Buses carrying the main Republican and Democratic contenders and scores of parka-clad reporters grind across a snowy landscape.
Sometimes there are tanks on the distant hilltops, he said, and other times armored personnel carriers grind across the valley's narrow roads.
Never mind the monster on top of the oven whose mouth groans as the pages open and close and the card grinds across itself.
In Austria, Euroscepticism has been fed by the rules on free movement of goods, which allow endless convoys of huge lorries from other EU countries to grind across fragile Alpine passes.
For weeks, opposition figures and rights activists have claimed to receive reports of defecting soldiers killed by others in their unit as the crackdown against a string of restive towns has ground across the country.
As the moving platform grinds across, a UAV goes airborne and finds its landing pad simultaneously, without appearing to be controlled by a joystick.
In two grinding days across 7,000 miles, the foggy dew had been swapped for a hazy dust.
Four years of grinding austerity across much of the Continent has caused millions of middle- and working-class voters to lose faith in the ability of mainstream political parties to protect their basic interests.
