Sentences with phrase «throw themselves against the walls of»

They claw at the floor and throw themselves against the walls of the chamber in an attempt to get out.

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Instead of throwing your keyboard against the wall because you don't understand a piece of code, you could outsource your web development to someone who has a web development skill.

Unfortunately 48 (or 96 %) of the replies were generic «throw it against the wall» replies that had no bearing on the post and did not follow the instructions.

In 2001, he sued the Akron Beacon Journal for $ 1 billion after a critical profile; that same year, he was acquitted of assault charges after allegedly throwing an environmental activist against a wall.

Ponnuru writes of somebody describing the Romney team's strategy as «throwing spaghetti against the wall to see what sticks.»

Just like men want a lady in the street but a freak in the bed, a lot of women want a man who will treat her well (with kindness, consideration, and respect), but who can also throw her against a wall and make her feel like a woman * shrugs *.

I would most likely throw one of the ice cream cones against the wall in excitement then devour the rest.

According to Bill, one day one of the priests, upset with Butch, picked him up by the collar and threw him against a wall.

>> SLAMS / THROWS: For this grouping of exercises, simply throw a medicine ball, or slam a medicine ball against a wall or the ground as hard and fast as possible.

Green's two free throws - on a tough call against Wall, who appeared to make a clean steal - gave the Cavs a 116 - 115 lead, but after Walls missed a short jumper, James split a pair of three throws, giving Washington one last chance.

Astorino's campaign, struggling to gain any semblance of traction in public polls, has resorted to what amounts to throwing spaghetti against a wall to see what sticks, releasing mostly online - only videos critical of Cuomo's handling of the economy and suggesting — without any context — that he could be in jail one day.

Theirs is a game of «throw something against the wall and hope it sticks».

A study in the June issue of archives of general psychiatry says that about 16 million Americans may have the condition, in which you don't just fly off the handle; you throw the entire coffee cup up against the wall.

«If you take a tennis ball and you throw it against a wall, you don't expect it to come back with more energy,» says Silke Weinfurtner of the University of Nottingham in England, who led the study.

OK, so not everyone is an early bird, and when the alarm clock goes off it's tempting to throw it against the wall and slip back into the sweet bliss of your dreams.

It protracts the scapula (pulls it forward) and holds it against the wall of the thorax, which is very important in throwing and pushing movements.

Once at the top of your crunch, throw the medicine ball forward to someone standing in front of you, or against a wall.

I see people throwing themselves against walls and trying to hold on one arm, posting fake pictures of their one arm handstand snapped as they were clearly falling.

This type of throwing often reveals a startling lack of athleticism in athletes who can snatch and clean and jerk astonishing numbers, but can barely sequence a medball toss against a wall.

Not using the current operating procedure of throwing sh @t against the wall and seeing what sticks.

Since my mornings completely depend on that darn alarm clock and whether I listen to it or throw it against the wall, I thought I'd write an honest post about the two types of mornings I experience on the reg.

If you're throwing your phone against the wall every time the forecast tells you it's not time to trot out your new spring dresses, give the poor device a break and just top one with a blazer that pulls from one of the colors in the sheath).

A super-villain operates a giant robot and stomps through a city after a superhero: the superhero breaks the robot face shield, grabs the villain, beats him and throws him against a wall, pulls up a skyscraper and launches it toward the villain and into the theater audience, and he kicks an empty city bus toward a woman that ducks out of the way.

► A giant caged gorilla is placed into a military cargo plane, accompanied by a man and a woman in handcuffs who argue with soldiers and an agent; the gorilla growls, snarls, and roars, showing large sharp teeth until he breaks apart the cage and several soldiers and government agents fire rifles and handguns to no avail as the animal roars and throws pieces of metal, striking some of the men, tosses several men against the bulkheads of the plane, and stands on the chest of an unconscious agent, who wakes up and shouts; a sliding military vehicle in the cargo hold pins the gorilla to a wall, the man and the woman in handcuffs break free and don parachutes, placing one on the agent and after the plane crashes in smoke and flames we see few bloody footprints of the gorilla leading away from the crash site (we do not see the bodies of the other passengers) and the agent has a cut on his forehead and the other man has lots of blood on the back of head and his T - shirt while the woman's face is scraped on one cheek and one side of her forehead.

Depending on the environment, Nathan Drake will execute a variety of movies e.g he will kick enemies down if they are standing near the edge or throw them up against a wall if near it.

The following escape sequence was a neat and unexpected twist that resulted in me losing several of my power - ups along the way when I was thrown against a wall, and eventually, I came face - to - face with Meta Ridley for the first time.

PixelJunk Monsters's only drawback is the throw - your - controller - against - the - wall frustration found on some of its more difficult levels.

Dozens of physical confrontations in a semi-fantasy environment result in people being thrown through glass, against walls and pushed into moving subway trains.

