Sentences with phrase «in brief bursts»

However, it's only used in brief bursts, which makes it quite hard to get too sick of it, and it's chunky and well - executed enough that it still manages to raise a smile from time to time.

But somehow, in spite of its shortcomings and some questionable design choices, Solatorobo's spirit and charm mean it still manages to entertain, especially when played in brief bursts — the focus on short missions really proves to be a wise choice and the constant signposting doesn't grate nearly so much when you've been away for a few days and your brain could do with the nudge.

The high - tech petrol engine uses 48 - volt electric motor technology to deliver a system total of up to 750Nm of torque in brief bursts, which is well into what was once only diesel territory.

Was Hannibal Lecter scarier when we saw him in brief bursts or when we found out the needlessly fleshed out details of his backstory?

Astronomers now believe, however, that GRBs seems so powerful because most of their energy is being beamed out of bi-polar jets in a brief burst, unlike the later stage of a supernova when neutrinos are emitted from all around the exploding star.

Then when conditions change it expands its range in a brief burst as it seeks a new value zone through range expansion.

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If the baby is crying in sleep outright, there might be a brief couple of bursts of unhappy fussing or crying.

If you've spent the past few years building up your thumb strength and agility while keeping up with which bars have good drink specials (as I wrote the original version of this article, I was looking at a friend's message from the previous night that said, and I kid you not, «CcCome to bedinbl» — Jen had maybe been at a barstool a little too long...), you already know that text messages are an efficient way to get a brief burst of information in front of a lot of people at once.

Understanding the Higgs field more deeply might also aid physicists in their quest to understand the universe's beginning, when a brief burst of inflationary expansion planted the seeds for the galaxies decorating the cosmos today.

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Although this neutron star's radio waves don't come in brief bright bursts, they are also twisted, the researchers say.

In the Gulf War, soldiers were both exposed to stress and given AChE inhibitors to prevent nerve gas damage, which might combine to create a brief burst of unusually high acetylcholine levels — and a long - term acetylcholine deficit, Soreq points out.

At the VLA, he currently uses 24 computer central processing units (CPUs) in parallel, both to record and search the data for brief radio bursts.

Nicholas Steinmetz and colleagues found that some mice expressing the genetically - encoded calcium sensor GCaMP6 display brief bursts of electrical activity, commonly observed in epileptic patients and animal models.

Those time spans coincide with known stellar behavior: once a year, for example, a red giant pulsates in brightness, an event astronomers think is linked to an episodic shedding of gas; likewise, every 5,000 years the helium in an outer layer of the star ignites and burns up in a flash, and the star undergoes a brief burst of expansion.

Fast radio bursts are brief, bright pulses of radio emission from distant but so far unknown sources, and FRB 121102 is the only one known to repeat: more than 200 high - energy bursts have been observed coming from this source, which is located in a dwarf galaxy about 3 billion light years from Earth.

For a brief burst of time, supernovae can radiate more energy than the sun will emit in its lifetime.

Green and Arduini (1954), in their pioneering study of theta rhythms, reported only brief bursts of irregular theta in monkeys.

Furthermore, that brief burst of intense energy sparked a small «growth spurt» in the muscle, making it even stronger for the next encounter with the next lion — a true survival adaptation.

The high - intensity interval training (or HIIT) uses «bursts» or «push» sessions that alternate intense levels of exercise and brief rest periods, in timed intervals.

After pulling off the skin, the peppers are packed into small glass freezer - safe containers and packed away in the freezer for the brief bursts -LSB-...]

Visiting familiar Zelda locations and wiping out hundreds of enemies offers brief but satisfying bursts of mindless enjoyment, just don't expect to be engaged in the same way as a full series release.

She burst onto the scene with a memoir about her brief career working as a stripper before winning an Oscar for her work on Juno, one of the finest films released in a great year for cinema, 2007.

Later that night Thel's former lover (Gabriel Byrne)-- who happens to be Dickinson's son — bursts in and, after a brief exchange, shoots her dead and seriously wounds Blake in the chest with the same bullet.

Faces Places received one of the liveliest audience reactions that I have seen since working with FF2: on multiple occasions everyone in the nearly filled theater burst out laughing all at once and a brief, but tangible, sense of community arose.

At higher speeds, reaching the edge of adhesion results in understeer — at lower velocities the combination of the engine's urge and the quattro system's rear - biased torque split means it can be persuaded into brief bursts of power oversteer; although this isn't a state the car shows any enthusiasm for.

For a few brief seconds of acceleration it completely fills the tunnel, howl reverberating off the ceiling, the noise gaining that distinctive cavernous echoing depth before shrinking in an instant as you burst back out into the daylight.

The intense battles of the world war 2 era games are relocated to the sand - blasted alleyways of a middle - eastern dictatorship, with tense spec - ops raids that reign in the action to brief bursts of gunplay, relying on atmosphere and deftly - weaved scripts to keep the player invested.

Age of Zombies is a brief twin - stick zombie shooter game that works best when played in short bursts.

A professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Edgerton in the early 1930s perfected the stroboscope, a tube filled with gas that produced high - intensity bursts of light at regular and very brief intervals.

There are successful plants harvesting heat from deep hot rock in Australia, Europe and Japan, the report noted, adding that studies of the technology largely stopped in the United States after a brief burst of research during the oil crises of the 1970s.

Low energy prices, the distraction of the first Persian Gulf war, and a temporary cool spell following the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines all helped tamp down global warming as an issue through much of the 1990's, outside the brief burst of triumphant proclamations with the 1997 negotiation of the Kyoto Protocol, a stricter addendum to the faltering 1992 climate pact.

In defense of Peter Gleick, Muckraker was featured by Morano and so delivered a sudden, brief burst of borehole items:

These problems have kept the 50 titles in place, even when Title 34 was abandoned, and even though some of the Titles like Title 4, The Flag and Seal, Seat of Government and the States, are brief and seldom modified (the flag is pretty established and Washington, D.C. appears safe), and others like Title 42 Public Health and Welfare are bursting at the seams and always being amended.

Far too many games these days are built to be played in small bursts: brief encounters, designed for a world with too few hours in the day and too many digital distractions.

These audio artifacts can extend into games with brief bursts of sound, such as gunshots, menu pings and the tail end of cymbal clashes in music.

It's remarkably easy to set up the system: you unplug the satellite speakers, place them where they're going to sit in your room, plug a small black microphone into the main soundbar, and then run auto - calibration, which will fill your room with short bursts of loud and unpleasant white noise for a brief period.

There were only two other times since the Fed began doing the survey in the late 1980s that income at the top declined — the survey covering 1989 to 1992, which corresponded with a recession — and the survey from 2001 to 2004, coming out of the bursting of the bubble in tech stocks and brief recession.