Sentence examples similar to beat the ceiling from inspiring English sources
Clementine's looks like a set for "A Streetcar Named Desire": invitingly dim, with points of electric light and candle flame; a tin ceiling with a fan beating the sultry air; a giant antique breakfront separating dining room from kitchen.
The hotel's Janus Restaurant beats the room service, while the cafe under the decorative molded lobby ceilings beats the slightly claustrophobic Leningrad Bar.
"I'm not a model or an actress," she said over the thud of drum and bass beats seeping through the ceiling.
He advocated low, featureless ceilings ("Principle 8: Low ceilings beat high ceilings"), and insisted that the slot machines be arranged in a labyrinth ("Principle 4: The maze layout beats long, wide, straight passageways and aisles").
Her heart thumped in her chest like a crazed sparrow throwing itself against a window, like the one she'd seen in a parking garage once, trapped up by the ceiling, beating its wings and exhausting itself.
When they are having sex on his murphy bed, the old woman downstairs beats her ceiling with what sounds like a broom handle.
"Suppose I climb up to that little horse dangling from the ceiling and start beating it and beating it and beating it -- would you protect that poor little horse?" "Guess," replies Nietzsche, sounding as if he is saying "yes".
When Mr. Gyatso refused to denounce the other monk or the Dalai Lama, soldiers hung him "naked like a light bulb from the ceiling," he said, and beat him with iron bars.
