Hooks said that, in the two years he has worked there, management has announced periodic bonuses — including a promised “longevity bonus” to employees who have worked there longer than four years — only to rescind the offer before distribution.
Once a month he attaches a device to his chest, clamps metal bracelets on his wrists, and hooks the whole thing up to a telephone.
The show, Bell Hooks argued in Black Looks: Race and Representation, “represents wom[e]n as the object of a phallocentric gaze.”
We kept going up until we found ourselves in a vast Sharkarama, a huge loft with fake sharks hung from hooks everywhere.
As a whole, Paula is neither catchy enough for the charts nor inventive enough to justify its shortage of hooks.
I love all the trappings of a classic heist plot: stopwatches and masks, grappling hooks and black turtlenecks.
Too near for reflection; too far for intervention: on tenter hooks, in fact; a sort of mental crucifixion.
She was not going to seem to give it him yet; a man on the tenter-hooks was a man in the perfectly right place.
He describes ladders of ropes, with wooden steps, and iron hooks to grip the wall top.
A number of men stood on the bow of the vessel, with ropes and boat-hooks, in readiness to catch and make fast to it.
At the other end he put little curved fish-hooks, and about two feet above them little pieces of lead, called "sinkers."