Sentences with phrase «wringer of»

Thanks to a deal between Microsoft and accessory maker Hyperkin, that «certain something» could be the OG Xbox's massive hand - wringer of a controller, aka the Duke.

Opportunities for multiplayer were far rarer than they are now — you could go one - on - one over a phone line, or put yourself through the hellish wringer of setting up an IPX network for some four - way fun — but I was a monster there, too.

There, they are thrown through the wringer of the industry, failing audition after audition for years and never landing any roles.

Furthermore, experienced investigators are more likely to have been through the wringer of building a career while raising a family — a challenge that puts a premium on efficiency and productivity.

When we've been divorced and run through the wringer of the court system, many of us are reluctant (read: «terrified») to risk a second commitment.

Here Jesus has come through the emotional wringer of the other six words to a full and confident resolution, and he steps quietly through the gates of death.

All will climb via tractorlike treads that pinch the ribbon like the wringers of an old - fashioned washing machine.

Not exact matches

A wringer is an old - fashioned hand - cranked tool used to press water out of clothes.

Like a washcloth through a wringer, the mountains squeeze more rain of the system — «at least on the order of 10 to 30 percent compared to moving over flat terrain,» he says.

Creationisxim = (a distorted off - shoot of Middle — eastern religion, similar to Tali - ban and write - wringers.)

Out of the wringer, into the dryer, Spins the clothes higher, Squeezing out static and shocks.

«The truth shall set you free — but first it will make you miserable,» says a Christian poster (it is a picture of a rag doll halfway through a set of wringers).

Trust in the Lord Jesus Christ and receive the forgiveness of all your sins from him, and not when you feel it, or got good enough first, or committed enough first, or some other wringer.

I'm still in the process of fixing the damage to my hair but it's come a long way since it was put through the wringer.

This is season 13 of the series with the mentor - judge duo of Bobby Flay and Giada De Laurentiis back to put the 12 contestants through the wringer as they try to discover -LSB-...]

My Amish neighbors still use wringer washers and hang everything outside, even in the dead of winter.

You can also control the level of water on your mop with the wringer, plus there's a splash guard to make sure you don't get wet when you're wringing it out.

It's got a built - in wringer with a convenient step of a foot pedal.

Whether you've had a c - section or a vaginal birth, your body has been through the wringer; your hormones are all over the place; and your lack of sleep is not helping matters!

Sure, it brings you joy and hope, but it also puts you through the wringer with a growing list of aches and pains that get harder to deal with by the day.

Much of the media interest in select committees comes from their ability to summon high profile faces to parliament and to put them through the wringer.

«Instead, the Woodstock Town Board should be supporting developers like us, who are spending substantial amounts of time and effort to follow the rules through the regulatory wringer at great expense while Airbnb gets a free ride.»

11:36 - Here's footage of Maria Miller - looking very much like she actually has been through the wringer - explaining the reasons behind her resignation.

In reality they are a bunch of eco loon hand wringers.

Roy, an engineer by training, plans to put his enormous data set through the wringer in an attempt to identify patterns in the way he, his wife (Rupal Patel, a professor of speech language pathology at Northeastern University in Boston) and the young one speak as common concepts are taught and lessons are learned.

Blue Monday — the blue refers to the dye that made clothes glimmer white, and Monday was once the preferred day for washing — is an exceptional collection of washing gadgets and widgets: soap chippers, mangles, wringers, irons, stirrers, and plungers, as well as old soap boxes and «magic» detergents.

But his interpretations of both the biological markers and the rock itself have been put through the wringer.

Both shared stories about preserving food in an icebox, using a wringer washing machine, and the importance of ironing cloth diapers after hanging them out to dry in the cold air.

Katja is put through the ultimate wringer throughout the film, constantly veering between utter hopelessness and defiant anger; it would be easy to fall into the trap of portraying a woman suffering such unspeakable horrors by resorting to hysterics.

Lawrence, the director, conjures compelling evidence for Dominika's dual allegiances — her growing relationship with the American agent feels convincing, but the punishingly brutal regime of Charlotte Rampling's stern matron throws doubt into the mix as Lawrence, the actor, is put through the wringer.

In other words, we're in for one of those serious - minded textbook cases that takes an initially skeptical family and puts them through the wringer.

When Brendan McDonough (Miles Teller), a recovering junky trying to set his life straight after the birth of his daughter, tries out for the squad, he's put through the wringer, particularly by Christopher MacKenzie (Taylor Kitsch), who knew him from an EMT course they took and feared that he would drag everyone else in the crew down with him.

These people put their teams through the wringer, sometimes in service of questionable projects, yet through sheer strength of personality, keep people on side even as they torture them.

As regards to «thing» cards, you can buy what you have found from the wringer hiding in the barrels of Port Prisma where the ship is docked.

, a far more chaotic study of a young woman put through the psychological wringer by the male creative ego.

Leonardo DiCaprio puts himself through proverbial wringer if that wringer was made of claws, teeth, blades, thorns, ice, and punishing weather.

(The Shrine of Amana really put me through the wringer.)

Dancer in the Dark Oh, how I want to hate this squeamish, illogical melodrama from Lars von Trier, the Danish auteur who seems equally enamoured of handheld digital video and putting women through the wringer.

Although the series lives on in shorter form, the final 20 minutes of Toy Story 3 is something of an emotional trip through the wringer (that is, if the film works as intended to the audience).

Four movies later, Jennifer Lawrence has been the unwavering anchor as Katniss, vividly hitting all the right emotions and actualizing the alternate fearlessness, fallibility, and trauma of a young woman who has been put through the ultimate wringer.

The film puts its viewers through a wringer and through a journey, right up to its final glimpse of a soldier, though long returned, finally beginning to come home.

Viewers who are happy to be put through the wringer like this will no doubt love exhausting a box of tissues in the process.

Whether his creative expression takes the blood - splattered form of screenplay or stage play, you can always count on writer / director Martin McDonagh to put you through an emotional and existential wringer.

And that's just the first five minutes of this nastily effective comedy - horror, which takes genre clichés and runs them through a candy - coated ADHD wringer, leaving you bloodied and smiling at the end.

Along with a quite moving faith in the commonweal and in the indomitability of the noble human spirit — a throughline in the cinema of Collet - Serra, who always puts his protagonists through the wringer — The Commuter is blessed with some of the deftest setpieces in recent pop cinema memory, including one brisk, brutal close - quarters dust - up that recalls Richard Fleischer's The Narrow Margin.

Josie Rourke is on to direct the latest iteration of the film, which has been caught in the development wringer for more than a decade.

But once the two arrive at the massive suburban estate of Missy (Catherine Keener) and Dean (Bradley Whitford), Chris is put through the casually racist wringer.

As the deliverer of the script's zingers and the victim of the womanly wringer she is put through, Charlize Theron commands the screen and awes us on so many levels.

Another year passes; another crop of edtech gear gets put through the wringer by Tech & Learning's expert panel of judges for the Awards of Excellence.

His experiences with the whiz mob allow him to explore his identity and take stock of what he has, though it means putting his relationships with his father and Amir through the wringer.