Sentences with phrase «like dying stars»

Like dying stars, star employees slowly lose their fire for their jobs.

Much like a dying star doesn't actually die but becomes the ingredients for new life, new planets, new humans in fact as both you and I and everyone on the planet are walking talking sacks of star dust.

But I believe that around the mid-1980s, when corporations began to become more powerful that some nation states, that the battle for critical democratic citizenship became just a smokescreen for the production of consumer citizenship and critical pedagogy as it was then conceived became more like a dying star about to go into a supernova stage and incinerate any hope we had for real educational transformation, locked as we were within a neoliberal state that was quickly consolidating itself (and that a few decades later would have transformed itself into a security state akin to fascism).

Not exact matches

Some 5,000 light - years from Earth, the Calabash Nebula — also called OH 231.8 +04.2, or the «rotten egg» nebula (since it contains a lot of sulphur)-- shows what happens after a star like the sun dies.

Could the intensity of America's abortion debate be like the last burst of light from a dying star?

If what you interpret Paul as saying is that before creating all the myriad galaxies and star systems God decided that They would put some humans on the third planet from an insignificant star on a little arm of a middling galaxy and that the first hominids chosen role would be to perform pretty much to spec and do something silly and rebellious (arguably without sufficient information as to consequences for themselves and their off spring, oh, and for serpents) and cause affront to the tripartite godhead warranting separation of Gods grace from all their offspring; then we are left with people being chosen from way back before the Big Bang to do some terrible things like killing babies or betraying Jesus who was chosen on the same non date (time didn't exist before creation) to die in a fairly nasty fashion and thereby appease the righteous wrath of himself and his fellow Trinitarians by paying a penalty as a substitute for all future sins (of believers?)

I just hope the rest of the Arsenal saga pans out like the first 6 Star Wars films, where Yankpaltine dies and Darth Wenger turns back to the light side of the force.

After the disappointment of seeing another Arsenal title challenge wither and die, the Arsenal transfer rumours suggesting that our star striker Alexis Sanchez had lost faith with Arsene Wenger and the club in general and was ready to ship out to pastures new was like pouring salt onto an open wound for Arsenal fans, but judging from the way the Chilean put himself about against Man City today, perhaps that salt should be taken as a pinch rather than added to those wounds.

Florida Marlins pitcher Mark Hendrickson, like many other star athletes, heard about Challis» story and reached out to the young man before he died.

It turns out that's a star like the Sun, but it's dying.

Gal - Yam thinks the conditions in the host galaxy could be like those in the early universe, when theory says such giant stars were born and died in great numbers, seeding the universe with heavy elements.

«It's the weirdest supernova we've ever seen... It's like the star that keeps on dying.»

Because stars like TRAPPIST - 1 are brightest right after they form and gradually dim thereafter, the ice line tends to move in over time, like the boundary between dry ground and snow - covered ground around a dying campfire on a snowy night.

In particular, astronomers were hoping for clues as to what forces might have shaped the Helix's ragged edge, which looks like a series of arrows pointing back to the dying star at the center.

Nobody knows for sure what those first stars looked like, or how they lived and died.

Probing a glowing bubble of gas and dust encircling a dying Sun - like star, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a wealth of previously unseen structures in planetary nebula NGC 2371.

A planetary nebula is the glowing gas around a dying, Sun - like star.

Astronomers may not have observed the fabled «Stairway to Heaven,» but they have photographed something almost as intriguing: ladder - like structures surrounding a dying star.

The distinctive shape of the Ring Nebula, the glowing shroud around a dying Sun - like star, makes it a popular celestial object that appears in many astronomy books.

These stars are faint and red, like the smoldering ashes leftover then the flames of a campfire have died out.

Earlier images of this complex object — the gaseous envelope ejected by a dying, sun - like star — did not allow astronomers to precisely interpret its structure.

Type Ia supernovas are known to form when a white dwarf merges with another star, like a puffed - up red giant (as opposed to Type II supernovas, which form when a single star dies and collapses on itself).

