Sentences with phrase «stoop of»

I have seen people sitting on the stoop of their unfinished house in tears because they didn't plan properly and had run out of money to finish their home.

(2015) a girl in a bright yellow dress and green hair ribbons sits on the front stoop of a house, two suitcases packed.

Every couple of years, another installment appears, simply plopped on the collective stoop of videogame culture without so much as a knock at the door.

He's been living out on the streets and the residents of the apartment building occasionally put food out for him, but he would sit on the stoop of the apartment in which he lived.

Early in We're the Millers, small - time drug dealer Dave (Jason Sudeikis, Drinking Buddies) sits on the stoop of his apartment building with lanky neighbourhood loner Kenny (Will Poulter, Wild Bill), lamenting the state of his life, when inspiration hits.

Coronel saw Luis down the street putting up posters, and yelled for him to come over to the stoop of the next building on the list.

In the first episode of Season 3, «The Cabin Show,» we witness multiple flashbacks to a young Michael Bluth sitting on the stoop of his home, waiting to be taken on a camping trip by his father, George Sr. — waiting in vain, as it turns out.

If you are too sympathetic, you will end up as a doormat on the stoop of your tenant's entryway.

She started selling pottery from the stoop of her apartment to pay for college classes at a studio nearby.

Her father sat on the stoop of their brownstone watching her.

The incarnation of God is not the stooping of God; it is the relating of God, which He has always done.

The stoops of my youth were long, sandstone flights, their balustrades ornamented with blind lions or terminal objects that looked like great pineapples or artichokes, and the rubber balls we threw against the steps into so many evenings were «spaldeens.»

In what appeared denigrating as some quarters have described it is the stooping of some mornachs in the picture whom Alagbado of Agbado Oke Odo was part of.

At the session, lawmakers will hear from Mary Laura Bragg of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's Foundation for Excellence in Education, education analyst Terry Stoops of the conservative John Locke Foundation, and Julia Freeland of the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation in California.

Or as the inestimable Terry Stoops of the John Locke Institute notes in his own comments about the piece:» Ravitch does her best to exploit the Newtown shootings to advance her own political agenda.»

Stoops of the Locke Foundation said the six districts don't need transitional aid because they haven't been harmed academically by charters.

Throughout her long career, Helen Levitt's photographs have consistently reflected her poetic vision, humor, and inventiveness as much as they have honestly portrayed her subjects — men, women, and children acting out a daily drama on the sidewalks and stoops of New York City's tenemants.

OPEN BY APPOINTMENT FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST Laurence Miller Gallery presents HELEN LEVITT: PAIRS AND APPLES The show highlights Levitt's unique gift for capturing the way people communicate through body language, with special emphasis on one of her perennial interests: pairs of people sharing a moment in the streets and on the stoops of her native New York City.

Not exact matches

Smith, a veteran construction manager, and the subcontractor, a lanky, stoop - shouldered man with a local flooring firm, were standing in the site office — the chaotic first - floor corner of a six - storey brick - and - beam warehouse.

«When you are no longer what Thoreau called a corporation with a conscience,» Burnett admonished his firm, «when you begin to compromise your integrity... stoop to convenient expediency and rationalize yourself into acts of opportunism for the sake of a fast buck,» he thundered, «[I'll] demand you take my name off the door.»

No one answers him and with a roll of his eyes he stoops to fish his own cell out of a backpack.

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Keep in mind that this type of scoop may require you to bend or stoop, but it does make clean - up quick and easy.

This set consists of a sturdy metal rake and a spade - style scoop tray that enables you to scoop without stooping.

Comes with everything you need, made from premium grade non-stick plastic, lightweight but durable construction, one - handed operation, 24 - inch handle to avoid stooping, unique teeth design lets grass slide through, works on messes of all sizes and on all surfaces, comes with satisfaction guarantee

I like this definition of humility: It's an ability to recognize your talents and gifts accurately and then willingly stoop to a lower level and become curious, open, and willing to accept instruction without clinging to your pride.

When mainstream papers stoop to the level of conjuring up images of the president of the United States scrubbing toilets, Trump actually wins.

During a press conference following a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Tillerson was asked about White House press secretary Sean Spicer's comments that unlike Assad, Hitler never stooped to the level of using chemical weapons.

Walking through the company's mammoth distribution centre, which unloads 100 trucks a day at its peak, Champagne stoops to point out the best - before date on a crate of Turtles chocolates is a year away.

So Kenney knows the drill, and had more or less telegraphed the NDP's first step, predicting that they would go negative because gosh what kind of governing party would stoop to doing that against a newly minted leader 18 months before the next general election.

I pour the morning cup of mud, schlep out to the stoop to get my paper, and open my WSJ to learn that the yield curve is awfully flat (i.e., the difference between the interest rates of bonds of different maturities is low).

As I wearily got my Washington Post from the stoop early this AM — yes, some of us still read the «broadsheets» — I was bemused to see this crazy article, front page, above the fold.

Like some shareholders of the American International Group, the Fannie and Freddie shareholders have stooped to lawsuits as a way of trying to garner millions from the same government that rescued the entities.

From what I have seen of his posts, he surely doesn't need to stoop to that level to do a proper discrediting of your ideas.

A person has to stoop pretty low to become that deceitful and full of hate!

Why would anyone consider stooping to that level of behavior?

But to stoop to his level of disrespect for other humans would say more about ourselves than it would about him.

Six days after: Stooping down to crawl under the sticks holding up a sheet that was now «home» to the family of twelve that my wife and I had lived with for seven months when we moved to Haiti eight years ago.

Anyone who stoops to # 1 on any side of any issue needs to examine their hearts.

(Rev 19:13) Though God is not subject to time or decay, living forever (Ps 90:2), and is outside the realm of physical existence, he «stoops down to look on heaven and earth.»

And, as if none of that was enough, God stooped down onto the earth and clothed himself with flesh and bones.

But we must be missing something, because every autumn, when the chestnuts begin to fall from the tree, I can count on the appearance of friendly, silent strangers, most likely pilgrims to the Marian shrine up the hill, stooping under the tree and gathering the dark, shiny nuts into bulging plastic bags.

Surely God would not stoop to employ the lowly earthbound categories of ancient cosmologies or descend to the language of common appearances!

Just wondering why someone who is trying to champion their version of etiquette would stoop to be so condescending in the first place... oh right... because you are a hypocrit... get stuffed.

In Japanese the novel is clumsy and repetitive, employs distractingly flawed narrative techniques, and even stoops to basic literary gaffes, mixing metaphors to create unappealing descriptions like «a blanket of rain enveloped the whole plain like the strings of a harp.»

That's a lot more than the Pontif stories get, even if you have to stoop down to a storyline involving a combination of:

I stoop to pick up my towel from the side of the firepit and recall something the man named Dutch said as we waited by the fire hours earlier.

In the defense of your «target group,» Christians are human just like you, a human who is judgmental of others not apart of their «tribe» and may stoop so desperately to define separation will resort to hypocrisy.

You know better than to stoop to yellow jounalism, even if in the form of a headline.

Mary Magdalene returned crying, stooped and looked inside, and saw two angels in white robes sitting at the head and foot of the slab where the body had been.