Sentences with phrase «into middle distance»

Oh, I can tell you that I lived in D.C. before I came to Toronto, but if you press me for dates, I'd have to gaze into the middle distance and try to come up with clues as to the years (months are long gone).

And gazing into the middle distance as if he can see something the rest of us can't also helps.

It can been seen in the way he chose to paint the horizon at exactly the same point, the trees and the foreground figures receding into the middle distance.

A yellow brick road dips merrily into a middle distance before becoming, in the painting beside it, part of the Great Wall of China and later a ladder bridge failing to span a widening mass of white....

The next time you reveal a Hollywood starlet and indie darling as the lead actress in your upcoming game, how about your subsequent video footage has her actually doing something rather than staring into middle distance blankly for ten minutes.

Those not rocking on their haunches, mumbling noiselessly over dog - eared copies of the Koran, stared fixedly into the middle distance.

Rex gazed into the middle distance and Harold recognized at once the direction the conversation was heading.

«I wonder what else he lies about...» wonders Christine aloud after discovering a deception, staring pointedly into the middle distance.

He just gormlessly stared into the middle distance - perfect casting for a robot cop in a dystopian sci - fi you say?

Very little happens beyond these explosions of violence, which leaves us to wade through a great deal of slo - mo and characters forever staring into the middle distance.

Meanwhile, no one image helped to sell the indie family drama Krisha better than its title character staring off into the middle distance, cigarette between her fingers, contemplating how she's going to survive the however - many minutes she has left with her family.

After it passed into the middle distance and then went beyond, all three arrays spooled up.

Defence secretary Bob Ainsworth gazed on into the middle distance.

People were looking into the middle distance and concentrating on keeping their faces straight while she was talking.»

After a polite briefing on the procedural impossibility of such an occurrence, Faso, more a straight - talk guy than a hope - and - dreams hawker, stepped back and looked into the middle distance where embattled pols see possibilities no one else can: «Every day I wake up and I tell myself, «I can win.

Gazing contemplatively into the middle distance?

We've all got them, those holiday snaps where we strike a manly pose, staring moodily into the middle distance or — as in this fine example — pointing randomly out to sea.

This one is a little different since it's about an alcoholic drink, which presumably is how they convinced him to pop on some speedos, plunge into some water, and wander around the Arctic circle, all whilst staring into the middle distance.

It showed a long - haired goy gazing soulfully into the middle distance, his coiffed honey - brown locks surrounded by a golden glow.

Not exact matches

It divided distressed managers into three broad categories: sprinters, marathon runners and middle distance / milers.

One example might be that this season Sanchez is in the middle instead of Giroud and Sanchez covers a lot more ground than Giroud did, reducing the distance Ozil needs to cover and reducing the spaces Ozil can run into.

To alleviate the loneliness of the middle - distance runner, El Guerrouj has occasionally ventured into cyberspace.

Green said he got a taste of the then - future governor's arrogance during a «get to know» meeting in 1996, in which Cuomo behaved like a prince by not looking Green in the eye and instead speaking pompously into «the royal middle distance.»

However these studies only analysed the winning time of a small number of middle and long distance elite races and did not take factors such as ground softness into account.

Procyon is also displaced into the middle of Gemini, outshining Pollux, whereas both Vega and Altair are shifted northwestward relative to Deneb (which barely moves, due to its great distance), giving the Summer Triangle a more equilateral appearance.

Separate the hands shoulder - distance apart and plant your knuckles evenly into the wall, pointing the middle finger toward the ceiling.

Picking up the story towards the middle of Turner's life, and after he has gained fame, fortune, and both critical and public acclaim, it delves into the contradictions of a man who is moved almost to tears by music, and who delights in publically belittling a fellow artist, whose personal life is a mix of distance and desire.

Thus, taking travel distance and local neighborhood demographics into account, a public school of choice that over represents white middle - class students based on the results of unconstrained lotteries might, instead, dispense offers of admission based on lotteries in which students from low - income families or families from neighborhoods in which blacks predominate have higher odds of selection.

If you stop your car in the middle of the road, the civilian traffic AI will form perfect, orderly lines off into the distance, each car sitting patiently, waiting for the obstruction to move.

His early work features broad, calm rectangles in the manner of the American Color Field painters, but Hoyland's distinctive contribution has been to break with the modernist insistence on a flat surface and to put perspective back into abstract painting: his mature work is characterised by depth and texture, in which strange objects float in the foreground or middle distance, against an often mysterious background, in a way that is oddly reminiscent of Miro.

The works by Richard Artschwager (American, 1923 - 2013) range in date from 1974 to 2011, beginning with a ghostly drawing entitled Door Window Table Basket Mirror Rug # 10 and ending with a late painting — Landscape with Median — in which a red road, marked with two bold yellow stripes, leads ambiguously into the middle - distance.