Pavement
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The acting - from the doctor to the
pavement
artist to the head prostitute, with very few exceptions, was wonderful; i thought soni razdan(mrs.noble) and vrajesh hirjee(saurabh) were the best of the lesser known actors.
Luckily for the audience, the drugs finally kick in and the gangs' leader becomes a part of the
pavement
below, a crash symbolizing the awful story line.
I liked the interweaving of characters, the Jarmusch night &
pavement
atmosphere, I even got off on the relentless pounding brutality, big-time irony, I felt, cool.
In fact, most early urbanization in the West was characterized by development patterns that crashed against nature, connected not by green spaces and parks, but rather by endless ribbons of impervious
pavement.
There are also industrial factories spewing smoke, charcoal braziers on the sidewalks keeping
pavement
dwellers warm, coal stoves used by roadside chaiwallahs (tea-sellers), and even the agricultural stubble burned by farmers in the nearby states of Punjab and Haryana.
Yet, sadly, we have been down this road before, only to run out of
pavement.
They seemed callously to suggest that the problem of unemployment was with workers too lazy to pound the
pavement
to find work.
We just need to put the
pavement
down so that farmers like those I saw in Zambia can more easily make their way on the road to food security.
Thus, he wrote, mechanization “threw laborers on the pavement.”
More than 90% of this fresh
pavement
will be laid in developing countries, which already face huge environmental pressure.
The iron roofs, the
pavement
flag-stones, the cobbles of the road, the wheels, the leather, brass, and tin of the carriages – all shone brightly in the May sunshine.
Work was about to be resumed, and on the iron
pavement
there was a continual thunder, trains of coal being wheeled without ceasing, while the landers, with their long, bent backs, could be distinguished amid the movement of all these black and noisy things, in perpetual agitation.
On the Marchiennes side the road unrolled its two leagues of pavement, which stretched straight as a ribbon soaked in cart grease between the reddish fields.
Three times she nearly fell, so sticky was that confounded
pavement.
From one end to the other, on the pavement, the pipes dripped into tubs, although it was no longer raining, so charged was this grey sky with moistness.
She suddenly perceived that he had made her leave the
pavement
and that they were taking the narrow Réquillart road.
Someone who was passing warned Pierron that his daughter Lydie was sleeping at the door, across the
pavement.
The cashier's office being very small, they preferred to wait at the door, stationed in groups on the pavement, barring the way in a crowd that was constantly renewed.
He received a vigorous punishment, a whipping which his mother applied to him on the
pavement
outside before the terrified children of the settlement.
His ill-digested reading came back to him, examples of nations who had burnt their towns to arrest the enemy, vague histories of mothers who had saved their children from slavery by crushing their heads against the pavement, of men who had died of want rather than eat the bread of tyrants.
On the
pavement
at the Casimir Bar and the Estaminet du Progrés one only saw the pale faces of the landladies, looking inquiringly into the street; then in Montsou itself the deserted doors extended from the Estaminet Lenfant to the Estaminet Tison.
He jumped at once on to the pavement, a thin, insipidly handsome man, with a large square head--in his black cloth frock-coat he had the Sunday air of a well-to-do workman.
And in this burst of hope, in this gallop of big boots sounding over the
pavement
of the streets, there was something else also, something sombre and fierce, a gust of violence which would inflame the settlements in the four corners of the country.
The others on the
pavement
shouted that he had sold himself to the Company, while Maheude, with her arms in the air, in a burst of avenging indignation, cried out for his death, exclaiming that such a man did not deserve to eat.The return to the settlement was melancholy.
They had placed the ball, the little boxwood egg, on the
pavement
with one end up.
"After that meeting at Belleville, they waited for him on the pavement, and gave him an ovation.
He will be there, without doubt, when the middle class in agony shall hear the
pavement
of the streets bursting up beneath their feet.
Charles's conversation was commonplace as a street pavement, and everyone's ideas trooped through it in their everyday garb, without exciting emotion, laughter, or thought.
The little cemetery that surrounds it, closed in by a wall breast high, is so full of graves that the old stones, level with the ground, form a continuous pavement, on which the grass of itself has marked out regular green squares.
A heavy wind was blowing; Emma felt weak as she walked; the stones of the
pavement
hurt her; she was doubtful whether she would not go home again, or go in somewhere to rest.
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