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Sentence Examples Playgoers, in general, tend to show resistance when the chosen theme of a piece conks you on the head like a sledgehammer. They then went to work with crowbars and a sledgehammer on the wood boarding up the windows. Not too much imagery as such, just a hint of rawness with use of dumb-bells and sledgehammer to break the monotonous nature of gun-shot violence. Such dumbing-down of aesthetic sensibility is a triumph for the corporate sledgehammer that has so bedazzled him. Somewhere along the way, I learned that the sledgehammer approach wasn't going to work. They had a minimum of significant characters and one big sledgehammer theme. A charitable view would be to say it cracks a tiny nut with an enormous sledgehammer. The fact that 11 humps on a short stretch of country road is a case of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. While most people are, no doubt, all for continuing to improve standards, it seems the powers that be are using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Obsessed as Network Rail is with targets for punctuality, it is taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Your wording in your submission is that, to your mind, the disciplinary process used a sledgehammer to crack a nut. You can demolish a stone wall with a sledgehammer, and it's fairly easy to level a five-story building using excavators and wrecking balls. No one tunes a piano with a hammer, but I sometimes see racers take a sledgehammer approach to tuning engines. The thieves, says the proprietor, must have used a sledgehammer to break the toughened glass to gain access. The movie pounds out the characters with a sledgehammer and a mallet, and that has to pass for development. Graham attempted to jump Toby, but he was prepared and rammed the mallet of the sledgehammer into Graham's stomach. Graham scattered towards the barrel as Toby discarded his sledgehammer for the crowbar. To get to the watches, the thieves had to break half-inch thick glass with a sledgehammer or other heavy implement. But as an athlete, you can get in some habits, and sometimes it takes a sledgehammer to break them. The analogy that I like to use is that it is like taking a sledgehammer to a large boulder and breaking it up so the pebbles can be washed away. Show More Sentences The shuttle began rocking, like someone was pounding at it with a sledgehammer. In both the Filipino and Malayan cases, police and small military unit operations were the rule, not large sledgehammer operations. Of the ten times Frazier's been down, eight are by the sledgehammer fist of Big George. A number of aspects can signify physical violence, but nothing matches the capability of this combination for sledgehammer brutality. Steel whined, then glanced from the shoulder of his scale mail with a sledgehammer impact, but his enemy had forgotten how tall his opponent was. Leonard would fight on his toes and thus avoiding Hagler sledgehammer shots. I assume he is doing this by using sledgehammer riffs and singing which is just sub par for Neaderthal communication. And the sign-off at the end of his first letter is a laugh-line with a sledgehammer punch. Emerson, whose obsessive, sledgehammer approach makes his reporting often seem an afterthought to his conclusion, possesses neither. Yet a whole lot of people arm themselves with sledgehammer tackle when they are gunning for modest-size fish. Never go for the subtle quip when the goofy sledgehammer punchline will do. Barnes could easily have made this novel into a sledgehammer indictment of racism, but what he does is far more subtle. This hideous pork product does nothing but evoke traumatic memories of the film's headache-inducing brand of sledgehammer slapstick. I believe that this type of sledgehammer approach to address populist fears about terrorism is totally disgusting and bordering on totalitarian. The scenes are acted with sledgehammer humour, unworthy of Williamson's usually sleek style. Our current citizenship laws are problematical but why go the sledgehammer route which will just whip up racism? Many believe that the Executive have, nonetheless, created an almighty sledgehammer to crack a few bad eggs. And in August, 2000, two robbers carrying a sledgehammer, a baseball bat and a knife struck while a customer was inside. Critics raved about the power and sledgehammer punch of the book. They attack with a sledgehammer rational efforts to lessen the impact and spread of the epidemic. Show More Sentences This proposal is a sledgehammer to crack a nut and, just like the port services directive, it should be disposed of into the waste bin. Having said this, however, I believe that here also we must apply a cost-benefit analysis and not try to use a sledgehammer to crack nuts. Coming in hard like a sledgehammer is Sebjack's inspiring, room-shaking interpretation. Symbolism is present but it doesn't suffer from the sledgehammer subtlety disease with which Hollywood is stricken, rather it serves more as icing on the cake. Selby firefighter Paul Bennett said they used a sledgehammer to break down the garage door and reach the fire, which had broken out in a utility room. There is a criminal element to bikie culture, it's a fact, but sledgehammer reactionaryism from a government is almost certainly worse. The sledgehammer approach encompassed by OSHA's standard is simply not practical. Video projected in a small black room, a man inexhaustibly hits a floor of sugar with a sledgehammer, making a shattering noise. I also want to make sure that it's the best possible bill, so that we're not squashing a fly with a sledgehammer. Our opening under pressure apparatus has let us pass from the sledgehammer and monkey wrench era to that of the pressure controlled ers. Was that feeling not worth this disabling sledgehammer blow of sorrow? Of all the guys who have switched uniforms this season, maybe the hardest to get used to will be Lynch, who personified the Bucs' defense with his sledgehammer style. We met in a blur of sledgehammer punches and bone