Sentence examples for And contraption from inspiring English sources

Hucksters and peddlers of every kind and contraption descended on the oil states.

Every gadget and contraption of its Blade Runner-ish world has been obsessively designed and rendered, and a wailing choral score lends an appropriate sense of awe to some of the grandest scenes, such as a parade in which giant paper creatures totter through a gothic metropolis.

In the 1970s his inventions turned toward energy conservation and contraptions that harnessed solar power.

In "The Emigrants," Sebald lovingly seizes on eccentric British materials and contraptions.

We just had boxes full of squares and rectangles and made buildings and contraptions that ran down strings.

Another suggested, "how about 'slowly and horrendously murder terfs in saw-like torture machines and contraptions' 2K14".

Burden also creates elaborate toys and contraptions that speak to the geeky side of Obrist, as Fischli and Weiss did long ago.

Filled with elaborate sight gags and contraptions worthy of Rube Goldberg, the film further establishes Mr. Jeunet as a genre unto himself, a sort of Gallic Tim Burton.

So instead of treating bourgeois bankers or wealthy nobles suffering from gout, Foucault was able to pursue his true passion, inventing all sorts of gizmos and contraptions.

UNDER AGE 10 -- All kinds of whimsical visual inventions and contraptions are packed into this film, along with energetic characters and ambitious imagery.

With conveyers, spinning flywheels, magnets and contraptions that look like giant Erector Sets, companies found that they could recycle almost everything at once.