Sentences with phrase «wrenching at»

Overwhelmingly these couples said the same thing we still hear from long - distance couples today: the period of distance was difficult, even heart - wrenching at times, but they would not change it for anything in the world, because learning to love long - distance made their relationships that much stronger.

Plus I don't do a lot of wrenching at my house.

Now that I have the Cabriolet, I do a fair amount of wrenching at my house.

It's gut wrenching at times and the performances from Hanks and the late, great, Michael Clarke Duncan in particular are electrifying (sorry...).

Even though it's mainly infamous for its three very explicit sex scenes, this is really an intense love story — girl meets girl, girl loses girl — and completely heart - wrenching at times.

When you're raging pissed and throwing a socket wrench at the neighbor's kids, you are not self - conscious about your state of anger.

(But I absolutely will throw a socket wrench at the neighbor's kids, though.

You can find the same kind of wrench at a hardware store, and it should cost less than $ 10.

The bottom line is: your child will throw a wrench at your feeding plans in some way or other.

Director Jason Reitman is guided at every turn by a deftly comic but deeply felt script from writer Diablo Cody — it's their third coloration after Juno and Young Adult — that keeps throwing a monkey wrench at our expectations.

We understand that life has a funny way of throwing wrenches at things.

What results is one of the best films of 2010, a singularly romanticized and beautiful viewing experience that wrenches at the heart every step of the way.

I wrench at the slow, lazy steering to keep the G550 from wandering into another lane and see only sky when the nose pitches skyward under acceleration.

Future Formula 1 champion Phil Hill was a college dropout who turned wrenches at International Motors, and sometimes a car needed testing.

Scott works as a technician turning wrenches at Land Rover Las Vegas, making him intimately familiar with these machines.

We understand that life has a funny way of throwing wrenches at things.

There is nothing that wrenches at one's gut and strikes at the heart in a negative way more so than a parent, again, usually a young father, who is being denied access to his child for no good reason.

Not exact matches

If you were one of the people who got sucked in by the hype, though, and bought at the peak, deciding what to do has been a wrenching affair.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said it was «a painful wrench» to see two clocks showing different Pyongyang and Seoul times on a wall at the summit venue during the historic meeting Friday with President Moon Jae - in, KCNA said.

The question is whether healthcare can likewise be wrenched free from its rigid, decades - old payment and provider constructs and be re-formed into new self - contained, efficiently run ecosystems that put the consumer at the center.

NEW YORK (AP)-- Emotionally wrenching politics, foreign conflicts and shootings at home took a toll on Americans in 2016, but they are entering 2017 on an optimistic note, according to a new poll that found that a majority believes things are going to get better for the country next year.

One of its printers produced a wrench for astronauts at the International Space Station, the first such tool to be printed — and an advancement that could open the doors for what's known as deep space travel, or longer trips from the Earth, such as Mars.

What critics said: «An effectively creepy and at times gut - wrenching take on the pandemic genre.»

«Someone at the Los Angeles Times once said that Craigslist has «the visual appeal of a pipe wrench,» says Newmark.

I have found that my own inner dialogue acts as a catalyst to propel my business to higher levels and also at times has been the monkey wrench that grinds it to a halt.

Now a new generation is poised to take charge — at an absolutely pivotal moment, when the global construction industry is undergoing sudden, wrenching change.

After dealing with war, hyperinflation, economic collapse and wrenching social change, they're ready for anything the world can throw at them.

A monkey wrench was just thrown at the financial markets and we can see all stocks around the world reacting to the news.

Before the end of April, when the market started its gut - wrenching descent, «the combination of return generation and risk diversification was part of a broader virtuous circle for fixed income, which also included significant inflows to the asset class and direct support from central banks,» El - Erian writes at the start of his viewpoint, noting that in addition to delivering solid returns with lower volatility relative to stocks, the inclusion of fixed income in diversified asset allocations also helped to reduce overall portfolio risk.

