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Temps in sentence

27 examples of Temps in a sentence

They're half-time, part-time, contract workers or temps.
A determined LAPD cop(Casper Van Dien)goes all out to save the world from certain annihilation as the rising temps are devastating.
This was readily apparent with the release early in 2002 of L'Emploi du temps ( Time Out ) , a brilliant character study of of a white collar worker's descent into melancholy after having been fired from his job.
As is the penchant of French filmmakers , many scenes were shot on real streets and in public places, giving a cinema verite feel to the story , yet L'Emploi du temps also possessed an elegant look thanks to excellent camera work and some stunning location footage ( most notably a Swiss mountain retreat ).
The 4 main characters fit in with each other because they were temps and had that little thing in common.
She paid Iris a compliment and also said hi but all she did was stare back at her-funny coming from those who complain about being ignored by the permanent workers because they were temps.
At first I thought was just going to be a quirky comedy about resentful temps, I was wrong.
The four leads are very effective as the disaffected temps, pariahs in a generic office.
Then it spends its last hour expounding upon the fragile and transitory nature of office friendships amidst corporate backstabbing for advancement and survival -- especially among temps.
There are any number of genuinely suspenseful scenes, though, and the soundtrack, by one Berto Pisano, effectively mixes Euro lounge jazz with a funky theme that suggests the Temps' "Papa Was a Rolling Stone."
The characters are dull, the plot is dull, the temps are so helpless and constantly humiliated that it becomes painful to watch.
The four temps who look so playful and happy on the box cover are miserable in the movie, partly because they're temps and partly because they don't possess the ambition or skills to be much more than that.
A small British isle inexplicably has temps soar into the 90's, in the dead of winter when the temp should be around 30.
And satirists have pointed out that he starts almost every sentence with “en meme temps” (at the same time).
Nevertheless, even with nation-states no longer able to rely on inflation to solve their unbalanced finances, the single currency allows them to use the debt capacity properly belonging to other members of the European Union to extend their spending sprees and postpone political accountability for periods of laissez les bons temps roulés.
Even in France and Germany, perhaps 10 percent or more of workers are temps.
On choisissait les temps d’orage ; et, pour ces parties hasardeuses, on s’embarquait le matin, une heure avant l’aube.
La comtesse, qui, dans ses habits de deuil, éclipsait de bien loin toutes ses rivales, fit des coquetteries aux jeunes gens qui tenaient le haut du pavé, et l’un d’eux, le comte N…, qui, de tout temps, avait dit qu’il trouvait le mérite de Limercati un peu lourd, un peu empesé pour une femme d’autant d’esprit, devint amoureux fou de la comtesse.
Tu ferais aussi bien de manger un morceau tandis que tu en as encore le temps.
Il sonna son aide de camp, il fallut le temps de placer une douzaine de gens affidés dans la rue qui conduisait du palais de Son Altesse au palais Sanseverina.
L’exil de la marquise chassa pour quelque temps de Parme cet implacable ennemi des petites villes et des petites cours, l’ennui.
les temps sont bien changés !
La duchesse ne revit Palla que vers les derniers temps de la prison de Fabrice.
Il défit tranquillement la grande corde qu’il avait autour du corps et qui s’embrouilla deux fois ; il lui fallut beaucoup de temps pour la débrouiller et l’étendre sur le parapet.
Le comte lui écrivait presque tous les jours ; apparemment il envoyait des courriers comme du temps de leurs amours, car ses lettres portaient toujours le timbre de quelque petite ville de la Suisse.
Qui pourrait se figurer l’anxiété et le désespoir de la duchesse, qui sentait que le temps volait ?
Ce qui rendait le changement plus frappant, c’est qu’avant ces derniers temps, si la figure de Fabrice avait un défaut, c’était de présenter quelquefois, hors de propos, l’expression de la volupté et de la gaieté.