Sentences with phrase «brushes with death»

There are bound to be close calls and brushes with death, I assure you.

I adore my Kindle 3, but I think I may upgrade to this for the touch function, especially since my K3 is getting tetchy in its old age (too many brushes with death due to my small children) and having to use the five - way and keyboard is getting kind of annoying.

But as Alan's brushes with death become more frequent, he finds himself running out of l...

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After more brushes with death, he vows to keep her close — but his attraction to her runs strong, and it's hard to stay strictly professional when Sophie is sending out «I think you're sexy, too» signals.

I am I am I am, Seventeen Brushes with Death, acclaimed novelist Maggie O'Farrell's latest book, speaks to the beauty and importance of life, even at its most ordinary, by closely examining seventeen of her own personal episodes.

In I Am I Am I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death, acclaimed novelist Maggie O'Farrell, speaks to the beauty and importance of life, even at its most ordinary, by closely examining seventeen of her own personal experiences.

GameSpot's Ryan Davis says the appeal of Dragon's Lair was «physical» comedy: «The inappropriately named Dirk the Daring was the gangly antithesis of your archetypal hero, and his constant brushes with death and goofy double takes were half the appeal of this arcade classic.»

Forrest is the de facto leader — a man with the reputation of being immortal after surviving a few brushes with death.

Love is blossoming amid zombie apocalypses and inspiring superpowered vengeance and overcoming Nicholas Sparks - ian brushes with death.

Directed by John Erik Dowdle (As Above, So Below), No Escape is a tightly - wound, high - octane, action thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat for the duration, courtesy of of the Dwyers» close brushes with death at every turn.

The team proposed that such research offers a «scientific framework» for approaching the highly lucid experiences that some people report after their brushes with death.

Not all of these experiences actually coincide with brushes with death — one study of 58 patients who recounted near - death experiences found 30 were not actually in danger of dying, although most of them thought they were.

Thousands of people were interviewed about their brushes with death in every kind of situation — being in a car accident, giving birth, attempting suicide, et cetera — and many described the same odd thing: love.

How's this for a gripping corporate story line: Youthful founder gets booted from his company in the 1980s, returns in the 1990s, and in the following decade survives two brushes with death, one securities - law scandal, an also - ran product lineup, and his own often unpleasant demeanor to become the dominant personality in four distinct industries, a billionaire many times over, and CEO of the most valuable company in Silicon Valley.

After having a brush with death in his late 30s, he began living his life for him.

Through this brush with death my awareness of how God's strength is made perfect through human weakness has deepened.

That he would write about his brush with death was to be expected, for he wrote about everything: in books and magazine articles» not to mention his collection of observations and arguments published in the back of this magazine each month.

Did he remember his vision from that earlier brush with death, when he had been told by angel voices that all had been prepared and was awaiting him?

The form of this strange little narrative of Moses» near brush with death probably reaches back to a time not far removed from the exodus era.

24 - 26), surely reaching back in its present form to a time not far removed from the Mosaic era itself, Moses» brush with death - by illness or by accident - is recounted; and it is the verdict of the earliest strand of the record that Moses» serious condition was the occasion for the performance of the rite of circumcision as the outward sign of commitment to the Lord's promise and purpose so that commitment was sealed, as it were, in blood.

When he realises what he's up against he immediately backs down, and is clearly shaken up by his brush with death.

Hale And Hearty Dan Reeves, the Falcons» coach, needs one more win to cap a remarkable career turnaround, but even that won't match the comeback he made from a brush with death

Pieter Cohen's brush with death came at a most inconvenient time: just as he was about to nail another menacing ingredient in a dietary supplement.

After a brush with death last month, the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft is back on track for an encounter with a hurtling hunk of space rock.

Britton knew that most people who have a close brush with death tend to have some form of post-traumatic stress disorder, while people who get that close and have a near - death experience have none.

The injury wasn't the man's first brush with death.

After the opening scene - setting chapters, the reader is well rewarded with many nuggets: the story of his tramps around France mapping its geology; his fortitude in redistil - ling pure water for 101 days to prove that it would not turn into «earth» (he later proved that it consisted of hydrogen and oxygen); his marriage; his tests for tobacco adulteration; his brush with death at the gunpowder factory; his examination of mesmerism; his tragic final years; and, of course, his main discoveries and contributions, including his exchanges with the English scientist Joseph Priestley.

Melissa's first brush with death, an automobile accident that put her in a coma, came when she was 15.

TRAVEL OUT - OF - BODY The physical sensation of floating outside the body can famously occur during a close brush with death.

And, with a renewed appreciation for life and broader perspective after her brush with death, she became incredibly focused on her goals.

Maryam's brush with death also raised her awareness of the environment, which inspired her to work on a piece on the Exxon Valdez Oil spill for Robert Greenwald and The Sierra Club.

«A Speck in the Sea» tells tale of boyhood pals» brush with death on Long Island fishing excursion

Our heroes encounter a close brush with death every other minute or so, each one an eye - popping spectacle, whether it's cars hurtling through the air, machine gun - fire from a helicopter, a hovering Harrier jet, or hand - to - hand combat in an elevator shaft.

Spider - Boy will now truly be a Spider - Man, as Tom Holland's version of the character will have survived not just a brush with death, but the afterlife itself.

Although Charlie was already suffering from cancer, he sees his close shave as a sign of good fortune, so he goes to a gambling casino to test whether his brush with death is the beginning of a lucky streak.

These movies are a dime a dozen and yet we keep coming back for more, maybe because we always secretly enjoy the close brush with death that we can watch so safely from our living rooms.

At this point in his career, Fosse had nothing to prove to the show - business establishment (in 1973, he won the Oscar, the Tony, and the Emmy, all for directing), but a 1974 brush with death — exhaustion, heart attack, life - saving surgery — put him in an introspective mood, and the results were spectacular.

Reid's close brush with death has Tonto proclaim him a Spirit Walker, someone impervious to death.

It's refreshing to see someone who is patently not conventionally handsome play the lead in a teen movie, as Teller's facial scars (real - life scars from the actor's brush with death in a car accident a year or two ago) actually contribute to Sutter's self - destructive nature.

I've never had one, but a brush with death would surely turn all that around.

In my experience, people who have had a brush with death help others when they need it.

Personal circumstances and a near brush with death have changed my financial situation dramatically.

The seventeen chapters are each named after a part of the body and the year in which O'Farrell experienced a particular near brush with death (See Beyond the Book).

In 2012, Josephine Johnson and Jim Dickman, both age 53, had a narrow brush with death during a snowshoe trek on Mount Rainier, but as the headline proclaimed, skills and love helped them survive.

Until a brush with death causes him to rethink his priorities, and consider someone besides himself for the first time in his privileged life.

Lexi the Staffie is now happy in a new home, but only a year ago she had a close brush with death when her then owner, David Owen, slit her throat with a carving...

After one brush with death — fortunately not my own — and lots of time spent disentangling other pets and my own, I put my retractable leash away more than a year ago, and haven't used it since.

This lovely dog, given the appropriate name of «Sickie», was a Thai street dog that had a near brush with death at the shelter.

After saving you from your brush with death, Conan warns you that the bracelet which you were you have been forced to wear prevents you from leaving the realm in which you're currently in, suggests that you find a way to keep on living, and leaves.