Sentence examples for sidewalk games from inspiring English sources
The movement vocabulary, drawing from sidewalk games like double Dutch, engages Brown's rhythmic gifts and intensity.
His earliest bits drew on memories of an urban youth: sticky mousetraps, disobedient Slinky toys, sidewalk games and chants.
Sponsored by Play for Tomorrow, a consortium of organizations dedicated to illuminating the importance of play in children's development and learning, the celebration will also offer Lego, robot and model car building; sidewalk games; music making and a family dance party; and painting, drawing and collaging on a seven-foot-tall model of the human brain from the Children's Museum of Manhattan.
Bellows's gifts for illustration and handling paint enabled him to follow Henri's advice with rare verve, as evidenced by paintings like the 1906 "Kids," whose lush surface and precarious composition captures the incipient chaos of children's sidewalk games with an immediacy that presages the photographs of Helen Levitt.
Our sidewalk game faded away.
"The other guys, they don't follow the rules," said William A. Major, a construction worker from Guyana who often plays a sidewalk game in front of a cafe on Nostrand Avenue near Clarendon Road.
This is no sidewalk game of tic-tac-toe -- the colors are vivid, the details are meticulous, and the depth of field is so realistic you can almost fall in.
It was no iPhone line, but 40 or so fans of the Madden video game franchise lined the sidewalk outside Game Stop in Manhattan's Herald Square on Thursday, awaiting the release of the latest Madden game at midnight.
The exercise takes on the feel of a sidewalk shell game, fun at first, but eventually annoying.
Beggars, snow-shoveling squads, schooner crews, railroad commuters, subway crowds, tenement life, tugboats, a sidewalk craps game -- this is a romantic masterpiece of street photography.
Separately, Michael Gray, in a post on his blog, Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, points out that a painting by Mr. Dylan depicting three young men playing a sidewalk board game is nearly identical to a photograph taken by Dmitri Kessel.
