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But a recent article by Paul G. Bell in the Mensa magazine provides some straws in the wind.
I remember one night, one of the nurses came in, Jonathan, with a whole lot of plastic straws.
And when we'd finished, he went around silently and he joined all of the straws up till it looped around the whole ward.
And then he said, "OK everybody, hold on to your straws."
All that matters is that we continue to fan the flame of humanity by living our lives as the ultimate creative expression of who we really are, because we are all connected by millions and millions of straws.
So raise your straws if you'll join me.
More water comes down, the deforested areas, here in the Tarai, will be unable to absorb the effluent, because trees are like straws that suck up the extra seasonal water.
And also, there's way more cells in your brain than the number of straws in a typical haystack.
But it ranged from such items as a complete de-mining equipment to these kind of water-sterilizing straws, so it was really wide-ranging.
So these kids went to their principal and asked, "Why are we still buying straws?"
It's why companies are blindsided when plastic straws and bags and bottled water go from staples to rejects overnight, and baffled when a change in social mores turns stars into pariahs and colleagues into outcasts: ineradicable uncertainty.
It reminds me of that student that forgets about his project due in an hour and quickly slops together super glue, macaroni, cat hair, chewing gum, and straws and presents it as "Hannibal Crossing the Alps".
The last one was not as good as the first 2 but it was made along time after and it was pulling at straws.
Phillips is quite believable in his role as a torn-apart son of a well-off family who's searching for himself (though his family is...er...well, a little too white...), but the rest of the cast is grasping at straws.
Pointless hallucinatory sequences, meaningless 'experimental' scenes, bunches of re-used animation, 'far-out' light shows...you name it, this film grabs at all the straws it can find in order to struggle through its alloted running time.
The acting was laughable, the dialogue cheezy and the story, although different, was grasping at straws to be TOO different.
Understandably, Brexit supporters have taken little notice of various straws in the wind heralding the direction their country will take.
The last straws were this year’s crises in Turkey and Argentina.
An example is the (ineffective) ban on plastic straws introduced by McDonald’s, which continues to serve beef, which is a major contributor to global warming, owing to the methane produced by cattle.
According to the industry’s talking points, bedridden hospital patients and the elderly depend on bendy straws, and phasing out shrink-wrap on vegetables will lead to a food-spoilage disaster.
The first step is to phase out single-use items such as plastic grocery and garbage bags, cutlery, and, yes, those wonderful bendy straws.
But two recent straws in the wind suggest that this may at long last be changing.
Now the Fed is weak, and Trump is clutching at straws, desperate to jack up growth by any means until the 2020 presidential election.
'Well, my dear Sir, we won't waste time in splitting straws,' resumed the little man, 'say--say--seventy.''Won't do,' said Mr. Jingle.
I will answer for it, he never cared three straws about her--who could about such a nasty little freckled thing?"