Sentences with phrase «bit of a jolt»

In 2014, he arrived — just as Mkhitaryan has this summer — as a creative spark to add a bit of a jolt to United's build - up play, at least that was the plan prior to the arrival of Angel Di Maria.

It is underdeveloped like other infant senses, but just like seeing bright lights or hearing loud noises for the first time, the taste of food can be a bit of a jolt.

Sure, the preliminary transition from EATING ALL THE TIME, to intermittent fasting MIGHT be a little bit of a jolt to your system; it was for me.

It's a bit of a jolt to flip on the radio and be greeted with a blast of sound that leaves both ears ringing.

While most games these days tip the financial scales for their companies and stockholders at $ 30 million, Gran Turismo series producer Kazunori Yamauchi gave a bit of a jolt to industry analysts when he announced that the price tag of the fan - favorite franchise came in at a whopping $ 60 million.

As a Los Angeles transplant to New Orleans, it is always a bit of a jolt when the chasm between L.A. and LA is bridged.

Used cleverly, they can provide a bit of a jolt to the reader's eye or listener's ear.

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Grab a seat at the L - shape marble counter overlooking the kitchen, and order a flight of pintxos (one - bite snacks), including the quintessential pintxo Gilda, a palate - jolting skewer of anchovy, green pepper, and olive.

When people think of chili peppers, they tend to think more about the spicy sting of the serrano, the happy jolt of the jalapeno, the blasting bite of the bhut jolokia, but usually not the bell pepper.

But from here it looked like the Flyers had gotten a bit of an extra jolt, bringing some extra speed and working better to set up and bring more pressure in the offensive zone.

But illumination of the network with a brief flash (10 milliseconds) of blue light causes each of these bacterial photoreceptors to jolt their host cell a bit.

The phosphorus atom acts as an electrical bucket, holding one electron — representing a single bit of information — until it is jolted with an external voltage.

Whether you embrace a head - to - toe combination or just a few dots here and there, polka dots provide an instant jolt of happiness and a bit of elegance with a wink.

The scant storylines and bland characterizations just aren't enough for us to care one bit about any of them, so what we're left with is merely an exercise in creepy imagery and set - ups for a few jolts to get the young girls screaming in their theater seats.

It's the sort of exercise which needs stylistic discipline or at least a few jolts of originality to work, and those are the bits missing.

The plastic look of the animation can be a bit jolting at first after watching the feature film, but it's actually quite detailed for a television series.

Wit and charm and titans of performance provide jolts of entertainment and bite - sized food for thought but this second tidbit is less tasty than the tiffin - box offered by the original.

The exhaust rumble surprises me and scares the girl crossing the road in front of me, who jolts a bit before whipping out her iPhone to take a picture of the car.

There's a direct relationship between throttle and wheels that belies the amount of whirring, meshing and occasionally jolting bits involved in forward propulsion.

I could still feel rough patches, and got a significant jolt from a bit of broken pavement.

Mostly it's there as a power - booster for the engine, and usually the sharing of propulsion works well with no jolts, if a bit of added electric noise common to EVs and hybrids.

Perhaps now the contemporary art world needs a big jolt of magical faith to lift those bits of fat, felt, copper, and cultural rubble, vitrines, drawings, blackboards and olive presses out of the reliquary graveyard and put them back into the mythic realm of the artist as shaman.

I can totally relate to your juggling of many projects.I am a bit of an ADD decorator myself, so Ii tend to jump from project to project if I run into a roadblock, only to revisit the project thats on the back burner when I get a jolt of inspiration.