Sentences with phrase «like decks of cards»

These Hallmark Card - like renditions show squirrels, rabbits, turtles, owls, butterflies or bears in landscapes that are one part Japanese painting and another part Disney cartoon, with a few unexpected additional motifs, like decks of cards or red sneakers.

I save all the samples & little gift giveaways like decks of cards, ear buds, or coupons for free items I get in the mail, send for through the freebie sites or manufacturers sites & at store giveaways for these gift baskets & for stocking stuffers.

«These genes are like decks of cards constantly being shuffled,» explains Will Hamilton, from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

«These genes are like decks of cards constantly being shuffled,» explains William Hamilton, a first author from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Make this salad without plating anxiety: Treat the daikon rounds like a deck of cards and let them fall where they may.

Furthermore, large segments of chromosome 11 and several other chromosomes were reshuffled like a deck of cards, drastically altering the arrangement of the genes.

Graphite, the form of carbon found in pencil lead, is essentially made from sheets of graphene stacked together like a deck of cards.

A piece of graphite is simply a stack of graphene layers loosely stuck to each other, like a deck of cards.

Graphite is essentially made from sheets of graphene stacked together like a deck of cards, and sliding it in the right way can separate the layers.

My motto is that life is like a deck of cards, you have to deal with the hand you are dealt.

Browsing through profiles like a deck of cards looking for the number one draft pick.

MAGNOLIA Director Paul Thomas Ander son («Boogie Nights») shuffles the stories of nine major characters like a deck of cards over three solid hours until it all comes together to show just how comic, terrifying and unpredictable life can be.

Bouncing between Molly's rise in L.A.'s Viper Room to her fight against legal investigation and total bankruptcy, Sorkin's drama shuffles language like a deck of cards, the staccato sentences of his poker - playing spitfires punctuated by the witty English equivalent of flops, turns, and rivers.

The naturally aspirated engine flips through the revs like a deck of cards and climbs high past 8,000, meaning that you have a lot of range to play with before you have to cycle through the gears.

Montebello describes GEM's first catalogue as, «really like a deck of cards.

I liked the deck of cards too.

The nail in the coffin was when CREA» folded like a deck of cards» to the Competition Bureau.

Not exact matches

The product is a rechargeable solar - powered LED lantern that inflates like a balloon, and collapses to become thinner than a deck of cards.

(The MegaDo also raised more than $ 65,000 for charity, auctioning off items like a Qantas deck of cards, British Airways pajamas, model airplanes, fluorescent yellow rain suits worn by American's ground crew, two free tickets to Europe and 60,000 American miles.)

Forget business school or years as a consultant, Cooke spent most of his 20s competing in memory championships, winning competitions by performing heroic mental feats like memorizing the order of 16 decks of playing cards in under an hour.

Getting acquired while producing no revenue is like performing a card trick without the deck of cards: the magician simply explains how magical the trick is, never actually showing it.

On a lazy day, I like to place a large bowl twenty feet from my back porch, take a seat in my porch rocking chair and pitch a deck of playing cards one at a time to see how many will spin just right and go into the bowl.

It would be much easier if he didn't have to play this game with himself... I mean... he knows the outcome before the game even understand he does nt even tell us the damn rules... what kind of a god plays by rules that only he knows and doesn't even tell us... probably because he already knows the outcome... its like playing cards with a stacked deck and he; s the dealer laughing at us all because he has all the aces... I hate gods who do that.

It just seems like life is going to give us the full deck of cards before giving us the Ace.

All one has to do is convert something unmemorable — like a string of numbers, a deck of cards, a shopping list, or Paradise Lost — into a series of engrossing visual images and then mentally arrange them within an imagined space, a memory palace.

«The reaction is a bit like throwing a deck of cards in the air to build the Taj Mahal — a highly complex structure seemingly emerging from chaos,» Zlotnick said.

«In the last decade or so,» Liu said, «many researchers have shown that all of those different ways of being totally disordered do have something important in common, like how likely you are to draw a certain hand even given all of the ways you can shuffle a deck of cards.

A healthy serving of protein like steak or chicken is 3 ounces, or the size of a deck of cards.

I figured a deck of cards workout would be a way to make it seem more like a game and less like a workout?

Eating 2 deck of card sized servings of fatty fish like salmon, lake trout, herring or mackerel a week should give you all the omega - 3's you need.

They may benefit from thinking of their belly like a balloon, slowly inflating and deflating with each breath (See Balloon Breath activity card from the Yoga 4 Classrooms Activity Card Decard from the Yoga 4 Classrooms Activity Card DeCard Deck).

It comes like a deck of laminated cards with photographs and instructions, all designed to work your transverse, back, and pelvic floor muscles.

TECH CRUNCH - Apr 22 - At Cheek'd website users fill out a profile and order a deck of cards, which say things like «act natural, we can get awkward later».

It's not a message that audiences will extract as a prickly needle from the haystack of situational (read random) comic set - pieces that the filmmakers play like trump cards from the bottom of a stacked deck, but it does anchor film's narrative boat.

The PDF files include 3 coloring pages, an (almost) «life - sized» cast poster (measuring 6» x 4»), 5 mirror pin - ups for putting your face on Megamind's head, directions and supplies for dressing up a potato like Megamind, 4 party invitation designs, 4 character thumb (war) puppets, and a deck of cards numbered 1 - 12 for playing «war.»

Spicing up the obligatory deck of title cards that films like these invariably require for context — there's this new country called Israel, and the Palestinians are super pissed at them, and now everyone is going to stop being polite and start getting real — Padilha frames the introductory text against a rapturous performance by the Batsheva Dance Company.

Characters come and go seemingly at random, the scenes are shuffled together like a disordered deck of playing cards, and even Day - Lewis doesn't get enough screen time to reveal much past a surface of anecdote - spouting folky wisdom and a slightly deeper surface of crafty political power - player.

House Of Cards — Looks like Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright and the Netflix political drama were not holding the right deck.

It's a daffy send - up of the Hollywood studio system circa 1950, when chiefs ran the show and stars were just playthings to be shuffled and traded like cards in a deck.

Tricky top If you've ever seen a card dealer cut a deck with one hand, you have an idea of what the Edscha - engineered hardtop looks like as it retracts and is stowed beneath the rear deck.

They also fell like the royalty in a card deck, which I liked a lot (despite being a little out of order, but Hazel Leigh is Jack's mom, and the chicken had to come before that egg.)

A YouTube widget offers a «stack widget,» sort of like a deck of playing cards.

With expandable storage via microSD card and features like On Deck you'll never worry about running out of entertainment, whether jumping on a plane or heading out on a family road trip.

I grasp a rung, scuff a boot onto a ledge as wide as a deck of cards, then pause to study the quartzite in front me, its surface checked and split like a well used map.

Lying at the bottom of each episode deck is one of three inevitable cards that act like timers.

I would have liked to see more, with bigger gameplay mechanics like swapping decks and playing cards and random from the middle of your deck or something along those lines.

If there's one thing I don't like about the gameplay it's the deck of Monty cards.

Without more opportunity to craft cards with effects that can bounce off of each other all you're really doing is tossing together something that does one or two random things, rather than getting two separate cards that do the same thing like you would in a typical deck - builder.

In contrast when playing something like Legendary Encounters Firefly (it's coming up for review soon) every new card added to a deck also means that you're decreasing the chances of drawing that one really powerful, helpful card when you need it.

There's a bunch of new rules added but they're optional of course which is good because I didn't like most of them (and they require you to use a Rabbid's themed card deck with Rabbid characters running around the screen and they're just annoying sometimes).