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Fashion can let us literally wear our courage on our sleeves.
They toiled with rolled-up sleeves, with their hands deep in debt, they plowed ahead, growing their dreams into reality.
Young, red-faced with his sleeves rolled up, fists of fingers like fat rolls of coins, he looked like Popeye the sailor man come to life.
Coppola's script describes these guys as, "exhausted in shirt sleeves.
It has a plain high collar, detachable sleeves and intricate buttons of twisted silk thread, set close together so that the fit is snug.
However, you still don't really know if a vaccine is going to work until you roll your sleeves up and vaccinate and wait.
Let's get off our fannies, roll up our sleeves and get to work, passionately, in creating an almost perfect world.
And while those drives are currently in the prototype stage, scientists already have the next potential trick up their sleeves: bit-patterned media, where bit locations are arranged in separate, nano-sized structures, potentially allowing for areal densities of twenty terabits per square inch or more.
The next stop on my journey was Dallas, Texas, where we learned that barbers were not only willing but fully able to roll up their sleeves and participate in delivering needed health services to improve the health of their customers and their community.
We all know this, and yet, in the checklisted childhood, we absolve our kids of doing the work of chores around the house, and then they end up as young adults in the workplace still waiting for a checklist, but it doesn't exist, and more importantly, lacking the impulse, the instinct to roll up their sleeves and pitch in and look around and wonder, how can I be useful to my colleagues?
Modern economists have a few solutions up their sleeves.
Teddy Roosevelt is sitting there with one hand on the horse, bold, strong, sleeves rolled up.
Students and faculty rolled up their sleeves, got their hands dirty and transformed the front into a warm place for people to gather.
If you want to hang with me then you have to roll up your sleeves and work with me.
There’s no time to find a shepherd – instead, Boraqchin rolls up her sleeves, greases her arm and helps the ewe give birth to two new additions to the empire.
I want you to just stand exactly like this for me, pull up your sleeves, if you don't mind.
But more than a decade ago, we had to embrace uncertainty and put on our boots, roll up our sleeves and move to the quarry for a hands-on experience.
Sexual deception isn’t the only trick orchids have up their sleeves.
So taking this wisdom, I rolled up my sleeves and began to work.
But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting.
People are getting their hands dirty, rolling up their sleeves.
I'd tried to make new friends and cover my tattoos with long sleeves, and I wouldn't admit it because I was afraid of being judged the same way I had judged other people.
He trusts to his homemade weaponry - helmet, sleeves, and spear - made out of hubcaps, seat cushions, and discarded office furniture.
Meanwhile, the actors in this play are also having a few whoopdedoodles up their sleeves by fooling around with each other and with, shall we say, unscrupulous people in the world of Israel.
The story is not one that had a massive in your face moral at the end (its more like its tugging at your shirt sleeves) but chooses just to tell a story about relationships between different "animals."
Hands down the dullest show MTV has ever pimped up out of its pimpy sleeves.
I would come to the bar with wet sleeves and ask for more over and over again.
The customers got angrier, my sleeves got drunker, and eventually I quit, preempting being fired.
Costumes aside, the Rangers all look like bearded and jolly mentally challenged men, their sleeves tearing loose from their arms as a symbol of their increasing fatigue, contributing to the involuntary entertainment of this period piece.
A documentary that wears its heart on its sleeves is often a documentary that keeps its eyes on the prize.
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