Sentences with phrase «snatches of»

But Mr X snatches both of their phones.

Once I got a seat on the subway, I pulled it out and continued exploring the cel - shaded beauty of Hyrule between snatches of conversation with the boyfriend.

After several days of catching only snatches of sleep herself, she is exhausted.

At select moments I'm pretty sure I could hear snatches of both the dodgeball game and AA meeting happening adjacent to the church.)

The growing intensity of the film is reinforced by the oppressive rhythm of a drum which accompanies snatches of music and speech.

As an «extract expressionist,» she uses images from the mass media and pastes big, bold snatches of text over them.

Reflecting in a pane of glass, what the viewer can't see are snatches of ceiling pipes and fluorescent tubes that appear to float in a purple sky.

Abstract, geometric shapes and patterns emerge from this creative process, interspersed with disorganized snatches of words and phrases whose original meaning is supplanted by the aesthetic properties of the whole.

Now able to draw down astonishing material from online sources, Leckey can paste together footage from NASA's early failed attempts to launch inflatable media satellites in space — the technology that would eventually lead to our hyper - connected reality — with grainy colour film of crazily empty new motorways and snatches of Harold Wilson's famous 1963 speech in which he described a Britain being forged in «the white heat of the technological revolution».

After dark, Mayfair buzzed with the traffic between galleries, snatches of...

see abstract snatches of Lund's Strings Attached, a series of 24 text - based paintings on fabric wallpaper, or The Paintshow, an exhibition Lund did that features paintings made on his Microsoft Paint - like website, Paintshop.biz.

In Hibbard's words, «even the smallest and most mundane snatches of trod surfaces can swell with imagined significance or incidental beauty.»

His meticulously executed snatches of the real world are executed with the minute precision of higher mathematics; and yet what seem to be very cool, unemotional artworks, embracing a quietist aesthetic, turn out to set off an intensely emotional experience.

These encompass veteran conceptualist Daniel Buren's historic 1982 «Les Guirlandes» made from striped flags and loudspeakers blasting chronologically organised snatches of music through to Yto Barrada's new sculptures constructed from salvaged plumbing materials from her native Tangiers and Chilean artist Manuel Viera - Gallo's shattered evocations of domestic violence.

This exhibition gives a us a flavour of the man not through his writings — though thankfully we get snatches of writing too — but through the art he collected.

Class and gender are messy, emotive themes, so Perry makes messy, emotive work that synthe - sizes snatches of material sourced online and from her daily life.

Woven into each tapestry are snatches of text, each one in the voice of a participant in the scene illustrated.

Snatches of music, speech, and invented promo slogans interrupt what the artist has called his «super-viciously artificial» imagery, while the real makes a return of sorts both in the film's atmosphere of lingering, subcutaneous depression, and in its meticulously animated lens flares and moments of fuzzy «cinematography» — reminders of a tool, the camera, which has played almost no part in its creation.

The audio is more impressive — a constantly unnerving soundtrack riddled with snatches of animal noises and jarring static.

These investigations are punctuated by snatches of intense but technically loose action — Bigby will, for instance, perform the same scripted action regardless of which trigger you hit when a prompt appears.

Once I got a seat on the subway, I pulled it out and continued exploring the cel - shaded beauty of Hyrule between snatches of conversation with the boyfriend.

Five days earlier I'd been walking around the perfectly groomed Austrian capital, catching a glimpse of the Spanish Riding School's famous Lipizzaner horses peeking over their stable doors and hearing snatches of the ordered three - beat waltz that echoed from music halls throughout the city.

Among the many ways solitary travel is thoroughly satisfying, is the snatches of time you spend with other people, especially those who share the same passion for travel.

But perhaps most impressive of all, Alexa can take the role formerly filled by disinterested record shop employees: you can ask her to play half - remembered tunes, by quoting snatches of their lyrics.

As Cora learns, through her awakening in books and snatches of opportunity to learn from new encounters, the entire history of America is one of whites stealing from others — native land, African bodies — and the view from the underground train, as one conductor tells Cora ironically, shows you all America has to offer: darkness.

I've been grabbing snatches of time here and there over the last week plus to get a few things done but there has been little writing and lots of hair pulling in frustration, especially when it comes to dealing with Createspace.

Winterbottom's alien tongue is a word salad comprised of English, French, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish, crystallizing in speech what Ridley Scott's Blade Runner suggested in billboards and snatches of street patois.

