Sentences with phrase «who slinks»

We headed for an old playground tucked behind a few dodgy houses, the neglected kind with a wooden play structure that is too tall for insurance purposes, and bits of wood, too - full trash cans, loitering teenagers who slink away when adults show up, and those old swings on long, long chains that make sure a kid touches the sky.

You can bet that the man who slinked out of a checkpoint while King slumbered (2008 Iditarod) and made a 130 - mile run with no rest (2010) will do something else that nobody in the 38 - year history of the race ever has.

Instead, what we have seen are a number of characters like Ghostbusters «Jillian Holtzmann, who slink right up to the edge, but then stop just short of coming out.

Not exact matches

Like I said before chad, if you're going to quote someone who is supporting your arguement, they become your words and its on you to defend them and not slink back to the ad populem fallacy of saying smarter people than you have discussed it so it must be true.

There was a vague awareness of the «fundamentalists» who had slunk away into the wilderness after their devastating defeat at the famous 1925 «monkey trial» in Dayton, Tennessee, never to be heard from again.

We can slink away in despair and denial or we can crawl back into God's big saving hands, Isaiah proclaimed, and the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus confirmed, that this God who knows all, creates all, controls all and plans all also loves all.

When Mary Magdalene was about to be stoned to death for adultery (widely practiced in some cultures) Jesus point - blank asked everyone there, «He who is with out sin, let him cast a stone...» One by one, they all slunk away.

When she realized my attention was focused on reviewing the breakfast, and not her, she politely slinked away — and over to a grinning newcomer who'd just bellied up.

There are a few nutters on here though who really have no way back — lots of them are slinking around in the shadows waiting for a loss or bad performance.

A few moves later, when his defeat was complete, Sebastian limply shook hands with the boy who had beaten him, a sandy - haired kid from a central Ohio suburb, shuffled his way through the cavernous convention - center ballroom where a thousand heads were bowed over chessboards, and slunk back to Union B, the windowless conference room down the hall that was his chess team's temporary home.

Of course, the widening maelstrom of the Foley - Reynolds scandal may soon force Rove to follow McCain's lead and slink over the side as well, begging the question: Is there anyone left on USS Reynolds who'll hoist high the slop bucket and keep bailing?

Now that the TV cameras are gone and the political - gossip reporters have slunk away, Representative Carolyn McCarthy — the diminutive, hard - bitten blonde from Long Island who recently infuriated the state's Democratic Establishment by announcing her plans to run against Governor David Paterson's Senate pick, Kirsten Gillibrand, in 2010 — can refocus on her real crusade: the rules of procedure at House hearings.

It's only upon reflection that viewers may realize that, despite its nominal title character, the movie never delves that deeply into who Gloria Grahame was, aside from a femme fatale slinking across a black - and - white screen.

Eddie Murphy's Axel Foley is, in fact, not entirely unlike cultural brother E.T. — the outsider hero with special abilities who, mission accomplished, can slink off to wherever it is he came from.

Manglehorn slinks around town with his back - combed hair and tiny eye - glasses, meets his ingrate son who works as a trader, takes his cat to the vet to have a key removed from her intestines, and effortlessly charms a friendly bank teller (Holly Hunter), but is thrown into a tailspin when she starts to return his off - the - cuff come - hithers.

The deep voice belonged to a slick gent in a tuxedo, who seconds earlier had slunk up to a radio microphone on a stand.

Author Andrew Edney, who is also a veterinarian, includes more than 300 depictions of felines slinking, sleeping, socializing, and so much more!

There was a cinematic moment where this teenager — who I looked up to — slinked his arms down, pouted, and whined, «This is bullshit,» while surrounded by a bunch of kids.

The northern gloom slinked off to sulk; my spirits stayed sky - high for the weekend; and Nepomuceno — who enjoyed an acclaimed solo show at Margate's Turner Contemporary in 2012 — confirmed her reputation as one of the brightest stars in the Latin American firmament.

Who is this bizarre, black - hatted figure slinking menacingly through Carroll Dunham's oeuvre?

Or is it better, as social media does its gruesome hatchet job, to recognize the apparent hopelessness of the situation, no matter what the facts are, to accept defeat and slink away in silence, as so many of those who are accused seem to do even if the allegations don't seem particularly credible?

Women who are rejected slink quietly away.»