Sentences with phrase «twist in the wind»

If the paper's editors believe that reporting on classified intelligence is defensible because it reveals important information about government behavior, which presumably they do, then to have the editorial board undermine this crucial question doesn't just hang Snowden out to dry, it leaves the entire Post newsroom twisting in the wind.

What's more, after twelve years of ownership by private equity firm Cerberus, including a 2015 IPO filing that was twisting in the wind, Albertsons had to do something.

pulling out my wet blanket... I wish Notley had let industry leaders twist in the wind for at least a full week.

But watch how they try to twist themselves in the wind so they can «disagree» with his stances and policies yet still support him as he understands the black problems in American.

Offenders are left to twist in the wind.

Please think again who is twisting in the wind.

Are there a substantial number of voters who want these guys to twist in the wind for a while, but eventually, recognizing their overwhelming excellence, pre-steroids, will elect them?

If those unnamed commenters had to walk up and tell that kid in person that he should «twist in the wind,» might they think twice?

Tom Precious details the Senate GOP's botched handling of the lulu controversy, which took Majority Leader John Flanagan days to respond to, leaving individual members twisting in the wind.

Emergency workers pulled two glaziers off a scaffold that got twisted in the wind Friday morning, police said.

Trump left Steve Bannon twisting in the wind, saying «we'll see what happens» when asked whether his top strategist will remain in the White House, though he did call Bannon a «friend of mine... not a racist, I can tell you that.»

So while some winning cities have already begun making plans to spend their newfound fortunes — and losers have moved on to other things — other applicants have been left twisting in the wind until the Cuomo administration can schedule a victory tour in their region.

And as Andy is left twisting in the wind, he'll finally get over himself and realize (too late): No debate, no «Governor Cuomo.»

The husband, Harge, knows the marriage is twisting in the wind.

But at its best, the film lets its characters twist in the wind, as the awkwardness of these sometimes funny, sometimes very painful moments have full sway.

Two of the three leads (Hartnett and Johansson) are, well, not good actors — superb eye candy, sure, but not actors — and the remaining thespians of any repute, like Eckhart and Swank, are left twisting in the wind like every other noteworthy actor has been in De Palma's hands.

You drop the ball, you're going to be left twisting in the wind.

When advocacy organizations lose interest after the first battle is «won,» reform - minded superintendents are left to twist in the wind.

So Connecticut's «Alliance» Districts may be twisting in the wind when it comes to getting the funding they need but at least they'll have Achievement First telling them what to do with the limited resources they do have.

One moment the law guaranteed that the state's decisions were made in the light of day and in a public setting and the next, local communities were left twisting in the wind, forced into a situation where their local plans will be simply approved or rejected behind closed doors.

These days, with GM emerging from bankruptcy, Opel is struggling for survival on its German home turf and is in the process of yoking itself (or not) to a new corporate master as some of its current products, thinly disguised as Saturns, are left to twist in the wind.

I have this feeling that the oil / auto deal split in the summer of 2008 when the oil guys made a ton and left the auto guys twisting in the wind.

After watching the shell impact with a brilliant explosion you'll see the smoke trail begin to twist in the wind as it dissipates.

Her work is also painful — the broken chair on top of a rickety stool could be taken for a self - portrait, the filing cabinet and paint - rimed metal box jammed together on the wall a kind of collision of bodies, her dangling, mangled canvases fighting gravity, twisting in the wind, flopped hopelessly on the floor.

I rather it twist in the wind.

I've talked to some of the lawyers who have been left twisting in the wind of a significant algorithm update.

In the meantime, the injured person who needs therapy is left twisting in the wind.

Not exact matches

Mornings in Bodley, drowsing among the worn browns and tarnished gilding of Duke Humphrey, snuffing the faint, musty odor of slowly perishing leather...; long afternoons, taking an outrigger up the Cher, feeling the rough kiss of the sculls on unaccustomed palms, listening to the rhythmical and satisfying kerklunk of the rowlocks, watching the play of muscles on the Bursar's sturdy shoulders at stroke, as the sharp spring wind flattened the thin silk shirt against them; or, if the day were warmer, flicking swiftly in a canoe under Magdalen walls and so by the twisting race at King's Mill by Mesopotamia to Parson's Pleasure; then back, with mind relaxed and body stretched and vigorous, to make toast by the fire.

Are we engaged in a process of consolidation of theological gains made, or will our thinking remain candles in the wind, subject to the twists and turns of capricious winds blowing from various directions, and sometimes artificially created by «fans» run by the motor of vested interests motivated by a selfish global and economic agenda?

