take advantage of specialization, the key to industrial success.

A gunman who killed more than two dozen at a small - town Texas church briefly escaped from a mental health facility in New Mexico in 2012, police reports indicat...

Beli Manastir, a small border town in northeast Croatia, boasts a population of less than 11,000.

He writes that the «sensuous aspects of his faith — the familiar fundamentalist hymns, the voices of small - town preachers crackling through his AM radio, the «thunderous, rhythmic word pounding the Spirit of God» — bound him, far more than dogma did, «like a slip knot, loosely but decisively to my religious place.»

The setting, to be sure, is first century rural Galilee with its small towns and open farm and grazing land rather than contemporary urban America.

Small town Midwestern culture is becoming, if not urban, at least suburban, a place where people commute to Des Moines to work at Home Depot rather than walk down the street to run the local hardware store.

A gunman who killed more than two dozen at a small - town Texas church briefly escaped from a mental health facility in New Mexico in 2012, police reports indicate.

But I chose this volume that chronicles McLean's visits to 10 small towns across Canada because it's a bit more complex and narrative than his usual down - home stuff, he dives into forgotten history, talks to people that aren't usually on the front page or the television, to tell their stories.

Early primary polls showed that his supporters were more likely than voters overall to be poor, white, without higher education, and from rural counties or small towns.

Set beside a sluggish stretch of the Elbe in flat country often the outlook in this small market town of little more than 2000 inhabitants was simply dull.

It was a friendly letter, but one attempting to turn Luther into a quiet, optimistic, scholarly reformer, rather than the distraught theologian - poet, the small - town idealist the anxious pastor torn with concern for those misled, the cultured and uncultured alike, by wrong - headed institutional religion.

The process of breaking down the primitive cultural monopoly of the bishop with the consequent approximation of parity of bishop and priest in respect to their ministry, as distinguished from their jurisdiction, proceeded unevenly, more rapidly in the big cities than in the small towns, more readily in the West than in the East.

We've been sleeping more than usual (I actually went to bed with Matthew at 7 pm earlier this week, waking only long enough to scarf down a tiny bowl of pasta for dinner before drifting off to la - la - land again), eating our collective weight in local ice cream, and touring small, nearby towns in the afternoons before heading back to the cottage for happy hour snack time.

«We often comment that the theater managers in smaller towns where we operate often know the families in the city better than the mayor.

I would say probably half the people I know in my small town have had Lyme disease (some of them more than once) and both my parents have had it, too.

But more than that, it's both the common dining table and grocer to the kind of eclectic city where fictional boxer Rocky Balboa is deemed as worthy of a statue as Founding Father Ben Franklin, an oversized small town where South Philly blue - collar workers and Northern Liberties hipsters alike pride themselves on being plainspoken connoisseurs of worthy eats, and will endlessly debate whether DiNic's roast pork with provolone and broccoli rabe has supplanted the cheesesteak as Philly's favorite sandwich.

The Tea Party, likewise, tends to be more suburban and small town, more male than female, white and evangelical Christian.

With a population smaller than that of Washington, D.C., and a governor whose home number is listed in the phone book, Wyoming often feels like America's biggest small town.

Wins and wrecks, fights and flips — no driver brings more excitement to NASCAR's top circuit than Carl Edwards, whose big - game intensity is grounded in his small - town lifestyle.

Evergreen Park league officials say they decided to speak out despite the risk of being criticized in hopes of protecting the integrity of Little League baseball — a once small - town organization that's now worth more than $ 80 million — and keep their league, as well as others, alive.

As a Canadian and growing up a visible minority in small towns out east I took to (ice) hockey more out a sense of survival than anything else.

In Spain, Villarreal — from a town even smaller than Burnley — have highlighted the ability of less financially powerful clubs to succeed against major clubs, but Dyche insists that Burnley will continue to do things their way.

But to those from the small town of Woodstock, Ill., Groundhog Day means much more than a rodent seeing his shadow.

Varadero is about 90 min away from Havana, making it ideal for day trips, and with more than 20 km of beautiful white sandy beach, a small resort town, and a number of available excursions, Varadero offers a number of many levels of accomodation suitable for families.

In the north, agriculture is the dominant activity while in the south there's few finer places to visit than Savusavu, a small but pretty town with a number of hot springs nearby.

«New York, L.A., and Miami have more opportunities than a small town in Georgia, but an agent can't guarantee anyone work.»

And in rural areas, more people are likely to be found in a Wal - Mart parking lot on a weekend than in the business district of a small town.

Counting a new sports park about to be built in Tinley Park, there are more than 100 parks in the two towns — from small neighborhood playgrounds to water parks that span several acres.

There is nothing I love more than exploring new small towns full of local stores and delicious eats.