Sentence examples for stone of a man from inspiring English sources

In one story, a son takes his 82-year-old father to a music festival near a beach, desperate to squeeze something more out of this stone of a man than "measured behavior and silent distance".

Unsmiling, seemingly friendless, he lives and works out of a run-down apartment in Lima, Peru, that — with its peeling wallpaper and badly scarred walls, and its passing parade of men and women hocking bits of their lives — makes a fitting setting for this hard stone of a man.

Illustrating what might be called a Pandora's box theory of social order, Goran Paskaljevic's garishly expressionistic portrait of life, from murder in the shower to a mob stoning of a man trying to escape over a fence, lets everybody lash out.

Behind the Teatro Juárez, a sheer hillside rises to a massive pink stone statue of a man holding a torch.

One example is a stone figure of a man holding a crocodile, created by a Sapi artist of Sierra Leone in the 15th century.

Highlights include an early 20th-century woven Chilkat coat with brown-bear and raven designs, objects adorned with quill-wrapped horsehair, and a four-foot prehistoric stone figure of a man sculptured in the Columbia River style.

Trump's reactions showed he's a businessman with a heart of stone, a man who would widen the divides of this country. .

The stability of Sly Stone - a man who once spent weeks ceaselessly driving his camper van around LA because he was convinced he had to keep moving - remains in some doubt, but if only to avenge the Bournemouth fiasco, a return fixture might be nice.

Some of the jade came in the form of uncut stones the size of a man's fist, he said.

Cases in Iran included the stoning to death of a man for adultery, and the execution of three teenagers who were aged between 13 and 16 at the time of their arrests.

Initially, they both laughed at the image of a six-foot-three, 14-stone tree trunk of a man getting intimate with a blow-up doll.