Sentences with phrase «from puny»

It took me around 15 runs at the first stage to hit the required targets, with each run becoming easier as any perk unlocked is permanent adding a feeling of progression to your little emplacement; turning it from a puny little one man dugout into a rocket - equipped death bunker dealing out thousands of rounds per minute.

These include ClearAudio +, which is all about an enriching audio experience and a far cry from the puny speakers found on most tablet PCs or laptops.

That's a far cry from the base model with only 300 hp coming from its puny V6.

This is a big cinematic story woven from the puny, ineffectual moments of daily life, and a domestic drama about working - class Americans.

Professional cyclist legs are far from puny.

Not exact matches

Adding insult to injury, the puny effective tax saving to those tax - filers from the capital gains partial inclusion (worth $ 7.50 in federal taxes at the 15 % marginal rate) was only half the effective savings pocketed by the top 1 % tax - filers (realized at a 29 % rate) on EACH $ 100 of their capital gains partial inclusion (which was then applied against a capital gains flow that was 600 times larger).

What puny powers and bloodless hearts your creatures would bring to you were they to cut themselves off prematurely from the providential setting in which you have placed them!

To reject this idol may often involve falling back upon skepticism, but sometimes one seems fleetingly to be enabled to reject the idol in the name of a Being who really is Another, who requires one to stop putting words into His mouth, who has the predictable disconcerting quality of the God of the New Testament, who directs one's attention away from oneself, who is relaxed where the idol is grim and immensely awe - inspiring where the idol is puny.

HeavenSent — those of us who minions of Satan are exempt from CNN's puny filters.

What God waits for in Naaman is the fitful progress of a transformation under way in Naaman even before he sets foot on the soil of Samaria or in the puny Jordan — a slender opening, first apparent when the great warrior takes advice from women and (how could it have been otherwise?)

So the puny little creatures got so smart and proved to themselves that their evolved from monkeys!

It is the result of nothing but an invincible blindness from which we suffer, an insensibility to the inner significance of alien lives, and a conceit that would project our own incapacity into the vast cosmos, and measure the wants of the Absolute by our own puny needs.

How much more, then, when the means of the penetration of man's otherwise impregnable little fortress - tomb, the tiny, sealed capsule of his puny life, is a Word - the Word» How totally impossible to describe the process initiated and executed from Without, by Another, himself quite unseen, or rather seen only in the limited form of a particular function, or to explain the breaking of the walls of the fortress - tomb, and the granting of a kind of release from the capsule!

Getting match fit from injury isn't a couple day thing... His age hasn't helped in his recovery time, it is a scientific fact that as we get older it takes our bodies longer to repair, science rules your puny opinion!

Fast, fast, fast relief from pain and puny performances is on the way, thanks to Dr. Richard Kaufman and MORA, the mouthpiece for athletes suffering from TMJ distress

Though puny of frame, not a few perceive him as the human equivalent of the belching battle tank, firing from all cylinders; and mowing down whoever is on its way.

Even though the star GJ 1214 is a puny red dwarf, it would still look 17 times larger from GJ 1214 b than the sun does in our sky.

IDing crooks from the DNA in their fingerprints, the 8 percent of our genome that came from viruses, and the plant that laughs at our puny genetic endowment.

A sperm whale has this puny lower jaw, but it eats a huge variety of prey, from little bitty lantern fish about the size of a pocketknife to giant squid as long as a school bus.

Aside from the naggingly persistent visual motif of huge vehicles (planes, ships) dwarfing puny humans in shadow (Roger Deakins's cinematography is sadly prosaic), Unbroken's chief misstep is taking its title too literally, and ultimately depicting Louie as an indestructible — and thus largely inhuman — superhero.

The narrative takeaway from all this eye - popping activity turns out to be rather puny: In winning the fistfight, Bond secures his opponent's ring, engraved with a telling insignia.

Today I'm having fun repurposing her bitchy dialogue from August: Osage County and pretending its mockery of her fellow nominees and their (comparatively) puny Oscar histories.

The puny little Earthlings quickly discover their fancy fission cannons and laser blasters are no match for the bigger, better and badder invaders from outer space.

