Sentences with phrase «crescendos when»

Visually, it's really impressive for a small title, and the audio is just as good, with appropriate crescendos when enemies are near, and soothing music when the girl is visible.

What was shaping up to be an feisty but even contest soon reached a two - footed crescendo when Regan Poole recklessly went in with both feet off the floor.

After a frustrating start, it was such an expected breath of life, much like Roma's entire group stage campaign, which began with an excruciating 0 - 0 draw with Atletico then crescendoed when Roma put six past Chelsea in successive matches.

The activities of these miscreants came to a shocking crescendo when they assaulted a senior police officer ASP Nanka Bruce at the Flagstaff House of all places, while the latter was going about his normal duties.

The opposition reached a crescendo when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Thursday that he would not vote to confirm Boggs.

The evening hit a crescendo when, accepting the Cecil B. DeMille award, Oprah Winfrey brought the house down with a speech calling for the day when no woman would have to say «Me too»; Barbra Streisand expressed shock that she was the only woman to receive a Globe for best director, and even Thelma and Louise (Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon) were resurrected to announce one of the evening's top awards, perhaps to show how far the industry has, and has not, come since they drove off that cliff 27 years ago rather than return to their limited lives.

Those fears crescendoed when the school board voted one month before the May 16 election to support State Bill 808, which would have allowed school districts to close or reject charter schools if they could be considered a financial burden to the district, which has yet to decrease its staffing levels despite declining enrollment and is facing billions of dollars in unfunded pension liabilities and projected budget deficits.

Finally the speech ends, a loud music video thunders onto the screens and it all builds to a crescendo when a new car rolls onto stage.

Using a song writing technique of relying on a refrain of lyrics whose meaning changes over the course of the song, the performance rose to its crescendo when American dollar bills (or its facsimile) vomiting from the singers into the crowd who scooped them up, while the singers vocalized «confirm thy soul in self - control» providing a harsh contrast to the song's lofty ideals of brotherhood, beauty and abundance portrayed in the American patriotic song.

Last year, she was celebrated by the the Gordon Parks Foundation and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and the momentum hit a crescendo when she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in September 2013.

It reached a crescendo when global warming showed that even the most seemingly innocuous by - product of industrial civilization — CO2, the stuff of which plants depend — could produce a very different planet.

It all reached a crescendo when Levitt resigned his deanship March 17.

Not exact matches

The Weimar Republic's disastrous monetary policy and resulting hyperinflation following The Great War reached a crescendo in 1923 when a single U.S. dollar traded for 4.2 trillion German marks.

In 2002, when the articles and cartoons about the Catholic sex abuse crisis reached a crescendo?

The hope of the Christian rose to a crescendo during the bright days at the turn of the last century when it looked as if the ramparts of evil were beginning to be battered down.

After McIlroy's two majors last summer solidified his status as the game's top talent, the rivalry narrative started to crescendo this last month when Spieth joined the battle with that record - setting Masters win.

But it will be back when the two sides meet again later in the campaign and Dave Jones must hope that it also reaches a crescendo with the opening game of next season against Premier League opposition.

At Le Cirque with mother Matilda and sisters Maria Cuomo Cole and Margaret Cuomo, the governor told the crowd, «I'm not going to talk about my father, because when I talk about my father, I cry, and when I cry, my mother cries, and then it's a very bad crescendo of tears.»

When Michael Foot was leader, the internal drumbeat against him reached such a crescendo the party was forced to call a press conference in the middle of the 1983 election campaign simply to confirm to voters that he was still leader.

Although the peace in Plateau State was said to have been broken in 2001 by religious fanatics, the worrisome dimension rose to its crescendo with the activities of suspected Fulani herdsmen who, when they come, would kill, steal and destroy.

When Walker decides to visit his wife Lynne (who left him for his double - crosser), Boorman cuts between mirror shots of her and the stern - faced Walker pacing down an empty corridor, until his even footsteps form the percussion of a rising crescendo on the soundtrack.

