Sentences with phrase «jolts of»

Synopsis: Chelios faces a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery - powered ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working.

Wit and charm and titans of performance provide jolts of entertainment and bite - sized food for thought but this second tidbit is less tasty than the tiffin - box offered by the original.

Like a backpacking variation on Neil Marshall's 2005 cave spelunking classic The Descent, The Ritual deftly explores inter-personal dynamics while delivering jolts of other - worldly terror.

Trundling their creation over to the local medical school, the pair applies a few generous jolts of electricity and voilà!

He leaps back and forth between Jamal in the game - show hot seat and Jamal in a different kind of hot seat, getting jolts of electricity from a fat interrogator: «Final answer?»

Refn's direction in Drive's early scenes is all smooth glides and stops, unspoken tensions intimating the disfiguring jolts of panic and violence to come.

It's the sort of exercise which needs stylistic discipline or at least a few jolts of originality to work, and those are the bits missing.

One of the most satisfying jolts of any family film comes when the panther leaps into Buldeo's face so swiftly that the hunter believes the big cat is really Mowgli — and that Mowgli is a shape - shifting witch.

Initially there are echoes of pictures such as Mad Max in the deliriously exciting opening car chase and the sudden, brutal jolts of violence, and The Road in its relentlessly bleak outlook.

Not unlike «Get Out,» «The Shape of Water» offered up its own eerie supernatural tale of minorities rising up against a brutal white oppressor — a 2018 movie in»60s Cold War drag, its themes driven home via passages of exquisite if strenuous lyricism and a few sadistic jolts of violence.

Directors Joe and Anthony Russo move their many playing pieces around with as much grace as possible, and they offer up jolts of pleasure throughout.

We loved the nipped - in waists, rolling - hill greens and jolts of his signature blue colour palette.

Some of the conservative shades of the flat leather sandals can balance knee - length kurtis with bright jolts of colours.

Sugar produces jolts of energy followed by hard crashes and that is a result of inconsistent blood sugar levels and the metabolization of pure sugar.

Speaking of something sweet, do you ever notice little jolts of regular movement in your womb?

Harder produce can better withstand the bumps and jolts of their trip to the processing plant or grocery store.

Or are you, like many of the patients who come to see me, frequently exhausted, relying on jolts of caffeine, energy drinks, and sugar to get through the day?

So you have that horrible, achy, uncomfortableness, but then you get these jolts of pain.»

18 Cyborgs beware: Tadayoshi Kohno at the University of Washington recently hacked into a wireless defibrillator, causing it to deliver fatal - strength jolts of electricity.

The detectors were essentially Geiger counters, which detect the tiny jolts of ionizing radiation but can not distinguish between xrays, protons, and electrons.

All it took was a few jolts of electricity to turn ordinary rats into roborats and for pundits to leap to the conclusion that ordinary humans would soon be transformed into robohumans.

When activated, a wheelchair - mounted computer causes jolts of electricity to be sent to those electrodes in the hand, causing the muscles to contract.

They strapped electrodes to my wrist, cranked up a black dial on a frightening electronic device encrusted with switches and knobs, and shocked me repeatedly with jolts of electricity.

But he is one of few who have been encircled by such intense jolts of spit and venom.

On this issue it is possible to experience such contradictory jolts of conscience that one finally doesn't know whether to list oneself as a member of a society of the courageously righteous who are mature enough to face up to life's ambiguity and do the difficult things that freedom requires — or simply a society of moral failures.

A real, more thorough market correction — accompanied by jolts of volatility — is still potentially looming on the horizon.

Maybe putting on a concert T - shirt under your suit gives you a little jolt of secret rock»n' roll energy throughout the day.

Or will the CEOs miss the wild jolt of stimulation that a new start - up brings?

Don't overcomplicate it when it comes to exercising — even a 20 - minute walk can provide a much - needed jolt of happiness.

If a jolt of excitement courses through your veins at the mere thought of it, then you've found it.

If you're used to having support staff at your beck and call to handle matters large and small, you could be in for a real jolt of culture shock on your first solo day.

Regardless of how busy you are, if a colleague asks for assistance on a project, there's a good chance you'll get a jolt of happiness out of agreeing to help.

The EpiPen is a so - called «auto - injector» which delivers a jolt of epinephrine to the body in order to counteract anaphylaxis shock from allergies to peanuts, shell food, and other substances.

Allowing employees time for volunteer activities of their choice fosters autonomy, renews a sense of purpose and provides a jolt of motivation.

But if you're looking for baby steps to get started with a less sedentary lifestyle, this study should give you a jolt of motivation.

Cleantech entrepreneurs got a jolt of energy today from President Barack Obama's rollout of climate - change initiatives.

Social media provided a wider jolt of recognition.

«There is also no question that doing business with [XXX] can give a supplier a fast, heady jolt of sales and market...

TRADE TALK: After an initial jolt of fear brought on by China's announcement of plans for tariff hikes in response to U.S. measures, investors are anticipating the two sides will work toward negotiations.

And unlike adults who have become numb to political hypocrisy and gun - control stalemates, the students can approach the issue with a fresh eye and a jolt of righteous fury that will be hard to ignore.

It just took a jolt of volatility to put them in the spotlight — and you can thank the soaring US dollar and the collapse of energy prices for putting investors on high alert.

A confluence of events has given a jolt of optimism to oil prices, with market sentiment at its most positive arguably in years.

He promises «another jolt of innovation» in the next couple of months, as well as more expansion: the Washington bureau will soon double in size, and a new bureau just opened in Beirut (joining existing Vice News bureaus in Los Angeles, San Francisco and London).

The return, the jolt of the madding crowd, is revealing.

There's a jolt of pure satisfaction.

Growth is good, everything is pretty good with a big jolt of stimulation coming from changes in tax laws,» Dalio said, referring to the health of the U.S. market as well as what he sees as an improving global economic climate.

I felt the jolt of truth from my husband's words: I have authority for such a time as this, given by the Holy Spirit.

Don't just go after that which promises immediate gratification or a quick jolt of happiness.

Some will thrill to the contempt for the human; some will feel a jolt of free - floating religious awe; some will decide that enough's enough (though most of those are unlikely to have started the novel in the first place).

Each statement of Christ is a jolt of reality in our twisted world.