Sentences with phrase «hurtling by»

Locals treat the road like a village square, crossing slowly and stopping for a chat with neighbors and friends, disregarding the motorbikes and other vehicles hurtling by.

Watching the traffic hurtling by I took comfort in the thought that many had crossed this way.

Therefore, this suggests that Proxima may have been born elsewhere in space and captured by the binary as it hurtled by, resulting in an unstable orbit.

We hurtled by without skidding, and under hard acceleration the GTS's 365 - hp, 2.5 - liter turbo four barked about the acorns.

There was a footbridge that crossed over the track and we would spend quite some time leaning over watching the trains hurtle by underneath.

Not exact matches

Musk, proponent of hurtling people at 1,000 kilometres per hour through tubes powered by air pressure, has little time for common sense.

The rollout of hurtling 5G speeds — amid an ever - crowding mobile landscape and a burgeoning Internet of Things — has been hotly anticipated by tech companies and consumers alike.

He experienced, in rapid succession, blows of the sort that can send a disturbed, isolated young man hurtling into a spiral of instability: forced to move out of his lifelong home, spurned by a girlfriend, bounced from school to school, then suddenly losing his mother, his closest companion, to a fatal illness.

I heard of a woman today who got attacked by a dog, climbed a telephone pole, fell out of a tree, was yelled at by a police officer on a 911 call, got patched in to the State Police in New York, was almost arrested and sent to jail, trespassed on several people's property, hurtled fences and hedges in a mad dash through a neighborhood, and even convinced a former mayor of our town to call in some favors to the local power company.

Rather, we are on a spaceship hurtling into the unknown, just like the solitary passenger in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey after he had tried to regain control by dismantling his spaceship's computer.

In 1986 Petty gave some telling advice to the young Bill Elliott, who was hurtling into stardom but was baffled by the limelight.

It is led by a microscopic 5 foot 9 guard, Larry («Call me Sweet Larry») Armstrong, who hurtles so fast and cuts so sharply that he wears a pair of gym shoes to tatters in two weeks.

(Not quite done chewing, we're back in the Rover and hurtling back to the Broncos» practice facility, followed by a ghost - white photo crew.)

Possession was stolen from one of the Arsenal players by a nifty little midfield terrier, who came hurtling on to the pitch during the second half.

It was nearly 10 years ago that our lives were forever changed when two fuel - laden passenger jets, hijacked by terrorists, hurtled into the World Trade Center.

And Cambridge Analytica is one point of focus through which we can see all these relationships in play; it also reveals the elephant in the room as we hurtle into a general election: Britain tying its future to an America that is being remade - in a radical and alarming way - by Trump.

Interviews and previously undisclosed documents obtained by The New York Times provide new details and a fresh understanding of how the seemingly routine police encounter that ended in Garner's death began, how it hurtled toward its deadly conclusion and how the police and emergency medical workers responded.

The dangers of hurtling towards the centre ground of politics, defined by other parties and in defiance of what we as a movement stand for, are plain to see — and there will be further discussion on this overall strategy on these pages.

The scientists decided to make a parody of a trailer for a Star Wars movie, but instead of showing starship cruisers hurtling through space towards the Death Star, they chose a biological process with its own built - in narrative: the fertilization of an egg by a sperm, in which millions of sperm race to be the one that succeeds and creates the next generation of life.

The bubble in question is actually a field of magnetic plasma, and the bigger this field gets, the faster it will travel, powered by solar winds made of particles hurtling from the sun at a million miles per hour.

It could have been ejected by a collision during planet formation, sent hurtling free of the star's gravitational grasp approximately 40 million years ago.

New analysis of satellite data, reported today in Science, shows that deforestation on the island is hurtling on faster even than a pessimistic projection made by the World Bank 2 years ago.

By precisely locating the same stars in Andromeda in 2002 and then again in 2010, astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore have calculated how the galaxy has moved against the background of deep space — confirming that the galaxy's sideways motion is but a fraction of the speed at which it's hurtling toward the Milky Way.

Sagittarius A *'s immense gravity is accelerating the cloud dramatically: in 2004, the cloud was hurtling toward the black hole at 1200 kilometers per second; by 2011, the speed had nearly doubled, reaching 2350 kilometers per second.

When two black holes collided some 1.3 billion years ago, the joining of those two great masses sent forth a wobble that hurtled through space and arrived at Earth on September 14, 2015, when it was picked up by sophisticated instruments, researchers announced.

I was unnerved by the hurtling strangeness of the Philadelphia scenes, and I say this as someone who has sat through such war - of - the - worlds extravaganzas as «The Avengers» and the new Superman movie, «Man of Steel,» without feeling so much as a tingle.

That arrangement sets the pieces in motion for a riotous buddy comedy in which the duo capture plenty of bounty before hurtling toward their final target, wealthy plantation owner Calvin Candy (Leonardo DiCaprio, over the top even by these standards), who keeps Broomhilda locked up in a dismal existence at the appropriately - titled Candyland.

Hurtling pace, by - the - numbers character development and exotic science.

