Sentences with phrase «in a tangle of»

Adam and Eve stand in a tangle of flowering trees, bushes and plants.

«It's all very well to tell us that God is love, but what does that mean to me, living as I do in the tangle of hostility which is a part of my work?»

Somehow or another in that tangle of misfiring synapses Lie calls a brain, that's preferable to other means of artificial bc.

And in a tangle of arms and jackets, we poured out to herd back the frightened animals.

Our stalwart fishing buddies — Bill Kepler, toothless Larry Jackson, silent Earl Cooper — dangling limp and round - eyed in the tangle of a swamped skiff while frigate birds circled overhead.

Soon we were in a tangle of legal arguments, treaty articles and Brussels embuggerances.»

First came relentless weeks of chemotherapy to reduce the mass — enveloped, in Jonathan's case, in a tangle of blood vessels doctors dared not disrupt with surgical tools.

Research in the park also suggests that young oak and other seedlings will be protected from deer when they sprout in a tangle of dead spruce.

Orbits with velocity low enough to get caught in the boundary become lost in the tangle of paths there.

The larger Pacific striped octopus is the only one to mate beak - to - beak in a tangle of tentacles and is a polite hunter, tapping its prey on the shoulder

It can be easy to get caught up in the tangles of daily living and lose sight of what really matters in life, such as health, happiness, and love.

As featured in Smithsonian magazine, a 1,600 - year - old goblet named the Lycurgus Cup (due to its depiction of King Lycurgus of Thrace trapped in tangles of grapevines by the Greek god of wine Dionysus) displays the Romans striking grasp of nanotechnology.

I couldn't agree more that the problems lately revealed in DCPS graduating students who shouldn't have been does begin long before high school when the problem is being years behind in subject matter, and not just getting caught in a tangle of rules and regs about attendance and related matters.

Students» beliefs about themselves as learners will be caught up in the tangle of any explanations surrounding the assessments, and as we know, decades of research demonstrate the power of student belief to be a factor impacting subsequent effort and persistence in learning.

Based on her participation in an intensive four - year school reform project in the Newark, New Jersey public schools, the author vividly captures the anguish and anger of students and teachers caught in the tangle of a failing school system.

Over the perfect parabolic arch of a gut was stretched an apple - green shirt, of cotton, yes, but a cotton so fine and so right - out - of - the - box, it had a perfect apple - green sheen — in short, a real pussy, this guy was, a pussy whose words kept coming out of his mouth in a tangle of pussy attitude shot through with fear.

Readers unfamiliar with ancient Hebrew may lose their way in the tangle of names like «Rizpah, daughter of Aiah, of Jabesh Gilead.»

In this tangle of a mystery, two twins with very different lives are drawn back into an investigation of their young neighbor's murder from 25 years ago.

Back in Eastvale on that same morning, in a tangle of narrow alleys behind a market square, the body of Hayley Daniels is found raped and strangled.

Yet even when caught up in a tangle of madness, ghosts, sex, and lies, she remains devoted to Arabella.

«I enjoyed finding out Darlene's story in Tangles of the Heart.

Kimberley Grabas presents 39 Things to Remember While Struggling to Build Your Writing Career posted at Your Writer Platform, saying, «When you're knee - deep in the tangle of learning something new, it's easy to get lost in trivialities.

Marais» Rue Charlot — Discover «real» Marais shopping here in a tangle of tiny streets featuring creative boutiques and up - and - coming designers.

Finally, shooting yarn balls at certain enemies, like the piranha, will not instantly take them out, but rather tie them up in a tangle of yarn and leave them vulnerable.

The main reason is that I always seem to lose the charge cable in a tangle of other cables and have to spend half an hour trying to retrieve it.

Alternately wobbling and soaring, plaintive and ecstatic, the music's field of reference moves from the blues and spirituals to refrains of the French national anthem, all in a tangle of virtuosic soloing and collective improvisation.

Working with a mixture of cold porcelain and polymer atop a metal wire armature, artist Ellen Jewett (previously) creates wildly intricate sculptures of animals covered in a tangle of surreal embellishments.

Wellcome Collection Alice Anderson exhibition ties up the north London museum up in a tangle of copper wire

Mural (1943), commissioned by the legendary collector Peggy Guggenheim to cover an entire wall of her Manhattan townhouse, is an enormous canvas of restive curls that jostle in a tangle of colour.

This is a significant step in the tangle of legal proceedings set in motion with the 2007 Supreme Court decision on the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate carbon dioxide under the clean air law.

Old news I guess — Brer Rabbit escapes in a tangle of briars.

The case died in a tangle of appeals.

And, instead of disclosing it, he simply buries the little green line in a tangle of competing spaghetti.

Laurie Garber, family lawyer with the Northwest Justice Project, said low - to middle - income families who can't afford lawyers often get caught in a tangle of legalese and paperwork.

By 1855, there were more than 70 patents covering various innovations, and the industry was snarled in a tangle of competing claims known as the Sewing Machine Wars.

However, concealed in the tangle of provisions, there are several means and ways that can help you save a chunk of tax.

So, unless an adoptive parent has a friend or a close relative who has adopted, they're alone with their child in a tangle of emotions.

Not exact matches

But with the pump and a tangle of plastic tubing affixed to my hip in a fanny pack, exercise was off the agenda.

Sometimes that trouble makes for a grim longer - term outlook: General Electric, for example, has seen its stock fall 51 % in the past year, but stalled growth and a tangled web of liabilities from its former GE Capital unit make it a stock to be wary of.

I think for women, we often get tangled up in what people think of us, what's going on and we worry about things that are outside of our control.

There's a tangle of vendors to consider; the tech consultancy Gartner estimated in 2006 that more than 70 firms, many of them start - ups, were offering Web analytics tools.

If you're getting tangled up in the cords on your desk, this VoIP phone / keyboard / mouse combo will cut through (some of) the clutter.

Large organizations can often get tangled in red tape of their own making.

For the past six weeks, a tangled case of complex fraud leveled against two prominent tech entrepreneurs unfolded in federal court.

In an example of the television industry's tangled web of business relationships, the series is scheduled in mid-2018 to begin production — through Fox's TV studiIn an example of the television industry's tangled web of business relationships, the series is scheduled in mid-2018 to begin production — through Fox's TV studiin mid-2018 to begin production — through Fox's TV studio.

The former chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley (ms) has been tangled up in issues at LendingClub (lc), the online lending company where he has sat on the board since 2012.

Jack Barsky, a former KGB spy and author of «Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America,» explains how Americans have historically been naive about the Russians.

Some of the new policies have gotten tangled up in court, and Trump hasn't secured funding for his coveted border wall with Mexico.

Countries in the Baltics have warned of more ambitious Russian espionage efforts, and NATO aircraft have tangled with their Russian counterparts numerous times in over the last year.

These factors will at times seem tangled; they will proceed in fits and starts, as the ambitions of an untested President interact with the interests of a recalcitrant conservative block, a determined opposition, and the will of a divided public.