Sentences with phrase «dying gasps»

The game is over, and what we're seeing now is the dying gasps of NY publishing's old ways.

As one half of the duo behind John Wick, a film of whose distillations Jean - Pierre Melville would be proud, Leitch seemed well - appointed for an action - fuelled romp through the dying gasps of the Cold War.

There are more than a thousand known planetary nebulae, and few have the simple, spherical shape that would be expected from a solitary star expelling its outer layers in dying gasps.

The Christian sects and cults that celebrate selfishness and greed («name it and claim it») or propagate divisiveness between people are, hopefully, the last dying gasps of the established organized religions.

The last dying gasps he says.

What we are seeing in the 2016 presidential election, therefore, may be the last, dying gasp of protectionism.

I remember how my wife died gasping for air in a New York tenement owned by a member of a church.

It is a hellish book whittled down to the bone: 176 pages, every one of them like a dying gasp.

The mediocre Galaxy Tab 4 Nook is a last - ditch, dying gasp from two giant corporations that should know better.

The show seems a kind of dying gasp for New York's role as the presumed centre of the art world, hinted at here by the inclusion of artists like Jason Rhoades from Los Angeles and Sarah Lucas and Gillian Wearing from London.

Not exact matches

What some call postmodern is an already - dated expression of the last gasps of modernity, an ultramodern phase in its dying throes.

When Richard was 16, his father «woke up gasping on a Saturday morning and died before he could get out of bed.»

When he gasps his last breath and breathes out (expires), he dies; his personal being disintegrates, leaving no living «soul» to depart from the body and live elsewhere.

I've been dying to open up a nice bottle of red wine, but haven't for fear I would have to (gasp) drink it all.

Together they played out a well - contested match that was won in fitting United fashion with a last - gasp finishing strike by Varela in the dying seconds of the game after Spurs had pulled the scoreline back after the hosts ran up an early lead through a midfield thunderbolt from Love and a predatory finish from Pereira.

Scientists still don't know exactly why some babies die without explanation, but recent research points to the possibility of brain stem abnormalities that prevent some babies from being able to rouse from sleep and gasp for air when their blood oxygen levels are too low.

These fluorescent clouds of gas represent the last gasp of dying, sunlike stars.

When a star dies, its final gasps can trigger the most powerful blasts of energy in the universe.

You want to be breathing heavy but not feeling like your gasping for air and gonna die.

VIOLENCE / GORE 4 - A frog king coughs and gasps several times before dying dramatically, and during one gasping episode a fly flies out of its mouth and lands on its open eyeball.

► Two men carjack a car with a woman in it; another man shoots the car as it speeds by striking the driver and the car crashes into a fire hydrant, the woman stumbles out of the car and runs away, one of the men in the car stumbles out shooting and he is shot in the back and then again at close range (we see bloody wounds) while the driver of the car is shown gasping and spitting blood with a bloody wound on his neck and head (he dies); we see a video of this incident several times.

The idea that dying children in Africa or (gasp) Catholics won't be cast to the fires simply for not signing up for the «true» faith isn't all that liberal.

As a story, it's an interesting idea, but very poorly conceived characters and situations galore take the legs out from under the screenplay and the film flops around like a fish on dry land, gasping desperately for life before ultimately dying a painful and pathetic death about a half hour before the film's too - long - in - coming ending.

Be born then, gasp wind, screech at the surgeon's slap, seek manhood, taste a little godhood, feel pain, give birth, struggle a little while, succumb: (Dying, leave quietly by the rear exit, please.)

Bond Girls are so glamorous, and they die so horribly, tripping on their high heels with a gasp of «James!»

It was seen as the last gasp of a dying mammal washed ashore by a particularly arch digital wave.

Once your pet has died, you might observe involuntary muscle contractions or respiratory gasps about one or two minutes after the loss of consciousness and circulation.

It's hard to imagine holding a two and a half year old female cat in your arms gasping for air until she dies from congestive heart failure.

Nanamo's assassination by poison — gasping, choking for air, for dear life; as her and the dreams she has for her people die violently and then fall to the floor — has so much presence it can almost be touched.

It's also a misleading opinion, because I'm definitely not referring to the part where servers gasped and puked and died under the immense strain of

Nothing more than the last desperate gasp from a dying industrial farming system frantically trying to justify itself.

The last gasp of a dying fossil fuel industry.

Science plays no role in these computations, only echoes of a dying breed of climate warriors, gasping, choking on their own words, eyes strained for a vision of death and destruction, not evident.

The release this week of the Montreal Economic Institute's telecommunications report has the feel of a last gasp for a dying argument about the state of Canadian wireless.