Sentences with phrase «crackle with»

Ivory crackle (subtle crackle with no stain) ceramic body and antique brass metal components with an off - white fabric drum shade

When Max rides into the sandstorm, lightning bolts crackle with fierce luminance, fiery exhausts lighting up the electric gloom.

Instead, Wu's pieces crackle with the presence of history and the obscure mysteries that lie within them.

The resulting images evoke mysterious nocturnal landscapes that crackle with a strange electricity.

The artworks crackle with movement fittingly — Gonzales is a dancer, in the tradition of Merce Cunningham or Trisha Brown, but on wheels.

The large - scale paintings crackle with energy and expressiveness and are saturated with information and color.

Beginning with his lushly confrontational Afrocentric Pop paintings in the 1990s, Ofili's vision grew exponentially: Constant experiments with subject, materials, color, and style make his canvases crackle with rare electricity.

It makes the worlds come alive and the sparkle of force lightning crackle with power.

The wonderfully named Wild Hog Engine was meant for the PC, sure, but that doesn't stop the game looking really very good on console; the city itself, although deserted, still feels alive, as flying transports loom overhead and billboards crackle with advertisements for... well, something.

Exploring the Deadfire Archipelago feels exciting, party management and character advancement are rewarding, and the story and setting crackle with possibilities.

Lourdes flips tin at the cop standing guard and ducks under the tape, not liking the way her trousers crackle with the bend.

It seems counter-intuitive, but Sport mode smooths things out in town, while on mountain roads it makes the A3 crackle with energy.

It doesn't crackle with the venom of the old K - series, but it still sends sharp stabs of rage from the side - exit exhaust when you blip the throttle, and the noise is still pure race car.

Only when I let out the clutch and bring the revs up beyond 3000 rpm does the humble Subaru engine start to crackle with enthusiasm for its new role.

These contraptions, which go by brand names like SMART Boards and Promethean ActivBoards and cost about $ 5,000 a pop, are giant computerized screens that crackle with video, audio, and Internet connectivity.

He as incredible as ever, and while the movie doesn't offer him anything particularly difficult to do, the actor makes his moments crackle with an invigorating electricity that's practically impossible to resist.

But too often, bits get beaten into the ground repeatedly or they drag on way too long when they didn't exactly crackle with life in the first place.

We see the ripples through his home life, as his spouse (the heartbreakingly good Tuva Novotny) deals with the unruly behaviour of their youngest son; we see the legal ramifications in courtroom exchanges that crackle with quiet suspense; and we see the positive benefits it has for his squad.

Movies like Nebraska, About Schmidt, and Sideways are not always easy on their characters, but they sometimes crackle with lightning bolts of insight.

Schoenaerts and Mulligan's exchanges crackle with chemistry, while Sheen is quietly devastating as the surprisingly sympathetic Boldwood, barely saying a word while his beard oozes heartbreak.

We are frequently subjected to ten minute blocks of drama without a single spoken line, whilst other scenes crackle with sharply written dialogue.

is the 1959 Broadway musical reimagined for TV, then given extra crackle with a live presentation.

Their dialogue - heavy scenes in Jaffey's office crackle with electricity as they trade barbed lines, each trying to get the better of the other.

The scenes Rance and Doniphon have together fairly crackle with underlying but readily apparent emotions — Rance's envy of Doniphon's ease and confidence even as he despises the violence that backs it up, and in turn Doniphon's distaste for Rance's «tenderfoot» mentality but reluctant admiration for his ultimate goals.

The director's objets d'art crackle with a palpable sense of realism and temporal immediacy.

Well probably the only thing for this reviewer were the fight scenes which crackle with realism, vigour and fluidity meaning there is none of the fast editing / shakycam technique that has become the signature style of Hollywood action films since the success of the Bourne franchise.

The film looks good for the age, not amazing, but the photography was never meant to be crystal clear, so the soft focus stuff looks good, but doesn't crackle with the same authority as some films of the period.

The scenes between them crackle with tension, animosity and a strange attraction.

Mercifully, a few scenes crackle with life — particularly the ones featuring Hamm and Keener as siblings who still bicker and tease each other as if they were teenagers.

The dialogue is often witty, but it doesn't crackle with the kind of comedic energy that Craig Roberts brings to the running internal commentary.

Obviously the novelty of an animatronic Chucky has been winnowed away but Brad Dourif's vinegary Jack Nicholson vocals still crackle with ire.

Her scenes with Hall crackle with tension.

In a normal brain, the neurons of the central thalamus crackle with electrical activity when we struggle to pay attention to the world around us, and they accelerate their action as we emerge from sleep.

Forget about infinitesimal error rates like one in a trillion; the transistors in Neurogrid will crackle with noise, misfiring at rates as high as 1 in 10.

Every time a picture of a face flashed on the screen, neurons in the middle face patch would crackle with electrical activity.

They even birthed specialized neurons that crackle with electrical activity and form circuits.

«Jupiter's belts crackle with lightning, and only water can make thunderstorms,» Del Genio insists.

As a result, next week's conference could crackle with ideas and alternatives in a manner that no Labour conference has done since the mid-1980s, when Neil Kinnock began to take on the Bennites and the entryists.

PLATTSBURGH — A quiet side street in the town of Plattsburgh continues to crackle with tension as homeowners await the construction of a controversial supportive housing complex in their backyards.

It is getting on toward 1:40 p.m., and the walkie - talkie radios begin to crackle with the news that the leading team is near.

The Cubs get to go back to Wrigley Field, which will crackle with an energy that might open a trans - dimensional gateway.

His words crackle with a telling contemporary ring.

Then his eyes crackle with energy and he displays a penetrating clarity (not to mention a refreshing absence of CEO pablum).

It is frequently remarked that the face of the pro-life movement is a youthful one, and that the March crackles with adolescent and child energy like no other demonstration of our day.

No serious attempt is being made by anyone to ban all guns, yet NRA literature crackles with salvos against gun - banners.

Since it was largely on the basis of intrasquad performances that the 13 youngsters who eventually made the 1965 team were selected, the air crackled with energy.

Body searing and crackling with pain underneath his pads — he's worked so hard to be here.

They agreed and piled onto the couch with me their air crackling with anticipation worthy of a world premier.

It was the last school day before Thanksgiving, and Traughber Junior High's lunchroom crackled with adolescent energy and anticipation of a holiday break starting in just a few hours.

David Cameron saw attack as the best form of defending William Hague in a PMQs crackling with tension over the fate of two foreign secretaries.