Since then, banks have been a sorry sight with serpentine queues at counters and much restless chaos among people.
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Somewhere between the time travel, the science cult, and the dichotomy of good and evil, the show lost (sorry) sight of its own vision.
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It's a sorry sight, all the sorrier when you learn how closely, and in what depth of detail, "The Souvenir" is modelled on Hogg's own past.
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The nearest dead-end town is an hour's walk away and when you get there you're greeted by nothing more than the sorry sight of hunched, miserable men, silently drinking pints in a silent pub until they die.
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But the works soon ended up in the hands of his grandson, the 12th Duke of Hamilton, a notorious gambler and ne'er-do-well ("his betting book is usually a sorry sight on settling day," it was often said).
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This post ran originally on THUMP UK.What you're seeing there, if you can believe you're even seeing it in the first place, is the sorry sight of a young man so sozzled on moonshine, so hopped up on cheap spirit and mixer deals, so wildly off his nut on the fizziest of lagers and the sugariest of 4% alcopops that he's literally fallen asleep in a urinal .
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But if you take a look at French supermarket shelves these days, you'll see quite a sorry sight: 219 percent of the demand for butter is going unfulfilled, in what French newspaper the Figaro is calling the worst butter shortage since the end of World War II. While the French were quick to blame the lack of supply on growing interest in French pastries in China, the true cause is a bit more complicated.
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She never did fancywork, and knew nothing of sewing, so her thread knotted and broke, and her patch presented a sorry sight.
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"Maine A Sorry Sight." Washington Post. August 15, 1911. Work to remove the main mast from the wreck began on September 2, 1911.
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Pink Armstrong with Troop H came in from the > squadron camp to relieve us, we pulled out for Nogales. The Yaquis were > mounted on some extra animals, and not being horse-Indians were a sorry > sight when we arrived in town. Some were actually stuck to the saddles from > bloody chafing and raw blisters they had stoically endured during the trip. > Those Yaquis were just as good fighting men as any Apache....
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He created these words by "changing nouns into verbs, changing verbs into adjectives, connecting words never before used together, adding prefixes and suffixes, and devising words wholly original." Many of Shakespeare's original phrases are still used in conversation and language today. These include, but are not limited to; "seen better days, strange bedfellows, a sorry sight," and "full circle". Shakespeare added a considerable number of words to the English language when compared to additions to English vocabulary made in other times.
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However, during his three years there, his grades were barely satisfactory, and he was a sorry sight at drill and dress, known as "Curly" for his hair length which exceeded regulations. Whistler bucked authority, spouted sarcastic comments, and racked up demerits. Colonel Robert E Lee was the West Point Superintendent and, after considerable indulgence toward Whistler, he had no choice but to dismiss the young cadet. Whistler's major accomplishment at West Point was learning drawing and map making from American artist Robert W. Weir.
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When we began Beachcomber he had been on > the wagon for three months and a sorry sight he was: gone were the thrown- > back head and the fiery eyes; the jerky gestures made by his arms were now > limp and seemed to lack purpose. It was tragic to realise that he had now > reached a stage when he relied so totally on alcohol to inject spirit into > his performance. He was listless and just moped around the studio, hardly > talking to anyone. He knew he was not giving his best and this worried him.
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Blackang is inexorably slipping into the sea On the military road near Blackgang Chine Fantasy Park is an old pub called "the Coach House" and latterly called Merlin's Bistro - now a private house. The road ends not far past Merlin's, as in 1994 a major landslip caused the old road to Blackgang Chine entrance to fall through. The small road with a couple of bungalows (still lived in) is a rather sorry sight, as one of Blackgang Chine's areas still lies there derelict. "Adventureland", as it was known, was a play park area for children.
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In 1887 disaster struck and the store in Westbourne Grove burnt down. In his autobiography, Drawn From Memory, E. H. Shepard said the fire could be seen from Highgate Hill, and some days later when he and his brother Cyril were allowed to visit Westbourne Grove, that, "The long front of the shop was a sorry sight with part of the wall fallen and the rest blackened." Whiteleys was soon rebuilt, but later moved from Westbourne Grove to Queensway. When the Lord Mayor of London in the presence of thousands opened the new store in Queensway on 21 November 1911, it was claimed to be the largest shop in the world.
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As fast as one attempted to climb to his feet he was thumped back again by the club that continually whizzed through the air, and if a boy tried to stay the storm by remaining prone, the instructor thumped him nonetheless viciously. Indeed, matters had got to that point that he enjoyed the fun and was loath to let up, as he felt obliged to do, when the howling rebels slunk to their seats, thoroughly cowed and conquered. George Dewey was the most battered of the lot and made a sorry sight. In fact, he was so bruised that his teacher thought it prudent to accompany him to his home and explain to his father the particulars of the affray in school.
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In 1887 disaster struck and the store in Westbourne Grove burnt down. In his autobiography, Drawn From Memory, E. H. Shepard said the fire could be seen from Highgate Hill, and some days later when he and his brother Cyril were allowed to visit Westbourne Grove, that, "The long front of the shop was a sorry sight with part of the wall fallen and the rest blackened." Whiteleys was to rise again like the Phoenix from the fire and was soon rebuilt, but later moved from Westbourne Grove to Queensway. When the Lord Mayor of London in the presence of thousands opened the new store in Queensway on 21 November 1911, it was claimed to be the largest shop in the world.
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7 Its days as a fishing boat, probably as a Chesapeake Bay oysterman, had come to an end by 1885, and it was a derelict, a slowly deteriorating hulk sitting in a makeshift ship's-cradle in a seaside meadow on Poverty Point in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, when Captain Eben Pierce of that town offered it to Joshua Slocum as a gift. Slocum came to Fairhaven to look at the Spray (sorry sight that it was), and he undertook to repair and refit it over the next thirteen months. The materials used for the repairs cost $553.62, . After setting off round the world in 1895 the boom was shortened after it broke and in 1896 Slocum reduced the height of the mast by 7 feet and the length of bowsprit by 5 feet while in Buenos Aires.
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This flight would not be an easy task for the pilots flying in unprotected cockpits as it would be difficult for pilots to find visual landmarks at night. On the morning of February 22, 1921, two mail planes left Hazelhurst Field, Long Island, New York, heading west, while two other planes left Marina Field, San Francisco, California flying east. Relay planes waited at the regularly scheduled stops in between. James H. "Jack" Knight was waiting in North Platte, Nebraska, to continue the west- bound leg. Sporting a broken nose, bruises, and the effects of a concussion he had suffered three weeks earlier when his de Havilland DH-4B mail plane crashed into a snow-covered peak in Wyoming's Laramie Mountains, Knight looked a sorry sight. After fixing the tailskid on the DH-4, which was cracked by fellow pilot Frank Yeager after flying the Cheyenne, Wyoming to North Platte leg, Knight left for Omaha after 10:00 pm not knowing that the relief pilot scheduled to meet him in Omaha was stuck in a snowstorm in Chicago.
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