Sentences with phrase «like dung»

The emissions aren't calculated or quantified as with a nice new power plant, so those emissions don't exist, just like dung / grass / twig / kero etc emissions by billions of poor every day don't exist.

Do reality shows repulse you and yet, like a dung heap to flies, invariably draw you in?

Or in this upscale neighborhood, watched various illegal aliens hustle like dung beetles back and forth across the thick St. Augustine lawns through scattershot swarms of gnats.

There actually are things like dung in the world and even in us.

Their blood will be poured out like dust and their entrails like dung.

Thus says the Lord: «Human corpses shall fall like dung upon the open field, like sheaves behind the reaper, and no one shall gather them.»

Binx Boiling vents his rage, for instance, by calling ours «the very century of merde, the great shithouse of scientific humanism where needs are satisfied, everyone becomes an anyone, a warm and creative person, and prospers like a dung beetle.»

Not exact matches

This too shall pass... in the form of dung, gas, sands through the hourglass, but Beck and those who make a buck off someone else's fear, faith, lack of fear, lack of faith, etc. will be with us to the last nanosecond of time, because what God in His or Her right omnipotent mind would want to listen to a ponitificating brat like Beck banging his gums in the back seat ad nauseum ad infinitum?

Say anything about religion and the idiots and pundits swarm, like flies on a dung pile.

Since we introduced the subject of «dung» in a previous post, I would like to share something that I got from a nun on comparative religion:

Was very pleased that a beer brewed with both whale testicles and sheep dung didn't taste like either.

We were looking for an animal to characterise Manchester City's deflating title bid, and after a certain amount of brainstorming came up with an animal that has «the mane of a horse, but in all other respects resembles a bull; its horns are curved back in such a manner as to be of no use for fighting, and it is said that because of this it saves itself by running away, meanwhile emitting a trail of dung that sometimes covers a distance of as much as three furlongs, contact with which scorches pursuers like a sort of fire.»

To look at open scholarships and think about all the shiny new pieces we can add to our team, but finding an impact player on short notice is like finding a diamond in a dung heap.

Rising awareness about black carbon Half of the world's population — roughly 3 billion people — cook their food and heat their homes by burning coal and biomass material like wood and animal dung, over open fires or rudimentary stoves, according to U.S. EPA.

Jacobson, the study's author, noted that the study also separated the effects of black carbon produced by burning fossil fuels and that produced by biofuels like wood or dung.

Saikawa, a specialist in atmospheric chemistry, is also studying levels of black carbon emissions in the outdoor environment generated by the burning of biomass fuels like yak dung.

Like stags or elephants, which use antlers and tusks to fight for dominance, male dung beetles use their horns to ward off rivals.

We have also seen them as a source of inspiration: The Egyptians symbolized their sun god, Ra, as a great scarab beetle rolling the sun like a ball of dung across the heavens.

Instead, write, «Studying dung beetles like these might help lower gasoline prices!»

Like all insects, dung beetles breathe through a set of tiny holes called spiracles.

By digging around in their food, dung beetles like Aphodius pedellus may aerate cow pats — and thereby modify methane emissions.

Woolly Mammoths, like elephants in Africa today, were the engineers of grasslands, keeping trees from growing onto the plains and dispersing large amounts of nutrients over immense distances via their dung.

After spending a few weeks up high on the flanks of Mt. Everest, just taking a shower down at base camp with real soap and shampoo felt like a day at a luxury spa (even though I was standing underneath a plastic tarp on a bunch of jagged rocks, and the water that was coming out of the portable shower spout had been warmed up by a burning pile of yak dung just minutes before).

It's like comparing carrion and dung: which do you prefer?

Like teacher union spin, manure comes with many different names — dung, fertilizer, cowplop, etc..

Our long term 2015 Alfa Romeo 4C now lives in California, and, I assume from senior editor Chris Nelson's report of his cross-country drive, still smells like cow dung.

This is a simple case of being controversial — much like some artists who can't draw put dung in sacred statues to stand out...

It's a stomach churning sight for us humans, but many dogs like to eat poo, otherwise known as Coprophagia; the eating of faeces or dung.

