Sentences with phrase «blanket of»

Why's the island monolith got a blanket of clouds on a sunny day?

Behind me, the clouds were peering over the mountaintops, a fast - moving blanket of dark gray in advance of a storm.

It is useless for linking to your own website, but Kindle Scout falls under the blanket of websites that will be clickable links.

This tribute poem to picture - book creator Ezra Jack Keats begins with The Snowy Day's Peter, «Brown - sugar boy in a blanket of white.

Then she imagined the trees as they would soon look in the full blaze of autumn color — and then afterward, in winter, as a field of bare - branched giants standing on a blanket of white.

freedom will always find a way to seep through the blanket of oppression.

It was quite bright and tranquil the day it begun, snow lazily falling and blanketing the world in a soft downy blanket of fluff, drawing a white curtain over all the ugliness of the world.

Six airbags, anti-lock brakes, stability control and a hill - start assist feature are also fitted on all models, as are auto - locking doors — a nice safety blanket of sorts.

A blanket of snow would have been a blast, but, alas, I live in L.A..

On the very tight and twisty roads in Sonoma County, the CX - 9 felt just as taut, agile and fun as we remember the old one — but with a blanket of refinement over it.

SNOW COUNTRY is where I live, so it isn't always good to see a sleek, low - slung, high - performance coupe hunkered in the driveway — at least when it's under a thick blanket of the white stuff.

This Blanket of Coverage assigns a person or entity to receive legal papers on your behalf in every state you operate.

The result is a glistening white blanket of paradise: a 200 - foot - diameter skid pad and 750 - foot slalom punctuate the twelve - turn, three - quarter - mile - long, 45 - foot - wide ice track.

We put the transfer case in four - low for our descent, entering nearby woods just as a heavy blanket of snow comes down.

Who designs the state tests that spread a blanket of silence across the hallways and classrooms of Massachusetts schools each spring as students scratch away at paper with No. 2 pencils?

Craig Langman, of the campaign group Parents Want A Say, argued that headteachers are employing «double standards» by forbidding parents from taking their children out of school during term time while shutting down schools due to a «small blanket of snow».

And yet, the government and society impose a smothering blanket of political correctness, school lunch nutrition standards, invasive security requirements, and a whole host of other issues that belong in the lawmaking and policymaking areas of government, not in the nations» schools.

He is both warmed and shaded by a $ 600 blanket of photovoltaic silicon cells.

The attractive feature of such a tailored learning approach is that it can help all learners to comfortably advance in consonance with their own pace, style and method of learning instead of struggling to fit the «gifted» as well as «slow» learners under the same blanket of instructions and assessments.

A metropolitan area buried under a blanket of snow («Imagine Pompeii,» lamented one local writer, «But with snow, not lava.»).

Writer / director Isabel Coixet uses a loose cinema verite style to give the film a dreamy blanket of quiet.

Infused in every drop of blood and grainy security - cam shot of Phoenix going Beast Mode on a child sex trafficker is Ramsay's signature melancholy, a thick blanket of despair that makes this far smarter and more sensitive than the fascist wish - fulfillment that hitman thrillers tend to be.

Her journey from an innocent Irish lass leaving her home to travel to a foreign city with no friends or relatives to where she finds herself by the time the credits roll may be simple, but it is beautiful in its sentiment, a warm blanket of a movie that never tries to be more than it is.

The comedy here is wonderful, wrapping audiences in a warm blanket of cute jokes and hilarious bits (a segment featuring Olaf dreaming about a life during the summer is particularly memorable).

Cut to the man on a giant snowplow, describing the same shape through a blanket of white.

10 «The Big Sick»: During this knock - you - down - and - out year, what a relief to bundle up with this comfy, warm blanket of a romantic comedy that's based on the real - life relationship of screenwriters Kumail Nanjiani (who also stars) and Emily V. Gordon.

(This movie has the most broadly drawn wet blanket of a critic I've seen in a movie, exceeding even Birdman's vicious character.)

Nat Lady Bird is totally a comedy but with enough investiture and realness in the story, characters and acting that it feels dramatic but it's such a blanket of a film that some feel it's not funny when it is and Beanie Feldstein suppplies lots of that humour.

For me, it's sleeping outside under a blanket of stars, in the warm clear nights of my hometown Khartoum.

The sky is a blanket of beautiful colors.

The Best Line: «If you think you can prevent it by burying your heads under a blanket of shit, fine.

No shock there... or anywhere else in this smothering blanket of cinematic bland.

Because Fox's wet blanket of a demon generates absolutely zero scares, Jennifer's Body relies mostly on el cheapo startles to generate tension, such as Jennifer showing up behind people with no warning and don't - look - behind - that - door frights where things jump into view from off - screen.

For one thing, it assures some automatically striking imagery: a pale column rising from a cliff, stark against the blanket of blue above and the spiking unrest of the blue below.

Marking his feature film debut, We Are Still Here is a ghostly tale of vengeful spirits and dark secrets, all of which are wrapped up in a lonely old home buried under a blanket of snow.

As she hurries around her kitchen preparing the food for the fateful dinner party, a stubborn fridge door which refuses to close for her becomes an amusing symbol of her frustration at her atrophied and repressed domestic life, as she becomes increasingly alienated from her two sons and her emotionally - distant wet blanket of a husband.

After last year's cornucopia of fresh, new winners in so many categories (Jeff Daniels, Tony Hale, Merritt Wever), this year the Emmys decided to hold onto its security blanket of safety with every single Comedy and Drama acting winners having either won for their respective roles before (everyone but Allison Janney) or was at least still a previous Emmy winner (in Janney's case, a winner already this year!).

More powerful than the «inner speaker» album delivering Pink Floyd ambience with at times Lennon - like vocals and a sprinkling of T - Rex, all wrapped up in a modern synth rock blanket of luscious sound.

By that we mean she allows her laugh instincts to get buried in a blanket of bland.

A moronic and ghastly effort that suffocates under the cloying and annoying blanket of a laugh track so disturbing it should be destroyed.

A mattress of leaves and a blanket of stars.

She was always the night Not in the way that it is dark But in the way that it is light Vibrant and eerie Mysterious and unique Captivating, fluid But the price of this was the nights Those where no light glows The saturated dark That blanket of ink The quiet where her soul grows old...

God Only Knows — The Beach Boys A song about enduring love, wrapped in a blanket of euphoric vocal and musical harmonies, this is one of those special love songs that is beautifully heartfelt without feeling cheesy.

If you pay a visit during the evening you can sit under a blanket of fairy lights as you enjoy a range of their speciality cocktails, artisan - inspired menu and range of craft beers.

And look at that blanket of snow behind you!!!

I love a good snow day as much as the next gal, but the magic of a pristine blanket of white lasts for only about fifteen minutes or so.

We are now moving into what it is September, the sun is slowly abandoning us to give way to the soft blanket of brown leaves that will cover the landscape in a matter of weeks.

I wouldn't wear these outfits without the comfort blanket of a long length blazer, but couldn't wear just a blazer in this weather, so the layers have come into their own in terms of maximising my wardrobe but also ensuring i don't freeze my arse off.

Here in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, we're still buried under a pretty substantial blanket of snow, it's 16ºF, but it's sunny!

Last night it snowed and snowed and this morning we woke up to the prettiest blanket of whiteView full post»