Word: makeshifts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...space was "low-budget" and "makeshift," according to Walkowitz...
...this makeshift exile center come moviemakers, camera crews and seekers from around the world, and from it, in the months before I returned to see him, the Dalai Lama had visited all five major continents, in his near desperate attempt to save occupied Tibet before it dies...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.--Imagine a flooded Franklin Field in Dorchester 100 years ago. Two teams took to the makeshift hockey rink, and unbeknownst to the handful of players and spectators on hand, played what would become an historic game...
...stars before our mesmerized eyes. A potato warrior, two kitchen knives tied to its back, plunges down a ramp and a lazy tire hops aboard a tiny wheeled cart, only to glide a little further before hitting its target. The elaborate set-up is at once a marvel of makeshift precision and comic redundancy (just imagine a wheel riding a cart!), and these moments of transcendent anthropomorphism simultaneously account for the film's humor and its morbid undercurrent. Eventually the series will break down or burn out, and the redundancy of individual steps will seem an absurd observation...
...College's religious diversity grows, students from traditionally less prominent faiths have been forced to worship and gather in makeshift or temporary locations on campus, or even travel sometimes great distances to established religious centers outside Cambridge...