Snatches of poetry do enter this antiseptic world through McKenzie's eye, and her Denis - like fascination with skin — real skin, not the finely polished alabaster of most movie actors — keeps things pulsing with humanity.

There's some nice masculine bonding ritualized in the top - secret, homoerotic spanking / pissing / Greco - Roman wrestling of ultra-secret frat Skull & Bones (where Bush Jr. first learned to be a spook) that only occasionally elicits giggles, as well as snatches of interrogation and espionage that make The Good Shepherd a Bletchley Park presentation of a James Bond intrigue, i.e., a spy flick as filtered through the sort of secrecy and emotional reserve required by the profession itself.

As it is, there are snatches of brilliance embedded in the margins of what resolves itself as a disturbed twenty - something man working out issues using other people's money; Freddy Got Fingered is, like Green's short - lived Canadian cable access and MTV sketch shows, emotionally raw and unbearably autobiographical.

portentous imagery and lighting to set the mood, hints of story and plot to intrigue but not oversell, enough snatches of script and what appears to be fine performances to want to see more... seriously, this is how you do trailers (Sony, don't release another, just leave it at this!).

Instead of the obvious numbers, we get snatches of covers, if any music at all.

Hans Zimmer's music swells, and we watch as airforce pilot Farrier (Tom Hardy) lands his plane on the beach; snatches of violet make their way into the frame, as the breathless tension finally lets up and makes way for more stirring emotion.

Mixed into the dominant melodic line are snatches of other films, broadcasts, murmurs, atmospheres.

He does, however, competently stage what brief snatches of action there are, though none of it is especially exciting.

The stars shine out for maestro Altman There are some things we've come to expect from a Robert Altman film: a large cast of characters and several interlocking storylines (with a few sub-plots) often set up through snatches of overheard, overlapping dialogue.

A 5.1 DTS - HD MA surround track inconsistently fields the snatches of dialogue and game noise and makes for aural pandemonium, and an accompanying lossless mono track just compresses all of those poorly mixed channels into one flat noise.

Not to mention the introductions and commentaries by Made in Britain screenwriter David Leland, the snatches of Clarke's competing work for ITV, the four - hour documentary on Clarke... the list goes on.

Not that I Give It A Year is by any measure prudish; it's filled with obscenities and bawdy humor and even quick snatches of male frontal nudity.

Then, there are snatches of flashbacks about a blonde girl that, at first, we might assume is Adele in her younger days, but she turns out to be Frank's former wife; this is the story about how he turned up in jail.

It doesn't help that Damon Alexander is clearly not up the task of inhabiting this Ferris Wheel's center point, lurching through ridiculous snatches of narration only managing to sound misogynistic, which is quite often considering Danneel's integral role («She gave head like a fat girl,» he explains to us, just so we understand why he wanted to keep her around in the first place).

Birdsong, crickets, snatches of engine noise and music but no human presence, until a group of girlish feet - sandals, white socks - passes crisply through the frame in the opposite direction from the camera's movement.

The excellent Oscar - winning 1984 documentary «The Times of Harvey Milk» did a much better job of bringing his story to life than this dramatized hodgepodge, which mixes fictional footage with snatches of newsreel clips from the era.

Moving fluidly between emotive monologues and snatches of dramatic tension this ensemble cast work hard to make things look easy.

The year before, Harding had also skated to a peculiar cut that veered anarchically between snatches of musical genres, and part of the excitement of watching her compete derived from this mysterious incoherency.

Far from staid, the picture illustrates nothing but Brownian motion — shaking shit up real good and filming the results for two long hours to a parade of ironic pop songs and barely - heard snatches of dialogue written by someone I'd like to see do better than this, Donnie Darko creator Richard Kelly.

This is an abstract making - of alternating B - roll shot in a variety of media, watermarked outtakes (including one from a deleted scene between Phoenix and Amy Adams), and snatches of dialogue from the film that gives the impression of a tight - knit cast and crew there to serve Spike's vision.

In fact, the movie is more suggestive than direct throughout: Most of the philosophical questions are raised not by the characters, whose traumas tend to choke the most relevant words out of them, but by overheard snatches of reportage and media commentary.

Then there's the character Phillip Seymour Hoffman plays: a young craps player high on the dice, howling obscenities, singing snatches of nonsense songs and crowing to nobody.

This story, which is told via snatches of flashbacks, is laced with tragedy.