Sentences with phrase «churning sea»

Exhausted by having to part churning seas of art advisers and would - be collectors without a sign from God, I departed for the civilized environs of the Marian Goodman Gallery, which was screening three films by Tacita Dean — one is a recent portrait of David Hockney — and showing chalk paintings and photographs of California clouds installed, appropriately, near the ceiling.

Oil rigs are usually evacuated during major storms, and the devices used to stabilize cruise ships in churning seas can usually tame no more than moderate swells.

Also known as tropical cyclones and typhoons, these fierce storms can churn the seas into a violent topography of 50 - foot (15 - meter) peaks and valleys, redefine coastlines and reduce whole cities to watery ruin.

Gill avoids that convention yet, still, falls into banality with the recurring image of churning seas as viewed from a suicidal perch.

The paintings in his second solo at Charlie James Gallery show landscapes of tangled tree limbs and churning seas along rocky coastlines — otherwise benign places where a Hitchcock thriller might unfold.

Last summer, after an extraordinary storm swirled across the Arctic Ocean, churning sea ice like some great Waring blender, much was speculated about the cyclone's role in the enormous retreat of sea ice that followed.

Something jumped out at me during today's Vocus seminar on P.R. and New Media — journalists and bloggers often see each other as rivals, but they're united in at least one very important way: both are desperately looking to fill space and / or time in their publications with good content, and both also have trouble finding it in a vast, churning sea of online information.

Also known as tropical cyclones and typhoons, these fierce storms can churn the seas into a violent topography of 50 - foot (15 - meter) peaks and valleys, redefine coastlines and reduce whole cities to watery ruin.

Of course, he had his own opinions about Vietnam and politics, but they were often swamped in a churning sea of more conventional teenage concerns.

He was in a churning sea, waving his arms wildly and apparently shouting like a drowning man, which, in fact, he was.

Salt water laps over the hood as we wade through the churning sea, and the engine note slowly drops to a dull, sickening groan.

Drive up this cliff - hugging route, and there's nothing but a small rock wall to separate you from the churning sea hundreds of feet below.

At sundown, cliff divers reenact the feat of Maui's revered King Kahekili, who bravely dove from the cliff at Pu'u Keka'a, or Black Rock, into the churning sea, at a time when the spot was considered to be the jumping off place for the soul to enter the nether world.

It can be accessed by a suspension bridge which dangles high above the churning sea below.

Bischoff's skies are too heated up and the churning sea is too rough.

The concrete path is worn, and follows a busy road, but the broad view out over the churning sea

Cast adrift in a fierce and churning sea of competition, how do job seekers who are self - employed grab a toehold in the dwindling pool of jobs?