Sentences with phrase «in a twist of»

In a twist of great irony, the reason so many of us embrace the «It Can't Happen to Me» syndrome is because from a psychological standpoint, it preserves our immediate to short - term feeling of well - being by disassociating ourselves from reality and encouraging inaction, even though from a long - term perspective, it is very likely to destroy our self - preservation abilities.

In a twist of irony today, my concerns are still valid today as they were when I first launched buyer personas.

The root of their religion is in the twisting of the word of God.

* In a twist of irony, the US also receives the highest number of missionaries.

In a twist of good fortune, the fact that the team did not play last week may ultimately have saved Pagano's life.

In another twist of fate, Parker, now a standout with the Milwaukee Bucks, was celebrating his 23rd birthday on Thursday.

In a twist of fate that could yet bring succour to Nigeria and Tanzania, the Chadian Football Federation has rescinded its decision to withdraw from the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers if Caf would accept it back.

In a twist of irony, Montal was unseated from her own committee seat in the Democratic Party on primary day, and it appears she will no longer be the Ramapo Democratic chair.

In a twist of fate, Jaime got malaria again, but this time he was treated with a new drug.

My father's training led him to the United States during the time I was born; as a result, he learned of my arrival by telegram as he was learning biochemical methods in San Francisco, where in a twist of fate I now live.»

Instead of just tossing about how a family copes with a sick or dying loved one, this adds in a twist of also...

And yet, in another twist of the tricky plot, her remark might stand as the moral of a story flecked by moments of hope whose ending has no conclusion.

In a twist of irony, the film follows the teenaged Christina «Lady Bird» McPherson, played by Saoirse Ronan, who longs to leave her hometown.

In a twist of fate, Hooper had initially seen Hathaway singing to Jackman a boisterous version of the «Les Miserables» song «On My Own» at the 2011 Academy Awards ceremony, just when he was trying to decide whether to direct the film and was thinking about casting.

In a twist of plot, you'll also be able to play as Toadette in the attempt to save Captain Toad.

However, in a twist of events, the man ends up found murdered the next morning and Anna, who seems to have some problems with her memory and a fractured wrist, has been seen by a detective named Bernie (Byrne, Jindabyne) shortly afterward at the premises.

I guess the princess only yearns for independence until she's swallowed up in a twist of sky - high beanstalk vines — at that point, her ass needs saved.

He's intent on wooing Cassia (Emily Browning), a noblewoman who has also caught the eye of Senator Corvus (Kiefer Sutherland), who — in a twist of fate you'd have to call terrible writing — was the man who put Milo's family to death many years ago in northern Britannia.

Unable to hide from the creatures, the kids go on the offensive in an attempt to protect the block and, in a twist of fate, the woman they terrorized just hours before.

In a twist of irony, a while later I ma coming home from work at 5 am driving the Suburban in a light snow finding the Chipy sitting in 4wd CPH jacked up high center of gravity not designed for paved roads POS buried in the ditch.

In a twist of synchronicity, the Millions happened to post a review of his sister Mona Simpson's best - known novel, Anywhere But Here, on Thursday morning.

But in a twist of the old cliché, credit cards don't spend themselves.

In a twist of fate, it was reported that a boy named Ichiya Amakaze defeated a Gigant.

In a twist of plot, you'll also be able to play as Toadette in the attempt to save Captain Toad.

Those events eventually come to fruition, but in a twist of fate they are saved through that very same website when they receive the ability to tame and control demons that appear after the crash occurs, of which is a larger part of a radius of destruction around the entire area of Tokyo as far as the eye can see.

Nick, in a twist of plot, finds himself in an area rife with...

MGS1 finds Snake making his way into a nuclear weapons facility on a fictional island off the coast of Alaska; MGS2 involves nuclear weaponry again, but throws in the twist of Russian terrorists trying to get hold of said weapon.

In a twist of irony, this sludge resembles a noxious primordial soup and microbes have evolved to live off the pollution.

In a twist of tragic irony, Jack Goldstein, who considered his name so ordinary it might appear 10,000 times in a telephone directory, never found his personal or artistic identity.

The McDonald's fast - food empire nets around $ 22 billion a year by serving its less - than healthy entrees to millions of patrons around the world — but now, in a twist of irony, they'll be paying a pretty penny to one man who was

In a twist of irony, and perhaps adding insult to injury, the defendant's costs on appeal were approximately equal to the damages the defendant had asked the jury to award the plaintiff in the first place.

It's a glimpse of the future and, in a twist of fate for Samsung vs Apple, a lot of what we expect from the iPhone 8 based on recent leaks and speculation.

In a twist of sorts, instead of bitcoin's first chain - split hardfork sending price down under, it has fueled it up to an all time high of $ 3,339.50, some $ 350 higher than its previous brief all - time high of $ 3,000 on June 11th.

In a twist of events worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster, Carl Mark Force IV, a former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent admitted to stealing over $ 700,000 worth of bitcoin whilst working on the investigation.

Mr. Project was gone for 2 days, and in a twist of fate, we all caught a stomach bug upon his arrival back home... luckily I had found some towels and the washer and dryer were installed before he left.

Not exact matches

The Curiosity Mars rover's first color photograph of a sunset in 2015 revealed a surprising twist — sunsets on Mars are blue.

The former Greek finance minister resigned in the aftermath of his government's victory, another unexpected twist in Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's unorthodox showdown with his country's creditors over the terms of a new bailout.

Even so, in some cruel twist of irony, most «productivity enhancers,» like going to the gym every morning, seem to add more effort to our already busy lives.

For one thing, their name, Twisted Tree, echoed that of many similar companies, both in and outside their industry.

Across the street, the remains of an SUV lay twisted up in what used to be someone's driveway, similarly untouched by fire, but apparently run over by a much larger vehicle.

U.S. regulators have approved a potato genetically engineered to resist bruising and that could lead to a lower risk of cancer, marking an interesting twist in the ongoing debate over so - called Frankenfoods.

The name of Davidson's movement is a verbal twist on the «airplane mode» you can set a phone to while in flight.

The lobby has a twisting slide; bright, funky art covers the walls; and there's the lively bustle of a company engaging in the very processes that the students are studying.

Actor Joel Edgerton («Warrior,» «Exodus,» «The Great Gatsby») wrote, directed and stars in the film, which is clearly reminiscent of similar thrillers like «Fear,» «Fatal Attraction» and even Michael Haneke's fantastic «Caché,» but gleefully twisted enough to distance itself from the pack.

Russ Corsi, who worked nearly 32 years for Pittsburgh - based PPG, a global supplier of auto glass, says larger sunroofs are also more prone to weakening over time as the pane absorbs impacts from bumps in the road, twists and turns of the car's frame, and «thermal shock» — the expanding and contracting from sudden temperature changes.

For the next series of tests, the researchers added a twist: they had the subjects come up with a novel association between the words — say, throw in response to hammer.

In a more unusual twist, the company also forged a holiday deal with Avon and its network of door - to - door sales reps.. But bigger isn't always better.

Astronomers who studied these images eventually realized that the nascent solar system had twisted inner and outer disks, not just one flat disk, and the moving material was causing the shadows, much like a bird flying in front of a lighthouse's lamp.

I'm interested in franchising a french fries brand with a bit of a twist by making the concept more about eating them as a snack.

The tower's twisting form is due, in part, to architects wanting to ensure that residents» apartments do not have views of the highway's traffic.