Sentences with phrase «at stony»

It is a Hindu temple showcasing impressive sunset view at the stony tip, of which, according to the myth, the chiseled rocks have served as the seating of Brahma's, the god of creation.

Likewise Seth Rogen and James Franco, who reprised their Pineapple Express stoners act to titter at stony - faced contenders such as The Reader and Doubt.

Not exact matches

A stony - faced Taliban official burst into laughter at the mention of the Petraeus affair during an interview with AFP in northwest Pakistan this week.

If a seed falls on stony ground in the desert, it simply refuses to germinate until the next shower of rain comes along and gives it an environment at least somewhat appropriate to its needs.

Such religion defends the status quo at all costs, identifies faith in God with staunch conservatism, and associates «civilized» life with stony immobility in the face of revisionist efforts.

A nut is a simple dry fruit with one or two seeds in which the ovary wall becomes very hard (stony or woody) at maturity, and where the seed remains attached or fused with the ovary wall... Examples include almonds, pecans, walnuts, brazil nuts, cashew nuts, chestnuts, hazelnuts, macadamia nuts, pine nuts and pistachio nuts.

Now when he cracks it he is greeted with stony glares from everybody at the table.

Half a dozen inmates stared at us in stony silence as we left the corridor, and instinctively I turned my head away, feeling anxious for the first time.

The winning scenario: a 400 - foot - wide stony asteroid that slammed into the air at 12 miles a second and exploded.

STONY BROOK, NY, July 14, 2014 — Research findings from an international team of scientists including Alan Turner, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomical Sciences at Stony Brook University School of Medicine, uncovers details on how a new species of a feathered raptorial dinosaur found in China provides evidence on how large - bodied dinosaurs took to the air.

Forests at that time were preserved only in places with poor stony or sandy soils.

Close Call: When you decide to wear a geometric print suit to an event, spotting someone else in the same look most likely isn't something you take into consideration — which may be why Leigh Lezark and Elena Perminova looked so stony - faced bumping into one another at the Giambattista Valli exhibition at Paris Fashion Week in equally eye - grabbing suits from the designer's Fall / Winter 2012 collection.

And while the film is at times scarily atmospheric — a hunt in the cramped sewers under Baltimore, a horse chase through a foggy wood — it too often abandons the stony, old - timey horror that should be its main motif, because despite all the nonsense it works, in favor of slow - motion bullets and a super villain-esque masked crusader who is capable of impossible feats of speed and marksmanship.

Mark Cerny will be trotted out on stage at E3 2017 and we'll all sit in stony silence as grown men jibber about how much fun they're having playing an action platformer with so much personality -LRB-?)

The shockwave of this event makes an already dysfunctional family fall apart at the seams, as the father (Jeff Daniels, The Hours) withdraws into stony silence, the mother (Sigourney Weaver, The Village) devolves into a bout of hedonistic pleasures, and Tim can't put himself together no matter what he does.

She was debating up until the moment she got on stage, when she looked down at the crowd and got intimidated by a certain stony - faced Oscar winner.

A father and son stare at the screen where names appear as they are called, their faces growing stony as the minutes pass and spaces run out.

When presented with legendary cars from the 1950s and 1960s — neither as fast, nor as safe as the vehicles they drive in modern series — even the stoniest of racers goes weak at the knees.

«Shoo, it was just this world snatching at ye,» the old man John William Heberson, called J W, told him, clucking his stony laugh, speaking of the fall from his mother's womb.

Hard or stony corals can make you a lot of money, but beware of local entrepreneurs who frag coral in their garage operations and sell it online, at reef club meetings and even to your competitors.

The beach itself is a narrow strip of unusually stony sand with a parking lot at the north end.

With the «Tag» series not even considered part of the main Tekken storyline, it really all boils down to a rogue's gallery of various folk who enjoy punching each other a lot — but you've got ta hand it to the team for at least having the sense to balance out the stony - faced brawlers with a light hint of self - mockery.

And a criticism of unhealthy modern art, as the gray gestural touches that form the decaying stony environment in which the figures are set suggest, reminding us that gesturalism at its most unconditional, as in Abstract Expressionism, has been understood as an instrument, however unwitting, and the final step, of the infantilization, primitivization and pulverization — not to say degeneration — of art into incoherence and chaos.

To put it mildly, basing your holiday choices on traditional advice saw you skiing on stony icy pistes at Christmas and in Janusry (when powder was supposed to abound), whereas spring holidays were less for sun lovers and more for early risers seeking the short windows of light powder before the spring sun mushed it.