Sentences with phrase «faced walls of water»

Called rogues or freaks, such waves are the stuff of mariners» nightmares — towering, steep - faced walls of water that weigh millions of tons.

Not exact matches

I don't think that point of view holds water, but the fact that it's put forward with a straight face makes it pretty unsurprising that a small handful of Wall Street types are going to cling to the notion.

While the children of Flint, Michigan face the danger of lead in their water, it is old lead paint on the walls of area homes that puts our children at risk.

These reactors could face extraordinary challenges, such as the recent twin blows of a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, which knocked out connections to the local power grid, followed by a wall of water that destroyed the fuel tanks for backup diesel generators and flooded critical electrical equipment, crippling the boiling - water reactors at Fukushima Daiichi in Japan.

A few days after Poole arrives, a water stain appears on the stucco wall of his home and nosy neighbor Esperanza (Adriana Barraza, of «Babel») sees the face of Jesus in it.

Frustrated former owners facing eviction have destroyed plumbing and electrical systems, ripped out carpeting, punched holes in walls and stripped homes of kitchen appliances, light fixtures and water heaters.

If you stay inside the walls of the fort, try to get a guest room facing the water.

Many beachfront villas simply face the water, but the great room of this penthouse features a glass wall that slides back on two sides to give you even wider views of the beach.

Guests enter through a set of traditional double Balinese doors opening onto a Aling Aling wall behind which is a small fish pond with a Barong face water feature.

In face these walls are used far to often, sometimes even to stop you jumping up to a little crate and it makes the world feel much more linear than it looks and some unconvincing water also drags you out of the experience.

Creatures When dropping Toki in a nest, birds now have a «cooldown», so they won't instantly pick you up again when walking out of the nest Birds don't stop anymore when they sense vibration, making them less annoying when accidentically stomping near them No more random sorting of creatures: they all appear on their assigned depth value, preventing smaller creatures from sometimes getting lost behind bigger creatures Fixed the «spawning multiple camera birds» bug Slug corpses can't kill anymore, so no more accidentally walking into them and dying Bugs When stomped, berrybugs and copybugs now always hop the same distance (3 tiles), making their behavior more predictible Berrybugs now briefly stop if they detect an edge above their heads while walking on the floor, making it easier to stomp them onto a wall Copybugs and berrybugs get stunned when they're in the trajectory of a to be spawned bubble, so they can't hop / roll away before bubble is spawned Glowy berrybugs now use the same turn animation as normal berrybugs, so no more faster glow bugs Frogs and bubbles Bubbles now prioritize Toki Tori over other entities, so no more accidental berrybug ballooning Added a small delay before catching an entity in a bubble to allow for catching Toki Tori, even if he's a little further away than an entity Added possibility to queue a «turn by whistle» while the frog is running towards a berrybug, so you don't have to wait before being able to let the frog face the desired direction Fixed a problem where a fat frog won't belch anymore Achievements In - menu achievements system, including progress achievements Added a number of new achievements Tokidex completion is now a progress achievement (you can see how far along you are) Fixed the Fried Chicken achievement, so it's less hard to get All electrocuted entities now count for the X-Ray Enthusiast achievement Menu Completely new, streamlined and fast to access menu system Ability to set language from menu New font Graphics Improved presentation of telepathic Ancient Frog messages, fixed a problem where sometimes they'd spawn multiple times Fixed black flickering when buttonbashing during fades and level transitions Screenfades are now 100 % black Added button prompts to the first time you need to use whistle and stomp Areas and puzzles Added l - ife area for Ife < 3 Added an extra landing stone in the wasteland area Added more snow globes: — RRB - Water mountain approach: berrybug in the «pro» puzzle can no longer be lost Water mountain top: frog for Ancient Frog puzzle now starts bloated, added light to make «pro» puzzle easier to execute Shaft top: Small tweak to make sure berrybug isn't killed by the slugs midway through the level Water cave: made the light shaft where you need to whistle the hermit crab a bit wider, created hole for frogs at end of level to prevent them from falling down, made some «pro» puzzles a bit more forgiving Dark forest: lowered warp when entering dark area, so it's easier to travel up with a bubble Lava cave: improved bat puzzle Meadow: made some pro puzzles less difficult Hideout: removed alternative solution for Ancient Frog puzzle Descent: made it easier to pick up fat frog at beginning

To the right of the bubble building (while facing it in the water), look for a hole in the wall with a hat door.

Destroy walls, freeze water, build bridges and lay explosives, changing the face of the battlefield to your advantage!

, (1987), a black ink painting showing a lone surfer cutting his line across the face of a towering wall of water; above this scene floats the artist's seemingly rhetorical question.

And in response to its prime waterfront location, this modern villa puts all the home's principal rooms — the bedroom, master bath, living area, dining room and kitchen — alongside a floor to ceiling glass wall that overlooks the verandah, extending the entire south face of the house with the water just beyond and always within sight.