Black coloured door handles and rear view mirrors, steel wheels and puny tires are some of the features differentiating the Indian Polo from its International counterpart.

All My Puny Sorrows is the latest novel from Miriam Toews, one of Canada's most beloved authors — not only because her work is rich with deep human feeling and compassion but because her observations are knife - sharp and her books wickedly funny.

All My Puny Sorrows takes its title from a line in a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 — 1834), who is considered by many to be the founder of the Romantic Movement in poetry.

If you're an iPhone user who's feeling their handset's a bit puny in comparison, this is the best time to make the switch from iOS to Google — though it's still nowhere near as intuitive to use.

Lace quizzes Harley on his schoolwork in the basement, Dooley pounds up the stairs, Puny cleans with her twins underfoot, Violet the cat balefully eyes Barnabas from atop the refrigerator.

Everything about the Fire tablet is low - end, from the non-HD 1,024 x 600 resolution 7 - inch screen to the sluggish 1.3 GHz quad - core processor with 1 GB of RAM to the 8 GB of internal storage (expandable via microSD to 128 GB) to the puny 2 - megapixel back camera and VGA front - facing camera.

While these pests might be puny, their effects can be massive in their transmission of diseases from typhus to Bartonella or tapeworm and more.

There's something so pleasurable about the sheer amount of dice that Fleet Battles typically has you handling at any one time, and I was engrossed in figuring out the best firing solutions for my battlegroups before inevitably being forced to watch as my puny plans were ruined by a devastating barrage of fire from a Covenant group I'd foolishly let get too close.

Since 1992's SimCity, people have enjoyed playing god, watching over their puny people's lives from the day they're created right up into their death — which is usually burning in a ring of cheap ovens...

The other nominees in this category were SIMULACRA by Kaigan Games from Malaysia, Past Cure by Phantom 8 Studio from Germany and Skye by Puny Astronaut from Scotland.

Also nominated in this category were Pets Race, a multi-player racing game where the characters are cute animals, by Kooapps from the United States; Drawing for Kids, a game that uses animation to encourage children to explore drawing, developed by Bini Bambini of the Ukraine; and Skye by Puny Astronaut of Scotland.

Rather than following the typical formula of «beat a boss and steal its weapon,» Mighty Gunvolt Burst unlocks all the different weapon types from the beginning, but they're all fairly puny to start out.

While the SNES Classic's 5 - foot controller cables are about 2 feet longer than those of the NES Classic, they still were way too puny for me to enjoy the system from my couch.

I tend to stay away from such puny creatures unless I really have to.

As you progress, you'll face increasingly tough challenges, from a few puny humans trying in vain to defend their settlements, to huge battleships and clashes with other gigantic kaiju.

Seen from one bridge, a giant Ai Weiwei tree installed on the Turbine Hall mezzanine looked puny.

If periods of horrific volcanic activity and horrendous meteor strikes barely budged global temperature from its cyclic course of transitions between Ice Ages and Warm Periods, man's puny efforts are surely lost in the noise.

You had a whole 16 bits, not the puny 12 from Digital.

There's not a word in the docs from Heartland that show anything other than a desire to use their puny budget to most effectively present real science to counter this profoundly stupid attack on the molecule upon which all life is built.

System Bolaget had the (perhaps - puny goal) of getting one percent of its sales in 2007 from organic alcohol.

None of the PHEV offerings from BMW, Mercedes - Benz, or Volvo start lower than $ 64,000 and all have puny EV ranges.

Zero is a puny techy and must you is more seemingly to be no longer a tech knowledgeable, please stay a long way from doing this or else you would possibly maybe lose your private data or disaster the plan.

One thing that doesn't need too much tweaking is the One's front - facing camera, which uses the same 88 - degree lens we're accustomed to from our time with the Droid DNA and the Windows Phone 8X: the wide - angle lens mated to the 2MP sensor has made us quite popular at parties full of people with comparatively puny self - portrait cameras.

That puny price tag includes a $ 20 instant rebate from the prepaid carrier plus a $ 60 mail - in rebate.

The one vertical and two diagonal boards that stretch from the thick horizontal beam up to the ceiling are permanent, but they will be cased out so that they don't look as puny as they do right now.