Sentences with phrase «as an arrow into»

Now and then a kingfisher spots a fish and dives straight and fast as an arrow into the water.

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«This globetrotting novel follows the life of an awkward female «natural philosopher» born in 1800, providing a window into the development of science as a profession in the 19th century and dealing with the slings, arrows, and random events that mark all our lives.

He continues straight as an arrow until he can no longer breathe, then tosses himself sideways into the snow.

As the flames consumed Mance, Jon Snow fired an arrow into his chest, ending his misery.

As part of the MTA's $ 20 million plan to repair the nearly century - old transit system, it's now installing directional floor mats, which have arrows that point left, right and straight ahead, guiding passengers where to move into the train.

RHIC's polarized proton collisions are offering insight into how the spins of the internal building blocks of a proton — the quarks and antiquarks (balls with arrows) and gluons (yellow «springs»)-- contribute to the overall proton spin, as well as whether and how much the orbital and transverse «bouncing» motions of these individual particles also contribute to spin.

The arrows represent exchanges of carbon between different parts of the Earth, such as from fossil fuels into the atmosphere.

As the story goes, Cupid, son of the love goddess Aphrodite, carried arrows dipped into a special love potion.

Draw the arm holding the band back as if you were drawing back on a bow to fire an arrow; simultaneously step back into a staggered stance.

But watch Mr. Fiennes's hands, look as they flutter, their white, spidery fingers idling with exquisite delicacy as the long nails, sharpened into perfect arrows, threaten the worst.

Where the first movie, which begins with Tyler's character rejecting Speedman's proposal of marriage, subtly positions the masked strangers as a warped reflection of a nuclear family — a man in a suit, a sexualized «pinup girl,» and a cherub - faced baby doll — Prey at Night scores its first killings with Kim Wilde's «Kids in America,» the equivalent of having Bugs Bunny lean into the frame with an arrow - shaped sign reading, «Get it?»

Day - Lewis inhabits the character fully, in his distinctive gait and posture (his back sometimes bending into a question - mark), his reedy voice (given the painstaking amount of historical research that went into the rest of the movie, it must be based in fact) and the more honest - feeling portrayal of his moral righteousness, which wasn't as arrow - straight as most like to think it was.

They care less about Scott Lang as a character and more about seeing Ant - Man riding one of Hawkeye's arrows into battle.

Aloy scares the Grazes using an explosive arrow and they fall into the trap as intended.

His zingers don't zing as sharply as Whedon's, but he more than survives the hyper - jump into mega-budget filmmaking, orchestrating playful bursts of CGI mayhem and peppering the action with clever pulp flourishes, like a deadly arrow that Michael Rooker controls by whistling.

The film obviously wants to ally us very closely with Katniss, so for the most part we don't know a huge amount more than she does, but in these two instances anyway, we kind of don't even know as much as she does, and it makes her decisions, and the motivations for her actions (shooting the electrified arrow into the dome; creating the Seneca Crane dummy) a little unclear.

Apex Construct is an action - adventure title developed exclusively for the PSVR by Fast Travel Games, a team which boasts former DICE employees amongst its ranks; dropping the player into a desolate world presided over by a sadistic omnipresent A.I known only as Mothr, Apex Construct pits you against mechanical monstrosities that can only be brought down through use of what is probably the most satisfying and accurate representation of a bow and arrow in VR gaming to date.

The competent action sequences borrow the cinematic language of the western as well as the war movie — these are heavily armed cowboys, whooping their way into the fray, dodging missiles rather than arrows.

At close quarters, as in your first encounter with a Scorcher, your best bet is to hit it as hard as you can with the Tearblaster to strip away its defences and maybe its shoulder fire sacs, then hit it with Heavy attacks to stun it so you can go in for a critical or lob fire arrows into its Blaze canisters — make sure you get away before the explosion!

There's an isolated demo - worthy moment, however, as warning arrows thunk into the ground around Robin preparatory to a barbarian raid, and the dialogue is clear, albeit fluctuant in terms of volume.

Motion picture executive Jonathan Tobias hires Bosley and the Angels to track down someone dressed as one of Robin Hood's Merry Men who has been shooting arrows into studio personnel.

An early action sequence is startling in its ferocity as Arikara surround and attack a group of hunters and trappers, and the whoosh of arrows — many of which find their mark — abruptly drag us into a world that we are unfamiliar with and certainly unprepared for.

The pack contains: Display materials including colour pictures and arrows and a title page A long colourful display banner Power point A life cycle wheel to make Various life cycle sequencing worksheets such as a cut and stick sheet, a drawing worksheet and different writing worksheets Templates for craft work Writing pages which can be made into a book with a cover Duck fact worksheets A started worksheet to see what the children know and what they want to find out Vocabulary flash cards and also cards with words and meanings A themed word search A colourful picture bingo game A duck life cycle headband to make Labelling worksheets Photos of ducks and ducklings Photos of the different stages of the life cycle of a duck Various number activities Various other worksheets including describing a duck, missing words, sentence scramble, sequencing sentences etc Plus more!

Some 115 hours of work go into the installation of such quintessential Porsche hot rod pieces as Mahle forged - aluminum pistons, Carrillo forged - steel connecting rods, and an Arrows Precision crankshaft.

A couple of other small tech features endeared the car to us, including a digital compass built into the rearview mirror, as well as illuminating orange blinker arrows on the wing mirrors, which are far more useful in the dark than in the day.

A graphic display next to the current fuel consumption indicator in the lower half of the rev counter presents the generation of electric power in overrun and while applying the brakes, the blue arrow being activated as soon as Brake Energy Regeneration feeds energy into the on - board network without any fuel being consumed in the process.

