Sentences with phrase «as a feather with»

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As scholars who study gender and humor have pointed out, women's humor ruffles feathers, with «gender stereotypes» hindering «the development and recognition of women's humor.»

I consider my face to have sensitive skin and use aveeno lotion as a pre-shave oil then lather up with my feather razor and man its shaving bliss.

With feathers on her eyelashes and glitter everywhere else, it was clear that Takia Ross» true calling was not as a history teacher.

Some will achieve optimal results with a Feather blade, while others can profit more from gentler blades such as Derby, Merkur or Personna.

Nobody knows for certain what happens when we die, but considering how many gods and afterlives have been proposed in the history of humanity, the chance of the christian god being there to greet us when we die is pretty much the same as finding Anubis greeting us with Ma'at's feather.

Archaeopteryx, along with the well developed record of feathered dinosaurs and very early birds, provides a wonderful example of transitional features within extinct forms bridging those features present in extant forms, just as evolution predicts they should.

For what a presence he was, that snow - white fisherman With the long golden beak and the black stick legs, Whether preening his wind - riffled feathers As he stood on his bright - orange water temple (That pi - shaped torii that floated like a spirit), Or flapping prehistorically across the pond To stalk and stab in the dark water Plucking with dagger bill a twitching minWith the long golden beak and the black stick legs, Whether preening his wind - riffled feathers As he stood on his bright - orange water temple (That pi - shaped torii that floated like a spirit), Or flapping prehistorically across the pond To stalk and stab in the dark water Plucking with dagger bill a twitching minwith dagger bill a twitching minnow.

And surely the symbolism of eagle feathers as a way to commune with the Creator isn't all that different with Christianity's use of bread and wine to represent the body and blood of Christ.

Light as a feather, these subtle cupcakes are yummy alone, but also carry filling and frosting flavors well, and they pair particularly well with banana filling.

this club, under his tutelage, has ruffled a lot of feathers over the years and now it's coming home to roost... his arrogance has rubbed many the wrong way, but winning provided the perfect tonic to cure all ills... whether largely self - created or a byproduct of all the media attention, Wenger seemed to embrace his cult - like status, which would eventually be his downfall... he claimed that his club was different... more of an extended family than a footballing club and only those with what he deemed as «special» qualities could even hope to join such an exclusive club... these «qualities» were hailed by most, especially as the wins kept rolling in... but with exclusivity comes a certain amount of cockiness, which can be somewhat healthy in a highly competitive environment if it comes from a honest place... it wouldn't take long for the fans to embrace their bespectacled former economics professor, going so far as to suggest he could do no wrong... but this fairy tale couldn't last forever

Down at Cape Canaveral small birds with feathers get almost as much attention as the moon rockets

Nevertheless, it may well ruffle a few feathers but with a 16 - point gap at the top of the Premier League table, Guardiola will likely have his mind focused on winning trophies this season as he also prepares for the League Cup final this weekend.

This could be a barn burner and should serve as a feather in the cap of either an undefeated Baylor with an actual, quality win or an OU that could eventually have as good a résumé as any one - loss team outside of Tuscaloosa.

Red collar with graphic patterns as eagle feathers on the shoulders of the city symbolizes every fan for their team.

MARK DEROSA: [is wearing a bandleader's outfit, complete with tall, feathered hat, and making marching band sounds as he walks around the studio] prrb prrrrrb psssshhht pssshht Stanton!

Without these two players, our opponents do see us as feather weights who can't play with aggressiveness.

Dembele did well to make space down the right and as goalkeeper Sergio Alvarez failed to collect, Paulinho was perfectly placed to divert towards the corner, with Alcacer perhaps even feathering a final touch.

My sister - in - law Jennifer who lives in Kansas with her husband and 8 children, as well as numerous chickens, a cow, some pigs and goats told me, «Some people think that the feather mites that chickens have are a problem, but they are not transferable to humans.

Watch Birdman Dave as he delights the audience with his feathered friend.

Glue the feathers onto the back of the body of the turkey with hot glue using the above photo as a...

The microfiber fill is luxuriously soft, without the annoyance of feathers poking through the cover, as with real down feather fills.

Use half the pockets for collage materials (kids this age like gluing things together and working with different textures), such as colored glue sticks, feathers, cut - out shapes, vacation postcards, pipe cleaners, Popsicle sticks, and pom - poms.

We love the look in particular: graphite colored aluminum with black rims, and the fact that this baby is light as a feather, weighing in at just 25.7 lb.

And don't forget our feathered friends who can also prove influential with both Phoenix and Robin currently growing in popularity as shown in our baby names trends below.