I first discovered this crescendoing ode to the singer - songwriter Gabrielle Smith's insecurities when she sang it for NPR's Tiny Desk Concert series, a performance that's devastating in its emotional power (skip to 5:19).

And yet when I saw it at VIFF, the film's precisely calibrated crescendo effect hit with full force, building and building to a cathartic closing sequence that had the audience yawping at the screen and cheering with truly spontaneous joy.

Carter Burwell's wondrous score, which swells to a brilliant crescendo in the memorable climax, manages to elaborate on the story's emotional foundation even when words fail the two leads.

Tar traps slow and magma tiles burn, spike traps impale and archers perforate, and when conducted properly the trap symphony comes together in a comical crescendo of devilishly delivered death.

Rather than having a crescendo help us guess how long we have till the shock, we are left clueless as to when the alien is going to jump out at us.

And the voice that said seven was too young to sit formal tests crescendoed last year, when new, much tougher Sats were introduced to assess the new, much tougher primary curriculum.

Where the Caparo feels secure and builds its speed to a frantic crescendo, the Caterham's supercharger gives instant - hit blurring when you light the touchpaper.

When I say urgency I mean you can sense a deafening crescendo and a blinding turn of pace — keep your foot in and the Vanquish is a bit of an animal.

We wouldn't claim that the ruckus from the Pirelli P Zero directional tires sounds musical to such a person, but neither will it necessarily be disharmonious, especially when the amazing engine achieves a crescendo.

Regulated by valves controlled via the engine management, they handle all the elements of the big twelve - cylinder symphony — from a moderate rumble when rolling through the city at low revs to the screaming crescendo of maxed - out gear shifts.

The newly engineered exhaust system not only lowers back pressure, it also delivers all the music of the mighty twelve - cylinder engine - from a moderate rumble when rolling through the city at low revs to the screaming crescendo of gears spinning at top speed.

It is a great time to be an investor in some of the greatest companies in the world...... Significant market bottoms, when they finally occur, have less to do with fundamental economic and financial shifts than with crescendos of public panic.

Decided it would be a great idea to release some DLC for their 2 month old game right when the fall release crescendo begins.

Undoubtedly the fans» favorite — and who can disagree when we heard the crescendo of the Dark World theme?

Wave Hill's 50th anniversary festivities reach a crescendo this spring with a month - long celebration, when, for the first time in Wave Hill's history, visitors will be invited to attend in the evening to enjoy the garden landscape at a time of day and during a season when it is normally closed to the public.

Between abstract painting's mid -»70s Minimalist crescendo and the mid»80s, when proclamations that it had reached a dead end were rampant, abstraction, and painting in general, relinquished its status as the dominant mode of postwar American art.

The low visibility of Asian abstractionists until recently is due to the discrimination they faced during a moment when the craze for Asian concepts and aesthetics ironically crescendoed in the United States.

The cotton emerging from the body of the reconstructed piano alludes to the bursting crescendo of musical notes and the emotion that musicians express when they are playing the piano.

The idea that painting can save your life crescendos in a deeply moving installation, one in which you grasp the dilemma of being a young German painter at a time when your language is anathema, your parents are outcasts, and your country is hated.

The fact that I can not go buy Lawn Darts is an example of the crescendo of this, when a lot of similarly ridiculous «codes» were passed.

It would have exposed a culture of violence and retribution within the National Hockey League that reached a crescendo on that March night more than 10 years ago when Todd Bertuzzi blindsided Moore with a punch to the head and then drove his face into the ice.

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The song's early notes played without any issue, but when the track moved to crescendo — when the music built up to a triumphant combination of vocals, strings and brass — the whole ensemble sounded muddy and diluted.

Privatization mania reached a crescendo in late November when Blackstone Group, the largest buyout fund in the world, offered to pay $ 20 billion for Equity Office Properties Trust (NYSE: EOP), the nation's largest office landlord with a $ 25...