Sentences with word «snuff»

The more traditional hinayana believe life is pain and eventually snuffing out of existance would be better.

In the process, he's getting mixed up with all kinds of seedy type individuals: beach bums and dope fiends and bikers and runaways and rich guys who traffic in snuff films.

A tale of corruption and betrayal set against the backdrop of snuff films and the notorious murder and mutilation of Elizabeth «The Black Dahlia» Short (the always - unspeakably sexy Mia Kirshner), The Black Dahlia is the kind of De Palma plastic fantastic that renders his films candy - coloured genre dissertations.

«If we are sinking $ 400 million in the course of a few years into capital upgrades, I think that we should be thinking about other ways to do this instead of throwing money at buildings and jails that are dilapidated, old, falling apart, crumbling apart, and not up to snuff for what your officers need and what the inmates need,» Johnson said.

It's not really up to snuff with good weather conditions, let alone a windy snowstorm.

«The closest I got to the Bar at university was an ill - fated trip to the Inner Temple where I had tea with someone who I then feared might be characteristic of all barristers everywhere — a Rumpole of the Bailey type figure (without Rumpole's redeeming features), complete with a tin of snuff in his pocket.

«I used to save up for Limoges snuff boxes and vintage posters.»

Curiosity is strong in children, and when not snuffed out by forced assignments with little choice about how they'll learn, quality and compelling reading material can help lure them into connecting with the text.

Such as snuff or leaf type tobacco such as Red Man, Beech - nut or Levi Garrett.

Waters explains why he chose it: «I finally got to see Tippi Hedren's real - life snuff movie starring her entire family that was made in 1981 but not released in the US until 2015.

The top - trim Titanium builds on the SEL's features with modern flourishes like ambient interior lighting and a 110 - volt, household - style power outlet to keep your laptop up to snuff on road trips.

They are subjected to all manner of psychological torture and near - death scrapes as masked attackers, who use the motel as a makeshift set for DIY snuff movies, target them.

While it performs admirably, the Step2 is not quite up to snuff when compared to the 2 - in - 1.

It is not reasonable to suppose that the God who made us and who loved us enough to give his Son for us would let us simply «go out» at death like snuffed candles in the dark.

If the big wizard in the sky is in control of everything, you'd think he could keep his number two from getting snuffed.

The city exported its own products and those of Aspero to distant communities in exchange for exotic imports: spondylus shells from the coast of Ecuador, rich dyes from the Andean highlands, hallucinogenic snuff from the Amazon.

There's stuff about snuff videos, as well as a fairly violent shootout in a warehouse that puts an exclamation point on the movie's themes about sins of the fathers and legacies of violence.

Could it be that my upgradeable vehicle isn't up to snuff compared with the demanding jumps?

In selling her own handmade totes, handbags and belts, Stack ensures that the quality of the materials she orders from vendors is up to snuff before making each product.

(The Liberals, with Justin Trudeau and a decidedly leftward shift, easily snuffed out those chances, reducing the 95 - member caucus to 44).

She finds that her trade is profitable; / Her lamp is not snuffed at night.»

Last week the Washington Post highlighted a report the Maryland State Department of Education provided for state legislators that said it would require $ 100 million to bring the state up to technological snuff by 2015.

Untitled # 7 a / v, 2016 Framed found book page, Chinese porcelain snuff bottle, red lacquered wooden base, glass case, pedestal

One of my biggest worries was that my motivation techniques wouldn't be up to snuff if I didn't have a professor asking me to do a story as an assignment.

United continued with their tidy passing play from the first half and Spurs hardly got a sniff of the ball and when they did United quickly snuffed it out.

No porn on the telly, just snuff flicks... shot in the very room they're staying in!

There's scammers just prowling around looking for their next unsuspecting victim... our job is to sniff them out, then snuff them out.

A stiffer suspension setup does result in a bouncier ride, but it also helps snuff body roll and allow the tail to rotate.

Even if you just use snuff or chewing tobacco product your life could be in jeopardy down the road due to mouth and throat Cancer.

What's good is that the standard magnetic ride control dampers have effectively snuffed out the float that old - school Cadillacs were famous for.

Umeå, Sweden (Scicasts)-- People who use moist snuff «snus» have significantly higher levels of the protein cornulin in their blood than non-snusers.

Keen's account grows darker as he recounts how an explosion in artificial intelligence could soon snuff out humanity.

«I sat around at college in my living quarters — this old converted smokehouse — guzzling beer, dipping snuff and smoking my lungs out,» he says.

The «sheer audacity,» as Pak puts it, of Silver Surfer's features almost snuffed the character's chance from even appearing in comics.

Unfortunately for buyers at this level, the lower high snuffed out the market's momentum.

They seem to have every play snuffed out before it can get going

Firefighters have almost completely snuffed out a fire that was threatening an underground physics lab.

I'm going to immediately snuff this out seeing as your comment sounds like you've never really played the game.

Those who have watched the sun suddenly snuff out say it's an otherworldly feeling.

He and one of his staff stumble on a show emitted out of Pittsburgh called Videodrome, which is filled with nothing but sado - masochism, torture, and snuff scenes.

She didn't take me on as a client, but that was because my writing wasn't quite up to snuff yet.

On the film is what appears to be an honest - to - God snuff movie, shot on the cheap and depicting the butchery of a pretty teenager in sickening detail.

But Maguire's indomitable showing snuffed out Saints time and again, to leave Silva expecting a career to remember from the 24 - year - old who is already coveted by a host of Premier League rivals.

Strictly speaking, copy editing is about the nuts - and - bolts of the manuscript: making sure the grammar and spelling is up to snuff while eradicating consistency issues and factual errors.

Materials quality is not up to premium - brand snuff.

The second largest tobacco company in the U.S. is the parent of R.J. Reynolds, American Snuff Company, Santa Fe Natural Tobacco, and Niconovum AB.

I think navy is a great staple to start with so you could add in whatever else you like and eventually snuff out the navy if you really don't like it!