Sentences with phrase «into spinning their wheels»

Chakra is a Sanskrit word which literally translates into a spinning wheel.

Oddly, playing the game like this brought Sonic The Hedgehog to mind more than Mario, which is perhaps as much to do with Yoshi's legs morphing into spinning wheels when he runs as anything else.

On display were bicycle wheels that had been converted into spinning wheels and hanks of hand - dyed skeins of cotton yarn intermingled with sweaters made of the same yarn.

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The tests are performed on platforms called chassis dynamometers, or dynos, where the car is locked into place while its wheels spin on rollers.

She sits back in her seat and watches as the car reverses itself into a spot along the curb, the steering wheel spinning all on its own.

Wheel - to - wheel contact pitched Palmer into a spin and he then clouted into RoGro's Haas, causing an early safetyWheel - to - wheel contact pitched Palmer into a spin and he then clouted into RoGro's Haas, causing an early safetywheel contact pitched Palmer into a spin and he then clouted into RoGro's Haas, causing an early safety car.

We're well into the compliment roulette part of the season, and the latest spin on the wheel of praise has seen Mercedes boss Toto Wolff call out Red Bull as the team with potentially the fastest car.

The car spun backwards into the wall, then lifted off the ground and flipped over before landing on its wheels.

However, Fernando Alonso's first day back at work did not get off to the best of starts again after a loose wheel nut saw him spin violently off into the gravel and be restricted to just 10 laps of running in the morning session.

The two main types of spinning are either using a wheel or by drop spinning, using small weights to twist the fibres together into a yarn.

Water comes in through the submarine and is circulated up through the diver shower head, which can then be sprayed into two funnels that produce fun, mesmerizing effects... MORE with spinning wheels, fountains and googly eyes.

He spun a steel wheel and opened a gate that allowed water to pour into his fields of hay crops.

California company Monkeylectric wants to electrify your next bike ride with technology that combines art and science to turn bicycle wheels into spinning works of art.

If a wheel is off balance it would be taken into a tire shop, set onto a machine and spun, that will let the person know where the wheel is off balance, then he will ad a weight that is required to balance the wheel.

The car's combustion engine will turn the potential energy contained within the gasoline into kinetic energy, moving the pistons and eventually causing the wheels to spin.

Turn this tip into a game for kids by creating a color wheel and having them spin a few times.

So that's kinda almost the first starting place for people because at a certain point, too much or too intense exercise is gonna tax the system and if we're trying to rebuild it with some of these methods that we'll get into it, you're just spinning your wheels.

VIOLENCE / GORE 4 - A super-villain has a woman chloroformed and kidnapped: he ties her to a chair, lowers spinning wheels from the ceiling toward her (they contain by turns a chainsaw blade, spiked boots, sharp blades and a flamethrower), he opens a sliding floor to show snapping alligators that we see twice, a spider lowers on a strand of webbing, the villain says it's deadly, the woman blows it into his eye and he screams.

Where Sam Taylor - Johnson's spin on Fifty Shades of Grey put the debonair, elusive billionaire businessman on equal footing with the charmingly awkward English student cum hardware store clerk Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson), Fifty Shades Darker languished in its continued fidelity to James's turgid, wheel - spinning plotting, devoting most of its attention to a doomed investigation into Christian's supposed psyche and blaming his BDSM habit on a prostitute mother and the sexual tutelage of Elena (Kim Basinger), the trilogy's Mrs. Robinson figure.

The promising vibe persists even when Liam encounters (and eventually befriends) a woman (Charlotte Sullivan's Jane) immune to his inexplicably deadly presence, although it does become more and more clear, particularly as Radius progresses into its wheel - spinning midsection, that there's just not enough material here to sustain a full - length feature (ie there are too many sequences that either go on too long or are flat - out needless).

But whether it's dipping in for the pilot and then handing the reins to a showrunner and moving into a producing capacity, as per David Fincher and «House of Cards,» or merely coming on board as a director for hire to give a project a profile boost, it seems every week or so we're reporting on another big - screen directing star spinning the small - screen roulette wheel.

Network TV is circling the drain and but for a few exceptions — all of which are comedies — the networks are spinning their wheels and making no concerted effort to fit into the changing television landscape.

As an act of revenge for his betrayal, she decides to put a curse on his newborn daughter, Aurora, who on her sixteenth birthday will fall into a deep sleep after being pricked by a spinning wheel.

Once a child is born unto the royal couple, Maleficent places a curse upon Princess Aurora (Elle Fanning, Super 8): if she pricks her finger on a spinning wheel before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, she will be placed into an eternal sleep, capable of being broken only by true love's kiss.

With forced jokes and performances that go for increased zaniness without adequate material to take things to the next level first, Funny Money sinks into the comedy abyss due to spending too much time spinning its wheels in plot mechanics and desperate injections of trite shenanigans for easy laughs.

The ongoing emphasis on charming musical numbers and oddball (yet funny) subplots effectively keeps things interesting, and yet it's worth noting that Trolls does begin to peter out once it passes the one - hour mark - with the movie eventually (and inevitably) progressing into a spinning - its - wheels third act that's rife with time - wasting elements (including an eye - rollingly ineffective melodramatic stretch).

