Sentence examples for flicks about from inspiring English sources

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Unless they're comedies (Spinal Tap) or hip little flicks about cult heroes (Telstar), movies about bands are always stinkers.

It might seem particularly muted tonight, when high-testosterone flicks about hobbits and sea warfare will compete for the best-picture Oscar.

He slaps a skinny-jeaned thigh, and flicks about his oddly cut blond hair, shaped so that bits of it hang down and almost touch the keys during hopeless, head-down, lovelorn sections of his songs.

Easter films, admittedly, are slightly more diffuse – they'll either be insufferable cartoons about wisecracking rabbits or upsettingly grisly torture-porn flicks about the graphic crucifixion of a hippy – but you still broadly know what to expect.

The rush of '50s sci-fi flicks about mutated insects and invading aliens came out of post-war fears about the atom bomb and communist revolution; and the slasher films of the seventies processed the global economic downturn, the collapse of the patriarchal nuclear family and the rise of feminism's second wave.

A sophisticated delay algorithm ensures the headlamps don't jostle around while the eye naturally flicks about.

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The guy was at the bar with the remote control and I said: 'What football have you got on?' He said: 'What do you want to watch?' I said: 'Rochdale-Stoke.' So he flicked about, found it and said he would put it on the big screen.

This is because if dry clay gets into the air or flicked about, it forms a dust called silica dust which causes long term health problems.

Colin Mehigan "It's an escapist ACTION flick about a SUPERHERO called Captain AMERICA.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs refashioned as a cartoon porn flick about a pallid bigamist.

They seem tailor-made for a buddy flick about nuclear scientists.

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