Siding with incumbents doing anything to stay in power is not a feather in his cap as current PA attorney general.

As Jean Baptiste Colbert put it: «The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.&raquAs Jean Baptiste Colbert put it: «The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.&raquas to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing.»

As Abrams relates in this witty and well - researched book, the impulse to leap off a cliff or soar into the sky with homemade wings stitched together from feathers, leather, bones, canvas, or wood stretches far back into history.

A less bird - obsessed man might have quailed, but Prum re-emerged with a string of discoveries that have reshaped the field's understanding of such fundamental questions as what feathers are for and how mating rituals drive avian evolution.

The Daohugou Biota makes an immense contribution to our understanding of vertebrate evolution during this period, with such notable creatures as the oldest known gliding mammal, another early mammal that may have swum with a beaver - like tail, the oldest dinosaurs preserved with feathers, and a pterosaur that represents an important transitional form between two major groups.

At Copan, to the south, for example, fifth - century mourners dressed their dead queen in burial garments shimmering with precious greenstone beads, shell ornaments and feathered bird heads, and they laid her to rest on a massive carved funerary slab in what is known today as the Margarita Tomb.

With the skeleton of a dinosaur and the feathers of a bird, Archaeopteryx has long been hailed as marking the transition from dinosaurs to birds.

The 2008 specimen, along with another found in 2009, have just been announced in this week's issue of Science as the first feathered dinosaurs to be found in the Americas.

Like all modern paleontologists, Therrien was acquainted with the spectacular feathered - dinosaur fossils of the Liaoning beds in China, where the idea that dinosaurs are the ancestors of birds got its biggest boost, thanks to the preservation of feathers — both the thread - like ones known as «dinofuzz» and the more familiar shafted kind — in the silky mud of an ancient lake bottom.

The feather shares characteristics with the plumage that helps modern birds fly, such as longer barbs on one side of the feather's shaft than the other.

The Swiss researchers have demonstrated that, when EDA is malfunctioning in lizards, they fail to develop a proper scale placode, exactly as mammals or birds affected with similar mutations in that same gene can not develop proper hairs or feathers placodes.

And we can only speculate on the diversity of flight ability among extinct avian dinosaurs such as the enantiornithines and the enigmatic, four - winged microraptors, with flight feathers not only on their forelimbs but also on their legs.

Some birds are so intelligent that they're informally referred to as «primates with feathers.»

Virgin Galactic says feathering will dramatically lessen the turbulence associated with reentry into the atmosphere, delivering a ride that the company hopes will be both smooth and safe for the 455 people who have plunked down deposits for $ 200,000 tickets to fly aboard the first space airline, possibly as early as 2013.

The problem with these hair - like forerunners of feathers and with fur is that neither allow for much color, but tend instead to come in basic patterns of brown and yellow tones as well as in black and white.

The find makes Jeholornis unique, as it combines an ancestral long tail with a fan of feathers at its base that resembles the tail feathers of modern birds, says Zhonghe Zhou of the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology in Beijing.

Auklets use their headdress feathers as feelers to get around at night, with a role in courtship only evolving later

As the first university to be established in Ontario in 40 years, UOIT has much to prove — especially with the multidisciplinary approach of its science programs, which has probably raised eyebrows and ruffled some feathers in the academic community, Smith says.

Other HOX gene members are linked to feather development, such as HOXC8, which is associated with a crest of feathers on top of the head.

Christian, who led the study as part of his research degree (MRes) in Vertebrate Palaeontology, adds: «Our results indicate that the number, and the relative thickness, of layers around the circumference of the rachis and along the feather's length are not fixed, and may vary either in order to cope with the stresses of flight particular to the bird or to the lineage that the individual belongs to.»

Smaller dinosaurs were probably covered in feathers, mostly with colourful patterns, and feathers may have been lost as dinosaurs grew up and became larger.

For example, the researchers showed that a gene known as Sim1, which contains an ASHCE, may be associated with the evolution of flight feathers.

People with amber objects, such as jewelry, also probably don't have prehistoric feather inclusions, since such items are extremely rare and dealers isolate the best pieces.

Ask 1000 Fox viewers if they can tell the difference between a piece like Milloy's and what you consider journalism, and knock me over with a feather if as many as a half of them can.

Abstract: Microbodies associated with feathers of both non-avian dinosaurs and early birds were first identified as bacteria, but have been reinterpreted as melanosomes.

Bes is depicted as a dwarf with lion - like features and sometimes wears a Nubian - style headdress with feathers.