Sentences with phrase «years in the wilderness making»

Alfa enthusiasts will know the marque spent years in the wilderness making relatively uninspired front - wheel - drive cars, but coupled with perfect 50:50 weight distribution the new car is extremely well balanced.

Not exact matches

But Grey usually wins that battle, because the media turn him into John the Baptist, a messenger crying in the wilderness, complete with rusting car, shabby suits, files in cardboard boxes and an income of $ 35,000 a year (while Fahrenkopf makes $ 800,000).

The same God who created this universe, life, and humans, saved Noah's family and the animals, brought his people out of slavery in Egypt, parted the red sea, fed them for 40 years in the wilderness, gave them the land he promised, and made them a great people.

It is a portable sanctuary, for they are still a pilgrim people destined to wander for some forty years as nomads in the wilderness, learning, worshiping, preparing for the day when they claim the Land of the Promise and make it their holy land forever.

Their failure to mount the slightest objection was scathingly attacked in an article by Nick Cohen in the Observer newspaper: «I don't think anyone who believed that a Labour government would make life slightly better for the poor could read the record of the meeting without embarrassed disgust... It was left to Damian Green — a Tory man, of all things — to ask them if it was for this that they spent «years in the political wilderness as Labour activists, hoping to become members of Parliament.»

When asked what will happen if Labour doesn't win, he warned that Labour could be in the wilderness for 15 years while the Tories made «devastating» changes.

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, MOONRISE KINGDOM tells the story of two twelve - year - olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness.

Two twelve - year - olds, Sam and Suzy, fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness.

For her first narrative feature since Winter's Bone (the Ozark - set documentary Stray Dog was made in the interim), writer - director Debra Granik adapts Guggenheim recipient Peter Rock's 2009 novel My Abandonment, about a father (Ben Foster) and his 13 - year - old daughter (newcomer Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie), homeless yet living in surprisingly peaceful fashion in empty urban wilderness on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon, until a small mistake derails their lives in shattering fashion.

Two 12 - year - olds fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness.

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two 12 - year - olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness.

Cole Mathews was a troubled child but after spending a year in the Alaskan wilderness he has change and now is friends with the kid he beat up that made him go to Alaska.

After years in the literary wilderness, short stories are making a comeback.

In 2009, Daniel Joseph Martinez made the journey from his Los Angeles home to the comparative wilderness of Alaska with the intention of traveling the entirety of the 33 - year - old, 800 - mile - long Trans - Alaska Pipeline System.

Radicalism in the Wilderness: International Contemporaneity and 1960s Art in Japan, published last year by MIT Press, «examines three key figures in Japanese art of the 1960s who made radical and inventive art,» including Japanese conceptual artist Matsuzawa Yutaka, Kansai - based art collective The Play and a regional collective Group Ultra Niigata.

After years marooned in the artistic wilderness, Tacita Dean's maritime works are earning her great acclaim, discovers MOIRA JEFFREY Dundee is, of course, the City of Discovery, a port whose whaling tradition made it uniquely equipped to build Captain Scott's famous vessel for his Antarctic exploration.

Mounted on top of a rich painted wilderness that covers the walls from floor to ceiling, these are paired with a series of works made this year of scenes at Studio Film Club, a makeshift bar and film club in Trinidad run by Peter Doig (with whose work Ofili has long had a very close affinity).

Having lived myself in Nome, Alaska for two years, 1981 - 83, with the Bering Sea frozen for a few months every winter just outside my window, and walking on the sea ice on Sunday afternoons and ice - fishing through small holes near the shore, also made a big impact on me sense of the Arctic wilderness.