crunching blocks. Emergency equipment in each car includes a basic first-aid kit, fire extinguishers, axe, sledgehammer, and hand saw. They do it with theoretical lucidity and no sledgehammer politics. We are not in the process of harmonising European criminal law with a sledgehammer. The band is amped, and even the ballads quake with fat bass lines, piano chords issued with sledgehammer bravado and the vocals hustled to the front of the mix. Throughout his career, he wrote with clarity and an attention to detail, all the while showing the written word could be more effective as a pen knife than a sledgehammer. Sheriff's officials have testified they used a sledgehammer to break into Mr Miller's office in Beverly Hills and seized videotapes and files related to the case. The crowd decided to topple it. One man began to use a sledgehammer to knock divots off the plinth. Show More Sentences Let 2015 go down as the election that killed metaphor, one sledgehammer blow at a time. It is a sledgehammer that is going to result in unnecessary costs, costs that are going to cripple the economies of many provinces and regions. We also want to set clear priorities: deal with important matters first, and quickly, and do not use a sledgehammer to break a nut. At the top, they must pull up a second hose using a rope, climb back down and carry out a forcible entry simulation using a sledgehammer. Excuse the sledgehammer entry here but I have just listened to the recording of Oppenheimer describing the effect of the first atomic bomb test on those that witnessed it. Loeb was notorious for front-page editorials that often employed a sledgehammer where a feather duster would do. I remember seeing that scene with the sledgehammer and being pretty shocked when I was younger. Unfortunately, this message is delivered with such a lack of finesse and tact that it feels like the proverbial sledgehammer is trying to pound the message into the audience. This summer, I realized I was the servant and it the master and resolved this inversion of the natural order in Kirkian fashion, by taking a sledgehammer to it. This is the sledgehammer argument, the one that can only hit the jackpot. Maybe he could speak to what he has been able to discover, in the legislation and sledgehammer of bureaucracy in the budget, when trying to recruit new board members. It is time that we learnt from our mistakes and adopted effective and appropriate measures, which can be complied with without trying to use a sledgehammer to crack a nut. I am sorry that the committee has behaved in this way, because I believe a sledgehammer approach does the cause more harm than good, particularly in an area as sensitive as this. Instead of isolating the leakage, which frankly is primarily with non-residents, he decided to take a sledgehammer to the sector regardless of the consequences. All those who are calling for a second Irish no' are hoping that Ireland can be used as a sledgehammer to begin the destruction of the European Union. Ride Into Obsession: Enough jingling, now for the sledgehammer again. I hope that eventually governments will use medical common sense, and not a police sledgehammer approach, in dealing with drug-addicted ill people. A team of four men was needed for each rivet assembled: one to heat it up, another to hold it in place, a third to shape the head and a fourth to beat it with a sledgehammer. And not only has France failed to mend, it has picked up a sledgehammer. It almost feels like we are using a sledgehammer to kill a gnat. Show More Sentences We are using a product that attacks the sea lice, but if we are using a sledgehammer to kill a fly, could it not be the product itself in the end that kills the fish? In order to provide breathing space between the disaster set pieces, Stone is provided with a saccharine, implausible backstory full of sledgehammer symbolism. They find effective products that are, in our view, cutting into somebody else's line of profits, and they come at you with a big sledgehammer and try to smash you and destroy you. We left purses, cash, even precious jewelry on the seats in plain view, daring the crooks of New York to have a whack at them: BMW promises the glass can withstand pounding with a sledgehammer. But I will of course withdraw that remark if they can produce a fourth nipple or a properly shaggable concubine with a sledgehammer single entendre name. The state sledgehammer is surely about to crack the nut, and Rooster's subversiveness takes on a heroic grandeur. The only problem with this absorbing play is that Mr Rylance's brilliance may deter other actors. Caro is a loss adjustor for a large insurance company who is also adjusting to loss in her personal life – an irony of sledgehammer subtlety whose diminishing returns over the course of a whole novel can be imagined. I should like to point out the following so that we avoid using a sledgehammer to crack a nut by succumbing to the risk of making the scope of the directive so vast that it becomes ineffectual. To deliver a shock, Mr Zhang ordered his workers to smash 76 faulty fridges from the stockroom, laying into the first himself with a sledgehammer now preserved for its symbolism in Haier's museum. But that would obviate the sledgehammer behavior, etc. which obviously hasn't been obviated. Anyone with a little obnosis or obstetrics could see that. Examples from Classical Literature My heart was going like a sledgehammer as the critical moment approached. The word fell like a sledgehammer blow in the stillness of the room. Compressed air or steam works the drill and the sledgehammer. Plury splattered like a charlotte russe hit by a sledgehammer. They smashed up the police car with the sledgehammer and hit the officer over the head, leaving him with serious bruising and multiple cuts. With little thought for their own safety, the pair dodged a volley of violent sledgehammer swings before grabbing the bag of loot as the men fled empty handed. He raised the sledgehammer above his head and walked towards her. Find more words! 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