Sentences with phrase «like dead tree»

The model also receives aluminum and wood trim, but to my eyes, the latter looks as much like plastic as it does like dead tree.

This paste tasted musty and flavorless, like dead tree leaves.

Corrupt, decrepit regimes were falling over like dead trees in a windstorm, but in many cases, there was nothing — no replacement regime, no legitimate constitution, no rule of law — to step into the breach.

Not exact matches

Many people like to take this to mean we could perform phenomenal miracles like raising trees, the sick, and the dead.

I like to work my way through family trees tormenting the dead.

Sometimes that's like trying to revive a dead tree with our own tools & abilities.

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.

If people really want to go to town on his 8 goals in first season, signed on dead - line day, no pre-season, played centrally for only a small number of games (14 in fact) then they should at least keep it in context; look at the first season or comparable age scoring from some of their other heroes like Kanu, Eduardo, Wiltord, Adebayor and RvP — they certainly were not ripping up trees and played centrally all the time.

Hundreds of acres of once - vibrant, postcard - perfect groves that have prospered for centuries are now cemeteries where twisted, dead tree trunks protrude like arboreal zombies from fertile soil in which grass and flowers easily grow.

Streams of dying fish running through forests of dead trees are just the beginning: Acid rain also causes the corrosion of building materials like limestone and marble.

And it's still going to be relatively inexpensive compared to what used to be like, when everything was disseminated on, you know, with dead tree technology.

When storms, fires, or other disturbances kill a great number of trees, the dead biomass is decomposed by fungi, insects, and the like, releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

I especially enjoy how you re-purpose things like the poor, sad, dead tree.....

I would love to bring in a large potted tree, like an olive or fiddle leaf fig, but I'm still perfecting my green thumb and until I know it will thrive I don't want to risk another dead houseplant on my hands.

The film retains several sequences and elements from Stone's script, refashioned to Milius» liking and emphasis, including the Tree of Woe, upon which villain Thulsa Doom has a beaten and bloodied Conan crucified and left for dead.

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Many people have argue with me for years on the subject of dedicated eBook reader devices, with any number of reasons they like them, but it is really only that they can't read small print or they still want «the look and feel» of the dead trees pulp bound up in dead animal skins.

After all, eBooks are great, but there is nothing quite like having that dead tree in your hand.

But this naturally Times - centric report kind of dilutes the significant of such a device: Amazon will likely carry titles from a vast number of news providers, and if the E ink experience becomes enough like newspaper reading — in term of news choice as well as literal usability — then this product could represent the newspaper and magazine industries» first financially viable step away from dead trees.

I also like the way you can turn pages by swiping across the page — it's a much more natural gesture, especially for a device that's trying to emulate a dead - tree book.

While I try to view the value of my published pieces in other ways, like the publication's circulation, the positive feedback and reviews, or even how much money I made, there is something very real and delightful about receiving one's work in a tangible, dead - tree format.

Besides would you really trust a big box book store like B&N to really sell your dead tree edition?

Personally, I'd like to put out a mass - market paperback, because for dead - tree editions, that's the format that fits my hand the best.

So far, the dead tree version, and the e-version cost nearly the same, barring a deal like this.

Digital offerings have a long way to go to match the revenue generated by sales of dead tree books, but it's never been harder for small shops to compete with bulk - buying, discount - driven rivals like Amazon.

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Forests actually have tiny thin trees that look like single dead branches that real forests have, and jungles have tons of dead leaves on the ground and a real dark shade to it that resembles real tropical biomes

Telephone poles crumble like breadsticks, but trees of approximately the same width will stop you dead.

Certainly my favorite mid-boss of any temple, Dark Link appears in a surreal room of the Water Temple, completely empty of anything save for a single dead tree in the middle of what seems like a shallow pool amidst a large void.

Dead Stars», Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York (2017); «Inside rooms drift in and out of sleep / While on the roof / An alphabet of aerials / Search for a language», Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich (2015); «Martin Boyce: When Now is Night», RISD Museum, Providence (2015); Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel (2015); «All Over / Again / and Again», The Modern Institute, Aird's Lane, Glasgow (2013); «Out of This Sun, Into This Shadow», Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2008); «Electric Trees and Telephone Booth Conversations», FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France (2007); «For 1959 Capital Avenue», Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2002); and «Our Love is Like the Flowers, the Rain, the Sea and the Hours», Tramway, Glasgow (2002).

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When storms, fires, or other disturbances kill a great number of trees, the dead biomass is decomposed by fungi, insects, and the like, releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

A survey from the United States Forest Service this spring found 40 million dead trees statewide and estimated that 29 million of those trees had died just in the last year, worsening wildfire risk and creating a temporary year - round autumn - like landscape.

Other insects are drying out and dying — like the large fig beetles that visit every year but now the ancient fig tree (about 100 yrs old) is dead and the bark has come off.

Predictions like this foreshadow a series of cascading effects that reach far beyond dead and dying trees.

It is too easy for the «computerati» to forget that still the vast majority of people still get their «news» from the old «one - eyed goggle - box» and still yet rely on, so called «newspapers», like the Washington Times and similar dead tree press.

The vision of a long - dead and weathered log is on the horizon, but what would the alien invasive tree look like?

Combining our fascination with all things super-sized with our undying love for motor vehicles, folks used to take a liking to carving out tunnels through the trunks of dead trees.

By thee, religion, liberty and laws Exert their influence and advance their cause; By thee worse plagues than Pharaoh's land befell, Diffused, make Earth the vestibule of Hell: Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise; Thou ever - bubbling spring of endless lies; Like Eden's dead probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee!

They are like a forest of dead trees — all leaning on one another and waiting for a good windstorm.