Sentences with phrase «dark streak»

The exhibition highlights the frightening and fascinating dark streak that imbues Sherman's entire oeuvre.

Abigail plays video games or helps her father Pierre in his store during the day, but has a dark streak at night with her interest in the occult.

I'm not sure if the Ghost Rider is the darkest hero per se, but he's definitely got a dark streak running through him.

Though you wouldn't necessarily know it from his script writing work - work, it should be said, that has garnered multiple Oscars - those who know Denmark's Anders Thomas Jensen's directorial work already know that there's a deliciously dark streak...

Wilder, best known for his energetic urbane comedies, also went through a dark streak.

This one is Charles Foster Kane, only sweet and self - made and without the domineering dark streak.

He was frighteningly convincing as a seemingly regular Joe with a wicked dark streak in Mr. Brooks, and he's not without charm in Good Luck Chuck or his previous lead outing, the similarly ill - fated Employee of the Month.

«Rushmore» is an amusing film with an undeniably dark streak.

Problem was I had a very persistent dark streak.

Remember those dark streaks NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted running down canyons and hillsides on the red planet?

A team of scientists from the University of Arizona looked more closely into those dark streaks called «recu...

That said, various research teams are still suggesting different ways to look at them more closely, including recreating the dark streaks here on Earth or sending over gliders to look at them from above.

A team of scientists from the University of Arizona looked more closely into those dark streaks called «recurrent slope linae» or RSL in an effort to figure out their origin.

The RSL are dark streaks on the slopes of some Martian hillsides that form during warmer months and fade in winter.

If these dark streaks are flowing water, microbes could possibly live there, although life would be unlikely to originate in such a harsh environment, says Peter Smith of the University of Arizona in Tucson, who led NASA's Phoenix lander mission on Mars.

Recurring dark streaks — possible seasonal water seeps — may be off limits for NASA's Curiosity rover.

In the coming years, as the rover trundles up the side of Aeolis Mons, it will pass rocks that, seen from orbit, seem to host mysteriously intermittent dark streaks — perhaps marking seasonal water seeps.

Since 2011, scientists have wondered about the hundreds of dark streaks that appear seasonally on steep slopes on Mars.

They are dark streaks running down the sides of Martian valleys, spreading and drying up, and they seem an awful lot like the result of flowing water.

«We found the hydrated salts only when the seasonal features were widest, which suggests that either the dark streaks themselves or a process that forms them is the source of the hydration.

Then again, recent observations from orbiters have revealed mysterious dark streaks that seasonally flow down the sunlit sides of some Martian hillsides and craters.

SALT STORY Seasonal water flows might have created dark streaks on Mars» slopes, as seen in this computer - generated view of Hale Crater.

The evidence comes from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which captured images of thin, dark streaks — quite likely soil — creeping down several slopes during Mars's spring and summer (see sequence at right).

The dark streaks, which are several miles long and appear to be aligned, are similarly unexplained at the moment.

The engimatic region — which the mission team is calling «Sputnik Planum,» after the satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1957 — also features isolated hills of uncertain height, mysterious pitted terrain and dark streaks of material that may have been deposited by Plutonian winds.

NASA scientists have found a key indicator of water on Mars: salts in the mysterious dark streaks that paint the slopes of the Red Planet each summer.

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter found evidence that flowing water causes suspicious dark streaks on the Red Planet

The chemicals appear in the summer, when the dark streaks are visible, and disappear along with the features when temperatures drop.

The dark streaks with bright margins emanating from craters in the Oxie Palus region, upper left of image, are caused by erosion and / or deposition by the wind.

Dark streaks, possibly fractures, traverse the pit.

Dark streaks identified in dozens of locations on the surface of Mars appear to hold water, but not very much, according to an analysis of data from NASA's Mars Odyssey mission.

The dark streaks have been identified at dozens of sites on the Martian surface.

RSL appear as dark streaks on certain Martian slopes, and appear to change with the seasons.

This came out as salon hair gel (brown with dark streaks) or a topping for bananas flambé.

This will prevent tanner from settling in the lines and creating dark streaks.

Unlike you, I'm not a navy fan (but that depends on hair and skin colour)-- I'd definitely go for the slate as my hair is silver with dark streaks now.

While the dark streaks are unsightly, experts tell our team that the greatest danger to the roof is from moisture retention or root damage that algae and other life forms can cause.

The desk top would have been a good candidate for keeping natural, but it did not want to give up its good number of unsightly dark streaks and splatters even upon sanding.

The sapwood of walnut is creamy white, while the heartwood is light brown to dark chocolate brown, occasionally with a purplish cast and darker streaks.

Not exact matches

State TV repeatedly aired video footage of the beginning of the attack Monday, showing several missiles streaking across a dark night sky.

Bake it for 12 to 15 minutes, until it's nicely golden with dark brown cinnamon streaks; the center should register 200 °F (or 93 °C) on a digital thermometer.

Before you think I've been possessed by dark spirits (what with all these Gothic - looking posts), let me assure you, that this freaky streak reflects nothing more than my soft spot for Halloween.

The sky is streaked with sunshine and dark clouds, single rays beaming out across the shades of grey.

Using a spatula, marble syrup throughout cream, creating dark pink streaks rather than a solid pink cream.

Around his family Sloan rarely showed the aggressive streak so evident on the court, but there were dark places in his soul, and he medicated himself with hops and nicotine.

The Dark Blues now look to continue their 3 game win streak at home and avenge a 4 - 2 loss to Cambridge at the start of the season.

If your washer is not cleaned regularly, you may even begin to see white streaks or powdery white residue left on dark clothes.

Stretch marks — those dark red or purple streaks that can develop on your stomach, thighs, breasts, arms and buttocks and that make wearing a bathing suit of any kind such a trial — are a common complaint of pregnant women during their last trimester, according to the Mayo Clinic.

While he was helping my middle son into his pajamas, I looked over to see 4 very dark red, bloody streaks down at least half of his back.

Because the dark sand streaks are superposed upon the bright frost, these streaks can only be as old as the frost — hence, not more than 11 months old.