From ground - based telescopes, this cosmic object — the glowing remains of a dying, Sun - like star — resembles the head and thorax of a garden - variety ant.

The blue hand - like structure was created by energy emanating from the nebula around they dying star PSR B1509 - 58.

Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have managed to get some new information about the shape of the Ring Nebula — a glowing cloud of gas that shrouds an old, dying, sun - like star.

Observations of a dying Sun - like star are helping scientists understand what the Earth and our solar system may experience billions of years from now.

These bright tracers include globular star clusters, planetary nebulae (dying stars that glow like neon lights), and patches of glowing hydrogen gas.

The Hubble telescope has shown us that the shrouds of gas surrounding dying, Sun - like stars (called planetary nebulae) come in a variety of strange shapes, from an «hourglass» to a «butterfly» to a «stingray.»

From ground - based telescopes, the glowing gaseous debris surrounding dying, sun - like stars in a nearby galaxy, called the Large Magellanic Cloud, appear as small, shapeless dots of light.

A second possibility is that, as the dying star spins, its strong magnetic fields are wound up into complex shapes like spaghetti in an eggbeater.

The researchers think that, as the iron core of the dying star collapsed, it gave off neutrinos that heated the matter behind the shock wave, causing bubbles to rise (rather like they would from the bottom of a pot of boiling water, Grefenstette said) and causing material to slosh around.

Based on the history of popular culture, I felt like many of the great stars died by the age of 40 — Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, James Dean, and on — and I wanted to be one of the «greats.»

Cells - like stars in the sky - die, and in their place new cells are formed.

I tell him of how I would want to die, but that the anguish and the want of death would fade like the stars at dawn, and that things would be much as they are now.

The latest documentary from director Kevin Macdonald is, like his Marley and Senna, another look at a star who died too young — in this case, singer Whitney Houston.

Tony Curtis — star of the films The Defiant Ones, Some Like It Hot, and The Great Race, among others — died of cardiac arrest yesterday at his home in Las Vegas, He was 85.

Remember Jet Li, the action star known for his very physical roles in films like Lethal Weapon 4, Romeo Must Die, Hero, and The Forbidden Kingdom??

Some of these launched at prestige fall film festivals («Downsizing,» «Molly's Game,» «Hostiles,» «Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool»); others are bonafide awards contenders (Steven Spielberg's «The Post» and Paul Thomas Anderson's «Phantom Thread»); and some, like Hugh Jackman vanity musical «The Greatest Showman,» will soon skid into either bad reviews or audience reaction, or both.

The gist The Citizen Kane of teen cancer tearjerkers, Alfonso Gomez - Rejon's Me & Earl & the Dying Girl is like The Fault in Our Stars remade for Criterion Collection fetishists.

The Citizen Kane of teen - cancer tearjerkers, Alfonso Gomez - Rejon's Me & Earl & the Dying Girl is like The Fault in Our Stars remade for Criterion Collection fetishists.

Just like you wouldn't expect comedy super-pros Sarah Silverman and Giovanni Ribisi to play straight - men to Seth MacFarlane in the writer / director / star's Old West send - up A Million Ways to Die In the West, you can't exactly expect straight answers from them at a press conference, either.

Based on the novel by Jesse Andrews, «Me and Earl and the Dying Girl» definitely seems to have that Fox Searchlight flavor reminiscent of past films like «Little Miss Sunshine,» «Juno» and «The Fault in Our Stars.»

