Sentences with phrase «tottering by»

Grandmas tottering by in the morning, paper bags overfilled with their daily groceries clutched tight under their arms as they navigated the twisty, cobblestone streets.

Not exact matches

Unconsciousness of despair is like unconsciousness of dread (cf.. The Concept of Dread by Vigilius Haufniensis): the dread characteristic of spiritlessness is recognizable precisely by the spiritless sense of security; but nevertheless dread is at the bottom of it, and when the enchantment of illusion is broken, when existence begins to totter, then too does despair manifest itself as that which was at the bottom.

By the time of Israel's first great era of constructive thinking in the age of the prophets, Assyria had reached almost its zenith, soon to totter to its eternal doom.

By withdrawing the dependency shields and allowing the alcoholic to experience the pain of being «clobbered by reality,» the relative or counselor allows the teeter - totter to tilt toward getting helBy withdrawing the dependency shields and allowing the alcoholic to experience the pain of being «clobbered by reality,» the relative or counselor allows the teeter - totter to tilt toward getting helby reality,» the relative or counselor allows the teeter - totter to tilt toward getting help.

Mostly they came, I think, because, he loved them and could tell them so, yes, even those vast, milling throngs; there was a touch, a sense, a spirit moving in, across, among those mobs of eager people, told them here at last they had a man who was concerned not for himself, who was not out to get himself elected, but who cared for every single one of them, and tottering old dames, lepers, whores, soldiers, robbers; I've seen them all transformed by seeing him.

Although my first sewing project may be a simple draught excluder for my friend, by next summer I'll be tottering down the high street in my new, homemade, vintage shift dress (with a little help from Mum maybe....)

By a year, well, she'll be tottering around, getting into everything.

Then, by offering to attempt to secure Taylor's release from the Zintanis in exchange for an apology from the ICC, the NTC is still grasping at her as a means to prop up its tottering legitimacy.

This, according to de Blasio, would leave the beleaguered network of municipal medical facilities tottering under «hundreds of thousands of dollars» in shortfalls — on top of a deficit already projected to hit $ 515 million by the decade's end.

He tottered on to the stage, looking utterly stumped by what to do next.

In fact, we have seen studies where the ratio of calcium to phosphorus also teeter - totters in favor of phosphorus without increased bone risks, except at levels where phosphorus intake exceeds calcium intake by a ratio greater than 2:1 simultaneous with calcium intake below the recommended daily amount.

They totter into the mountains, and an increasingly absurd chase ensues, led by a militant child services worker (Rachel House).

Opening night is a double feature: 1947's «High Wall» by director Curtis Bernhardt, starring Robert Taylor and Audrey Totter, and «The Dark Mirror» (1946, Robert Siodmak) in which Olivia de Havilland plays twin sisters, one of whom is deranged.

This week TCM's list includes the spine - tingling masterpiece «Strangers on a Train» and the lesser - known but compelling melodrama «The Strange Love of Martha Ivers,» plus noir highlights by and with ace actors like Humphrey Bogart, Robert Ryan, Robert Mitchum, recent birthday gal Barbara Stanwyck, Lizabeth Scott, and Audrey Totter, brilliant writers like Patricia Highsmith, W. R. Burnett and Cornell Woolrich, and directors like Alfred Hitchcock, Joseph H. Lewis, Phil Karlson and Anthony Mann.

With nowhere to go — the train totters upon a towering trestle, derailed by a mini-avalanche — the scene is set for a handsomely old - fashioned whodunit full of larger - than - life characterisation, deep - buried secrets and devilish deduction.

Not only are there no robots - Roadsters and GTs are pushed by hand between various production stations - there's also a surprising amount of character - enhancing clutter such as overflowing toolboxes and tottering piles of components.

Leaner of back it was, flanked by more profound abysses, deeplier gashed, too treacherous and too sudden in its changes from sure rock to rotten and perilous: piled with tottering crags, hung about with cornices of uncertain snow, girt with cliffs smooth and holdless as a castle wall.

Sannoh is taken by surprise by Shohoku starting play, but they soon get their rhythm and throw Shohoku off theirs and the game is like a teeter totter, the tide turning from Shohoku to Sannoh and the slowly back to Shohoku.

The 20th anniversary of the Opéra Bastille in Paris is marked by a spectacle of ruins: dust, more dust and the tottering towers of a city in a grey desert.

I wish to highlight an earlier comment I made...» Climate is influenced by dozens of natural factors, which are like dozens of teeter - totters lined up, where down on the right = cooling, and down on the left = warming.

Cutting our CO2 emissions by the planned amount would be equivalent to p*ssing in the sea, but will be one more nail in the coffin of our tottering economy.

When we finally arrived at our hotel we tottered next door for some suburban Chinese by the sea.

As we waited at the glamour Canberra Airport terminal (no joke, it's very fancy) for our flight we had a bit of an oooh - errrr moment as a very ancient John Howard tottered off the plane, followed by Bob Hawke in a wheelchair.

I consoled myself with the knowledge I'd be catching the Fabba Abba tribute tomorrow night, plus I'd already enjoyed a stirring rendition of «I Just Called To Say I Love You» in the piano bar on my way to the Captain's welcome drinks (the prospect of free champagne marred slightly by thinking I'd lost our new camera, dashing distraught to guest relations, tottering empty - handed back to the cabin, sobbing brokenly on the bed and finally discovering it in a secret compartment in my iPad bag).