Sentences with phrase «as champagne bubbles»

The point is that back then, Stanford football glory, while certainly not unheard of, was a rare and unexpected phenomenon, as fleeting as champagne bubbles.

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Then, looming out of the dark and into the sub's tight halo of floodlight, through curtains of rising bubbles that made it seem as if the sub were driving through champagne, Seifert saw chimneys — black, knobby spires, the tallest rising more than 13 feet off the seafloor.

That wouldn't work, of course, if the bubbles burst as soon as they appeared, as happens in a glass of champagne.

During the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) Meeting, Nov. 23 - 25, 2014, in San Francisco, Calif., Thomas Seon and Elisabeth Ghabache, researchers working for CNRS & UPMC at the Institute d' Alembert, in France, and their colleagues will describe the intricate roles of bubble shape, capillary waves, gravity and liquid properties in bubble - bursting jet dynamics, which form the prelude to aerosols — including unexpected results which should help pave the road to the control of bubble - bursting aerosols and may even find more novel applications such as the fine - tuning of aroma diffusion in champagne or wine.

The researchers» unexpected results should help pave the road to the control of bubble - bursting aerosols and may even find more novel applications such as the fine - tuning of aroma diffusion in champagne or wine.

A second possibility is that methane clathrates from the ocean are dragged along into the erupting plumes and release their methane as they rise, like bubbles forming in a popped bottle of champagne.

The sophisticated champagne bar will impress your date and you'll find conversation will flow as easily as the bubbles in your glass.

As the US charged headlong into the 20th century, as its cities grew skywards and consumerism began to bubble up like the champagne at Jay Gatsby's parties, some of modernism's biggest names stood back and took stocAs the US charged headlong into the 20th century, as its cities grew skywards and consumerism began to bubble up like the champagne at Jay Gatsby's parties, some of modernism's biggest names stood back and took stocas its cities grew skywards and consumerism began to bubble up like the champagne at Jay Gatsby's parties, some of modernism's biggest names stood back and took stock.

For 50 years, Hendler used bold graphic pictograms as an ingenious, if at times disingenuous, way to keep the bubbles rising in the champagne.

Break out the champagne bottles because bitcoin just hit five - figures for the first time ever even as bubble concerns multiply.