Sentences with phrase «in rarified air»

Only one other wearable in the Google Store hangs out in the rarified air above the $ 300 mark, after all, and $ 349 is just entry level pricing for the Huawei Watch.

Though I lived my professional life in the rarified air of an academic library, I knew who was really on the front line of the profession.

The mechanism which prevents H2O vapour from overheating the world is cloud cover, due to the easily provable fact that heated moist air rises, expanding, cooling and condensing into cloud cover in the rarified air at higher altitudes.

For lovers of Optical Art, American Artist Richard Anuszkiewicz lives in rarified air, alongside Europeans Bridget Riley and Victor Vasarely — all of whom are credited with fueling the genres skyrocketing popularity in the 1960s and 70s.

While work remained to accommodate all the treatable animals and more challenging adoptions, that agreement established San Francisco in the rarified air of being the first no - kill city in the nation.

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Pierre Kleinubing joined team owner Peter Cunningham and Michael Galati in the rarified air of five World Challenge Championships in 2009, but it was not easy.

MANAGING EDITOR BOB GRITZINGER: Though the IS - F offers plenty to like, this Lexus also shows how far the Japanese luxury maker's F performance series has to go to be a strong competitor in this rarified air.

It's still a lot of money, but in this rarified air, it's also something of a deal when compared to the $ 143,000 Mercedes - AMG S63, a rival that only has 577 horsepower and needs 3.9 seconds to hit 60 mph.

The SRT uses a 6.4 - liter V8 making 475 horsepower, and its fantastic handling puts it in the rarified air of the best European SUVs like the Porsche Cayenne.

A close relative of the Hyundai Equus and a spiffier version of a sedan that's been sold in Asia since 2012, the K900 is certainly equipped to play in rarified air.

But Isle of Dogs is almost as delightful as Fantastic Mr. Fox, which puts it in rarified air among all cinema, not just animation.

To be sure, we're in rarified air here to begin with, where expectations are sky high and the filmmakers strive for nothing less than perfection.

Gibson doesn't travel in the rarified air of a Hillary Clinton (her national book - signing at Oblong Books on Dec. 7 was sold out hours after it was announced last summer), but he works the lecture circuit, radio interviews and the like.

It was incoherent, rambling, like a fart in a church in that rarified air dedicated to Labour's sainted PM.

Not exact matches

Likewise, such players instil confidence in their own, inspiring teammates to try daring new things and take greater risks, and seeing players like Pogba and Ibrahimović in the red of United meant that that old, familiar buzz of excitement and expectation returned to rarify the air.

The current projections for Civil War's domestic opening weekend are $ 180 - $ 200m, which would place it in the same rarified air as Marvel's top opening weekends - Avengers's $ 207.4 m and Age of Ultron's $ 191.27 m.

Packed with luxury and technology, there's no doubt you're behind the wheel of a car that competes in the same rarified air as others like the BMW 640i, or even the Porsche 911.

[Ankh]:» «As for CO2 itself, the old measurements made at sea - level pressure had little to say about the frigid and rarified air in the upper reaches of the atmosphere, where most of the infrared absorption takes place.