Sentences with phrase «like scorched earth»

Like Scorched Earth, 2006 (Broad Museum, Los Angeles), Helter Skelter I's title refers to a real moment of racial tension in American history.

And like Scorched Earth, it is a sensory assault of falling masonry and deafening gunfire.

Not exact matches

Surt, carrying a sword that blazes like the sun itself, will scorch the earth.

when people like this leave scorched earth behind, whether it be a church, business or whatever....

We're talking about scorched earth, ashes, and post-apocalyptic rosters like the 2003 Tigers.

The objects are not, however, Earth - like: They circle a pulsar, the rapidly spinning core of an exploded star, and are bathed in a scorching bath of radiation that renders life impossible.

The foam, made by Arsenal Medical, Inc., indiscriminately blocks the sources of the bleeding, almost like a scorched - earth campaign against blood loss.

«The tree launches a scorched - earth defense against the beetle, but the beetle converts the tree's toxins into attractants, like an early version of jiujitsu,» says Raffa.

Until recently, energy companies have looked to places like the High Plains for wind and the sun - scorched Southwest for solar, while paying less attention to the geothermal energy simmering thousands of feet below the Earth.

Mildly encouraging news for Earthlings hoping to escape the scorched ruins of our own planet: A team of astronomers has found evidence for four Earth - sized (ish) worlds orbiting tau Ceti, a Sun - like star located just 12 light years away.

Jasmine, we learn in a toggling flashback structure that also feels fresh to Allen's style, is fleeing the scorched earth of a broken marriage to a Bernie Madoff — like fraud, Hal (Alec Baldwin), a swindler of fortunes.

And like most of my fellow 1990s kids, I was quite disappointed by the prequel trilogy, although I definitely don't have the scorched - earth hatred of those films that some people do.

And it wasn't like a firebrand, scorched earth kind of testimonial, it was profiling four families of murderers of some great note.

I liked the last Star Wars film quite a bit, and this new one looks pretty good too, but, really, they are Death Stars of cinema releases; vast, planet - sized pieces of machinery issuing scorched - earth marketing campaigns from which other distributors shrink in terror.

There's something about the scene that pokes at Lucas's cop instincts — it looks an awful lot like the kind of scorched - earth retribution he's seen in drug killings sometimes.

Regardless of that fact the NPD findings have solidified Aion as the hit MMO release of September scorching past releases like Champions Online and Fallen Earth.

Battle Havoc is a bit like a real - time version of Worms or Scorched Earth, if all the combatants had jump jets they could use to quickly reposition themselves on the battlefield.

Girl in a Band might be the best record we currently have of the golden age of downtown Manhattan, casually filled with myth - like anecdotes and scorched earth.

He's been calling his work things like «Scorched Earth,» or he'll borrow from Nina Simone and call a piece «Mississippi Goddamn.»

The title of the show harks back to a previous piece — «Scorched Earth» is a 2006 map - like painting inspired by the war in Iraq and the 1921 Tulsa riots, when white mobs torched the city's prosperous African - American neighborhood.

The film is a scorching appeal for humans to avoid knowingly up - ending the earth's climate, delivered from the vantage - point of 2055, when the giant London Eye ferris wheel looks more like a waterwheel, with its bottom immersed in the Thames, along with much of central London.

It features rain chains for harvesting rainwater, skylights, wide windows for passive cooling, and traditional building methods like earth plaster for humidity control and charred wood siding (shou sugi ban or a scorched - wood technique from Japan) for better protection against the elements.

As of this week, the fires have marched to the shores of Lake Baikal itself, scorching their black scars in the Earth like some great fire giant's footprints.

Scorching the earth: Don't use your resignation letter to insult the things you don't like about this place (mismanagement, incompetence, annoying company policies, etc) or seek revenge.