Sentences with phrase «snake pit»

No way was I getting into that fiscal snake pit!

One of the black smokers at Snake Pit was named Saracen's Head, after one scientist's favorite British pub.

Twisted music box bells and tick - tock percussion also get across a political snake pit of cutthroats, while wistful, and sometimes brooding strings become Sarkovsky's strained marriage — all giving melodic depth to «The Conquest's» loopy humor.

We all should shun this club completely and not attend games, not buy club merchandise, NOTHING, ZILCH, until the whole snake pit of corrupt «people!

J.D. Martinez ranks as one of the best midseason trade acquisitions in the last two decades, per Jim McLennan of AZ Snake Pit:

Meanwhile, it comes as no surprise in these quarters that the county executive has prudently chosen to avoid publicly that political snake pit called Park Point.

That's as much as can be disclosed from the nasty, well - knotted script by James Greer and Jonathan Bernstein (upping their game slightly from the Jackie Chan vehicle «The Spy Next Door»), before proceedings tumble into a writhing snake pit of melodramatic reversals and vintage B - movie jolts — some chilly, some silly, but all held together with defiant, dug - in credibility by Foy.

Thanks to a record blizzard, the general store / saloon turns into a human snake pit filled with nefarious types who are quick with a quip and a trigger.

«Goliath» is the first streaming series from David E. Kelley, and it has a style that fans of his TV standouts «Ally McBeal» and «Boston Legal» will recognize in the playful edginess of the dialogue and the overall sense that a law firm is just a fancy snake pit.

Writer - director J.C. Chandor makes movies about people in danger of drowning — morally so in the Wall Street snake pit of «Margin Call,» literally so in the sea saga «All Is Lost,» and now financially in «A Most Violent Year.»

His second memoir, American Snake Pit, was selected as a finalist for The Southampton Review's 2016 Frank McCourt Memoir Prize and the screenplay has received over 20 awards at international film festivals since June 2017.

Did you know that buried at the bottom of snake pits there is always a mattock?

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Recent curatorial projects include «Unearthing Delights» the 5th edition of Narracje public art festival (2013, Gdańsk, Poland); the NZ - Australian programme for the inaugural Ängelholm International Video Art festival (2012, Sweden); and an international exhibition at the not - for - profit artist - run gallery Snake Pit (2012, Auckland, New Zealand).

Starting with the painterly fabric of dots from blown - up newspaper photographs, he annexed the mental substance attendant upon them as a provocative snake pit.»

On the occasion of her 2006 show, Jerry Saltz wrote that much of von Heyl's art takes us to a «wonderful snake pit where styles he thought were outmoded turn dangerous again... her paintings are visually conflicted yet confident in this ambiguous state, self - conscious while being self - assured.

Outside of the Washington, D.C. snake pit, politicians, at least these men, seem to display a heartening degree of energy awareness and reasonableness.

You refuse to acknowledge that Venema's opening line linked to hotwhopper which is among the most vile of the warmunist snake pits.

After graduating from Harvard Business School, Spier made a «spectacularly foolish» decision to join D. H. Blair — a third - tier firm that was eventually shut down by regulators — where he was exposed to a «snake pit» of Gordon Gekkos and bankers that pushed boundaries.

There's Arkansas, bounty hunters, snakes real, human, and symbolic, being rescued from a snake pit by a very errant knight, a display of the gratuitous slaughter that comes when you take the law in your own hands, a deep commentary on place, displacement, the state of nature, and the techno - forces of the modern world and modern government, solidly American thoughts on law, property, justice, and keeping your word, and so forth and so on.

Not in this novel, or this novel's America, where «the snake pit of history bequeaths us its mad dreams.»

a snake pit of wanton pedophiles....

The old «snake pit» atmosphere DO longer exists in the vast majority of state hospitals and the locks are coming off many wards.

We suspect that Sterling will fit right in at the snake pit that is Manchester City, the only question is whether he sits next to Samir Nasri or Fabian Delph in the club bus.

«After six weeks in the snake pit you begin to wonder if you'll ever win another one,» said Friend.

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Lastly, the Indianapolis 500 Snake Pit is on the same day as the «Greatest Spectacle in Racing.»

The final three holes comprise the «Snake Pit» — the 215 - yard par - 3 17th in between two tough par - 4s.

College basketball came out of the snake pits into well - lighted places.

it must «go in boldly» against the crocodiles of goodison and face the snakes pit that is at the etihad — after taming these foes it has to hoist our «cannon standard» and declare arsenal are rulers of the north - west (emphasis).

It has spawned a plague of naming conventions, like the Green Mile or the Bear Trap or the Snake Pit, to swoop up other sets of holes into one bucket.

U. Va.'s Memorial Gymnasium may still be considered a snake pit, but the only fangs opponents need worry about are emotional ones.

You could make chocolate covered pretzel sticks and decorate them with different animal prints such as cheetah spots or zebra stripes, or set out green Twizzler «Jungle Vines», or leave a bowl of gummi worms as a «snake pit».

In another slap at NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said last night he'd support legislation to shut down Rikers Island, which he called a «snake pit,» within three years instead of the 10 - year plan the mayor has suggested.

So that the Hasidim can purchase it and turn it into another snake pit like Northern Riverview.

In our decades long fight we have come across some of the sleaziest and immoral politicians, but Johnson stands out in the «snake pit» at City Hall as having the least scruples and integrity of any.

«I refuse to allow [my mother] to die in a snake pit.»

Calling Rikers a «snake pit,» Cuomo, who did not mention de Blasio by name, ripped the mayor's plan to close the facility within 10 years by questioning whether the time frame would be acceptable if «the parents of the children who were in Rikers Island were rich and powerful.»

In 1965, New York Senator Robert Kennedy alluded to the facility as «a snake pit».

In brain anatomy terms, the declarative memory of Indiana Jones in the snake pit is laid down by the hippocampus, a long, curved ridge located next to the amygdala.

«It's a snake pit.»

Along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the American west prevails, with names like Lucky Strike, Broken Spur, and Snake Pit.

The Snake Pit was named for the profusion of white, eel - like fish that live there.

Dating Game seems, as a snake pit, where rates are high and all play as a expert player in a poker.