Sentence examples for thing of putting from inspiring English sources

There's an exquisite melancholy to his singing now, approaching Robert Smith territory, and as much as anyone in indie rock, he excels at that Cobain thing of putting anguish front and center while never truly allowing full access to it.

To save the place, Gary and Walter decide to round up the dispersed Muppets and do the old Mickey-and-Judy thing of putting on a show to raise the $10 million needed to buy the studio and save it.

He was a Scotsman, a hero of mine, and for years I had wanted to do the very Scottish thing of putting a stone on the cairn on top of his grave.

Embarrassed, I tell him it feels like talking to a deeply unamused QC. "Well, the whole thing of putting your hand up is very frightening, and it always has been, because they have been a very vicious and vindictive industry to take on – particularly when they're in collusion with the police, and basically the government as well.

Actually it's possible that this was only required for recess and home-time and my self-diagnosed/not-real complex post-traumatic stress-disorder is reconfiguring this memory, but, the thing of putting weather-clothing on in anticipation of actual weather is the sickest, filthiest feeling.

It's that any hope of separating authentic ideals and underlying purposes from the way people actually do things--of putting angels on one side and the bullshit on another--is doomed.

Grace Greenwood, known to the radio public as Elizabeth Freeman, makes quite a thing out of putting her pet canaries on the air every morning over an N.B.C. network.

In addition, interviewing Karp, Wilcock tells him that Warhol "is into this funny thing now of putting his head into a Xerox machine [laughs].

For Wittgenstein, this was of putting things shows what an odd thing philosophy really is.

"He has a way of putting things.

"The hit rate of putting things on isn't important".