Sentences with phrase «there as a schoolboy»

I made my first pilgrimage there as a schoolboy to while away an afternoon watching the Mad Max trilogy.

Not exact matches

But he explained his business approach in his own memoirs called «Dirty Politics, Dirty Times» when he describes selling doughnuts to fellow schoolboys at an undisclosed profit: «There were probably people then as now who — if they discovered exactly what I was doing — might have found my practice a little sharp.

The filmmakers arguably throw too many plot points at the wall, hoping to make some of them stick, and there are a few schoolboy errors along the way, such as when a photograph of Game of Thronesactor Noah Taylor turns up early on, so that you spend almost the entire film waiting for him to show up.

Cattelan himself is seen in a half life - size waxwork, wearing German artist Joseph Beuys's iconic grey felt suit, dangling helplessly from a coat hook as though left there in some schoolboy prank.

In today's New York Times there's a really good Op - Ed piece, «Clause and Effect» by Adam Freedman, that takes us through the role that these and other commas might play, and is, I'm fairly certain, the only journalistic piece I've ever read that brings up the Latin ablative absolute, one of the banes of my existence as a schoolboy.