Cooking requires a lot of «bending, twisting, and lifting... the three BLT's», the things that you can not engage in for 8 weeks while wearing a back brace and healing the wounds of surgery.

Simple floor leg and back stretches are good, slow hip twists and even leg flexes can soften tight muscles and lead to more relaxation which in turn will cue your body to start winding down.

The twisted strands are then wound together in a spiral shape called a helix, whi

The helix winds onto nucleosomes to form chromatin, which winds and winds in its turn into formations similar to what you get when you keep twisting the two ends of a string.

They tested different variations — some with more elliptical cross-sections or with more twists, for example — in smooth, laminar airflow or a more turbulent wind.

It's an everyday life observation that, to relieve tension, twisted bands wind around themselves — best seen in twisted telephone cords or garden hoses.

Charged winds moving at speeds up to 1000 kilometers per second from the star, much like those in our Sun's solar wind but millions of times denser, are able to follow the twisted field lines on their way out into space.

Twist your torso behind you (wind up) until you feel a stretch in your core and then explosively throw the ball into a wall.

To recreate this gravity - defying bold but easy up» do, wind your hair into a big twisted bun atop your head in the shape of a doughnut.

This low - key, tightly wound drama may tread familiar waters and expend some of its nuance and grit for the sake of a misguided twist in the final act, but it's an earnest effort fuelled by two brutally sincere performances by Aaron Paul and

Red Sparrow offers the same sort of winding, twisting games of espionage and deceit to which we've become accustomed in such fare.

I almost don't want to admit how in the bag I am for Nicolas Winding Refn's deviant, twisted look at the fashion industry.

Three, the latest from the unparalleled Johnnie To, is a twisting, crisscrossing suspense flick set over a few hours in a hospital — strikingly conceived in blues and greens, with doorways and privacy screens that limit point - of - view and build tension — where a cop, a wounded criminal, and a surgeon are forced to match wits and wills.

In the book, Jack goes into the bathroom and haltingly stabs the boy to death: «I finally grab his hair and pull his head back with it and he's crying, still arching his back up, trying to twist free, bleeding all over the tub from shallow wounds, and Mary is screaming in the living room and I ram the knife deep into his throat, hacking it open, and his eyes go wide with realization and a huge geyser of hot blood hits me in the face.&raquIn the book, Jack goes into the bathroom and haltingly stabs the boy to death: «I finally grab his hair and pull his head back with it and he's crying, still arching his back up, trying to twist free, bleeding all over the tub from shallow wounds, and Mary is screaming in the living room and I ram the knife deep into his throat, hacking it open, and his eyes go wide with realization and a huge geyser of hot blood hits me in the face.&raquin the living room and I ram the knife deep into his throat, hacking it open, and his eyes go wide with realization and a huge geyser of hot blood hits me in the face.&raquin the face.»

And for added plaudits Toni Erdmann winds down at a birthday party that brazenly twists into the territory of Luis Buñuel with a surrealist sting pitting Eros and civilization at one another in a parade of nudity and an avant - garde one upmanship from Toni / Winfried.

Departures Where: Embarcadero Center Cinema, 1 Embarcadero Ctr., 415-352-0835 When: All Week Why: Winner of this year's Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, Yôjirô Takita's Departures chronicles in tenderly sentimental terms the odd, life - affirming journey of an unemployed cellist (Masahiro Motoki) who, through a twist of fate, winds up preparing the deceased for burial.

SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN Starring: Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron and Chris Hemsworth Directed by: Rupert Sanders In a twist to the fairy tale, the Huntsman ordered to take Snow White into the woods to be killed winds up becoming her protector and mentor in a quest to vanquish the Evil QueeIn a twist to the fairy tale, the Huntsman ordered to take Snow White into the woods to be killed winds up becoming her protector and mentor in a quest to vanquish the Evil Queein a quest to vanquish the Evil Queen.

Their failure to reveal the truth about a parent's right to opt their children out of the Common Core tests is leaving local school officials and parents twisting slowly in the wind as the multi-billion dollar Common Core SBAC testing scam continues to suck up scarce public funds.

For more than two hours, our team winds through a tight, twisting two - lane trail in the pitch dark.

There's a steep, 7 - mile section of State Road 64 in the mountains of Tennessee between the small towns of Cowan and Winchester that winds and twists and undulates like no other road I have ever been on.

Controlled by a dash switch, an electric motor on the rear chassis wound a jackscrew in or out to twist auxiliary torsion bars acting on each ear trailing arm to supplement the coil springs.