Sentences with phrase «birds are in no shape»

Not exact matches

It appears that Las Vegas oddsmakers are not in total agreement with movie experts, as the online gambling site Bovada actually has Three Billboards (20/23) as the odds - on bet to win the Best Picture race over the likes of The Shape of Water (7/5), Get Out (11/2), and Lady Bird (14/1).

Remember My favour unto thee and unto thy mother; how I strengthened thee with the holy Spirit, so that thou spakest unto mankind in the cradle as in maturity; and how I taught thee the Scripture and Wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and how thou didst shape of clay as it were the likeness of a bird by My permission, and didst blow upon it and it was a bird by My permission, and thou didst heal him who was born blind and the leper by My permission; and how thou didst raise the dead by My permission; and how I restrained the Children of Israel from (harming) thee when thou camest unto them with clear proofs, and those of them who disbelieved exclaimed: This is naught else than evident magic; (110) And when I inspired the disciples, (saying): Believe in Me and in My messenger, they said: We believe.

There are two steps here: first, to ascertain what Millard Fillmore did as president, which is not nearly so easy as ascertaining the size, shape and color of a bird; and second, to decide what it means to have been a good president in the early 1850s, which involves not only historical knowledge but also some interesting value judgments.

The chiltepin and related bird peppers, the wild forms of the cultivated species, are known to chileheads, but their variations in pod shape and size are not readily apparent.

Thankfully, at least if you're a traditionalist, Dough Dough Bird Bakery (2409 N. Western Ave.) has made gingerbread cookies its stock - in - trade, with year - round gingerbread cookies in a variety of shapes.

In these cases, the egg shape might have helped to accommodate offspring that are more mature when they hatch than those of birds.

«This is a remarkable study,» says Sonia Kleindorfer at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, because it shows how the sounds a bird hears in its egg can shape its development, even into adulthood.

But the London researchers have shown a few small changes in the shape of a surface protein were all it took to enable the bird version of Spanish flu to bind onto human cells.

It is snail - shaped in humans, hence its name, whereas in birds it is banana - shaped.

These tiny bits are the same size and shape as the pigment - bearing structures (called melanosomes) found in the skin and scales of modern - day lizards and in the feathers of birds.

Most of its features — the length of its forearms, the shape and details of its skull — «are in fact intermediate between other dinosaurs and more recent birds,» he says.

However, similarities in the brain shape between the ancient species and diving birds living today suggest that diving behavior may be associated with certain anatomical structures in the brain.

Scientists already knew that variation in shape, size and colour of individual flowers can influence how their pollen is spread by visiting insects or birds.

The Bia?owie?a Forest, one of the last remaining tracts of old - growth forest in Europe, is an ideal place to study cavity - nesting birds, full of cavities of every size and shape for Marsh Tits to choose from.

preserved in an egg - shaped space, indicates that early birds were well - developed at birth.

Because wild relatives of the galliform chicken species are plentiful in Africa, this study required researchers to sift through the remnants of many small bird species to identify bones with the unique sizes and shapes that are characteristic of domestic chickens.

They chose this region because it has a large number of cells and because the bird's feet hadn't been treated with arsenic, leaving the DNA there in better shape than on the rest of the preserved carcass.

One middle - aged male had been laid on a shelf of 20,000 seashell beads arranged in the shape of a bird.

Their trick is to mimic bird droppings in colour, shape, size and smell, deceiving predators and prey alike.

For instance, the late Yale professor John Ostrom famously pointed out in the 1970's that the wrists of both birds and bird - like dinosaurs possess a very similar, half - moon shaped bone called the semilunate, and that this bone resulted from the merging of two bones present in dinosaurs.

The melanosomes» shape and arrangement are similar to that seen in iridescent birds (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1213780).

The specific gene sequences which had evolved in the British birds were found to closely match human genes known to determine face shape.

Using an evolutionary framework, the researchers found that the shape of an egg correlates with flight ability, suggesting that adaptations for flight may have been critical drivers of egg - shape variation in birds.

This suggests that the range of egg shapes in modern birds had already been attained in the Cenozoic.»

«Streamlining in birds is determined more by plumage than the shape of the body — high performing fliers can have rounded, bulky bodies» he says, which wouldn't give elongated eggs the same advantage over other egg shapes.

Perhaps cone - shaped eggs are less likely to roll out of the nest of cliff - dwelling birds; spherical eggs might be more resilient to damage in the nest.

The mystery of why birds» eggs come in so many shapes has long been up in the air.

Genetic differences between the two populations suggested that natural selection, the process that drives evolution, appeared to be at work especially in DNA regions associated with the shape and structure of the birds» beaks.

A delta's coastline can be relatively smooth, with most sand depositing from the main river, or it can fan out in the shape of a bird's foot, as the river bifurcates into tributaries and channels, each of which deposits sand in finger - like projections.

