Sentences with phrase «bleat in»

«Distant signals click like hits on a Geiger counter, while the strongest bleat in a looped melody»

«She just started bleating in response,» Kleiman says.

There was much bleating in the limey press over the scene where the British Colonel William Tavington (portrayed by Jason Isaacs) locks a an entire town of civilians in a church and burns it to the ground.

Not exact matches

Now go to church and bleat along in unison with the rest of the congregation.

But there's much more in this collection, including a memorable dramatic monologue («The Ghost Seer») taken from his verse play On the Rocks, some religious verse («A Vigil»), and his special mix of unforced sentiment and unassuming humor» best shown, perhaps, in «A Dog's Life»: Accept the things you can not change: / The bleating clock, / The nightly go /» dog leash in tow» / around the block... / Forgive the things you can not have: / the supple bod, / taut undergrads, / a nicer pad, / long chats with God.

In short, the bleating of divided congregations has turned unbelievers into savvy consumers («What does your church offer me?»)

We criticize the near east for wanting to put their holy book into the government, but how are we different if we keep bleating that we need God in our congress halls?

Elijah ran for his life, prayed for death and then repeatedly bleated about his disappointment in God.

A poorly constructed 1 dimensional character created to bleat out Rands heavy handed points in awkward dialogue.

I can't understand all the ignorant bleating about Romney's losses in the south.

I sleep uneasily in my little bedroom perfumed with bergamot and Bleu de Chanel, my air - conditioner whirring and faint clangs of the pizza shop downstairs and bleating horns from the street very gently punctuating the quiet.

For instance: BLEATS: in verb form bleat is a whining cry.

You can bleat all you want about the FA cup and Charity sheild but in my eyes those were papers to huge cracks in this club.

And don't bleat on about how their first goal was offside either, because the other two were perfectly good goals and should not have been conceded in the first place.

Oli's never going to be the Lewandowski or Higuain No. 9 that «spunk the budget» supporters bleat on about and, yes, he goes from balmy to Baltic spells in front of goal, but think West Brom, Man Utd, Preston, or even the consolation at Chelsea this season — the guy turns up when everyone else has downed tools.

A passing shepherd, staff in hand, has halted his bleating flock to contemplate the sight.

Having a laugh or something, Ozil never gets criticised???!! The most ridiculed and abused players on this forum are, in order 1) Giroud 2) Ozil (although to be fair 50 % of the total abuse comes from your bleating, repetitive, obsessive posts on the subject) 3) Mertesacker 4) Arteta 5) Monreal.

January needs to be acted upon like we are going to be relegated — that doesn't mean signing an injured midfielder!!!! A season or 3 ago we were in for Phil jagielka and Mark Schwarzer but tight arse refused to pay the # 12 m and # 2m respective asking price — and we fell away from competing without a whimper... well the spine I've been bleating on about for so long needs creating so go and get petr Czech now and shore up our diabolical defence..

While other Premier League managers bleat on about «philosophy» and «intensity» - words that rarely ever actually have any meaning in the context they are used by them - the West Ham United coach is always frank and to the point with the media and public.

The worst for us out of the three possible results is Chelsea winning because it puts them 5 points in front of us but it'll still mean we're second plus there's the added delight of seeing manure beaten which is always a joy and then reading fergsuscum's pathetic bleating excuses in the papers the next day in which, no doubt, the ref will will be blamed.

He stirred, bleated once or twice, but did not wake, and then proceeded to sleep for a stunning six solid hours or so while I sat in bed staring at the silent baby monitor, alternatively terrified that OH MY GOD HE MUST BE DEAD and waking my husband up to regularly report on how long he was sleeping, IS N'T THIS AMAZING?

In Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the famed novelist, also referred to a certain number by Cardinal Rex Jim Lawson, highlife music impresario, now dead, which sounded like the harrowing bleat of a ram under slaughter, to which triumphant northern Igbos capered with gusto, to the bile of the hurt northern locals.

Cameron's reckless challenge to his adversaries to debate with him (and Brown's inexplicable, suicidal agreement to do so) was not in the least «laudable»: it was a cheap ruse designed to give him an unearned advantage over Brown plus a weak response to the pressure from Murdoch's Sky News, bleating away for leadership debates for obvious commercial reasons — politics as entertainment.

