In fact, they plonked it in my building lobby on Nov.
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Stuffed into an anorak and plonked, stoic, abreast a great hill.
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It plonked itself in the center of a counterculture, and never really looked back.
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Various three-dimensional forms — a spire, a dome, a cube — are plonked down behind glass.
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She's a Joan Didion essay brought to life and plonked in a studio with Jack Antonoff.
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The protesters plonked themselves across it and burned an effigy of UCL Vice Provost (Operations) Rex Knight.
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Disco, ripped out of New York and plonked into the living rooms of bored pensioners eating steak and ale pies.
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Charli has barely tumbled out of border control before we're plonked opposite each other in a diner off Oxford Street.
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Basically, some people don't think the severed head plonked grimly in front of Ramsay in episode three belonged to Rickon's direwolf Shaggydog.
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Halprin is onto something that makes the conventional piece of modern sculpture plonked onto the conventional corporate or public plaza look obsolete.
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Frequently, small housing developments or even individual houses are plonked down wherever a builder can cut a deal with a farmer (see article).
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Two young women plonked themselves down on a pair of beanbag chairs, grabbed "snowflake coloring books" and began to unpack boxes of colored pencils.
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Faced with sudden change, such as that which comes from being plonked down in novel but not inimical situations, it ups its game accordingly.
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Graciously accepting the ebb and flow of time that has swept him up and plonked him on prime time TV in two t-shirts.
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Two years ago, Matsuyama beat Fowler in a playoff after the American plonked his tee shot into a water hazard at the fourth extra hole.
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A few kilometres farther on he points out the resettlement: rows of squat, charmless concrete structures plonked down along the side of the road, near nothing.
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That wouldn't necessarily be a problem, but now the developments are being plonked on vital components of what makes Ouseburn what it is, it's becoming one.
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A planned financial hub in Astana, the capital he boldly plonked down nearer his country's geographical heart 19 years ago, will be conducted under English law.
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Once complete, the hole looked like a nightmarishly deep toilet — complete with a little blue lid that plonked down after the metal drill dropped out of sight.
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As in, he had the package of drugs — a few inches thick and worth $33,000 — taped to his bald head, with a bulging toupee plonked on top of it.
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The exhibit, called A Mile in My Shoes, takes the form of a gigantic shoebox — which was plonked in the middle of a car park when I went to visit.
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I plonked myself down in a comfy leather armchair in front of the window and the staff kindly insisted on moving my snacks (which were all delicious) and drinks for me.
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We played when it was literally in a Melbourne laneway where a stage was plonked at one end and everyone crammed into this slim space and hanging from windows and drain pipes.
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The man was pretty sure about this, that it wasn't a realistic portrayal of some structure around back then, as if every castle also had, plonked down outside it, an ornate stone gazebo.
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At half-time there is "mutton busting", an event in which small children are plonked onto the backs of sheep and ordered to hang on as their fuzzy mounts dart around the ring.
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Assume 30 million dollars was plonked into a Standard & Poor's index fund in 1968, when Mr Trump started to work in his father's business, and leveraged, like many real estate deals, at about 66 per cent.
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He sat down and plonked one leg over the arm of his chair, and swung that leg casually, and within two minutes he'd mentioned that he had the best-selling novel in the world this year.
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Arriving at the entrance to the power station, the action was pretty simple: a handful of scaffolds tied together and plonked in the middle of the road, blockading it, while a guy scaled to the top.
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As she plonked herself down onto her throne-like chair opposite me, a flunky timidly placed a bowl of noodles in front of her and she began slurping away as our allotted half hour began—no greeting.
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We had a bulkhead row of three just for us returning from Los Angeles to London recently… until a man with a neck brace shuffled up at the last minute and plonked himself in the spare seat.
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Apple, Samsung, and pretty much everyone else plonked a big home button on the bezel at the bottom of their displays, and we got used to holding our phones so that either thumb was positioned to quickly get scanned.
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In the opening Red Group match, diminutive Romanian Halep drew first blood in the third game, putting pressure on Keys's backhand side with pinpoint accuracy and converting her fourth break point when the American plonked a weak drive into the net.
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"I was sitting talking, and then this girl just appeared absolutely out of nowhere, plonked herself down on my knee, grabbed the corners of my mouth, and pulled them up into a smile," Gray told Simon Reynolds in his book Energy Flash.
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People who adopted the Lions through pity when they went 0-16, listened to Montana and Rice for the 49ers as kids, or fell in love with the history of Lambeau Field and the Packers, won't give that up because a team is plonked in their town.
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Time will tell whether Musk & Co. can hit their deadlines and keep production lines humming—Elon Musk revealed Friday at the Model 3's coming out party that over half a million people have now plonked down $1,000 to reserve their own—but for now, it looks quite nice.
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The 19-year-old made a slow start while her pursuers quickly ate into her lead, yet despite Wie's heroics, Korda was just one shot behind on the 72nd hole and plonked her approach to within nine feet knowing a birdie would send the pair into a playoff.