And that means many Canadians will have to downsize their retirement expectations if they want to be able to sleep at night and not fear another gut - wrenching crash.

But, please, don't be so full of it that you deny that valleys exist (or that the journey back to the mountaintop can be a gut - wrenching climb even without people at the top kicking rocks in your face.)

However, analysts say Hurricane Sandy threw a wrench into the economy, not only slowing the already sluggish recovery, but making it harder to tell at exactly what pace things are bouncing back, and if they're bouncing back at all.

At one point he dropped something on his foot (probably a light, maybe a wrench) and exclaimed, «God - dammit!»

At the least you have thrown a monkey wrench in their new works and at worst caused them to turn from GoAt the least you have thrown a monkey wrench in their new works and at worst caused them to turn from Goat worst caused them to turn from God.

To place this piece of steel in a place of prominence, to hang on it all of the emotional response, all of the tears and gut - wrenching loss of a large number of people who believe, without also acknowledging the other faiths, and those of no faith, who lost their lives, does, in fact, send the message that this was US vs THEM, Islam against Christianity, rather than the truth... that it was an attack against US, the United States of America, melting pot that we are... at least that's the way I see it.

Hawking was straight forward at least to acknowledge the fact fine tuning throws a monkey wrench in their no god needed speculations.

My heart is wrenching, thinking of Derek, awake at night, crying for hours on end.

This would be a theme for a poet who knew how to wrench the mouth open — without this condition it is at the most serviceable to a conductor of the ballet, with whom in our time the poet too often confuses himself.

After determining that no one is home, we try to find a neighbor with a large wrench so we can turn the water off at the street, or I run home to find such a wrench.

Speaking to the Palestinians, she said, «When you can look at this act with same gut wrenching horror as a six year old who just lost his teacher, you will be ready to make a real peace.»

At the time, I was coming home from work to an always empty house, laying on the floor for an hour to re-calibrate from my day, working myself into a 30 minute or so run, and then reading a couple food blogs over dinner (usually a sweet potato, roasted during that run, with black beans, salsa, and a pile of greens), working another couple hours just to survive the next school day, and falling into bed into a deep and dreamless sleep before my alarm clock wrenched me out and up and into another day that was much the same.

Thank you for all your wonderful recipes and Yes Yes it is heart wrenching all of it, and now we have created yet another «holiday» to cringe at Black Friday!!

The boss cussed at me for a minute, and when that didn't work, he grabbed a hammer, stomped downstairs, and whacked away at the handle of the wrench.

One thing to keep an eye on, as John Ewing at Bet Labs pointed out, is that rush - heavy offenses throw a monkey wrench into this situation.

At that sight, and at the first astounding wrench of the rod, the fisherman is rewarded for his hardihood: he is suddenly warm and reckless, and simultaneously possessed of mindless desperation and rocketing hopAt that sight, and at the first astounding wrench of the rod, the fisherman is rewarded for his hardihood: he is suddenly warm and reckless, and simultaneously possessed of mindless desperation and rocketing hopat the first astounding wrench of the rod, the fisherman is rewarded for his hardihood: he is suddenly warm and reckless, and simultaneously possessed of mindless desperation and rocketing hope.

In Turn Two, a 90 - degree wrenching lefthander just at the bottom of the hill, the Frenchman bumped his right rear tire on the wall.

At least Drysdale was not around to suffer the wrenching experience of facing Aaron at this stage in his careeAt least Drysdale was not around to suffer the wrenching experience of facing Aaron at this stage in his careeat this stage in his career.

In 1962, when the Skyway pushed the Joe Harris store clear off the Embarcadero and into its roomy, modern location at Second Street and Howard, it was a wrench for northern California yachtsmen.

By conveniently wrenching his neck while training in Beijing last week, John (the Quiet Man) Ruiz helped relieve promoter Don King's own pain in the neck — at least for a while.

Arsenal have now completed 10 seasons at the Emirates Stadium since the heart - wrenching move from Highbury in 2006.