Sentences with phrase «like dead flies»

Into our second week of torrential rain, with over 100 % humidity, the streets had turned to rivers and cicadas were dropping from the trees into my backyard like dead flies.

Not exact matches

The walls are covered, ceiling to floor, with the signatures and drawings of former House pages, young men and women — now old men and women, or dead ones — who, like you, once had the unique opportunity, not even open to congressmen themselves, to raise and lower the American flag that flies over the House of Representatives when the body sits in session.

With fists flying up in the air Like we're holding onto something That's invisible there, «Cause we're living at the mercy of The pain and the fear Until we dead it, Forget it, Let it all disappear.

It'd be like discounting the modern understanding of reproduction by citing middle - age beliefs regarding spontaneous generation of maggots and flies from dead meat.

There were tons of cyclists on the Tour de France using EPO back in the day and they didn't start dropping dead like flies (many of them prob still on it now).

I guess in short, the other cubs are dead serious and arsenal are just like a beachball being slapped by everyone and flying around.

We wouldn't be caught dead participating in one of your pathetic 5 - man protests, fighting in the stands like utter imbeciles, spending thousands of dollars trying to sabotage team morale before a game with plane - flown banners or any of the other embarrassing spectacles you create which the sports tabloids thrive on.

The salamanders use their tongues to catch insects literally on the fly, and the evidence, published in February in the Journal of Experimental Biology by a group of researchers led by Stephen M. Deban of the University of South Florida, suggests that these amphibians owe their dead - shot abilities to a ballistic projection mechanism that powers their rapid - fire tongue thrusts: In effect the tongue launches from the mouth like an arrow from a bow.

So the study would have us believe that animal protein increases cancer mortality in people between the ages of 50 and 65, but then magically reverses this «causation» at 65 such that you'd better be in the high protein group or you'll be dropping dead like flies.

The band hails from Canada, and offers a style that could be the soundtrack for an expedition across the frozen tundra in the dead of winter, albeit with some biotech to fight off the flying ice monsters, in an effort to save the world... or something like that.

Like the multicolored, flying tiger - dragon that swoops through Miguel's adventure into the land of spirits, «Coco» is a thrilling and joyous vision, a celebration of life and the loving tradition of the Day of the Dead.

Films like Videodrome, The Fly, and Dead Ringers; are too disturbing to be excited about at the time.

Like, you're in that dead zone between morning and afternoon when the photo agencies are loading up new content and you don't want to go front heavy, particularly today as I'm trying to pace out my posts for when I fly in a few hours and oh look, there's a Rachel Bilson story... I'd never lead with Rachel Bilson because, obviously.

Like a little lost Rat Terrier, Charlie, on a whim (and because his dead mother told him to) flies to Bucharest, and falls in love with a beautiful Romanian cello player called Gabi (Evan Rachel Wood.)

The Bentley EXP 10 Speed 6 concept's drop - dead - gorgeous looks take plenty of cues from the current Bentley lineup, but the car's slimmed - down, athletic proportions are a departure from chunkier large Bentleys like the Continental and Flying Spur.

OK just stop the pity party pa - pa - please... its like this; any fool who thinks the ps3 is dead or about to die just because the console or games aren't flying off the shelf is an idiot, therefore you should take any article like that with a grain of salt.

Nestled amongst games like Danganronpa (the world is dead and so are all your friends) and Killing Time at Lightspeed (you're flying to another planet and all your friends are slowly forgetting about you), Dream Daddy promises that everything's going to be ok, stroking your head gently while introducing you to dads who just want the best for their kids.

The idea is essentially that an alien menace is dead set on invading Earth with giant ants, spiders and other creepy insects, also throwing in giant robots and flying saucers into the mix for good measure to make things even more B - movie - like.

I wanted to save everyone, even if they were dropping like flies or wanted me dead.

This confusing world encompasses standard - issue toon realities (worlds of water and snow peopled by talking fish and bears) as well as more stylistically adventurous ones, such as a red desert which mixes ancient ziggurats with with the Mexican day of the dead, a forest grown within a malfunctioning robotic biosphere, and the vaguely steampunk - gothic homeland of Capy's kind, who fly airships shaped like top hats, furnished with plump armchairs.

Including riffs on classic rock tunes like «Black Betty» and» Eye of the Tiger», as well as a callback to the aforementioned Land of the Livid Dead in the form of Granny's World Tour (a level in which guitar playing zombie grandma's surf throughout the stage on flying coffins), these levels are a marvel to even gaze upon, and are even more thrilling to play through.

The introduction of new types of art, for instance - such as Performance, Happenings and Installations - along with new subject - matter - including things like dead sharks, dying flies, huge ice - sculptures, crowds of nude bodies, buildings that appear to be in motion, a collection of 35,000 terracotta figures, islands wrapped in pink polypropylene fabric, painted bodies, spooky projected imagery on public buildings, and so on - have provided spectators with a range of new (sometimes shocking) experiences.

Famous Aktion happenings included How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare and I Like America and America Likes Me, in which he flew to New York to share a room with a coyote for eight hours over a period of three days.

The problem is that we are so far into overshoot mode we are like an aircraft flying down a narrowing dead - end canyon with the treetop canopy arching overhead.

There's plenty on this blog, and on our TV and radio reporting, about the political progress of Brexit, or lack thereof - the moments where it's felt like the wheels were coming off, then wheels up, as the PM flew to Brussels in the dead of night when it was suddenly all back on.

Almost everything we tried here positively flew, from complex 3D fare like Dead Trigger 2 to vibrant 2D games like Badland (which feels like it was made to show off Super AMOLED technology).