Now why would a dung - beetle possibly be wanting to collect fruit, aside from looking like a boss collecting it?

How do we know the game won't turn out to be a broken piece of dung like Sonic GBA?

But we liked the look of a dung beetle attached to a ball, bouncing around.»

Chris Ofili: His radiantly pink glitter - and - elephant dung painting, Through the Grapevine, bought in 1999 for around # 20,000, sold well above expectations for a record # 802,850 — a price that makes Tate's purchase of Ofili's 13 - painting installation, The Upper Room, for # 600,000 five years ago look like a complete bargain.

Along with some other artists, like Jimmie Durham or David Medalla, Hammons still makes my perception of the world a beautiful critical collapse: The sound of a metal bucket or a basket - ball hitting a wall, the flavor of fried chicken, the texture of my own hair, the smell of dung, can be something appealing, seductive, but also prime matter for a political statement.

It is indubitably one of her more famous works, but this dung - coloured painting from 1960 looks like a very late reprise of Pollock, thus shoving her straight back into the Man and Wife show of 1949 where she was first «discovered» as Pollock's wife.

What looks like piled stone, however, is clay mixed with hay, horse dung, and Los Angeles River water.

Though Ofili's detractors often state that he «splatters» [7] elephant dung on his pictures, this is inaccurate: he sometimes applies it directly to the canvas in the form of dried spherical lumps, and sometimes, in the same form, uses it as varnished foot - like supports on which the paintings stand.

Ofili began to garner attention in the mid-1990s with his intricately constructed works, combining bead - like dots of paint, informed in part by cave paintings in Zimbabwe, with collaged images from popular media, and elephant dung.

In each of these exultant paintings, a richly decorated dung ball forms the center of an immense star that seems to bless the scene like the star of Bethlehem.

Of course the media likes to whip up its own frenzy and since we're all quite used to pickled sharks, video installations and elephant dung the press can no longer ask; «is it art?»

The figure is wrapped in a petal - like robe with one exposed breast made of elephant dung.

«Sensation» is best remembered as a battle from the culture wars, in which Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani denounced as «sick stuff» artwork like Chris Ofili's «Holy Virgin Mary» with its appended elephant dung.

As well as dung, Mr Ofili's paintings layer colour, resin, glitter and icons of black life, sometimes disguised with stars or Afro haircuts, and his own cartoon - like characters.

There, Ofili's 1996 painting The Holy Virgin Mary became an object of extreme contention; like most of his paintings at the time, it used elephant dung as one of its materials.

Would you like to cook over a dung fire, or would you prefer gas or electricity?

As those of us in wealthy countries ponder which light bulb to use, some 2 billion people still lack any night - time illumination other than kerosene or the like, with a similar number cooking on firewood or dried dung.

Flocks as large as 300 miles long and 1 mile wide would take over the sky, engulfing light from the sun for days in a thundering storm of beating wings and dung like «melting flakes of snow,» according to John James Audubon.

By replacing animal and human muscle and low - density energy sources like wood, dung, and other biofuels, and low - density, intermittent wind and solar, fossil and nuclear fuels have freed people from the basic tasks of survival to devote time and bodily energy to other occupations.

It is for you and your kind that I fervently hope we do not have the sorts of scenarios envisioned by people like Lovelock or Hawking, individuals whose stature is so far above your puny trolling contemptible self that you are no more than a fly on the dung they drop.

This from the guy who tosses around endearing terms like idiot, petulant liar, fool, moron, hideously bloated and truculent denialist scumbag, mentally aberrant conservative son of a diseased camel, morally deficient lizard brain, scion of a toad and a slime mould, repugnant eater of children and defiler of mothers, Republican voter, a wart on the rump of the body politic, viewer of Faux News, disgusting purveyor of ideas picked up in the intellectual dung heaps of civilisation, soiler of underpants, bent over superannuated hag of obsolete ideologies, putrid despoiler of humanities past, present and future.

And in countries like Kenya or Ethiopia where wood is scarce, animal dung is used.