However, for every cool piece of spy gear, the movie throws other ideas against the wall to see if they stick, like robotic guard dogs that are pulled out of the

However, for every cool piece of spy gear, the movie throws other ideas against the wall to see if they stick, like robotic guard dogs that are pulled out of the Wolfenstein video game franchise.

Even when it sometimes seems that the endless jokes are being thrown against a wall to see what sticks, The Nice Guys, on the whole, summons that victorious, innocent feeling of seeing likable heroes win while having fun along the way.

It was a time of «seat - of — your - pants, barely - making - it, scrappy - renegade, throw - enough - stuff - against - the - wall - that - you - hope - something - sticks» filmmaking, and thankfully, we have Used Cars as one of the better examples of this short - lived comedy movement.

Maybe if Day - Lewis» Reynolds Woodcock had thrown that offending plate of buttered asparagus against the wall instead of calmly telling Alma, «I'm admiring my own gallantry for eating it the way you prepared it,» he too could have been a contender.

DRACULA III: LEGACY ** 1/2 / **** Image A Sound A Extras B starring Jason Scott Lee, Jason London, Alexandra Westcourt, Rutger Hauer screenplay by Joel Soisson & Patrick Lussier directed by Patrick Lussier HELLRAISER: DEADER * / **** Image A - Sound B - Extras B starring Kari Wuhrer, Paul Rhys, Simon Kunz, Doug Bradley screenplay by Neal Marshall Stevens and Tim Day directed by Rick Bota THE CROW: WICKED PRAYER 1/2 * / **** Image B + Sound A Extras B starring Edward Furlong, Tara Reid, David Boreanaz, Emmanuelle Chriqui screenplay by Lance Mungia & Jeff Most and Sean Hood directed by Lance Mungia by Walter Chaw This is the game plan if you're in the business of producing direct - to - video schlock for Dimension: go to Romania (the poor man's Czech Republic, itself the poor man's Toronto — itself the poor man's New York), show some tits, throw buckets of blood against the wall, and scrimp, wherever possible, on niceties like script and direction.

Cross seems content with throwing as many ideas as he can think up against the wall, and while he has managed to amass a pretty impressive cast of legitimately funny people (Matt Walsh, James Adomian, Michael Cera, Jason Ritter, Amy Sedaris, etc), nothing ever seems to stick.

No doubt there is a difference between the kind of experimentation that Jay is calling for and teacher prep's current modus operandi of throwing anything against a wall and seeing if it sticks — or worse, not even caring if it sticks, just doing it because a professor has decided he's right, no matter the evidence to the contrary.

As part of her defense, Moskowitz noted that the young man had allegedly engaged in incidents such as «throwing another student against the bathroom wall», «kicking, scratching, and punching a teacher», and «stabbing the walls with pencils».

I read the piece but, by the time I got to that, I was to the point of either throwing the laptop against the wall or writing a major piece, both of which would have taken away from my fiction writing.

Like other aspects of my business, I'm going to implement a very sophisticated strategy — throw a bunch of * stuff * against a wall and see what sticks.

Still, companies are really in a position of throwing the proverbial spaghetti against the wall to see what sticks, and while it's bound to make a good - sized mess at first (or maybe a slight dull thud for Square Enix), it's still good to see them going at it.

Years later, after submitting the same novels to the rigors of good editing, I came to see that the two agents in question were probably what's known as throw - it - against - the - wall agents.

So, when faced with the choice of wasting more time throwing queries against the traditional wall to see if anything sticks or focusing on building my own little publishing enterprise, it really was a no brainer.

Here's an excerpt from the middle of the book, days before Leslie and Conor's wedding, and just a few hours after Conor pushed Leslie up against a wall, choked her and then threw her to the floor over a simple misunderstanding.

On the one hand, his writing is beautifully descriptive throughout: «The sun touched the crenellated rim of the east wall, streaming through the crenels, blocked by the merlons: for a long moment golden rays shot above their heads to throw the silhouette of the ramparts against the western wall, playing on the gatehouse towers.»

(For instance, if I went with my first impression of iOS 7, I would have thrown the phone against the wall.)

Marketing can be a lot of throwing spaghetti against the wall and seeing what sticks.

The kind of artifice, pretension, and gaffes that might lead one to throw a book against the wall in disgust.

I'm not happy paying $ 8.99 or $ 9.99 or $ 12.99 for a paperback (especially considering that when I first started buying paperbacks, they were 15 cents), and I'm not happy paying nearly thirty bucks for a hardback (somewhere shy of ten bucks back in the day); I'm not happy paying anything for an ebook because at least for me, I've purchased nothing (can't hold it, can't stack it, smell it, riffle its pages, can't throw it against a wall)-- but if I want the work and that's the only format it is available in, I spend the money.

Asus has this strategy of throwing everything against the wall and seeing what sticks.

«I just figure if I throw enough stuff against the wall, some of it will stick.»