Romance is blowing into the Windy City, as Cupid picks up his bow and arrow and prepares to grace us all with love and good cheer for Valentine's Day.

After the tragic death of his child and the dissolution of his marriage, Garrett — regarded as an honest, straight - arrow officer — left the SDPD to become an ethics investigator, looking into the activities of his former colleagues.

The sliding trap door SIM holder found on new BlackBerrys is easy to use, so long as you squint and read the Unlock / Lock text etched into the holder's casing and look which direction the arrows point.

Many traders wait for a confirmed cross above the signal line before entering into a position to avoid getting «faked out» or entering into a position too early, as shown by the first arrow.

As the ground looks like one huge mush of browny greens the game's targeting system, which consists of putting a massive arrow above any aircraft, makes the guess - work a little easier but trying to find ground units or even aircraft that end up blending into the background is frustrating at best.

In particular archers wielding ice - arrows are worth taking down before anything else, as being struck by ice has a change of slowing you down for a few seconds, and the archers will simply bombard you from afar whenever you get into a brawl with a melee enemy.

- includes elements from the movies, spin - off shows and comics - over 100 new characters in addition to returning heroes and villains from the last Lego Marvel game - hubs include Barton farm from Age of Ultron - play the climactic Battle for New York - Hulk can now charge up his jump - Hawkeye now has more trick arrows - each character portrait now includes a meter on the rim - executing a finishing move on an enemy takes up about one - third of your power - once filled, you can trigger a team - up move that wipes out many of the enemies in the vicinity - each duo has two different moves, depending on who triggered - when playing as Iron Man, switching up suits pulls players into the suit - each armor set has a different animation - the Mark I calls in Stan Lee to weld it on - the Mark V entombis Tony from its portable briefcase storage - Stanbuster suit includes a typewriter, lamp, and pencil cannon

A prime example is having to run around numerous huts looking for little arrows so you can put levels into either the up or down position as needed, although the way the puzzle is set up you only actually need to pay attention to the arrows that indicate a lever needs to be switched to the down position.

He or she leaps into the air and we get a close up of the bow and arrow as it transforms with a hybrid of magic and technology into a blue light arrowhead which Link fires off camera.

The Fire Arrows work the same as they did in Ocarina of Time, but if they are shot at a Gibdo, instead of doing the regular damage, it turns them into ReDeads.

There's one that lets you summon Amiibos into the world, such as Twilight Princess» Wolf Link (the timeline is in tatters) and, finally, there's a Rune called Cryonis that replaces the Ice Arrows of old, letting Link create pillars of Ice from water to help create platforms and lift up certain objects.

Players charge into battle with swords, axes, shields and other melee weapons to slay opponents up close, as well as wield bow and arrows, crossbows and spears to take them out from afar.

Playing as Aloy you will head out into this glorious, open world with bow and arrows in hand, hunting everything in sight.

When you're not flinging ingredients into the potion pot and giving it a good VR stir, Mage's Tale will have you puzzle - solving your way through levels reminiscent of Tomb Raider, as frog - like enemies come at you with arrows.

It's been a couple of years since I played it, but as I recall my strategy was pretty much use my main character to begin each fight with oil followed by lightning (which combine into a field of fire), then get Morrigan to do something else awful, having arrow chick picking off whoever she could.

Should you acquire a new piece of equipment, such as the rope arrow or explosives, you may find yourself able to venture into previously inaccessible parts of the map.

Here's what did work: Glenn Kaino's glittering mass of arrows in flight at Honor Fraser's booth, a demure suite of gelatin silver prints showing Carrie Mae Weems dancing in a nearly transparent white nightgown, Galerie Brandstrup's laser - focus on young painters (including Michael Kvium and Christer Glein), and Chris Wiley's quirky photographs mimicking and framed with quotidian substances (never has Astro - Turf served a better purpose than a picture frame) as part of Nicelle Beauchene Gallery's entry into Armory Presents.

Francis Alÿs runs into the eye of a tornado; Bas Jan Ader sails out to sea in search of the miraculous to tragically never return; ORLAN undergoes plastic surgery; Marina Abramovic's points a a bow and arrow at her own heart; Pedro Reyes creates musical instruments out of firearms and Ruth Proctor freefalls in the gallery... Walk into a physical, audio, intellectual and emotional unknown with over 70 pivotal works from the mid-20th century to the present day by major international artists including Marina Abramović, Eva Hesse, Yves Klein, Marcel Duchamp, Andreas Gursky, Gerhard Richter, Carsten Höller, Yoko Ono, Fischli & Weiss, Jose Dávila, ORLAN, Chim ↑ Pom and Ai Weiwei, as well as key works by JMW Turner and Maze: Risk edition by Jasmin Vardimon Company.

Bill Gray has a favorite diagram, taken from a 1985 climate model, showing little nodules in the center with such labels as «thermal inertia» and «net energy balance» and «latent heat flux» and «subsurface heat storage» and «absorbed heat radiation» and so on, and they are emitting arrows that curve and loop in all directions, bumping into yet more jargon, like «soil moisture» and «surface roughness» and «vertical wind» and «meltwater» and «volcanoes.»

Contrary to statements made by Sea Shepherd during Bethune's pre-trial jailing in Japan that Bethune had not been authorized to carry a bow and arrow during the Antarctic campaign, Bethune says that the idea was to use to coat the arrows in some sort of poison, fire them into dead whales as they were being transferred for processing.

To do this, place the cursor over the left edge of the toolbar until the it turns into a double arrow, as shown in the image below.

Of course there's always the opportunity to log into your personal account and proceed to click the tiny drop - down arrow next to «Home» to use Facebook as your business page; but along with that, users now have the ease of updating, posting, and checking their business pages using the new Pages Manager iPhone App.