Sentences with phrase «alight like»

The carbon - ceramic brakes (six piston at the front, four at the rear) don't quite have the feel and consistency of a Porsche GT3, and the engine — despite its boisterous soundtrack — can't set your nerve endings alight like the best naturally aspirated engines.

Not exact matches

Oh let's go, let's strike a light We're gonna blow like dynamite I don't care if it takes all night Gon na set this town alight, come on

Almost like a warm drink or a bowl full of chilly, these stories alight a kind of nostalgia boarding on memory.

Made the German and England midfield look like ants... Not suggesting that is indicative of him being primed to set the premier league alight..

At just 18 years of age, he seemed like he was almost ready to set Europe alight with his dynamism.

Having since gone on to set the Scottish league alight, his valuation would have rocketed with talk that the likes of Chelsea, Manchester United and Real Madrid wish to sign but it will cost them in the region of # 40m to snap him up from Celtic, as per the report.

Swansea are hardly setting the League alight this year, and the only worrying stat is that their manager Gary Monk has not lost in his three games against Wenger since he took over at the Swans, but if this Gunners team can take apart sides like Man United and Bayern Munich then they should be feeling confident going into this one.

Still didn't set the game alight all by himself and it was more owing to the likes of Chamberlain and Chambers providing him with support on the right hand side that gave him most of his limited success.

It sailed noiselessly and alighted on the target like a small bright bird.

This was after we were supposed to in with Higuian and we let him drift off, instead we Buy in the likes of Wellbeck and Perez who whilst they are good enough Squad players niether will set the world alight.

While for many supporters it might conjure up images of players setting the Premier League alight with their match - winning flair and creativity, the club's definition might be very different; maybe someone like Zabaleta, surely a regular starter when fit, is exactly what they have in mind.

While the likes of Raheem Sterling, Wayne Rooney and Harry Kane have failed to set the world alight in their opening three fixtures, there is room for Nathan Redmond, Marc Albrighton and Callum Wilson.

ALMOST two years ago, the astronomical world was set alight by the discovery of dim, point - like objects called MACHOs in the invisible halo of dark matter that surrounds our Galaxy (This Week, 25 September 1993).

Apparently, one of the main causes of current global financial malaise is the $ 4 trillion's worth of institutional capital which roams the markets like a gigantic bird «searching for temporary and profitable places to alight».

Playing the climate blame game The question of whether climate change is responsible for extreme weather events like the heatwave that set Russia alight in 2010 is one of the hottest topics in climate science.

The tissue in our genitals is like none other in the body — and there may be nothing more erotic than spreading oil into those parts of us that are as unique as our fingerprints and alight with nerve endings.

After setting the screen alight in films like Kingsman and Legend, he had to change everything about his appearance to play Eddie: adopting an underbite and wearing glasses that were so thick that he had...

His best work, stuff like the short stories «In the Hills, the Cities» and «Human Remains,» or his audacious retelling of the Christian myth Imajica, are engorged with sensuality — alight with perversity and all manner of fetishistic penetrations.

Like Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress is about living with ghosts, but where the one is all shadow, Millennium Actress is all alight.

Neither Sheridan nor Cooke sets the world alight, and when even the likes of Ben Mendelsohn are having an off day, you know a film is in some trouble.

Other times, I lead a lesson on word choice with a poem that is less than 15 lines long, like Carl Sandburg's «Fog» or Anne Porter's «Wild Geese Alighting on a Lake.»

Despite a relatively light kerb weight (1465 kg) the GT won't set your hair alight, reaching 62mph in 8.9 seconds from rest and topping out at 131mph, but you'd question whether any more is really necessary in a car like this from a non-premium brand.

According to news reports, a mechanic was taking the car for a simple test drive when the engine «caught alight,» as they like to say in the Land Down Under, on Walsh Street in Thebarton.

Riding all night, the bus half empty, toward the interior, among refineries, trellised and turreted illusory cities, the crass, the indispensable wastefulness of oil rigs offshore, of homunculi swigging at the gut of a continent: the trailers, the semis, the vans, the bumper stickers, slogans in day - glo invoking the name of Jesus, who knows what it means: the air waves, the brand name, the backyard Barbie - doll barbecue, graffiti in video, the burblings, the dirges: heart like a rock, I said Kathy I'm lost, the scheme is a mess, we've left Oklahoma, its cattle, sere groves of pecan trees interspersing the horizonless belch and glare, the alluvium of the auto junkyards, we're in Kansas now, we've turned off the freeway, we're meandering, as again night falls, among farmsteads, the little towns with the name of a girl on the watertower, the bandstand in the park at the center, the churches alight from within, perpendicular...

They looked so perfect, their skin unblemished, their eyes alight, like an excellent fictional representation of a family that could have been mine.

Well, here's another one to throw on the pile and set alight in an ironic tribute to the fallen despots: Raghad Saddam Hussein — daughter of... eh, let's say George Foreman — is shopping around international publishing rights to Hussein Sr.'s memoirs which, like Bin Laden's letters, are handwritten.

There is no better place to view the Sydney Harbour Bridge or the Sydney Opera House than on one of the harbours historic ferries or Jetcats, and to be able to alight at a destination like Taronga Zoo, or Sydney's Olympic Park makes Manly's relaxed environment ideal for any family.

Using magic during combat also feels lackluster: unleashing an icy bolt to freeze enemies doesn't feel like you're doing much more than throwing an ice - cube at someone who mildly annoyed you, while setting foes alight with your Nova attack involves you creating what looks like a pile of gellatine at your feet before unleashing the attack which doesn't so much set fire to enemies as generate some weird particle effects.

Scott Watson reviews Bombslinger... When Super Bomberman R failed to set the world alight on its Switch release, we were all left wondering if we would ever see the likes of its multiplayer mayhem again.

We guess it's been a while since then, as playing a game like Stay Alight - which takes the mechanics that Angry Birds popularised and wraps them up in creepy yet beautiful world - is almost a novelty.

You are in a chichi boutique in the De Waterkant district of Cape Town when your eyes alight on a some gorgeous bolts of fabric, the likes of which you've never seen in John Lewis.