Sentences with phrase «fluid as a river»

The refining of my beliefs is as fluid as a river bank through bottomland.

They let Jyl work with the skinning knife, showed her how to separate the muscles lengthwise with her fingers before cutting them free of the skeleton, and the quartered ham and shoulder — the backstrap unscrolling beneath the urging of her knife, the meat as dense as stone, it seemed, yet as fluid as a river, and so beautiful in that sunlight, maroon to nearly purple, nearly iridescent in its richness, and in the absence of any intramuscular fat.

Not exact matches

The one - percenters are ALWAYS looking for a place to recreate the era when U.S. citizens (many of them immigrants) worked like slaves on building railroads, when women were crammed like sardines into sweatshops in lower Manhattan, when mills and tanneries dumped toxic fluids into rivers and streams as they pleased.

Fracking has already drawn considerable scrutiny from environmental groups, unhappy homeowners, and teams of lawyers who blame the drilling method for polluting pristine rivers, turning bucolic farmlands into noisy industrial zones, and leaking enough methane to make ordinary tap water as flammable as lighter fluid.

In ordinary fluids, energy flows differently depending on whether the fluid is flowing on a flat 2 - D surface or in a deeper body, such as a river.

Fluid camera work lays out the tactical picture, as mounted Arikara (or «Ree») warriors encircle the trappers on a river bank, while inside their perimeter sudden death arrives with the swoosh of an arrow or the thunk of a flying axe.

Meanders develop as the river crosses the Atlantic, as they do in any fluid or gas passing through a uniform medium.