Sentences with phrase «there on crutches»

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The late Lucy Dawidowicz, distinguished historian of the Holocaust, declared that there should be a moratorium on the very use of the word «Holocaust» — that it has become a crutch and an excuse and a cheapener of memory — and what she said is undeniably right and healthy.

I didn't say he should of made demands when on crutches and I didn't say he was there to make up numbers.

You think you know what's in it, but having worked in restaurants, I know very well that there are a lot of crutches that restaurants fall back on, like sauces and ingredients that are pre-packaged.

However, there's no denying that it's a safe crutch to lean on when you feel like you have nothing else to say.

And while I question a lot of Tarantino's ideas personally, there is some commentary which I found at least interesting and at times truly thought - provoking... until they just keep repeating the same things over and over and over again, losing the larger message in the flood of Tarantino dialogue which now seems to be the crutch of an indulgent filmmaker... not the original voice who made such an impact on Hollywood 20 years ago.

In the latter category, there are Pam (Jason Mantzoukas), a gun - toting shopkeeper who sells drugs to kids out of an ice cream truck, and Jason's cousin Nick (Adam Pally), a younger version of Dick who shows up on crutches during the movie's climax for no apparent reason (It might seem like a useless point to raise, but the screenplay somehow lacks logical consistency, such as when Jason scolds Dick for smoking the «gateway drug» of marijuana after the grandson smoked crack earlier).

«A few girls were skipping rope, and coming straight towards me was a boy on crutches... I glanced left and right, but there was no one else by the fence.

So there you are on crutches, with hospital bills to take care of, hotel bills, your luggage still missing and having lost money for the connection flight you just missed.

There it was: a vintage Cadillac encased in a massive shell of concrete, sitting in an industrial wasteland on Chicago's West Side, ceding its precarious nature as art even further to dirt and moss built up along the passenger and driver sides, patches obtrusively mismatched and I - beam crutches crudely pushed underneath its chassis — irredeemable, one imagines, even to the entropic vision of Robert Smithson.

Spotlit as you enter the first of three spaces in the exhibition, there's more automatons around the corner, this time a series of musical instruments ranging from a collapsing crutch with bells on to a one - string sitar plucked by a deer bone that resembles a human finger.

On an issue like the environment, I understood why the crutch of «on the one hand» was so popular: there is often simply no time to canvass expertOn an issue like the environment, I understood why the crutch of «on the one hand» was so popular: there is often simply no time to canvass experton the one hand» was so popular: there is often simply no time to canvass experts.

Even the fact that a scientific proposition should rely on the crutch of «consensus» tells me that there is something wrong with that science.

«The only thing I am reasonably sure of is that there will be no progress in understanding (spatio - temporal chaos theory) be it via chaos or not as long as people will insist on the crutches of functions / series that are only time dependent.»

It is doable on crutches if there are proper handrails.

«We just sat there wondering what to do,» says Glacken, on crutches at the time.