People sat here and there in broken-backed kitchen chairs, sipping tea under the shade of bamboo and burlap. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Yet the drama, in Alexander Medvedev's libretto, excellently translated by Pountney, is at times broken-backed. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Under the peculiar division of federal and provincial powers in the Canadian constitution, a broken-backed form of Prohibition had settled over the Dominion four years before the bone-dry version reached the United States. ❋ DANIEL OKRENT (2010)
I had massacred one of his greatest works with my dreadful broken-backed portrayal of Stanley Kowalski in Streetcar back at Berkeley, but I knew that I was destined to play the role again, and I believed I would find redemption in the second attempt. ❋ Harry Hamlin (2010)
Iran is no broken-backed land enfeebled by decades of war and sanctions. ❋ Not A Sheep (2008)
Besides, the post above was not about Palin, not even about Sotomayor I quoted her to make a point about the broken-backed use of the term Latina. ❋ Unknown (2009)
< P class = MsoNormal style = "MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" > Kurosawa was silent as we traipsed through the destruction, carefully side-stepping piles of sodden pages and heaps of swollen, broken-backed texts. ❋ Dominic Preziosi (2009)
Charlotte's Web, which we'd been reading together at bedtime all that week, lay splayed broken-backed on the floor where she'd thrown it. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Kurosawa was silent as we traipsed through the destruction, carefully side-stepping piles of sodden pages and heaps of swollen, broken-backed texts. ❋ Unknown (2009)
From mid-2003 to Rumsfeld's departure at the end of 2006, then, administration policy in Iraq was broken-backed. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Arguments for a more adequate representation of conservatives on university faculties are as broken-backed as arguments that conservatives should just accept their exclusion because “We won, you lost.” ❋ Unknown (2009)
The concept of the paradigm is axiomatic in a certain broken-backed style of criticism wildly popular in academic departments of English, where Seal memorized his errors a few years ago. ❋ Unknown (2009)
- Will Obama withdraw American troops from Iraq and Afghanistan without sending them away again to bomb another broken-backed third world country in the name of a UN-supported “humanitarian” war? ❋ Unknown (2008)
A broken-backed Israeli Prime Minister trying to dodge the fall-out from corruption charges; a broken-backed American President trying to tick a spurious box on his office score-card; a morally and culturally eviscerated Europe in thrall to the belief that appeasement avoids war; no wonder Iran is thumbing its nose at all of us. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Dude that cowboy, wearing the [nut-huggers], is totally down for the [broken back]. [Moo moo buckaroo]. ❋ OZ3MTA3 (2011)