Sentences with phrase «while puzzling over»

There was an interesting piece in the Independent on Sunday about the involvement of John Piper and other British artists in textile design in the 1950s while in the Sunday Times (#), Waldemar Januszczak enjoyed Tate Modern's «Performing for the Camera», while puzzling over the origins of the word «performative».

While puzzling over the problem, Furrer took a walk along Adobe Creek, which runs near the school.

While puzzling over this behavior, Frail and Kulkarni learned that Jeremy Goodman of Princeton University already was predicting this effect.

The stories say that he is taken up into heaven — like Elijah — and while we puzzle over the physics of how this happened, we have no trouble understanding it emotionally.

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While unlimited time off is only a piece of the culture puzzle, a practice that has grown over 10 years, it is clearly generating strong employee loyalty.

So the two men convene over a drafting table, and Griffith begins to cut a cardboard model that appears to be a giant puzzle piece while cooing at his son.

While this is bad news for the planet, it's good news for climate change scientists who have — for the last two decades — puzzled over warming trends in ocean surface temperatures for nearly 20 years.

While ICF makers puzzle over whether to target buyers, builders or distributors, one of the most dramatic and lucrative construction opportunities of the decade may be passing them by.

As outlined in the crowdsourced, pro-privacy action plan we launched last year with the help of over 100,000 Canadians, Bill C - 51, while crucially important, is but one piece of a larger puzzle that we'll need to solve if we are to put into practice the fundamental privacy safeguards that all Canadians deserve.

For instance, during the third quarter of fiscal 2014, as we were constructing our first Shack in Chicago, we unveiled six interactive life - size sliding puzzles with illustrated pieces that celebrate Chicago landmarks, while revealing the burgers, hot dogs and frozen custards that Shake Shack guests have enjoyed over the past decade.

What is even more puzzling is that while the President of the Treasury Board claims control over spending by pointing to the decline in the Estimates of $ 10.4 billion, or 4 per cent, the June 2011 Budget shows an increase of $ 9.7 billion, or 3.6 per cent, in expenses between 2010 - 11 and 2011 - 12.

Culturally speaking, while the «relative infertility of the orthodox is puzzling» to Moran, the actual infertility of radical liberalism should not be graffitied over Benedict's prophetic message.

Now, this is completely un-Greek; II Clement 3.2 avoids this construction while explicitly quoting the saying in its Matthaean form, the version in Rev. 3.5 does not have it, and the Greek fathers Heracleon, Clement of Alexandria and Chrysostom all puzzle over what it can mean.

Markinson achieved their objectives in adding more pieces to the puzzle and turning rejects into serviceable players, while obtaining draft picks.The future is looking promising and we'll all be much happier once the draft is over knowing we own our 2019 pick.

While most animals recover, the pattern has veterinarians puzzled over why the outbreaks persist.

Casual users puzzled over line drawings of animals, while others wondered what it meant if they were bad at subtracting by sevens.

Scientists have long been puzzled over why some species of amphibians are on the decline while others stay healthy.

But I puzzled over it for a while»cause I can't see any good reason for you ever to be self - deprecating about your legs, as you have been in the past.

While it may not be adding tricks at every turn to the platformer genre or making a name for itself with its minimal puzzles, Forgotton Anne will surely win many over with its gorgeous, animated visuals and more importantly, its sense of wonder.

She can be compelling simply reading a seamy novel in Nocturnal Animals or, as in the wonderful Arrival, puzzling over how to decode an alien language while struggling with her own perception of memory and time.

While the game has plenty of rough around the edges, including a poor story, clunky controls, and oftentimes obtuse design, The Curse of Brotherhood won me over with its inventive puzzles and well - paced levels.

The puzzles increased in difficulty over the course of the demo, and while some of them took a while to figure out, it wasn't in a frustrating way — in fact, it left us with a sense of accomplishment that some games struggle to achieve.

While working in schools in the United States and abroad, with few or abundant financial resources, with little or significant accountability, I puzzled over these same questions: How can educators support the literacy development of students, particularly those who tend to struggle in their school contexts?

While they add to their bank of redeemable Golden Eggs over the summer, remind students to also visit fun and competitive areas, such as Puzzle Park and the Arcade in Reading Eggs or the Stadium in Reading Eggspress!

While I was puzzling over this, a very nice gentleman offered to jump it for me.

They provide an important piece of the publishing puzzle at the moment, and while I believe they influence will diminish over time, we still need it for the time being.

Creeping towards the publication of my second novel in a planned series of suspense thrillers, I'd already been obsessing over every comma, every unnecessary occurrence of the word «that» and every instance of throat - clearing phrases my fingers automatically type while I'm puzzling over what I'm really trying to say.»

