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And they were moving and grinding and moving their arms up and down each other.
Here's a step-by-step that shows grinding hamburger.
The skeletal remains from that period have shown that they were grinding grain morning, noon and night.
Over in France, Nicolas-Jacques Conté figured out a method of grinding the graphite, mixing it with powdered clay and water to make a paste.
Over the last 28 years, this tough, grinding, dirty work has been done by literally thousands of people around Australia and, more recently, overseas, and their work has proven that focused design can improve even the poorest living environments.
His livelihood is predetermined by the conditions of grinding poverty.
For example, the grinding of materials, or the dumping of dried powder materials.
I mean the world where women spend two to three hours everyday grinding grain for their families to eat.
The ice is crashing around us, grinding, and I'm thinking, "Are we going to die?"
Some people watch this because of a NASCAR-like fascination with things bumping and grinding.
Maybe not come to a grinding halt, but you've got to sort of find that mouse.
A Syrian refugee, 19 years old, she was living a grinding existence in Egypt working day wages.
Scientists have offered several explanations, including rapidly stretching ligaments, and in severe cases, actual bones grinding against each other.
It introduced the West to grinding poverty around the world.
We see this in the school that sends home a 10-year-old girl because her clothes were a distraction to boys trying to learn, or the government that refuses to punish men for raping women over and over, or the woman who is killed because she asked a man to stop grinding on her on the dance floor.
It was known as mumia and made by grinding up mummified human flesh.
The vast majority of these people leave Central America and Mexico to escape grinding poverty and extreme levels of social violence.
The direction (by Archie Mayo, though Michael Curtiz was said to have helped) is straightforward without being particularly gripping, although the narrative slips in the second-half, grinding the film down to a messy conclusion (with even Cagney's Patsy getting lost in the shuffle).
Take a few dark and stormy nights, fog coming in from the coast, obsession and doubt, two brothers who have a mysterious connection based on hatred, a suspicious disappearance, a shoe in the night silently grinding out a glowing cigarette butt, and, finally, a tremulous heroine who finds herself threatened as much by her own doubts as by one -- but which one? -- of the men around her. Sounds like we might have a good 80 minute noir.
Continuing the movies is just grinding the first one into the ground.
Some worked fine (such as Charles Durning's) but many just seemed irrelevant and slowed the picture to a grinding halt.
There's plenty of style abound, even with its minimal scope and the build-up is slow grinding.
I guess since Kristine was of age, it was held against her and her promising career came grinding to a halt.
I guess those who have been in a one-sided relationship of some sort before will be able identify with the lead character Minako (Yuko Tanaka), a 50 year old woman who is still in the pink of good health, as demonstrated by her daily, grinding routine of waking up extremely early in the morning to prepare for her milk delivery work, where she has to lug bottles of Megmilk in a bag in a route around her town like clockwork, to exchange empty bottles for full ones, and to collect payment and issue receipt.
Singer is Jack Ford, the 'Droid Gunner' of the title, grinding out a living collecting the bounty on androids.There are some mutants, topless pleasure droids(!), a Scandinavian smuggler, and possibly a half-hearted attempt to make a statement on class or maybe even globalization or......... well it doesn't really matter.
From beginning to end, there is no respite from the gray, grinding reality of this woman's life.
There is no denying the grinding poverty in India and desperation of even their wealthier clients.
Just grinding and unpleasant to sit through.
A cardboard box painted to look like a devastating machine capable of grinding up human bodies...bones and clothes and all?
They then get to dismembering auntie with various tools (apparently she didn't have a single drop of blood in her body!) and heave her into their dad's rented wood chipper... Her convict son then stops by looking for his mom and the kids end up grinding that jackass too...
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