Sentences with word «thumbscrew»

Rather than thumbscrews on the back, small latches at the front allow the doors to swing open.

Gaines and Winchell lead Odessa Permian's powerhouse West Texas high school football team, annually putting themselves through the unimaginable crucible of small - town scrutiny and brutal conflict to allow the economically depressed, chemically dependent residents of Odessa a moment's respite from the banal thumbscrews of their everyday.

The interior offers easy access to components, thumbscrew side and PCI slot covers, and dual 120 mm fans for superior airflow.

It displays lugubrous intruments of torture, like thumbscrews and a guillotine.

Saints Row 4 got a bit of flack for rabidly recycling resources from Saints Row 3 — sprinkling Steelport with a load of eye - wrenching neon and trying audaciously to pass it off as a big psychological thumbscrew, for starters — but it got away with it because your superpowers put a whole different dimension on the city and how you traversed it.

The hard drive bays (which number eight in total) are easy to work with, too, as all are secured with a single thumbscrew, and all can be fully removed.

All of the case panels are secured with easily handled thumbscrews that are permanently attached to the case panels, so you can't lose them.

Open up the case by twisting two thumbscrews on its rear panel, and you'll find a masterwork of cable management and Tetris - like component placement.

The slider parts are made of nickel plated zinc die cast and the spring and thumbscrew of stainless steel.

One roommate — predictably the son of an angrily lapsed Catholic — pointed to Crusader barbarity and Torquemada's thumbscrews, which proved the Church's malign influence.

«Oh no, praying is great, without it the thumbscrews and the Iron Maiden probably never would have been invented.»

They ask a question and if they don't get the right answer, they tighten the thumbscrews.

They'll be back next week to repeat their act of what their colleagues view as extreme tyranny — unless their constituency chairs put the thumbscrews on them.

A sneak peek inside the box - a ball mount, an adjustable 2» square shank, a hitch pin, a spring clip, two spring bars, two hook up straps, two hook up hangers, one bolt package with the hook up, one bolt package with the ball mount, one thumbscrew, two pins with latch, and one wrench

Dell's new machines open with a key lock and thumbscrew.

Even the small independent traditional presses (non-New York) are putting the thumbscrews to their authors.

If (big if) Amazon gains so much market share that it can cut royalty rates or start to put the thumbscrews on indies who are in Select, then:

No matter that the SNES was beginning a software war with the Genesis, both offering far more interesting titles to play, no matter that the original Game Boy sucked down batteries like a vacuum and had the ergonomics of a thumbscrew, no matter that staring at the grainy, blurry, ill - defined LCD screen probably added two or three prescription points onto my already half - blind eyes: I had a hard - on for Samus, and playing through Metroid II was the only way I could get my groove on.

Removing the side door is pleasingly simple, as all you have to do is unscrew a thumbscrew and pull a lever to get the door to pop out of its hinges.

Use the thumbscrew supplied with the HUE + to secure the controller to your PC case, tidy up your cables and close up the case.

Its layout is traditional, and it's opened in a traditional way, by removing two thumbscrews — no latches or other tricks.

Removing the system's cover is simply a matter of removing four thumbscrews and giving a rearward tug.

The public schools are retaining their students for less time every year, as private schools put the thumbscrews on parents to pony up their cash and kids earlier to secure a place in their hallowed ranks.