To encourage your dog to view this as something positive, reinforce the sentiment by keeping him occupied with Kongs filled with cheese spread or peanut butter, or puzzle toys to puzzle over while you slowly transform the space around him.

- as Captain Olimar is making his way home, an asteroid onslaught forces him to land on a nearby planet - Sparklium is the fuel for Olimar's Dolphin III ship - with the ship's fuel depleted, you have to find items on this planet which can be turned into fuel - collect everything from seeds to large scale treasures - you need 30,000 Sparklium to make your way home - you are eventually required to find a lost ship part at the end of the game - levels are more linear and puzzle based, and include specific goals / goodies to collect - move Captain Olimar with the Circle Pad, while all other interactions use the touchscreen - blow your whistle, throw Pikmin and also touch certain objects - worlds are called Sectors, with six areas altogether - find all the treasure and look for new passageways to complete a sector 100 % - passageways can grant you access to secret spots or additional levels highlighted with the letter X - the first world is called Brilliant Garden, which has lush forest environments - Yellow Pikmin can easily reach the upper screen, where you can sometimes collect goodies and pull down vines - there's a level where you use yellow Pikmin as a source to connect two wires - connecting the wires lets you see enemies and platforms that were hidden in the shadows - Winged Pikmin can be flung at high speeds, and they can pick up Olimar and help him descend down into new areas - in a later level, you need to use red Pikmin to stomp out fire and clear the way for you - Rock Pikmin are the strongest ones of the bunch and can break crystals - blue Pikmin can swim and fight well underwater - the maximum amount of Pikmin you can have in a stage is 20 - blow your whistle to call over the correct Pikmin for a task or puzzle - Ravaged Rustworks offers a unique industrial environment where you climb on pipes - Loney Tower has you climbing to the top of a tower without any help of Pikmin, and instead use pipes and Olimar's jetpack - Valley of the Breeze, found in the Leafswirl Lagoon sector, relies complete on Winged Pikmin - Barriers of Flame is in the Sweltering Parchlands sector - here you «lll be forced to improvise with Yellow and Rock Pikmin to get around fire - every world ends with a boss stage - one boss fight puts you up against a Fiery Blowhog, where you use Red Pikmin to pick up / feed bombs to the boss - beating bosses gives you treasures worth 1,000 Sparklium each - supports amiibo in the Splatoon, Super Mario and Animal Crossing lines - amiibo can be scanned in to grant you access to secret spots - these are one room puzzle challenges where you collect a statue - these bonus rooms will also get you 200 Sparklium every time - you are limited by how many amiibo you can summon to each secret spot - one of the treasures you will find is an NES cartridge for Ice Climbers, which carries the name «Revenge Fantasy».

I didn't find myself banging my head against a puzzle for too long and, while the solution isn't always obvious, exploring the different areas looking for clues never wore out its welcome over the course of my 10 hours at the party.

Stylish and multi-award-winning noir puzzle games FRAMED and FRAMED 2 sneak on to the eShop this week as part of the FRAMED Collection, and while visiting Kyoto's BitSummit indie game show over the weekend, we had the chance to talk to the game's director and designer, Joshua Boggs...

Creatures When dropping Toki in a nest, birds now have a «cooldown», so they won't instantly pick you up again when walking out of the nest Birds don't stop anymore when they sense vibration, making them less annoying when accidentically stomping near them No more random sorting of creatures: they all appear on their assigned depth value, preventing smaller creatures from sometimes getting lost behind bigger creatures Fixed the «spawning multiple camera birds» bug Slug corpses can't kill anymore, so no more accidentally walking into them and dying Bugs When stomped, berrybugs and copybugs now always hop the same distance (3 tiles), making their behavior more predictible Berrybugs now briefly stop if they detect an edge above their heads while walking on the floor, making it easier to stomp them onto a wall Copybugs and berrybugs get stunned when they're in the trajectory of a to be spawned bubble, so they can't hop / roll away before bubble is spawned Glowy berrybugs now use the same turn animation as normal berrybugs, so no more faster glow bugs Frogs and bubbles Bubbles now prioritize Toki Tori over other entities, so no more accidental berrybug ballooning Added a small delay before catching an entity in a bubble to allow for catching Toki Tori, even if he's a little further away than an entity Added possibility to queue a «turn by whistle» while the frog is running towards a berrybug, so you don't have to wait before being able to let the frog face the desired direction Fixed a problem where a fat frog won't belch anymore Achievements In - menu achievements system, including progress achievements Added a number of new achievements Tokidex completion is now a progress achievement (you can see how far along you are) Fixed the Fried Chicken achievement, so it's less hard to get All electrocuted entities now count for the X-Ray Enthusiast achievement Menu Completely new, streamlined and fast to access menu system Ability to set language from menu New font Graphics Improved presentation of telepathic Ancient Frog messages, fixed a problem where sometimes they'd spawn multiple times Fixed black flickering when buttonbashing during fades and level transitions Screenfades are now 100 % black Added button prompts to the first time you need to use whistle and stomp Areas and puzzles Added l - ife area for Ife < 3 Added an extra landing stone in the wasteland area Added more snow globes: — RRB - Water mountain approach: berrybug in the «pro» puzzle can no longer be lost Water mountain top: frog for Ancient Frog puzzle now starts bloated, added light to make «pro» puzzle easier to execute Shaft top: Small tweak to make sure berrybug isn't killed by the slugs midway through the level Water cave: made the light shaft where you need to whistle the hermit crab a bit wider, created hole for frogs at end of level to prevent them from falling down, made some «pro» puzzles a bit more forgiving Dark forest: lowered warp when entering dark area, so it's easier to travel up with a bubble Lava cave: improved bat puzzle Meadow: made some pro puzzles less difficult Hideout: removed alternative solution for Ancient Frog puzzle Descent: made it easier to pick up fat frog at beginning