«U.N.I (You And I)» from And the Winner Isn't «Love and Lies» from Band Aid «If I Dare» from Battle of the Sexes «Evermore» from Beauty and the Beast «How Does a Moment Last Forever» from Beauty and the Beast «Now or Never» from Bloodline: Now or Never «She» from Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story «Your Hand I Will Never Let It Go» from The Book of Henry «Buddy's Business» from Brawl in Cell Block 99 «The Crown Sleeps» from The Breadwinner «World Gone Mad» from Bright «Mystery of Love» from Call Me by Your Name «Visions of Gideon» from Call Me by Your Name «Captain Underpants Theme Song» from Captain Underpants The First Epic Movie «Ride» from Cars 3 «Run That Race» from Cars 3 «Tell Me How Long» from Chasing Coral «Broken Wings» from City of Ghosts «Remember Me» from Coco «Prayers for This World» from Cries From Syria «There's Something Special» from Despicable Me 3 «It Ain't Fair» from Detroit «A Little Change in the Weather» from Downsizing «Stars in My Eyes (Theme From Drawing Home)» from Drawing Home «All In My Head» from Elizabeth Blue «Dying for Ya» from Elizabeth Blue «Green» from Elizabeth Blue «Can't Hold Out on Love» from Father Figures «Home» from Ferdinand «I Don't Wan na Live Forever» from Fifty Shades Darker «You Shouldn't Look at Me That Way» from Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool «This Is How You Walk On» from Gifted «Summer Storm» from The Glass Castle «The Pure and the Damned» from Good Time «This Is Me» from The Greatest Showman «The Hero» from The Hero «How Shall a Sparrow Fly» from Hostiles «Just Getting Started» from If You're Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast «Truth to Power» from An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power «Next Stop, The Stars» from Kepler's Dream «The Devil & The Huntsman» from King Arthur: Legend of the Sword «Have You Ever Wondered» from Lake of Fire «I'll Be Gone» from Lake of Fire «We'll Party All Night» from Lake of Fire «Friends Are Family» from The Lego Batman Movie «Found My Place» from The Lego Ninjago Movie «Stand Up for Something» from Marshall «Rain» from Mary and the Witch's Flower «Myron / Byron» from The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) «Longing for Summer» from Moomins and the Winter Wonderland «Mighty River» from Mudbound «Never Forget» from Murder on the Orient Express «Hold the Light» from Only the Brave «PBNJ» from Patti Cake $ «Tuff Love (Finale)» from Patti Cake $ «Lost Souls» from The Pirates of Somalia «How a Heart Unbreaks» from Pitch Perfect 3 «The Promise» from The Promise «Kaadanayum Kaalchilambe» from Pulimurugan «Maanathe Maarikurumbe» from Pulimurugan «Stubborn Angel» from Same Kind of Different as Me «Dancing Through the Wreckage» from Served Like a Girl «Keep Your Eyes on Me» from The Shack «On the Music Goes» from Slipaway «The Star» from The Star «Jump» from Step «Tickling Giants» from Tickling Giants «Fly Away» from Trafficked «Speak to Me» from Voice From the Stone «Walk on Faith» from Year by the Sea

«Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool» has a premise that seems like pure Hollywood hooey: a faded film actress and Oscar winner, virtually forgotten in late middle age, takes up with an aspiring actor several decades her junior from the rough neighborhoods of England.

The real losers are the actors themselves, because this is the type of movie where careers go to die, as evidenced by the involvement of former stars like Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan and Heather Locklear.

Alain Resnais, the French filmmaker who helped introduce literary modernism to the movies and became an international art - house star with nonlinear narrative films like «Hiroshima Mon Amour» and «Last Year at Marienbad,» died on Saturday in Paris.

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When the theaters were last graced with a MAD MAX film (BEYOND THUNDERDOME starring Mel Gibson in the title role), Madonna's «Like a Virgin» topped Billboard, Ronald Reagan was president and disco was still dying.

Since Star Trek Beyond wrapped, Anton Yelchin (who played Chekov) has, like Nimoy, died.

Low - budget horror fare like Blumhouse's Truth Or Dare, for example: Starring Pretty Little Liars» Lucy Hale and Teen Wolf's Tyler Posey, the film looks like an appealingly unserious blend of the Final Destination and Ouija movies with a dash of It Follows, as a gang of teenagers starts dying one by one in diabolically clever ways after playing «a seemingly harmless game of truth or dare.»