Sentences with phrase «like cuckoo»

I don't think this is an anti-Bitmain thing (although I do revel in the impact on them, given what they did with Bitcoin Cash), this is purely anti-ASIC until such time as we can switch to something like Cuckoo Cycle or SHA3 (once SHA3 ASICs are commoditised).

Or, is it more like the cuckoo, Michio Kaku, always trying to look relevant — e.g.,

, but like cuckoo eggs in a nest, they are only designed to look real enough to fool onlookers and crowd out the real science.

Bringing to mind a short story by Roald Dahl or Saki, and indebted to Michael Haneke and Greek new wavers like Yorgos Lanthimos, it focuses on the titular drifter, who with his acolytes, ingratiates himself on a well - to - do family like a cuckoo in the nest.

Which is a long way of saying that a book like The Cuckoo's Calling has a better than average chance of being a hit for me.

It's almost like cuckoo for cocoa puffs, except more intense!

Just like the cuckoo the wasps sneak in and lay their eggs in host nests.

Like cuckoos, African indigobirds lay their eggs in the nests of other birds.

Glad you liked Cuckoo's Calling, that convinced me to read it!

Not exact matches

In a way, the story of Jesus is like the sci - fi story, the Midwich Cuckoos with a happier ending.

There is a line from Terry Pratchett's book Wyrd Sisters that comes to mind, «He had a mind like a clock, and like that clock it regularly went «cuckoo».»

... It is like making a nightingale leave her own sweet song and imitate the monotonous voice of a cuckoo.»

These brownies are nutty, but not nutty like Jack Nicholson in The Shining, or even One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

All season long the Southwest Conference had been looking like it did in the old days — cuckoo.

What's it like living in cloud cuckoo land?

I wondered, could our smartphones be like baby cuckoo birds that activate the magical bonding system I experienced as a young mother?

With rare exceptions, Liberal Democrat junior ministers either «went native» in their departments, like Jeremy Browne or felt, like Norman Baker, they were the «the cuckoo in the nest».

And it's in that role, even after Corbyn's shock election as Labour leader, shadow cabinet resignations, removals and refusals to serve, that Falconer remains, looking ever more like something of a Blairite cuckoo in the Corbyn nest.

The eternal teenagers of politics, led by a man resembling an earnest sixthformer, they are like a vast hot - air balloon, floating dangerously close to cloud - cuckoo land.

The ground cuckoo makes a noise very similar to that used by pig - like peccaries to warn off predatory cats, which could be evidence of acoustic mimicry

Neomorphus ground - cuckoos in Central and South America seem to mimic the sounds made by the pig - like peccaries they live alongside, perhaps to ward off predators.

Your turn: What did you like and what didn't you like about The Cuckoo's Calling?

There are more than enough great restaurant options in the local area but The Cuckoo provides an evening out like no other.

Directed by Milos Forman, Flynt shows little of the inspiration that marked his best - known flicks like Amadeus and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

If your cat and dog start talking to you, you've either just done a mountain of cocaine or you're completely insane — like the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest kind of insane.

That's the superficial starting point of The Gift, the directorial debut of actor Joel Edgerton, who takes the cuckoo - in - the - nest thriller template — which became ubiquitous in the early»90s with films like Pacific Heights, Unlawful Entry, Single White Female and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle — and, by introducing psychological depth and a streak of social conscience, fashions an intriguing morality tale.

«One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest» was set in confinement, too, and like that story, the narrative drive of «The Shawshank Redemption» - based on a story by the prolific Stephen King - is a journey of freedom, physical and psychological.

SS: What is interesting that before we even started shooting and just had the script, one of the investors said he told this project felt like «Natural Born Killers» meets «One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest».

Visions of Eight includes contributions by Olympic film veterans Claude Lelouch and Kon Ichikawa, as well as newcomers like Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde), John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy), and Miloš Forman (One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest), whose witty decathlon segment is a notable highlight.

It's particularly satisfying because the film reaches something like peak Wes: featuring his biggest and most expansive cast, toplined by a performance of unexpected comic genius from Ralph Fiennes (virtually matched by newcomer Tony Revolori), intricately told in homage to Stefan Zweig, and more like an impossibly beautiful cuckoo clock / wedding cake combo than ever before.

Wyldstyle whisks Emmet away with her, out of the clutches of the villainous Bad Cop (Liam Neeson) and Lord Business» robotic henchmen, and together they travel to different corners of the Lego Universe, including an Old West town (where a honky tonk version of «Everything is Awesome» gently plays in the background) and Cloud Cuckoo Place, a magical, glittery land that looks like what would happen if a Lisa Frank Trapper Keeper was brought to three - dimensional life.

From the first, it seems, Eva's son had a malevolent, alien quality — and the movie gradually attains something of the overt, if realist cuckoo - in - the - nest scariness of the likes of Rosemary's Baby, The Village of the Damned or even The Hand That Rocks the Cradle.

It was the year's second biggest hit (after One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), and it even outgrossed audience pleasers like The Bad News Bears and The Omen.

Remember what it was like when The Cuckoo's Calling had only sold a few boxes and think about those of us who are stuck there, because we can't wave a wand and turn our books into overnight bestsellers merely by saying the magic word.

The July news of Robert Gilbraith's true identity (JK Rowling) created a mad rush to purchase the April publication A Cuckoo's Calling, while highly topical and timely books like I Am Malala were instant bestsellers.

No matter that Cuckoo, an adorable light gray bird with stripes, doesn't look like his polka - dotted mother and siblings.

More, like this claim, of a cuckoo's egg.

Work out a better methodology sticking to the 2nd Law and sticking to actual Real properties of radiation and gases or continue living in AGW created cloud cuckoo land where Solar energies are thermal and CO2 acts like an Ideal gas with no volume and no weight and no etc..

ABF operates in more than 50 countries, meaning some lawyers are «cuckoos in the nest» in places like Thailand, Mexico and Australia.

... and I hung the cuckoo clock after those pieces went up because it felt like it should go high and near the center.

After that, I started to feel like I needed some soft / round things to break up all the hard lines, so I think I'm going to use the heart hoop art Megan (Sparrow Mercantile) sent to the right of the cuckoo clock, and think I might hang another (slightly bigger) hoop where the tape square is below the vintage frame.