As Macdonald points out, primitive life could have survived global glaciation: "modern-day ice cracks off Antarctica are 'chockablock' with single-celled life-forms," he told National Geographic. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In fact, the Danish capital is chockablock with exciting new restaurants, many of which are helmed by former Noma chefs and after sampling a few, I can see why many gourmands feel the world's most dynamic dining scene revolves around Denmark. ❋ Jill Fergus (2011)
IN SPIN BOLDAK, AFGHANISTAN When Abdul Razziq, a colonel in the Afghan Border Police, walks through the chockablock bazaar in this sand-swept trading hub on the frontier with Pakistan, he is mobbed by a crowd that deferentially addresses him as General Razziq. ❋ Rajiv Chandrasekaran (2010)
Despite a show that was chockablock with such historic moments as . . . ❋ Lisa De Moraes (2011)
I went from having wide open, scheduleless days to a schedule chockablock with meetings, brainstorms, "touch-bases" and conference calls. ❋ Melissa Kirsch (2011)
It suggests a cinematic blockbuster extravaganza chockablock with enough aesthetic resources to last at least one Academy Awards season. ❋ James Scarborough (2011)
My analogy was if our soldiers targeted with teargas and potientially incendiary material an area known to be chockablock full of women and children. ❋ Unknown (2010)
At the opposite end of the Usine gallery is the couple's private headquarters, with two small bedrooms "If it were up to me, I'd live in a completely empty, white bedroom!" says the artist, an open-plan kitchen with a counter of 20-centimeter-thick steel, shiny stainless steel floors and a living room/office chockablock with prized pieces by Mr. Venet's wide circle of artist friends from the Minimalist and New Realist schools. ❋ Lanie Goodman (2011)
Brooke is learning about life and language simultaneously, and her internal monologue, like this one regarding the Greenwich Royal Observatory, is chockablock with insight and wordplay: Is the Prime in Prime Meridian the same Prime as the Prime in Prime Minister? ❋ Sam Sacks (2011)
Instead of providing a low-tax, low-regulation, business-friendly environment for all comers, the city is chockablock with special zones and industrial parks whose tax revenues go to other government-directed investment projects. ❋ William McGurn (2011)
"Rango" is so chockablock with "film within a film" talk - is that a "Steamboat Bill Jr." or "North by Northwest" reference whizzing past? ❋ Unknown (2011)
Arranged as a journey from postmodernism's beginnings as an architectural revolt and recapturing of history, and passing through spaces shaped like vectors, the exhibition is chockablock with material at all scales—from the tiniest polished-steel spoon with Mickey Mouse ears to the true-to-size reproduction of the towering "historical" columns from the 1980 architecture biennale in Venice. ❋ Julie V. Iovine (2011)
They are also a classic comic pair in a production that's chockablock with vivid characters: Elizabeth Reaser as Buddy's wife, Beth; Collette Wolfe as Matt's wife, Sandra; Louisa Krause as a droll motel desk clerk. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)
"Black Orpheus," Marcel Camus's retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, put bossa nova on the map by situating it in a Rio de Janeiro chockablock with singers and samba dancers at carnival time. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2010)
