Sentences with phrase «wriggling like»

Wriggling like a garden hose, each southward kink in the wind tends to be balanced out by a northward bend somewhere else.

When David Cameron described Ed Miliband as «wriggling like an eel» yesterday, he was following a long tradition of comparing politicians to a non-humanoid creature.

Not exact matches

Other nations with territorial systems have tried to prevent companies from wriggling out of paying taxes, while tax experts have suggested proposals ranging from a minimum global tax to tighter rules to prevent companies from relocating their patents and copyrights to tax havens like Bermuda and the Cayman Islands.

So don't try and wriggle out of that by claiming a comfortable win was just cause for acting like a moron pre-game.

However, the reaction was priceless as Fellaini wriggled around on the ground like he was in incredible pain, only to get to his feet shortly after and carry on playing.

A helper snuck over like a crude assassin and jammed a dagger behind the bull's head, and violently wriggling it until the spine was severed from the neck.

Free got 5.8 & Roark got 18.8, so I wriggled out of trouble,... kinda like Freeland did yesterday, haha.

And this is why Giroud struggles he's particular set of skills as a Deep lying Forward, become f@cking useless, when you're overcrowded in the final third what does hold up play do, his finishing is also nulified on account of the fact that as a deep lying forward doesn't poses the strength to fight his way out of situations like this like a target man would do... or the dribbilng capabilities, mobility to be able to wriggle past defenders in these small spaces.

Well made baby athletic wear, like jogging suits in washable, comfy fabrics, allow lots of room for a wriggling little one and they provide practical, easy, no - fuss dressing that looks great any time.

Even if you manage to do your business behind closed doors, you'll probably see little sausagey fingers wriggling under the door like they're trying to touch the atmosphere around you, and at least be with you that way.

Once her arms are safely tacked at her sides, she wriggles and writhes like an animal caught in a net, until eventually she feels defeated and goes to sleep.

Like I've mentioned before, little ones can wriggle about, especially when they are being changed, and if you're not paying attention, there's a real possibility that she could flip off of the changing table.

I spent the two - and - a-half hours in the committee room watching Murdoch wriggle under the pressure of it all - and believe me, he didn't like it one bit.

The danger for candidates who forget this self - evident reality is that they end up like Neil Kinnock; endlessly contextualising their own past positions to wriggle out of casually made commitments.

Second is instability: the fact that hot plasma doesn't like being confined and so wriggles and bulges in attempts to get free, eventually breaking up altogether.

Much like metastasizing tumor cells, the team found, the fibroblasts can wriggle through the cells that line and protect blood vessels.

Although the use of rigid metal and plastic parts tends to result in stiff, mechanical motion, a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) is experimenting with the use of a single piece of flexible silicon and urethane polymer to create robotic fish that smoothly wriggle through the water much like their natural counterparts.

Chapman: Yeah, he was really wriggling on the hook, and I don't know, I mean think, I've run into, I mean, I have traveled around America a lot and I love actually going into the middle bit where regular people live and, you know, I have met people like that before here and there; and you have to conclude that really what it's about is that without faith, these people couldn't survive and therefore given our choice between faith and evidence, it doesn't matter what the evidence is; you have to chose the faith in order to survive.

The oozing protoplasm that attacks Mary as she's whisked off to the magical confines of Endor College — initially resembling a swarm of flying, gelatinous dolphins — recalls Mononoke's wriggling demonic infections, and Endor College itself feels like a descendant of Castle in the Sky's Laputa.

Funny, frightening, bewildering, and unforgettable, the film wriggles into the crannies of the human id and treats them like experimental performance spaces.

It's something like The Forbidden Room of rote, straight - to - streaming sci - fi: a Russian scientist 3 - D - prints a Chekhov's gun (also present: a Chekhov's foosball table); an astronaut inexplicably loses an arm and later finds it wriggling with a mind of its own, à la The Addams Family» Thing; a stranger who claims to be part of the crew is found surreally inside a wall.

It's a fine way of conveying a plot, but it comes with risks, like creating situations the film can't wriggle its way out of.

There's way too much empathy in Payne's work to accuse him of treating his creations like bugs wriggling on pins (see Von Trier, Lars), even though, say, the dimwitted, thick - necked cousins that want in on Woody's «winnings» are straight - up caricatures.

It rides bumps like a Lotus, the steering is pinpoint - precise and wriggles with feedback and the car changes direction like nothing else.

The chassis wriggles and writhes underneath you, the R500 skipping over big ridges and pummelling over ragged sequences, but it never gets unsettled and the ride isn't stiff like, say, a Mitsubishi Evo's — the beauty of light weight is that the chassis can be supple but still easily control the mass it supports.

The thought of it made her feel squirmy, tight, like she wanted to wriggle out of her skin.

So often, I hear stories of newly adopted dogs getting spooked on a walk, wriggling out of their collar and running like the wind.

Tapeworm segments look like pieces of rice and can be found wriggling around the dog's anus or present in the stool.

She treats life like a game and at the ripe old age of 11, still loves to roll over on her back and wriggle around with all 4 legs flailing away.

If a small child would like to hold the new puppy she should first sit down so when the puppy wriggles away, they won't fall and get hurt.

Some dogs don't like being sprayed all over their body and will wriggle and try to escape.

He probably isn't going to like this much and will wriggle and squirm, trying hard to escape.

The most important use of the Martingale in my experience has been when dealing with fearful, anxious, or mistrusting dogs that pull and wriggle away from people, other dogs, or things like buses and skateboards.

SWTOR got it wrong — oh so very wrong — but here we are once again, looking at a mega-bucks MMO that could make World of Warcraft wriggle around uncomfortably, like it's wearing underwear a size too small.

In another painting, Clytemnestra & Iphigenia (2015), the mother - daughter duo stands together on seafront cliffs prior to the poor girl's death, their wriggling bodies clothed in circus - like jumpsuits.

Intestinal forms in baby pinks and blues wriggle and quiver like serpents hypnotised by a snake charmer — though arguably the fibreglass supports detract from the effect.

New York gallery Foxy Production flanks the entrance to the auditorium, with Petra Cortright wriggling around in a striped shirt, exploiting the disorientation of a fun house mirror - like distortion effect in her video i feel u (2015), and Sara Cwynar showing us manipulations of vernacular photography and a new series of color grids melting beyond their neat black borders.

Yes of course Titley would like us to believe that the peer - review process is credible and robust because that way, he and his similarly slippery colleagues might be able to wriggle out of the proposal currently being touted by EPA chief Scott Pruitt that there should be a Red Team / Blue Team reassessment of the state of climate science.