«It is very striking that when we compare the size and shape of the Big Bird beaks with the beak morphologies of the other three species inhabiting Daphne Major, the Big Birds occupy their own niche in the beak morphology space,» said Sangeet Lamichhaney, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and the first author on the study.

They exist in all mammals and birds that have been examined, including humans, and become destructive only when their shape is altered, a change that occurs either through infection by an already infectious protein or through a genetic mutation.)

He adds, «there have been occasional hints, such as characteristic bill shapes, that nectarivorous birds occurred in the past, but, so far, there existed no conclusive evidence.»

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Researchers used a method that allowed them to statistically quantify variation in the shape of predatory bird skulls and see how this shape variation compared with size, what the birds ate and how they are related to each other.

Inspired by the shape of a bird in flight, these dangle earrings from Wayan Asmana are crafted with engraved sterling silver around cabochon carnelian gems.

Set in Sacramento, California in 2002, amidst a rapidly shifting American economic landscape, Lady Bird is an affecting look at the relationships that shape us, the beliefs that define us, and the unmatched beauty of a place called home.

Fellow nominees were Sally Hawkins for her role in the The Shape of Water, Margot Robbie for I, Tonya, Saoirse Ronan for Lady Bird and 21 - time nominee Meryl Streep for her portrayal of Washington Post publisher Katherine Graham in The Post.

I'm simply pointing out that in a year that's supposed to be about defining new ways of seeing, «Get Out,» «Lady Bird,» and «Call Me by Your Name» were all — to me — vastly superior movies than «The Shape of Water.»

Here, we in turn find the likes of Phantom Thread, Dunkirk, The Post, The Shape of Water, Lady Bird, Darkest Hour, Call Me by Your Name, Get Out, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, and The Florida Project all being awarded their own (fake) covers.

Coming in behind «The Shape of Water» are Greta Gerwig's coming - of - age dramedy «Lady Bird» and Luca Guadagnino's summer romance «Call Me By Your Name» with seven nominations each, also including best picture.

Chalamet was also in Hostiles and Lady Bird in 2017; Stuhlbarg was in The Shape of Water, The Post, and the third season of Fargo on FX.

Streep is contending for her fourth Oscar against McDormand, Saoirse Ronan in «Lady Bird,» Margot Robbie in «I, Tonya,» and Sally Hawkins in «The Shape of Water.»

She faces heavy competition as she is up against Frances McDormand in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Sally Hawkins in The Shape Of Water, Saoirse Ronan in Lady Bird, and Meryl Streep in The Post.

Saoirse (23) is up for the Best Actress BAFTA for her role in Greta Gerwig's coming of age story Lady Bird but faces stiff competition from Annette Bening for Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool, Frances McDormand for Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri, Margot Robbie for I Tonya, and British actress Sally Hawkins for The Shape of Water.

Among the nominees are Pakistani American Kumail Nanjiani for «The Big Sick» (who wrote the original screenplay nominee with wife Emily V. Gordon, inspired by their courtship), «Mudbound» actress Mary J. Blige (in the supporting actress and original song categories, the latter of which she shares with Raphael Saadiq) and three directors — Jordan Peele («Get Out»), Greta Gerwig («Lady Bird») and Guillermo del Toro («The Shape of Water»)-- who don't fit their category's historically white male template.

Lady Bird and Get Out were also snubbed in the best - film category, which instead includes other awards - season front - runners like C.M.B.Y.N., Darkest Hour, Dunkirk, The Shape of Water, and Three Billboards.

The Oscar for Directing, meanwhile, will be contended not only by Paul Thomas Anderson (Phantom Thread) and Guillermo Del Toro (The Shape of Water), but also by Christopher Nolan, Jordan Peele (Get Out) and Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird)-- the fifth woman ever nominated for Directing, and the first time in eight years that a woman has been included in the category.

Some of these will be nominated, but others eliminated to make room for «The Shape of Water,» «The Post,» «Get Out,» and «Lady Bird» — and one in this latter group probably will be the winner.

Best Motion Picture, Drama: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Best Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical: Lady Bird Best Actress, Drama: Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Best Actor, Drama: Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour Best Actress, Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical: Saoirse Ronan, Lady Bird Best Actor, Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical: James Franco, The Disaster Artist Best Supporting Actress: Allison Janney, I, Tonya Best Supporting Actor: Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Best Director: Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water Best Screenplay: Martin McDonagh, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Best Animated Motion Picture: Coco Best Foreign Language Film: In the Fade Best Original Score: Alexandre Desplat, The Shape of Water Best Original Song: «This Is Me» — The Greatest Showman

This Shapes up to be a Battle of the Ages — an Unforgettable match — and Justice for the Birds, who lost by a mere Three points to the New England Patriots in 2005.