Sentences with phrase «like glass chambers»

David Lynch's films often dimly hint at the clandestine powers that control things: networks of organized crime, pornography rings, supernatural bureaucracies that hold sway from behind curtains or inside shadowy, Mabuse - like glass chambers and anterooms.

Not exact matches

Typically, the group consists of a «tie - down team» who escort the prisoner from his cell to the death chamber and then strap him to the gurney; medically trained personnel who set the intravenous lines; and those, like Bracey and Baxley, who sit on the other side of a glass wall and press the buttons to inject the lethal drugs into the prisoner once the team leader gives the order.

Simulations run on the Lonestar and Stampede supercomputers of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) show that the laser goes through the target chamber without making a hole, like sunlight through a pane of glass.

Ingmar Bergman's intense, character - based chamber drama Through a Glass Darkly has always seemed like it would make for a great, intimate theater piece.

Wanting to make the most of its «tube - iness» and cellular structure, he blasted out the belly of the building and crowned it with glass atria to create a central chamber that functions almost as a transept, and installed elevators and spiral staircases «like big drill bits» within the tubes.