Sentences with phrase «into thickets»

The amusingly shaped body is really quite efficient at punching into thickets.

Occasionally, dogs that chew plant material or chase balls into thickets of grass may get foxtails lodged between teeth or stuck in the throat.

Jane Krentz stepped away from the elementary classroom and into the thickets of state lawmaking 10 years ago after deciding that students were shortchanged by education policy she had no control over.

At last the game Alex is watching ends, and he disappears into the thicket of bodies on the court.

One bad spell down the stretch could send Portland tumbling back into the thicket of the postseason weeds.

I lay napping in the hammock with an icy lemonade at my side as the birds of song whistle me an afternoon serenade... Back at reality ranch, I swipe at the black flies gathering to feed behind my ears, take a deep breath, and head past the empty hammock into the thicket to make it happen.

Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza stepped into a thicket last week when he re-tweeted a video of Upper West Side parents speaking out against the local school board's plan to integrate the community's middle schools.

Alan Organschi, a Connecticut architect who teaches at Yale, wants to turn four blocks of downtown New Haven into a thicket of wooden mid-rise buildings ranging from six to eight stories.

He crisscrosses the tree again and again, joining the branches into a thicket of grafts.

The loosest of adaptations, cherry - picking from Michel Faber's strong novel of the same name, Under the Skin is home to a trio (at least) of indelible images and a style and presentation that function as shunts into a thicket of thorny existential questions; it's the best film I've seen this year and among the best films I've ever seen.

When I approached them, they fled deep into the thicket.

Able to slide open the zipper, several of the capuchins ripped bags of food from the opened flaps and swooped back into the thicket like a child jumping from a swing mid-air, all while shocked tourists shouted after them.

Often starting with an excerpt of text, a totem, a gesture, or all three at once, Natasha Bowdoin's drawings grow instinctively, sprawling across a wall or tightening into a thicket of words and imagery contained by the paper's edge.

Rather, justifications, if offered at all, leave behind the realm of the legal and descend into the thicket of «morals», «national interest», «religion», «history» or «race».

In light of these complications and hassles, it is not too surprising that a great many lawyers opt not to get into the thicket of offering limited retainer services (also known as unbundled legal services).

Not exact matches

But these new companies have found themselves running headlong into a regulatory thicket.

Bringing the picture into focus requires both an awareness of widespread aspirations among Muslims and a lot of hard, painstaking work in the dense thicket of the particulars present in specific situations.

-- and nearly falls into a blackberry thicket, all thorny, so I hold his hand, thumb carefully stuck into the right spot of his mittens, he's so proud, and we walk together.

The girls, however, do not take part in the fox - hunting at night, when oft - times the part is out until early dawn, riding through branch and brier, swamp and thicket, over fallen logs and accumulated brush - heaps, into holes and over ditches and fences with reckless fearlessness.

The driver is too heavy and tee shots are slipping off mysteriously to the right, disappearing into previously unnoticed thicket.

Although Dolan has waded deep into the political thicket in recent months, most notably clashing with the Obama administration over a contraception coverage mandate (wearing his hat as president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops).

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is now flailing about, hoping to find a path of least resistance out of the hydrofracking thicket into which he plunged himself headlong.

Alternatively, they could have put the money into various water projects around the country, but that would be a political thicket, Lubell says.

The Edison Electric Institute, which represents publicly held utilities, submitted a letter saying any attempt by FTC to define additionality would lead the commission into a «conceptual thicket.»

Nobody knows how the symbion phylum arose in evolutionary history, or where it fits into the evolutionary tree / thicket / web (you can choose your own metaphor).

Everything from grand, sweeping shots of undeveloped forest to gorgeous lens flares in fields of rich yellow hues, to the visual irony of seeing the boys pop out of the thicket and right back into civilized society, adjacent a restaurant where they'd be foraging for roasted chicken.

In his best - known films «The Sweet Hereafter» and «Exotica» Egoyan has peered into ominous symbolic thickets, wrestled with small - town angst and communal guilt, elements very much on display in his latest film, «Devil's Knot.»

United, the two disappear into the wooded thickets of New Penzance Island — the name itself is worth the price of admission — Suzy with her binoculars and pastel suitcases and battery - powered record player; Sam with his coonskin cap and corncob pipe and abundance of camping gear.

This is a movie filmed through cameras virtually ingrained into the trees and the mud and thickets through which we see this movie unfold.

The Court has taken a fresh plunge into the constitutional thicket, wherein it is the prerogative of judges to write and rewrite the maps.

The deep redwood canopy is a vertical Eden filled with mosses, lichens, spotted salamanders, hanging gardens of ferns, and thickets of huckleberry bushes, all growing out of massive trunk systems that have fused and formed flying buttresses, sometimes carved into blackened chambers, hollowed out by fire, called «fire caves.»

The forest was old and thick at the edge of the lawn; the bamboo thickets rose thirty feet into the gloom; the trees were moss - slung giants, bunioned and misshapen, tentacled with the roots of orchids.

Very few can step forward again and again in what amounts to veritable leaps into the void, where there are no ready holds, where little is familiar, where you get constantly stuck in the thickets of your uncertainties and fears.

This popular evergreen can grow up to two meters and develop into a huge thicket after a few years.

Entries into evil - smelling crawl spaces, vermin - infested basements, drug houses, and bramble thickets are all in a day's work.

Continue on into the jungly highlands where you'll find lodges tucked alongside rivers and hidden amid the thickets, including everything from no - frills hammock - swinging cabins to opulent rock - star retreats.

The beginning of this Horizon Zero Dawn trailer lures players into into the prehistoric world where the ideals and monuments of an unknown past are buried under thickets of foliage.

Here is Louise Bourgeois's pink marble woman turning into a frond - headed plant, and one of Raoul de Keyser's most airy blue abstracts; here is Karla Black's cellophane cloud hanging in one of the high Georgian windows, bearing green traces of the gardens beyond, and a thicket of marvellous historic paintings from the gardens» collection, showing palms and peonies to semi-abstract perfection.

Come Into the Garden, Maud, on the other hand, is a thicket of dabs and luscious swipes.

A jagged clot of paint applied by palette knife with a slashing motion; a heavy, worried black outline that lassoes its subject; an impacted thicket of wide, assertive brush strokes, wet into wet, black paint defiantly dragged into red: these are the terms of engagement, alternately lyrical and militant, with which each artist defines himself.

Martin Puryear's «Thicket» from 1990 is made of planks skinned raw and notched into diagonals.

Joan Mitchell's Red Tree is tremendously arboreal, a blaze of sudden glory conveying all the excitement of looking deep into mysterious thicket.

The scientists write that the new ecosystem of tree thickets, with stands over two meters high, may be similar to an ecosystem that once existed along the Bering land bridge 12,000 years ago; the very same land bridge that early humans used to cross from Asia and into the Americas for the first time.

For another, any targeted attempt to engineer population decline is going to run into an unholy thicket of moral and political resistance.

In the course of this matter, we have developed First Amendment arguments regarding the Constitutional principal that civil courts can not delve into the religious thicket of internal church governance and that the courts must adhere to express trust language in a church's governing documents.

In my view, to determine what the rights and obligations of Sam and Manira are in relation to the undertaking of Mahr in their Islamic marriage ceremony would necessarily lead the Court into the «religious thicket», a place that the courts can not safely and should not go.

They must have wandered beyond the barn and perhaps through the thicket into the woods.

The garden also got the makeover treatment and was turned from an overgrown thicket into a beautiful rose - filled patch.