Sentences with phrase «something middle of the road»

When you're still not sure of formality, go for something middle of the road, such as these dresses above, but add something extra with the accessories..

I'm guessing neither, as we'll most likely get something middle of the road next week.

Just a little turn makes a difference between something middle of the road to magical.

Not exact matches

Ryder is a great middle of the road name for anyone who craves originality, but still wants something recognizable by the masses.

Life in a small town is akin to journeying in the middle of the steppes: the sense that «something new and different» will spring up behind every hill, but always unerringly similar, tapering, vanishing or lingering monotonous roads.

Mercy Street hugs the middle of the road so steadfastly, it makes «Call the Midwife» look like something by David Lynch.

There is something that makes it, for better or worse, middle of the road.

Undoubtedly a very fraught and brave production, and playing not unlike a cross between John Hillcoat's recent Cormac McCarthy adaptation, The Road, and something out of the Rossellini canon circa Germany Year Zero (1948), Son of Babylon is a frightening reminder that what would generically constitute a post-apocalyptic road movie in the West is the stuff of a brand of neorealism in the Middle ERoad, and something out of the Rossellini canon circa Germany Year Zero (1948), Son of Babylon is a frightening reminder that what would generically constitute a post-apocalyptic road movie in the West is the stuff of a brand of neorealism in the Middle Eroad movie in the West is the stuff of a brand of neorealism in the Middle East.

I can't speak for the original, but this certainly does seem to extend a trend in many Hollywood remakes, which substitutes innovation for something more middle - of - the - road and recognizable.

I agree with Marc that Ford should have done something a little bit different with the Edge instead of producing another middle - of - the - road crossover, of which they have several in their very own stable.

I was in the middle of grousing about the Abarth's shortcomings when something happened: the road I was driving on, one of the access roads to Detroit Metro Airport, went into a tunnel.

It also managed side roads well, which is saying something if you have ever seen the rutted, pot - holed mess that passes for roads in Vermont in the middle of February.

It's just something about sitting in the middle of the road with a dead engine that doesn't feel right.

Our tester was something of an anomaly in the world of high spec, loaded - up press fleets: a middle - of - the - road, common spec model.

But it is a nice middle ground in terms of a functional hatchback and something that can venture onto rougher roads.

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Some vehicles have a plate that protects the bottom of the oil pan (to avoid a mess when and if you hit something in the middle of the road).

In my work and career though, I aspire to something more than a middle of the road performance, as I imagine do most of you, so the lesson here comes not from my own experience of running, but from watching champions competing in the Olympics or world marathon majors.

Try to find something that's typical and «middle of the road» for the type of position you'd want.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.