Creator Doug Ellin (1998's «Kissing a Fool») writes and directs this big - screen continuation but has turned it into an unironically vapid, self - indulgent, wheel - spinning shell of its former self with nothing more to tell and with nowhere left to go with these characters, at least not here.

It is, as such, impossible to overlook the feeling that the movie is simply spinning its wheels in the buildup to the action - packed climax, with the plodding nature of the midsection exacerbated by an almost total dearth of energetic interludes - which, perhaps predictably, ultimately cements Man on a Ledge's place as a decent 22 - minute television episode that's been unnaturally stretched into a full - length feature.

It's not until Big Miracle rolls into its comparatively underwhelming midsection that the movie begins to lose its hold on the viewer, as Amiel and Begler, perhaps in an effort to pad out the running time, place an ongoing emphasis on elements of a distinctly needless variety (eg a rather pointless love triangle between Krasinski's Adam, Barrymore's Rachel, and Kristen Bell's Jill)- with the spinning - its - wheels vibe persisting right up until the film's appreciatively engrossing (and suspenseful) final stretch.

A simple search turns into download wheels spinning for lots of different apps.

The art installed on Church Ave. and Ft. Hamilton Parkway signposts this month consists of a spinning wheel divided into slices with labels that include «black,» «white,» «Muslim,» «LGBT,» and «immigrant,» and instructions to «imagine yourself in that person's shoes.»

In Austria, we tackled a man - made 20 percent grade that had quickly turned into a sheet of ice as we repeatedly stopped, spun wheels, and accelerated in the same spot.

The feelsome measured steering gives you something to lean on, so you always have confidence in the front - end, and the stability control system is so precise and dialled - in to LaFerrari's dynamics that together they only ever flatter your driving, even allowing you to persuade the tail into a smooth slide and then let the rear wheels spin a little before finally applying an invisible guiding hand.

Cycle into Sport or Track modes by pressing the ESC button on the steering wheel, and the traction control is slightly more permissive and allows the engine to run free enough to get the wheels spinning just faster than road speed in a straight line but not fizzing out of control.

The question circles my mind as I spin our Four Seasons Genesis G90's Nappa - wrapped wheel away from Los Angeles and into the vastness of the Anza - Borrego Desert State Park, a fitting move since I can barely hear any outside noises within the hushed cabin.

Choosing autopilot mode initiates an interior transformation, where the steering wheel recedes into the dash, the seat retreats to offer more room, and a table pivots out from a recess in the driver's door panel as a 25 - inch flat - screen simultaneously spins out from under the passenger - side dashboard.

Fed through Mazda's legendarily slick - shifting five - speed manual transmission, throbbing, warbling power is delivered to a prop shaft, disappearing into a bevel box before being picked up by a rubber belt that spins the rear wheel.

The system works flawlessly in the dry, turning first - and second - gear hairpins that would normally be a festival of wheel spin into perfectly controllable four - wheel drift - a-thons.

A test to see if the VC is engaging is to take your syncro out into some fresh snow or mud and induce wheel spin.

But far from feeling untidy, or spinning an inside wheel, the XKR (complete with electronic «diff») shifts seamlessly into the most natural oversteer.

Get close enough to the car behind you, shift from Reverse into Drive, and the system spins the steering wheel and pulls forward to the car in front.

A rear wheel drive car will also have its inside wheel spinning and will get into oversteer.

Some 300 kg of battery cells are packed into this V60's boot, where the spare wheel might otherwise be, and housed in the lower sub-frame is the electric motor that spins the rear wheels.

The Crosstrek has an ace up its sleeve in the form of all - wheel drive, allowing it to keep driving long after other cars would have spun into a ditch.

When the traction control computer (often incorporated into another control unit, such as the ABS module) detects one or more driven wheels spinning significantly faster than another, it invokes the ABS electronic control unit to apply brake friction to wheels spinning with lessened traction.

Tied into the car's standard anti-lock brake system, the traction device can reduce wheel spin in several ways.

The 4ETS electronic traction system forms part of the ESP electronic stability program and brakes the driven wheels individually when they go into spin.

Measured rotating weights bolted to engines counter offending harmonics, largely replaced by clever active engine mountings / bushings Balanced crank: Usually done for race prepped engines to reduce the strain on the rotating components and their bearings when spinning at up to 19,000 rpm where a couple of grams turn into kilogrammes at such high rpms Balancer tube: A connection between intake manifoilds of the two banks of a V - type engine to even out pressure of cancel harmonics Bi-Turbo: Term coined to describe an endine with two turbochargers Brake Force Distribution: also called electronic brake force distribution where the ABS first attempts to divert pressure to the wheels that are not locked - up before intervening with its pulsating anti-lock strategy Brake Disc: Or Disc Brake, an aeronautic technology adapted for automotive use to replace the drum brake.

The technology also integrates functions of traction control systems, reducing throttle when it detects wheel spin to make sure a driver's right foot can't get him or her into trouble.

The contact patch just felt a little narrow for hard braking and indeed even traction, with the Levorg spinning a wheel briefly turning into a driveway — and that was on a light throttle setting, at low speed.