Once, she said, things got too personal: "We used to keep the sledgehammers down in the basement.
Sure, it has corny feel-good moments (like when Kevin Costner's character personally sledgehammers down a "Colored" bathroom sign), but also details that succinctly dramatize passive racism, like the baffled stares that greet Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson) on her first day in an all-white engineering division.
When the F.B.I. struck back by raiding the house of a woman who worked for a Quaker organization, the response was swift: her neighbors took her door, which had been destroyed by sledgehammers, down to the local F.B.I. office and demanded restitution.
It was like a sledgehammer coming down on a really tight unit, scattering everybody.
Moments later he was on his back with a giant block on his chest, a towel over his face, and a sledgehammer coming down up on him.
But over the past few weeks a different rumbling could be heard in the public square where it stands: the sound of sledgehammers knocking down surrounding buildings.
The movie's Stewart wakes up on her newly bought, dilapidated Connecticut farm, Turkey Hill, in the middle of the night and grabs a sledgehammer to break down a wall, hollering, "I'm going to turn this place into a palace".
PAGE A12 A FREE TRADE BATTLE GETS UGLY In South Korea, a parliamentary battle over a contentious free trade deal with the United States led to a confrontation in which opposition lawmakers used a sledgehammer to knock down the doors of a blockaded room in which a committee was discussing the agreement.
Moreover, I was convinced that a lot of professional Democrats would use the North Carolina results as a sledgehammer to shut down further discussion about gay issues until after the election.
Nobody could be sure how Skrillex – a man for whom subtlety only comes served with a sledgehammer – would go down on the Other Stage.