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Earlier in 2016, Hecker found himself plonked on a comfy looking sofa in a studio somewhere in Montreal, with Todd L Burns and the rest of the Red Bull Music Academy crew for around 80 minutes of hi-octane chat about groupies, coke, and the wildest parties you could ever imagine.
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In the early hours of a July morning, she picked up a newly landed shark by its tail, plonked it onto the dock and cheerfully inserted her forefinger into its mouth, peering inside to inspect the teeth – a trick for classifying a specimen more accurately, especially if fishermen have lopped off the fins.
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Behold: Solo 45 steaming through sun-soaked streets on a quad bike; Solo 45 flexing in the pool; Solo 45 cruising through the sea on a jet-ski; Solo 45, essentially, placing itself on everything your sorry ass wishes it could, as it stays plonked on a desk chair in some badly lit office or uncomfortable sofa.
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We met downstairs at venue and bar The Lexington in north London, when, hiding her blonde hair beneath a black baseball cap (which I later notice is emblazoned with the words "Sea Lice," and therefore recognize as merch from the recent joint tour by her fellow shredders Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett), she plonked down in front of me in a booth.
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This probably comes as a shock to no one who has ever seen a film where a topless women straddles a fully-clothed man or there is an entirely irrelevant female shower scene plonked in the middle of a thriller, but this week a study revealed that women are nearly three times more likely than men to appear either nude, or partially nude, in Hollywood cinema.
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Apologies to everyone who sat down with their families during the holidays in 2016 to casually check out the first season of Netflix's The OA. The trailer may have borrowed the bikes and the weird helmet thing from Stranger Things, but if you plonked down next your mom expecting another light Netflix romp or whatever, good lord, were you in for a rude awakening.
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The music they make is roughly how it'd sound if someone had plonked Spacemen 3 in a disco rather than letting them sit about doing drugs and making records like Taking Drugs to Make Music to Take Drugs To. So it sort of makes sense that for upcoming single "Soul of a Spaceman/Telescope Lover" they've asked everyone's favourite remixing duo Tuff City Kids to take them for a spin.
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It's themed to look like an ancient Egyptian palace, shaped like a big blasphemous pyramid, with gold-topped columns and animal-headed statues—the new visa application lounge may be plonked not too far from imitation frescoes showing some third-dynasty king working his peasants to death—but if you look up, the whole thing is suspended beneath a lattice of steel supports, the same kind of thing you'd see in an aircraft hangar.
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Or has his clownish, retro appeal swung too far the other way and plonked itself in the long grass of tiresomeness, like David Hasselhoff or any of the music played in Walkabout?
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Whale and makeup artist Jack Pierce may also have been influenced by the Bauhaus school of design.Skal, p. 130. The expressionist influence lasted throughout Whale's career, with Whale's final film, Hello Out There, praised by Sight & Sound as "a virtuoso pattern of light and shade, a piece of fully blown expressionist filmmaking plonked down unceremoniously in the midst of neo-realism's heyday".Quoted in Curtis, p. 364.
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Her voice, even throughout all registers... was capable of many and expressive nuances." In 1954 a Times critic commented that years of opera and oratorio had made her voice less suitable for the recital room.The Times, 1 February 1954, p. 10 In a 2001 history of London's main recital venue, the Wigmore Hall, the critic Alan Blyth remembered Brunskill's "formidable presence with her handbag plonked on the piano lid.
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The term was coined by architect James Wines in a 1970 essay, Public Art–Private Art, published in Art in America. The term has been taken up by others, including British sculptor Rachel Whiteread. "Right now architecture and sculpture are calling to each other, and calling for response that's intelligent, not for more ghastly lumps of sculpture ... which have no sense of scale and are just plonked down in public places." — Anthony Caro (1924–2013), English sculptor.
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The word is an example of onomatopoeia, intended to represent the metaphorical sound of the plonked user hitting the bottom of the kill file. Folk etymology sometimes gives the term's origin as an acronym of various phrases, although these are likely to be backronyms. These backronyms include: Please Log Off, Net Kook; Put Lamer On Killfile,Google Groups search and Please Leave Our Newsgroup: Killfile! The term's usage later expanded to include blocking messages from annoying senders by using e-mail filters that delete incoming messages based on criteria set by the email recipient.
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The church was then partly demolished and partly incorporated into the new neo-Gothic Truro Cathedral, built on the same site.Oliver Berry, Belinda Dixon, Devon, Cornwall & Southwest England (2008), p. 263: "TRURO CATHEDRAL Plonked like a neo-Gothic supertanker in the heart of town, ... Built on the site of the 16th-century parish church of St Mary's (part of which now forms the cathedral's South Transept..." The pupils of the old grammar school had worshipped at St Mary's and became responsible for providing the new cathedral's choristers. It thus began to be known as the "Cathedral School".
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