Sentences with phrase «stood akimbo»

The allegation that policemen drafted to the House of Assembly complex to forestall the foretold violence stood akimbo while thugs laid siege on the legislature, brutalized Hon Friday Sani Makama, a duly elected lawmaker, and disrupted the activities of the Assembly should not be allowed to go unpunished.The National Assembly should also investigate the criminal act and take appropriate steps that would prevent the re-occurrence of such intimidating act in future.»

He is standing akimbo, not sure where to start with home staging.

Not exact matches

But whether it's Sam Rockwell or Tom Pelphrey, no man stands a chance with Nina Arianda on stage — she's the first actor to feature both arms and legs akimbo

In her nude painting of her estranged daughter Isabetta (1934, repainted 1935), the prepubescent girl stands arms akimbo with one foot forward, her gaze frank but also unseeing, her child's body frank also, but flattened and greenish, her feet peculiarly large.

Jim Dine's prints of empty male bathrobes standing with arms akimbo suggest Hugh Hefner as a ghost haunting the Playboy mansion.