Sentences with phrase «as stony»

As stony corals grow, they build their skeletons from calcium (Ca) in the surrounding seawater.

The world of Sin City exists in hard - edged black and white, though occasionally a streak of colour tears through the darkness — such as the stony green eyes and sticky red lips belonging to Ava (Eva Green), a strange woman from a house on the hill, surrounded by tough guys and high walls.

On Earth, iron meteorites are not as common as stony ones, but Mars seems to have a lot of the iron kind.

Not exact matches

The stony - faced daughter of a Korean billionaire, whose older sister was brought low by the «nut rage» scandal, apologised Tuesday as she reported to police for questioning over allegations she sprayed a business associate in the face with fruit juice.

I never felt quite so foolish as I did telling those stony - faced felons and murderers and rapists why I wanted to be a preacher.

I mean it is not as if the club is stony broke or anything, and even in those years when the boss was having to scratch around for cheap and relatively unheard of players to sign, the boss could always find someone.

Half a dozen inmates stared at us in stony silence as we left the corridor, and instinctively I turned my head away, feeling anxious for the first time.

Burnham stood in stony silence as the crowd of 30,000 rose as one, and began to echo the demand.

But as I said what it symbolizes is indeed very important, we all need to put our heads together to solve the stony problems.

de Blasio, also a Massachusetts native, is an avowed Red Sox fan who has maintained a stony silence on the Yankees during his three and a half years as the mayor of Yankee Town.

Stalagmites and stalactites — the stony projections that grow from the cave floor and ceiling, respectively — carry a record of precipitation because they grow as a result of dripping water.

Ocean acidification in particular, caused as the ocean absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, is a grave concern for stony corals, because it makes it harder for the animals to passively precipitate skeletons made of calcium carbonate, the same molecule found in antacids for heartburn and indigestion.

The fact that it closely follows Earth's orbit suggests it may just be a booster rocket from an Apollo - era space flight that reflects as much light as a large, stony asteroid, Chodas says.

While Babette's Feast is bleak, and often ponderous and stony, it eventually resolves as a moving hymn to art.

Likewise Seth Rogen and James Franco, who reprised their Pineapple Express stoners act to titter at stony - faced contenders such as The Reader and Doubt.

Also, unlike the first film, this one relies very heavily on US gags / jokes / references, which just don't translate to the UK as we don't know what's being referenced - there was stony silence through some parts of this movie - then again, there were only 8 of us in a large central London cinema.

Mark Cerny will be trotted out on stage at E3 2017 and we'll all sit in stony silence as grown men jibber about how much fun they're having playing an action platformer with so much personality -LRB-?)

Being originally intended as part of a six part series though, the film focuses solely on his early years, beginning with Napoleon as a boy, leading a large scale snowball fight and being bullied for his stony countenance.

The camera lingers on Saul's face as he's forced to stand guard and listen to the violent thuds and cries of dying victims just on the other side of the wall, while his stony expression suggests he's been through the harrowing procedure countless times before.

The shockwave of this event makes an already dysfunctional family fall apart at the seams, as the father (Jeff Daniels, The Hours) withdraws into stony silence, the mother (Sigourney Weaver, The Village) devolves into a bout of hedonistic pleasures, and Tim can't put himself together no matter what he does.

Luke Evans as Detective Fields: With a rock face and a scowl, Fields is another stony policeman following typical cop character procedure.

For the last few years, Apatow has reigned as the King Midas of comedy, a kingmaker who transformed the doughy, stony likes of Jonah Hill and Seth Rogen into movie stars and produced or directed a formidable string of big hits: Anchorman, Talladega Nights: The Legend Of Ricky Bobby, Knocked Up, Superbad, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

Unfortunately, «Green Lantern» never fully commits to the campiness, and is burdened with too many, too serious characters, like the stony Sinestro (Mark Strong), or the evil Parallax, who tries to up the ante and the scariness as he consumes city streets with his black snake tendrils.

As the credits rolled on Jennifer Fox's The Tale there was stony silence.

A father and son stare at the screen where names appear as they are called, their faces growing stony as the minutes pass and spaces run out.

When presented with legendary cars from the 1950s and 1960s — neither as fast, nor as safe as the vehicles they drive in modern series — even the stoniest of racers goes weak at the knees.

Closer to home, we don't need any of these devices to make decent time on our local well - traveled forest access roads, but we find the front stabilizer disconnect works well to combat head toss on the stony dirt surface, as long as we stay below its activation threshold of 19 mph.

My muscles clenched as I released my foot from the stony grip.

You'll find some less common stony corals such as meandrine brain, rare rose, giant brain, large flower and large cactus corals.

The Mesoamerican Barrier reef runs along the Caribbean coastline of the Yucatan Peninsula and is home to 66 species of stony corals, more than 500 species of fish, as well as several species of sea turtles, dolphins and whale sharks.

It's protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and is home to 500 species of fish and 65 stony corals.

The Island of Mljet is also well known to divers as it encompasses the largest reef of stony coral in the Mediterranean.

It is a Hindu temple showcasing impressive sunset view at the stony tip, of which, according to the myth, the chiseled rocks have served as the seating of Brahma's, the god of creation.

After the SEGA logo flashed on his screen, Amrich's speakers pumped out heavy percussion as text describing three types of codes — ethical, honorable, and secret — engraved itself across a stony background.

The soundtrack is mostly made up of ambient sounds and serve to immerse you fully into the game, with the hollow clanking of armour echoing off the walls as you make your way down a stony corridor feeling as true to life as possible.

The imagery is set in the Western part of the United States, known for its arid and stony landscapes with desert flora, such as cacti and tumbleweeds.

And a criticism of unhealthy modern art, as the gray gestural touches that form the decaying stony environment in which the figures are set suggest, reminding us that gesturalism at its most unconditional, as in Abstract Expressionism, has been understood as an instrument, however unwitting, and the final step, of the infantilization, primitivization and pulverization — not to say degeneration — of art into incoherence and chaos.

In Alba (1989) the landscape is similarly ageless: a river, barely a ripple in its surface and framed by a dark forest, trickles over a stony riverbed as it has for centuries.

Some species of deep sea stony corals form complex structures that provide similar — although not identical — ecosystem services as shallow tropical reefs: habitat for abundant and diverse associated fauna, commercial fish breeding grounds, and potential medicines for human use.

Hence, most specialists on meteorite CRE ages interpret the clusters as the result of collision processes of parent bodies, as they do for stony meteorites (ages < 130 m.y.) to which more than one dating method can be applied.

The nanoparticles accumulate and form stony structures made of calcium carbonate — known as aragonite — by growing crystals.

In a notice published on 12 February 2010, NMFS announced it will evaluate the status of 82 species of stony coral that the Center for Biological Diversity has asked to be listed as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act.

Then for this look, you can just set the wall in a stony grey color and the floor in a cream marble or you can convert it as you want.

I've never cried so much as when I became a Christian... Because God took my stony heart and replaced it with one made of flesh and filled with compassion!