Sentences with phrase «is dead in the water while»

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Nadella's most impressive bit of jujitsu was how he killed Windows Phone; while the platform had obviously been dead in the water for years, Nadella didn't imperiously axe the program.

And there are definitely moments when I'm dead tired and Jessie (the dog) won't stop barking and Chester (other dog) has peed or pooped in the house and Noah is pulling my hair or trying to grab my water glass while I'm just trying to take ONE.

They're all beautifully - realized, beautifully - scripted performances: Ed holding court before a gathering of cronies in a bumpkin watering hole; Kate pulling up her skirt to show a long - dead admirer what he could have had if he'd stopped talking about meat once in a while.

«While other passengers were haplessly «dead in the water» due to the dead batteries on their iPads, my Kindle easily lasted the entire trip even though I used it nearly all day, every day.

So while it may be a great idea «in theory», practically, it's dead in the water.

We are talking about surprises and while we all know that this game is dead in the water, I'm a strong believer in holding onto hope.

While many believe the PlayStation portable console to be dead in the water, the Stardew Valley team stated in earlier last year that they were looking into the possibility of a Vita port.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

WTF is going on?Well, the short of it is, at face value, that senator Graham has been uneasy about climate legislation for a little while — after health care reform passed, he made comments about energy reform being dead in the water, and long before that he'd drawn fire from his own party for working with Democrats and pursuing a bill that would price carbon.

While dead zones are not uncommon near inhabited coastlines, where industrial runoff can trigger algae blooms that suck all of the oxygen out of the water, they're now popping up in places scientists didn't expect — in the open Atlantic Ocean.

Living forests hold water while dead plant tissue are often borne in solution into ground water, streams and rivers to fertilize the oceans shallow littoral zones.

After measuring water quality and going through thick bacterial slime and dead marine animal bodies on the ocean floor, the researchers found extremely low oxygen levels in greater depths while there was still high oxygen in shallow waters where corals were healthy — a symptom of a dead zone.

They can also occur if a worker cuts through underground cables with a crane or jackhammer, if a bucket - truck is insufficiently insulated for working with live power cables, if a cable is handled while thought to be dead, and if poor temporary wiring creates electricity in puddles or other masses of water.

The most recent shark dive in Guadalupe involved being in a cage with nine other people a few feet below the surface while the deckhands and dive masters chummed the water with dead fish, and fish guts and blood to attract the great whites.