Sentences with phrase «barely held together»

While the strong force holds nuclei together and overcomes the repelling Coulomb force, four particular nuclei are barely held together: lithium - 6 (6Li), beryllium - 9 (9Be), boron - 10 (10B), and boron - 11 (11B).

Those readings will reveal whether the asteroid is a single intact object, a mash - up of disparate ones or a jumble of rocks barely held together by its feeble gravity — necessary information to have before you try to knock an incoming asteroid out of the way.

My cookies came out extremely crumbly — they barely held together.

Built in the early 19th century over previous constructions, the shrine was in danger of collapse and barely held together by iron girders added decades later.

The financial system is in precarious condition barely held together by a patchwork of negative interest rates, currency manipulation, and misguided confidence.

@ new - man: why do you think your god spent so much time and effort and goodness to create from nothing a perfect universe and a perfect existence with all of its intricacy... and then tricked Eve into eating an apple so that he could then undo his master work that he put so much time and effort into and turn it into the barely holding together chaos that we see today that he has to constantly micromanage?

Please tell me what sort of asinine fool spends so much time and effort and goodness to create from nothing a perfect universe and a perfect existence with all of its intricacy... and then when it's finally done, tricks Eve into eating an apple so that he can then undo his master work that he put so much time and effort into and turn it into the barely holding together chaos that we see today that he has to constantly micromanage?

Instead, he was barely holding it together, caught in a seemingly endless cycle of drugs, porn and workaholism.

what sort of asinine fool spends so much time and effort and goodness to create from nothing a perfect universe and a perfect existence with all of its intricacy... and then tricks Eve into eating an apple so that he can then undo his master work that he put so much time and effort into and turn it into the barely holding together chaos that we see today that he has to constantly micromanage?

Drizzle in half the ice water a little at a time and toss the mixture with your fingers, squeezing some together here and there until the dough just barely holds together.

Stir in the water, starting with 2 tablespoons, until the dough comes together; it shouldn't be sticky or crumbly, but just barely hold together.

The dough should barely hold together.

Once that the dough barely holds together cut a piece of plastic wrap and place your dough.

The taste is great, but the cookies barely hold together.

The first time I made these, they turned out very dry and crumbling, like scones, but barely holding together.

The mixture will be crumbly and barely hold together when you pinch it together between your fingers.

Mattress was uneven, mattress support system was barely holding together.

It feels like everyone else is blithely pushing through while your kids are just barely holding it together.

DiNapoli says on top of the budget barely holding together, there is going to be a negative impact from the storm.

Recent space missions have shown them to be surprisingly loose agglomerations of pebbles that can barely hold themselves together gravitationally.

I had a successful career, but I was barely holding it together.

That says it all — the terrain, the audacity and, ultimately, the limits of «Old School,» which despite the big laughs, barely holds together in between.

Scarlett Johansson is «barely holding it together» as a working parent.The «Ghost in the Shell» star - who has two - year - old daughter Rose with...

THE LOVE - AHS Jimmy Fallon was notorious for breaking character, but he wasn't alone in this sketch, as Will Ferrell, Rachel Dratch and Drew Barrymore barely hold it together in a hotel hot tub.

Her mother has come unhinged, her dad has left his damaged old family for a new life, and Andi is barely holding it together.

In X-Men: Destiny Professor X is dead, killed at the hands of an enemy known as Bastion, the X-Men are barely holding together and now operating in San Francisco, and a group known as Purifiers are on a mission to kill every mutant they find.

The dialogue is regularly awful to the point of almost being funny, and the plot itself is poorly penned idiocy which barely holds together under even the lightest scrutiny.

You don't have a moment to spare with work, the kids and everything else and you're barely holding it all together.

Not exact matches

To Manjoo, the first cracks are already appearing in the pipe dreams that are barely holding these stories together.

I just love the combination of nuts and dried and candied fruits with barely enough cake batter to hold it all together.

The batter barely covered the apples, so I was afraid it wouldn't hold together.

Did your external and internal reflections of your business make you look smart and likable and highly competent, or did it make you look like you're barely holding things together?

I'm not sure if you've had this comment before, but I bought a copy both for myself, and as a present for my sister, and in both cases, when you turn the pages they come apart so far that you can see the glue and everything else that is (barely) holding the book together, especially at the beginning and ending of the book.

His mother Kendra (Chloe Sevigny) is barely holding things together, leaving Owen in charge of his younger brother James (Beau Wright) who has Down syndrome.

What holds it all together, just barely, is The Rock.

When his seven - year - old sister is abducted in the dark of night, Dazz pledges to do whatever it takes to get her back, embarking on a quest that threatens to rip apart the very fabric that's barely holding his shattered family together.

Librarian Simon Watson is barely holding his life together when a mysterious book appears on his doorstep.

Kids that could barely hold a mouse had a blast just smashing creatures together like action figures.

They may not be able to cover anything, in loose threads barely sufficient to hold other bits together.

In some cases the surface has been gilded with gold leaf, in others the translucency of the abaca paper is visible through the marks and stitches that barely hold the works together.

Since she didn't get to our house'til after dark, we spent our first night together just sipping champagne and talking until we could barely hold our eyes open.

Now it is a rotted piece of wood with barely any paint holding it together!

It was in pretty rough shape and the middle section was barely holding the thing together, so I decided to dismantle it and, with Ken's help, turn it into two nightstands instead.