Sentences with phrase «close as the dirt»

This heat energy, known as geothermal energy, can be found almost anywhere — as far away as remote deep wells in Indonesia and as close as the dirt in our backyards.

Not exact matches

Not even close to the same thing as gathering dirt on a political opponent.

Being in close contact with dirt and animals is good as well.

For all the cinematic dreck currently peddling disorienting editing as «action,» no one in good conscience could deride Tarantino for his indulgence in split screens or extreme close ups or smash zooms or any other mode of cinematic gimmickry, when it affords us hauntingly sparse centerpieces such as The Bride's live burial, an aural choir of oppressive dirt, panting whimpers, and futile struggling set to the visual accompaniment of pitch black confinement that stretches on well past any spectator's comfort level.

A year ago Sunday, Shipp was very close to death, his skull crushed beneath an all - terrain vehicle as it rolled over on a rainslicked dirt road near Pine Valley.

Just as summer drew to a close, Kawasaki reached out to us with the promise of mescal, Mexican food, and a two - day dirt - road thrash through Baja California, Mexico, in its rowdy Teryx UTV side - by - side.

Closer to home, we don't need any of these devices to make decent time on our local well - traveled forest access roads, but we find the front stabilizer disconnect works well to combat head toss on the stony dirt surface, as long as we stay below its activation threshold of 19 mph.

Next comes ears that can close over to prevent dirt and contaminates from entering the ear canals as well as missing teeth so that more puffins can fit in their mouths without damaging the valuable meat.

As the release of DiRT Showdown draws ever closer, Codemasters have released another trailer full of...

As the release of DiRT Showdown draws ever closer, Codemasters have released another trailer full of rampant automotive action, showcasing the variety of locations we can expect in the new DiRT Tour.

Closer to home, when we lived on a dirt road in the Hudson Valley (we now live in a village), my son, wife and I experienced the value of silence and sound as a male woodcock chose our back field and the sky overhead for its dusk mating flight, a ritual that includes a spiraling descent to the ground and mating call.

If we want understanding NOW, then all climate models are close to worthless because it will be impossible to invalidate them (or find enough empirical evidence to support them) during my lifetime (old as dirt here) and probablys yours, too.

As he pulled up on a September day in 1985 to a roadblock for what he thought was a routine traffic stop, the dirt was close to the last thing on his mind.