Sentences with phrase «become riddles»

In the absence of any authentic revelation, all human understanding becomes riddled with ambiguity.

Bertocchini and her colleagues made the discovery quite by accident, after noticing that plastic bags containing wax worms quickly became riddled with holes.

Helium from radiation transmutation takes up residence inside metals and causes the material to become riddled with tiny bubbles along grain boundaries and progressively more brittle, the researchers explain.

However, if the researchers added apoE4, the cells became riddled with pathologies related to Alzheimer's disease.

«But if we didn't human scan new profiles, our database would quickly become riddled with Complete and Total Wankers.»

Many instances within the adventure can lower or raise the sanity of your fellow companions, granting an affliction upon them when their sanity breaks and become riddled with madness.

In the hands of contemporary artists, the study of humanity's engagement with the earth's topography becomes a riddle best solved in experimental fashion.

An all - too - familiar pet peeve for those who dutifully line up to get the newest and most promising flagship phone from a company: software and OS updates that take too long to reach customers, all the while becoming riddled with delays, snags, snafus and false promises that account to the disappointment companies incur by withholding release of updates.

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While Apple's strategy is unusual in its scope and effectiveness, it underscores how riddled with loopholes the American corporate tax code has become, critics say.

The recent move by Twitter to verify the students is yet another example of how big the current discussion around gun regulation has become, and an example of how the company hopes to add credibility to users who are at the center of a debate riddled with misinformation.

But it becomes challenging to execute in a business environment riddled with incentives slanted toward short - term goals, which can often come at the cost of the customer.

«It's like we've become House of Cards,» is how one PC Party member described this year's round of PC nominations, which have been riddled with controversy.

As Hamann writes, «All philosophical resistance and the entire riddle of our existence, the impenetrable night of its terminus a quo and terminus ad quem, are dissolved by the charter of the Word become flesh.»

The meaning of our existence as unfinished creatures in a life which has its times of planting and its times of reaping becomes an insoluble riddle.

Indeed, this was their distinction from sensibles in the world of becoming, which were like «punning riddles,» blends of being and nonbeing.

In this context of competitive close reading, the goal of analysis becomes not to enrich our understanding of an aesthetic artifact, but rather to decrypt a riddle and predict an outcome — to outsmart other viewers and the series.

Here one finds the dull report of the census - taker, the uninspired but minute directions for the performance of the cult, stories of man's beginnings and that of many of the common experiences of his life, such as language, relationship of races, why the rainbow; colorful stories, of the might and prowess of ancient ancestors of the race, riddles, puns, fables, prayers, songs that have become almost the universal songs of the human race, the history of the rise and fall of dynasties, the preaching of reformers and prophets, the questioning of it all by men grown weary of the struggle, proverbial sayings of great wisdom; the dreams of conquest both of earth and heaven.

Here, read this piece I wrote during the NBA Finals about what a maddening riddle Irving's career has become.

I had become so stressed and riddled with anxiety that I had gotten shingles.

Call it like it is - preschool has become one of the most time consuming, worrisome and anxiety - riddled times in a parent's life.

As this market grows, it has become saturated with less - than - fabulous products that while bamboo, they are also riddled with formaldehyde.

And as taxpayers across the state get even more used to the protection provided by the cap, it will become a taller political order for public employee unions and local governments to riddle it with loopholes, as they've been trying to do.

Although he never really knew his grandfather, he says that stories about his career inspired him to become a virus hunter, and helping solve the Fort Collins riddle, he adds, was «a very good feeling.

When the prion was injected into the brains of mice, the brains became spongy and riddled with holes, the telltale signs of prion disease.

An autopsy study showed that Duerson's brain was riddled with classic signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a form of brain damage that is becoming an increasing concern among athletes in violent contact sports.

«The technology has become available now, and it's such an interesting scientific question, so it's not surprising that two groups were working on solving this riddle at once.»

One of the huge riddles in U.S right now is how varied we become, but people talk and their discomfort about interracial dating will never come to end.