Synopsis: Superman (Christopher Reeve) foils the plot of terrorists by hurtling their nuclear device into outer space, but the bomb's shock waves free the Kr... [MORE]

It has a hurtling pace, nonstop intensity and a stylish, appealing performance by Will Smith in his first real starring role.

The film opens pleasantly enough, with voiceover narration by Emma Thompson accompanying an image of the Voyager I spacecraft, the furthest man - made object from earth, hurtling toward the edge of the solar system.

The comedy in The Grand Budapest Hotel is among the broadest yet undertaken by Anderson — it includes, for instance, a cat being thrown out a window — and it hurtles toward the viewer with reckless velocity.

Yes, this is another of Russells fractured, fractious families, the full chaos of their pinballing, up - to - 11 lives communicated by his redeployment of a hurtling camera, jump cuts and a generous serving of hit tunes on the soundtrack.

Nevertheless, the film gets a little sloppy in continuity, especially as it races toward the end, such as a scene involving a robot getting drilled by V.I.N.CENT in one shot, then seen outside the ship in the next, hurtling toward the black hole.

Superman (Christopher Reeve) foils the plot of terrorists by hurtling their nuclear device into outer space, but the bomb's shock waves free the Kryptonian villain General Zod (Terence Stamp) and his henchmen Ursa (Sarah Douglas) and Non (Jack O'Halloran) from their imprisonment.

The problem is that Johnson doesn't stick with his own formula and allows the film to convolute itself into an anti-climactic melange of plot hoops and hurtles that are meant to be clever, but by the limping third act, end up robbing the film of the magic it was oh - so close to conjuring.

Written and directed by James Gunn, the tale follows Peter Quill and a band of unlikely heroes as they hurtle through space, dodge and sometimes fight angry foes, trip over their own foibles, and wisecrack their way through adventure.

WHAT: When their space shuttle is destroyed by hurtling debris from a damaged Russian satellite, U.S. astronauts Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) and Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney) are left adrift in space with limited oxygen and a minimal chance of survival.

That vision includes vehicles fuelled with blood, «Doof Warriors» playing flaming guitars as they hurtle into battle, CG used in respectful subservience to jaw - dropping practical stunts, and Hugh Keays - Byrne's Immortan Joe presiding over a religious cult seemingly inspired by a Duran Duran song that was inspired by the original Mad Max films («Wild Boys always shine», remember).

San Andreas joins a long list of disaster movies that have been hurtled our way over the past few years; from the heights of Irwin Allen's epics of the 1960s and 1970s (see The Towering Inferno, Earthquake, The Poseidon Adventure), to the more recent CGI affairs, most of which were thrown at the screen by German director Roland Emmerich (2012, The Day After Tomorrow).

Telling of the burgeoning affection between the Devon teenager Albert (played by former Royal Shakespeare Company ensemble member Jeremy Irvine) and the horse, Joey, who leads the young man hurtling into the horrors of World War One, the script trades heavily on the kind of «I knew when I first saw you» stuff that one might expect from a meet - cute saga like One Day - except that such language is here applied to a strapping lad who would appear to have no actual friends and the half - thoroughbred that his drunken father (a sad - eyed Peter Mullan) buys at auction.

Enjoy the irresistible midrange acceleration or treat yourself to the full urge of the 503 - hp 4.0 - liter engine by revving it through the gears all the way to the 7,200 - rpm redline as the GT hurtles toward its electronically limited top speed of 193 mph.

The blind roller coaster curve demands a leap of faith by drivers as they hurtle over the summit.

It's in part due to the contrast of the serene way you can tool about at normal speeds, helped by the smooth and intuitive shifts of the eight - speed automatic gearbox, but you'd never tire of the explosive way it hurtles up the road when you want it to.

What the previously mentioned performance figures don't reveal, though, is the car's phenomenal midrange performance fueled by those twin turbos once the tachometer sweeps past 2000 rpm — before you can even think about it, this fabulous engine is hurtling the big S - Class down the road at impressive velocities.

We aren't so much inching towards autonomous cars as we are hurtling inexorably towards being driven to work by small robots that live in our dashboards, and the latest evidence of this comes from Mercedes - Benz boss Dieter Zetsche, who says the arrival of autonomous cars is «imminent.»

When Spinney's twenty - nine - year - old son, Miles, flies up on his snowboard, «he knows he is not in control as he is taken by force up the ramp,» writes his mother, «skewing sideways as his board clips the edge and then he is hurtling, spinning up, up into the free blue sky ahead...» He lands hard on the ice and falls into a coma.

Abdul Jabbar's truck grazes him, just misses a muleteer, and hurtles into the square, closely followed by the powerful 4» 4.

When I was in my pajamas, I raised the shade again so I could get the maximum benefit from the experience, lying straight as a mummy in my little coffin - bed of rebirth, hurtling through one town after another where people steeped like old tea bags in their humdrum lives, speeding farther away by the minute from Earl - dom and all the other bottlenecks I had narrowly squeezed through.

Each has been touched by war and is hunted by the past, and, determined to get on a boat in any way possible, hurtling unknowingly toward disaster.