The puzzle platformer stretched minds the world over, while also hiding a cheekily clever story beneath its surface.

While this starts out easy enough, the difficulty is extremely uneven, and there's not really any way to clear most of the puzzles other than by trying different solutions over and over again until one works.

The best way to solve problems like these are to take a step back from the game, take a walk and I remember personally going over a puzzles again and again in my head, at school, while laying in bed, when waking up in the morning, until it just clicked, and I would rush back to the PC and try out my solution and the times it did work there was no experience like it, and I have not been able to recreate that magic, until now, thanks to Grim Fandango Remastered.

While an over abundance of combat bogs down games about sneaking, running, exploration, and puzzle solving, in a game that's explicitly about fighting, the former can be just as damaging.

Unlike Vesta though, DROID can take a couple of hits before passing and while it is one thing to replay a scenario you have already tried and failed out, in the event of dying, it feels a lot worse when you fail to properly solve one of the many environmental puzzles, or make it to the end of the level, just to realise you don't have anywhere near enough energy capsules to advance onto the next room, resulting in you having to restart the level all over again.

While a price point of $ 60 AUD might be a little over the top for some, Puyo Puyo Tetris combines some of the greatest puzzling elements from two vastly different universes for what is one of the best conventional puzzle titles we have seen in some time.

This game is a unique as far as puzzles go, a lot of I haven't come across before, and I enjoyed them very much... some took me quite a while to solve The game opened in widescreen... a definite plus, hate having to change things There are 3 modes of play: Easy - Expert - Pro... Expert players will love this game as there is no hand holding at all... no sparkles, no hints and no skips I played the Easy mode where hints charged in about 15 seconds and not much longer for skips I quite like the HOS as well... lists, silhouettes and find one thing to open or find another object but done differently than the norm There are no voice overs, which I didn't mind for a change, not an overly lot of dialogue to read either Graphics were good without being spectacular.

Here, Chloe Frazer and Nadine Ross take over where Nate and Elena left off, offering a refreshing change of protagonist while leaving the basic and successful climbing, puzzle - solving, running and gunning formula untouched.

When analyzing the top five puzzle game publishers (King, Playrix, Peak, Jam City and Rovio) you come to a conclusion that the puzzle games are monetizing far better in 2017, as the combined monthly revenues for the top five publishers grew over 65 % while the downloads stayed at the same level.

Having been available on Ouya for a little while now, Double Fine Productions have decided to finally bring their puzzle platformer The Cave over to Google Play for all other Android devices.

There are plenty of puzzles and interesting denizens to meet and complete, while the Switch version benefits from numerous updates and patches that appeared on the other consoles over the last few months.

The puzzles in the game are a particular highlight, while i LOVE Resident Evil the puzzles were always «push crate a, over vent / pad b» so major bonus points here for trying something new.

But in 1957, he had an epiphany while staying with the painter Larry Rivers in Southampton, N.Y. Using two fenders he pulled from a 1929 Ford rusting on Mr. Rivers's property, he made a sculpture by running over the pieces repeatedly with a truck to bend them the way he wanted, then he fitted them together almost like puzzle pieces.

Over the course of writing the book we had many conversations, and during one while we were puzzling over explaining why certain folks acted the way they did, he suggested tOver the course of writing the book we had many conversations, and during one while we were puzzling over explaining why certain folks acted the way they did, he suggested tover explaining why certain folks acted the way they did, he suggested this.

Also, while a translator is usually just puzzling over funny localisms and abbreviations, you do take time to ponder.

The game is over once a player has solved all the puzzles for the first time, while the sale price of the game will be $ 1.99.

While some are puzzled regarding the format and font to use, most of the individuals think over the number of pages a resume should have.

We did a 1,000 piece puzzle over the Christmas holidays while our daughters were home from college.