In an interview with The Independent, Mr Grieve said people were feeling forced to «bleat» to the police about minor problems, while officers were also forced to waste their time investigating trivial complaints.

Will all those white male Labourites who bleated about the «shocking lack of diversity» in the Coalition Government, now swing behind Diane Abbott's candidacy?

He said: «Strikes can never be appropriate in prisons, but it is no good ministers bleating that it is unlawful if they can not do anything about it.»

The strength of the signal, direction, name and security level on these are translated into an audio stream made up of a foreground and background layer: distant signals click and pop like hits on a Geiger counter, while the strongest bleat their network ID in a looped melody.

The research supports the idea that imitation plays a role in how killer whales develop their elaborate dialects of bleating pulses.

The findings offer the first evidence that formant perception in non-speech sounds is improved by fundamental frequency modulation, helping to explain why bleat - like calls have arisen multiple times in different mammalian orders.

«Bleats and trills evolved multiple times to aid in «caller ID».»

In anticipation of a female's fleeting fertility, males will often trail a single female for the preceding month, bleating all the while.

Because females showed renewed interest in the novel bleat, this indicates that females could tell the difference between the calls of two males, Charlton says.

To find out if longer bleats signaled more aggressive males, researchers looked for various hormones in the male's feces.

Sure enough, males who bleated longer sported higher levels of testosterone and other «male» sex hormones than those with shorter bleats, the team reports online tomorrow in Biology Letters.

In a letter to The Veterinary Record, R. E. Walker of Worcester warns of dogs going into a panic when they hear bleats and whirs from these modern - day appliances.

The insects vanish as the men open the car doors to unload their gear and carry it to the green one - story virology building, moving quickly past the resident population of bleating goats in the INRB's central courtyard.

In my bedroom, I can hear my neighbor's small dog barking, the bleating horn of tugboats on the East River, the wail of ambulance sirens and the constant drone of the freeway a block away.

There are many adherents to the Calories In / Calories Out (CICO) theory that constantly bleat about «It all comes down to the First Law of Thermodynamics».

In case you didn't already hear me bleating on about it on Twitter — I'm going to the UK Blog Awards!

When Crowe bleats out Stars beneath a twinkly CGI sky, resplendent in a blue fez with massive tassel, the karaoke vibe feels friendly, not risible.

The show truly suffers from the lack of a Wallace; the cast is essentially comprised of Gromits, whose only verbal communication comes in grunts, bleats, and baas.

Vocabulary words included in the word bank are: seat, creat, smeat, bleat, treat, queat, jeat, atteat, backpack and slack.

Vocabulary words in the jumble include: atteat, backpeat, bleat, creat, jeat, queat, sleat, smeat, sack and track.

The Malloy apologists, some of whom are regulars on Jon's blog, put this fraud of a governor back in office by repeatedly bleating about the Foley boogeyman.

Worse still, the internal combustion engine in the hybrid was coarse and unrefined when called upon for passing power, bleating out a laborious, monotone thrum held at a constant RPM thanks to the continuously variable transmission (CVT).

Initial praise for the all - new Cruze gave way to the usual bleats about lacklustre performance seen in GM's small cars.

Not to mention when a young vet who had not been in practice for more than three years, bleats out the advice she «learned» in vet school.

In the 42 years since the National Safety Council bleated concerns to the New York Times about gamers running down pixilated «gremlins» in the 1976 arcade game Death Race, science has yet to find a connection between video games and real - world violencIn the 42 years since the National Safety Council bleated concerns to the New York Times about gamers running down pixilated «gremlins» in the 1976 arcade game Death Race, science has yet to find a connection between video games and real - world violencin the 1976 arcade game Death Race, science has yet to find a connection between video games and real - world violence.

Stop blindly defending those who would happily fleece you for your coat in the arctic if they thought someone else would buy it because, despite their inane bleating, they sure as hell don't give a single solitary shit about you, your enjoyment of the game, or the integrity of their products.

Sound is good if distractingly loud in some places, particularly a nightclub / bar area in Goat City Bay, and I can't work out if the bleating sounds are genuine recordings, or if it's someone making the noises up.