Sentences with phrase «complicated sequence of»

I must admit, dying time after time can get madly frustrating, but whenever I finally managed to pull out a complicated sequence of carefully planned movements to complete a level, it was damn satisfying.

There is no coding or complicated sequence of steps that tend to confuse the designer while creating the course.

When Alannah Miles starts belting out «Black Velvet» from the speakers, partner # 1 performs a complicated sequence of -LSB-...]

Kea parrots are renowned thieves in their native New Zealand, and with good reason — even a complicated sequence of locks can't foil them.

World - class memory athletes can rattle off a hundred unrelated words, recite long lists of fictional historical dates, and recall complicated sequences of playing cards.

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At 1 pm on Monday November 20, the Abbey's Company of Ringers will begin a complicated peal consisting of 5,070 changes or sequences, with the 70 a nod to the special anniversary.

or maybe it's something way more complicated, like trying to encrypt the fibonacci sequence in a series of coordinates.

The more complicated the route, the longer it took to work out the sequence of instruction blocks using trial and improvement.

The policy — in the form of first Office Actions on a series of applications for patents on expressed sequence tags, ESTs — could greatly complicate basic gene therapy research by substantially allowing patents for small sequences of a gene that may later be used by the patent holder to corner ownership and uses of entire genes.

«It provides our first clue in how to design sequences of laboratory proteins that can survive the essential but complicated folding process.»

Complicating matters further is the fact that, as the field matures, researchers need to collect and analyze sequences from multiple specimens to prove that their results are not based on the idiosyncrasies of a single sample.

If you think of a reaction as a sequence of many intermediate chemical rearrangements, the easy structural changes should happen quickly while more complicated rearrangements would be slower, because there's a higher energy barrier to making those changes.

That's true of nearly all eukaryotes, and the more complicated the organisms, the more of those sequences you have.

Cells take a number of complicated steps to translate their sequence of basic DNA building blocks into proteins, which then act as workhorses to carry out the vital functions of life.

«What this now means is that complicated effects like color correction, which in a conventional optical system would require light to pass through several thick lenses in sequence, can be achieved in one extremely thin, miniaturized device,» said principal investigator Federico Capasso, the Robert L. Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering at Harvard SEAS.

The humpback sings in complicated sequences the length of a concerto; the blue whale makes great moans; the fi n whale sends out pulses that divers used to think were the creaking of the ocean floor.

«Lung cancer care is complicated, and all key specialists must be actively engaged early on with each patient to determine the best sequence of tests and treatment for each individual,» said Dr. Osarogiagbon.

We note that Bonn — Oberkassel also falls in the same haplogroup5 (Supplementary Figs 6 and 7), although analysis of this sample is complicated by low mtDNA sequence coverage, pointing to some degree of matrilineal continuity in Europe over ∼ 10,000 years, ranging from the Late Palaeolithic to almost the entire Neolithic.

And they're just these beautiful, clever things where one card can let you run through this whole very complicated sequence with dozens of levers.

It operates on native DNA, without any of the reagents, dyes, and other complicating aspects of other sequencing technologies.

Without such data it is impossible to rule out the possibility that the ancient Australian sequences result from modern human contamination of the bone during handling over the years, complicated by DNA damage.

Removal of the garments (into several barrels) is a complicated process which must be performed in an exact sequence.

As Harry himself tells the goblin (Warwick Davis) in one of the series» quieter opening sequences, «it's complicated.»

And Stan impresses as a portrait of beta - male monstrousness; there's a complicated nasty «nice guy» character, a meek abuser, that might have interestingly been expanded upon here among the film's he - said, she - said comic abuse sequences in which Harding and Gillooly beat up on one another for broad laughs to the sound of 1970s pop music needledrops.

Simultaneously slight and over-explanatory, these sequences ultimately come across as unnecessary for filling in the back story of its leading man; Bomer's eyes convey so much about his character's complicated relationships with nurture and (literal) nature that the deflating speechifying of Pullman's scenes feel like a disservice to his commanding performance.

He reveals that Gary Oldman and Bill Paxton were also in the running for the part, and discusses how his fear of heights complicated shooting the helicopter sequence.

The use of digital mapping to «paint» Robbie's face on a stunt double for the more complicated skating sequences is distracting and fairly creepy, too; once you start noticing it, you can't stop.

Other topics arising: costumes (which included CGI armor), linguistics, fighting styles, production design, visual effects (from the unsettling depiction of X-ray vision), set pieces (the tornado sequence, Lois Lane's complicated single shot work escape), underwater filming, and filming locations.

Lost on me, I'm afraid, unless it's all an excuse for Liman to choreograph devilishly complicated sequences in which David teleports around his apartment for a bit before circumstance drives him back into the arms of his childhood sweetie to the tune of an anthem by The Fray.

Both mediums share the same overwrought and needlessly complicated story but they also have some of the most exciting fight scenes and chase sequences outside of a big budget martial arts film.

The plans are agreeably complicated and the action sequences busy (if not actually exciting), but the film becomes a tease for the concluding mini-Cooper chase, which, if you've seen the original Michael Caine The Italian Job, is in the rarefied air of one of the best car chases in movie history.

There is a sequence with a maid and a butler in the final third of the film that to some extent works as a comparison to the more complicated lives of the rich characters, but it feels tacked on and simplistic (if not condescending) relative to Renoir's film.

That director Peter Jackson was able to consistently sustain such a complicated — and, frankly, potentially dull — story over nearly 12 hours, juggling at least two - dozen characters over criss - crossing storylines and massive battle sequences, is something of a minor miracle.

Hiddleston juggles Loki's clashing motivations (the desire to rule, pent up hatred for Thor and Odin, his complicated parentage, a lingering love for Asgard he can't quite quell) with deft aplomb, and the screen sings when he finds himself in a reluctant team - up with Thor for a good chunk of acts two and three, culminating in a ripping action sequence based around invisible portals teleporting combatants from world to world and location to location that might be one of the best superhero action climaxes we've seen in years.

In comparison to other rhythm games (which often present a combination of complicated button sequences) the concept of Aaero is both incredibly basic and utterly engrossing: take hold of a spaceship and guide it across a predetermined path onto oncoming ribbons of light.

The combos are very reflective of the genre, with a mixture of simple and complicated button sequences required to execute, there's enough on offer that you can find out most of the combos by simply button mashing, whilst others require reading of the manual and practice.

Colors, in their variety, combinations and sequences, reference lived experiences from garishness to mysticism, and it is this range that is key to their depth of feeling... Compositions are built on simple layouts — diamonds intersecting cruciform shapes — but it is the complicating of these geometries through color that make the paintings happen.

Like the complicated sequences and simultaneity of Cunningham's dances where some dancers were engaged in plays of force with each other and some were acting in solo moments, «Vertical Intersection Blue» acts as a solitary form and «Folded Cross, Yellow - Gold» appears to be hunched, reflective, and yet social.

In the case of climate models, this is complicated by the fact that the time scales involved need to be long enough to average out the short - term noise, i.e. the chaotic sequences of «weather» events.

Near the close of the complicated case, one of the arbitrators indicated he was having trouble understanding the sequence of events.

This method could also be made more complicated by registering a sequence of fingerprints.

Having a complicated work history (one that has concurrent employment, short - term jobs, or gaps) is one reason to use a functional resume, because it downplays the sequence of events and throws the spotlight on the important stuff: your transferable skills.