One of the huge riddles in U.S right now is how varied we become, but people talk and their discomfort about...

But with Portman in the main role, Annihilation acts as an intellectual riddle in suggesting that Mizuno's humanization — becoming «more» human - like — is simply an attainment of whiteness, warranting a follow - up question: At what cost?

Riddled with guilt over the loss of his rock star older brother, 16 - year - old David Forrester becomes obsessed with death, leading his misguided parents to send him to Driftwood, an «Attitude Adjustment Camp for Troubled Youths» run by the sadistic Captain Doug Kennedy and his brutal young henchman, Yates.

While we've certainly seen stories that satirize society's upper class and upend their addiction to manners to great comic effect, this series hinges on a dazzling performance by Cumberbatch that reminds us why he's become one of the internet's most obsessive riddles of the past eight years.

I'll admit, it's kind of funny in that mode for a while, but after you've seen the first few marionettes riddled with bullets or blown up, you become inured to it soon after.

New York City becomes the bullet - riddled playground of a former assassin as he hunts down the Russian mobsters who destroyed everything he held dear.

Wandering around a purgatorial asylum, interacting with characters both visible and invisible, Ventura speaks in repeated riddles which become more lucid and more complex as the movie goes on.

However, Broker's world soon becomes anything but quiet once he discovers that an underbelly of drugs and violence riddles the small town.

If most family members feel the portrayal is realistic, ask why our language has become so riddled with profanity?

The mission for which Dumbledore summoned Harry at the outset was to visit the London home of Professor Horace Slughorn (Jim Broadbent), who has become reclusive since his Hogwarts days, but is now urgently needed along with his memories of the young student Tom Riddle, who grew up to become the man whose name should rhyme with Death.

But Stallone makes his one - sided, pro-interventionist argument with such intoxicating fervor — especially in an astonishingly bloody finale filled with decapitations, bullet - riddled bad guys and a visual equation of Rambo to Jesus Christ — that the fantasy becomes impossible to resist.

The sixth episode of Harry Potter's training at Hogwarts has him confronting the evils of the past that have come to roost in the present, including the story of Tom Riddle, the former boy student at the school who would grow up to become the wicked Lord Voldemort.

Tom Marvolo Riddle (an anagram for Lord Voldemort) became the sinister epitome of evil who is committed to destroying Harry and the school.

If you are getting tired of the busy visuals and grand set - pieces, when we get to the game of riddles between Bilbo and Gollum, the film suddenly becomes a brilliant piece of cinema.

Slughorn's repressed memories of a former student named Tom Riddle — later to become Lord Voldemort — provide essential insight into the nature of the beast that Harry must eventually face.

Faux - pas is followed by awkward silence, which is followed by more faux pas and then by the inevitable flame - riddled car crash that the ordeal was always going to become.

Or SLPS's Embry - Riddle Aerospace Academy where students have the opportunity to become successful college students while taking Embry - Riddle Aeronautical University classes (ERAU), taught by ERAU faculty, and earn an official ERAU transcript.

This idea led to other ideas about riddles, and eventually Stewart's «messy outline» of ideas became a draft of «The Mysterious Benedict Society.»

If your puppy becomes fearful, his life as a companion dog will be riddled with anxiety and stress and he will be useless as a working, competition, or protection dog.

In 2003, she became a clinical pathology laboratory technician for the Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital (RREH) in Lexington, KY..

This time of year, which becomes increasingly hectic and reaches a fever pitch around the end of December, manufacturers are exploring many distribution avenues to ensure easy shopping options and cleaning formulas that tackle a variety of stained and odor - riddled areas, while maintaining high safety standards.

The only problem: once tablet - based gambling is green - lit by the government, there's not much stopping New York's hubs from becoming as slot machine - riddled as Vegas» McCarran International Airport.

Already good scenes somehow become even better, like the now famous riddles in the dark, which is brilliantly transformed into Bilbo and a brain - damaged orc literally building the answers out of Lego.