Sentences with phrase «bed of nails»

OK, not a real bed of nails, but close.

You can put up with a LOT more pain from an improperly executed bed of nails if there's extra credit involved.

Okay, not a real bed of nails, but close.

A team led by applied mathematician Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan of the University of Cambridge, U.K., discovered that the wax is extremely water - repellant: Water droplets float on top of the needle tips much as ascetics rest on beds of nails.

Featured works include Restless Fakir, an incandescent bed of nails created with metal frame, glass, wood, optical fibre, and light; Eden Blooms, a trio of suspended orbs conjuring floral blossoms, created with optical fibre, steel, acrylic, sintered nylon, and light source; and Ferryman's Crossing II, comprising a parable of Siddhartha translated into morse code using mirror, light, and animation.

Naughton's approach is to add an array of extremely fine wires that stand up vertically on the flat plane of a solar cell, like a miniature bed of nails, to catch additional rays.

A nourishing blend of vitamins and organic oils to moisturize and soften the cuticle bed of your nails.

(She has a tongue long enough to do an effective tonsillectomy, but the mechanism required to take our hero's magical powers and transfer them to the dying old guy who is lying on a high tech bed of nails is just one of many plot points obscured in darkness.)

Anyone working in education knows that the daily working life of many teachers is more bed of nails than bed of roses but the profession will never get the recognition it deserves from the wider public as long as these messages are mainstream.

Mona Hatoum's amazing «Pin Rug» (1998 - 99) prayer mat, studded with upright pins like a vast but shrunken bed of nails, evokes Islam in an ambiguous key.

The exhibition also includes an incandescent bed of nails titled Restless Fakir, a trio of hanging orbs titled Eden Blooms, and several works infused with Morse code.

I know that when you are in the creative process, it doesn't seem clear, but I think you «bed of nailed» it with this cartoon.

I intended to write «faith» above the comfortable bed and «doubt» over the bed of nails, but that would imply that faith was a bad choice.

When faith is your whole identity, rejecting it is not unlike swan - diving into a bed of nails.

Of course, you could take it to the max and join Rainer and Scotty's flagellation workshop --------------- I did lay down on a bed of nails once.

On Saturdays cameras are permitted, so visitors can be photographed lying on a bed of nails or standing next to a model of the world's tallest man.

I think if ConservativeHome had been running for a lot longer then these surveys would show that the party chairperson is a bed of nails and almost all inumbents would incurr members» wrath as some stage.

To do so, they etched the surfaces to resemble a bed of nails, with the heads of the nails — each 20 micrometers across — facing up.

This bed of nails is currently on offer for a paltry # 40 000 a year — scarcely more than the cost of 2000 square feet of glistening black asphalt laid on the site of special scientific interest of your choice.

In the lab, Hawkes and his colleagues programmed the robot to form 3 - D structures such as a radio antenna, turn off a valve, navigate a maze, swim through glue, act as a fire extinguisher, squeeze through tight gaps, shimmy through fly paper and slither across a bed of nails.

When the scientists put a droplet of water on the surface, the pillars support the water and create a layer of air between the droplet and the surface — like a ball resting on a bed of nails.

Ask them if they'd like to lie on a bed of nails.

The story of Ajatashatru Oghash Rathod, a fakir who tricks his local village in Rajasthan, India into believing his possesses special powers and into paying him to fly to Paris to buy a bed of nails from an Ikea store.

This wider distribution of force is the trick behind lying on a bed of nails.

Some of the activities include: Coloured exploding balloons, floating cans, student lift, spinning grapes, accelerometer, hand warmers, making DNA, spreading diseases, crumple zones, bed of nails, speed of kicking, solar ovens, walking on custard

Basically, if Ferraris came with a driver's seat modeled on a bed of nails, I'd still want to be in there.

This could be done with a single packet of chelating / precipitation additive put in prior to filtration, or an ion exchanging material introduced into the filter media (as in the bed of nails example in the CSM story linked to above), or a second stage chemical precipitation and settling step, for examples.